Student Senate Minutes
December 6, 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: RHA Representatives, Grim/Ryle Hall Senate 	President, West Campus Hall Senate Representatives, Purple Friday Supporters, 	Casey Millburg, President of SAAC
II. Preliminary Items
	A. Roll Call
	B. Corrections/Approval of the minutes
	C. Gallery introductions/business
	D. Guests of Honor
	E. Membership Issues – Resignation of Chairman Potter. Accepted.
	F. Appointments/Administration of the Oath
		A. Flanagan – Organizational representative for Sigma Sigma Sigma.
			- Approved.
		B. Flanagan – Hilary Shoun as communications director
			- Shoun – Has been working towards becoming comm. director.
			- Closed Session.
			- Approved. 
		C. Flanagan – Lauren Massey as deputy communications director.
			- Massey – Was unaware of senate until this year. Wants to be a 				good liasion to the student body. Would like to use the internet. 				Knows how to work with all people.
			- Approved.
	G. Changes/Approval of the agenda
III. Executive Reports
	A. Secretary – New people send me your email addresses.
	B. Treasurer – No report. 
	C. President – President Krueger asked for a Perimeter Access Taskforce. 
	D. Vice President – Please fill out sheet with which committee you are serving on. 	Ex Comm will be meeting in this room on Tuesdays next semester. Retreat for the 	spring will be one of the last two Saturdays in January. New nametags are in. Stop 	by the Senate office to pick them up. Jessica Owens will be on the perimeter 	access task force as well as an RHA member.
IV. Auxiliary Reports
	A. Faculty Advisor – Senate party this Saturday at 6. Be on the look-out for 	directions to his house. Please come and be pleasant. 
	B. Staff Advisor
	C. BOG
	D. Speaker – We will be meeting this coming Sunday at the normal time. Be 	there.
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
VII. Money Motions
VIII. First Readings 
	A. Williams – moves for the first reading of the Purple Fridays resolution.
		- Williams – Student Affairs has decided that there is not enough school 			spirit on campus. There is the week of homecoming but feels that not 			every student is involved in it. Created Purple Fridays to get all students, 			faculty and staff to wear purple and Truman attire.
		- Yu – Cut line 77-103.
		- Heagney – Was this changed at all since the committee meeting?
		- Robinson – this was forwarded to him at 9:00 PM that Tuesday night.
		- Heagney – This is just Senate support SAAC and their implementation of 		Purple Fridays? (Yes.)
		- Esfeld – Support this. Fits in nicely with the spirit section of the new 			Vision Document.
		- Bates – Thinks this is wonderful and fabulous. Line 37 is not completely 		correct. Part of their report was in regards to supporting spirit and fun. Part 		of the findings are activities that support spirit and fun.
		- Flanagan – Thinks this is awesome. Spoke to Dean Gilchrist who 			supports this as well as Dr. Krueger. 
		- Tomlinson – Feels like the Greek Challenge for Excellence section is not 		the best explanation of what it is and is not topical.
		- Williams – Potter spoke with Gilchrist and Krueger and they were 			excited about it.
		- Heagney – 
		- Flanagan – the Greek Challenge for Excellence was included because of 			the report.
		- Tomlinson – Suggests rewording line 51 to “significantly utilized.”
		- Heagney - Friendly amendment to remove Campus Life Spirit and Fun 			committee. Line 37. Accepted.
		- Tomlinson – Friendly amendment in line 51 to “utilized significantly” 			and to change the grammar in lines 61 and 66 to “; and” as opposed to 			periods.
		- Bates – Lines 64 and 65 they are considered staff or faculty.
		- Yu – Line 35 should have “; and”
		- Seberger – On line 34 it is 400 student athletes. 
		- Tomlinson – Third thing in line 68 should come first because it explains 			why we support Purple Fridays.
		- Williams – Felt it was a good end to the resolution showing our support 			for anything that furthers school spirit. 
		- Passes 18 – 0 – 0.
	B Troop – Moves first reading of the Perimeter Access System resolution.
		- Troop – Sent out resolution earlier today. 
		- Heagney – Line 65 alter it to say keep green door hours to the C-Store 			hours. Doesn’t see anything that correlates to what we said about being 			intoxicated when it doesn’t have anything to do with the new system. 			Would take those out.
		- Graham – Agrees with this. Every person he has spoken to thinks the 			system is overcomplicated and not going to do anything to enhance safety 			of the dorms and that alarms can easily be tripped at night to disrupt sleep 			and academic environment.
		- Sato – What about students who need to get in to use the computer labs? 
		- Troop – When the library closes, the only way you can get into a dorm is 		if you live there or someone checks you in. This would just require you to 			stand outside until someone comes to check you in. 
		- Ohs – It is not going to disrupt the entire dorm. The alarms are connected 		to the duty phone and the SA on duty will have to respond.
		- Yu – Spoke to a student Friday who is upset with the whole situation and 		Senate over the issue. The senate body of spring ‘08 wrote a resolution in 			regards to an attempted assault in Dobson asking for perimeter access.
		- Flanagan- Cannot remember if it was specifically in the resolution but 			the safety committee thought perimeter access was not a good idea. 
		- Alberts – Perimeter Access has been in the vision documents for the last 			15 years. Thinks you can be upset with how it is being implemented. If 			there are things you think should be done differently this is a good time to 		tell them. 
		- RHA President – RHA has first read an earlier version of this resolution 			but has not passed or endorsed it. Not sure why RHA is listed. Intending to 		have a second reading and vote this week.
		- Graham – Friendly amendment that encourages reslife to implement a 			survey of on campus students about the system.
		- Troop – It is going to be implemented no matter what. They want to 			review the system in the middle of next semester to see how it is working. 
		- Marshall – does not think ResLife cares what we think. Even after they 			have student opinion, they haven’t made any changes. doesn’t think a 			survey will do anything.
		- Sato – Likes the idea but wonders if it is the right way to do it. Believes 			in the human factor and wants to increase the number of SAs.
		- Grim President – Manual unlocking of red doors during some period of 			the day. The main underlying purpose of the system is so with one push of 		a button, the entire building can lock down. Doesn’t manually unlocking 			defeat this purpose?
		- Sumter – the system should be phased in slowly. The shut down with a 			button will be the end goal of the implementation.
		- Grim President – Apparently manually locking the doors will set off the 			alarm.
		- Buckler – You swipe in and check in so if you bring in an intoxicated 			person or a disruptive person it can be traced back.
		- Ohs – ResLife does care what the students think about it but feel they 			should go forward with it and see how it works. If ResLife is unwilling to 			do a survey, go through the hall senates.
		- Sumter – Had money for an extra door in three dorms. Surveys meant to 			decide which door to implement it on.
		- Heagney – Manually locking of red doors won’t happen. Overextending 			of SA’s jobs. Line 71 says students should be included in future decisions. 
		Having a hall desk monitor solves problem with large groups checking in.
		- Ohs – At 10:30, SA’s lock all doors except front door. Locking 				automatically will save time.
		- Tomlinson – Does it mean that if someone had a good reason for a red 			door to be unlocked during the day say for an event, it couldn’t be done? 			(Yes). Would suggest a separate policy be used for high traffic days like 			move-in and move-out days. Has anyone asked how this will affect tour 			guides?
		- RHA President – Send the resolution to the auxillary facilities standing 			committee. It is a group of various people from student affairs and 				physical plant and they have been discussing this.
		- Grim President – Line 64. Yellow doors are all over the building. this 			would not work because it would destroy the purpose of a night monitor.
		- Troop – Worth having the doors near the parking lots.
		- Grim – Would you consider cutting night monitor shifts from 12 to 6 			AM?
		- Troop – yes it would save $15,000 a year.
	C. Gyawali – Moves first reading of the Local Foods resolution.
		- Gyawali – Hopes Sodexho brings in more healthy and environmentally 			friendly local foods. 
		- Heagney – What is the number of signatures?
		- Gyawali – Did a petition but plan on getting more. Will not include if the 		numbers don’t increase.
		- Flanagan – Thought it wasn’t a petition but was a thank you to Sodexho 			for trying it out. Would be important to mention you are on the Food 			Service Advisory Committee.
		- Gyawali – Member of the Food Service Advisory Committee. Talked 			about this at the first meeting.
		- Esfeld – Thinks this looks good. Talk more about why local food is a 			good idea towards the top of the resolution. The only other thin is to have 			another resolved clause saying we are resolved to the idea of local food.
	D. Heagney – Moves to spend no more than $300 on bringing Freedom Writers 	and the movie to campus to be spent no later than March 1, 2009.
		- Heagney – There was a racially divided school in LA brought together 			by a teacher who used journaling in the classroom. This will bring the 			students to campus to speak about the influence in their lives. It is a Q&A, 		lecture and movie all in one. This would be a contribution to a larger sum 			provided by various organizations on campus.
		- Gyawali – How many organizations are donating?
		- Heagney – They are still collecting.
		- Buckler – Is there enough campus wide support to raise the money? 			(Yes).
		- Robinson – Is this budgeted within diversity? 
		- Heagney – No. But former SA Chair said there was extra money in her 			budget and he can juggle his own budget.
		- Hogan – When we send money, we usually send people. Do they need 			any help with the event?
		- Heagney – Not sure but will find out.
		- Passed.
IX. Discussion Items
	A. Robinson – Moves no more than 10 minutes of discussion time for the BOG 	rep selection packet.
		- Robinson – After problems with this year’s selection process, decided to 		draft a document to explain and streamline the process. These are just 			recommendations to the Senate that can be included in the standing rules 			and constitution.
		- Serroque – Do you know what the rationale behind number 1 is?
		- Robinson – Replaced Exec Staff meeting one night with a discussion of 			the proceedings. We decided it stopped the speaker from being impartial.
		- Alberts – It is not uncommon to get one person from each of the 				constituencies, it might be good to have the speaker serve in their place. 			By saying that the committee is limited it could jeopardize the odd number 		of the committee. Although the speaker is supposed to be neutral, they do 			speak on behalf of the Senate.
		- Esfeld – Thinks that having the speaker on caused a lot of problems. The 		constitution will serve as the memory of this event and most of us will not 		be around for the next round of selections. 
		- Robinson – The report is trying to take everything people said and have 			it represented in some fashion. 
		- Sumter – In addition to changes to the constitution and standing rules, a 			copy of this should be given to the BOG rep to be passed on to the next 			rep.
		- Tomlinson – The speaker should not serve as speaker during the 				meetings where the slate is discussed. It would solve the problem. 
		- Buckler – Will our closed sessions be combined/merged?
		- Robinson – The deliberations from the selections committee was in 			closed session and questions were raised on how much can be divulged. 			Now the committee members will be able to discuss their closed session 			within Senate’s closed session. 
		- Serroque – Why is media network included?
		- Alberts – The original committee was much bigger. It had a committee 			of 13 people. They wanted active people on campus without being on 			Senate. It was hard to get everyone together. The media network formed 			and it made sense to take three seats and combine them into one.
	B. Gilmor – Moves ten minutes of discussion time for the scholarship review 	committee.
		- Gilmor – Have been meeting this semester to discuss the Senate’s 			scholarship. We have come to the conclusion that the scholarship has not 			been executed properly over the last three years and have found no support 		for it. Will be bringing a recommendation that the scholarship be 				disbanded. This will return $2000 a year to the Senate budget.
		- Serroque – Is this a standing expense that has to be voted on?
		- Gilmor – It is part of the standing budget. They are automatically in each 		year and have to be voted out.
		- Gyawali – Why has the scholarship not worked?
		- Gilmor – It has been on Senate’s execution. It is always about midway 			through the first semester into second semester that a chair is appointed 			and the committee started. If it is to be done each semester, it should be 			planned the semester ahead. It has not worked logistically the past two 			years and four scholarships have been awarded in the second semester. 			The criteria changes almost every year. Without consistency, it is a weird 			program.
		- Alberts – This was first started when the governance fee was 				implemented. Also did a high school scholarship. Now you can think of 			other things to do with the funds. It was never implemented the way it was 		intended. Seems like no one really cares about it anyway.
		- Gilmor – At the beginning of the semester, we tried to decide if we 			wanted to try and rework the program so it was better or disband it. Didn’t 		like spending $2,000 of student’s money on only four students.
		- Esfeld – The past two years, we have not been able to get the recipients 			to come and receive their awards. Shows that even the recipients don’t 			care about it.
	C. Esfeld – Moves fifteen minutes of discussion on the vision document outline.
		- Esfeld – This is your time to give us feedback. Most of the committee is 			here at the table. Is there anything we missed? Likes and dislikes? This is 			our checkpoint before the writing begins.
		- Heagney – Move point 5 about GLBT center to after WRC and believes 			it is going to be called a Queer Resource Center. It makes it less 				restrictive. What about the composition of the student body?
		- Esfeld – In order to talk about composition of the student body, it would 			have to go under the Enrollment Management section. What census would 		we use?
		- Heagney – Truman should reflect the racial composition of the United 			States with all the shifts taking place. The last paragraph sounds like we 			shouldn’t bring in more diverse people until we can work together.
		- Esfeld – This is less focused on visual diversity. Did not mean to portray 		that sentiment. Open to suggestions.
		- Tomlinson – Diversity A-4. The policy doesn’t read as egregious. Never 			made a statement as Senate saying it was. Feels the policy is reasonably 			fair. Thinks we should shoot for Missouri enrollment to match Missouri’s 			racial breakdown. You talk about all students participating in homecoming 		as opposed to just greek organizations. all students are encouraged to 			participate and can’t see how to make it more inclusive. Promote 				attendance to athletic events as opposed to participation. Disagrees with 			RCP themed halls. One of the great things about freshmen year is getting a 		diverse experience by being around other majors. 
		- Sato – Found the idea to make us ambassadors to high schools a good 			idea. Will the café interfere with the quiet study atmosphere of the library?
		- Esfeld – No. 
		- Heagney – In Australia, they had a textbook rental and it worked well. 			Say unless the textbooks are dramatically different, professors should 			allow students to use old editions. Will there be anything about food 			choices?
		- Esfeld – Realized we are missing safety and food service in the student 			affairs section.
		- Schutter – Trying to meet with student service offices but are having a 			hard time getting meetings.
		- Heagney – Under student health, feels the university should offer free 			STI testing.
		- Alberts – Feels this outline is better than Arete’s outline. Great job.
		- Williams – Feels this is a great start to the document.
		- Esfeld – We consider the introduction/forward complete. Any ideas?
		- Yu – Grassroots is one word. 
		- Esfeld – We are also missing environmental sustainability in the budget 			including building renovations.
X. Other New Business
	 
XI. Announcements

Respectfully submitted by Secretary Piel on