While Student Government will be purchasing 75 student response clickers for its senators, the organization is also looking into providing new clickers for Middleton Library.
The Senate will be purchasing clickers for each Senate seat, which will cost a total of $2,278.45.
Speaker of the Senate Aaron Caffarel said he believes the clickers will save the Senate hours of time during meetings.
“So much time is wasted in taking roll call and taking care of written votes,” he said.
Caffarel also said the clickers would aid in record keeping.
“We would use clickers for things that can be handled more efficiently with electronic voting,” Caffarel said. “This will save time and provide transparency. Every vote will be clickers.”
Caffarel said the surplus fund was selected to provide funding in this initiative because it is restricted to one-time usage.
“Surplus is typically used for any expense that we don’t want to take out of Senate contingency money,” he said. “The fund is from student fees of past noon.”
Sullivan said he believes the additional 200 clickers will be beneficial to students since many of the current clickers have gone through heavy use.
“We definitely think that buying new clickers for the library would be a good way to help the students,” Sullivan said. “By giving students the ability to loan the clickers from the library, we can help them out Senate.”
 
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