Of those receiving funds from this amount, the programming committee receives $9,200, the only amount directly benefiting students through activities, including Homecoming, Siblings Weekend, Gentle Friday, Say Hey Week, the Big Event and SGA and You Day.

Vice President Erica Johnson, Jenison senior, said the entire budget does not go toward the student body, but the majority of it does.

“The number is inaccurate. You have to account for the committee work,” she said. “The only money that doesn’t go back to the students goes toward Student Government Office supplies.”

Johnson said most of the money goes into programming.

“It is given back to students through the many programs we put on,” she said. “(The student benefit) depends on whether or not students attend (the programs).”

Other expenses include $15,760 for administrative costs, including stipends for members of the executive board and supplies for e-board members.

Supplies include regular office equipment, such as letter heads, she said.

Special projects, including a conference SGA members attend and the SGA Web site, receives $3,950.

“We have two conferences, the MAC conference and the COSGA conference at Texas A&M,” she said. “COSGA is the National Student Government Conference. The ideas for Say Hey Week and Siblings Weekend came from the conference.”

She said SGA is sending six members to COSGA this year.

“Most schools send 10 to 12 members,” she said. “In order to get the most out of the conference the office needed to send at least six people.”

Internal SGA operations receive $11,950, and the remaining $21,150 goes to committees and officers for their operation expenses.

In an approved resolution, SGA addressed changing class times, a different final-exam schedule, parking and the time differences among campus clocks.

The Calendar Committee proposed five recommendations to the Academic Senate, and members of SGA passed a resolution supporting all but one of these recommendations.

The first recommendation was to increase the time between classes from 10 to 15 minutes on Mondays and Wednesday, and 15 or 20 minutes on Tuesday and Thursdays.

The second recommendation was to expand the final-exam schedule to a five full days instead of existent four days and a make-up day.

With the current schedule, students can take up to three exams daily, but with the proposed schedule students would have a maximum of two finals daily.

SGA did not support the recommendation because the current exam schedule does not cause conflict for most students.

“It is really confusing when you’re going to take your exam because you could have Tuesday/Thursday classes and end up taking your exam on Friday,” said Clinton Twp. junior Nicole Wright, co-author of the resolution.

“We didn’t feel that there was a problem with students taking too many exams in one day and if it is, most professors are good about letting you take it on Friday,” she said.

Wright said SGA wanted to make sure the Academic Senate is aware of its stance on the issue before it voted on the issue.

“The students were heard and it wasn’t cast without our voices being heard,” she said.

The third recommendation was to change class scheduling.

This would involve increasing the number of class meetings on Friday and expanding 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. classes.

Friday classes would be geared toward classes incoming freshmen need to take, to spread out the concentration of people on campus at one time.

The fourth recommendation is that major parking lots should have a higher number of entrance and exit points and/or the width of those areas increased.

The committee also suggested the university investigate the potential of using a tiered parking-rate system that would charge more for access to multiple lots than for access to only a single lot.

The final recommendation was to synchronize all clocks on campus.

In other news:

Katherine Curtiss, Port Huron sophomore, and Michael Plutschuck, Fraser junior, were elected to the two remaining senate seats.