VCSU Student Senate
Meeting Agenda
December 3, 2012
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Call to Order
Roll Call
a. Present
i. Anderson, Garrett; Aune, Amanda; Brady, Bryce; Dammel, Kristine;
Edinger, Erin; Gentzkow, Chelsea; Halvorson, Michaela; Hass, Tiffany;
Haugeberg, Benjamin; Hecker, Garret; Hoover, Danae; Hinrichs, Ashley
Johnson, Alyssa; Kennedy, Christopher; Ketterling, Kyle; Lagodinski,
Lindsay; Mauch, Nicole; Pedersen, Courtney; Rogers, Patrick
b. Absent
i. Excused
1. Palowski, Adam;
ii. Unexcused
Approval of Minutes
a. Danae Hoover moves to approve minutes
i. Amanda seconds
ii. Passes
Approval of Agenda
a. Courtney moves to approve agenda
i. Amanda Aune seconds
ii. passes
New Business
a. Senator of the Semester
i. Candidates
1. Kristine Dammel – WINNER!!!!
2. Bryce Brady
3. Erin Edinger
4. Michaela Halvorson
b. Campus Safety Walk
i. Kristine motions to table until next meeting
1. Danae seconds
ii. Tabled until next weeks meeting
Unfinished Business
a. Community Gift Tree
i. Boy toy – remote control car
ii. Girl toy – Barbie supplies
b. Apparel
i. Thursday we get our shirts
c. All-Senate Get Together
i. Friday 8am in Skoal room
ii. Agenda items
1. Highway Cleanup
2. Campus Beautification Committee
3. Online vs. paper homework
a. Accountability of new teachers
i. Making sure lab work lines us with academic work
b. Make expectations clear in the syllabus
i. On the website
ii. http://www.vcsu.edu/documents/policymanual/vp.ht
m?p=364
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d. Gunsafe
i. Still waiting to hear back from police chief
e. Campus Community Service
f. Daffodil Sales
i. Chairs – Danae and Melissa
ii. Media – Michaela
iii. Nicole – delivery
iv. Erin – financial(logistics)
v. Jana Strege – finding volunteers
Reports
a. President
i. Had a campus exec meeting today
1. 3rd week in January President Shirley and Doug Dawes will go to
capitol to present to them
ii. Cultural diversity committee meeting is tomorrow @12:30 in Skoal room
iii. Athletic department looking to find a new conference
iv. Science building looking at moving stuff to new part
b. Vice President
i. Faculty senate meeting Thursday at 11
1. Danae will go for Ben
c. Treasurer
i. Finance meeting12/4/12
ii. Shirts coming on Thursday
iii. Staff Senate meeting coming up
d. Secretary
i. No report
e. NDSA
i. Incoming emails from President to make a stance for VCSU and NDSA.
1. Send feedback to Kristine
ii. Exec meeting for NDSA December 13-14
f. VCAB
i. Grocery bag bingo tonight at 9:00PM
ii. VCAB is caroling in the community on Wed. Dec. 5th
iii. Finals Breakfast Dec. 9th
g. IRHC
i. No report
h. Viking Ambassadors
i. No report
i. Athletics
VIII.
IX.
i. Video scoreboard in bubble will get worked on on Thursday.
ii. Silent night advertising on Friday at the mens game @7:30 show up at 7
j. Fine Arts
i. Last recital will be on Thursday
ii. Garage band on the 7th
iii. Art showcase in McCarthy
iv. Pottery sale , 4-5 of December
k. Communication and Social Sciences
l. Business and Information Technologies
i. BIT will be co-chairing the daffodil days.
ii. BIT day will be Wednesday, January 30th – we will be reaching out for
BIT students to help with that day. We are expecting 200+ students from
area high schools
iii. Last business speaker this Thursday at 6:30 in the Skoal Room. Stacy
from Tutte Frutte will be the speaker.
iv. All BIT majors will take the ETS (major fields exam) in Accounting 201
as they enter the program and again in MGMT 480 when they are
graduating. This exam will measure their learning outcomes through the
program.
m. Education
i. No report
n. Science and Math
i. No report
o. Other Reports
i. EBC Christmas concert on Saturday
1. Musical
ii. Technology meeting
1. Longer battery
2. Educate people more about technology
3. Faster processor
Announcements
a. Salvation Army Bell ringing – December 5, 10:00am-6:00pm
b. wear vcsu gear and jeans
i. no HOLY jeans
Adjournment
a. Ben moves to adjourn at 7:58
i. Danae seconds