Student Senate Minutes
March 25, 2007

I. General meeting of the Student Senate was called to order by Speaker Kelchen at 6:   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 - Kyle Hill (Truman Media Network) 
	D. Guests of Honor
	E. Membership Issues - Makita Abraham has resigned her position as incoming senator.
	F. Appointments/Administration of the Oath 
		- Crawford - OAF committee - treasurer and secretary will serve automatically with the treasurer as the chair. The three other members will be one from each of the main standing committees 		for a term of one year. Kimberly Burgess of EA and Greg Wisa of AA.
		- Crawford - Jon Graber as Chair of Rec Center Review Committee. Approved.
		- Crawford - Karen Wollberg (Student employee), Josh Hoyt (Student at Large), Morgan Clennin (Student at Large), Katie Talyka (Student at Large)
	G. Changes/Approval of the agenda
III. Executive Reports
	A. Secretary - Use the new office hours form on the Senate website. Its simple fill it out and send it in! No more paper sign in sheets!
	B. Treasurer - 
	C. President - Please pick up a voting form for awards that are given out at the end of the year! Pass them into Angie during the meeting but only vote once! Look forward to the technology review,	the Constitution, and end of the year reports. 
IV. Auxiliary Reports
	A. Faculty Advisor -  no report
	B. Staff Advisor - no report
	C. BOG - You all are probably tired of talking about restructuring but if you are interested in talking about it please contact Emily. April 14 is the next BOG meeting. They will be setting tuition and 	discussing advancement. If the athletics fee passes student vote it will be considered at this meeting. Emily will be meeting with President Dixon tomorrow.
	D. Speaker - Several things were emailed out to Senate three hours before the meeting. If you want a meaningful discussion it must be sent out several days in advance. Meeting on Monday April (the 	day after Easter)
V. Committee Reports
	A. Academic Affairs - Sent out an email about the Student Research Conference. They need volunteers to pass out flyers the day before. If anyone has an hour free please let Linda know. 
	B. External Affairs Chairwoman - Last week was Kirksville's candidate forum with a really big turn out. Tomorrow and Tuesday they need volunteers to pass out flyers on the quad. If you have office 	hours on monday and tuesday consider spending it outside on the quad. We want people to know what we are voting about on the Adair county ballot on April 3. If you have a name tag please wear 	it. The forum itself is Tuesday night in VH 1000 at ... we need student senate present. Four candidates will be present. Storm the Capitol is this tuesday. Will be talking about merit based scholarships, 	a student vote on the BOG, 4.2% increase in higher education funding.
	C. Student Affairs - no report
		i. Campus Diversity - Diversity week was this past week. The events turned out well. Progressive dinner went really well. has lots of ideas for next year.
		ii. Campus Environment - Worked on the recycling campaign.
	D. Technology - no report.
	E. Other Reports
		i. Historian
		ii. Communications Director - Petition posters are ready. As soon as the meeting is over, if everyone will pick up a stack and hang them up tomorrow. Petitions are due by 5 PM on 			wednesday. We did the photo shoot for recyling is sexy friday and took over 300 pictures. Going to go to publications tomorrow to meet with Winston and pick final photos to be on posters. 		Met with Jerry Wolmering about stepping up PR on the athletics fee. Thank you for coming to Vision Outreach! It went fantastically!
		iii. Webmaster - The new form is up and running. If you have any questions let Tom know. Still working on how much traffic the website gets. 
		iv. Ethics Justice - 6:00 Tuesday in the Senate office for people planning on campaigning.
		v. Recruitment -
		vi. Legislative Director - This week has been spring break for the Legislature.
		vii. Scholarship - 
		viii. Constitutional Review - 
		ix. Curriculum - 
VI. Old Business
	A. Crawford - moves Resolution 071.012 Endorsing the SPAC Documents
		Wiley - 
			Crawford - I think it is fine if we include this but I want you to understand that this has already been voted on by the SPAC committee and it will not be included. 
			Russel - Even if they don't include it, it is important for them to know we support it.
			Schulte - This is a valid point but it is time to move on with SPAC and apply our environmental efforts elsewhere
			Mann - This is not the appropriate venue to discuss these issues.
			Wiley - Even if nothing happens with it, for future planning documents it will be recorded that we support it.
			Kirtland - It does not flow with this resolution but a separate resolution would be pertinent. This would violate the whole purpose of the resolution. A separate resolution would be 			interesting however to discuss.
			Khan - The amendment is valid. 
			Mann - Agrees that this is the most appropriate place to have environmental issues education. This should be explored in a different angle but not within this resolution. 
			Bonner - This is the most important place to put this. Truman is trying to become the premiere liberal arts and sciences institution. To not put it in when we are discussing the future is 
			Wiley - Out of the 45 active members of ECO, 35 came out on university conference day and attended 4 different discussions. They had a lot of student and faculty support for this to 			be included in the SPAC document.	
			Kappel - Students do want this included and we are responsible for representing the student opinion.
			Kirtland - He brought student support to the committee and they still voted it down. To keep bringing up a passed issue it gives us less credibility on the campus and before the faculty.
			Kappel - Sick of approving whatever faculty committees say. It is our job to represent the students not to endorse everything the faculty puts out.
			Wiley - Where is it written that the university is committed to environmental issues? No where. This document will be in place for three years and will affect our futures.
			Amendment fails.
		Kappel - Cannot support this resolution because it is  "rubber stamp" to the administration.
		Kirtland - We have been working side by side with the administration. It would be disrespectful to the students you represent to not support this.
		Szewczyk - What some administrators feel is whining is actually sticking to values.
		Poindexter - We agree with most of this resolution. Just because one or two things are missing does not mean we shouldn't endorse the document.
		Crawford - This resolution is very purposefully broad. The point of this is to endorse the overall spirit of the SPAC documents. If there are specific issues that you have within the document 		you should bring them up in resolutions.
		Wisa - Passing this would not be a rubber stamp. Remembers being involved in the SPAC document as a new senate member last year. We have invested a lot in it and if we do not support it 		now it would be a travesty.
		Khan - The document does not include enough in the goals about how to enhance our actual campus. Supports the SPAC goals but would like to see more about Liberal Arts Education goals 		here on campus. Feels uncomfortable with it.
		Kiddoo - This will also come before the board in April. Make a statement. You all have put so much time into it and it would appear foolish to not take a stance.
		Passes 15-3-1
	B. Meyer - Moves the SOCC constitution as an action item.
		Siebert - This document is good to go
		Crawford - All of the kinks have been worked out.
		Passes 18 - 0 - 1
VII. Money Motions
	A. Hadley - moves that no more than $290 be spent on an Index ad for Election Voting. 
		Passes.
VIII. First Readings
	A. Kirtland - moves first reading of the Constitution of the Student Senate
		Kirtland - There are some formatting things that need to occur. It is significantly shorter than previous documents. The information removed was placed into the standing rules. It is important to 		have more flexiblity. Everything is a lot more broad. Vice president is a new position. The treasurer and the secretary are now a part of the Student Senate as opposed to the Student 			Government. The VP will be a liason between the President and the body. The VP can be removed by the President and 2/3 vote of the body. Run off voting will be a part of the standing 		rules. The standing rules will come out thursday at the latest. There still will be a speaker. Leadership development will be a joint responsibility between the VP and the speaker.
		Szewcyzk - What is the rationale behind adding a VP?
		Kirltand - There has always been the question of what would happen if the president become incapacitated. Since the president will be overarching it is important to keep contact between the 		body and the president. The VP would fill this rule. Within this body the VP will fill committee chair vacancies and beyond that will have no other powers. It has been made so specific so the 		VP can not speak on behalf of the senate. Also added a legislative staff in the standing rules. 
	B. Kappel - Moves a first reading of 071.013 Free Exchange of Ideas
		Siebert - moves to suspend this until next sunday's meeting. It was emailed out less than an hour before the meeting began and didn't arrive in paper form until 6:35. There is not enough time to 		have throughly read it and researched.
			Kirtland - Not opposed to have this as a first reading tonight.
			Discussion continues.
		Hayes - Remembers when this was first brought up and we read over the actual bill. Has anything been changed until then? Will the current form have a greater impact on Truman students?
		Kappel - Has not been updated with the latest version of the bill.
		Siebert - What is the source cited as number 1?
		Kappel - It is the chronicle of higher education journal. 
		Siebert - Suggests changing the title to Support of Free Exchange of Ideas rather than Opposition. Suggests scratching the word we in line 26 to the student senate believes. Feels this is a bad 		resolution. We shouldn't be passing resolutions with particular pieces of resolution in mind.
		Kirtland - HB 213 when read has a lot of interesting ramifications. There are a lot of things in this bill that are very important.
		Kiddoo - Would like further explanations of lines 22 and 26. Is there a citation for line 22? If not consider striking it. Line 26, is this the appropriate place for this bullet. (moves to the therefore 		be it resolved clause)
		Crawford - Would not sign this resolution as it stands now. There is a lot in the bill to be considered. There is a statewide movement among faculty senates in opposition to this bill. 
		Khan - Received an email about opposing this bill. Emailed the woman back about Storm the Capitol. By saying we should not take a stance on issues in general is in
		Kirtland - Lines 26-28 should separate administrators and elected officials. If anyone is interested in this issue the PBS website has a show concerning it. This is a national movement not just a 		MO thing. We definitely need to call out functional parts of this bill and parts that will not work.
		Poindexter - Several student senates across the state have been in support of this bill. We should at least look at this bill. If we pass a resolution like this we are sending the message that we 		are against intellectual diversity.
		Graber - moves to amend lines 31- 33. Does not feel comfortable voting on future proposals without seeing them. we should vote on 213 right now. Accepted.
		Siebert - Not saying that this body should not take stances on issues but should not take stances on specific legislature. 
		Khan - Must have misheard Sieberts opinion. We do vote on specific pieces of legislation.
		Kappel - Lincoln University came out with an opinion opposing this bill
		Kiddoo - Missouri State does not want to take an opinion. Line 24 should be cited as the .... rather than the VPAA website. If you want more info on this, you could stop by McClanahan's 		office on tuesday. Emily has an appointment to talk with her and if you would like to tag along let her know.
		Hayes - It seems like there are things within this bill that we would like and things we would not. Has problems supporting or opposing this particular bill. Would much rather see senate 		supporting a specific issue within the bill rather than the whole bill itself.
		Poindexter - The fact that other schools support or oppose this bill should not effect our decision. 
		Wisa - If there is anyway we could set Arete it would be good. Hesitant to support this bill. Supports parts but not others. 
		Kiddoo - Directs that ... copies should be sent to Truman's lobbiests.
		
IX. Discussion Items
	A. Kirtland - moves discussion time on athletics. April 1 will be the first athletics forum 5-6 PM in Pershing Arena. Monday 2 in VH 1000 6 PM. April 5 7 PM in VH 1000.
X. Other New Business
	A. Mann - moves discussion time on the review of the technology committee. Started this year off with a lot of energy and a desire to get things done. However, not a lot was accomplished. ITECH 	has highered professionals that do the jobs the tech committee would do if ITECH did not exist. It makes more sense for techonology not to be a standing committee but a position instead. There has 	been a tech committee for 2 and a half years.
		Khan - Why was it formed to begin with?
		Kirtland - To address wireless access etc. This committee was left out in the constitutional committee discussions waiting to see what happened here. Not opposed to this. There are some 		athletes that have had concerns with the fee. Field turf and lights are a priority. Concerns over indoor track and the implementation of the field turf troubled the cross country team. The 			wrestling team feels they are not liked within the department. There will be a student committee so the athletics director will not be the only one in control of spending. Students are excited 		about the opportunity to get involved and are excited about the forum.
		Crawford - The manner in which this will be presented to the board in April was a concern during Ex Comm.
		Kirtland - 100% sure there will be a discussion. Will be discussing the student vote.  More info at gobulldogs.truman.edu
		Szewczyk - Did you say regardless of the student vote, that you will still present it to the board?
		Kirtland - It is important to tell the board what the students said. This is information that should be presented to them and is willing to present it either way no matter how the vote turns out.		Russel - What will the committee do? Are there any senators on the committee?
		Kirtland - Assist in the 
		Kappel - Will the committee meetings be open and the info public?
		Kirtland - They should follow suit of all of our other standing committees.
XI. Announcements
	A. After Storm the Capitol Senator Kappel will be resigning from student senate.
	B. Please sign up to help out on the quad especially during your office hour!
	C. Recyle all your papers! Recycling is sexy!
	D. Pick up petition posters. These must be put in buildings tonight and tomorrow.
	E. Three weeks left.
	F. Please fill out the voting slips.
	G. Kiddoo is meeting with Dixon tomorrow.
	H. Constitution committee is meeting on thursday to finalize standing rules
	I. Sign up for Student Research Day to volunteer.
	J. Interested in helping write something to help integrate new senators? Talk to Lizz.
	
Adjourned at 7:48 PM
Respectfully submitted by Secretary Piel on