siuDE.com

After waiting 22 minutes to call the meeting to order so there would be enough people to vote, the Graduate and Professional Student Council was only able to vote on two items before they had to call it quits because of weather.

The first item of business was passing $400 worth of grants to help fund two speakers for Cognitive Science's 2008 lecture series.

Sara Samson, vice president for the GPSC, said the money to sponsor events such as these comes from a percentage of student activity fees based on the number of credit hours in which graduate students are enrolled.

The next item of business was to vote on the possible 60-cent campus recreational fee increase.

After little discussion - the group voted to approve the fee.

Samson said the proposal would be voted on by the Undergraduate Student Council and then either be approved or denied by the Board of Trustees.

"My understanding is that from this fee, the sporting clubs are given their allocation," she said.

Shortly after this proposal was passed, the meeting was called to an early end due to tornado warnings in Southwest Jackson County.

Anyone in the Student Center was advised to find shelter in the basement.

Streets on and off campus were flooded and for a while, a police car blocked the strip to prevent cars from driving through deep waters.

Samson said she wasn't that concerned about the meeting ending early because there wasn't very much on the agenda.

Christian Holt can be reached at 536-3311 ext. 268 or cholt@siu.edu.

Article Tools