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 - CGIU student requesting funding, Amanda 	Rhodes, John Mohr from AXE
	D. Guests of Honor
	E. Membership Issues
	F. Appointments/Administration of the Oath
		- Esfeld - Appoints AXE an organizational representative
	G. Changes/Approval of the agenda
III. Executive Reports
	A. Secretary - No report.
	B. Treasurer - Please send receipts and money motions from the past few weeks to 	Philip.
	C. President - Would like to meet with each member of Senate about their 	expectations of the position at the beginning of next semester. Please start making 	your end of the semester reports. They will help when the time comes to write end 	of the year reports. Please read and be familiar with the five curriculum proposals 	by next Sunday. 
	D. Vice President - No report.
IV. Auxiliary Reports
	A. Faculty Advisor - Christmas Party December 8th at 6:00 PM. It will be good to 	practice going to a grown up Christmas Party. There is always a hat circle. Please 	sign up and make a hat for someone else. Ex Comm will bring snacks and Dr. 	Alberts will make chili and soup. It will be done by 8:00 PM. Go get more people! 	Who will take your place when you leave?
	B. Staff Advisor - December 7th, Student Affairs is sponsoring the Big Scream. It 	starts at 10:00 PM with activities in the SUB and the Rec. There will be a 	breakfast and two showings of Ferris Buehler’s Day Off. Have a safe 	Thanksgiving. 
	C. BOG - Spent Thursday and Friday evening traveling around KU. The next 	board meeting is December 6th. More details to come next Sunday.
	D. Speaker - Good job sending in a lot of agenda items even without a reminder.
V. Committee Reports
	A. Academic Affairs - There was a forum last Monday on the Innovative 	Academic Initiatives. Meeting with the group about the computer literacy survey. 	A student came to Ex Comm this past week with concerns about library operating 	hours. Will be meeting about them this week. Research Mentor of the Year award 	meeting tomorrow.
	B. External Affairs Chairwoman - No report.
	C. Student Affairs - Final conduct code recommendations tonight. Meeting with 	Dean Gilchrist tomorrow. If you have any questions, please let JoEllen know.
		i. Campus Diversity - No report.
		ii. Campus Environment - Currently have $90 of the $1200 needed. Still 			trying to get in contact with organizations that have offered to donate. The 			resolution must be pushed back again.
	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. Flanagan - Moves second reading of Conduct Code Resolution
		- Flanagan - Tried to include all recommendations in this draft. 
		- Esfeld - What is the steering committee?
		- Flanagan - It is the committee in charge of renovations.
		- Bates - Sodexo no longer has an ‘h’ in it.
		- Hayes - This is a very important resolution. This shows that students will 		be listened to and can make a change. Feels a more apathetic student body 			would have let this slip by. 
		- Wiley - What have students said to you about this?
		- Summers - Athletes at the roundtable eat in Ryle. They feel it is already 			crowded in Ryle and they don’t want to have to go to the SUB because it 			would be more expensive. They were against it.
		- Crump - Most are apathetic or in opposition.
		- Passes 11 - 0 - 0  
VII. Money Motions
VIII. First Readings
IX. Discussion Items
X. Other New Business
	A. Flanagan - Conduct Code Presentation and discussion. See attached power 	point. 
XI. Announcements

Respectfully submitted by Secretary Piel on