STUDENT SENATE Meeting of April 9, 1998 Unofficial Meeting was called to order at 5:35 PM. Roll was taken at 5:35 PM. Senators Present: Ablak (SIA) - 1.5, Betz (SCS) -0.5, Brown (HSS) -1, Butler (CIT) - 0, Candela (CFA) - 2, Chang (MCS) - 0, Christoforatos (MISC) - 2, Devine (HSS) - 0, Ditterline (CIT) - 1, Falso (SAL) - 1, Go (SIA) - 2, Gray (HSS) - 0, Gross (HSS) - 1, Guerra (CIT) - 0, Guzy (HSS) - 1.5, Hardjanto (SCS) - 1, Hunt (CIT) - 1.5, Hutsko (MCS) - 2, Jones (CFA) - 2, Joshi (MCS) - 0.5, McCartin (CIT) - 2.5, Meier (CIT) - 0, Merry (SAL) - 2, Muir (HSS) - 0, Ng (CIT) - 0, Phelps (SCS) - 2, Rothschild (CIT) - 0, Rumpf (CIT) - 1, Schneider (CIT) - 0.5, Shah (SIA) - 1, Sinnamohideen (SAL) -2, Stovall (MCS) - 2, Tassone (SCS) - 0, Tham (SIA) -1. Senators Absent: Cina (CFA) - 2, Lu (HSS) -2, Mingo (SIA) - 1, You (SIA) - 4. Approval of the Minutes: Minutes for April 2, 1998 were amended and approved by voice vote. Audience Participation: A representative from the Women~s Center spoke to Senate for official approval to shuffle $500 in their current budget for a new TV. Ex-Officio Reports: Activities Board (Shubo Mookerjee): Not present, but will be present at the next Senate meeting. If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail or contact Shubo. Graduate Student Assembly (Grant Bromhal): Not present. Greek Council (Michele D Savery): Not present. Division of Student Affairs (Barbara Prevost): The University Allocations Board will be making allocation decisions for the third floor. Recommendations will be out on Monday. Organizations will then have a week to appeal decisions before being brought to Dean Murphy. The University Committee applications for next fall will be out on Monday. There will be a Tartan supplement on Carnival. Student Dormitory Council (Rob Migliore): Not present. Student Body President (Bryon Krug): (1)The Calendar Committee meeting went rather well today. They seem to have stopped talking about moving Mid-Semester Break to a Friday. Still no word on Spring Break. Hopefully, it will be discussed at next Thursday~s Calendar Committee meeting. (2)CEO is nearing a conclusion. The Focus Groups last week went very well. The recommendations, which may include proposed Bylaws and Constitution changes, should be ready after Carnival. (3)There will be a special meeting on April 21 at 8pm, location to be announced. The meeting will allow the CEO to present their recommendations and answer questions. This will also allow us to complete some other items before we go into budgeting meetings. (4)The Morewood Basement Committee is has had problems regarding the FMS study that needs to be done before any plans can be finalized. We have been told that the FMS study is now underway for real. (5)We will be presenting the results of the Student Government report on course information that the Academic Committee, Matt Phelps and myself put together. Student Body Treasurer (Avinash Jain): No report. Committee Reports: Academic Affairs (Amy Ng): We will be presenting a resolution today on academic integrity and a speaker will be here to address questions. Changes in the ORL are published in the Tartan. Schedule of classes will be in mailboxes next week. I recommend that you meet with advisors before registration. Faculty course evaluations and registration will occur the week after Spring Break. Campus Affairs (Sarah Gross): Met with Frank Fulmer to discuss a variety of issues regarding dining services. We discussed issues such as meal plans, vending machines, prices, DineXpress, and menu variety. If you have any comments or concerns please email Frank at fulmer@andrew.cmu.edu. Focus groups are being set up to address possible improvements to the UC. They will be meeting tomorrow. Once the focus group has convened, we will be doing surveys outside of DH during Spring Break. Funding and Recognition (given by Keith Rothschild): We met yesterday. F&R was approached by 3 organizations, one of which we will be presenting to Senate. Human Resources (Jamie Chang): HR met last Tuesday. We worked on more revamping of the Bylaws. We decided to add acting as parliamentarian to the duties of the Vice Chair, that members-at-large shouldn~t be able to vote in committee, to add appointing acting committee chairs to the powers of the Chair, to add recommending fiscal policy changes to the duties of the Funding and Recognition Committee, to add expulsion of disruptive audience members to the duties of the Chair, to change the name of the Human Resource Committee to the ~Internal Affairs Committee,~ and to refer to Webster~s New Collegiate Dictionary for undefined terms in the Bylaws. I spoke with Nicole Cook, Elections Board Chair, briefly. She has agreed to the basic layout of ballots and to the use of colored paper. I am working with Alpha Phi Omega to use their ballot box for the elections. I went before the Funding and Recognition Committee yesterday to get approval of the special allocation to purchase the PC. The Committee denied the request because of the lack of time available to HR to continue working on the project and the time required in delivery, this may have effectively killed chances of the purchase occurring this session. I am very disappointed by this decision; however, I still plan to bring it up later in the meeting and hope it will pass Senate despite the recommendation. John Muir was removed from his position as Senator from H&SS because of too many absences from regular HR meetings. The Budget Sheet Primer is available. All Senators should pick up a copy, especially those who are unfamiliar with budget sheets and the budgeting process. Please direct questions about the process to the members of the Join Funding Committee. New Bylaws and a Senator List are available; make sure that you pick them up. Direct any questions concerning the Human Resources Committee to me at pet@cmu.edu, or call x2-3593. Public Relations (Michelle Brown): No report. Chair (Jen Gray): The next two meetings will be April 23 and April 30. These meetings will also serve as joint meetings with GSA for budgeting. In light of this, our schedule will be altered as follows: April 23 -- The meeting will be called to order at 4:45pm. The time to adjourn will be set as 5:30pm. At 5:30, we will move into the joint session and begin the budgeting process. April 30 -- The meeting will be called to order at 5:30pm as usual. We will being in a joint session and complete the budgeting process. From there, we will move into the final Senate meeting for this session. We will wrap up any business we have outstanding and this session will close. At the end of that meeting, the first meeting of the incoming Senate will be called to order. Please be prepared to attend both of these meetings in their entirety. New Business From Committee: S98-029 - Statement of Academic Integrity. Found in the faculty, student and staff handbooks, this is the first step in CMU~s ongoing effort to identify and implement the kind of society its members wish to enjoy. This statement will be followed by implementation strategies as the task force on academic integrity continues its work. Approved by voice vote. S98-030 - Non-funded Recognition of Singapore Students Association. The purpose of this organization is to promote the culture of Singapore and to help support all students on campus from Singapore. Approved by voice vote. S98-031 - Approval of additional members of the Elections Board. They are: Brad Anderson, Matthew Armistead, Jason Bacasa, Susan Bailey, Noah Barnes, Minda Berbico, Evan Bernstein, Brendan Bosworth, Scott Bricker, Erica Rocchi Brusselars, Evelyne Buhler, Alan Charness, Jennifer Cheuk, Clifford Chien, Jeffrey Chung, Bedirhan Cinar, Melissa Collom, Lorne Colon, Paul Constantinides, Erica Coslor, Adam Deutschbaue, Neil Donnelly, Joanna Dragich, Avniel Dravid, David Driver, Dave Elman, Filipe Fortes, Ryan Freytag, Marian Goebes, Steven Gorbos, Yaroslav Gorelik, Glen Guenther, Jason Halsey, Yasuaki Harasaki, Stuart Heys, Sam Hoffman, Adam Howard, Paul Jacobs, Scott Janowitz, Rob Jefferson, Brandon Johnson, Elad Kaufman, Joe Kenney, Kiarri Kershaw, Ed Knittel, Beng Koh, Stan Kwon, Erika Laing, Loreli Laird, Carey Lefkowitz, Seung Chan Lim, John List, Sam Listopad, Zach Loafman, Sean Lyons, Brian Magerko, Peter Mandradjieff, Nathan Martin, Jeremy Michalek, Aaron Michelson, Froilan Montenegro, Doug Mosurak, Vincent Naegeli, Ed Neto, Rich Pell, Karen Pinkston, Katie Pittman, Coner Platt, Adrian Pope, Zachary Prekop, Mondeep Puri, Patrick Randerson, Valmiki Rao, Mike Salo, Tomoko Sano, Steven Schlosser, Ben Schultz, Josh Segall, Matt Sheby, Karthik Shyam, Dan Siden, Jasdeep Singh, Josh Space, Elizabeth Spiridakis, Kelly Spriggs, Bryce Taylor, Kenji Terakura, Jeff Thibert , Mary Tremonte, Joe Valeri, Kirk Vance, Alex Victoria, Marshall Warfield, Philip Weimeister, Paul Weissman, and Mike Zlabinger. Allen Lu was removed from the list to avoid violation of the Constitution as he is a Senator. Approved by voice vote. S98-032 - Approval of Nominations for the University Committee on Discipline. They are: Charlie Anthe,Julie Balch, Ellen Beldner, Margot Bloomstein, Van Butler, Edwin Chan, Hui-Wen Cheng, Dom Falso, David Fry, Scott Goodrich, Chris Guerra, Ika Hardjanto, Chris Kamin Hong*, Raymond Ip, Stan Jones*, Eamon Keleher, Ed Knittel, Brian, Krueger, Sumit Lohia*, Adam Madigan, Megan McDonald*, Justin Mingo, David Newell, David Oleszkiewitz, Shin Park, Matt Phelps, Vadim Reingevurts, Keith Rothschild, Chirag Shah, Eric Silverman, Roger Smith, Bridget Spitznagel, Drew Stovall, Jenny Terry, Sern Tham, Will Toraason, and Margaret Wang. Approved by voice vote. S98-033 - Funding for Senate Computer to replace the Mac Centris with a PC. Fails by voice vote. Special Business: Report on Course Information - Current State: Students don~t have the information they want about courses. Methodology: Committee discussion, focus group discussion, mass survey, compilation of results, report submitted to administration, meetings with administration. Results: Students support more elaborate course descriptions. Layout: Phase I (to be implemented for this semester~s registration process) will include more information of professor on the Web. Information including office hours, office location, phone number, and FCE ratings. Phase II (to be implemented for next semester~s registration) will include, on the Web, a direct lick to course syllabi, a description on the distribution of work on a course, possible exam dates, and FCE comments about professors. New Business: Women~s Center Motion - move $500 from the consulting to capital in their current budget. Approved by voice vote. Points of Discussion: Presentation of PR Strategy - Margot Bloomstein, a Design major, presented Senate with a possible new Senate logo of a crossed hammer and gavel to symbolize ~stuff going on.~ Additionally, Margot suggested a single color of bright orange for all Senate publications. PR will have a set format for publications with a heading, point, counterpoint, logo, and signage of ~Senate, working for you.~ Also suggested were a set e-mail format, button/pin for all Senators, and regular table tents at Highlanders. Concerns: Issues about the suitability with the logo. Possible associations with the communism logo. Issues about the use of a single color to represent Senate. Overall, Senators voice their support of this strategy. Sen Rothschild~s Discussion about the Tartan - Sen Rothschild spoke to Senate about his opinions concerning the Tartan~s of lack in quality. In particular, the continual use and reporting of inaccurate information. Keith suggests Senate set up a fiscal oversight committee to monitor the Tartan~s financial problems. Concerns: Some Senators feel that regulating some aspects of the Tartan will be overstepping Student Government~s boundaries. Issue that Tartan~s inaccurate reports are harmful and should be regulated. Announcements: President Krug - Next Wednesday there will be a Presidential Debate outside of DH at 4:30pm. Sen Chang - Please pick up all the handouts provided by HR. Meeting adjourned at 7:49pm. Respectfully Submitted, Lori Lee