The Lyndon campus will be getting a little more radical now that Club Action! Students for Change has become a club recognized by the student government association.
Andrew Glynn came before SGA Wednesday night, explaining that his goal for the new club is to create a "zine", which is a magazine featuring politics, sociology, music, and other topics.
One of the main goals, according to Glynn, is to bring some student radicalism to campus.
"We had a really good sustainability drive this year," said Sigma Zeta representative Joe DiTommaso. "I was wondering if instead of photocopies, could you do it online?"
Glynn's response drew some giggles from the crowd when he replied, "I don't really know what to say to that, so I'm just going to say what's in my head: Us at this college not using as much paper as we could is not going to save any amount of forest."
According to Glynn, the purpose of the club is to create a forum to discuss social and political issues. He stressed that it is not a Democratic or Republican club, and the only stance it would take would be anti-war.
He also added that he believed the reason Students for Global Change failed as a club was because it was "too wishy-washy".
"We're a college. We're all between the ages of 18 and 25. We should have some fire in our hearts about this type of stuff. We want to be controversial. We're students. This is what we're supposed to do," he said.
Despite some worries from the club representatives about sustainability and recycling, Club Action! Students for Change was approved.
The second time was the charm for the Twilight Players, when the SGA voted to give the club $750 toward the $1000 cost of a musical director without much debate.
"We have a list of names of people interested in being the musical director of the show from St. Johnsbury and the community at large," advisor Melissa Leonard said, "but we cannot get them into contract without being able to guarantee the money."
The request for $750 was approved.
Student Investment Group representative Kyle Hessler requested $200 from the SGA to give prizes to the top two investors of the club.
Students involved in the club participate in a virtual stock-exchange game, which is realistic to what the real-world stock market is like.
According to Hessler, the amount requested makes up 0.7% of the overall general fund. Despite the small amount, some representatives were hesitant to give money toward prizes.
"I know that when other clubs give prizes for participating in events like this, the money does come from entry fees and fundraising they've done in the past so I'm a little bit iffy about this," Samantha Couture of AMS said.
Hessler's request for $200 was approved, but club representatives did suggest the Student Investment Group look into buy-ins or dues in order to pay for prizes in the future.
The SGA voted to purchase a Dell Vostro 430 computer for the Student Activities and Leadership Center for $1917.34.
Although another cheaper iMac with a larger screen was an option, the representatives voted for the Dell with the faster processor.
"Aren't you guys proud we had a civil conversation about this?" Tim Cappalli, vice president of SGA asked the representatives, referring to the previous discussion about computers at the last meeting.
Although a request from Outside the Box was made to reallocate $200 from the speaker fund to the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) fund, a representative failed to appear during this week's meeting. Club representatives voted to move on without considering the request.
