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Senate Meeting Agenda Sunday, September 30th, 2012

Crawford Hall Call to Order: 7:00 pm

Chair: Vice President Mower

I. Call to Order, Vice President Mower

II. Roll Call, Attorney General Bishop

Timothy Andres - Present Thomas Butschi - Present Adam Clark - Present Christine Felix - Present Genesis Hernandez – Not Present/ Proxy David Njoroge - Present Mark Patronella - Present Justin Pezick - Present Iman Piracha - Present Neena Robertson - Present Kelsey Shannon - Present Jessica Tedesco - RESIGNED Amanda Tesarak - Present Raphael Tshitoko - Present Cassandra Worthington - Present

Storm Wyche – Not Present

Student Government of the College of Liberal Arts of Drew University

III. Approval of Minutes

Senator Worthington moves to approve, Senator Shannon seconds ->

motion passes

IV. Executive Address, President Hoffman

a. Google moderator is successful so far- keep mentioning it to people

b. Twitter/ FB/ Google Moderator should be used as a senator

c. Sophomore Project: Summer Storage Program- most of the stuff is

already in the works, just need someone to take over.

i. Senator Shannon

d. Meeting with Dean Merx, Dean Waldren

i. Posting policy- pushing to end the

V. Chief of Staff Report, Chief of Staff Nachimson

a. Meeting Tuesday for the change in the computer program

b. Saturday 11:30 am- 12:30 pm: Open house- SG tabling

c. Meeting with Dean Waldren

i. Alcohol task force is in progress

VI. Attorney General Report, Attorney General Bishop

a. Senator Tedesko resigned for personal reasons.

i. Jenika Reid has accepted Pres. Hoffmans proposal to be a senior

senator

b. Procedural error follow up-

i. all 7 proposals have been approved again

c. Public Safety

i. CPR program is in the works

d. Constitutional Revision Committee

i. Need 2-3 senators

VII. President Pro Temp Report, Pro Temp Felix

a. Meet the SG event- Cupcake decorating

b. Social Networking

c. Alcohol/ Transports- SG goal: make sure that all policies are fair

d. Blue Lights- Personal Project

e. Get personal class budgets

VIII. Dining Committee Report, President Hoffman

a. Pricing in the food court

b. Starbucks in up!

c. The milkshake machine in the C-store is going up soon

d. Why can’t you swipe more than one swipe per meal? – parents get angry

when their child has no meals left

e. Twitter should be up and running again

f. Working on the 4th Stir fry machine

IX. FACIOP Report, B&A Chair Biancamano

a. Restructuring off campus programs (language programs, DIS, etc)

i. 1-8 weeks anytime during winter, spring or summer break, for

credits or not, course might have pre reqs, students pay for

everything but credits, faculty gets paid 2 thousand per week and

after 3 weeks its 1 thousand, 10 students [still going into revision]

X. University Senate- Elections Chairs Jones and Senator Tshitoko

a. 2nd meeting b. Students will not be on this committee to be on this committee c. Drew does not have a Copyright policy

i. Fair use check list (Drew specific) d. Human Rights Policy

i. Out to date- needs to be kept up to federal standards ii. We are stricter than the federal standards

XI. SOAB Report, SOAB Chair Sulaiman

a. First board meeting on Wednesday

b. APO is on probation and will be re-reviewed

c. Asking about the “general fee” on our tution

XII. B&A Report, B&A Chair Biancamano

a. Budgets

i. Fall- $56 thousand

1. 10% goes to SG, rest goes to B&A board

b. Looking into CAP, and formulating a new CAP

c. Club Proposals

i. Comic Club: APPROVED

ii. Senator Tshitoko moves to approve, Senator Patronella seconds

• Timothy Andres – Yae

• Thomas Butschi – Yae

• Adam Clark - Yae

• Christine Felix - Yae

• Genesis Hernandez – Yae

• David Njoroge - Yae

• Mark Patronella - Yae

• Justin Pezick - Yae

• Iman Piracha - Yae

• Neena Robertson - Yae

• Kelsey Shannon - Yae

• Jessica Tedesco - RESIGNED

• Amanda Tesarak - Yae

• Raphael Tshitoko - Yae

• Cassandra Worthington – Yae

• Storm Wyche – Not Present

iii. DUBS Botanical Garden: APPROVED

iv. Senator Felix makes a motion to approve, Senator Shannon

seconds

















v. SJP Russel Tribunal Conference: APPROVED

vi. Senator Tesarak makes a motion to approve, Senator Felix

Seconds

















vii. Tri-Beta Internship Panel: APPROVED

viii. Senator Andres makes a motion to approve, Senator Robertson

seconds

















ix. Tri-Beta Plant Sale: APPROVED

x. Senator Tesarak makes a motion to approve, Senator Tshitoko

Seconds

















xi. CCC Chinese Moon Day Celebration: APPROVED

xii. Senator Tshitoko makes a motion to approve, Senator Shannon

Seconds

















xiii. DEAL Fern Rescue: APPROVED

xiv. Senator Shannon makes a motion to approve, Senator Tesarak

Seconds

















xv. Ranger Run t-shirts [not under B&A, using SG budget]:

xvi. Senator Worthington makes a motion to table the proposal until

next week, Senator Piracha Seconds -> All favored, Senator

Butschi Obtained

















XIII. Class reports

Freshman Class

• Strategy to get response from freshman

• Put boards out in the freshman dorm rooms

Sophomore Class

• Trip/Event for the sophomore class

• Trying to make Drew more green

Junior

• Meeting about student concerns

• Talking and planning about Junior/Senior

o Friday, April 12th- Mariot Hotel

o Working on getting the budget

Senior

• Meeting with Carly

o Loosely planning Senior week

o Focusing on Champaign toast

o Picking on personal projects

Zip cars

Blue Lights

R/A Project

XIV. Student Concerns

a. Senator Tesarak- Love hate relationship between Madison, event for the

Madison town to show that we appreciate our town

i. Work on it as a personal project

ii. Bottle Hill Day in Madison

iii. Can go to Madison Town Hall meeting

b. Senator Felix- Pre-departure courses don’t count as Gen Eds

i. Can be approved- look online

XV. Announcements

a. Thursday 9:45: Funplex- Provide own transportation

b. College Dems (Mclendon- 7pm) : Debate Watch

c. No more campus wide’s starting Oct. 1st

d. [email protected] - new acorn advertisement section

e. Cross Country in NY

f. [email protected] - All SG emails for SOAB should be sent here

XVI. Adjournment

a. Senator Shannon moves to Adjournment, Senator Robertson seconds

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