Student Senate Minutes

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
	D. Guests of Honor
	E. Membership Issues
	F. Appointments/Administration of the Oath
	G. Changes/Approval of the agenda
III. Executive Reports
	A. Secretary - Go to your office hours.
	B. Treasurer - Use the copy log.
	C. President
IV. Auxiliary Reports
	A. Faculty Advisor
	B. Staff Advisor - Good luck collecting signatures. Staff Council is meeting with 	President Dixon on Wednesday. 
	C. BOG - The next Board of Governors meeting is Saturday, April 5th at 1PM in 		SUB Conference Room. There are many important things going on at that 	meeting. Here are the highlights I would like guidance from you on:
		- senate is reporting right after the enrollment and faculty reports so you 			need to be extra interesting and awesome
		- approval of the stadium turf 
		- approval of new Barnett/Pershing parking lots 
		- approval of Dobson Hall re-do 
			- air conditioning is not included at this time, so I'm going to figure 			out what that means and I will update you on that when I get more 				information.
		- approval of new year's tuition - this also includes an increase in the 			activity fee which I need to talk to Matt, the fee committee, and Dean 			Gilchrist about .
	This is also the first meeting for new members Mike Greenwell and Karen Haber 		as well the foundation dinner, so I for the later I would like to know what you are 	doing in your organizations that I can tell people about, basically help me 	schmooze. I haven't heard anything about being replaced yet. Sigh PLEASE 	EMAIL ME IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS!!!!
	D. Speaker - Good job working the table last week. Please serve your office hour 	outside on the quad this week. Go by the Senate office and pick up flyers to hand 	out. Say “Please consider joining Student Senate” and then hand them the flyer. 	Instructions will  be sent out in an email.
V. Committee Reports
	A. Academic Affairs - There will be an AA Roundtable Thursday at 7 in Georgian 	Room C. Would like as many Senator’s to attend as possible. There will be a lot 	of interesting discussion. The Curriculum Commission is beginning to talk about 	actual proposals. Wants a lot of student input for the curriculum. Will email out 	all proposals she receives and wants as much feedback as humanly possible. Will 	need responses before the next meeting of the Commission which is on Mondays. 	The Credit/No Credit Policy that was past through UGC will be kept the same but 	implementation will be changed. Have informed the Registrar and will notify 	those eligible that they can take up to 8 hours of credit/no credit. The policy is 	more lenient than the one we passed. 
	B. External Affairs Chairwoman
	C. Student Affairs
		i. Campus Diversity
		ii. Campus Environment - Helping with the Bike Co-Op grand opening in 			conjunction with Squirrelfest. Go out and show your support. Inform 			students that registration is free. Reason has to occur even though it is free 			is due to liability and accountability. Still working on the Top Ten list of 			environmental projects for the University. List will be voted on, on April 			15th. Email Brett with ideas. 
	D. Technology
	E. Other Reports
		i. Historian
		ii. Communications Director
		iii. Webmaster
		iv. Ethics Justice
		v. Recruitment
		vi. Legislative Director
		vii. OAF - Not sure what is happening with the Activity Fee now that it is 			on the BOG April Agenda. Met with all three organizations last week. 			Senate did very well. They are happy with how Senate has been spending 			money and lowering roll over. Dr. Alberts said that we are the only 			organization on campus that has extra money and are able to give it to 			worthy programs on campus. The OAF is very impressed with Senate. 			Keep up the good work. 
VI. Old Business
	A. Flanagan - Safety Resolution
		- Passes 12-0-0
	B. Wiley - Local Incentives Resolution
		- Passes 12-0-0
VII. Money Motions
	A. Risch - Moves that Senate spend no more than $
		-Risch -They are giving us a half page add for $65. Great way to advertise 			for the elections.
		- Wisa - The results of the budget review committee showed that students 			do not pay attention to the Index printed ads.
		- Givogue - Will this be online? (Print and online)
		- Wiley - What is circulation like? (2000 copies)
		- Hayes - This is a good idea because people might pick it up solely 				because it is its first time coming back.	
		- Wisa - Agrees with Hayes and also likes the low advertising rates.
		- Approved. 
	B. Flanagan - Moves that Senate spends no more than $300 on the Greek 	Roundtable to be spent no later than….
		- Flanagan - The Roundtable will be April 1st. There will be about 50 			people attending.
		- Mozaffar - Likes that we are reaching out to the Greek community. They 			just had focus groups that probably covered what we will be speaking 			about. Communication between Senate and Greek life is good.
		- Hayes - Good idea because the Greek community is not represented very 			well in Senate. This would be a good way to bridge the gap.
		- Bates - You have the opportunity to get information that could be utilized 		by Senate.
		- Approved.
	C. Flanagan - Moves that no more than $400 be spent on the Big Event Post-	discussion to be spent no later than April 8th 2008.
		- Givogue - Feels like this is a lot of money to be spent on a small group of 		people. Is there something you could do that was cheaper? A reception 			with cookies and lemonade?
		- Wiley - How many people do you expect to attend? (All 50 that 				participate in the Pilot Program). All restaurants you mentioned are non-			local business. Could you change it to include local restaurants?
		- Esfeld - What is the justification for going off campus? (Keep the mixed 			up feel and solidify relationships before coming back to campus.)
		- Hayes - Likes the idea of it being off campus but agrees with Wiley that 			we should be supporting local businesses.
		- Hogan - When he thinks of good discussion, fast food places do not 			come to mind. Money aside, the fast food environment is not one you want 		to hold a discussion at.
		- Miller - This helps bring guys to rush events. It provides an incentive to 			leave campus. Does not think it should be fast food.
		- Wisa - Wonders why we always have to feed people to get them to show 			up. $400 is too much. Thinks on campus would be a better idea.
		- Givogue - Seems counterintuitive to have students leave campus to “mix 			it up”. It would be better to have that mixing on campus and to inspire 			other people to do the same. Maybe you could buy pizza from Pagliai’s.
		- Wiley - Should try to get the per person dollar amount below $7 a piece. 			Not entirely sure that feeding students after the big event is necessary 			because they are doing service because they want to. 
		- Flangan - These students volunteered to be a part of this program.
		- Bates - The Big Event in the past has been about building fellowship 			within groups. It is great that organizations are interested in branching out.	
		- Mozaffar - Wishes there was more discussion about this before the 			money motion was brought. Pictured more of a president’s roundtable 			kind of thing to discuss after Big Event. It would bring a lot more attention 		to it and people would remember it. If you do go off campus, would like 			the group to stay together instead of splitting up between restaurants. 
		- Miller - A lot of what keeps Big Event going is that Greek Organizations 			force their members to go. Does not see a problem in providing an 				incentive to students.
		- Flanagan - The reason that the students are going to be split, is to have 			more effective discussion in small intimate groups.
		- Poindexter - Is this money budgeted? (Yes. Coming out of SA budget).
		- Esfeld - Open to compromise? Local businesses? (Yes. And looking into 			lowering the price per person). How many people in each group? (10). 
		- Morrey - How are you splitting the groups up? (They will be eating in the 		same group they worked in during the day.)
		- Flanagan - New motion: Moves that no more than $400 be spent with no 			details on restaurants, etc.
		- Approved. 
	D. Esfeld - Moves that $200 be spent on the Academic Roundtable appetizers no 		later than …
		- Esfeld - Will be spent on water, lemonade, rice crispy trays, sandwiches, 			and a fruit tray. It will be this Thursday. Does not believe all of the money 			will be used.
		- Mozaffar - Who did you invite? (Expecting 50 people. 2 from every 			organization. Senate is also welcome to attend.)
		- Approved. 
VIII. First Readings
IX. Discussion Items
X. Other New Business
	A. Mozaffar - OAF and the Student Activity Fee Increase.
		- Mozaffar - Should we write a resolution stating that we oppose the BOG 			increasing the Activities Fee without student input.
		- Wisa - Make sure the BOG is aware of the rules. There are a lot of new 			members.
		- Bates - Dr. Alberts raised the question with Dean Gilchrist.
		- Mozaffar - Will put something together to bring next week.
		- Hayes - Feels there was a likely breakdown in communication. 
XI. Announcements

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