Student Senate Minutes
April 9th, 2007

I. General meeting of the Student Senate was called to order by Speaker Kelchen at 6:04 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 - Homecoming Committee, Sara Degonia, Kyle Hill
	D. Guests of Honor
	E. Membership Issues
	F. Appointments/Administration of the Oath
	G. Changes/Approval of the agenda
III. Executive Reports
	A. Secretary
	B. Treasurer - If you have any money that you have yet to get send Cory an email. Will be around for the rest of the year working with the new treasurer.
	C. President - Please dress nicely on sunday. Faculty Senate met last week but Angie did not get to attend. Once minutes are out senate will be updated. If you need anything let Angie know.
IV. Auxiliary Reports
	A. Faculty Advisor
	B. Staff Advisor - Last meeting will be Sunday. Dress nicely and work hard.
	C. BOG - BOG will be meeting .... Faculty Senate will be presenting. Enrollment management will be presenting. Tuition fees will be decided. Approving plans and construction money ($7 million) for
		BNB. Also approving money for repairing Baldwin Auditiorium in addition to lighting/sound system. All information about the BOG meeting is on the new website board.governors.truman.edu.
		If you want to talk about restructuring, please do. Alumni will be visiting this week. If you want a free plug for your organization send emily a note with what your org has been doing.
	D. Speaker - If you are interested in being speaker talk to Robert. Applications will be online shortly.
V. Committee Reports
	A. Academic Affairs - Thank you to everyone who helped with SRC. UGC met on Thursday. They talked about repeat policy and pushed it off to next week. Set up a committee to look at the 		attendance policy. Set up a minor for...
	B. External Affairs Chairwoman - Smoking ordinance passed!
	C. Student Affairs - no report
		i. Campus Diversity - no report
		ii. Campus Environment - no report
	D. Technology - 
	E. Other Reports
		i. Historian
		ii. Communications Director - Hopefully you all saw the ad in the Index about elections. Poster came in late and are in the Senate office. They need to be hung up (starting tomorrow morning if 			possible!!). Take them with you to class and hang them on bulletin boards. Has three items of business for the newsletter. If you could send in more info by this friday it can still be 			included in next week's newsletter.
		iii. Webmaster - As of this afternoon technical difficulties still plague the new website.
		iv. Ethics Justice - Elections violation filed against Candidate Szewczyk. The sanction passed down was no face to face campaiging in the residence halls and cafeteria and for him to write a 			letter  of apology to the director of Centennial Hall.
		v. Recruitment
		vi. Legislative Director
		vii. Constitutional Review
		viii. Scholarship - Sending emails to faculty and staff to ask them to nominate students. Hopes to award before summer.
		ix. EOY - 150 people at the banquet tomorrow at 6 in the lounge. 
		x. Rec Center - Spoke with dean gilchrist and the director of the rec. Additions will most likely not happen. Coming up with a survey. 
VI. Old Business
	A. Pierson - Moves the revised copy of the Student Senate Constitution.
		Poindexter - moves that there be a section that reads that the activities
			Poindexter - Currently we can't grant funds because we are tied by the constitution and other things. This committee would have requirements for eligibilty of funds based on the 				standing rules. The committee would present to Senate. Would allow groups to get funding part way through the semester.
			Schulte - This is redundant and overlaps the jobs of FAC and SAB. This needs to be voted on and placed on the ballot. This would take a large discussion and there is no time. 
			Pierson - A committee is usually created and placed in the standing rules.
			Kessler - Agrees with Senator Schulte.
			Graber - It would be a good idea to have an ad-hoc committee to look into how senate should be spending its money.
			Mozaffar - This would be unneccesary in the constitution
			Poindexter - Removes amendment.
		Anderson - Worried about passing a constitution and having the students vote on this within 48 hours. No one will have time to read this. Concerned that all of the "homework" has not been 			done before passing this.
		Hadley - There has not been enough time to review the final copy. Not comfortable passing it tonight. If it is on the ballot right now, people may not are enough to vote.
		Crawford - Section on the treasurer and secretary - right now it says that senate appoints the treasurer and secretary. This needs to be specified.
		Kelchen - This will be included in the standing rules.
		Crawford - This needs to be clarified in the constitution that rules for appointments are contained in the standing rules. Should not say "not counting the confirmation of the president" and 			should be changed to say "counting the confirmation of the president". These are the people the president works with the most. In the BOG section, concerned that the section by itself 			sends names to the governor when in fact the names are confirmed by the senate. It needs to be specified in that paragraph. There are some punctuation and grammatical issues.
		Givogue - Is there a reason there is no section 3 in Article I?
		Pierson - Numbering has not been fixed yet.
		Kessler - Moves to table this item until the end of this senate.
			Kessler - It is ridiculous to put this on the ballot tomorrow when it was just sent out this afernoon. People have been unable to read this and there is no time to educate students. The 			body will not stop functioning if this waits until the fall semester.
		Graber - If this is held until the fall when does it go into effect? (Next election in the spring).
		Anderson - You need to decide which senate will vote on this. Make sure you know who will bring it up and who will not.
		Kessler - It would be ok for this senate to endorse this constitution but the actual passing of the constitution should be left up to the new senate which will be educating the students next year.
		Tabled.
VII. Money Motions
	A. Hadley - Moves that  no more than $460.00 be spent on newsletter index inserts for the last Senate newsletter this year. Passes.
	B. Kiddoo - Moves that no more than $150.00 be spent from the Agency Account no later than May 5th for an End of the Year Social Event for Senate. Tenative date Saturday April 28th. 
		Passes. 
VIII. First Readings
	A. Crawford - Moves resolution 071.014 (Index) - This resolution is intended to congratulate the work of the Index this year. 
	B. Crawford - Moves resolution 071.015 (Detours) - 
	C. Crawford - Moves resolution 071.016 (Echo) - 
		Kessler - Line 26 seems redundant (strike everything after alive). Accepted.
IX. Discussion Items
	A. Wiley - Moves discussion time on recycling bins for next year. This discussion should be geared towards the logistics of this program.
		Graber - How do you plan on distributing the recycling bins?
		Wiley - Will be working with Res Life and FACT. Student Senate's name will be stenciled on and then placed in first year rooms in August. During the week, they will attend SA meetings and 			talk about recycling and how it effects Truman.
		Hayes - Will students be required to empty bins?
		Kessler - This is another instance of things not getting out in time. It used to be that everything was brought to Ex Comm and then emailed out 3-4 days before the meeting. 
		Esfeld - Is each room going to get one or two bins? (One). Are you going to combine this with the recycling is sexy campaign? (Yes, these posters will be put up during Truman Week).
	B. Gerhart - Moves discussion time on the repeat policy. The last UGC meeting there was a lot of criticism of the new repeat policy. A major problem is the inclusion of the "C-option". UGC prefers 		the "D or F option". They also feel that the new policy would be used by students to "pad" their GPA instead of for learning's sake. There may also be enrollment problems with students 		wanting to repeat and students that are taking it for the first time. Final complaint that students will try to do poorly so they can repeat it the next semester. These are just some opinions of 		faculty members on UGC. Suggestions for dropping the "c-option". Also possibly change the second bullet of the therefore be it resolved clause to say that students with senior status cannot 		go back to a 100/200 level course and repeat it (to avoid "GPA padding").
		Anderson - There will probably not be a problem with enrollment issues. Registrar knows which classes students most frequently repeat and works to ensure adequate seating.
		Hadley - Commends you to getting this to Senate ahead of time.
		Crawford - The three UGC representatives from Senate are allowed to voice the student opinion. Go in and explain that students are insulted by their assumptions. 
		Schulte - Some gradschools calculate GPAs by all grades not the GPA sent by Truman. Students should be made aware of this.
		Hayes - If these changes are made do you think it has a better chance of making it through UGC?
		Schulte - There was a lot of criticism but there are some on UGC that support it. 
		Meyer - The enrollment issue came up after the "c-option" issue. 
		Anderson - If you want to send out an amendment send it out early so they can talk to their divisions. 
		Gerhart - Points out that some of the ridiculous comments were made by a minority of the UGC and there is a lot of support on the body as a whole. Meeting with President Dixon.
		Crawford - Would like to bring amendment and have this senate vote on it. Or, just vote to allow the AA committee to amend the resolution themselves and have them email it out. If anyone 			objects it will come back to Senate for discussion.
		Poindexter - Moves that this is referred to the AA committee to be amended.
		Approved.
	C. Meyer - Moves that the following organizations be part of the Student Organization Center for the 2007-2008 school year: Alpha Sigma Gamma, Alpha Phi Omega, Phi Sigma Pi, and the College 		Republicans. Approved.
X. Other New Business
	A. Hadley - Homecoming Committtee has come and talked to Ex Comm about putting on a dance for next year's homecoming week. They presented a budget breakdown.
		James - Homecoming in the past has been very points based and competition oriented. Would like to change the focus back to school spirit. Proposal of $7,635.00. Students will be benefited 			bringing students together to reminisce about the past week and to socialize and be exposed to various campus groups. This will encourage the full development of the student. One 			of homecoming is to include more nontraditional groups (ie non-greek). This is a way for younger students to feel welcomed to Truman and make the transition easier. Most 				highschools have homecoming dances. Senate will benefit by having their name on a highly significant event. This will help cut down on senate's roll over budget. The mission statement 			of Senate is to identify the goals of the student organization and to support them. Proposing a bilateral committee of two members from each body to make decisions. Once the budget 
			is approved, this committee could meet to share ideas of each body. They would help facilitate in making this event truly successful. homecoming.truman.edu with any questions.
				Kessler - thanks the homecoming committee for all their hardwork. Likes the idea of a joint committee. There are a lot of logistics that need to be worked out. When would 
				you like a decision by?
				James - We have a live cover band allocated for $4,000. Bands need to know soon. Other than that there is no significant timeline. Would like the budget by summer.
				Schulte - Could this wait until next week? This is this year's senate and next year's senate will be responsible for this. It would be more fair if they vote on this next sunday.
				Wiley - We would need a very detailed budget. Ex Comm has seen this.
				Crawford - They brought us this detailed budget and we suggested we would like more input.
				Poindexter - What percentage of our rollover is $7,635.00?
				Kessler - Right now we have spent about $15,000 of our $33,000. Last year we rolled over about $11,000 and $7,000 the year before. Most likely will roll over $10,000 					again. Suggests that once the joint committee is set up, that the senate body gives them a general budget of $7,000 and then give them the authority to spend the 					money.
				James - Usually about 3 weeks before HC several checks need to be written and would hate to flood senate meetings with money motions.
				Kerr - Senate is meant to represent students and most do participate in Homecoming so this is a good use of Senate money.
				Kiddoo - If you are going to be on next year's senate, consider what will happen when Index reports that the senate has spent half of their governance fee from student money 					to fund a dance. Will this be a one time thing or every year?
				Anderson - Senate used to be in charge of homecoming. If you start funding organization events other organizations will come for funding. If you are continuing, monitor how 					much time will be taken away from Senate by the dance. It is great if you want to be involved but make it with deliberate knowledge of where you are going as a body.
				Mozaffar - Supports this because senate is being criticized for not spending money on students. There are enough young people coming to senate in the fall and this won't be a 					daunting task for them. People will be excited.
				James - There is a committee set up for the majority of physical work. Senate will be needed to help setting up the dance and staffing the dance. Up until a few weeks before 					the dance, not much will be needed from senate.
				Hill - Students coming to truman may believe that Senate is simply for governance like highschool student councils.
				Hadley - Most students are apathetic to other aspects of Senate. This is something new that the homecoming committee is trying and it may or may not work out. It is worth 					our time and money to try it out and see what happens.
				Hayes - Close to $8,000 is a lot of money. We will need to work hard at publicizing. If this doesn't work out that is $8,000 of students money that is gone and could have been 					used elsewhere. Have you had any feedback from people outside of the committee and senate?
				James - Publicity won't be hard because everyone knows about homecoming. When the committee was coming up with themes and ideas they would have infomal 						conversations with students has received excellent feedback. Expecting a lot of support from reslife and the greek community. Wants to have this feel slightly highschool 
					like.
				Anderson - When Kay was a Student at Truman the dance at the end of Homecoming Week was a big deal on campus. 
				Kerr - Thinks a lot of students will attend. We can ask our organizations to think it is a good idea before next week's meeting.
				Graber - Did you try to get funding elsewhere?
				James - Normally the budget is $5,000 and is never enough. Tshirt sales are another source of income. Have not looked for money outside of senate.
				Hill - The tenative time of the dance will be conflicting with volleyball? (Yes, October 8th).

XI. Announcements
	A. Please come to EOY tomorrow and there are a few extra seats reserved.
	B. Go see "Bat Boy!"
	C. Pick up recycling is sexy tshirts.
	D. Watch email for reading list and forum dates.
	E. Earth week starts april 15 earth.truman.edu
	F. Watch email for repeat policy stuff. 

Adjourned at 7:41 PM
Respectfully submitted by Secretary Piel on