Clubs and COVID-19

This year with changes to Olivet’s budget the Associate Student Council (ASC) has pushed to keep funding for the many clubs around campus.

ASC is a group of students that represents the student body to the school. There are 50 people in ASC. There is an executive council that makes decisions for the whole student body. There are also class councils that help to form relationships within the class.

Megan Drent is the Executive Officer of Finance in ASC. Her job in ASC is to help finance all school events, class events, and clubs. Drent helped with all the budgeting for these different events and for over 50 of the clubs on campus. 

“We (ASC) knew that we would not be able to have all school events and so we really wanted to focus on having those smaller events that enough people could attend safely,” Drent said;/

With the pandemic limiting the amount of social interactions that are allowed to take place many students are being impacted in many different ways.

This graph shows the percentage of students that have been impacted in these areas because of the pandemic.

 According to Active Minds, “80% of college students report that COVID-19 has negatively impacted their mental health.”

With this high number of students being affected, ASC wanted to make sure that the students at Olivet Nazarene University still had an opportunity to participate in social life.

“With club events still going on we wanted to be able to still have enough events for clubs and funding to support their dreams,” Drent said. “These could be our smaller pockets of community on campus.”

However, there was one change that was made to the honor societies.

“Honor Societies are being transferred out from ASC control to be more departmentally run,” she said.

This means that ASC no longer has involvement with the funding or budgeting of the different Honor Societies. All of that control is being given to the applicable departments.

For more information on the financial situation, Olivet Nazarene University has found itself in because of the pandemic, check out Kylie Schumacher’s story “The Future is Hazy for the Department of Student Employment”

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