10 Things You Could Buy With The Proposed UT SG Budget

By Brittany Shulman


It’s all about the dolla billz, y’aaaalllllll.

Last night, the UT Student Government budget for 2015-2016 was announced. SG will be allotted $112,820 for the school year, which will be confirmed at next week’s meeting.

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This money will go toward things like stipends, special projects, agencies and more government-type things to better the campus. But what if it didn’t have to?

Here are 10 things UT SG could buy instead of using the allotted funding for SG purposes:

  1. 427 iPads
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  2. 24 Bred Heifers in Highland County
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  3. Pay off 1,504 tickets for unauthorized parking on campus
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  4. 4 round-trip tickets from New York to Hong Kong on Cathay Pacific Airlines
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  5. 44,417 Honey Butter Chicken Biscuits, which is almost enough to feed the entire UT undergraduate population
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  6. 578 Big Tickets
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  7. 14,102 half-gallons of Blue Bell ice cream
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  8. 106,433 Lunchables
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  9. 266 pairs of Gameday Texas Longhorns Cowboy Boots

  10. Tuition for 22 semesters at UT Austin for undergraduate studies
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Or you know, they can just go ahead and use the money to make campus better. We support that too.