Asher Sucks: UPUA Plans for Better

Tonight’s meeting topic that got the UPUA all hot and bothered was Policy 17, which allocated money for this year’s Spring Festival.

As we all know, last year’s spring festival, Wallypalooza, featured-as President Gavin Keirans so eloquently put it – “one-hit-wonder suspect artist” Asher Roth, whose career has since skyrocketed straight into a ceiling fan. So this year they want to do something better. In very first-stage budgetary discussions, the UPUA has recommended to allocate $19,931.86 towards the Spring Festival 2010 account.

But tensions arose when Director of Legal Affairs Matt Lachman spoke up on behalf of his organization on the $2,000 allocated from the Legal Affairs’ budget. And so it went into debate. And, then of course, another debate. Keirans spoke up for passing the policy saying that the festival was “a great way to end classes.” He also pointed out that a lot of other major universities, including Ohio State, hold similar festivals at the end of the year. The president also said that there would be plans made to reimburse organizations. And as I understand it, the rest of the money would be coming from UPAC.

The policy finally passed but this is still one of the first stages in the planning process.

President’s Announcements:

Thanks to the AAC Chairman Sam Loehner, who worked in the last year to include more student oversight regarding the IT fee.
The legal services office is in its final planning stages and an announcement will be made within the next few weeks.
The UPUA elections will begin Monday for freshman-junior students.
Executive board meeting yielded successful results and a reminder that senior members will be taking more responsibility as the year comes to a close to keep the UPUA on track.

Assistant VP for Student Affairs Andrea Dowhower Special Presentation:

A student transitional steering team is underway. The team, Link Up, would be responsible for assisting transfer students, Commonwealth students transfer students and incoming freshman in their transition to Main Campus, beginning April 10.

The UPUA will not be meeting for the next two weeks, one reason being SPRING BREAK! But when they return, it will be election season and they will have only a few weeks left before the assembly says their goodbyes forever, or until next semester.

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Matt H

Maybe they should stop catering to the frat-boy music mentality and look for talent.
Devon

Bingo. Take the wasted money on this and actually bring Movin’ On back to the glory days. We’ve had Run-DMC, RBF, Jimmy Eat World, and last year, some band from Montana nobody’s heard of? Take the 100K Wallyworld is getting and bring in a Streetlight Manifesto or something to Movin’ On.
Sandy

Here’s a thought: fill out a day of headlining bands by including some of our awesome LOCAL bands. Since students can’t wait to turn 21 and head to the bars, you should appreciate the chances you get to check out some ORIGINAL local music before you need an ID to do so. We have rock bands, chick bands, metal bands, hip-hop bands, jazz bands, and just about anything in-between. Some of these folks are even current or former students and now local residents. I know many of them would LOVE to play outside for Movin’ On or (Insert Name Here) Palooza (lol…can you just keep THAT name?)!
Anonymous

“Keirans spoke up for passing the policy saying that the festival was “a great way to end classes.” He also pointed out that a lot of other major universities, including Ohio State, hold similar festivals at the end of the year.”

Agreed. A free musical festival is a great way to end classes, and a lot of other universities run similiar events. You know who has one of the oldest student run musical festivals in the country? Penn State. It’s called Movin’ On and this will be it’s 36th year. Why is money being wasted in order to start a music festival, when we already have one? I understand that people want to see bigger names at Movin’ On but bigger names requires more money – money that is going to Wallypalooza. Movin’ On has established an impressive reputation and has connections within the music industry. The foundation is already set, Movin’ On has the experience and know how to run a concert. Why not create a great show using that tradition and building Movin’ On’s budget, rather than giving money away to the less experienced Wallypalooza? It just doesn’t make sense to have two concerts on back to back weekends, one of which is established but lacks the budget, the other which has the budget but lacks the experience.
Melanie

Whoa, whoa. They’re from South Dakota.
Sean

You spelled Sam Loewner’s name wrong =/
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