Syracuse University’s Student Association announced its plans to organize a fan bus to transport students to the Feb. 7 Villanova men’s basketball game.

The 53rd session’s Monday night meeting focused on the transportation taskforce’s progress, and the merger of SA’s taskforces with student organizations.

As of now, an initial quota from Quality Coach, Inc. has 56 available student seats for $30 a person. Other details are still being worked out, said Transportation Task Force representative Tim Wilke.

He said the Villanova game will be a test to see if a similar bus system might work for future away games.

‘If that goes well, I’m planning to make this a yearly thing, expanding it to lacrosse, football and basketball,’ Wilke said.

Also at Monday’s meeting, SA president, Larry Seivert, addressed the recent changes to MayFest, now known as SU Showcase. He said his primary concern during the event was the welfare of students.

‘I will be working with the university to ensure that the event holds safety as a primary focus for the year,’ Seivert said.

Aside from SU Showcase, Seivert announced the combinations of several student organizations. SA’s Academic Task Force will merge with the Committee of Academic Affairs, Town Hall Task Force with the Committee of Student Engagement and Transportation Task Force with University Affairs.

But Seivert said he wanted to change the name of University Affairs to the Committee on Student Life. He said the name change would better explain the organization’s function. The different title could be implemented as soon as next Monday.

Seivert also announced his idea for a new group called the Administrative Affairs Committee, which would keep up with the actions of the university administration.

SA Vice President Erik Bortz gave financial updates, and said the budget task force held a meeting this past week with finance and accounting majors who he said weren’t ‘tainted by politics.’

While no budget was made, SA did approve SU’s Finance Board recommendations for different events and publications. They include a lecture for Annual Sex Week, the music magazine 20 Watts and a broomball tournament held by fraternity Delta Chi. The cost of these four programs will total more than $16,000.

mcboren@syr.edu

Published on January 26, 2009 at 12:00 pm