VCSU Student Senate
Meeting Minutes
November 14, 2011
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Call to Order
a. Krueger calls meeting to order at 7:00.
Roll Call
a. Total: 16
b. Present: Aune, Dahlberg, Dammel, Davis, Edinger, Faure, Hansen, Haugeberg, Henkel,
Hoover, Jilek, Johnson, Krueger, Oladosu, Rhyan, Pederson, Shadlock, Wright
c. Excused: Martin, Oakes, Rhyan
d. Quorum: Met at 84.21%
Approval of Minutes
a. Oladosu motions to approve the minutes. Aune with second.
i. Motion passes
Approval of Agenda
a. Oladosu motions to approve the agenda. Pederson with second.
i. Motion passes
New Business
a. Dakota College Bottineau Student Nurses Organization
i. Attached with Bottineau, but want to have their organization through the VCSU
campus and culture.
ii. Mainly for student nurses enrolled in the program
iii. Giving back to community
1. Vangstad’s bulletin board
2. Fundraiser for helping a needy family, give trees, etc.
iv. Events such as Go Red for women
v. Dahlberg moves to recognize the Student Nurses Organization as recognized.
Faure with second.
1. Motion passes
b. Student Relations
i. Dorm Advertising
1. Thinking to be more recognized as student senators.
2. Those of us on campus could have picture on doors as well as a blurb so
that we can get our names out there.
3. Makes more of a connection on campus.
4. We want people to know that we do care about them.
ii. Nametags
1. We need to know people who we are
2. Wear them once a week.
3. If you lose those nametags, you must pay for them.
4. Wearing them on Viking Spirit Day.
5. Hand them out after the meeting
iii. Meet & Greet
1. Have snacks
2. Do a meet and greet instead of a campus forum
3. Do this once a semester.
4. Held in the beginning of Fall and Spring.
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Unfinished Business
a. Student Senate Apparel
i. Make sure you have your money in Wednesday.
ii. The sooner the better
b. Student Senate Forum
i. Having different sizes for foods
ii. Smaller bread for sandwiches
iii. Whole wheat bread
iv. Making avocado available for sandwiches
v. Sweet potato fries
c. Viking Spirit
i. Nothing to say because it was not held last week
ii. Name tags count
d. Robert’s Rule
i. Senators pay for them, keep the books
ii. Senate pays for them, don’t keep books unless you want them, then you would
have to pay for them.
iii. Hoover motions to purchase Rob’s Rules. Aune with second.
1. Motion passes
Reports
a. President
i. Executive Team
1. Discussed transitioning going on among administrators with people
being hired
2. State Board of Higher Education coming on Wednesday and Thursday.
3. Rhoades ground has been broken, working on construction
ii. Parking situation
1. Schmalz reports that people are obeying the parking situation
2. Need senators to support.
b. Vice President
i. In next week or so, there will be an email going out for Video Stream, which will
cover the science building.
c. Treasurer
i. Snow Sculpture
1. Postponed to another time.
2. Artist could only come for a short period of time, but he wants a longer
period of time.
3. Transfer of funds did not happen
d. Secretary
i. NO REPORT
e. NDSA
i. NDSA is on campus this weekend
ii. Dahlberg motions to let student senate pay for pizza corner. Oladosu with
second.
1. Dahlberg withdraws motion
f. VCAB
i. Past Events
1. November 7th: George Watsky
ii. Upcoming Events
1. November 16th: Chad Daniels
2. November 22nd: Turkey Bowling
g. IRHC
i. Met last night
ii. Elections
iii. Discussed food service
1. Steph meets with Doug once a week
iv. Having café open longer
v. Kolstoe got flooded by laundry machines
h. Viking Ambassadors
i. Viking Visit Day is this Saturday
1. Expecting 10-12
i. Athletics
i. Football
1. The football team came out #12 in the final season rankings; they travel
to Helena, MT, this weekend to play their playoff game versus Carroll
College.
ii. Men’s Basketball
1. Won on Friday versus Briercrest University 83-46, lost on Saturday to
Doane College 74-63, record on the year is 2-3. Play Tuesday in
Moorhead versus MSUM, game time is 8 pm. Headed to Wisconsin for
the weekend.
iii. Women’s Basketball
1. Won on Friday versus Mount Marty College 54-51, lost on Saturday to
Dakota Wesleyan University 76-71, record on the year is 2-3. Play
Tuesday in Moorhead versus MSUM, game time is 6 pm. Headed to
Montana for the weekend.
j. Fine Arts
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Next Monday, Chamber Ensembles will be performing a concert in Vangstad
Auditorium at 7:30pm
1. Will include Percussion Ensemble, Saxophone Quartet, and Brass Quintet
ii. Next Tuesday and Wednesday, VCSU choir will be going on a mini-tour around
the Battle Lake, Casselton, and Valley City area.
k. Communication and Social Sciences
i. NO REPORT
l. Business and Information Technologies
i. NO REPORT
m. Education
i. NO REPORT
n. Science and Math
i. Building is underway
o. Other Reports
i. CIFT
1. The Vice President for Business Affairs search is underway, and they are
busy checking references. They plan to have interviews by December
first. They have gotten 24 candidates for a first review. They also are
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looking at combining committees because of the HLC visit’s mention
that there are too many committees.
ii. Curriculum Committee
1. Second readings for Educaiotn, BIT, CASS completed, HPER completed,
medical lab science major was approved along with all biology second
reads
2. Waiting on Math
3. New first read for psychology
4. Athletic training will be read at State Board next week
iii. Staff Senate
1. Holiday Parade
2. Food pantry donations
3. Having campus safety walk tonight
Announcements
a. Books for Soldiers
i. Jonna Ziniel’s COMM 114 class is doing this.
ii. Possibly piggy backing efforts; doing that with Christmas Cards
Adjournment
i. Meeting adjourned at 7:47pm.