GSB approves funding for juggling club, considers wider organization funding

Paige Godden —

The ISU Juggling and Unicycling Club was allocated $734.88 from the Government of the Student Body Senate discretionary account at Wednesday’s meeting.

The club was in need of new items in order to keep expanding its membership and repair equipment.

The group plans on buying glow in the dark juggling balls, Kevlar torch tips, renegade clubs and a Nimbus 29-inch Unicycle.

A representative from the club said the unicycle is made for long distances and several members have expressed interest in unicycling through RAGBRAI.

The senate voted on funding capital items to the GSB ITS media committee.

The bill originally called for the transfer of $29,390.00, but after the senate decided they had not been funding new items for groups this year due to lack of funds they cut several of the line items on the bill.

The items cut included a sound system and Blu-ray players for an outside projection screen.

As a result, $20,300 was transferred to the GSB ITS media committee.

The senate voted on funding Earth Day events.

The Council of Sustainability is asking GSB to contribute $500 to bring Gabrielle Louise to campus.

Louise travels around in a vegetable oil-powered van, sings and explains how her van works, said a representative from the council.

The Council of Sustainability will be contributing $200 and Keep Iowa State Beautiful will be funding $100 of the event.

The senate then moved into finalizing regular allocations for the 2010-11 academic year.

The senate pulled several groups including the LGBTA Alliance, Green Umbrella Organization, Cyclone Ballroom, Collegiate 4-H, Entrepreneur Club, Ethos, Freshman Council, Black Student Council, SAE International, Rodeo Club, Student Organic Farm, Ski and Snowboard Club, Habitat for Humanity, International Student Council and GSB.

The groups who were pulled from the bill will have their budgets looked at individually by the GSB.

Nearly 125 groups who were not pulled from the bill for questioning received the funding that was on the bill.