Weekly
Weather
Tuesday 85 20% 68
Wednesday 85 10% 68
Thursday 87 20% 69
Rocktober Thrills Campus in 8-Bit Style
Saturday 84 20% 69
Friday 85 20% 69
Where Your Money Goes: SFB Allocates $154,537.94 to Student Organizations
All Photos Credit: Trey Henderson and Ramkumar Subramanian/The Avion Newspaper
Total of SGA Supported Entities SGA Expenditure (Office and Student Projects)
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Gabbie Hoekstra SGA Treasurer October is here! You have successfully survived the previous eight weeks of school, you are starting to miss the chill of fall back home, and the stress of paying tuition is gone - until next semester. How have you seen your tuition and fees at work so far? Maybe
it’s through that neat physics lab, the last minute tutoring session before your midterm, or when you nearly amputated your hand and Health Services had to stitch you up (yes, they do that). But what about that $100 SGA fee you paid back in August? I promise you it’s working harder than any of your other fees. Here’s how!
Total SGA Budget Elizabeth Worsham Managing Editor The stage was set, the lights were up, and the students were ready to rock. It was time for none other than Rocktober 2013. On Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, The WIKD 102.5 FM and Touch-NGo Productions jointly produced Rocktober 2013, ERAU’s annual fall concert event. The sounds of this year’s concert could be described as rock with a retro, 8-bit twist. Stealing Vanity, a local, Daytona Beach band, opened the show with their song “You’re Right” to
get the crowd rolling, and after eight more songs, the crowd was warmed up and ready to go. The energy really got going when the headliner, I Fight Dragons, stepped onto the stage. They mesmerized the crowd with their setlist, including hit songs such as “Save World Get Girl” and “The Geeks Will Inherit The Earth.” This year’s Rocktober phenomenon had a surprising 300-350 attendees, about three times more than last year’s concert. Students had the chance to receive over $1,000 in prizes, including an iPad, and WIKD gave out exclusive
swag to a lucky few. Hailing from Chicago, I Fight Dragons formed with five members in 2008. They produced several EPs including “Cool Is Just a Number” and “Welcome to the Breakdown” before releasing their first full-length album, “KABOOM!,” in 2011. The band’s signature is its use of electronic sounds from Nintendo Game Boys and the Nintendo Entertainment System. If you missed the music and energy at Rocktober this year, never fear, The WIKD and Touch-N-Go are already planning for JAMuary 2014.
Where does SGA funding come from and how is it used? The SGA funding comes from you! Each student on this campus pays a $100 SGA fee. With 5,279 students, our total budget this semester is $527,900. Of your $100, the SGA gave $77 of that to
SGA Divisions and Registered Student Organizations (RSOs). We kept $23 to use for SGA projects and internal costs, such as the Blue Bike Program, building a hammock park on campus, SafeRide, coffee, tea, candy, student assistants, and paper clips.
Divisions Why do SGA Divisions get so much funding? The SGA Divisions are guaranteed an average of 50% of SGA’s total budget because they provide services that benefit the entire student body. The Avion
Newspaper, WIKD 102.5’s radio station, and Touch-nGo’s events are available to everyone, so make sure you take advantage of them! Of your $77 that went to Divisions and RSOs, it was distributed as follows:
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