Minutes
Monday, October 13, 2014
5:00 PM Blum Union 220
I.
Call to Order
A. 5:04PM
II.
Adoption of the Agenda
A. Approved
III.
Reports
A. Julia Buescher, Vice President of Western Activities Council
a. This week WAC has a co-sponsorship event with Spanish Club Tami Trio Tango starting
at 6pm in upstairs Blum.
b. Chris Distefano a writer and actor on Girl Code/Guy Code will be performing after the
homecoming event in Looney on October 23.
B. Lionel Attawia, Student Governor
a. The Board of Governor’s passed to refund the tuition increase. It’s hard to say how you
will be refunded. If you have questions on how this is working contact Amy Parnell.
copeland@missouriwestern.edu is her email. Be sure to keep up with email though. That
is how they are getting all of the information out to the students.
C. Sky Lux, Director of Finance
a. Financial Over-Sight Committee (FOC) funded Shotgun Club to go to a competitive
event and a student to go teach at a conference.
D. Jacob Dowell, Director of Student Relations
a. The new student Handbook says that for an organization to remain an RSO it must keep a
five person membership. We should be looking in our constitution and by-laws to make
sure they will match with the handbook.
b. Tweet challenge Tuesday through next Monday. First question is, “What is your favorite
place to study”
E. Ida Haefner, Director of Communications
a. No report
F. Tyler O’Neill, Executive Vice President of SGA
a. This weekend Daniel and I went to a conference in St. Louis for the Annual National
Leadership Conference on Student Government. We had a bunch of workshops that we
attended and have given us ideas that we would like to start setting up.
b. I want to start an initiative for better communication. I would like to have a meeting with
all the senators.
c. Absences need to be notified by Friday. Committee meetings are required by attendance
as well.
IV.
President’s Report
A. Senator of the Month is Brian Shewell! He will be in the Griffon News this week.
B. This weekend was a blast. Next year I would like to see more of the E-Board going to this
conference.
V.
Committee Reports
A. Haden McDonald, Chair of Governmental Relations Committee
i. Had a full committee meeting with all of the committee members.
ii. We are working on pursuing the Judicial Branch idea.
iii. Transparency in SGA: We are going to try to make SGA a bigger face on campus. We
would like to be able to post all of the information on a bulletin board.
B. Brian Shewell, Chair of Campus Advancement Committee
i. Joint Committee meeting tonight
ii. Working on getting progress reports from everyone.
iii. There will be a committee meeting next week
iv. I sat in on the Master Planners meeting last week and it was interesting
C. Reyhan Wilkinson, Chair of Homecoming Committee
i. We have flyers going up that will have all of the Homecoming events listed.
Homecoming is next weekend! Get Excited!!
VI.
VII.
Unfinished Business
A. Rules suspended
New Business
A. FY15-32: Resolution to Confirm Appointment of New Senator; DaVion Huey
i. Senator Samenus: Did you have any previous leadership positions?
ii. Huey: Yes; in high school
iii. Governor Attawia: If you had one word to describe you what would it be?
iv. Huey: Chill
v. Senator Wilkinson: You are a soft spoken person. Do you think you’ll be able to get the
job done?
vi. Huey: I was in debate in high school, so I do know how to get my point across and speak
up.
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viii.
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VIII.
Senator Greer: What would you change about Missouri Western?
Huey: The students’ involvement at MWSU.
Senator Shewell: What will you bring to the table?
Huey: I’m a freshmen and plan on being here for a while. I believe that this will give me
a good opportunity to get involved and make sure we are doing what the students want.
xi. Vice-President Buescher: Huey is in WAC and he always gets the job done even though
he is quiet.
xii. Moved Senator Wilkinson; Senator McDonald Seconded
xiii. Approved
xiv. Rules Reinstated
B. FY15-33: Bill to approve MWSU French Club RSO
C. FY15-34: Bill to approve MWSU Creative Writing Club RSO.
i. Senator McDonald: I yield to Senator Shewell to talk about French club.
ii. Senator Shewell: I am a member and was wondering what just happened and why there
was no discussion.
iii. Vice-President O’Neill: I was trying to get in the habit of it is first reading, so technically
we are just supposed to read through the NOAs.
Open Discussion
A. Senator Stanton: Can we talk a little about the new structure? I believe we should do a little
discussion on first reading, even if we keep it under five minutes. Sometimes in first reading
discussion we find things that need to be changed when we start a discussion.
B. Senator Shewell: I agree with Senator Stanton.
C. Vice-President O’Neill: I will go back to this for the next meeting.
D. Director Dowell: I had a meeting with the committee that goes over the RSO applications that
come through. Isaiah found that in the Student Handbook each organization must have 5
members, but not maintain this. SGA should be consistent within our bylaws. We understand
that there are some organizations that have different rules when it comes to membership drives.
NPHC makes it difficult for a sorority or fraternity to come back to a campus once it has been
taken away. So that is something we are considering.
IX.
Closed Session
X.
Announcements
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I.
October 17th: Tami Trio Tango is at 6pm upstairs Blum until October 18.
October 23rd: Co-Sponsorship Application due for Spring Semester in
October 23rd: Chris Distefano- comedian from MTV’s Girl Code/Guy Code
October 29th: The Voice tryouts at 7 pm in Spratt 101
October 30th: Black Light Party Blum 218-219 (Halloween theme; There will be a costume
contest)
October 31st: Co-Sponsorship with Spanish Club “Day of the Dead”
November 5th: PLC Meeting Spratt 205 at 5:00pm
There will be an SGA meeting next week
Sign-up for an appointment for the Blood Drive. October 22 and 23rd is the blood drive from
XI.
10:30 to 4:30 both days.
J. NAACP will be having their first meeting this week. Contact Eric Toliver for more information.
K. Info night for Winter Guard is going to be Thursday in Potter Hall.
Adjorned 5:36PM