Tiger Stadium may be flooded in purple-adorned fans next fall after the Student Government Senate passed legislation Wednesday to “urge and request the establishment of a yearly purple game to take place during [a Southeastern Conference] home football game.”
The legislation was sponsored by Sens. De’Andre Beadle and Jackson Voss, University Center for Freshman Year.
The purple game will complement the Gold Game tradition that accompanies the first SEC home football game each year. The game is meant to create “an invigorating atmosphere for both players and game attendees,” according to the resolution.
The Senate also passed a bill sponsored by Speaker Pro Tempore Aaron Caffarel and UCFY Sen. Tyler Loga to establish a committee to evaluate student programming fees. The committee will “make recommendations based on said evaluations to the Student Senate,” and will include both SG members and non-SG members.
The Senate passed a resolution sponsored by Sen. Chas Kelly, UCFY, to “urge and request the department of Campus Life to categorize the organization fair participants for the 2011 fall semester.” The resolution will be sent to Associate Director of Campus Life Michelle Eldredge, Director of Campus Life Mary Wallace and Dean of Students K.C. White.
The University Bateman Team presented its “Fatten Your Pig” campaign at the meeting to promote financial literacy. The team is representing Ally Financial and brought along its mascot, a pig named Dr. Banks. The team urged the Senate to support and promote its campaign.
SG Vice President Dani Borel updated the senators on initiative progress including covered bus stops and Greek wireless Internet. She also praised the Senate for its work so far this semester.
“I wanted to commend the Senate,” Borel said. “I’m seeing a lot of excellent stuff come out the Senate.”
Borel, along with University Center for Advising and Counseling Sen. Cody Wells, underscored the need to reform the funding process for student organizations. Borel said she recently received a call from a student who was confused about where to go for funding, emphasizing the need for reform.
Wells explained his hopes to merge the committees overseeing the Programming, Support and Initiatives Fund and the Organization Relief Fund to make funding more available for students. He is cosponsoring a resolution that will be debated next week to “urge and request that the administration supports the reformation of the PSIF and ORF funding committees.”
“I think this merger is really great, and I’m really proud of the work Cody’s doing,” Borel said.
The SG executive staff finalized the date for the march on the Capitol, for April 28.
 
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