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Graduate Student Council
General Meeting Minutes
Monday, November 7, 2011 Noon-1pm
Union 209
1. Approval of Agenda
o Agenda approved without changes
2. Approval of October 3, 2011 General Meeting Minutes
o Approved without changes
3. Guest Speaker: Natalie Rauth
o Program was run in the month of Oct to inform students about what Senate does,
privilege fees, allocations, and other committees and get their feedback, passed out
sheets to allow for feedback from graduate students, same sheets were given out to
undergraduate students
4. Officer reports
o President Matthew Sellner
 Tomorrow Night is PhD Movie in the grand ballroom
o President-Elect Tammy Sonnentag
 No Report
o Treasurer Graciela Andrango
 SGA FY12 Travel Grant Funds
Spent $ 3,377.87
Allocated $ 19,000.00
Available $ 15,622.13
 SGA FY12 Operating Funds
Spent $ - $341.05
Allocated $ 2,000.00
Available $ 1,658.95
 KSU Foundation Funds
Foundation GSC $3,245.51
State GSC Funds $1,333.46
o Secretary Jennifer Miller
 No Report
5. Advisor report
o Dr. Shanklin
 Not present, No report
6. Graduate Student Senate reports
o Adam Rogoschke
o Austin Wilhoit
 Approval of proposal 1which includes:
i. Line 41 - Renaming the Judicial Council (for better
definition)
ii. Line 63 - Adding in a "student in good standing" clause
iii. Line 72 - Restating the name change from Pg 1, Line 41
iv. Lines 72 through 85 - This is redefining who sits on the Judicial Exec
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v. Lines 97 & 100 - This just adds "overflow housing" as a resident
option.
vi. Lines 151 through 153 - Removing a redundant clause
 Approval of proposal 2 which includes
i. Lines 30 & 31 - Removed because they have their own section now.
ii. Lines 38 through 44 - Gives those removed from Pg 1, Lines 30 &
31 their own oath.
iii. Lines 70 & 71 - Provides alternative member to call the tribunal in
the case the AG is removed.
Carissa Loehr
Craig Johnson
Darrel Rezac
Kathryn Lopez
 Pizza and Politics function with Board of Regents, Senators, etc. Provided
funding to counseling services from next 2 years; funding for National Indian
Council for speaker on Sunday
Ken Guan
OPEN
7. Committee Reports
o Allocations – Graciela Andrango
 Information provided above
o Research Forums- Megan Miller
 Research and the State went well, presenters were selected
 Call for Abstracts for KRF is out
 Sponsor is Sigma Xi will be $100 cash prize for graduate KRF
 Can present in both as long as subjects are different
o Student Affairs – Gayla Adams-Wright
 Meeting scheduled for Wednesday
 Two more activities before the end of the semester
 Survey to better understand graduate student needs
o Fundraising – Shaneice McNabney
 Not present, no report
o Professional Development Seminar Series – Leslie Shulte
 10th of Nov professional development seminar, wait list, 3-5pm Union 213
o Health Insurance – Grizelda MacDonald
 No Report
o International Student Affairs Committee – Mauricio Montero Astua & Manpreet Rai
 Not present, no report
o Awards and Recognition – Liz Frink
 Not present
 Achievements for next semesters newsletter will be called for soon
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1 newsletter this semester
o GSC Restructure-Austin Wilhoit
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Plan to vote on GSC Constitution changes next month at general meeting
(Tentatively). Right now there is too much disagreeance amongst Executive
Committee to move forward with a vote on this. Will meet Nov 30 to discuss.
Changes that are being proposed, preamble, removal of Council from
constitution, changes in voting procedure (tentative), changes in committees
and elaboration on ambiguous terms and descriptions in constitution and
bylaws.
Will give a more finalized copy to leadership who will vote and then provide
to general members
Plan is to stay connected to SGA due to funding but constitutional changes
will help us to stay alone better in the future
Provost has agreed to provide us with $100,000 each year to support us such
that fee schedule will not need to be utilized
Money will be used to provide greater number and higher $ value travel
grants, also money will go to bring in bigger name speakers, awards and
recognition, and research forums
o Career and Employment Services Task Force-Sean Webeck
 Not present, no report
8. Representative Repots
o Union Governing Board – Kyle Probst
 Not present, no report
o University Library Committee – Jessica Reyes
 Not present, no report
o Campus Master Plan Committee- Pinakin Sukthankar
 Not present, no report
o 8020 Committee- Courtney George
 Feb. 16th Cats in the Capital Event—will be handing out ice cream, cookies,
etc.
 Will need 8-10 volunteers
o State Affairs- Laura Teague
 No Report
o Women of K-State
 Brown Bag Lunch Wednesday- meet your graduate student leaders
 Basketball game is also coming up
9. Announcements
o November 1: Deadline to submit “Approval to Schedule Final Examination” to the
Graduate School to have your name appear in the December commencement program.
o November 18: Deadline to participate in Fall Commencement.
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o Next General Meeting – December 5, 2011 Union 213 (Guest Speaker Provost April
Mason)
10. Adjournment
Graduate School Upcoming Workshops for November
November 10 Professional Development Seminar: (3-5pm) Union 213, Grant Writing