STUDENT SENATE
Meeting of February 4, 1999

BH 136a (Adamson Wing)

05:36 PM MEETING CALLED TO ORDER

05:37 PM ROLL CALL

Senators Present: Charlie Anthe (CIT) – 1, Jamie Chang (MCS) – 0, Mike Creegan (BHA) – 0, Heather Devine (HSS) – 0, Larry Fabbroni (CFA) – 0, Dominic Falso (MCS – M@L) – 1 ½ , Beth Ferrick (HSS – M@L) – 0, Erin Fitzgerald (CIT) – 1, Nick Fitzkee (MCS) – 1, Ashley Gross (CIT) – 1½, Neil Guzy (HSS) – 0, Marcin Jeske (SCS – M@L) – 0, Deval Joshi (MCS – M@L) – 1, Eric Koch (CIT) – ½, David Liber (HSS) – 0, Monica Malhotra (SIA) – ½, Alex Markle (CIT) – 0, Prashanth Mekala (CIT) – 1½, Joshua Merry (HSS) – 1, Abhisek Mitra (HSS) – ½, Matt Monroe (CIT) – 0, Robb Moskowitz (HSS) – 0, Amy Ng (CIT) – ½, Missi Nickle (CFA) – 1, Adam Retchless (MCS) – 0, Cory Shopper (CFA) – 2, Eric Silverman (MCS) – 0, Drew Stovall (MCS – M@L) – ½, Mike Strauss (SCS) – 0, Anna Wei (HSS) – 2

Senators Absent: Ika Hardjanto (SCS) – excused - 1, Zak Jones (CFA) – 3, Adam Phelps (SCS) – 1½, Reagan You (SIA) – excused - 1

05:37 PM Approval of MinutesP from:

Meeting of January 21, 1999

05:37 PM Discussion

05:46 PM Move to accept minutes as amended

Passes (voice vote)

05:46 PM Chair opens AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

05:46 PM Chair opens EX-OFFICIO REPORTS

05:47 PM Activities Board (Subhojit Mookerjee)

Sex Week!: Devoted to (for example)
Seminars & workshops: History & Sex, Living with a 3^rd Roommate, Free Massage Lessons, "Singled Out" (Tuesday night, Morewood vs. Hammerschlag), Dr. Ruth (Thursday, 11 February 99), Evening of free massages
African Awareness Month
Monday, February 8, Nikki Giovanni speaks in McConomy, 7pm
Trying to do 1 or 2 small concerts this year
Michael Moore (film: "Roger and me") will tentatively speak sometime this March
Douglas Adams (book: "Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) will be on campus

05:51 PM Student Affairs (Denise Fazio & Kelly Lie, Anne Witchner)

Reminder: This month is Black History Month, look for information at the Information Desk, UC
Senior Week: Time to start planning events! Send Denise email if interested in helping out
Kelly Lie from Student Life reminds us that MOSAIC is coming up
Seminars Sunday, February 21, 11am – 4:30pm
Two keynote addresses

Lavaire Brown on the elimination of racism and the roles women play in the movement
Gayle Dines on women and pornography

- There are sessions geared towards men (e.g.: Feminism and men’s roles)

- Registration in UC and outside Highlander the week before MOSAIC

and also that day; go to women99 to register on email

Next Fall: A 1-day leadership program with lunch and a keynote speaker is being planned

Hopefully a large scale event that engages a number of students

Suggestions? Email Anne Witchner (aw0w@andrew)

05:56 PM Student Dormitory Council / SDC (Dominic Falso speaking for Ira Fay)

Sex Week (February 8^th – 14^th)
Computer Matching Surveys have already been sent in to be processed
Still time to pick up tickets for Dr. Ruth: McConomy, Thursday February 11, 8pm; Two tickets per CMU ID
February 3: Broadcasted SDC's meeting at 7:30pm; taping the shows may become a full-time thing
Mail system surveys are still being delivered around campus; work is being done to tabulate returned surveys

05:59 PM President (Sarah Gross)

If there is information on who may have taped the Martin Luther King Day events, please contact Sarah Gross

Bookstore Task-force is being launched; Chaired by Sarah Gross and Jen Church

Interested in helping out?: Contact Sarah Gross

Comparatives being done with other campuses

Multiple options being looked into

Possibility of changing over Carnegie Mellon IDs

Your ID card may also become your door key (along with a personalized code), or could be kept separate at your discretion

Change over to Pitt-style I.D.s – what do you think?

Could use Campus Xpress off-campus & not have social security numbers on ID cards

Morewood Basement: A tour for senators is possible; contact Sarah Gross if interested

University Education Counsel subcommittees are being formed

Classroom space / availability

Monday afternoon seminars

Community-based education

Met with Rhonda Forrestor to discuss Student Government involvement in Orientation ’99

If anyone has questions/comments, please email: sbp@andrew.cmu.edu

06:09 PM Chair opens SPECIAL BUSINESS

Brief Senator introductions made

06:13 PM Vacancy Elections

4 CIT candidates present: Thomas Capasso, Neil Kapadia, Jason Katcoff, Toni Lawrence

06:14 PM Speeches by candidates

06:39 PM Discussion

07:05 PM Jason Katcoff elected as Senator

Passes (hand vote)

07:06 PM Discussion

07:19 PM Neil Kapadia elected as Senator

Passes (hand vote)

07:19 PM NEW BUSINESS from Committee

07:19 PM S99-003: Special Allocation for SPIRIT

SPIRIT has requested money to support events for Black History Month. These include a performance of University of Pittsburgh’s Kuntu Theatre, and a public appearance of Nikki Giovanni, a well-known black author. The total cost for the events is $10,430. SPIRIT has raised $3,650 from various sources, and AB political speakers is contributing an addition $4,000. SPIRIT has requested $2,500 from senate for these events, to cover speaker fees. The Funding and Recognition Committee has recommended an allocation of $1,000, due to the large amount of Student Government funds already put forward by AB.

07:28 PM Special allocation of $1,000 to SPIRIT

07:28 PM Questions

07:32 PM Motion to amend by striking $1,000 from the motion and increasing the amount to $2,500

Seconded

07:33 PM Discussion

07:34 PM Motion to postpone the entire motion (including the amendment) until February 18, 1999

Seconded

07:35 PM Discussion

07:44 PM Move to end debate on postponing the motion

Passes (voice vote)

07:44 PM Vote on Postponing discussion of the motion

Fails (voice vote)

07:44 PM Discussion on the amendment to the motion

07:45 PM Move to end discussion

Fails (voice vote)

07:47 PM Move to end discussion

Passes (voice vote)

07:47 PM Vote to amend the amount from $1,000 to $2,500

Fails (hand vote)

07:48 PM Vote to allocate $1,000 to SPIRIT

Passes (voice vote)

07:49 PM S99-004: Special Allocation to Asian Students Association / ASA

ASA has requested money for booth for this Spring Carnival. ASA was reduced to non-funded status last semester by Senate due to an alcohol-related incident, and consequently they do not have funds for building booth. The Funding and Recognition Committee is recommending an allocation of $250, because this is the amount that ASA was able to raise for booth last year, and will likely be able to raise again this year. This is in keeping with the policy for booth funding set forward by the JFC.

07:51 PM S99-004 special allocation of $250 to ASA for Booth

07:51 PM Questions

07:55 PM Discussion

07:58 PM Move to end discussion

Passes (voice vote)

07:58 PM Vote to allocate $250 to ASA for Booth

Passes (voice vote)

07:58 PM Chair re-opens SPECIAL BUSINESS

07:58 PM Approval of Constitutional Revision Committee (Sarah Gross on behalf of Will Toraason)

08:03 PM Discussion

08:05 PM Motion to divide question of approval of committee and chair

Fails (voice vote)

08:08 PM Move to end debate

Seconded

08:08 PM Vote to end debate

Passes (voice vote)

08:09 PM Vote to accept committee with Will Toraason as chair

Passes (voice vote)

08:09 PM Students Needed for Committees (Amy Ng on behalf of Denise Fazio)

3 Senators needed for the University Center Allocations (UCA) Committee
1 student needed for the Service Award Committee
2 students needed for the Graduate Student Teaching Award

08:15 PM Chair opens STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS

08:15 PM Academic Affairs / AA (Amy Ng)

Meetings are on Mondays at 6pm in Senate Conference Room

Course Information online (Phase 2)

Include required textbooks so that students have the option to purchase books outside of the University Textbook Store (i.e.: Amazon.com)

Monday Seminars

Academic Integrity discussion panel: Monday at 4:30pm, February 8, Adamson Wing

Online Registration (OLR)

University added 2 students to the OLR steering/advisory committee

Jeremy Horn (jhorn@andrew)

Robert Daugherty (robertd@andrew)

address comments to these students or to Academic Affairs

Advising

Cross-college Advising model

Calendar Committee

Drew Stovall and Mike Hutsko are the student members

Next meeting February 11

08:21 PM Campus Affairs / CA (Neil Guzy)

Meet Tuesday at 5pm
Booksmart being worked on
Cluster Issues
Scheduling of cluster (i.e.: opening on time)
Up-keep of clusters
Poster Policy
Postering the poster policy on all the boards on campus
Redistributing the poster policy to all organizations
Reinforcement is the key

08:24 PM Funding and Recognition / F&R (Alex Markle)

Looking into the re-recognition issues still pending from last semester
Updated the webpage

08:25 PM Internal Affairs / IA (Mike Creegan)

Meet Tuesday at 9pm in the Senate Conference Room
Chair’s office hours: Monday from 3-4:30pm & Wednesday from 3:30-5pm
Updated the Senate lists & the Bylaws
Updated the webpage
If interested on serving on the Elections Board, see Mike Creegan
Need a binder?: See Mike Creegan

08:27 PM Public Relations / PR (Beth Ferrick speaking for Ika Hardjanto)

Radio Show
Week of January 26^th: Robb Moskowitz (Chair) & Will Toraason (SBVP)
Week of February 1^st: F&R, Keith Rothschild, and Shubo from AB
Tentative for week of February 8^th: Sex Week Planners
Emailed President Cohen and Dean Murphy to be guests sometime in the future
If you have guest suggestions, tell PR
Bulletin Board outside of McConomy is up
More will be added soon!
Senators be aware that Ika will be taking pictures of the Senators soon
Ideas for a Senator’s T-shirt
If anyone comes up with a great design and/or color, contact PR
Working on slides during AB/SDC movies

08:29 PM Chair (Robb Moskowitz)

If you need place-tags see Robb Moskowitz
Remember to email Robb Moskowitz regarding attendance issues before the day of the Senate meeting

08:29 PM Chair opens NEW BUSINESS from floor

08:29 PM S99-005: Re-recognition of the Carnegie Debate Society

This organization was recognized last semester, and only lost their recognition because they were not on time with submitting the required documents

08:32 PM Move to consider issue immediately

Seconded

08:32 PM Discussion

08:33 PM Move to end debate

Passes (voice vote)

08:33 PM Vote to consider the issue immediately

Passes (voice vote)

08:34 PM Discussion

08:34 PM Move to end discussion

Passes (voice vote)

08:35 PM Vote to re-recognize the Carnegie Debate Society

Passes (voce vote)

08:35 PM Chair opens Points of Discussion

08:36 PM Discussion of terminology used during Senate meetings

08:44 PM Move to return to New Business

Seconded

Passes (voice vote)

08:44 PM Move to nominate Tim Fife as a Member at Large (M@L)

Seconded

08:44 PM Move to accept by acclamation

Seconded

08:44 PM Move to accept Time Fife as M@L passes by acclamation

08:45 PM Chair asks for any new business

08:45 PM Chair re-opens POINTS OF DISCUSSION

08:45 PM Discussion of comportment in Senate

08:48 PM Student Government / Senate involvement in Orientation

be active in Orientation 99

08:50 PM Bookstore Task Force

Order books before classes begin
Talk to professors about what books are used constantly (and could be purchased before classes begin from an outside source)
Possible off-campus, 3^rd party book store
Commercialize bookstore
Do away with the bookstore as it is
If interested in joining the taskforce, contact Sarah Gross

08:57 PM Speaking Privileges

Inform guests to Senate what their roles are during meetings / how business is carried out in Senate
Possible standard handout to give to guests or an online informational message

09:02 PM Poster Policy / Over-postering around campus

Campus Ski Connection is currently unrecognized & postering: How to enforce policy in this case?
KSA: lost their recognition but continues to operate as though they were recognized: How to enforce policy in this case?

09:15 PM Chair opens ANNOUCEMENTS

Slice of Life (Dominic Falso on behalf of SARC)
Saturday, February 6^th: Register from 11am – 4pm in the UC

Walk-in registrations at 10:30am will be accepted
11 Sessions, such as "Healthy Lifestyles: How to have it All", "Networking", and "Surviving your 1^st year on the job"

09:15 PM Motion to adjourn

Seconded

09:15 PM Meeting adjourned