Student Senate Minutes
April 26, 2009

I. General meeting of the Student Senate was called to order by Speaker Hogan at 6:00 PM.
	A. Absent from the meeting were members:
	B. Also attending the meeting was: Tina Schutter, Lizz Esfeld, FAC, Index, Claire 	Schueller, Samantha Goode, Stephanie Kwon, Phil Raine
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
		A. Flanagan – Claire Schueller as webmaster.
			- Approved.
		B. Flanagan – Delta Sigma Theta, PRISM, Delta Sigma Pi organizational 			representatives.
			- Approved.
		C. Flanagan – Libby Piel as secretary.
			- Approved.
		D. Flanagan – Stephanie Kwon as treasurer.
			- Approved.
		E. Flanagan – Phillip Raine as legislative director.
			- Approved. 
		F. Flanagan – Samantha Goode as student health director.
			- Approved.
		G. Flanagan – Cassie Beard as student health director.
			- Approved. 
		H. Flanagan – Yajie Yu as environmental affairs chair.
			- Approved. 
		I. Flanagan – Lizz Esfeld as chair of the vision document committee.
			- Approved. 
		J. Flanagan – Joey Shelton as external affairs chair.
			- Approved.
		K. Flanagan – Josh McCaherty as academic affairs chair.
			- Approved. 
	G. Changes/Approval of the agenda
III. Executive Reports
	A. Secretary – Barbeque was a success.
	B. Treasurer – Please be patient while she is learning the ropes.
	C. President – Still taking applications for the BOG representative position. Met 	with Jerry Wolmering and is looking for someone to chair the committee. 	Working on a letter to incoming freshmen. Working on getting an umbrella 	liability insurance policy for the university. Met with Marty Eisenberg to speak 	about the Readership Program and the possibility of adding theWashington Post. 	Ex Comm this Wednesday at 8:30. RFP broadcasting system to make campus 	wide announcements during emergencies. Contacted by Bike Trail steering 	committee. Meeting this week with Tom Johnson to discuss parking appeal 	chairs. 
	D. Vice President – Congratulations to new members. Working to accumulate list 	of university committees to ensure members report back to the body.
IV. Auxiliary Reports
	A. Faculty Advisor – Faculty are gossiping about the COMM 170 debate. The 	curriculum report is due to be released soon. Some gossip about the budget and 	how it will be allocated in the future. Remember to eat and sleep during finals 	week.
	B. Staff Advisor – Congratulations to new appointees. Sent out email earlier this 	week about scholarship clearance. If you have problems, see Laura. Good luck 	with your last week of classes.
	C. BOG – Term has been extended until December 2009. Woo. Still accepting 	applications but interviews will not be until the fall. Spent last week at a board 	conference learning about presidential search committee.
	D. Speaker – Send email to Libby with your email addresses to add to the listserv. 	Stay after so we can learn to know your names. Drive carefully on your way 	home. You’re no good to Tom dead. 
V. Committee Reports
	A. Academic Affairs – Meeting with David.
	B. External Affairs – Communicating with JoEllen and Isaac over the summer to 	begin planning.
	C. Student Affairs – No report.
		i. Campus Diversity – No report. 
		ii. Campus Environment – Recycling bins are on the quad with a little 			spelling error but use them anyway.
	D. Technology
	E. Other Reports
		i. Historian
		ii. Communications Director
		iii. Webmaster
		iv. Ethics Justice
		v. Recruitment
		vi. Legislative Director
		vii. Constitutional Review
		viii. FAC Review – Had one week to come to a consensus. There were 			seven members appointed to the committee. Had two separate hearings 			Monday with FAC and JujiTSU to ask them questions. Convened again on 		Thursday to deliberate the case. Voted 5-2 in favor of the 					recommendations on pages three and four of report. See report for further 			notes. 
			- Esfeld – Moves to suspend the standing rules of the FAC to allow 			them to use their reserve funds to give to the JujiTSU ultimate 				team.
			- Blume – The reserve fund is used to cover expenses of 					co-sponsored events until the other sponsor supplies funds.
			- Shelton – If we approve this, it does not force the FAC into any 				action. They still have the choice to deny the team funding. 
			- Flanagan – Do you see enough funds in the reserve account if 				you were to give money to JujiTSU. 
			- FAC – Will be funding a few large events in the fall that will 				most likely need the reserve fund. 
			- Approved. 
VI. Old Business
VII. Money Motions
VIII. First Readings
IX. Discussion Items
X. Other New Business
	A. Sumter – Moves a first reading of the student technology committee resolution.
		- Hogan – There used to be a technology committee that was disbanded 			due to lack of progress. President Krueger asked for the committee to be 			reinstated. The committee has been working this past year on printing 			accounts, smart classrooms and net books. This resolution will keep the 			technology committee for next year. Will be working over the summer on 			several projects. Please refer to the nine page committee document. 
		- Buckler – Will this be the same as other committees.
		- Hogan – Yes, except that JoEllen will not need to appoint chairs. Cody 			and Tom will stay on it.
		- Flanagan – Add Dr. Paino to the deliver to section.
		- Bates – Send out the resolution via listserv. 
		- Approved by unanimous consent 10 – 0 – 0.
XI. Announcements
	A. Adopt a puppy this Wednesday for $3.00
	B. Dr. Albert’s stat class is presenting tomorrow in VH 1324 smart classroom at 	7:15 PM.
	C. Street Smarts this Thursday at 7 in Baldwin Hall auditorium. Cool prizes!
	D. Join Vision Document committee.
	E. Tomorrow at 3:00 and 4:00 are forums for Dean of Arts and Letters.
	F. Murder Mystery Event at 7:00.

Respectfully submitted by Secretary Piel on