Student Senate Minutes
September 7, 2008

I. General meeting of the Student Senate was called to order by Speaker Mozaffar 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 - Alice, Dave Lusk, Damon Ferlazzo , Michelle 	Landers, Kim Slattery, Index, Isaac Robinson, Kayla Jackson
		- Lusk - Assistant Dean of Student Affairs with CSI. Here to discuss the 			student Senate retreat. He will be administering the Meyers-Briggs Type 			Indicator (MBTI). This is a personality/strengths assessment. Will work 			with the career center and have a 2-3 hour discussion based on results and 			how they relate to working as part of a group. Please fill out the test and 			put it in Brett’s mailbox Tuesday by 5 PM. There are 93 questions on the 			score sheet. Thanks JoEllen, Lizz, Brett and Larry for attending and 			helping with Dogfest. Has been on a search committee for the director of 			student involvement. The CSI will be changing soon. There will be two 			new positions; a program advisor and director of student involvement. 			Would 	love it if Senate could make it to the interviews. They are this week 		September 10 from 12:00-12:45. Lunch will be paid for followed by a 			presentation from 1:00-1:45 in the Alumni Room. How does fun and spirit 		fit into Truman’s mission? This person will be working directly with 			Senate. September 11 12:00-12:45 lunch followed by an Educational 			Presentation from 1:00-1:45. Open forum Thursday 10:00-10:45.
		- Ferlazzo - Coordinator of programs for the Student Union. If you want to 		do a program in the union, please contact him. Tuesday Sept. 9 is the SUB 			open house. There will be free food and live music. Currently working 			with SAB on an indoor ice skating rink and possibly a breakfast with the 			President. The Quiet Lounge is being renamed. If you have a great name, 			go to sub.truman.edu tonight and submit your name. The submitter of the 			winning name gets $50 to the bookstore. 
	D. Guests of Honor
	E. Membership Issues
	F. Appointments/Administration of the Oath
		- Esfeld - Michelle Landers as College Democrats Org Rep. Approved.
		- Esfeld - Alice Malone as historian. Closed Session. Approved. 
		- Hayes - Alex Klein as Rep to UGC. Closed Session. Approved.
	G. Changes/Approval of the agenda
III. Executive Reports
	A. Secretary
	B. Treasurer
	C. President
IV. Auxiliary Reports
	A. Faculty Advisor
	B. Staff Advisor
	C. BOG
	D. Speaker
V. Committee Reports
	A. Academic Affairs
	B. External Affairs Chairwoman
	C. Student Affairs
		i. Campus Diversity
		ii. Campus Environment
	D. Technology
	E. Other Reports
		i. Historian
		ii. Communications Director
		iii. Webmaster
		iv. Ethics Justice
		v. Recruitment
		vi. Legislative Director
		vii. Constitutional Review
VI. Old Business
	A. Hayes - Moves for the second reading and adoption of the resolution for 	Student Initiated Courses
		- Vote 12 - 0 - 0 
VII. Money Motions
VIII. First Readings
IX. Discussion Items
X. Other New Business
	A. Flanagan - Moves for a first reading on the resolution for the continuation of 	the Safety Committee.
		- Esfeld - This is continuing the charge of last semester? Yes. Is there any 			money associated with this committee? Yes $2500. What has changed 			from last year’s resolution? Removed some whereas clauses that were no 			longer relevant.
	B. Hogan - Moves a first reading of the amendments to the constitution and the 	standing rules.
		- Hogan - Focused more on content than form at this point. This is what 			will actually be changed. Took all of the information from last week’s 			discussion to come up with these amendments.
		- Russell - Talked about making the Ethics Justice and the Speaker one in 			the same. Will it be one position or two?
		- Hogan - From last week, gathered that most felt it could be lumped into 			one position. Personally feels they should remain separate positions. 
		- Givogue - Isn’t the ethics justice elected in the same way as the speaker.
		- Mozaffar - The speaker appeals to the body to be appointed while the 			ethics justice is appointed by the president and approved by the body.
		- Russell - Would like to see a clause that gives power to the speaker when 		the ethics justice does not exist.
		- Hogan - That already exists in the constitution.
		- Alberts - It would be horrible to combine the two positions. The last few 			elections have been very smooth. Several speakers may not apply if they 			have to carry both duties. 
		- Hayes - What was the reasoning for vice committee chairs?
		- Hogan - Vice Chairmanship is the best way to facilitate committees.
		- Esfeld - This would be difficult by appointing two separate chairs and 			hoping that they can work well together. 
		- Hogan - All committees except AA would have vice chairs. All of these 			chairs already have to work intimately together so having vice chairs 			should not create a problem.	
		- Hayes - does not like the idea of vice committee chairs. Feels campus 			environment and campus diversity should be elevated to full committees. 			They are sub committees but they do not operate in that way. People can 			accomplish their goals just by talking to other people. Vice Committee 			chairs puts too many positions within one committee. It is too much. We 			don’t need the complicated structure.
		- Hogan - Went into the review of the constitution with the idea that we 			had too much going on and not enough people to fill the positions. 				Attempted to streamline the system.	
		- Alberts - Worried about having 8 committees when we only have 14 			members. Vice Chairs would help with accountability. A team of 2 people 			running a committee can support each other and would allow younger 			members to have the opportunity to have leadership roles. Likes the 			change.
		- Russell - Feels more inclined to agree but has reservations about adding 			more members when we can’t fill them. This would create less stream 			lined communication and more complications.
		- Crump - Agrees with Senator Hogan. We don’t have the body size to fill 			8 committees. There are down sides to the LD having its own committee, 			but they should have the man power to reach their goals. When there is 			down time they can just be another member of student affairs.
		- Wiley - Would the campus environment vice chair become the SA chair 			if the chair position became empty? Would this push people away?
		- Hogan - Would be willing to write in a chain of command.
		- Allan - Agrees with senator Hayes from the standpoint that campus 			environment is doing a lot right now and should be their own committee. 			Campus diversity has a lot of potential and should have its own 				committee.	
		- Esfeld - Campus Environment is now its own committee called 				Environmental Affairs.
		- Hemmelgarn - Environmental Affairs will do what it does no matter if it 			is under student affairs or not.
		- Flanagan - Sees senator Hogan’s point of view. Sees it being appropriate 			for Student Affairs and Environmental Affairs. Feels she will have more 			oversight over Campus diversity.
		- Hogan - 
XI. Announcements

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