STUDENT SENATE Meeting of 7 October 1996 Roll was taken at 7:30 PM. Meeting was called to order at 7:35 PM. Senators Present: Bembenick (HSS) - 0, Braden (SIA-SAL) - 0, Davis (HNZ) - 0, Fay (MIS), Go (SIA-SAL) - 1, Gulkis (CFA) - 0, Jain (SIA) - 0, Jones (CFA) - 0, Kenney (MCS) - 1, Kienzl (HNZ-SAL) - 1, Lentz (MCS) - 1, Mendelssohn (CIT-SAL) - 0, Messinger (CIT) - 0, Mielke (SIA) - 0, Muir (HSS) - 0, Pinkston (CIT) - 0, Raza (HSS-SAL), Robles (MCS) - 0, Rosenthal (SCS) - 0, Rumpf (CIT) - 0, Senderling (HNZ) - 0, Szudarek (HSS-SAL) - 0, Toraason (MCS) - 0. Senators Absent: Abramson (HSS) - 1, Connor (HSS) - 1, Coster (CIT) - 2, Cox (CIT) - 1, DeFillipo (MCS) - 3, Drake (CIT) - 3, Knoop (CIT) - 2, Kurtz (SCS) - 3, Nathan (MCS-SAL) - 3, Prattipati (SCS) - 1, Smith (CFA) - 3. Approval of the Minutes: Minutes from September 30, 1996 were approved by acclamation. Special Business: Filling Vacancies: CIT - John Klein: Passed by voice vote. SCS - Jeremy Horwitz: Passed by voice vote. HSS - Mike Szudarek, Kashif Raza: Passed by hand vote. Nomination of Human Resources Chair - Mike Szudarek: Passed by voice vote. Nomination of Funding and Recognition Chair: Tabled until the meeting of October 21. Ex-Officio Reports: Activities Board (Jill Goodall): We now have a Political Speakers committee consisting of 4 people. They have been looking over information from speakers and will be meeting this week to make some decisions about the upcoming year. AB Coffeehouse will be sponsoring some upcoming shows in Skibo Coffeehouse, including one on Oct. 22. AB Special Events has found out that CMU has been chosen as a host site for a section of the AIDS quilt on Dec. 2 and 3. The films for the next 2 weeks are: Oct. 10 Taxi Driver, Rangos Hall, 7:30, 10, 12:30 (location due to being kicked out of DH 2210 and McConomy) Oct. 11 Fargo, DH 2210, 8, 10, 12 Oct. 13 Battlestar Galactica !!!!, McConomy, 8, 10 and 12 - AB Chair pick of the week! and for the International Festival... Oct. 17 Like Water for Chocolate, McConomy, 9:00 and 11:00 Oct. 18 Mi Familia, McConomy, 9:30 and 12:00 and Oct. 20 I Walked with a Zombie, McConomy, 8, 10 and 12 Graduate Student Organization (William Slye): No report. Greek Council (Adele Chiodo): Greek Leaders will be participating in the University Forum program, discussing Campus Leadership and efforts to improve intra-organizational communication and relationships. The forum will be on Thursday, 10/10, at 5:30 in the Alumni Hall. Everyone can attend, regardless of your leadership experience. Major topics of discussion at the last Greek Council meeting were Greek sing Philanthropy requirements and the possibility of a Greek phone directory. . Faculty Senate (Barbara Prevost): No report. Division of Student Affairs (Barbara Prevost): No report. Student Dormitory Council (Michael Sperger): No report. President (Bryon Krug): No report. Treasurer (Brian Mueller): No report. Committee Reports: Academic Affairs (Will Toraason): No report. Campus Affairs (Robert Rumpf): No report. Funding and Recognition (Catherine Senderling, Acting Funding and Recognition Chair): No report. Human Resources (Mike Szudarek): No report. Public Relations (Matt Bembenick): No report. Chair (Brenden O. Mielke): No report. New Business From Committee: F96-004 Special Allocation - Allies: $300 The money is needed in order to fund a speaker for National Comi ng Out Day. Passed by voice vote. F96-005 Special Allocation - Rugby Club: $500 The Club did not receive a budget in the spring, and needs to pa y league dues and referee fees. Passed by voice vote. F96-006 Special Allocation - SALSA Club: $1500 Money will be used to bring a band to the International Festival . Passed by voice vote. F96-007 Special Allocation - Field Hockey Club: $850 The club needs regulation goals in order to be able to compete i n league play. Passed by voice vote. New Business From the Floor: Nomination of Senator at Large: HSS - Anika Amin Passed by voice vote. Points of Discussion: Senate discussed some of the options between Senate and GSO for relationships. Senate expressed concern about the current proposed structure and its apparent inequality. Senate requested that other graduate students come before Senate to explain some of their concerns. New Business From the Floor: Bylaw Amendment: Amend Article IV, Section III, Subsection E, Paragraph 1 so that subparagraphs a, b, c, d, f, g, and h have sub-s ubparagraphs: 1. Undergraduate 2. Graduate Amend said Subsection, Paragraph 3: Replace 200 constituents with 150 constituents. Approval of Election Dates - November 12, 13, 14: Approved by voice vote. Approval of the Elections Board with Bill Tilken as Chair: The remainder of the board will be approved by senate at the Oct ober 21 meeting. Approved by voice vote. Announcements: ~ Vacancies: 1 CIT, 2 CFA, 1 MCS, 3 SIA ~ Deadline for petitions is October 20. ~ This is Brenden Mielke~s last meeting as Student Senate chair. We would like to thank him for his hard work and dedication to improving our university. Meeting adjourned at 10:03 Respectfully Submitted, Ben Bostwick (Signed)