STUDENT SENATE
Meeting of March 4, 1999

BH 136a (Adamson Wing)

05:38 PM MEETING CALLED TO ORDER

05:38 PM ROLL CALL

Senators Present: Charlie Anthe (CIT) – 1, Jamie Chang (MCS) – 0, Mike Creegan (BHA) – ½, Heather Devine (HSS) – 0, Larry Fabbroni (CFA) – ½, Dominic Falso (MCS – M@L) – 2, Beth Ferrick (HSS – M@L) – ½, Tim Fife (HSS – M@L) –0, Erin Fitzgerald (CIT) –1, Nick Fitzkee (MCS) – 1, Ashley Gross (CIT) – 1½, Neil Guzy (HSS) – 0, Ika Hardjanto (SCS) – 1, Marcin Jeske (SCS – M@L) – 0, Deval Joshi (MCS – M@L) – 1, Neil Kapadia (CIT) – ½, Jason Katcoff (CIT) – ½, Eric Koch (CIT) – ½, David Liber (HSS) – 0, Monica Malhotra (SIA) – 1, Alex Markle (CIT) – ½, Prashanth Mekala (CIT) – 1½, Joshua Merry (HSS) – 1 ½, Abhisek Mitra (HSS) – 1 ½, Matt Monroe (CIT) – 0, Amy Ng (CIT) – ½, Missi Nickle (CFA) –2, Adam Phelps (SCS) – 2, Cory Shopper (CFA) – 3 ½, Eric Silverman (MCS) – ½, Drew Stovall (MCS – M@L) – 1, Mike Strauss (SCS) – 0, Reagan You (SIA) – excused – 2

Senators Absent: Rodolfo Guerrero (SIA) – 2, Zak Jones - (CFA) – excused – 4

05:40 PM APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Passes (voice vote)

05:41 PM AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

05:41 PM EX-OFFICIO REPORTS

AB (Activities Board) absent

GSA (Graduate Student Assembly) absent

05:41 PM Greek Council (Cyndi Vuong)

Greek Sing 1999 on Saturday, March 13^th, at Soldiers and Sailors
Tickets: $7 at Information Desk, $9 at the door
Greek Council has two new offices: Battle of the Bands Chairperson and Web-Site Coordinator

05:42 PM Student Affairs - no report

05:43 PM Student Dormitory Council (Dominic Falso)

SDC Buggy Push Practice

Starts March 8^th, 11:30pm

All residents invited to come out

Questions?: email Karen Werther

Smoking Proposal Task Force Report

Housing/SDC Panel

Proposed change; All Smoke-Free: Henderson, Morewood E (3^rd, 4^th, 5^th), Boss/McGill (1^st), Resnick/West Wing (2^nd), Mudge B/C (Ground)

Tentative Start Date: Fall 1999

Questions/Comments?: email sdc@andrew.cmu.edu

Election Results from March 3, 1999

President: Earl Crane

Vice President: Justin Elker

Both take office Wednesday, March 10, 1999

SDC on TV (again)!

Thursday March 4^th, 6:30pm (Channel 99)

Thursday March 9^th, 5:00pm (Channel 99)

05:48 PM President (Sarah Gross)

Met with John Papinchak and Linda Anderson from the Hub to discuss:
OLR committee
University Audits(which will be out soon!),
the possible expansion of Course Information On-Line.
Graduation On-Line is now working.
We also decided that we should start having meetings more often so that they can update us.
Amy Ng and Sarah Gross will meet with Computing Services next week
USAC met today. We discussed the Book Store Task Force:
If anyone is interested or knows someone else who might be, please contact Sarah Gross.
Discussed the idea of having brochures and/or info sessions about credit card use, etc.
PSAC met on Friday
Potential agreement with PAT to be discussed later in the meeting (to pass the wording or a referendum)
No commencement speaker this year: Comments/feedback?: Contact Sarah Gross

05:57 PM Treasurer – n/a

05:57 PM Joint Funding Committee/JFC (Drew Stovall)

All budgets are going to be in by Friday March 6^th
Two members have resigned from JFC
JFC is back on track after some set-backs

06:00 PM STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS

06:00 PM Academic Affairs/AA (Amy Ng)

Met with Job Trak representatives to address the following issues:
Why is the password your social security number?

1^st 8 digits to identify CMU students; will change next year, possibly to random numbers but this is being worked on

Why not SSL? (a security enscriptor)

This is being worked on
CMU students value HIGH security computer resources (hopefully established by Fall of 1999)

- Job Trak will be used for the next three years & will be reevaluated afterwards

06:04 PM Campus Affairs/CA (Neil Guzy)

Webpage is up
Will be meeting concerning cluster issues
Poster policy
Laminated posters have been distributed to all UC mailboxes
Lee Rider (Campus Ski Connection) sponsored by the Hawaiian Club
Poster policy Fund: $400 already in existence to get the system up and going
Met with Marcia Gerwig
Skibo card-reader
Glass in the exercise facilities

Instructors feel restrained/constrained with the dark glass

Heating will hopefully be worked on in the UC
Old Gym
Met with Dean Murphy
A committee will be formed to make up a list of most immediate issues that should be met as well as a budget for whatever is thought necessary
Clocks: Being addressed to see that they are all the same and correct times
Booksmart Survey is going out before Spring Break

06:11 PM Funding & Recognition/F&R (Alex Markle for Mike Strauss)

5 requests for recognition (F&R recommends four)
3 special allocations requested (F&R recommends one)

06:12 PM Internal Affairs/IA (Mike Creegan)

Three amendments being voted on later in this meeting
Elections Board: Some people to be approved later
Members are still needed; If interested or if you know any interested parties, please contact any member of IA
Working on a fiscal policy amendment dealing with Senate internal spending
Senate Retreat: March 14^th, Sunday
Would like as many people as possible; Scheduled from » 12noon-4pm
Need to know # that will attend in order to purchase enough food (email if you can or cannot attend)
Will include: icebreakers, 4 rotating informational/discussion sessions
Complete schedule will be sent out soon
Questions?: contact IA

06:16 PM Public Relations/PR (Ika Hardjanto)

Radio Show:
Chad Herman, Wednesday, March 3^rd
Still having President Cohon and Dean Murphy, Wednesday, March 10^th
Planning to have Senators on the March 17^th show
T-shirt design is in; suggested color is orange so that it will stand out; will be assumed that everyone wants a t-shirt
Happy Hour is coming up April 9^th and April 23^rd
Exact details are not sure yet: Probably will be at 11pm and 10:30pm
Trying to invite some faculty members from each college for greater variety
Will talk to Marcia Gerwig about getting a Senate bulletin board
Working on the petition for the upcoming election that should be out by Monday, March 9^th
Working on putting ads in The Tartan

06:21 PM Chair

International Festival is looking for suggestions, feedback and ideas for next year. The theme is Asia.

06:24 PM Motion to change the agenda to move New Business from Committee before Pending Business

Passes (hand vote)

06:25 PM NEW BUSINESS

06:25 PM Approval and Endorsement of a Student Referendum on a charge for PAT public

transportation / S99-019

06:25 PM Questions

06:27 PM Discussion

06:29 PM Motion to divide the question into two parts

Passes (voice vote)

06:31 PM Discussion on S99-019a

06:33 PM Vote to approve referendum S99-019a

Passes (voice vote)

06:34 PM Discussion on S99-019b

06:36 PM Vote on endorsement of referendum S99-019b

Passes (hand vote)

06:37 PM Non-Funded Recognition of Order of Omega / S99-020

Order of Omega is a Greek Academic Society that seeks to promote academics in the Greek community. Membership is open to members of either IFC or Panhel. Funding and Recognition recommends the non-funded recognition of Order of Omega.

06:38 PM Questions

06:40 PM Discussion

06:40 PM Vote on S99-020

Passes (voice vote)

06:41 PM Funded Recognition of Singaporean Student Association (SSA) / S99-021

SSA is the Singaporean Student Association. It seeks to promote awareness and information of the Singaporean culture. SSA is currently a non-funded recognized organization and is seeking funding in an effort to promote events it runs and to run more events in the future. Membership is open to any CMU affiliated person. Funding and Recognition recommends the funded recognition of SSA.

06:42 PM Questions

06:45 PM Discussion

06:47 PM Vote on S99-021

Passes (voice vote)

06:47 PM Non-funded Recognition of E-SITE@CMU /S99-022

E-SITE@CMU (Engineering Students Initiative for Technology Entrepreneurship at CMU) is an organization whose members share an interest in technology entrepreneurship. It serves as both a focus for business and social events in the engineering and computer science community at CMU, and as a forum for discussion and dissemination of information about technology. Membership is open to any CMU affiliated persons. Funding and Recognition recommends the non-funded recognition of E-SITE@CMU.

06:49 PM Questions

06:51 PM Discussion

06:53 PM Vote on S99-022

Passes (voice vote)

06:53 PM Re-recognition of Voices United Gospel Choir / S99-023

Voice United Gospel Choir was accidentally left off of the re-recognition list last semester. They participated in and completed all the necessary work for re-recognition. Funding and Recognition recommends the re-recognition of Voice United Gospel Choir as a non-funded organization.

06:54 PM Questions

06:55 PM Motion to amend to make the recognition from non-funded to funded recognition

06:56 PM Discussion

Motion to amend fails by voice vote

06:57 PM Discussion on S99-023

06:58 PM Vote on S99-023

Passes (voice vote)

06:59 PM Special Allocation of $500 to Hillel / S99-024

Hillel is a non-funded recognized organization. They are requesting $500 in order to build a booth for Carnival this year. Pittsburgh Hillel has agreed to match any allocation given by Senate. Funding and Recognition recommends a special allocation of $500 to Hillel.

07:00 PM Motion to recess

Passes (voice vote)

07:12 PM Meeting resumes

07:14 PM Questions

07:14 PM Discussion

07:15 PM Vote on S99-024

Passes (voice vote)

07:15 PM Senate Approval of Sale of Old Equipment for AB / S99-025

AB has a good deal of old, unusable, and broken equipment that it would like to sell. The equipment is of no real use or value. Funding and Recognition recommends allowing AB to sell its old equipment and put the money into the master account.

07:16 PM Questions

07:18 PM Discussion

07:18 PM Vote on S99-025

Passes (voice vote)

07:18 PM Nominations for Student Members of the University Committee on Discipline & Academic

Review Board (UDC/ARB) / S99-026

List of nominations for undergraduate members for the 1999-2000 academic year (19 students total)

07:19 PM Discussion

07:20 PM Vote to close debate

Fails (hand vote)

07:23 PM Discussion/additions

07:23 PM Vote to accept nominations

Passes (voice vote)

07:24 PM Allocation of $400 for Poster Policy enforcement / S99-027

The $400 allocation would go to Student Activities for a Poster Policy Fund that would be used at their discretion to enforce the Student Senate Poster Policy, for the remainder of the Spring of 1999.

07:25 PM Questions

07:28 PM Discussion

07:30 PM Vote on S99-027

Passes (voice vote)

07:31 PM Motion to modify agenda to place Pending Business before General Order

07:32 PM Nominations for Chair of Senate

Charlie Anthe (accepts)

Joshua Merry (declines)

07:33 PM Discussion

07:35 PM Vote to elect Charlie Anthe as new Senate Chair

Passes (hand vote)

07:36 PM Nominations made to elect F&R Chair

Mike Strauss (absent)

07:38 PM Discussion

07:40 PM Motion to close discussion

Fails (voice vote)

07:45 PM Motion to close discussion

Fails (hand vote)

07:48 PM Motion to lay on the table

Passes (voice vote)

07:50 PM Approval of new Treasurer

Nominee: Jamie Chang

07:51 PM Questions

07:52 PM Discussion

07:57 PM Vote to approve Jamie Chang as Treasurer

Passes (voice vote)

08:00 PM Approval of Election Board Members

08:01 PM Questions

08:02 PM Discussion

08:03 PM Vote to approve Election Board Members

Passes (voice vote)

08:04 PM PENDING BUSINESS

08:04 PM Amendment of the Student Senate Bylaws to Clarify the Membership of the Executive

Committee / S99-006

Amend Article IV, Section A, Sentence 2 to read as follows:

The Vice Chair of Student Senate, the Student Body President, the Student Body Treasurer, and the Student Senate Staff Advisor shall be ex-officio members of the Executive Committee.

08:04 PM Questions

08:05 PM Discussion

08:07 PM Motion to postpone the issue indefinitely

08:07 PM Vote to postpone the issue indefinitely

Passes (hand vote)

08:08 PM Amendment to the Election Rules Concerning Petition Requirements / S99-007

Amend to Insert into Article V, Section A after text "twenty-five (25) members" the following text: "or one quarter (1/4)".

08:09 PM Questions

08:09 PM Discussion

08:09 PM Vote on S99-007

Passes (voice vote)

08:10 PM Amendment of the Student Senate Bylaws to Clarify the Election of Internally Elected

Officials / S99-008

Strike Article III, Section B, Subsection 1

Replace Article III, Section B, Subsection 4, Paragraph d with the following:

d. Appoint acting officials in the event of a vacant internally elected office which cannot be duly filled to carry out the duties of said office until the vacant office is duly filled.

Strike Article III, Section D, Subsection 1

Strike Article III, Section E, Subsection 1

Insert after Article III, Section E the following text:

F. Election of Internally Elected Officials

The Chair of Student Senate and the chairs of the standing internal committees shall be Student Senators and shall be elected by majority vote of Student Senate. The Sergeant at Arms shall be a member of Student Senate and shall be elected by majority vote.
Elections for an internally elected official shall be held at any meeting of Student Senate at which the respective office is vacant, and such elected officials shall serve for the remainder of the session in which they are elected.

And renumber accordingly.

08:11 PM Questions

08:11 PM Discussion

08:13 PM Move to amend with substitute for S99-008

08:13 PM Discussion

08:14 PM Move to postpone amendment to amendment indefinitely

08:15 PM Discussion

08:17 PM Vote to postpone the amendment to the amendment indefinitely

Passes (voice vote)

08:19 PM Motion to re-commit S99-008 to IA

08:19 PM Discussion

08:21 PM Move to narrow scope to the problem of electing officials

Fails (no second)

08:23 PM Vote to recommit S99-008 to IA

Fails (voice vote)

08:31 PM Vote on amendment S99-008

Fails (hand vote)

08:31 PM Recommendation of changes to proposed university policy change to damage to Carnegie

Mellon property

The first sentence of the proposed policy would be best served by being rephrased to meet the idea of: "All members of the Carnegie Mellon community are responsible for properly using all Carnegie Mellon property and maintaining all property assigned to their use…"

08:31 PM Questions

08:32 PM Discussion

08:32 PM Vote on S99-018

Passes (voice vote)

08:33 PM NEW BUSINESS FROM THE FLOOR

08:33 PM Move to open nominations for JFC

08:34 PM Nominations taken

Matt Monroe (accepts)

Joshua Merry (accepts)

08:35 PM Matt Monroe leaves room, Joshua Merry presents

08:36 PM Questions to Joshua Merry

08:37 PM Joshua Merry leaves room, Matt Monroe presents

08:38 PM Questions to Matt Monroe

08:41 PM Discussion

08:43 PM Vote to fill the JFC vacancy

Matt Monroe elected (hand vote)

08:44 PM Motion to take the election of Funding and Recognition chair from the table

Passes (voice vote)

08:46 PM Quorum call

08:46 PM Nominations taken for F&R chair

Eric Koch (accepts)

Mike Strauss (accepts)

Alex Markle (declines)

08:47 PM Move to postpone the F&R chair elections

08:48 PM Vote to postpone the F&R chair elections

Passes (voice vote)

08:49 PM POINTS OF DISCUSSION

Is appropriation of the Studio Theater possible for a club/bar for CMU students where alcohol could be served on-campus?
Space issue and serving of alcohol discussed
Stay on top of the new Motion Tracker and communications to see what committees are doing
Good job on keeping the meeting going
Congratulations to Senator Chang (Treasurer)

08:58 PM ANNOUNCEMENTS

Next meeting: March 18^th
Remember to respond to IA re: Senate Retreat
Treasurer will announce office hours
Give questions and comments to sbt@andrew.cmu.edu

08:59 PM Meeting adjourned