VCSU Student Senate
Meeting Agenda
January 28, 2013
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Call to Order
Roll Call
a. Present
i. Brady, Bryce; Dammel, Kristine; Dougherty, James; Edinger, Erin;
Gentzkow, Chelsea; Giesbrecht, Caitlin; Hager, Jessica; Halvorson,
Michaela; Hass, Tiffany; Haugeberg, Benjamin; Hecker, Garret; Hinrichs,
Ashley; Kennedy, Christopher; Ketterling, Kyle; Lagodinski, Lindsay;
Lenoue, Ryan; Mauch, Nicole; Rogers, Patrick; Palowski, Adam;
Pederson, Courtney; Swanson, Lyndsey; Westby, Scott;
b. Not present
i. Excused
1. Anderson, Garrett;
ii. Not excused
Approval of Minutes
a. Kristine motions to approve
i. Courtney seconds
Approval of Agenda
a. Adam motions to approve
i. Chris seconds
New Business
a. Goals
i. Always remember we are the voice of the student body
ii. Active participation and better commitment from senate members
iii. Get campus students and organizations involved in making decisions
iv. Effective community service
b. Parliamentary Procedure
i. Goal is to conduct reading and decisions more accurately
ii. Helps keep us on track
iii. Follow the agenda
iv. Make motions and group decisions
1. “I move that….”
2. “I second that motion….”
v. Obey Erin
vi. May make amendments to the motion/topic at hand
vii. If the discussion gets out of order – call a point of order
c. Questions
Unfinished Business
a. Campus Beautification – subcommittee
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b. Polar Plunge
i. March 2nd
VII.
ii. Jamestown college invited a competition to raise money for Special
Olympics
iii. We are partnered with VCAB
iv. Asking people to volunteer then asking them to name their price to plunge.
1. Benjamin Haugeberg and Jamie Dougherty
a. Still will try to get faculty to participate
c. Daffodil Sales
i. Packets distribution
Reports
a. President
i. Welcome!
b. Vice President
i. Faculty Senate meeting: speaker on learning management systems
1. VCSU policy, blackboard is the only learning system that the
students don’t have to get a username or password from that other
website
c. Treasurer
i. No report
d. Secretary
i. New Members stay after to take pictures for website.
ii. Go like the Daffodil Days Page on Facebook
e. NDSA
i. NDSA was the last weekend
1. IAC
a. Passed the constitution and bylaws corrections
2. SLAC
a. Looked over A LOT of bills
b. Student fees can go up 1% each semester
c. Open textbooks online
d. Legislature wants to freeze tuition for NDUS
i. Not supporting it through NDSA
ii. Next Meeting is February 22
f. VCAB
i. Come learn to crochet or knit
ii. Wednesday – white out dance at the Eagles club
g. IRHC
i. Nothing
h. Viking Ambassadors
i. Nothing
i. Athletics
i. Wednesday – Jamestown game at home
j. Fine Arts
i. Wednesday – concerts in Fromeke
ii. Next Wednesday people from Concordia coming to perform
k. Communication and Social Sciences
i. nothing
VIII.
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l. Business and Information Technologies
i. BIT DAY on Wednesday – We have over 200 local high school students
who will be on campus. This is a HUGE recruiting opportunity for the
division. We need students to help that day – they should contact myself
or Amber.
ii. Next week we kick off our “Roadshows”. Roadshows will consist of a
team of two faculty members who will travel to local/regional high
schools to inform them on the CIS major opportunities. We are kicking
off a recruiting campaign specifically focused on recruiting CIS majors.
iii. Sue and Brenda met with Bobcat on Tuesday and solidified a seamless
agreement with them for internship opportunities for students. They have
an outstanding program for students to intern with them on a 8 month time
frame.
m. Education
i. Nothing
n. Science and Math
i. nothing
o. Other Reports
i. TAC meeting
1. Thinking of going touch screen with a keyboard
a. Windows 8?? What other options
b. Invite Joe Tykwinski
2. Substance abuse meeting coming up
a. Feb 7, 2013
Announcements
a. Send me reports if lengthy
Adjournment
a. Kristine Moves to adjourn
i. Chris seconds