By Diana C. Hernandez—

Where all all the events on campus? The events have not gone anywhere, but some did have to be cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy. So you can blame Hurricane Sandy for missing out on the chance to spice up your dance moves.

Corrado DeVincenzo, VP of Activities, said that, “Some of these [events] are already booked to happen next semester.” The problem at hand is that students are not booking their events on time. According to Victor Devalle, Assistant Director of Scheduling, booking an event on time is crucial, “The student union is quite busy. Student organization planning and implementing is key for student programming. All SGO recognized clubs and organizations were made aware of the four week process during the summer retreat.” Devalle believes that “The amount of student organizations has increased, but the amount of available program space has remained the same…I don’t think the four week process is the problem there are so many student organizations trying to book. When I first started there weren’t so many organizations now there is double the amount of organizations.”

The lack of booking a table on time is not the only problem, but the fact that many seniors of clubs are graduating leaving, some students picking up the torch are still in the dark on how to meet quotas. Christian Diaz, President of Student Government Organizations, expressed that “There are at least six new clubs this semester. SGO is targeting freshmen and sophmores, so that the same strategies we implement in them can carry on. We are trying as much as we can to teach them about booking of the table and the events, but it really is up to them to contact Campus Life to book the table for them. I myself wanted to book a table last month for Voting Registration and Victor [Devalle] told me I have to do this three weeks in advance. So I had to grab a table myself for that day. I was not able to get the big table.”

Hector Rivera, VP of Finance and Administration also stated, “There a lot of new members. I can’t even tell you how many people I have shown how to do the vouchers. A lot of the treasurers have graduated.”

Rivera gave the example of the sociology club. Their entire executive board are seniors. “So in one shot their whole E -board is gone so they have been very consistent this semester, but what is to say when they graduate. They have to mentor a whole bunch of people in their clubs and there is a lot of clubs that are like that. We are trying as much as we can on our part to do mentorship.”

Unlike SGO and faculty who feel there is no lack of events some students at New Jersey City University think otherwise. Mario Mantilla, 21, Media Arts major from Jersey City says, “In previous semesters and previous years there was always stuff going on every time I would walk in GSUB there would always be music playing, food out and some type of event. I always loved them because it gave me stuff to do whenever I benched down in couches in GSUB. But, this semester there’s hardly anything and now when I am bored, I am really bored,” said Mantilla. “I blame the school because of the lack of things to do so next time I start doing PT [physical training] in the hallways its all NJCU’s fault.”

T.J. DeRosa, 24, Media Arts from Asbury feels that, “The events lack publishing. I don’t really know about the events that are going on and I find it hard to integrate them into my schedule.”

DeVincenzo disagrees and feels that, “We are responsible for promoting our own events.”

He says promoting events has always been up to par for SGO, but students holding their own events are responsible for their own promotion. “We have Blanda the nonpropaganda PANDA. The only reason we got the panda is to promote events because it attracts people.”

DeVincenzo also said that the reason the policy was changed to “no dairy” products for fundraising events was to protect the University of any law suits.

DeVincenzo thinks that, “People can get sick and sue the school if people cook with old or expired foods. There are creative ways to do fund- raisers but people just do not do them.”