Humor: From the Desk of Evan Brest
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Evan Brest
Issue date: 3/1/10 Section: Opinion
Recently, the Kettering Student Government has been in the papers, our paper, that is. This is mostly due to the printing of the official Winter 2009 budget, which took three pages of our first edition. From administrative costs to club budgets to Wings Night, it was published for all to see. Now, I'm willing to bet that very few students actually went through the three print pages of line item script that outlines the parts of the budget. But when it's broken down, it's rather surprising to find out exactly where our funds go.
Now, this may come as a shock to some people but: College students eat FOOD! I know, I couldn't believe it either the first time, so go back and re-read that last sentence again. Done? Good, let's continue. Of the sixty nine thousand, nine hundred seventy two dollars and fifty cents that was allocated, an astounding twenty four point six percent of that was for food and events centered around eating food. That's practically a quarter of the budget to feeding the student government, members of clubs, faculty and guests.
Six percent of the funds go towards administration, and therefore are uninteresting to talk about. Things like copier expenses and "supplies" are expected and necessary.
Which brings me to clubs. Yes, clubs. We all have probably joined at least one while here at Kettering, and if you haven't, you really should get out more! On the whole, the clubs, organizations and such had reasonable requests. Usually these included "Food" or other things that one could imagine being necessary for the said club, like "Anime Media" for the Anime Club, or "Fencing Instruction" for the Fencing Club, or even "Trap and Skeet Outings" for the Trap and Skeet Club. What I don't understand are some expenses like "Muskegon Winter Triathlon" for the Physics Club and the "Monster Truck" for the Bulldog Mud Boggers (an item for which, incidentally, only $600 was budgeted).
On the note of clubs, there are two classes, small and large. Small classes ask for between $0 and the totally arbitrary $5000 amount that I totally made up. The large clubs, which ask for more than $5000, land on my hit list. (Nothing personal, but it's just too irresistible.)
Now, this may come as a shock to some people but: College students eat FOOD! I know, I couldn't believe it either the first time, so go back and re-read that last sentence again. Done? Good, let's continue. Of the sixty nine thousand, nine hundred seventy two dollars and fifty cents that was allocated, an astounding twenty four point six percent of that was for food and events centered around eating food. That's practically a quarter of the budget to feeding the student government, members of clubs, faculty and guests.
Six percent of the funds go towards administration, and therefore are uninteresting to talk about. Things like copier expenses and "supplies" are expected and necessary.
Which brings me to clubs. Yes, clubs. We all have probably joined at least one while here at Kettering, and if you haven't, you really should get out more! On the whole, the clubs, organizations and such had reasonable requests. Usually these included "Food" or other things that one could imagine being necessary for the said club, like "Anime Media" for the Anime Club, or "Fencing Instruction" for the Fencing Club, or even "Trap and Skeet Outings" for the Trap and Skeet Club. What I don't understand are some expenses like "Muskegon Winter Triathlon" for the Physics Club and the "Monster Truck" for the Bulldog Mud Boggers (an item for which, incidentally, only $600 was budgeted).
On the note of clubs, there are two classes, small and large. Small classes ask for between $0 and the totally arbitrary $5000 amount that I totally made up. The large clubs, which ask for more than $5000, land on my hit list. (Nothing personal, but it's just too irresistible.)
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