The Student Association approved several finance proposals for on-campus publications and operations including The Black Voice, University Union TV and Syracuse University Ambulance during their Monday night meeting.Most of the proposals were approved unanimously. Only Z89, which is not normally funded by SA, and the UUTV/WERW combination, served as exceptions.The radio station applied for the one-time funding because it needs an upgrade for its transmission equipment. In recent months its transmission has been affected by outdated equipment. “In order to stay a viable student-run radio station and to be able to keep our sponsors, we needed an upgrade,” a Z89 representative said.SA member Geri Weinstein asked whether Z89 would label itself as a student organization now that it was going to be partially funded by SA. She also moved to amend the funding to stipulate that a contract would be drawn up stating that all student groups that are currently being funded by SA would be able to sponsor programming at the radio station for a reduced rate. That amendment was later amended by Assemblyman Jason Holtz to state that all student groups would be able to receive the reduced rate.“Money from SA should go to help all student groups, whether they compete for funding or not,” said Holtz, a freshman international relations major.The Z89 representative said that it has always been open to working with any student group’s publicity issues and agreed to the amendment.Other approved publications include a new comics magazine, Berserker, which will receive $4,688 and be distributed twice a semester and Path magazine, a Muslim magazine which will publish its first issue since 1996 next semester with the $800 it will receive from SA.The Black Voice, which this semester protested its funding from SA to the Judicial Review Board, received all of the $7,425 that it requested. Anthony Buissereth, the editor in chief of The Black Voice told the Assembly that in celebration of the publication’s 35th year it would be returning to its traditional publication schedule of six bi-weekly newspapers a semester and a magazine in November.“We got what we asked for,” said Buissereth, a junior sociology major.

In other SA news:n President Colin Seale told the assembly about a lunch meeting he had with the director of the Office of Judicial Affairs, Juanita Williams, about commencement speaker Rudolph Giuliani. He said that SA needs to educate the campus about the complaints that many students have with Giuliani. “We need to educate why there is a protest and why he shouldn’t be speaking here,” Seale added.Vice President Shawn Hardie said that he is going to present a petition to the Board of Trustees closer to the speech.

n The assembly debated and approved a resolution suggesting changes to the overnight guest policy in residence halls. The current policy met with severe criticism from several members, including Buissereth, who said that it should not be the policy of SU to keep track of where students are sleeping. Some of the recommendations in the resolution include allowing students to have a guest stay over eight times a month.