The Associated Student, Inc. Board of Control approved five grants that added up to a total of $2,774 on Tuesday.
Jamie Vermin, a second year graduate student in communications, requested and received $400. She said she will be using the money to help pay for travel costs, which added up to “about $800,” in order to present her paper at the Western Communication Conference in February.
“I was accepted and nominated for a top picker award [for my paper] at the Western Communication Conference in Spokane, Washington,” Vermin said. “I wrote a rhetorical criticism on how women are portrayed in Woody Allen’s films.”
Treasurer Kalien Clark spoke for Cal State University Long Beach student Rebecca Stewart since she is in Germany conducting research. Stuart requested and received $500 in order to travel back to CSULB to present her research findings.
Sarah Prothero and her husband Trent Monahan, graduate students in anthropology, requested and received $800 to travel to the Society of Visual Anthropology’s film festival in Washington D.C. The festival “screens work by students, professional anthropologists and professional filmmakers at the American Anthropological Association’s annual conference,” according to SVA’s website.
“We will be presenting our film, which we made at CSULB during our undergrad time here,” Prothern said. “It’s called ‘Virtual Me: Gender and Identity in World of Warcraft.’ Our film has won the award at the festival for Best Undergraduate Student Film.”
Prothern added that she and Monahan are also receiving $500 each from the anthropology department in order to cover lodging, taxis and food. Their movie can be found on YouTube.
Diana Johnston, director of community service for CSULB’s American Marketing Association, requested and received $374 in order to pay for the cost of the facility they will use for the event and for the cost of refreshments.
“We are planning to have a benefit concert on Dec. 4 from 7 to 9 p.m.,” Johnston said.
She added that Be the Match, the AMA’s philanthropic partner for the year that matches bone marrow donors with cancer patients, will have a representative talk at the concert about what they do and how people can help by signing up in order to “help save a life.”
“The concert will be open to all CSULB Students, and all the performers are also CSULB students,” Johnston said.
She also said the AMA is expected to gain about $500 in donations at the concert, which will all go to Be the Match.
The Filipino American Coalition requested and received $700 in order to cover the Carpenter Performing Arts Center fee in order to use the facility for FAC’s Culture Night.
FAC said the event is “student-produced and student-run,” and will have cultural dances and original student skits. The FAC also said more money could now go to cultural costumes and dance props since the fee for the performing arts center is being covered.