Student Senate Minutes

I. General meeting of the Student Senate was called to order by Speaker Hogan at 6:07 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 - Index and another student. Historical guests: 	President Andrew Jackson, Monica Lewinski, Generic Pirate Politician
	D. Guests of Honor
	E. Membership Issues - Kristel Givogue has resigned.
	F. Appointments/Administration of the Oath
	G. Changes/Approval of the agenda
III. Executive Reports
	A. Secretary - 
	B. Treasurer - No report.
	C. President - Unless someone else feels very motivated to work on the revision 	of Arete, it will need to go onto the back burner for now. At this time, there is no 	one who has the time to create the finished revised document. Has gotten two 	applications for Senator at Large. They need to get 150 signatures and must sign a 	release on their grades. If you see signature sheets sitting in the office or in the 	mailbox, place them in Lizz’s mailbox. Has been looking into getting some 	positions on Senate turned into an opportunity to earn scholarship hours. Will be 	speaking with the SAB and FAC to decide which positions they feel qualify for 	scholarship hours. Regina Moran will write up a proposal that Dr. Krueger must 	eventually sign off on. If you have any creative ideas about why we should be 	eligible for scholarship hours speak to Lizz. Keep your eyes open for the phase II 	final draft of the curricular proposals. There are four curricular models and 	general recommendations within the proposal. Strategic planning is happening 	this Monday. Still working on the environment clause. Received 	recommendations from Ex Comm about what should be talked about during the 	MO Higher Ed Consortium. If you have any suggestions, email Lizz. 
	D. Vice President - What should Lizz and Brett speak with Dr. Krueger about? 	They have weekly meetings with him now. Laura worked with intra-senate 	communication at Ex Comm this week. We will be moving the SOCC to the 	service counsel. Must speak with the SERVE center and get their support. 	Campus Health Director position still needs to be filled. There will be an add in 	the Index this week advertising the position. Bowl-4-Gold the December 6 at 	Leisure World. The cost is $10 a person including 2 games, shoe rental and food. 	We will have an SAB/Senate team. Money raised goes to the Special Olympics.
IV. Auxiliary Reports
	A. Faculty Advisor - No report.
	B. Staff Advisor - Passing around emergency response guide. They will be 	distributed to all students via campus mail. If you find a classroom without a 	guide, contact DPS so they can add one. Please add ideas to the sheets from Ex 	Comm. Thank you for coming to Oktoberfest. There were about 275 people that 	came through. One student emailed her over the weekend and said that it 	redefined what a Truman event should be. Hope to do something very similar in 	the spring to bring people out and about. Please remember the charge Dean 	Gilchrist spoke to the body about including collaboration between organizations. 		The CSI will be hanging posters that include all events for the week of Halloween. 	Several events are in the works for the Sunday before finals. 
	C. BOG - No report.
	D. Speaker - We are changing up the format of the meeting to try and make it 	more efficient. We will be done at 8 PM from now on. Will remain flexible, 	however, if there is a dire need. Wants the meeting to be easier to schedule 	around. Working on looking through Robert’s Rules of Order to come up with a 	better way to run discussion. Would like to see them be more organic. 
V. Committee Reports
	A. Academic Affairs - Has several requests for proposals from faculty members if 	you would like to see them. They were divided into three tiers. Will have a 	meeting Wednesday to discuss the Research Mentor of the Year. Continuing to 	promote SIC. 
	B. External Affairs - Still working on Kirksville on the Quad. Trying to think of 	ways to get more involved with the Kirksville community. Looking into sitting in 	on the City Council Meetings. There will be a debate Tuesday between Judy 	Baker and Blaine Leutkemeyer in Baldwin.  
	C. Student Affairs - November 12 from 5-7 PM will be the conduct code forum. 	Looking into having a forum for religious based organizations. President’s 	Roundtable went very well. There are 10,000 safety procedure brochures and will 	hopefully require professors to include safety into brochures. Faculty and students 	want free refills in the SUB. 
		i. Campus Diversity - No report.
		ii. Campus Environment - Working on large permanent recycling bins on 			the Quad. Carl approved the bins and the only challenge is funding. Tau 			Lambda Sigma has agreed to fund one of the bins. Looking into a 				sustainability 	tab on Truview. Yajie giving speech on the President’s 			Climate Commitment. Met with Dean Gilchrist about the bike garden. 
	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
VII. Money Motions
	A. Flanagan - Moves to spend no more than $75 on the student conduct code 	forum 	
		- Flanagan - 5-7 PM in the Student Involvement Complex on November 			12. Would like to see more senators there. Should go well.
		- Passed. 
	B. Jenkins - Moves to spend no more than $140 for the diversity round table.
		- Flangan - inviting all diversity organizations. It will start at 6:30 so more 			students can attend on November 5.
		- Jenkins - Goal for roundtable is to get as much input as possible on 			diversity issues on campus. There are concerns out there and would like 			them to be addressed. 
		- Hladky - What is the money being spent on?
		- Jenkins - Snacks for the event and advertisements
		- Passed. 
VIII. First Readings
IX. Discussion Items
	A. Hogan - moves discussion time on t-shirt designs
		- Hogan - Most people voted. There were two closely in contention, 			“represent” and “anarchy”. 
		- Straw pull - 7 to 7 tie on both designs.
		- Yu - Prefers “total anarchy” shirt because it will get students thinking. 			“Represent” is cliché.
		- Hladky - Wants another doodle quiz with just the two designs so people 			who are not here can vote.
		- Hogan - Would like the shirt to be utilitarian but we are having trouble 			keeping bodies on the body. We need more things like the retreat. Wants 			to build a sense of camaraderie among the body with this shirt.
		- Hayes - Likes “represent” more to show that we want to represent 			students. Does not feel the other shirt represents what we want to be.
	B. Piel - moves discussion time on the attendance policy
		- Hogan - 1 unexcused absence 4 excused absences. All excuses must be in 		by noon the day of the meeting. We also spoke about required events. We 			will designate five events as required and you are required to attend any 			three. If you miss more than two you will be removed at the end of the 			semester. Want a rigid set of rules that are simple and can still be flexible. 			Left in that the retreat is worth 2 absences. If we are going to go to the 			trouble of keeping these meetings within 2 hours, we should require that 			people must stay until 8 or it is counted as an absence.
		- Menown - What is defined as excused? (sickness, other meetings, etc) 			Are required events included in meeting absences? (No they will be 			recorded separately) 
		- Jenkins - Would like to make sure that people post their events on the 			Senate calendar.
		- Hogan - Would it help to put big upcoming events on the bottom of the 			agenda for the coming week? (Yes).
		- Jenkins - Wants the body to be supportive of each other.
		- Wiley - Does the current attendance policy still apply? (Yes until the end 			of the semester). 
		- Yu - Example of a required event? (President’s Roundtable, EOY)
		- Hayes - Likes the new attendance policy. Would like more 				communication among members regarding events.
		- Bates - Send out an email with steps on how to use the calendar.
X. Other New Business
XI. Announcements
	A. Prism Dance November 8 from 10PM - 3AM. There will be a drag queen/king 	workshop before the show at midnight. Dr Alberts will be judging the show.

Respectfully submitted by Secretary Piel on