Though the nation is buzzing about Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 30, many students do not know that the means to going are at their fingertips.

Tickets to travel to Washington will be sold on Thursday at 9 p.m.

Student Union Treasury allocated $11,856.18 to pay for three buses to transport approximately 165 students, each of whom will need to pay $35 to go on the trip. This money is being taken from a new $30,000 fund from the student activities fee that is available for individual appeals from students who are not applying as part of an SU student group.

Though SU vice president of public relations Cody Katz sent out a campus-wide e-mail about the opportunity, many students have complained about the lack of publicity for the opportunity.

“Wash. U. hasn’t been publicizing it very well,” junior Lucy Stickler said.

Stickler feels that because Treasury money has been spent on the trip, efforts to publicize it to the entire student body should be greater than what they are now.

“If they want people to go, they shouldn’t fund it without telling people about it,” she said.

Other students agree that the trip should be more publicized.

“The fact that for $35 they’re subsidizing a trip to D.C. and they’re really not telling anyone about it is just to perpetuate the idea that they’re self serving,” sophomore Daniel Starosta said. “I imagine that the bulk of the people going to the rally through the subsidy are Student Union representatives.”

Starosta said he feels that SU often does not distribute its money as well as it could.

“I have long-standing issues with Student Union as an organization because it doesn’t seem to allocate funding correctly to students that need or don’t need it.”

The few students who have heard about the transportation to the rally have heard about it through Facebook, e-mails from SU and Student Life.

Starosta suggested that Student Union should also flyer with information.

Reuben Karchem, the individual who proposed the trip, is disappointed that more people don’t know about it.

“I read the e-mails that I get from SU or ResLife, but I was hoping that people would read Cody Katz’s PR e-mail, but perhaps that was naive to assume that everyone reads these e-mails. In light of that, over the next few days, we’re going to have to do some more marketing on campus so that the kind of person who doesn’t check their e-mail hears about it,” Karchem said.

Lisa Thompson, a senior, sees the positives of making the rally more accessible to students by funding the trip.

“[The trip] is a unique opportunity for students, and it’s something fun to make politics more exciting,” Thompson said.

Despite her support of students attending the rally, Thompson has some reservations about allocating the money to fund the trip. She feels that the finite amount of money available for individual appeals could possibly have been given out to support on-campus endeavors.

“The money could be better used towards student groups, but if it’s set aside, it should be used,” she said.

Sophomore Matthew Techy agrees that the money is well spent but could be better spent on campus.

“I think it’s good for the college community in terms of being kind of politically active…addressing issues you have with the current American mindset towards politics,” Techy said. “But I think there are many other useful activities around campus that the funding could go towards.”

Katz hopes that students who are genuinely interested in the rally and its message will attend.

“We want people who actually want to attend the rally and who are interested in having follow-up discussions rather than people who want a trip to D.C. cheap,” Katz said.

There will be a viewing party watching shows such as The Daily Show in the DUC for students to make signs for the rally.