Newly elected university board chairs are planting for the fall, creating a crop of new festivities, concerts and events ready for harvest.

University Board, the committee responsible for major entertainment on campus such as concerts, movies, “Quake in the Quad” and 7th Street Underground, have named junior English major Caleb Judy as new chair and junior journalism major Ryan Rinchiuso as vice chair.

The new executive officials are setting their sights on unifying the internal aspects of the board and expanding on the outside.

Newly elected University Board Chair Caleb Judy and his staff have been putting in overtime in an effort to plan events for next year.

This year, Judy acted as university board vice chair under University Board Chair Stephanie Skrzypek and currently boasts a two-year commitment to the board.

Two of Judy’s biggest achievements this year are the concert fee, Judy’s resolution for the lack of major concert events at Eastern, and the continued effort to improve 7th Street Underground.

Judy said the concert fee has been an ongoing project that began in the summer of 2001 after he and Ceci Brinker, director of the student life office, sat down to program the upcoming year.

After deciding on the concert fee idea, Judy awarded a concert coordinator position to sophomore English major Bud Wierenga.

“We spent countless hours working on (the concert fee proposal), researching it…everything you would want to know about concerts,” Judy said.

Judy said the concert fee agenda led to many long hours, late nights, weekends and skipped classes. The work included drumming up support from the Student Senate through presentations at countless meetings and researching concert events at other institutions as well as past concerts at Eastern.

Judy said the concert fee proposal will enter the last stage on April 29, when the Board of Trustees’ votes will determine its fate.

Plans for this year include Saturday night cinema events, an idea of Rinchuiso’s, featuring movies not yet released on video, and a plethora of other events.

“We are looking at around 60 to 80 events,” Judy said.

Rinchuiso hopes to improve the internal matters of the board by giving credit to board members following hard work done in support of events.

Part of Rinchuiso’s plan will be to push to get the word out prior to events in an effort to heighten student participation.

“We just want to make sure that everyone knows there is some quality entertainment that will give you some cheap fun,” Rinchuiso said.

Rinchuiso said when students show up at the events, it makes the coordinators feel good knowing their hard work was not in vain.

Rinchuiso served on the university board as movie coordinator prior to his nomination for university board vice chair.

A committee made up of the 13 UB cooridinators (comedy, concerts, general costs, homecoming, human potential, lectures, marketing, mainstage, movies/videos, performing arts, productions, public relations and special events) elected Judy and Rinchuiso. Judy was elected uncontested but Richuiso defeated speech communication major Katie Strejc.