Union College - Garnet Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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3 2 The Tax Committee meets to apportion the money and bewail the cuts. Um .Siucfenl 7am- a camfmllfifee appaapaiala if One of the smallest, yet one of the most important of cam-pus organizations is the 'Stu- dent Tax Committee. This group, established in 19.34, has complete control over the dis- posal of funds for student activities. The committee has only four members: two seniors, a junior and the President of the Student Council, ex oficio. The Student Tax Committee is a permanent subc-ommittee of the Student Council. The members during the spring term were James Hogeboom, '49, Chairman, Alfred Lewis, '48, Secretary, Donald Blake, '48, and Albert Hill, '48, Presi- dent of the Student Council. Prof. Wilford Ketz is adviser of the committee, and has no vote. The Trustees of the college have fixed S16 a year as the maximum student tax that may be charged. This gives about 824,000 in annual revenue. In addition to this sum money is available from sale of the Gridiron, proceeds of dances, and a few other sources. Revenue from advertising in the various pub- lications is usually set aside for the use of the activity from which it is derived. Money for each school year is apportioned Page Fourteen at budget hearings held about April of the preceding school year. A representative of each activity approved Iby the Student Coun- cil comes to the hearing with a budget for his activity. The budgets are examined by the committee, and, on the basis of the hearings, and with the expected revenue for the coming year in mind, the group distributes the funds to the various activities. The money is chiefly put in two categories: operating ac- counts, for the normal working of the organi- zation, and reserve accounts, set aside for specific purposes. A 'few men are given an opportunity to be present at the hearings by the committee. On the basis of their participation at the hearings recommendations are made to the President of the Student Council, who appoints the new members of the committee. The junior mem- ber automatically becomes ehairman in his senior year. During the past school year the committee disposed of approximately fB24,000, of which 312,500 went to publications, 356,600 to other activities, and the remainder to reserve ae- counts and miscellaneous items.

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In view of the absence of an official organi- zation to tend to the problems of foreign stu- dents, the Cosmopolitan Club was reorganized at Union through the efforts of a few of the foreign students, aided and advised by Chap- lain C. Victor Brown. The foreign students felt very acutely the need for an organization that would assist them in adjusting themselves to the life at college, and in Hnding their place among the student body on campus. Most of the Foreign Students coming to the States for the first time, find themselves faced with problems of a, more or less similar nature, in getting ae- elimated to the new surroundings, and in get- ting adjusted to a way of life which might be totally different from their own. Besides, foreign students at Union being so few and far between, a new student has a very slender ehance of running aeross some one who shares his dilemma, an-d is apt to feel a. bit lost. The Cosmopolitan Club endeavors to bring the foreign students more closely together, so that they may get to know one another better, and provides ample scope for an interesting exchange of ideas between the students of various nations. The Club meets every Friday and, thanks to the eonseientious efforts of its officers, al- ways Ends a program of interest in the form of lectures, talks, discussions and films on sub- jects of international interest, to which all the faculty and students of the College are wel- come. The activities of the elub have so far been restricted to the Campus only on ae- eount of the very slender Hnanees at the dis- posal of the elub. However, the elub has ex- tensive plans for the future, and is looking forward to some assistance in seeing them carried out. Among some of the things that the club has in view are: trips for its mem- bers to places of interest, visits to similar or- ganizations at other schools, lectures and talks by people of note, and soeials where the members Could get together and meet various groups, thereby getting a better insight to the American way of thinking. The keen and sincere interest shown by the members in the activities of the club is truly gratifying, and we are confident that before long the Cosmopolitan club will rank as one of the foremost organizations on the Union College Campus. Slanding-Alfred Siesel tU.S.A.lg John Meyer fU.S.A.l 3 ,lohn Hall CCanadalg Leslie Canes: Clrlaitijg Anthony Easterbrook tlinglandjg Christopher Schwartz fKenyalg Mariano Allende tChilel g Richard Weller fU.S.A.l. Silling-Donald Campbell CU.S.A.3 5 Fernando Gallard fNicaragual g Bono Sternlicht CPolandj , Social Secretary.: Arne Frethiem fNorwayl, Pre.tident,' Esa Sobani, Clndiaj, Sec1'etary,' Leo Richard fU.S.A.Jg Shereef Al-Farhan flraqj. Page Fifteen