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Our Clubs and Societies have a range of goods and equipment that goes unused when they are not holding events. We want to establish a rental program allowing clubs and societies to have the opportunity to rent their goods to students at an affordable price. This provides students with cheap rentals, and clubs and societies with extra revenue to support their amazing initiatives.

We all know that university is expensive. With crippling tuition fees, textbooks and school supplies, students keep paying more and getting less. In addition to these expenses, many students are stuck
paying to print their assignments. But did you know that last year CUSA introduced a free printing service? This year, we want to make your university experience easier and more affordable. That’s why we are committing to improving our free printing program by offering every student 250 free pages of printing with no turnaround time. That’s $25.00 more in your pocket each term! Students already pay so much for school. We believe that printing shouldn’t have to be one of those added costs.

Whether it’s awesome events or tabling in the atrium, Clubs & Societies are busy trying to connect with students on campus. Carleton is lucky to be home to 300 different Clubs & Societies, the most in the country. Running one of these organizations is hard enough, and our student leaders do not need the added burden of having to lug their swag on campus every day. For these reasons, we have committed to bringing you better access to CUSA’s space to store your Clubs & Societies items.

Under the current policy, CUSA Clubs & Societies are forced to use Aramark, Carleton’s food service provider, for catering services on campus when they host events. Unfortunately, using Aramark costs
Clubs & Societies more money and restricts their catering options. Some groups on campus have even received fines in the past for breaking these rules. This year we have planed to save our Clubs &
Societies money, and that plan starts with lobbying the university to remove this restriction. In addition, we are committed to providing better catering services from our CUSA businesses to ensure
your group has access to diverse food options.

We are so lucky to have faculty representatives who every year dedicate their time to serving students on CUSA Council. Unfortunately, there are still lots of students on campus who do not know their CUSA councillors who are elected to represent them. We want to change that by giving councillors more opportunities to meet and engage with their students. CUSA will improve
these relationships by coordinating meet and greets, and social events for councilors and students interested in having their voices heard. We know that it is important to facilitate these relationships
to get more students involved with CUSA.

CUSA Clubs & Societies put in long hours planning awesome events for students. This year we want to make your job just a little bit easier by offering free graphic design services. Since CUSA already has a Communications Office with great graphic designers, we thought that it would be good to open this service up to Clubs & Societies. In addition, we will also work towards hosting
graphic design workshops for campus groups so that you can get the most out of your events. This will make it much easier for Clubs & Societies to promote their events at no extra cost.