Students who think they have a winning idea of how to spend $100,000 on campus had better think fast — the ASUO will stop taking proposals at 5 p.m. today.
The ASUO’s Bucks for Ducks campaign, which has been running since the second week of spring term, will close the contest at the end of the day. Any last-minute suggestions must be turned in to the ASUO Executive office by 5 p.m.
The campaign asks students to submit their ideas of how to spend $100,000 out of the overrealized account, which contains extra student incidental fee money left over from years when University enrollment was higher than expected.
Ideas must entail one-time costs and they must benefit a large number of students. On top of that, proposals cannot involve alcohol or suggest building anything new.
Jamie Gerlitz, the ASUO’s public relations director, said the campaign committee has received between 10 and 12 proposals so far, and it hopes to have about 15 by the end of the day.
ASUO President Jay Breslow said each proposal does not necessarily have to suggest spending the entire overrealized amount. Students can propose ideas using as much or as little of the amount as they want.