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Senate breezes through legislation
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The Associated Students of Boise State University Senate unanimously passed two bills (spending $3,700) and a resolution supporting the H2O project Thursday in the Student Union Forum.
The first bill allocated $3,000 to pay for hotel rooms at the National Model United Nations Conference in New York City.
The BSU chapter of MUN is sending its students to meet with about 3,500 college students from all over the world.
According to the legislation, 48 percent of the students attending the conference live outside the United States.
The second bill ($700) was fast-tracked Thursday to address an immediate need to help a local program that brings students from Nampa High School to BSU in a “shadow” role.
The 110 students will be at BSU next Thursday (April 17) and the Senate agreed to pay for lunch from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. for the students, who will be shadowing many of the ASBSU members throughout the day.
“You can see what college can be like as a student,” Sen. Mariah Fowler said. “I think it’s a great cause to get these kids in from different points of life to see what BSU is like.”
Student volunteers are still needed to help show these potential BSU students around campus, take them to classes and basically show them around.
Students who would like to volunteer to be shadowed can contact Lilly Palacios at palacios@cableone.net
The resolution the Senate passed unanimously Thursday was also fast-tracked. It lent support to the BSU Civic Leadership Residential College. The legislation carries no monetary value.
CLRC is sponsoring a guest speaker and raising funds to help UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Fund).
“The main thing they are going to be doing is putting water bottles around campus so people can put spare change, to donate their money to UNICEF to improve water quality and raise awareness,” Sen. Ben Larsen, the bill’s sponsor, said.
The week-long project (April 28-May 3) aims to improve education about water quality issues worldwide.
The group will have a booth on the quad during the event.
DUSTIN LAPRAY
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