An ample amount of Sunday’s Student Association Senate meeting was devoted to reviewing eight organizations’ 1987-88 budget requests and allocating funds.

Before the more than $26,000 Health Enhancement budget was OK’d, Michael Haines, Health Enhancement Services coordinator, told SA senators the service primarily provides health education.

It does this through the Wellness Resource Center in the Holmes Student Center and health educators’ lectures on contraception and sexually transmited diseases to students in residence halls, classrooms and greek houses.

Most of the SA funds will be used to pay for one full-time, 12-month educator, student helpers, ads and fliers. There are 14 student workers, including one graduate assistant and one student intern employed by the enhancement center, he said.

The enhancement center’s budget totals about $80,000, Haines said. The SA funds about one-third of the total.the rst of the money comes from the University Health Service’s budget and general revenue money, he said.

Steve Owley, “Towers'” editor, told the senate that “Towers” is a student-run magazine which publishes students’ poems and essays. The usually 90-page magazine will run only 65 pages this semester because there is not enough money to print more pages, he said.

After Owley spoke, the senate removed the SA Finance Committee’s rider stating only one submission from each student can be published and approved the $9,792.55 budget.

One thousand copies of Towers will be distributed later this month in Reavis Hall, the Art Building and the student center, Owley said.

After a lengthy discussion, the senators approved about $5,000 for the Black Choir so the 78 members can pay concert expenses such as transporting the organ to concert halls. The SA also will pay for audio-visual equipment and rent for a public announcement system.

SA Sen. Jean Forst’s suggestion to zero-fund about $850 for a workshop the choir members attend each year failed. She suggested they use the money for an amplifier instead. The choir asked to purchase a $1,000 synthesizer and a $500 amplifier.

The senate agreed with the finance committee’s rationale to fund the synthesizer and have the choir hold a fundraiser in order to purchase the amplifier. Choir representative Joyce Ester said the amplifier would be used in concerts where the organ cannot be moved.

Ester said, “The workshop gives the choir a chance to meet other people from other universities and learn what is going on there and bring it back here.”

After reconsideration of the InterFraternity Council/Panhellenic budget, the SA gave the go-ahead for more than $2,000, a decrease of about $500 from the original approval. The senate removed a rider which stated IFC/Panhel could not charge a fee for sorority rush and zero-funded all the rush advertising.

SA bylaws state IFC/Panhel either can receive advertising funds or charge a fee to rush a sorority, said SA Treasurer Lisa Schlepp. The first time the SA approved IFC/Panhel’s budget, they received rush advertising funds. The remaining funds went to advertising the Greek system as a whole, postage and general commodities.

The Organization of Latin American Students also will receive about $2,000 from the SA. About $800 will be used to print OLAS‘ newsletter, which announces scheduled events.

OLAS Treasurer Mario Rueda said members also will attend three conferences, including the Latin American Conference, Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement and Hispanic Student Leadership Regional.

Each conference teaches the members something new regarding political issues in South America, job enhancement geared toward Hispanics and organizational structure, Rueda said.

The Northern Illinois Committee for Arts requested the smallest amount, $130. NICA representative Martin Brief said, “The organization exposes students to new and innovative designs that cannot be found in the classroom.”

With the allocated money, NICA plans to attend a conference in Chicago where students can see contemporary designs and meet professionals in the field of graphic art, Brief said.

The senators agreed to not fund the Philippine Association because the organization does not know if it will continue next year, Schlepp said.

The senate also decided to zero-fund the Student Economic Association’s budget because no representatives showed up for the second week in a row—although Schlepp said she tried repeatedly to contact them.

In other business, because the SA granted Forensics $625 in supplemental funding for this year, three members will be able to attend the most prestigious national tournament. Schlepp said Forensics did not fund for the tournament in the regular budget because the organization did not know it would be invited to the tournament.