Student Senate Minutes
January 21, 2008

I. General meeting of the Student Senate was called to order by Speaker Poindexter at 6:00 PM.
	A. Absent from the meeting were members:
	B. Also attending the meeting was:
II. Preliminary Items
	A. Roll Call
	B. Corrections/Approval of the minutes
	C. Gallery introductions/business 
		- Poindexter - Suzanne Barnes as Associate Senator. 
		- Szewczyk - JoEllen Flanagan as Chair Student Affairs. Appointment 			Approved. 
	D. Guests of Honor
	E. Membership Issues
		- Senators Graber, Russel and Gilmor
		- Chairwoman Meyer, Manness 
		- Associate Landers
		- Accepted.
	F. Appointments/Administration of the Oath
	G. Changes/Approval of the agenda
III. Executive Reports
	A. Secretary - Great job on attendance last semester! Let’s keep it up. Make sure 	to attend your office hour in the new spiffy office! Use the window. It is exciting! 	Committee Chairs, please continue to send minutes and attendance.
	B. Treasurer - Looking at reworking the budget. Please resubmit budget requests. 		Keep using the copy log.
	C. President - No report.
IV. Auxiliary Reports
	A. Faculty Advisor
	B. Staff Advisor
	C. BOG
	D. Speaker - Talk to Daniel about becoming an Associate Senator.
V. Committee Reports
	A. Academic Affairs - Swapapalooza went pretty well; 75 entries on the 'trade sheets'. In the future, the time will be shorter. WACT – Topical is going ahead; specific topics will be taught in the fall. Doug and his Student Research award is going ahead as well; the form will be disseminated with SRC application materials. GOAL: Make the health and exercise requirement more fun! Registration process dissatisfaction (in general) is going to be addressed. Credit/No Credit Policy will get pushed further ahead, pending future meetings.
	B. External Affairs - Storm The Capitol coming up; 21 legislators lined up for 	student lobbying. Issues include textbook prices, and student BOG Vote. Meeting 		with Dr. Young; she will speak at a STC meeting. Working on the online database 	for Housing.
	C. Student Affairs
		i. Campus Diversity
		ii. Campus Environment -Retreat for the Guide to Living Sustainably on 			Campus. January 31st is “Focus the Nation”; there will be a lot of forums 			on Global Warming. Earth Day is coming up as well. Spoke with Rep. 			McClanahan about LEED buildings on campus. Bike Co-Op looking for a 			distributor. Workshop will be in the MAC Garage: End of February! Ride 			Sharing program on TruView; perhaps. Goal For Next Year: Public 			transportation increase in Kirksville.
	D. Technology
	E. Other Reports
		i. Historian
		ii. Communications Director
		iii. Webmaster
		iv. Ethics Justice
		v. EOY - Members all lined up for appointment. PR for Nominations is 			coming up soon, Link up Feb. 4th. Plaque unveiling on Feb 5 at 4 Pm at the 		library.
		vi. Legislative Director
		vii. Constitutional Review
		viii. OAF - Started meeting at Wed. 6:30. Starting with Forums. 
VI. Old Business
VII. Money Motions
	A. Burgess - Moves that 
		- Approved.
	B. Burgess - Moves that no more than $50 be spent for the 
		- Burgess - February 5 is the plaque unvailing. Using the same order as last 		year.
		- Approved. 
VIII. First Readings
	A. Esfeld - Moves discussion of the Online Syllabi Resolution
		- Hayes - Really likes the resolution. Might want to extend from professors 		to instructors in line 23. Also likes the change made on the last line. It is 			better to work with them instead of a call to action.
		- Miller - Change the footnote to say Truview is accessible to only faculty 			and those in the role of student. Currently, alumnus can view Truview.
		- Hayes - Why would we want alumni to see TruView?
		- Miller - It is not a question of wanting them to. It is the setup of Truview 			that allows them to still log in.
		- Hayes - The role of students is a better way of wording it. 

IX. Discussion Items
	A. Szewczyk - Missouri Higher Education Consortium
		- Miller - Why were funding issues not included in the final document?
		- Szewczyk - Tried to focus on real issues that the 13 universities could 			take a stance on together. Anyone who might have contact with members 			of the general assembly, please send them an email about the assembly and 		encouraging them to attend the conference. Email Matt if you have a contact (general 			assembly, clerk, interns, etc).
X. Other New Business
	A. Wisa - Moves that the Student Senate accept and consider the report filed the 			Budget Review Committee Recommendations and refer to the Executive 			Committee. 
		- Alberts - Does not want to rush to approve the budget review report. 			Accept/File means that Senate has received it. Endorse means they 				approve the general ideas without agreeing to act on everyone. Approve 			means it is approved like a normal motion meaning Senate will do 				everything suggested
		- Miller - If this is approved today, we would get rid of allowing students 			to get their refund back? Isn’t that what the report states?
		- Wisa - The Budget Review Committee doesn’t believe that Senate 			should be required to give refunds to students. Recommendation to the 			OAF Committee that either the FAC, SAB, and Senate offer refunds or 			none should. 
		- Miller - Does think that we should have the ability to give students 			refunds.	
		- Hayes - Wrote the refund request section. Explicitly states that we would 			like to have the policy discontinued which is different than the 				recommendation. Would suggest taking out the part of his section or 			changing the recommendation in order to be consistent.
		- Hogan - How is it inconsistent?
		- Hayes - On page six of the report, it states “the policy of allowing 			governancy fee refunds be…” Would like to offer a friendly amendment to 		remove the last paragraph of his section.
		- Esfeld - The actual document should be a little different than the 				recommendations. That paragraph shows that the Budget Review 				Committee, through research, has come to the conclusion that money 			should not be taken away. The recommendations leave the choice open to 			OAF with Budget Review’s guidance.
		- Mozaffar - Agrees with Senator Esfeld.
		- Hayes - Withdraws amendment.
		- Miller - Wants to amend your motion from accepting to filing.
		- Poindexter - Filing/accepting means Senate has received it.
		- Wisa - Wants to bring it to file to dissolve the Budget Review 				Committee. Accepting it today is not binding.
		- Szewczyk - Would like to direct this to the Executive Committee with a  			three week timeline.
		- Mozaffar - The OAF Committee has already started to meet. This is the 			document Nadia is going off of. Any problems? She needs to know.
		- Szewczyk - Executive Committee will be meeting Wednesday and 			invites Historian Mozaffar to attend to get a sense of the Executive 				Committee’s feelings.
	B. Hayes - Moves discussion time on the Senate Blog.
		- Hayes - Committee chairs could give updates on what they are doing and 			maybe have some sort of form where students can leave feedback.
		- Morrey - Isn’t that what the purpose of the website? 
		- Hayes - It is the purpose of those pages. The blog would be more 				interactive for students and could be continually updated. The blog would 			be more personal.
		- Mozaffar - It would be easier to keep everything updated. The Budget 			Review Committee had meetings with angry students who couldn’t find 			enough info on the senate website. This spreads the responsibility instead 			of having it all on Tom.
		- Wiley - It would be easy to post minutes from meetings. Would like to 			have a Senate calendar in addition to the blog.
		- Hogan - SUPER excited about this. Has the idea to use a program that 			makes everything easy to access. Applauds the Budget Review Committee 		for a great idea.
		- Miller - Thinks it is a great idea that other universities already do. Who 			will have access to posting and how will posts be regulated? 
	C. Wiley - Discussion on Senate’s Standing Committees. Proposes that Diversity 			and Environment Committee become their own standing committees.
		- Hogan - Has there been a problem with Student Affairs getting in the 			way of Environment committee getting work done?
		- Wiley - There was never a problem, but it was required to set aside an 			hour meeting between the three groups which turned out to be a waste of 			time.
		- Wisa - Senate is overdue for a constitutional review. This could be 			brought up at that time. Student Affairs has been lack luster the past few 			semesters. Having them as subcommittees really has nothing to do with a 			hierarchy of power but instead is modeled after university governance. 			Worth looking into.
		- Hayes - Keep committees the same. Deal with problems on a semester by 		semester basis.
		- Wiley - Structure last semester there was a chair and vice chair of 			Student Affairs which caused problem. The chair was in charge of 				overseeing SA and the subcommittees. Unnecessary oversight.
		- Miller - Applauds Chairman Wiley’s work on the Environment 				Committee. It is hard to make a constitutional change because there may 			come a time when there isn’t strong leadership in the chair positions.
	D. Wisa - Discussion on HIV testing.
		- Wisa - Nurses Student Association was denied by the FAC for funding 			free HIV testing on campus. Would like Senate to consider this a student 			initiative.
		- Hayes - This has been successful in the past and is well known. Students 			would be happy that Senate helps with this program.
		- Szewczyk - Are there organizations on campus that would like to get 			involved to create a fundraiser instead of just giving funds?
		- Wisa - Students are involved. The Nursing Association also has 				fundraising events. Last year, donations were given by a lot of different 			campus organizations. Last year, Senate donated $200.
		- Szewczyk - Senate could possibly help organize donations.
		- Mozaffar - Were all 100 tests used last year?
		- Wisa - Yes. Total fees are about $2500.
		- Miller - Do the tests have a high rate of false positives?
		- Wisa - No that rate is not very high at all. They are over 99.9% accurate.
		- Miller - It might be beneficial to set aside a few tests incase a test comes 			back positive and could be retested.
		- Wisa - If a test comes back positive they are referred to Adair County for 			further testing and it is out of the university’s hands. 
XI. Announcements

Respectfully submitted by Secretary Piel on January 26, 2008.