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News MSG votes to decrease executive scholarships
By Joshua Wilwohl Editor-in-chief Mercyhurst College Student Government voted Monday to decrease executive board member stipends, while increasing the overall total line item amount. The vote comes after MSG opted to add the MSG event coordinator and the public relations coordinator positions to the executive board. The MSG body voted on two options, opting for option one. Option one will cut the amount of scholarship money to the executive board almost in half. It will drop the president’s current salary of $12,000 to $7,500 and the treasurer’s salary of $7,500 to $6,000. It will also decrease the Student Activities Council chair scholarship from $9,000 to $6,000. The executive board’s new positions – public relations coordinator and MSG event coordinator – will each get a scholarship of $6,000. The vice president’s and secretary’s salary will remain the same at $6,000. The SAC board salary, however, will see an increase by $3,000 from $24,000 to $27,000. This totals the overall line item to $75,840, increasing the line item by $8,140. MSG President Marissa Starin, a senior, said the line item increase is possible because the FTE allotment will increase. This, according to Starin, means more students are coming to the college. “We decreased our scholarships so others can join high positions,” she said. “Our hopes are that we’ll get people who take these jobs seriously.” Students said that though executive board scholarships will decrease next year, they would still consider running for a position. Freshman Alicia Danenberg said the money doesn’t make a difference for her. “I have been considering it and I would take the job because any scholarship they give you should be good enough,” she said. Junior Sandy Lambo said money doesn’t matter. “I would still run,” she said. “The money wouldn’t really make a difference.” Starin said the MSG body sent out an e-mail vote to have a basis on how much to decrease the scholarships. “We wanted to get a basic idea of percentage numbers on the decrease of scholarships,” she said. The results show 28 representatives of the MSG body voted in favor of keeping the president’s scholarship 5 percent above the rest of the executive board. Six voted to pay the executive board the same amount. Eighteen voted to keep six executive board members, while 16 voted to keep the board as four members. The votes were split to increase the amount of the SAC board. Fourteen voted to keep the SAC board scholarship amount as is, while 18 voted to increase. It was an almost unanimous vote to keep the committee chair stipend at $150 per term. Twenty-seven voted to keep, while four voted to decrease and one voted to get rid of the stipend. Starin said decreasing the scholarships will help find students who care about MSG. “When you’re in a role like this…it’s a position that a lot of people are passionate about the job,” she said. “We’re hoping to get people on this board who really represent the students and a way of doing this is by increasing the line item for scholarships.”
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