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the Asian Student Association were requesting Overflow Funding from Student Government of about $2000.00 to go to Epcot as a full-paid vacation reward to it's members for contributing so much to their Organization. they didn't have any actual event or plans there other than to go, and pretty much all of Senate was heckling them about why the Students' Money should be given to a single Organization as a reward for advancing their own personal agenda.

it got realy interesting when we found out that they have only done one Fundraising event of their own, a carwash, and havn't realy given anything back to the rest of Student Government, the Campus, or anyone else for that matter.

also, when asked how much money was in their Fund 6 account (a budget account that Clubs and Student Organizations get to hold their Raised Funds), they said it was empty because they only just opened the account. so the Fundraising Director asked them where the money from the carwash was, and they told us it was in their pockets! everyone laughed, and when the Madam Chair called Order again, she then called the Student Body Treasurer up! the Senator for teh College Democrats literrally fell out of his seat in laughter!

so, it also turns out that in all this time since last year that they;ve been trying to get the Overflow Funds for the trip to Epcot since last semester, they've also had trips to other such places, from Universal Studios, to a Sushi Resturaunt, always using the "Cultural Experience" as an excuse. and all of it was funded by SG.

the request amount kept getting amended bit by bit till it was for less than half of what they originally were asking for, then finaly Tabled Indefinately (which means that it won't be abl eto be brought up again until next semester).