STUDENT SENATE Meeting of 12 February 1998 Unofficial Meeting was called to order at 5:39 PM. Roll was taken at 5:39 PM. Senators Present: Ablak (SIA) - 0, Betz (SCS) -0, Brown (HSS) -0, Butler (CIT) - 0, Candela (CFA) - 0, Chang (MCS) - 0, Christoforatos (MISC) - 0.5, Cina (CFA) - 0, Devine (HSS) - 0, Ditterline (CIT) - 0, Falso (SAL) - 1, Gray (HSS) - 0, Gross (HSS) - 1, Guerra (CIT) - 0, Guzy (HSS) - 0, Hanrahan (CFA) - 1.5, Hardjanto (SCS) - 0, Hutsko (MCS) - 0, Jones (CFA) - 0, Joshi (CIT) - 0, Lu (HSS) -0, McCartin (CIT) - 1, Meier (CIT) - 0, Mingo (SIA) - 0, Muir (HSS) - 0, Ng (CIT) - 0, Phelps (SCS) - 0, Rothschild (CIT) - 0, Rumpf (CIT) - 0, Schneider (CIT) - 0.5, Shah (SIA) - 0, Stovall (MCS) - 0, Tham (SIA) -0, You (SIA) - 1. Senators Absent: Christoforatos (MISC) - 0.5, Go (SIA) - 1, Hanrahan (CFA) - 0.5, Merry (SAL) - 1, Schneider (CIT) - 0.5, Sinnamohadeen (SAL) -1. Change of Agenda to add Special Business after Old Business. Ex-Officio Reports: Activities Board (Shubo Mookerjee): No report. Graduate Student Assembly (Grant Bromhal): Not present. Greek Council (Rita Bosch): Not present. Division of Student Affairs (Barbara Prevost): 3rd floor/UC security issues: met with several organizations, Campus Police, university center management, and student activities staff to discuss the importance of organizations protecting themselves against crime. (1) Making deposits in student accounts or making arrangements with the info desk to safekeep any cash/checks is critical. Do not keep cash/checks or other valuables in desks or offices. (2) Please report any incidents or anything that seems strange to Campus Police and/or UC info desk staff. (3) Applications for Student Life Interns due Feb. 20. See Dom Falso with questions. (4) Applications for Residential Judicial Board members are available in Student Life. Student Dormitory Council (Brian Bluth): Not present. Student Body President (Bryon Krug): Faculty Senate met and discussed archival of e-mail on Andrew and protocol for handling FBI and other governmental investigations on campus. The fiscal policy commission has made a recommendation for the formation of a commission on exclusive organizations and funding. Student Body Treasurer (Avinash Jain): There was a JFC meeting last Monday. Bill Slye has been elected chair of the JFC. Budgets are due at 12:00 AM on 2 March. Committee Reports: Academic Affairs (Amy Ng): No report. Campus Affairs (Sarah Gross): Josh Merry has been elected to the Squirrel Hill shuttle committee. We~ve been discussing the UC hours, banners on Forbes, entropy hours, and a suggestions box. Funding and Recognition (Drew Stovall): We met with one organization. We~re working on F&R requests on the Web. We~re also looking into derecognition of defunct organizations. Human Resources (Jamie Chang): HR met this last Sunday. We discussed the fiscal substitution amendment and made a few changes, which will be presented later in the meeting. We talked about elections rules. We plan on reformatting them and offering a few changes. We discussed some goals for the committee this session. The goals we have set include revising the Bylaws, the Constitution, and the Elections Rules; determining a good procedure for JFC nominations; keeping the Student Senate Office clean and orderly; cleaning the harddisk of the PowerMac; buying a PC; and things which would smooth the transition into the new form of government. As well, we decided to ask SBP Krug to start a commission to delineate an interpretation of the Constitution. Upon the discovery of more useable binders, we have decided to use old ones, rather than buying new ones for new Senators. New Senators need to pick up their binders; other Senators need to pick up inserts, if they haven~t already. A new Senator list is available. If you have missing or incorrect information, please tell me. Also, please remember to being your binder to meetings. I have updated the Ex-Officio and Senate dlists. I have appointed Senator Justin Cina as Vice-Chair. Direct any questions concerning the Human Resources Committee to me at pet@cmu.edu, or call at 2-3597. Public Relations (Michelle Brown): The WRCT show is tomorrow at 6:00. We need people and ideas. Justin Mingo is in charge of the web page. Chair (Jen Gray): Meeting dates for the rest of the semester are as follows: 26 February, 12 March, 19 March, 2 April, 9 April, 23 April, and 30 April. Locations will be announced as soon as they are confirmed. A list of these dates will also be posted to cmu.student.government. New Business From Committee: S98-004 - The CMU Objectivists Club requests a special allocation of $500 to be used for expenses relating to the Lecture on Objectivism. Total costs are projected at $1400. Remaining funds for this event have already been recruited. Approved by voice vote. Special Business: Michael Hutsko approved to fill an MCS vacancy by voice vote. Old Business: HR Amendments I accepted as friendly amendments to the fiscal policy proposal. Friendly amendment to renumber line 281. In HR Amendments II, amendment 1, subsection 2, change seven-ninths to read three-fourths. Strike amendments 5 and 6 from HR Amendments II. They are repetitions. Strike amendements 14, 15, and 17 from HR Amendments II. Motion to divide the question. Motion failed by voice vote. Motion to strike amendment 1 from HR Amendments II. Motion passes. Motion to strike amendment 8 from HR Amendments II. Motion passes. Motion to strike amendment 9 from HR Amendments II. Motion passes. Motion to strike all amendments, excepting amendment 2 from HR Amendments II. Motion passes. Call the question. Motion passes and amendment 2 is accepted. Call the question. Motion fails by voice vote and discussion on main motion resumes. Quorum call. Sen. Ng - motion to amend Article V, Section V, Subsection A. Accepted as a friendly amendment. Sen. Stovall - motion to allow funding for Greek organizations. Sen. Meier - amend to insert subsection (d) Any Greek organization receiving this money who wish to participate in buggy must participate in booth. Accepted as a friendly amendment. Sen. Butler - amend to read "subsidy must not pay for more than 25% of buggy expenses." Sen. Stovall - withdraws amendment. Accepted by voice vote. New Business: Sen. Chang - Move to allow the Student Body President to form a commission on exclusive organizations. Sen. Stovall - Amend to fix membership at no more than 10 members, half of which are members of exclusive organizations and half of which are not. Motion passes. Sen. Chang - Move to accept by acclamation. Motion fails. Sen. Betz - Move previous question. Motion passes by voice vote. Points of Discussion: Discussion on weight room proposal postponed until the next meeting. Meeting adjourned at 8:17 PM. Respectfully Submitted, Jamie Chang Edited by: Jen Gray