Student Senate Minutes

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:
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
	G. Changes/Approval of the agenda
III. Executive Reports
	A. Secretary - No report.
	B. Treasurer - New copy log. Use it. If you have money outstanding, email Philip.
	C. President - The curriculum commission met for more than eight hours this week. Does not know when to expect a draft. Would like more student input. Got caught up on how math fits (including calculus) and the repeat policy. Would like all members of the body to eventually read the document. Strategic planning stuff is still happening. MO Higher Education Consortium is the 14th and 15th of November and several Senate members will be attending. FAC Slate will be coming to the next meeting. A Graduate student is researching university student government and how women are represented. Would like the body to fill out his survey. 
IV. Auxiliary Reports
	A. Faculty Advisor - No report.
	B. Staff Advisor - Sending out email summarizing Ex Comm activity. Big Week 	of Giving starts November 16th.
	C. BOG - Apologizes for being absent recently due to HvZ. Met with Dr. Krueger 	last week about the Technology Committee. If you have thoughts to share about 	Truman’s technology, email Tom or Cody. The state economist will be coming 	to Truman on November 21st. Truman was listed 20th out of 100 best value of 	public colleges. 5th best education value out of 500 4-year public colleges. 
	D. Speaker - Still working on better rules for streamlining discussion time. 
V. Committee Reports
	A. Academic Affairs - Wrapping up meetings with organizations. Hoping to 	establish regular dialogue with them. Met with Dustin Mayfield last week about 	Research Mentor of the Year. Met with Dr. Kelrick to talk about the Forensic 	Science minor. The HIT lab that is coming to Kirksville is interested in 	establishing an internship for Truman students that could be 2-3 years long where 	students can be trained. The SIC promotions are continuing. Will be writing a 	letter to the editor in support of SIC.
	B. External Affairs Chairwoman - Has a lot of meetings this week to get things in 	motion. Go out and vote!
	C. Student Affairs - No report. 
		i. Campus Diversity - Diversity Roundtable is on Wednesday at 6:30 in the 		Georgian Room. Hunger Banquet will hold 100 people.
		ii. Campus Environment - Suggests double sided printing for all labs. 			Right now VH has a double sided pilot program. Would like to make sure 			that monitors are shut down completely each nice. Meeting Monday with 			Michael McManus. If you have any ideas for renovations, email Hannah.
	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. Esfeld - Moves $400 to be spent on expenses for the MO Higher 	Education Consortium to be spent no later than 
		- Esfeld - Wants to get a university van which would cost $150 in gas. 			Pear Tree Inn costs $ /night and is a few blocks from SEMO so they can 			walk to campus.
		- Sumter - Who is attending?
		- Esfeld - Schutter, Wickell, Sumter, Flanagan, Esfeld
		- Passed. 
VIII. First Readings
IX. Discussion Items
	A. Piel - Moves discussion time on the new attendance policy.
		- Hayes - Likes this because it is rigid in how much people need to be 			involved in Senate. Concerned about the one excused absence.
		- Hogan - You can petition the secretary if something were to come up. It 			makes it more flexible	.
		- Esfeld - Retreat counts as two absences. If someone misses it then they 			are automatically removed from the body.
		- Jenkins - Was appointed a few days in advance of the retreat and almost 			had to miss it. Why is it worth two absences?
		- Hogan - We put a lot of emphasis on the retreat and it is very important 			for team building and strengthening intra-senate relationships.
		- Jenkins - Feels like Senate process for new members needs to be looked 			at. 
		- Esfeld - Moves friendly amendment for Section 4 Clause 5 to say Vice 			President over President.
		- Wickell - What is outlined as an excused over unexcused absence?
		- Hogan - Excuses are left to the discretion of the secretary but everything 			is handled the same way.
		- Wickell - Is there anyway to include a 
		- Hemmelgarn - Feels this is a big jump from the current policy. Would 			like to see two unexcused absences. Would like the deadline to be Sunday 			at noon instead of Saturday.
		- Robinson - Movement to amend unexcused absences to two
			- Robinson - Feels one is very limiting. 
			- Gilmor - Disagrees. Thinks one makes sense. All it takes is an 				email. You can always appeal your absence. Given the retreat, it is 				planned far in retreat. Justification is necessary. There are only so 				many meetings in a semester. Currently, people have been missing 				things because they have so many chances
			- Wickell - Feels it needs to be two or Senate will be bogged down 				by the appellate process.
			- Esfeld - Feels it should be two to allow more flexibility.
			- Menown - Does this appeal process occur during the meeting?
			- Jenkins - Feels like being too strict can have the opposite.
			- 3- 4 - 0 the amendment does not pass.
	B. President Krueger 
		- Krueger - Happy to be back at Truman. The current Truman surpasses 			the dreams of past leaders. Whatever we dream now, we can surpass in the 		future. Would like students to write down what their Truman experience 			currently is and what they think it should be. Thanks the body for looking 			into updating the University’s technology. If anyone ever has a problem or 			idea please come speak to him. He never turns students away. What is 			Truman dedicated to? Please submit it in writing. 
		- Esfeld - What do you think the Truman experience is or can be?
			- Hayes - Why does Truman not have any peers?
			- Krueger - We have the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. We have 21 				different sports teams. Two Fulbright Scholars. We are the 5th best 				buy for out of state students. The typical student Truman is not 				common at other universities. There is a huge number of 					organizations on campus that participate in philanthropic activities. 
			- Jenkins - Is there another way we can share concerns without 				having to do it right? (krueger@truman.edu)
			- Esfeld - What does Truman care about? What is it that we work 				towards every day? We have committees that look at specific 				aspects of campus that are incredibly important. What makes us 				value one thing over another. 
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X. Other New Business
XI. Announcements

Respectfully submitted by Secretary Piel on