VCSU Student Senate
Meeting Agenda
November 5. 2012
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Call to Order
Roll Call
a. Present –Aune, Amanda; Brady, Bryce; Dammel, Kristine; Edinger, Erin; Halvorson, Michaela;
Haugeberg, Benjamin; Hoover, Danae; Hinrichs, Ashley ; Johnson, Alyssa; Ketterling, Kyle;
Mauch, Nicole; Gentzkow, Chelsea; Anderson, Garrett; Hass, Tiffany; Lagodinski, Lindsay;
Pederson, Courtney; Kennedy, Christopher; Rogers, Patrick
b. Not present
i. Excused – Hecker, Garrett; Palowski, Adam
ii. Not excused - Williams, Deandre
Approval of Minutes
a. Garrett Anderson moves to approve the minutes
i. Bryce Brady seconds
Approval of Agenda
a. Garret Anderson moves to approve agenda
i. Amanda Aune seconds
New Business
a. Adopt-a-Highway Renewal
i. Kristine moves to adopt the highway for another 3 years
1. Danae Hoover seconds
ii. Good community service
iii. Approved
b. Milk Money Fundraiser
i. There is a situation in the grade schools
1. Had a program in the school that brought in snacks and milk for the children
during the day
2. Part of the healthy start program
a. A lot of kids don’t eat breakfast and don’t have the financial means to
have snacks
ii. Kristine moves to come up with a function to come up with a donation for the grade
schools
1. Danae Hoover seconds
iii. Ben moves that student senate sponsors a donation foundation for the milk money
program with three buckets in a contest. One bucket for the faculty, the on campus
students, and the off campus students.
1. Student senate will match the amount of money
a. November 13-16, 2012
2. Kristine seconds
3. Kristine Amends November 12-28
a. Danae Hoover seconds
b. Ben thinks that it should be run to the 21st at the latest
i. Moves to amend Kristine’s amendment from November 13-21
ii. Danae Hoover seconds
4. Approved
VI.
Unfinished Business
a. Finance Requests
i. GSA - $300 - Approved to not approve $300
1. We said come back to us when they have a concrete plan
ii. DECA – 5,231.19
1. Appropriate $873.69 to bail DECA out of deficit and to pay for the Fall leadership
request of $92.50. Student Fees are paid by students for students and should not
be used for advisors expenses.
2. $966.19 - Approved
iii. SHRM
1. Low end request: $3,712
2. High end request: $6,127
3. Had a fall conference. Until you know how many are going to the conference in
February and the conference in Chicago in June then they can just come back.
4. Approve $200 dollars and come back after they complete the regional conference.
5. $200 and come back after regional conference - Approved
iv. Learning Center
1. Request $5,332
2. Gave - $2,666.
3. Funds need to be directed towards the academic department
a. Not our place to fix
4. There is a funding model that might be passed in the legislature that will cut all
student fees
5. $2,666 - Failed
b. Higher Education Day
i. November 26, 2012
1. President Shirley will be unable to attend, he feels that the date should stay the
same so that the university will not look unorganized.
2. Margaret Dalhberg will be speaking on behalf of President Shirley
c. Apparel
i. Gray Tee or long sleeved shirt with cardinal writing
1. Get a design soon
a. Ask for size soon
2. Go through K & S
d. All-Senate Get Together
i. All the senates on campus will get together to work together
1. Date – Tuesday or Thursday
e. Student Forum
i. 4-5 pages of suggestions
1. Put in a nice list
2. Kristine moves to table the student forum ideas until next meeting
a. Bryce seconds
b. Approved
f. Campus Fundraising
i. Thoughts of student organizations being limited to two fundraisers
ii. Not a good idea
1. Music needs more
2. Can utilize other areas other than Valley City
3. Look at other campuses
4. Fundraising is tiring
5. Asking student senate is not considered a fundraiser
iii. Kristine moves to take a stance and not let the campus limit us to 2 fundraisers
1. Danae Hoover seconds
iv. Dr. Vitaliono states that fundraisers drain the city of money, there are only so many
people and businesses in Valley city
v. Makes it fair for people to fundraiser due to group size
vi. Danae Hoover moves to previous question
1. Motion Fails
g. Gunsafe
i. Election and Polls Committee – create survey
ii. Not legal to have gunsafe on campus
iii. What happened to old gunsafe?
iv. Figure out logistical proof
v. Premature for the survey
vi. We must have more information
vii. At next meeting we will form a new committee for the research part of this
viii. Find out if and where we can have a gunsafe
ix. Questions
1. Who would pay for the safe
2. Who would pay to look over the say
x. Kristine Moves to make a committee for the gunsafe
1. Danae Hoover seconds
2. Approved
xi. Committee will meet and Bryce will come up with meeting time
1. Open for anyone interested in the committee
h. Campus Community Service
i. DECA – No Texting and Driving Campaign
VII.
i. Daffodil Sales
i. Kristine moves to approve the student senate coordination of Daffodil Sales for the next 3
years
1. Danae Hoover
j. Leadership Retreat
i. Feedback
1. Good job on everything
2. Have it earlier in the semester
3. Everyone should attend so that we don’t have the kind of not knowing what is
going on
ii. Thank You’s
1. For the people that helped out
a. Have t shirts
2. William Woodworth
a. Thank you and Coldstone ice cream gift card and bag of Cheetos
k. Highway Cleanup
i. Finished
Reports
a. President
b. Vice President
c. Treasurer
d. Secretary
e. NDSA
f. VCAB
i. No report
g. IRHC
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Viking Ambassadors
Athletics
Fine Arts
Communication and Social Sciences
Business and Information Technologies
i. Starfish is being implemented. Starfish is a retention system to help the campus
community.
ii. The BIT Division received a CTE Grant for Innovation. This grant will be used this
summer during the 4th annual BAIT Camp.
iii. IPAD’s are a huge conversation among the faculty. With the collaboration of SAP into
our courses – the use of the IPAD will be very difficult.
iv. Brenda traveled with a VCSU group to Washburn, ND to tour the Great River Energy
industry and also Coal Creek – it was very interesting to see the abundance of natural
resources we have in ND. The future aim is to continue to build relationships with those
two businesses for possible internships and educational programs.
v. We finalized another articulation with North West College in Powell, WY – we now have
a business education and BPIM articulation with both NW College and Casper College in
Wyoming.
m. Education
n. Science and Math
o. Other Reports
I.
AOD Policy and EDGAR 86 Compliance
a. Biennial Review 2012/EDGAR 86 compliance
i. Federal regulation-address alcohol and other drugs
1. Higher education
ii. Demonstrate how they have followed policies and how effective they are and to
implement change
b. Policy Review
1. Program 0124-based off of Nebraska program
2. Sanctions hasn’t been reviewed in 6+ years
3. Discussion of bigger colleges and their alcohol policies
a. NDSU, UND-fine is time and level of education they are required to
undergo
ii. Tailgating with alcohol
1. Alcohol is not supposed to be allowed
2. To not formally enforce structural tailgating
3. Other schools in our state have started allowing alcohol at tailgating
a. Fees that are charged on the spot go towards security
4. Booster club supplies food and is a free will offering
5. Fargo city ordinance was changed to allow tailgating
a. NDSU policies by the projection of the amount of people going to be
at the tailgating
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iii. Violation consequences and review- VCSU campus
1. Athletics have their own polices along with the Universities policies
2. Possibility of calling law enforcement with alcohol policies on campus
a. Violators would be brought into custody have to pay fine for both
campus and law enforcement
3. Sub group being formed
a. Kari, Adam, Kaleen, Jane, Erin
iv. Exceptions of alcohol policy
1. Hall of fame was on campus
2. Christmas party?
v. High School students violation of campus alcohol policy
1. Used same procedure as 6 years ago
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2. Two high school students were removed from the party the principle was
notified and the two students were suspended from athletics for two weeks
3. In other cases not ask students to leave
Current Issues and Ongoing Prevention Effort Items
a. NDCORE update
b. CHOICES program
i. Second year that has been implemented to L2L
c. E-chug program and L2L
d. Late Night Programming Update (Kari and VCAB)
i. 60+ kids at the last open gym
ii. $3000 a semester
Updates: Lunch Served *
a. Dr. Vitaliano Figueroa, Vice President for Student Affairs
b. Kari Stricklin, Director of Student Activities
i. Need to do more programming
1. Increased open gyms and other activities
2. Issues in the dorms lately
3. Worried about naughty week
c. Jack Denholm, Athletic Director
i. Tossing around the idea of drug testing athletes
ii. Looking at other universities to see how they are doing
iii. Looking at what is fair and what is not
iv. First offence probation and counseling goes into a pool of random testing
1. Other offences to be looked at and based off of NCAA
v. Cost?
1. Come from the campus or the individual
d. Mark McDonald, Valley City law enforcement
e. Jane Vangsness Frisch, Director/NDHECSAP
f. Kaleen Peterson, Staff Representative
g. Danae Hoover, Adam Palowski, Student Senate
h. Anna Fuka, Harrison Weber, Student Athletes
i. Model of alcohol use
i. Kyle Ketterling, Resident Assistant
j. Erin Klingenberg, Director of Counseling Services
i. Research has shown that activities after 9 pm reduces substance abuse
Announcements
a. Pizza Corner at NDSA – please pay for pizzas
Adjournment
a. Garrett Anderson moves to adjourn