Student Senate Minutes
February 10, 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 - Index, Bonnie Triechel (SAB President), 	Tonia Jackson (Globe Med), 	Amanda Rhodes (SAB) 
		- SAB - On possibility of budget refund. Fiscally irresponsible to refund 			student funds. Believe all three organizations should not have a refund 			policy.
	D. Guests of Honor
	E. Membership Issues
	F. Appointments/Administration of the Oath
		- Szewczyk - Cindy Finney as scholarship chair. 
	G. Changes/Approval of the agenda
III. Executive Reports
	A. Secretary - Committee chairs, please send me names and email addresses of all 	of your active members. I am updating attendance and having Dr. Alberts update 	the listserv.
	B. Treasurer - Updated budget will be put up on website. 
	C. President - Thanks Chairwoman Millburg for her work on Storm the Capitol. 	The Consortium last Thursday was a condensed Storm the Capitol of Student 	President’s from various universities. There was fairly good attendance. Able to 		speak with key people in Missouri Higher Education. Textbook Transparency has 	several cosponsors. Able to speak with house committee chair on higher 	education. He was opposed to student’s having a vote on the BOG. There will be 	another meeting in April and President Szewczyk would like to take next year’s 	president with him. Bonnie from the SAB brought up an issue with the 	management of Baldwin Auditorium. Several policies are out of date. Concerned 	that Pershing’s Renovation will call for higher usage of Baldwin Auditorium. 	Dean Gilchrist wants to find a “magnet of fun” who would be reliable to come 	back and report to Senate.
IV. Auxiliary Reports
	A. Faculty Advisor - There is a new director of interdisciplinary studies. It would 	be good to build a relationship with him. You used to invite administrators and 	faculty to your meetings once a month to speak. Having some come and speak 	would build relationships. First got a student on the BOG in 1985.
	B. Staff Advisor - Coming around to the Senate Office trying to meet people. In 	the MAC in the pink office if you ever would like to visit.
	C. BOG
	D. Speaker - Thanks to everyone who came to yesterday’s retreat. It gave us a 	good idea of things to work on in the future. Will be bringing dates of the spring 	election next week.
V. Committee Reports
	A. Academic Affairs
	B. External Affairs Chairwoman - Storm the Capitol was a great success. “Had 	their way” with representatives.
	C. Student Affairs
		i. Campus Diversity -
		ii. Campus Environment - Appreciates everyone researching sustainability 			statements. Thanks Senate for the endorsement. Will take the endorsement 		to the President’s Environmental Committee this week. Will be presenting 		research to Faculty Senate and suggest they also endorse the President’s 			Climate Commitment.
	D. Technology
	E. Other Reports
		i. Historian
		ii. Communications Director
		iii. Webmaster
		iv. Ethics Justice
		v. Recruitment
		vi. Legislative Director
		vii. OAF - Having forum Wednesday at 7 PM. The point is so students can 		express feelings about the activities fee. This OAF is very understanding 			of Senate’s position. They understand that Senate only receives $2 out of 			the $36 and should not be held to the same standards as organizations that 			get more money. OAF has basically said that they could possibly support 			repealing the refund but it might make Senate look bad. Sometimes feel it 			is unfair that other organizations do not have to refund fees. 
VI. Old Business
VII. Money Motions
	A. Flanagan - Moves to spend no more $150 on the Res Life Roundtable to be 	spent no later than February 18.
		- Flanagan - Spending breakdown: 
		- Millburg - How many people are you expecting? (30)
		- Approved. 
	B. Gilmor - Moves that $35.64 be reimbursed to Rachel Hanks for lunch at the 	Senate Spring Retreat to be paid no later than February 14, 2008.
		- Gilmor - She picked up the tab at retreat and should be reimbursed.
		- Approved. 
	C. Gilmor - Moves to correct the September 30, 2007 money motion from $660 	on the Senate Newsletter to $725.50.
		- Gilmor - Cost more than originally thought.
		- Approved. 
	D. Szewczyk - Moves to correct the money motion on February 3, 2008 from $80 	to $125 for MHEC expenditures (food and gas). 
		- Szewczyk - Miscalculated the expenditures.
		- Approved.
VIII. First Readings
	A. Wiley - Resolution Endorsing the President’s Climate Commitment 
		- Alberts - Last bullet of where as is redundant. 
		- Wiley - Moves to suspend the standing rules to vote on this tonight.
		- Approved 13-0-0 
IX. Discussion Items
	A. Miller - Campus Town. 
		- Amy Bachelman - Campus Town is a two day diversity and prejudice 			prevention program Friday February 29-30th. Sponsered by Res Life and 			other organizations. Involves 50 students from across campus. Visited the 			MAC, Greek life, Senate, and other organizations to find participants. 			Sheds light on issues (sexism, racisim, etc) and how it effects people on 			campus. Contacted Deborah because she is the Diversity Chair looking for 		interested participants from Senate. Wanted to make it a leadership 			oriented program. Last year senate was willing to set aside money to help 			fund the program. Leaders can bring this experience back to their 				organizations and do similar activities. Everything is confidential but it is a 		good opportunity to meet other people from campus and learn about 			themselves.
		- Flanagan - Wants to encourage everyone to be involved in this program. 			Participated in it four times in high school.
		- Mozaffar - Are the participants just from organizations that fund it?
		- Bachelman - Talked to RCP and they will fund the facilitation. The extra 			expenses (like facilitator housing and meal plan) is coming from Res Life. 			Meals and packets from the students need to be paid for. Asked every 			organization to provide participants and help cover the meals for the 			participants they provide.
		- Mozaffar - Would random students from campus be allowed to 				participate?
		- Bachelman - There won’t be enough space available.
		- Miller - What kind of funding do you need?
		- Bachelman - Originally asked for $500-$600. Just received word that 			they get a discount because of last year’s cancellation. Only asking for 			$300 now.
		- Millburg - Is there money in the budget for this?
		- D Miller - There is money in the Diversity Committee budget for 				facilitation in the form of $850.
		- Szewczyk - Suggests it comes out of the diversity committee budget.
		- Mozaffar - Last year did research and found out that this is a very popular 		program. Feels if members of senate does it, it would foster the growth of 			senate and make it more diverse. Would like to pay for other smaller 			organizations without money to allow them to participate instead.
		- Alberts - This is a great program. This is what your money is for. 
		- Givogue - Feels like if we spend student money on it, we should allow 			random students participate.
		- D Miller - It is just as important to allow students to participate. Maybe 			we should encourage organizational representatives to attend.
		- Bachelman - Will have exact numbers of RSVPs by Thursday. Did set 			aside 3-4 seats for Senate members. 
		- Szewczyk - SERVE Center is sponsoring a diversity initiative with the 			Big Event this year. Feels like this initiative could be advertised by 				students going through Campus Town.
		- C Miller - Would like to move to give $400 to Campus Town
			- C Miller - Thinks it is a great idea. We need to help them out.
			- Bates - Encourages people not graduating in May to participate.
			- Wiley - How many spots are open? (50). How many senators? (3-				4) How many other students? (15 total counting other 					organizations). 
			- D Miller - Would rather move $500 in case other organizations 				can’t provide funding. (Friendly)
			- Approved. 
	B. Szewczyk - Truman Safety Issues
		- Szewczyk - After the Dobson attack, met with DPS to discuss the issue. 			The response time was reported to be 15 minutes. However, they 				responded in under one minute and it took 15 to locate and arrest him. 			There was a miscommunication between the dispatcher and the officers. 			They thought the perpetrator was outside the building. Currently the tapes 			are not available to the public. Talked about the oversight of DPS. There 			didn’t seem to be much of a governance over them except President 			Dixon. There used to be a committee that met to review security policies. 			It has not met in the last two years. Feels like it is time to review the 			policy. All 20 emergency poles are in working order and are replaced in 			cycles. University wants to renovate all buildings before installing a swipe 			card system.
		- Flanagan - Spoke to committee chair and he felt there was no need to 			meet. Said the committee could meet at the end of April/beginning of May 		and would contact Matt about getting a student representative. There is 			apparently no money for a swipe card system. They recommended that we 			educate the student body to be safe/smart. Also recommended to advocate 			to increase the door propping fine.
		- Szewczyk - Would like to see Senate bring forward a resolution 				addressing these issues. Any ideas to take to the committee?
		- Miller - Would advise caution in advocating a card swipe system. If this 			system was in place the perpetrator could have come in behind someone 			swiping their card and a night monitor would not have seen them. It would 		have been even longer before he was arrested.
		- Wiley - Agrees that automatic door locks should be installed. Wants to 			know how much money the university received from US Bank to have our 			cards also function as debit cards.
		- Flanagan - Asked the same question and was told that the technology 			would require a second card to act as a swiping system.
		- Givogue - Upon receiving her card, she was informed that there are 			different slots on the cards that can hold different information.
		- Wiley - Wants to know where the money went because the original intent 		was to get a swipe system.
		- Hayes - The technology does exist. Would suggest referring the 				resolution to the SA committee. 
		- Zotos - It is interesting that there has been no need to review policy in the 		past three years especially after Virginia Tech. We do not need to discuss 			the technicalities of what we want to do. It is senate’s place to say that this 		committee needs to meet and that a student representative needs to be 			present.
		- Mozaffar - What alternate systems did you suggest for swipe cards?
		- Flanagan - Perimeter Access.
		- Boatright - Perimeter Access allows you to get in any door with a swipe 			card. Planning on adding it in once all buildings have been updated.
		- Flanagan - Also discussed having lobby doors that lock and having a 			night monitor unlock them. Said automatic locks would be too expensive. 
		- Boatright - Problem is that the door is built to be an hour long fire door. 			To change the locking mechanism, the entire door would have to be 			changed. That is the reasoning it is too expensive.
		- Alberts - You need to decide if this is important. If it is, get it done.
		- Flanagan - Committee will have to investigate policies/suggestions.
		- Phillips - Was an SA for several years. People often tape up and jam 			locks. People should take personal responsibility to lock their own doors.
		- Zotos - Who should a resolution be directed to?
		- Wisa - What about the press? Why don’t we inform them that the 				University does not feel our safety is important.
		- Mozaffar - It is easier to get into the dorms at 4 AM without a card than 			it is to get into the Rec Center. 
		- Hayes - Maybe there should be stricter penalties for dead bolting after a 			certain amount of time. 
		- Boatright - It is currently a $25 fine. Highly encourages Senate to push 			for student representation on the Campus Security Committee and 				renovation committees. (Ex: MO Hall renovations had no students 				present). 
		- Szewczyk - Has anyone heard about increased DPS at check-ins?
		- Zotos - Heard a nasty rumor. Heard that DPS sat at Missouri Hall and 			randomly pulled out students and gave them breathalyzers.
		- Szewczyk - Heard there were 35 arrests.
		- Stokely - Used to be an SA and would see DPS waiting outside to catch 			drunk students.
		- Zotos - Heard this was specifically Saturday in MO Hall.
		- Wisa - In the housing agreement, doesn’t it state that the University can 			search your personal belongings at anytime? Since your body is an open 			container, can’t DPS breathalyzer you at anytime?
		- Zotos - When you pay to rent something, the University is a landlord. 			Sure if this is true, the student’s attorneys will have problems with it. 			Problems with back door propping will continue to increase if DPS is 			sitting at the front arresting students. 
		- Boatright - DPS does not have the right to enter a room if the door is 			closed. If it is open and they physically see alcohol they can enter and 			arrest. When you sign the housing contract you basically sign away all of 			your rights.
	C. Flanagan - RHA/Res Life Roundtable discussion
		- Flanagan - February 19th at 6PM in the SUB Activities room. Topics 			include security and org reps. Student Senate has to send someone to 			RHA. Wants to discuss Arete with students to stimulate discussion.
		- Szewczyk - Any idea how many people from RHA will participate? (10).
	
	FIVE MINUTE RECESS
	
	D. Wiley - Sustainability Statements
		- Wiley - Eliminating paper usage for this. Hoping we can strive for this at 			every meeting. Last month the President’s Environmental Committee 			asked the Environment Committee to come up with a sustainability 			statement. There are three options. 
			1. Talloires Declaration- There are no real guidelines. Very broad. 				Giving Truman a broad set of ideas would not be beneficial. They 				need to be set. There were only 117 signatories in the US so there 				is less chance of cooperation with another school.
			2. Create own Statement - Feels the President’s Climate 					Commitment gives adequate information.
			3. President’s Climate Commitment 
		Decided on using the President’s Climate Commitment. There is a huge 			market for this. There is a negative financial impact factor, but at the same 			time it is a long term plan that would provide a substantial financial gain. 			The President’s Climate Commitment has a carbon neutral. Looking 			into how other schools are reducing their consumption. There are three 			major steps to the commitment.
		- Szewczyk- Who would implement this? (President’s Environmental 			Committee).
		- Wiley - Suggests use of Energy Star products. 
		- Hayes - Props for the projector. We should use it more. Save electricity 			and update things in real time. This is very well researched and you will be 		able to answer questions you will face. In support of this.
		- Mozaffar - This is a good avenue for supporting ideas presented in the 			SPAC document. 
		- Wiley - Meeting about “green fund” next week which could offset the 			cost of implementation.
		- Millburg - Really likes this as opposed to the Talloires Document. This 			has a lot of deadlines, goals, and structure.
		- Risch - This give the University plenty of time to develop the plan and 			get it in place.
X. Other New Business
	A. Miller - First reading of Darfur Divestment Resolution.
		- Miller - Some say the resolution is too detailed. It is clear that this 			resolution sends a message that senate is interested. The University should 			not do business with any business involved in Darfur.
		- Hayes - What is your plan for this?
		- Miller - Call to action to the BOG to investigate and change investments.
		- Szewczyk - You are planning on presenting to the BOG (Yes). Could you 		make it more ambiguous and say that the Student Government is 				presenting it? (Friendly)
		- Miller - There has also been many questions about Globe Med. There has 		been no formal arraignments made with Judy Mullins. 
		- Givogue - Should we include specific information?
		- Miller - Judy Mullins did say that we had invested in a company that is 			on the offender list, but including this information would not make that big 		of a  change to the resolution.
		- Szewczyk - Senate should do more investigation before presenting it to 			the Board. Give them just a call to action.
		- Miller - This is a way to see how they feel about the issue and would like 		to proceed. If senate would like to investigate we can.
		- Risch - Can you single out the company when this is presented?
		- Miller - Can speak to Judy Mullins before presentation to get the name of 		the company.
		- Szewczyk - TIAA is handling Truman’s investments? (Yes). Judy 			Mullins has asked them to see if the same companies are still involved in 			Darfur? (Yes). 
		- Miller - moves to suspend the standing rules to vote on this tonight.
			- Miller - We have sat on this for three Sundays now. Was sick the 				first Sunday and last week we didn’t have quorum. Does not see a 				reason why it can’t be passed tonight. This is a good message we 				can send. This needs to happen tonight.
			- Szewczyk - Would like to wait and see the report on the 29th to 				add the names of the companies in.
		- Passes 12-0-0 
	B. Miller - Raffle. 
		- Miller -Pi Kappa Phi tried to do a raffle that turned into a drawing. You 			would donate a dollar in to have the possibility to win a text book. The 			university’s policy prevents this raffle as gambling. Law states that 				organizations with501C3 status have the ability to hold a raffle to raise 			money for philanthropy. University policy needs to change.
		- Alberts - The student conduct code states that unlawful gambling is not 			allowed on campus. Section 19.2 is the problem. Next year is the time the 			conduct code is up for review. Might want to wait until then. Do what you 			think is right.
		- Miller - Should do it like this and if it doesn’t go over well to try another 			approach.
	C. Schutter - Refund requests.
		- Schutter - In light of budget review’s discussion, it is obvious that the 			current system of refund requests is not working. This resolution is to 			facilitate communication between senators and disgruntled students.
		- Hayes - This is a good change we can make currently until we see what 			recommendations OAF will make. Totally in support of this.
	D. Miller - Moves to amend Article 3 Section 9 of the standing rules by deleting 	everything and replacing it with “…”
		- Motion dies for lack of a second.
	E. Gimor - Moves to discuss the budget revision.
		- Gilmor - The OAF currently has $300 budgeted but it is being changed to 		$350. Under special events the MHEC will be changed from $80 to $125 			to keep it budgeted correctly.
		- Gilmor - Moves to accept the adjusted budget.
			- Approved. 
XI. Announcements

Meeting adjourned at 8:24 PM
Respectfully submitted by Secretary Piel on