Student Senate Minutes
Executive Committee Meeting
2nd of October 2007

I.	Executive Committee meeting of the Student Senate was called to order by President Szewczyk at 9:06 PM
a.	Absent from the meeting were members: 
II.	Executive Reports
a.	Secretary: Please email me all active members of your committee. I will be sending a mass email to everyone being removed from the listserv. If I don’t hear 
b.	Treasurer: Collegiate Readership Program is getting the Kansas City Star starting Monday. There may or may not be an extra cost to bring in the fourth paper. This is a test before the contract is renegotiated. Paid off Storm the Capitol ($1100 for bus and $300 for food for 8 people). How can we prevent this in the future? Possibly a deposit when signing up. Found an expenditure request form in the Senate Office. Received an email from Earth Week (Cassie Phillips) about the t-shirt idea. They will be sold ahead of time and deposited to Senate and senate would actually order the shirts.  
c.	President: Working with SAB to outline issues with Pershing Arena and booking Baldwin. Went to Staff Council this morning. There are Kindles paperless books for use in the library. Meeting with Laura Bates about the Big Event. Senate has been invited to attend the Women’s Basketball “Think Pink” Game this Saturday at 1 pm. It is in support of breast cancer awareness. 
III.	Auxiliary Reports
a.	Faculty Advisor: Faculty still talking about “fun” on campus. Had a few talks with LouAnn about Safe Rides. Spoke about getting an advisor for the program. 
b.	Staff Advisor: Everyone should go to University Conference Day for the break out sessions. Spoke with Kim about EOY. Please tell friends! Nominations are low. 
c.	BOG: 
d.	Speaker: Working on the election packet. Tentative election date April 15-16 with campaigning starting April 1. Petitions available on March 17th and due April 11th. What about a longer campaign season? Possibly starting as soon as you turn in your packet. 
IV.	Committee Reports
a.	Academic Affairs: Met with Dr. Lance about having Human Sexuality as an alternative to HLTH 195. Concerned that there are certain aspects of HLTH 195 that are required that Human Sexuality do not cover. Possibly could redo HLTH 195 to incorporate more ideas of Human Sexuality or vice versa. Should slow down and re-evaluate the HLTH 195 class. Looking into getting a label for a service learning class (like writing enhanced labels). Dr. Young was hesitant about the idea. Syllabi thing is coming to the Undergraduate Council, but it is not Senate’s resolution. Dr. Young wrote a replacement  resolution. Hopefully having a meeting next week with Dr. DiStefano about credit no credit.
b.	External Affairs: Trying to make a list of public land lords. Still working on Kirksville on the Quad.
c.:  Student Affairs: Sat on the FAC Selection Board. Approved all 7 candidates. Working on draft of resolution to improve campus safety. Spoke with Hall Senates on Monday and Tuesday. 
d.	Campus Diversity: Campus Town focusing mainly on campus leaders. 
      e. Campus Environment: Bike Co-Op grand opening after Spring Break. Need 		to plan a ribbon cutting ceremony. Presented at the Environmental 				Advisory Committee. Most of them were in support of the President’s 			Climate Commitment. Will be meeting again in the last week of February 			(Tuesday at 8AM) to vote on Truman’s stance to present to the President. 			Sujit thinks we should write a separate Truman’s Climate Commitment 			and adding it as an addendum to the President’s Climate Commitment. 			Meeting next week about the Green Fund. Almost done with the guide to 			living sustainably. 
f. Technology:
V.	General Reports
a.	Ethics Justice: 
b.	Constitutional Review: 
c.	Scholarship:
d.	EOY: 
e.	SOC: 	
f.	Communications: 	
g.	Legislative Director: News 36 interviewed Chris today about Text Book Transparency. Index is doing four stories about senate (Campus Town, Darfur Divestment, Text Book Transparency, Safe Rides)
h.	Historian:
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VI.	Old Business
VII.      New Business
	A. Miller - Sending Truman students to Camp Wonderland for the summer to work with children with special needs. In exchange for service, students would receive a $500 scholarship/stipend.
		Esfeld - Would like to students to submit service ideas. Any student 	submitting a good application would be eligible for the scholarship.
		Miller - Camp Wonderland makes a positive impact for children and 	families in the Kirksville area.
		Esfeld - Would like to try and make this more of a sustainable program 	with different services each year.
		Miller - Start with this project and go from there.
		Alberts - Reads as a one time program and not every summer.
		Esfeld - In that case, it would go against the Budget Review Committee’s 	idea of making sustainable programs. Work with the SERVE Center and 	the Center for Teaching and Learning to get a lot of applicants.
		Gilmor - Extra money in budget because last semester’s scholarship 	budget was never spent. 
		Alberts - Possibly make service learning worth credits by being paired 	with a sponsor over the summer. Build into the resolution that Senate will 	evaluate the program in the Fall.
		Flanagan - Scholarship should be flexible in the future but we should do 	Camp Wonderland this summer. 
		Wiley - If several people apply, how do you decide?
		Miller - Look at their record of service etc.
		Esfeld - In therefore be it resolved add that it be under the scholarship 	committee. 
		Millburg - Will this be publicized to the whole campus?
		Miller - To the whole campus but also focus on certain groups.
VIII.	Discussion
IX.	Announcement
Meeting adjourned at 11:15

Respectfully submitted by Secretary Libby Piel on the 10th of January 2007.