Getting off the ground — ASUI Senate allocates funds to NORE to aid the organization’s upcoming project

The Argonaut After some contentious debate, ASUI unanimously passed a bill Wednesday to allocate funding to the Northwest Organization of Rocket Engineers (NORE) of the University of Idaho to help the group prepare for the 2018 Science Board America Cup (SBAC).
UI student and NORE co-chair Daniel Furman said NORE initially approached ASUI for support in February at a funding board meeting, where they were awarded $1,685 to create small model rockets.

Furman said NORE applied for further funding from ASUI to create a larger rocket, so they would be able to compete at the 2018 SBAC and bolster their organization by providing members with more hands-on experience.
UI student and NORE co-chair Bailey Lind-Trefts said NORE originally asked the senate for $5,000 from its allocations budget to gather as much funding as possible, but after a reassessment, they dropped their asking price to $1,635.
“We realized that we didn’t exactly need the full amount that we were asking for just yet,” Lind-Trefts said. “What we got is exactly what need to get (NORE) off the ground.”
Furman said NORE also recently applied to NASA for a grant of $25,000 to benefit and expand the organization and its projects even further.
ASUI Pro-Tempore Mattie Cupps said the senate would not have been able to provide NORE with the original $5,000 because it would have drained the entire budget and she was not comfortable with giving the entire fund to just one student organization when it’s supposed to help a variety, so she believed the new amount of $1,635 was much more reasonable.
During the meeting, Sen. Jordan Kizer moved to amend the fund by an additional $165, changing the total amount to $1,800 to give NORE some “wiggle room.”
Kizer’s amendment was met with a lengthy debate from several senators, but was eventually vetoed.
Sen. Danny Bugingo, who writes for The Argonaut, said he disagreed because he did not ...


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