By Nicole Schuman
Staff Writer

The Student Government Association eliminated eight club-sport senator positions because they had not been chartered by the SGA.

Before this, the eight club-sports senators held seats along with an intramurals senator, said senior Amanda Dover, SGA press secretary. The club teams include men's club hockey, lacrosse, volleyball, rugby, and women's golf, lacrosse, field hockey and rugby, Dover said.

"Student Government never officially chartered the groups, so they do not receive funding from the us," Dover said.

The teams receive their funding from the office of intramurals, she added.

Graduate student Andrew Jordan, vice president of SGA, said club sports and intramurals held a total of nine seats in the senate. In a meeting with team senators following the SGA meeting Monday, all agreed that too many team senators made for a misrepresentation of the student body, Jordan said.

He said he did not know why the clubs had senators in the first place.

SGA representatives have discussed the policy since the beginning of the year with Jim Echeverria, director of intramurals and George Solan, vice president for student life, Dover said.

Elections will be held in the near future among the club sports teams to choose a new intramural senator, Dover said. Jordan said the current senator is junior Lauren Barbati.

Dover added the total senator count would decline to 52.

At Monday's meeting:

A spokeswoman for a new Web communications service, Egenda.Net, which also is the actual Web site, promoted the free services now available to students.

Stephanie Bifano, a representative for Egenda.Net, said students can use the Web site for personal organization and information distribution. Web links, free e-mail, digital calendars and group information services and internet shopping links are included in the service, Bifano said.

"Senators can meet with Bifano to be given a tutorial on the program," said graduate student Andrew Jordan, SGA vice president.

Other universities using Egenda include University at Buffalo, Villanova University, Temple University and Pennsylvania State University, she said.

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