"Women's rugby receives over $6,700 from SA"

At Wednesday's Student Association Senate meeting, the UB women's rugby club team received $6,700 and a $7,000 loan to attend a national tournament.

Typically, clubs don't receive this much funding through Senate grants.

The club asked the Senate on Wednesday night to help fund an estimated $20,469.65 trip to USA Rugby Final Four in Stanford, Calif. The team had $2,948 left in its budget and was able to raise $5,580.80 through various fundraisers, including a clothing sale, Delta Sonic sale and banquet dinner.

All 21 players are also paying $200 out of pocket, which brings in an additional $4,200.

After all of the adjustments, the team came to the Senate meeting with a deficit of $7,740.81.

The Senate decided to finance the rugby team by gathering money from other clubs. Specifics can be seen in The Spectrum'sgraphic.

The Senate moved into a discussion period and debated how to finance the club. The Senators were adamant about the importance of finding a way to fund the trip. After discussion and determining the total figures of money coming from other locations - four SISH council clubs the College Republicans, the Sikh Student Association, Outdoor Adventure Club (OAC) and UB for Christ, funds from Korean Student Association, which was derecognized at the Senate meeting and UB NORML - the Senate funded the remaining $3,100 from its New and Innovative line.

The women's rugby club is continuing to fundraise through a Sub-Board, Inc. (SBI), fundraiser. Robert Golightly, the Senate sports coordinator, said the club currently has collected $700 from the fundraiser, and he estimated it will total $1,000 by April 30.

Because the team needs to book flights for the event and some of the club's funds are tied up in SBI, Golightly used two lines to fund $7,000 - with $6,000 from the Competition line and $1,000 from the Co-sponsorship line - to use temporarily until the funds from SBI come through. Once the funds come through, the money he invested will be moved back into those lines.

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