VCSU Student Senate
Meeting Minutes
January 23, 2012
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Call to Order
a. Krueger calls meeting to order at 7:00pm.
Roll Call
a. Total: 18
b. Present: Aune, Dahlberg, Dammel, Davis, Edinger, Faure, Hansen, Haugeberg,
Hoover, Jilek, Johnson, Krueger, Martin, Oakes, Oladosu, Rhyan, Pederson,
Shadlock, Wright
c. Excused: NONE
d. Unexcused: NONE
e. Quorum: Met at 100%
Approval of Minutes
a. Oladosu moves to approve the minutes. Hoover seconds.
i. Motion passes
Approval of Agenda
a. Oladosu moves to approve the agenda. Johnson seconds.
i. Motion passes.
b. Dahlberg motions to place Meet & Greet under unfinished business. Shadlock
with second.
i. Motion passes
Unfinished Business
a. Meet & Greet
New Business
a. Spring Blast
i. Currently there is no spring blast nominees. No application sent in
ii. Hoover and Oakes to chair Spring Blast.
iii. No royalty ever again for Spring Blast or homemade swimsuit contest
iv. Stick to same format as last year’s
b. Viking Spirit
i. Do this again this semester?
ii. Hoover moves to keep Viking spirit the way it is, but move the amount to
$10. Faure seconds.
1. $130 allocation for the next thirteen weeks
2. Motion passes
c. Judicial Council
i. Need someone to serve
ii. Deals with the student code of conduct or other violations of student
policies
iii. Edinger volunteers, if possible
d. Elections
i. Have five member-at-large and two freshmen positions open
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ii. If you know anyone or think someone should, encourage them to apply
iii. Applications are due on Friday
iv. Next week we will have campaigning Monday through Wednesday
v. Voting Thursday and Friday
e. Community Service
i. Should brainstorm ideas for service for this semester
ii. Must complete one each semester
iii. Approached by chamber of commerce for senate to assist with carnival
1. Volunteer as a whole senate
2. Shift from 12:30 to 2:30 or 2:30 to 4:30
3. Games need two people
f. Robert’s Rules
i. Walsh wants to do either one hour and a half session or two fifty minute
sessions
ii. Dahlberg motions to do Robert’s rules for 5:30 to 7:00pm, followed by
half-hour meeting. Dammel with second.
1. Motion passes
Unfinished Business
a. Meet & Greet
i. Couple of individuals want a plug in for the vehicles with block heaters
ii. Hot water in Snoey
iii. Ant problem in McCoy
iv. Turnout rather disappointing
1. Need to ask students what they care about
2. Look into a Blackboard for all campus to enter in their comments
3. Listen better to surroundings
Reports
a. President
i. Executive Meeting coming up on Friday
ii. Approached via email by Doug Anderson about broadcasts happening on
the student center happening on the 26th.
1. The Chis Berg show (AM 1100) is coming, wanting to interview
students about policy and politics.
2. Need three volunteers
a. Hansen, Hoover, and Oladosu
b. www.wethepeoplewithchrisberg.com
b. Vice President
i. Faculty Senate had a meeting last week.
1. Maximizing efficiencies document. Had already been accepted by
State Board
2. Two of the members spent entire weekend drafting response to
article
3. Document that was distributed stating they will not list faculty
salaries in budget.
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a. Lump into every state employee
Secretary cannot serve this semester
a. Looking for a new one
Looking to reduce graduate school documents or constitution,
whichever is easier
Looking at restructuring faculty committees
Four different policies will be reviewed
c. Treasurer
i. Total assets as of Jan. 18, 2012 = $41097.00
ii. Finance commission meets this Thursday
1. Philos/EBCs
2. Pre-professional
3. Chili-Cook Out
4. Golf
d. Secretary
i. NO REPORT
e. NDSA
i. Meeting last Friday and Saturday
1. Grant Shaft discussed Maximizing Efficiencies
a. Wants to hear all voices
b. Projects are being done and put in place
c. Plan and wants campuses to do in their best interests
d. Could become mandate
2. Upcoming session
a. Lobby it right, tuition freeze
b. Two year campuses have better shot
3. Thursby talked
a. Trying to get the LMS to be the same
b. System for communication
c. ConnectND fee should not be raised
d. Brought along Josh Rudy
i. Building built on NDSU campus for technology
ii. Next meeting Feb. 17th and 18th. Minot State will be hosting
iii. Fundraising
1. Community service
2. Idea to get NDSA’s name out there across campuses
iv. SAC
1. Came to resolution/solution that we couldn’t do fundraiser
because we collect student fees
a. Not fair to students that have to pay for NDSA
v. Nominations for officers will be held next month and in March as well
1. If you are interested, feel free to contact us!
f. VCAB
i. Upcoming Events
1. January 19th – 24th: Squirrel Appreciation
2. January 25th: Johnny Holm Dance
3. January 27th: Vikings After Dark
g. IRHC
i. Met last night
ii. Discussed water heating issue in Snoey
iii. Some of washer/dryer knobs not working
iv. Giants beat 49ers
h. Viking Ambassadors
i. Viking Visit Day last Saturday
ii. Have lots of tours coming in.
i. Athletics
i. Women’s Basketball
1. The Viking Women opened the DAC tournament with a victory
over Mayville State 55-45.
2. On Sunday, the Vikings lost a heartbreaker in OT to the #13
Jamestown Jimmies by a score of 60-61.
3. Katelyn Ralston and Brittany Lehner received the honor of being
named to the All-Tournament team.
a. The Vikings currently stand at 14-9 on the year.
ii. Men’s Basketball
1. Won the Wesmen Classic in Winnipeg, MB over break, were the
first US team to win since 1968
a. Aaron Duske was named tournament all-star and Sekani
Milligen was named tournament MVP
2. The #20 Viking Men lost in the opening round of the DAC
tournament to Mayville State by a score of 59-67.
3. The Vikings rebounded with a nice win on Saturday as they
defeated Dickinson State 71-67. John Raquel was named to the
All-Tournament team
a. The Vikings improved to 17-6 on the year.
iii. Track
1. Traveling to Concordia College this weekend.
j. Fine Arts
i. NO REPORT
k. Communication and Social Sciences
i. Play Life in the Fat lane is going well
ii. February 16th to 18th.
1. Come and support
l. Business and Information Technologies
i. BAIT Camp – June 12-15th for students in grades 9-12 (3rd Year)
ii. Speakers series – Feb. 1 at 3:30pm (State Bank & Trust – Why America’s
Got Talent)
iii. Economics position – committee meeting tomorrow – 110 applicants
iv. Advising Survey coming out next week
v. Recruiting letter
vi. Advisory Board – speed interviewing (April 19th)
vii. Leadership Day
viii. Personality Training
ix. Friends of Business Scholarship – trying to build
x. SHRM – going to conference
xi. DECA – 12th and 13th
m. Education
i. NO REPORT
n. Science and Math
i. Pouring in footing and causing ruckus
ii. Going along well
iii. Glen is leaving
o. Other Reports
i. Library
1. Decisions for purchasing is marked for deadline
2. Looking into information about using literacy properly
3. Faculty workshop to design a library resources for teachers
4. Second week in February
a. Invading reference room
5. Program of live music. Turning off the lights and playing different
music
6. Changing the learning center downstairs.
a. Putting together three offices, and making it bigger
ii. Curriculum Committee
1. Working on policy
a. Final Curricular Changes
i. Education and Grad Studies
1. EDUC 642: Supervision of Student Teachers
b. Elementary Education changes
c. Changes to Math Education to pass PRAXIS II
d. Computer Science Major that was forgotten
e. HPER changes
f. Clean-up for curricululum
iii. CIFT
1. Two articulations were signed – VCSU with Lake Region
a. B.S. in CTE, meet with both management and leadership
options
2. DCB Transfer
a. AA in Info Technology transferred to BA or BS in CIS
3. Doug is issuing PR on Valley City’s online Masters degree earning
national ranking in US News and World Report for top online
education ratings.
4. Registrar’s Office is going live with national clearinghouse
transcript ordering
a. They sent out enrollment report
i. 1270 students for Spring Semester
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Announcements
a. How much do we owe Shadlock?
i. Coats are in office
b. Glen is leaving us this semester.
i. End of February during Spring Break
ii. Have someone that would be our temporary advisor until there is a new
advisor.
Adjournment
a. Adjourned at 8:13pm