SECTION 1. TITLE.
This Act may be referred to as the “Phi Delta Theta’s Crab Fest”
SECTION 2. DEFINITIONS.
(a) SGA — The term “SGA” shall refer to the Student Government Association of TheJohns Hopkins University.(b) JHU, Hopkins - The terms “JHU” and “Hopkins” shall refer to the Johns HopkinsUniversity.(c) ALS - The term “ALS” shall refer to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a progressiveneurodegenerative disease.
SECTION 3. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
(a) FINDINGS & PURPOSESa. The purpose of this event is for Phi Delta Theta to provide an all-you-can-eatcrab-eating event to the Johns Hopkins community, including students, youngalumni, faculty, and parents and family for its third consecutive year.b. This is to raise money for philanthropy, with all proceeds directed to both thePackard Center, the premier ALS research institute in the world that’scentered at Johns Hopkins, as well as the Live Like Lou Foundation, anorganization that is closely partnered with the national Phi Delta Thetafraternity to support ALS patients, families, and communities, and furtherpromote the development of research of a cure in the future.c. The funding of this event will help reduce the cost of attendance from atypical $60 all-you-can-eat to a price range of around $25.d. The projected attendance of this event will be between 600 and 650 peoplefrom various groups, including students, young alumni, faculty, parents, andfamilies.e. Sales for this event last year reached 483 attendees (a substantial increasefrom the inaugural year which had 339 attendees); and together with the 15donations attendants made we were able to donate $10,000 to the Live LikeLou Foundation. With the intention of establishing ourselves as the flagshipevent of Family Weekend, we need the help of SGA for us to be able toprocure more food in order to be able expand to a larger audience.f. We are actively working with the Office of Family Engagement to not onlyexpand the event, but to improve its quality through establishing a sense ofprofessionalism with various initiatives.
SECTION 4. FUNDING OF ITEMS
Item Amount Link/PictureCrabs According the numbers given
to us by Curt Engle based onhis professional experience, abushel of crabs(approximately 85 crabs)feeds 12 people in a buffet.Using this rate of 7 crabs perperson and our upperbound ofprojected attendees (650ppl),we would incur a cost ofVendor: Curt Engle,Harbour House Crabs.curt@ilovecrabs.com,(888) 458-8272 ext. 1.$6,625 for 53 bushels.That being said, we recognizethat this is a very high priceto be able to cover in fullwhich is why we ask if SGAcould cover half the cost andprovide us with $3,250. Thatmoney would be absolutelycritical for our ability toprocure the crabs and withoutyour support, we would beunable to run the event.https://www.ilovecrabs.com/hard-shell-crabs-large.html(a) The total amount would be $3,250 for 26 bushels of 85 crabs each.
SECTION 5 . SEVERABILITY.
Should any provision of this Act, an amendment made by this Act, or the application ofsuch provision or amendment to any person or circumstance be held to be unconstitutional or ,the remainder of this Act, the amendments made by this Act, and the application of suchprovision or amendment to any person or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.UPON PASSAGE, WE HAVE HEREUNTO SET OUR HANDS AND CAUSED THE SEAL OF THE SENATE TO BE AFFIXED TO THIS BILLINDICATING THE SENATE’S ASSENT AND THUS OFFICIALLY DESIGNATED THE BILL’S ADOPTION AS LAW.
Signatures of Enactment:
Vishnu DontuStudent Body President of the Johns Hopkins SGA
Omotara TiamiyuStudent Body Vice President of the Johns Hopkins SGA
Srigouri OrugantyPresident of the Senate of the Johns Hopkins SGA
Sumire SumiStudent Body Secretary of the Johns Hopkins SGA
Imad AhmedStudent Body Treasurer of the Johns Hopkins SGA
Tyler TurnerStudent Body Chair of Programming for the Johns Hopkins SGA