Student Senate Minutes
Executive Committee Meeting
20th of February 2008

I.	Executive Committee meeting of the Student Senate was called to order by President Szewczyk at 9:0 PM
a.	Absent from the meeting were members: 
II.	Executive Reports
a.	Secretary: Do we want to volunteer for the Final Blowout? Yes. Changing Slavina to an associate senator. 
b.	Treasurer: President Szewczyk needs to give Philip an invoice. Has cards to give out to “magnets of fun”. Send them to the blog website. Marty is still pulling for a speaker to use part of the newspaper surplus. 
c.	President: Met with President Dixon on Tuesday and delivered a draft copy of the resolution. As of Monday she started speaking to Dave Rector to have them start formulating response plans to active shooters on campus and ice storms/tornadoes. Agreed with Senate after going through the resolution and talking about safety issues. The committee will meet. Welcomes us to recommend who should be on it. Also said they are looking at making a compromise with issues with ID swipe and automatically locking doors. Had a good discussion about how important it would be to get students involved in the discussion about upping security in the dorms. Also spoke with President Dixon about Safe Rides and liability. Asked her to ask Warren to put together an actual legal opinion. 
		Esfeld - Group today suggested using the local taxi service. 	Students could show a Truman ID and get a ride. The University 	would pay the bill at the end of each month. We would be helping 	local business and avoiding compromising the university.
III.	Auxiliary Reports
a.	Faculty Advisor: The Governance stuff is rising to the top of people’s minds. Keep your finger on it. Don’t want a body to double without adding more student representatives to it. Asked to be director of portfolio project. Has lots of ideas to improve the process. 
b.	Staff Advisor: Kim had 94 submissions for EOY. There are 66 different nominations. Went to Truman Shuffle today. 
c.	BOG: 
d.	Speaker: No report. 
IV.	Committee Reports
a.	Academic Affairs: Committee has been talking about round table. Trying to get a room. Looking at Thursdays after Spring Break. Wants input on how fancy it should be? Keep it informal. Meeting with Dr. Kelrick tomorrow about Interdisciplinary stuff. Thinking about picking a topic and encouraging professors to talk about it on a given day/week (like focus the nation). Distinguished Visiting Scholars should be brought back. 
b.	External Affairs: Creating a gmail account for the online rental listing. Has had interest from realtors. Meeting with Chamber of Commerce to bridge the gap between Truman students and Kirksville. Committee came up with idea to have a “what to do in Kirksville” listing of restaurant specials and such. Talk to Heidi about getting a student scholarship worker to work on this. Would love to see a sort of kirksville.truman.edu or community.truman.edu. Community Committee discussion today had a lot of good discussion and ideas. Looks promising. Cupcakes in the Senate office. Woo!
c. Student Affairs: Intellectual Diversity is finished. Roundtable went well Tuesday. Campus Life, Spirit, and Fun has eight core students and six faculty. Looking for three-four more students at large. Senate needs to appoint a representative. Meetings are Tuesday from 5-6 in the Rec Conference room. Safety Res and Refund Request and Campus Town will be in the Index. 
d. Campus Diversity: 
      e. Campus Environment: Had a meeting with the Advancement Officer about 			establishing a Green Fund. The Letterman Project… a top ten list of 			projects the university should work on towards sustainability. 
f. Technology:
V.	General Reports
a.	Ethics Justice: 
b.	Constitutional Review: 
c.	Scholarship:
d.	EOY: 
e.	SOC: 	
f.	Communications: 	
g.	Legislative Director:
h.	Historian:
i. Web Master:                                                                                                     
VI.	Old Business
VII.      New Business
VIII.	Discussion
	A. Esfeld - Discussion of Service Learning Resolution
	Esfeld - In Arete, there is  a large section on service learning. Should there be more or less from Arete in this resolution?
	Alberts - You could photo copy the pages of Arete and attach to the final resolution.
	Szewczyk - Send it to UGC.
	
IX.	Announcement
Meeting adjourned at 10:12 PM

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