Last night’s ASSU Undergraduate Senate meeting primarily focused on the passage of special fees bills.

Various student groups have submitted budget proposals and requests to the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senators came together for one of multiple meetings to approve each organization’s funding allocations. Students will have a chance to vote on the approved budgets in April’s ASSU election.

This week, all regular funding bills and special fees bills passed with majority vote.

Groups whose special fees budgets were approved included the Stanford Chaparral, the Stanford American Indian Organization, Six Degrees, the Leland Quarterly, Stanford in Government, the Stanford Solar Car Project, the Stanford AXE Committee, the Stanford News Readership Program, the Sexual Health Peer Resources Center, Alternative Spring Break, Stanford Mock Trial and the Asian American Student Association.

The Senate is also currently working to advance Undergraduate Senate Bill 15, “A Resolution to Allow for the Discussion of Donald Rumsfeld’s Legacy.” The bill, which was passed three weeks ago, calls for a campus event that would allow students to engage in a discussion with Rumsfeld regarding his policies and qualifications for the title of Hoover Institution “distinguished visiting fellow.”

Senator Sarah Golabek-Goldman ‘10, who authored the bill, told the Senate that she emailed a Rumsfeld aide, inviting the former Secretary of Defense to participate in the event. The Senate has requested that he respond by Mar. 10.