Student Senate Minutes
Executive Committee Meeting
5th of March 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: No report. 
b.	Treasurer: Tomorrow is the annual review/plan for next year for Collegiate Readership over lunch. Needs money motions from the last couple of weeks. 
c.	President: Recruited members for the Big Event diversity idea. Meeting with Blue Key and Cardinal Key tonight. 
III.	Auxiliary Reports
a.	Faculty Advisor: Gossip is still about the Art and Science report. Tiger to Eeyore ratio! 
b.	Staff Advisor: Big Event is going. Jessica Catron is no longer a voting senator. Nice applicant pool for EOY. 48 professors responded. It was nice to see the operations at Mizzou. It will help support our initiative here on campus. 
c.	BOG: 
d.	Speaker: Week after Spring Break there will be tables handing out election packets. Will be moving a new election packet assuming the vice president amendment passes. Going to need people there from 10:30-3:30 everyday. On the 17th at 7 PM in WCS, there will be the Omicron Delta Kappa roundtable with President Dixon. 
IV.	Committee Reports
a.	Academic Affairs: The Academic Roundtable should be Thursday March 27th in Georgian Room C from 6 until 8 PM. Will send out invitations the week after midterm break. Has heard a lot of angry comments about University Conference Day and the Curriculum Commission Session. 
		Wiley - They basically spoke vaguely about plans that could be 	implemented. There was a lot of good discussion.
	Several people feel we should survey students and faculty to see what we want. Should look more into the school instead of to other schools for ideas. What would you like to see come out of the commission by the end of this year?
		Wiley - Ideas they are leaning towards. See what they think.
		Esfeld - We have looked at various models. Excited about the idea 	of clustering classes. 
		Poindexter - Where are we at with the learning community idea?
		Esfeld - Has been brought up at the commission. It is Marty 	Eisenberg’s idea. 
		Wiley - At university conference day they brought up a similar 	idea. You would take a class with your community and would stay 	with them throughout. 
		Esfeld - Also spoke about student initiated course. Most things 	they have discussed could be incorporated into almost any 	curriculum. Please consider these ideas. Wants feedback after 	break.
b.	External Affairs: Behind on the rental listing because they are waiting on stamps. Gmail account is set up. Mailing out a letter explaining what the program is. If they are interested, they will send an email to the gmail account. They will get a PDF form to fill out in return and they will mail it back in. Having trouble nailing business commitments down for Squirrelfest. Goal is to have them nailed down by this Friday. Met with Heidi to talk about the Kirksville.truman.edu website. This quickly turned into something that extends beyond external affairs. Feels there is a lot of information on Truview that students don’t know about. Want our help to redesign Truview. Should this idea be sent to a committee? 
c.:  Student Affairs: March 17th is the Media Roundtable at 6 pm in Georgian Room B. First meeting of Safety Committee was today. Lot’s of interesting comments. There will be automatic locks put in this summer in Missouri and Dobson. Will meet one more time the Wednesday before finals week. 
		Szewczyk - The Active Shooter Plan shows how out of touch DPS 	is with safety needs of today. Feels we need a resolution against the 	plan. Will send email to President Dixon, letting her know about 	our dissatisfaction.
		Wiley - He shot down the idea of looking over any safety policy on 	campus? (Yes). This needs to be reported to the Index. We should 	work with the Index to have the student body informed. 
d.	Campus Diversity: 
      e. Campus Environment: The Bike Co-Ops first requisition was passed. 			President Dixon will be writing a resolution in support of the Bike Co-Op. 			The President’s Climate Committee was passed on Tuesday. She has until 			April 15th to decide on the commitment. 
f. Technology:
V.	General Reports
a.	Ethics Justice: 
b.	Constitutional Review: 
c.	Scholarship:
d.	EOY: 
e.	SOC: 	
f.	Communications: Met with first refund requester. He has been asking for refunds ever since his freshmen year. This is the first time he has had to meet with anyone. He came in very prepared. Loves the blog, thinks SOC is pointless even though he was on it, minutes need to be updated, doesn’t like the idea of the BDP, thinks AA is trying to do too much, marked up the Budget Review Report. 
		Wiley - Should encourage these students to visit a Senate meeting. 
	Going to start posters for elections. Also working on Greek and Media Round Table. 
g.	Legislative Director: Textbook Transparency had a hearing yesterday. Testified in favor of the bill. The publishers testified for informational purposes. Participating in conference call tomorrow with the publishers and sponsor to talk out issues. Moving for consent status. It looks promising. Interested to see what the committee substitute will look like. JoEllen and Laura and Chris went to Mizzou to check out their STRIPES program. They tried the local taxi service and it didn’t work. Researching what other schools are doing. Going to present findings to the Spirit and Fun Committee. Hopefully will get a plan together to have this happen sometime this semester. If not, they will have to come up with a plan for it to carry into next semester. 
h.	Historian:
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VI.	Old Business
VII.      New Business
VIII.	Discussion
IX.	Announcement
Meeting adjourned at 10:45 PM

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