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Volume 38 Issue 7
December 12, 2000

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ASMCC hoping to add through subtraction

BY J.W. WATSON
MESA LEGEND
Submitted December 12, 2000

The Associated Students of MCC, the school’s student government, has spent less thus far through the semester than they had last year at this time, according to Will Stanley, vice president of fiscal affairs.

ASMCC has spent $10,000 less than their predecessors, Stanley said, largely due to fewer activities such as dances and banquets, and more support of student activism.

"We’re not here to simply give out bagels and donuts," Stanley said. "We are supposed to be the voice of the students, not a hot dog stand."

This year’s homecoming football game Oct. 28, had no crowning of a king or queen for the first time in MCC’s 35-year existence, as ASMCC voted against not funding the festivities and, instead, organizing MesaFest.

The four-day event included a 3-on-3 basketball tournament and a talent show, and cost approximately $1,500, half as much as homecoming festivities would have, Stanley said.

In addition to MesaFest, ASMCC has funded a number of student activism projects, including a literacy program, a women’s studies retreat and an Environmental Action Club member’s trip to the U.S. Student Climate Summit in The Hague, Netherlands, last month.

"We are more political than MCC’s student government of the past. And we believe what we are doing is supporting the voices of the students," Stanley said.

Johnice Wilkins, MCC’s director of student leadership, would agree.

"Student government this year is very much different than it was in the past," said Wilkins, who earlier in the semester warned Stanley and other executive board members about overspending.

"I have concerns about a lot of things they do and are doing. I was very disappointed to see the tradition of homecoming vanish as it did," Wilkins added.

"My main concern is that students have a right to understand what ASMCC is doing. And as long as they do, then I have no additional concerns."

"Maybe when apathetic students see what we are doing with $75,000 of their tuition money," Stanley said, "they’ll care a little more about student government."

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