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Xavier University Exhibit All Xavier Student Newspapers Xavier Student Newspapers 2009-04-01 Xavier University Newswire Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio) Follow this and additional works at: https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/student_newspaper Recommended Citation Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio), "Xavier University Newswire" (2009). All Xavier Student Newspapers. 561. https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/student_newspaper/561 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Xavier Student Newspapers at Exhibit. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Xavier Student Newspapers by an authorized administrator of Exhibit. For more information, please contact [email protected]. April 1, 2009 XAVIER NEWSWIRE Volume XCIV Published since 1915 by the students of Xavier University Issue 25 News, pg 2 Sports, pg 6 Corporate role model A tale of two teams ALWAYS ONLINE: Ethics exemplar shares business Halftime lead disappears as xavier.edu/ story with Xavier audience Musketeers bow out of tourney newswire inside @ Queer Week promo Senate approves SGA budget items stolen, damaged Budget for SGA 2009-10 Budget 2009-10 more At a Glance (if ratified by SAC) accessible, $451,000 Club/Organization funding: Club includes more sports, Senior Board, etc. Priority funding: Shuttles, funding for $124,883 O’Connor subsidies, Late Night, etc. student clubs SAC operations funding: Concert & BY KATHRYN ROSENBAUM $124,500 event programming, workshops, etc. News Editor The Student Government $74,265 SGA labor/stipend funding: SGA Association Senate voted to pass leaders, resource assistant, etc. the SGA budget for the proposed SGA operations budget: Executive 2009-10 academic year, paving $60,635 the way for the Student Activities projects, Club Day on the Mall, etc. Council to ratify it later this week. for clubs over 50 percent of the $7,250 for president, $5,250 for The budget, created by outgo- budget. Association and Legislative Vice ing president Craig Scanlon and Club and organizational spend- Presidents and $3,450 for SAC the Budget Review Committee, ing accounts for about 54 percent chair and Senate Coordinator. includes increases in the alloca- of the 2009-10 budget, up from Other changes in the 2009-10 tions for student clubs and orga- about 45 percent of last year’s budget will affect students more nizations and a slight decrease in budget. directly. the money SGA spends on itself. SGA’s Financial Affairs The budget for the Weekend “[Previous budgets were] scat- Committee is responsible for allo- Entertainment Shuttle, formally tered and difficult to understand,” cating funds to clubs and organi- the First Friday shuttle to Newport, Scanlon said. “This new budget zations. Hale said the committee is Ky., decreased to $2,500. is easier to understand and high- working on allocations this week. Students might have to pay a Newswire photo by Emily Hoferer lights SGA’s priorities.” The new budget has internal fee to use this shuttle, as well as On the academic mall, some 2,400 flags fly, to memorialize victims of hate The 2009-10 budget contains SGA spending cuts of $1,200 for airport shuttle next year. crimes directed at the LGBTQ community, as a part of Queer Week. smaller accounts that will “be easi- SAC’s summer workshop, $400 Scanlon said cuts for the cam- BY SARAH WIETEN tion about the origins of the term er to track” because they have spe- for a Senate conference and $500 pus readership program might lead Staff Writer “queer”. cific uses, said sophomore senator for the SGA banquet. to fewer Cincinnati Enquirers on In the last two days, over $200 By Tuesday, over 100 of them Chris Hale, the co-chair of the Next year’s budget is “more of campus, but few other changes. worth of damage has been done had been stolen or destroyed. Financial Affairs committee and a McDonald’s budget, instead of a The budget also allows for SAC to promotional table tents, fly- Chartwells administration at Hoff a member of the Budget Review steakhouse budget,” said Hale. to provide complete funding for ers, t-shirts and banners promot- volunteered to reprint them on Committee. The elimination of one of the Late Night Snack and Late Night ing Xavier Alliance’s Queer Week plain, white paper. Scanlon said he and the Budget off-campus shuttles, which was Movies since Gallagher Student events. “If anything, the theft and Review Committee made a num- recommended by the Structural Center is not providing program A police report has been filed vandalism of Queer Week promo ber of changes to increase fund- Review Task Force, will save SGA funding next year. detailing the damages. testifies to the importance and ne- ing for clubs, while decreasing in- an additional $20,000. SGA cur- “This is a signature program The vandalism comes as no cessity of this week. ternal spending. rently contributes $40,000 to op- and we wanted to make sure it was surprise to Alliance President and “Clearly Xavier is not as accept- Scanlon said it should be an erate the two shuttles. clear it was a priority to continue co-organizer of Queer Week, ju- ing of an environment as many SGA priority to keep funding Executive stipends remain at this program,” said Scanlon. nior Cameron Tolle. believe it to be,” Tolle said. “I think most people on cam- “Bigotry is still undoubtedly pus would be shocked to hear present on campus, and Alliance about the hostility that has been will continue to educate and advo- In a bind, ‘Athenaeum’ seeks bailout BY MEGHAN BERNEKING members of the club informed the “They may be given a reduced directed towards the Lesbian-Gay- cate against discrimination in or- Asst. Campus News Editor current leadership that there was budget or required to participate Bi-Transsexual-Queer community der to foster an inclusive campus A financial “miscommuni- plenty of money in the budget. in additional fundraising oppor- on campus by a small minority of environment,” he said. cation” between the Student With this understanding, the tunities. They ultimately made a closed minded individuals. While these events may point Government Association and staff club ordered the printing of its financial commitment they could “It’s a wakeup call that hope- to some negative feelings in the members at “the Athenaeum” has fall edition, leaving itself a deficit not honor,” he said. fully forces everyone to consider Xavier community toward Queer left the literary magazine’s pub- of nearly $970. Scanlon said he would be in how issues of queer diversity are Week, other responses have been lishers with a deficit and in need In order to pay the bill, the club contact with the magazine’s lead- dealt with on campus,” Tolle said. overwhelmingly positive. of an SGA “bailout.” turned to members of the SGA ership and advisors to come to an A sign in the Gallagher Student A candlelight vigil Monday “Last fall there was a miscom- financial affairs committee, who agreement in the near future. Center stairwell describing the evening in remembrance of the munication between a member discovered some discrepancies. “While we are helping “the week’s events was removed less victims of LGBTQ-directed hate of “the Athenaeum”’s staff and a “[The Financial Affairs Athenaeum” in this particular sit- than three hours after being post- crimes drew a crowd of 85. member of SGA which led “the Committee] looked at historical uation…I would recommend that ed. It has since been replaced. Also on Monday, Alliance host- Athenaeum” to believe we had a records to find that the club never this is not a precedent that should Over half the promotional lit- ed an event passing out free “Gay? budget. We published the fall issue, received an initial budget, or even be followed in subsequent years,” erature posted on bulletin boards Fine by me.” T-shirts on the resi- fully believing the money was in applied for an initial budget, at said Scanlon. in Alter Hall and in other buildings dential mall. our budget. It was not until some the beginning of the school year,” on campus has been torn down. Alliance first made these shirts time later that we found out it was said Scanlon. ©2008 The “Gay? Fine by me.” T-shirt available in spring of 2007. The not,” said senior Amelia Keller, According to Scanlon, SGA THE XAVIER NEWSWIRE that was placed on the D’Artangan demand for these promotional All rights reserved president of the Athenaeum. will likely provide the funding statue outside of Cintas Center as items was so great that this year’s SGA sees the situation needed for the club to pay off its a promotional sign approved by supply of T-shirts was exhausted differently. debt, as the purchase has already university administration was torn in seven minutes. “The current members [of been made. off around 4:30 p.m. Monday. “The very high demand for Fax (513) 745-2898 “the Athenaeum”] made a pur- “While I will be authoriz- Alliance placed purple card- these shirts shows that the indi- Advertising (513) 745-3561 chase without thoroughly consult- ing this ‘bailout’, the club will be stock table tents on dining tables viduals who have stolen or vandal- Circulation (513) 745-3130 ing their budget,” said senior Craig made aware that there will be con- in the James Hoff Dining Center ized queer week promo are in the Editor-in-Chief (513) 745-3607 Scanlon, president of SGA. sequences for the following year,” early in the week with informa- minority,” said Tolle. www.xavier.edu/newswire According to Scanlon, previous Scanlon said. FIAT JUSTITIA, RUAT COELUM 2 April 1, 2009 News XAVIER NEWSWIRE News Brief Speaker advocates ethics The Xavier Library Committee invites all students to a lunch- discussion at 11:30 a.m.

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