Student discount cards are a source of money for the Student Government Association.
And students may purchase the cards online with many benefits to offer to the student, such as Target.com, Amtrak com, Footlocker, and various travel web sites.
Most of the profit is given back to the students from the cards to help represent the students on a statewide level at conferences in places like San Francisco, Sacramento and sometimes in Washington D.C.
According to Tamera Langdon, 27, the current treasurer for SGA, “The $15 dollar fee is optional and unlike some community colleges where they have a mandatory activity fee of $15 to $23 dollars, there’s no plan to go to a mandatory fee here at BC.”
The money from the fee is used to pay for workers in the office of the SGA, some of the money is returned to the students in the form of providing free food to the students and other events that are sponsored by the SGA on campus.
Money is also used for the SGA to represent the students at their leadership conferences in places such as San Francisco, Sacramento, and sometimes Washington, D.C.
During Spring Fling it was the money from the student discount cards which bought the laptop and the three Apple Ipods that were given away.
Langdon went on to say, “$16,000 were given to student groups on campus, like the debate team and the Sife team, to represent students in competition, when the college was not going to pay for them to go to these competitions.”