Student Senate Minutes
Executive Committee Meeting 
16th of January 2008

I.	Executive Committee meeting of the Student Senate was called to order by President Szewczyk at 9:00 PM
a.	Absent from the meeting were members: 
II.	Executive Reports
a.	Secretary:  
b.	Treasurer: Working with the Readership Program. Reading emails between USA Today and Marty Eisenberg. USA Today is waiting on information from the KC Star about rates etc. The Star is available in Kirksville. Will have a timeline at this weeks meeting. New stands should be included in the estimate. Updated the budget again. Made a new adjusted budget. Needs specifics for the Ride Share program. Would like committees to resubmit budget requests. After studying the standing rules, it came to light that budget requests do not have to be confidential. Original surveys are now open. 
		Esfeld - A list of names of refund requesters should be made 	available to those planning events that students may attend. 
	Gave out $104 last semester in refunds. 52 students completely filled out the survey. 
c.	President: OAF needs a budget and will be requesting $350 for posters for the forum. The SERV Center voted on Monday to include a new initiative which will seek to mix up the Big Event. They will have a pilot program that will put together ethnically diverse groups to do service. Wants to plan a diversity dinner as a capstone to the pilot program. Looking at the weekend of the Big Event (April 5th). Missouri Higher Education Consortium document was drafted by several universities student presidents. Please read it over before Monday. There will be a retreat this semester. Wants it to be here on campus. Would like to hear other ideas.
		Esfeld - A retreat off campus should have happened last semester. 	Believes in off campus retreats because it takes people out of their 	environment and makes them bond in the new environment.
		Wisa - Does not support on off campus retreat because the student 	body does not feel it is a good expenditure.
		Szewczyk - Could offer the AKL house. It is off campus and is 	large enough to accommodate the Senate.
		Wisa - Off campus would be good but not over night. 
		Gilmore - Bowling at Leisure World? 
	Wants the retreat in early February after Storm the Capitol. Any speakers you would like to have? 
		Wisa - The new IDS
	What about President Dixon? YES! And Sujit. Would like to have people share good memories and what we’ve learned and accomplished. Jon has resigned his position as Student Affairs Chair. With the future appointment, would like to lay out an agenda to work with Rachel to create roundtable events with different groups to collect information. Thinking about making SA statisticians. Finding a way to poll the student body to better represent it. Spoke with Laura Bates about being a staff advisor for Senate. She will come to a couple of meetings to get a feel for things. There $85,000 budget from the collegiate readership program. Has the idea of creating a Pickler Media Endowment Committee that would donate books, movies, magazines, etc. on behalf of the student body to the library. Should we take from this massive roll over for this? 
		Esfeld - Do we know what this money can be spent on?
		Gilmore - Speaking with Marty for guidelines.
		Alberts - If you make a good offer to the board it should be okayed. 
		Esfeld - Would you be interested in making a sub-committee to 	investigate this possibility?
		Szewczyk - We could do a sub committee or a resolution.
		Gilmore - This money has to be spent on media. What exactly this 	means is still unclear.
	Even if this committee is created, it will not spend $82,000. Keep thinking of ways to spend the funds. 
		Millburg - Several people are interested in bringing the governor 	debates to Truman.
		Alberts - Senate could fund the governor debates if people are 	really interested instead of touching this.

III.	Auxiliary Reports
a.	Faculty Advisor: The Interdisciplinary Studies Forum was today. In late January, there will be more information regarding the Arts and Sciences Report. There is no report online. Restructuring of Faculty Government is still a topic of interest. State Appropriations are beginning to be gossiped about. Start thinking about Spring elections. Educator of the Year needs a supplemental advisor (Ideally a previous EOY winner). 
b.	Staff Advisor: 
c.	BOG: 
d.	Speaker: 
IV.	Committee Reports
a.	Academic Affairs: Had first meeting with committee. Talked about goals for the semester that the committee is really excited about. A friend of JoEllen’s came with the idea of having the Human Sexuality course as an alternative to the Health course. Only concern is if there are state requirements for the Health course. Replacement courses as alternatives will be a main priority for this semester. In Arete, the Health course is one of the lowest levels of satisfaction among students. WACT had the lowest satisfaction rating and will be topical starting in the fall. This seems to be something that students will have an interest in. Will speak to Chris Lance soon. This will add flexibility to the LSP before large changes come about.  Hopes that this will be something that can be pulled off this semester. Student Research Conference Award - Looking for a business school representative to serve on the committee to select a professor. If one is not found, another student will be selected from the liberal arts school. The application to nominate a professor will be included when you sign up to be a part of the conference. Spread the word. Syllabi Res - Written last semester with input from Chris Miller and committee. Wants Ex Comm’s opinion before taking it before the general body. 
		Poindexter - What is the meaning of the last bullet in the where as 	section?
		Esfeld - Prevents other professors in other universities from 	“stealing” the syllabi.
		Szewczyk - Could perspective students see them?
		Esfeld - No because they do not have access to TruView.
		Alberts - If it is on TruView, only enrolled students can view them. 	Reads that other faculty can’t see it either.
		Poindexter - Could say access is limited to users of TruView.
		Alberts - Remove bullet point. Put a one superscript above 	TruView in the first therefore be it resolved section with a footnote 	at the bottom stating TruView only accessible by university faculty 	and students.
		Alberts - Change therefore be it resolved to state… “Current 	syllabi for a course should be made readily available on 	TruView…”
		Alberts - Also state that UGC representative should present the res. 
		Millburg - Should there be another parenthesis at the end of the 	third bullet?
		Szewczyk - Work with the wording of bullet point four. 
		Alberts - Remove “provide the only easily accessible information 	students can get before registration about and course”
		Alberts - Some will argue that there are different definitions of 	syllabi. 
		Szewczyk - Is this meant to be mandatory?
		Esfeld - That is the idea, but would be a hard sell.
		Alberts - Instead of “current syllabi”, say “recent” syllabi.
		Szewczyk - Say both “current or recent”.
b.	External Affairs: Going to lobbying about the student vote on the BOG and what can be done about the high cost of text books. Text books are the second highest cost for college students. California has a lot of legislation combating the rising costs. Having two info meeting on Jan 23rd and Jan 30 in VH 1010 at 7 PM. The first will cover the do’s and don’ts of lobbying. The second will hopefully break interested students into groups. There will be 5 to 6 senators to a group. Wants to wait on ordering food until there is a more definite count to avoid excess purchasing. Meeting with Tom to talk about online things for Storm the Capitol. Tom has been working over break to create a live data listing of rentals in Kirksville. It will not be usable this semester. Committee’s first meeting was last night. Many disappointed that the colloquium series never got off the ground. A Janitor from VH is opening his own BBQ in Kirksville and is being helped by SIFE. Want to put on a small business colloquium. 
c.   Student Affairs:
d.	Campus Diversity: Serv Center is still looking for volunteers to do the MLK Read-In. Will be sending out an email to Senate asking for volunteers. Hillel is going to do a diversity week event. Tonya Mackie asked if Senate wants to help get the MAC a sign. 
      e. Campus Environment:
f. Budget Review: 
V.	General Reports
a.	Ethics Justice: Waiting for sections of report. Will have all of them by Monday’s meeting. Will possibly be late to Monday’s meeting depending on a flight to St Louis. Read list of 10 OAF recommendations.  
		Poindexter - Will this be emailed out?
		Wisa - It will be put on the website because it is too large to email 	out.
		Alberts - We do not have a huge surplus because we do not spend 	money from previous semesters like FAC and SAB. We actually 	have a small deficit. This should be shared with OAF. 
		Szewczyk - Can we give Rachel a press release for the Index? 
b.	Constitutional Review: 
c.	Scholarship:
d.	EOY: 
e.	SOC: 	
f.	Communications: Newsletter went out today and will be in the Index. Making a survey to see if people read it. Bonnie (SAB President) will give it out at the week’s SAB Events. Went through old comm director stuff and found information about other roundtables that used to be held (Media, Greek, and Res Hall roundtable). Possibly collaborate with Student Affairs chair to put these on again. 
		Alberts - Past president’s wanted each committee to have their own 	roundtable. Comm Director had the media roundtable.
		Szewczyk - Thinks it is a great idea.
g.	Legislative Director:
h.	Historian:
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VI.	Old Business
VII.      New Business
VIII.	Discussion
IX.	Announcement
Meeting adjourned at 10:50 PM

Respectfully submitted by Secretary Libby Piel on the 16th of January 2008.