The Student Association Senate created a new advisory board Sunday night to oversee various media aspects related to the SA.

The media board was created to oversee areas within the SA pertaining to the technical services, organizational Web sites and any other major media outlets. The board also will serve as an advisory group to the SA’s yet-to-be-named magazine, which, as of Sept. 12, has cost $17,436.35 in student fees to establish.

So far, the monies used to fund the magazine have come from SA President Shaun Crisler’s executive allocation budget. Crisler said he was unsure if he would have to come to the senate in the future to fund remaining costs that will come from the publication.

Crisler said he was unsure about how much the magazine is going to cost, and will work this week to figure out finalized numbers. He also was unclear about the magazine’s publication schedule.

Brooke Robinson, a former Northern Star employee and current editor of the SA’s magazine, said it will alleviate problems the SA has seen in the Northern Star.

“One of the main complaints from these organizations is ‘we can’t get our news in,’ and the Star’s response is ‘we have only so much space,’ which is true … and we are very sympathetic to that,” she said.

Keith Kruchten , Residence Hall Association president and an SA senator, agreed with Robinson’s claim.

“The Northern Star doesn’t cover smaller organizations as well as they could,” Kruchten said.

Mark Bieganski, Star editor in chief, said he disagrees with the assessment and said the Star looks for story ideas from any organization. But, usually only a few organizations on campus take the time to bring these ideas to the table.

“We’re always willing to get the word out to students that ‘this group’ is putting on ‘this event this weekend,’” Bieganski said. “If groups or organizations feel that their event should be covered, that’s when they should come to us.”

The new board will have the power to act only as an advisory council to the SA president.

In addition to appointments that will be made by Crisler, the board also will include representation from seven organizations considered by Crisler to be “umbrella” organizations. Umbrella organizations are those that have other organizations reporting to them.

The organizations represented on the board are the Asian American Association, Black Student Union, College Panhellenic Council, Interfraternity Council, National Pan-Hellenic Council, Organization for Latin American Students and the Residence Hall Association.

Senator Douglas Reisinger proposed changing the board to include the Campus Activities Board. Reisinger said he believed the board only had representation of seven out of eight major campus organizations.

Other senators disagreed.

“CAB has enough of what it already has,” senator Hagar Allen said.

“CAB gets a lot of press,” BSU President Sharina Ware said. “A lot of other organizations do not.”

CAB president Jennifer Suerth said she would have appreciated a spot for CAB on the media board, but isn’t really offended that CAB didn’t get one.

“They [the SA] have criticized our lack of [public relations],” Suerth said. “What better way to increase our [public relations] than by adding us to this board.”