VCSU Student Senate
Meeting Agenda
We didn’t have enough people to
vote with.
October 8, 2012
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Call to Order
a. 7:00
Roll Call
a. Present
i. Anderson, Garrett; Aune, Amanda; Brady, Bryce; Edinger, Erin;
Gentzkow, Chelsea; Halvorson, Michaela; Hansen, Liana; Hass, Tiffany;
Haugeberg, Benjamin; Hecker, Garret; Hoover, Danae; Johnson, Alyssa;
Ketterling, Kyle; Pederson, Courtney; Rogers, Patrick;
b. Not present
i. Excused
1. Dammel, Kristine; Hinrichs, Ashley; Kennedy, Christopher;
Palowski, Adam
ii. Not-excused
1. Lagodinski, Lindsay; Mauch, Nicole; Kyei-Asare, Felix; Williams,
Deandre
Approval of Minutes
Approval of Agenda
New Business
a. Larry Robinson
i. Talked about dollars for scholars program.
1. Need to replace donor money from the past that has run out with
new money from donors.
2. Proposing that of the fundraising efforts of campus groups be
put towards the student senate to ask for money.
3. The committee would be able to fill the money gap.
a. Asking the student senate for money
b. Asking for a partnership with student senate to help pull out
money for increase in scholarship money.
4. Haugeberg asked where the other $90,000 are coming from
a. Coming from all over the place
i. Corporate entities.
5. Someone donated 1,000,000
a. Not sure how the money will be distributed
i. Need money ASAP.
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6. Want academic groups on campus to come to student senate for
finance.
ii. Discussion
1. When the groups come to us they should have a specific plan for
the money
b. Haunted Hall
i. October 28, 29
1. Invited to participate
a. 1st place – 100
b. 2nd place – 75
c. 3rd place - 50
c. Campus Community Service
i. Reminder script
1. Erin will write a script for speakers to follow.
ii. Pre-Professional Club – Tuesday, October 16, 5:00pm (Rhoades 225)
Unfinished Business
a. Higher Education Day
i. Pizza, pop, and politics?
ii. Tuesday and Thursday would work better
iii. NDSA stresses that it be after election date.
b. October NDSA
i. October 19, 20 @ NDSU
c. Leadership Retreat
i. October 28 10-1 pm
d. Highway Cleanup
i. About 10 participants
ii. Still have 3 mile stretch to clean up
iii. Offer to L2L for a grade booster in class
Reports
a. President
i. Exec team meeting
1. Corporate team was there
a. Shared what the team said
i. If your department had an open checkbook
ii. How would you reorganize your devision to attract
students
iii. What attracts students to VCSU
iv. How can you attract students to VCSU
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b. Vice President
i. Doug Daws gave a VCSU budget overview
ii. Only spend about 15 million a year
iii. VCSU came up with a reserve of 800, 000
1. Rainy day fund
c. Treasurer
i. Waiting to hear back form GSA for request
d. Secretary
i. No report
e. NDSA
i. Not present
f. VCAB
i. Not present
g. IRHC
i. Not present
h. Viking Ambassadors
i. Not present
i. Athletics
i. Football game on Saturday
ii. VB on Tuesday
j. Fine Arts
i. Fine arts summit on Friday
k. Communication and Social Sciences
i. No report
l. Business and Information Technologies
i. Not present
m. Education
i. No report
n. Science and Math
i. No report
o. Other Reports
Announcements
a. Sharon Jacobs is retiring from cafeteria
Adjournment