Student Senate Minutes
April 15, 2007

I. General meeting of the Student Senate was called to order by Speaker Kelchen at 6:00   PM.
	A. Absent from the meeting were members: Melissa Antey.
	B. Also attending the meeting was: Chris Boning (Index), Kyle Hill (TMN), Nathan Hoffman (SERVE Center), Danny Bosslet, Ryan Murphy, Truman Patterson, Paul Vornholdf, Colin Stanley, Josh 		Kappel (SSDP), Joe Van Amburg (Delta Chi), Jason Hansor, Amanda Rhodes (SAB).
II. Preliminary Items
	A. Roll Call
	B. Corrections/Approval of the minutes
	C. Gallery introductions/business - Kyle Hill (truman media network), Joe VanAmburg
	D. Guests of Honor
	E. Membership Issues
	F. Appointments/Administration of the Oath
		- Crawford - Cory Kessler to summer coordinator. 
			Bonner - Will you have any trouble working with the new administration coming in? (Kessler - No).
	G. Changes/Approval of the agenda
III. Executive Reports
	A. Secretary - End of the year reports!!!
	B. Treasurer - Working on end of the year report. If you still have not gotten money please see Cory. Wants the new treasurer to start with a clean slate. 
	C. President - Implementation committee met Thursday and they primarily discussed staff positions. The staff will remain where they are at working in the building they are currently in. The difference 
		will be the Communications Department. There is one person who supplies clerical support in Barnett who will be supporting the Comm Division. Online discussion about the Dean position of 		the College of Arts and Sciences. Angie has taken on the job of finding new advisors but so far it has not been successful. Presentation of the end of the year awards....
			- First presented an honorary award to Mark Kirtland.
			- All of the people that won definitely stood out over the past year. We have very strong leaders here in Senate and Angie is very proud of all.
				- David Hayes - Associate Senator of the Year
				- New Senator of the Year - Lizz Esfeld
				- Senator of the Year - Becky Hadley
				- Committee of the Year - Academic Affairs (accepted by Linda Schulte)
				- President's Honorary Award - Libby Piel
IV. Auxiliary Reports
	A. Faculty Advisor - No exciting personal news. Baby in the next couple of days!! Restructuring is still dominating the faculty discussion. If you know of anyone you think would be a great staff 		advisor let scott know.
	B. Staff Advisor - Kay has really enjoyed working with everyone. It was an honor. Students she works with in the future will have a lot to live up to.
	C. BOG - 5 hour meeting of the BOG this weekend! First recognized two students for their achievements (Swimming and Forensics). President Dixon gave a speech on restructuring and went into 		deep detail. BOG is in support of her power to restructure. The most important thing about restructuring was developing leadership close to the students. Lengthy report on enrollment 			management. Any ideas pass them on to John Fraire. Two new members of the BOG. Governor Mac and Schwinn are leaving. Students will be required to do 60 hours for scholarship. 		Athletics fee passed the board unanimously. If you are interested get on the committee! There was a lot of discussion on tuition and raising SUB and Rec fees $10 a piece. Would like to work 		with student senate to come up with a list for the University to save money and curb rising fees. Passed ideas to remodel Baldwin. The next meeting is June 15 and 16 location TBA. 
	D. Speaker - It has been a pleasure serving you all this past year as speaking. If anyone becomes uncomfortable, Robert will yield the chair to Senator Schulte.
V. Committee Reports
	A. Academic Affairs - Thanks everyone on behalf of the committee for the honor of the Committee of the Year Award. Thanks each senator she has worked with. Will miss you all!
	B. External Affairs Chairwoman - Come early August expect the smoking ordinance to go into effect. External Affairs has had a good year. 
	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 - Thank you for everyone who got items to Becky for the newsletter. Hopefully will have it circulated in next week's newspaper. Will have guidelines for the new 			comm director.
		iii. Webmaster - Tom is working on the new website and is hoping to have it done within the next 2-3 weeks.
		iv. Ethics Justice - Elections were last week. Record breaking voting 2,240. Ethics hearing board has compiled its minutes. If you would like a copy contact Brett.
		v. Recruitment
		vi. Legislative Director
		vii. Constitutional Review - No longer in existence after Thursday. If you have any issues or ideas take them into consideration over the summer months.
		viii. Summer Coordinator - If anyone is serving on university committees that will be meeting over the summer, send cory the name of the committee, the contact person, when you expect them 			to meet, and any pertinent background information.
			Anderson - One other responsibility of the summer coordinator is to help early move in and other things. 
		ix. Curriculum Commission - Tomorrow 4-5:30 SUB conference room there will be an Interdisciplinary Committee meeting to discuss JINS courses and interdisciplinarity. Please read Angie, 			Robert, and Mark's report.
		x. EOY - Pam Gardner won! She was very surprised and the nursing students were happy.
		xi. Scholarship - Tom will be putting a link on the website so professors and staff can nominate students. The scholarship is for Adair and contiguous counties. 
VI. Old Business
VII. Money Motions
	A. Hogan - Moves $70.00 for the purchase of Microsoft SharePoint web development software; $55 of which is for the software, the remaining money is for shipping, to be spent no later than May 		4th, 2007.
		Wisa - What is the longevity of this software?
		Hogan - All of the software truman uses is from 2003 so expects this program to be similar. 
		Passed.
	B. Russel - Moves $2,480 be spent on recycling bins to be spent no later than May 1st, 2007. 
		Bonner - What does this program intend to do?
		Russel - To increase recycling from 50% to 75%.
		Hayes - This is a fantastic idea without any negatives. It will increase recycling and it gets Senate's name out to the Truman community.
		Kessler - Who is the company you are ordering these from? (   ) It is a good idea to implement it this year and see if it works out and then trying to find donations in later years.
		Passed. 
	C. Seibert - Moves the Student Government shall spend no more than $400.00 on condoms. This money shall be spent no later than August 31st, 2007. The Summer Coordinate (Kessler) shall be 		responsible for distributing these condoms during Truman week. These condoms may also be distributed throughout the fall 2007 semester. 
		Anderson - Blushing and speechless! Wants to reiterate the idea of ordering cheaply made condoms. Please make sure if you are going to spend student money make sure you have people 			willing to give them out.
		Schulte - Admires the intent of protecting student health. Feels this is only for publicity and it is tacky.
		Kirtland - There is enough of the Student Association that would use them. Would prefer it comes in a sustainable program that students are aware of. 
		Hayes- During freshmen week condoms are thrown around regularly. Something like the recycling program is a better way to get the Senate name to the student body. 
		Kessler - Firmly agains this expenditure. Agrees with Senator Schulte. It is a tacky fom of publicity. Does not like the idea of handing them out during Truman week. Students are bombarded 			with enough information of this sort.
		Graber - This is tacky. If we are concerned about their health we should direct them to the Health Center where they are sold 3/$1.00
		Kerr - Are these condoms just to be handed out during Truman week?
		Seibert - No, they can be handed out throughout the fall semester. This is not about advertising. Student Senate has had their name totally removed from the condom wrappers. If we want to 			make it a sustainable program he is all for it. We could buy 4 cases at $110 condoms a case (roughly 10 for $1.00). It would be an appropriate use of student money.
		Mann - Instead of Senate funding it directly, are you willing to work with the Health Center to supply cheaper condoms to the students? If you polled students there are probably not a majority 			that would want their money spent on free condoms for other students.
		Fails. 
VIII. First Readings
	A. Crawford - suspends standing rules to vote on Resolution 071.017 for Kay.
		Crawford - Kay has been so more than an advisor and is so happy that this will be the last thing she signs as president.
		Seibert - Line 13 delete "some of"
		Kerr - She deserves recognition
		Kirtland - This goes well beyond Student Senate losing an advisor. The student association is losing a representative. the Student Association will greatly miss having her here.
		Passes 21-0-0. 
	B. Poindexter - Resolution 071.018 in honor of Kyle Hill and his service to Student Senate and the Truman Media Network. 
		Kirtland - Seen many reporters with TMN and there has never been such an avid supporter. Senate is in Kyle's debt.
		Pierson - Kyle is more than deserving of this recognition. He has served the students by keeping them informed of the Senate's actions. He has excelled at his job. 
		Poindexter - Moves to suspend the standing rules to pass it tongiht.
			Khan - Is it tradition to recognize students? Yes. 
		Passes 20-0-1.
IX. Discussion Items
	A. Khan - Moves discussion time for Storm the Capitol. Goal of Storm the Capitol was for students to meet their legislators and to learn more about higher education legislation. In the past couple of 		years, we have not professionally learned to lobby. If you think it is important for students to learn the lobbying process, it should be limited in the number of students that may attend. We can't 		control what students speak about so we need to possibly limit Storm the Capitol to a certain agenda.
		Graber - Should be left open to the general student. Personally went and found it to be a great experience. On the whole it was a successful trip this year. 
		Anderson - The most important thing is having your purposes clear. 
		Wiley - It is important to keep Storm the Capitol going. If you exclude people you are erasing goal number one and preventing people from meeting their reps. Effective lobbying is when you 			lobby about things you are passionate. Maybe allocate half the day to personal lobbying endeavors.
		Mozaffar - Echos Senator Graber's idea. People may not have the time to lobby. There may be a few who choose to learn in depth how to lobby. Had a very positive experience on her trip to 			JC. If everyone uses good judgement there should be no problems.
		Hadley - We have never had problems with Storm the Capitol in the past. It is unfortunate that the actions of a few people could jeopardize an entire program. It is good to leave it open to all 			students. It is a fun day and is a really good learning experience. The whole day was not in vain. It was so much better than last year and has heard so  many great things from people in 			JC.
		Kiddoo - Storm the Capitol is fine. However, it does not have much effect on legislators. You are only going down once a year so late in the semester. Maybe send more trained students 			down several times each year.
		Kappel - It is ridiculous to try and limit students access. Showing the legislators that people at Truman are watching what they are doing is the most important thing. If people talk about 				something that isn't about higher education it may considered controversial. You should bring all students down not just controlling those who will speak only about higher education.
		Stoyanova - Attract more students.
		Khan - Contacted several organizations to get them more involved in legislation. We need more faculty involved in the actual event next year. If we were to create a group of 4 or 5 students 			who would take it upon themselves to go to JC several times in the spring semester in addition to Storm the Capitol will be beneficial.
		Alberts - Good discussion. Thing to think about... there will never be a perfect program. Just focus on how to make it better next year. Keep thinking of ideas and writing them down for the 			next Senate who will be in control of what happens next semester.
		Crawford - Two years ago wrote a resolution about the legislative director to have the funds and senate support to travel to JC frequently to lobby. 
		Khan - The legislative director should be turned into a committee. It is too much to for one person to handle. 
		Kirtland - Moves to end discussion.
	B. Mozaffar - Moves resolution 071.019. There were a lot of concerns with this years election. It is important to address these concerns. In support of the new administration.
		Pierson - Bullet point line 50. Both candidates did have the opportunity to speak on their behalf. Neither were invited Szewczyk came on his own. Asks that the candidates download their 
			own copies of the Constitution and Standing Rules. Contacted Res Hall Association and never received a reply. In his tenure as ethics justice there has never been a RHA advisor 			serve on the board. The fact that it was not totally private was due to the fact of an emergency meeting and the absence of the Faculty Advisor. Whenever we find a mistake we should 			correct it, however, invalidating the elections would be wrong. These mistakes were made in good faith by Ethics Justice Pierson. None were made to sway the elections. 
		Schulte - Stands by the decisions of the Election Hearing Board. Completely against calling this election invalid because it alienates students that voted in the election.
		Mozaffar - Completely supports the results of the elections and would take an alternate wording for "invalid". When violations are caught, they need to be addressed for future elections. We 			need to let students know what went wrong for future elections.
		Wisa - Had an interesting position because did not run with a ticket. Is it allowed for candidates to be present at the hearings?
		Pierson - They should be allowed to have a defense on their behalf. There were 4 meetings with 15 violations filed. 12 against Szcewcyk and 3 against Hadley. 
		Wisa - Lines 22-29. If we have a problem getting an RHA advisor to the meetings, why is it still included in the Standing Rules?
		Pierson - Takes this upon himself as on oversight. This slips through the cracks each year. Sometimes becomes "flaky" during election times.
		Wisa - If you can't find a private room it is unacceptable to hold a meeting in the Senate office. If it is a closed session you could have had it anywhere. 
		Hayes - If we had known about more specific actions for violations we could have prevented this type of thing. Most if this is due to ignorance on several peoples parts. Next year we need to
			look very closely at our standing rules.
		Szewczyk - Are the witnessess present?
		Kiddoo - Objects to this because does not want people to regret coming before the board.
		Szewczyk - Echos what Brett said. Did on his own initiative to seek out the Ethics Board meetings. Certain lines suggest that there is an unequal opportunity to speak before the board. If we 			choose to invalidate the election due to faulty ethics measures we would also have to invalidate the 2006-2007 elections. Amends that the resolution reads that past elections be 			invalidated. 
				Szewczyk - We need to make sure this is just not a political move to invalidate his presidency. We must go back and fix our past mistakes.
				Kirtland - You are adding an addition to a part of the resolution that should be removed anyway.
				Seibert - Calls the question. 
				Amendment fails.
		Hadley - When approaching Matt to sign his petition it was under the idea that Matt was running as Senator at Large as stated on the sign out sheet. It was not written anywhere on the 				petition.
		Wiley - Lines 31-37, why was there an inclusion of another member of Senate?
		Pierson - He was acting as a student at large. This was an oversight on Brett's part and feels he should be punished accordingly.
		Hadley - Matt won. She is not contesting this at all. He won by 89 votes and will be the next president of the Student Association. We are not trying to invalidate who the students voted for. 
			All candidates should have been more informed about the standing rules and constitution. Only aware of one violation against herself. Wants to echo what Senator Wisa said. If 				someone can hear clear as day it is not eavesdropping and is not unethical on the part of a senator. Was never invited to come and speak on her behalf. The meeting should have been
			held in a private enough place where it was not so easy to locate. As soon as Matt came and spoke on his behalf she should have been invited. There are a lot of confused students. It
			makes sense for Senate to come out and say they messed up and are working on fixing it next year. It is important to get this to the public. We need to thouroughly go through the 			standing rules and constitution next year to make sure this does not happen again.
		Wisa - Moves to strike line 26-33 (on the back) and change invalid to problematic in the title. Accepeted. 
		Kirtland - When you were having students signing your petition, did you tell them you were running for president? (Yes). He should write personal apologies to students that were not informed 			of what office he was running for. Concerning the hearing board, if there were more students on the board does not believe there would be a difference in the board's decision. To call 			the election flawed is absurd. We need to be more careful when reviewing the rules and regulations. We need to move on. A resolution pointing out the flaws is fine but to call it invalid 
			is ridiculous. 
		Seibert - Moves that lines 22-37 (first page) be struck. Accepted as friendly.
		Mozaffar - Not saying that these results change how people voted. There is a reason we have these rules. The reason the ethical hearing board is set up to make sure everything is done 
			correctly and fairly. What is the point of having the rules if we aren't going to follow them?
		Esfeld - Why aren't people who have violations filed against them informed of meeting times?
		Pierson - They should be allowed to give a defense but not be present at the meeting.
		Esfeld - The friendly amendment makes the resolution more palatable. It is merely an apology and an acknowledgement of the problems with the process that need to be recognized. 
		Bonner - There have always been problems with elections in the past. This is absurd that we are sitting here and talking about apologizing. New people do not understand the history of 
			Senate. 
		Seibert - Moves that line 14-20 (front) be struck. Accepted.
		Graber - Moves to suspend the standing rules to vote tonight. Fails. Discussion continues.
		Kiddoo - Moves that this is postponed indefinitely. Did you ask the ethics board if they planned on apologizing? Ethics Justice Pierson? 
			Pierson - Submitting letter of apology to the student association through the Index. 
			Kappel - The intentions of this resolution should be called into question. Should be postponed.
			Poindexter - Postponed indefinitely is a good idea bc the Ethics Board is already making plans to apologize. No mistakes were made intentionally. We do not need a resolution to 				apologize. Not everyone on this body is responsible. 
			Alberts - The next election is in six meetings. This should be postponed because this senate will not be in control of the next election.
			Kerr - What will be covered in your apology?
			Pierson - Addressing concerns brought up in the resolution regarding the elections hearing board.
			Kirtland - Calls the question. Fails.
		Mann - Wants to take care of this tonight. Doesn't understand how pointing out the flaws will benefit the students it only points fingers. We need to support the new president before we do
			damage to his presidency and the next senate session. 
		Russel - We should point out the flaws to know what to fix. 
		Poindexter - Moves to end discussion time. Ended.
X. Other New Business
	A. Wisa - moves to censure Ethics Justice Brett Pierson. Did not come to the decision to do this lightly. Started thinking about this a few days ago. When reading the resolution last night it became 		clear that something very wrong occured during this election. This is a very serious matter. It does not warrant removement from office. This is the last meeting of the '06-'07 term but we need
		to take a firm stance that this is not the way an ethics justice should act. He admitted fault several times. Greg ran as an independant and did not stand behind any candidates. He is a student on 		the outside looking in on what is wrong.
			Pierson - Every mistake made was made in good faith so censure is not warranted. It would be erronious to censure him when we can not make decisions on these issues.
			Kirtland - Brett did not willing go into this. He was the only student that was capable to contend with the elections. It is ridiculous to try and censure a student who volunteered to take
				on these responsibilities. Should not censure someone who has put in so much work to this body.
			Alberts - takes some blame because was not the best advisor due personal problems.
			Schulte - Censuring Brett is ridiculous because several people made mistakes during these elections.
			Wiley - Brett has even admitted to fault. For those who did not run, the election packet was not updated from last year and contacting Brett was nearly impossible. The packet needed 				to have the correct dates and times.
			Hadley - Appreciates what mark said about Brett being a volunteer but so is everyone else sitting at the table. Senate approved corrections to the elections packet but they were not
				made. Has nothing against Brett. It is good that the ethics committee is going to write a letter of apology, Brett should as well. If Brett could not do the job he should not have
				accepted the position. 
			Mann - Does not understand how this solves anything. He has served faithfully for a very long time. 
			Kiddoo - Senate should be in closed session because this a personnel issue. 
			Senate moves into closed session 
			Senate moves into open session.
			Censure fails 5-15-0
XI. Announcements
	A. The Student Senate end of the year gathering will be April 28th. Ideas for a location?
	B. Stick around for pictures!
	C. Earth Week will continue until Saturday. Take the tabletents! earth.truman.edu
	D. Prism dance April 21.
	E. End of the Year reports!!
	F. Thank You Senate!!! 
XII. President's Farewell Address
XIII. Swearing in of President Szewczyk

Respectfully submitted by Secretary Piel on