VCSU Student Senate
Meeting Minutes
October 17, 2011
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Call to Order
a. Krueger calls meeting to order at 7:00.
Roll Call
a. Total: 19
b. Present: Aune, Dahlberg, Dammel, Davis, Edinger, Faure, Hansen, Haugeberg, Henkel,
Hoover, Jilek, Johnson, Jorgenson, Krueger, Martin, Oakes, Oladosu, Rhyan, Pederson,
Wright
c. Excused: Miller, Shadlock
d. Unexcused: NA
e. Guests: Phillip Deger
f. Quorum: Met at 90.48%
Approval of Minutes
a. Oladosu motions to approve the minutes. Martin with second.
i. Motion passes
Approval of Agenda
a. Oladosu motions to approve the agenda. Edinger with second.
i. Motion passes
New Business
a. Winter Sports Club
i. Building slowly
ii. Club not to replace any winter activities already being done, but to add more
activities.
iii. Promotes winter recreation through education
iv. Three goals
1. Experienced in a sport to teach new people
2. Information about the sport
3. Participation (being in activity)
v. Five people in attendance at first meeting tonight
vi. Matching up students and senior citizens shoveling their driveways and such
vii. Get-together with people
viii. Students have a role of sport coordinator
1. One coordinator of each sport
2. Decides what to do, when to do it, transportation, costs, equipment.
ix. ID card to be a discount for Bear Mountain
x. Top 2 sports
1. Ice fishing
2. Snowmobiling
xi. Other events
1. Snowboarding
2. Sledding
3. Ice hockey (indoors if needed)
4. Curling
xii. Dahlberg moves to formally recognize Winter Sports Club. Hoover with second.
1. Motion passes
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Unfinished Business
a. All-Senate-Get-Together
i. Tomorrow, 10-18-2011, at 11:00
ii. On Schedule
1. Keeping on schedule
2. Hiring process
3. Appropriate dress
4. Computer update
5. Rhoades update
6. Vice President of Academic Affairs to talk about Higher Learning
Commission
7. Midterm Grades
iii. Possibly mention going as a United Front
iv. Please wear VCSU apparel or Student Senate Apparel
b. Senate Apparel
i. Jorgenson talked to Bridgetown
ii. No new updates on shirts
iii. Jacket was found at a cheaper cost of $39.99
c. Student Senate Forum
i. Thank you to those that sat at the table
ii. Talk to Doug about food issues
iii. Sporting events not in tuition
1. $75 fee because some students don’t go to events
iv. Talk about doing a once-a-month update
1. Send a link via email
v. Discuss with Student Relations Committee
vi. Redbox on Campus
1. Movieland is going out of business
a. Might help them or hurt them
b. Possibly talk to them and see if they would be willing to lend us
new releases and sell/rent them through the bookstore
vii. Online tuition fees
1. Issue for TAC
2. Tykwinski likes to talk to senate once a semester
viii. Teacher of the Year
1. Should be campus-wide voting
2. Narrow it down, and have students vote
3. Would need a constitution change and get it passed by the student
body.
a. Bring this to Constitution Committee
d. Viking Spirit
i. Last week’s winner was Ian Keller in the Library
ii. Sending another email.
iii. Not a lot of people are wearing Viking Apparel
e. Haunted Mall
i. Haunted Mall is cancelled
ii. Not enough clubs willing to participate.
Reports
a. President
i. Setting mandatory meeting next Monday from 12:00 to 1:00pm
1. All must be here
2. HLC meeting with Senate and VCAB
3. Everyone knows that this is happening. Professors have been informed.
4. Providing lunch
b. Vice President
i. Received information from the president of faculty senate in regards to allsenate-get-together
1. Would like to know about syllabus. Standardized format be appreciated
or not?
a. Appreciate some of the contents to be standardized
i. Abilities projects, exam times, some are difficult to
follow
ii. Bring up course outline possibility. We appreciate it!
2. Collection/donation supplies drive for Minot State University
c. Treasurer
i. NO REPORT
d. Secretary
i. Campus Inter-Functionary Team
1. Discussed the hiring of a groundskeeper, a new Vice President of
Business Affairs
2. Currently in the process of hiring a key plant operator
3. In the process of revising the academic integrity policy and the faculity
policy as well.
4. Midterm grades are due this Tuesday.
a. Student and advisor will be able to view the grades.
5. Science building work will start after graduation
a. Once classes resume, there will be classroom and office shifts
6. Spring schedule has been finalized!
e. NDSA
i. NDSU this Friday
ii. Krueger is doing Choices training
iii. Discuss higher education day
iv. Student fees/distance education
v. Performance based funding models
vi. Break down bylaws
1. It’s bylaw year
vii. Aune is working on a bill for safety and lighting
1. Getting state to give a dollar amount for these.
viii. Curriculum Committee
1. Going through all changes in courses
2. Heard from education department and art department
3. Course changes
a. Photography courses will be digital
b. No longer a dark room because of renovations
f. VCAB
i. Past Events
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ii. October 11: Suicide Awareness
iii. Upcoming Events
1. October 21: Vikings after Dark
2. October 23: Acres of Terror in Leonard, ND
3. October 26: VCAB Halloween Dance
iv. Cancelled Events
1. October 27-29: Haunted Mall
IRHC
i. NO REPRESENTATION
Viking Ambassadors
i. NO REPORT
Athletics
i. Football team beat Dickinson State on Saturday by a score of 23-13. They head
over to Jamestown this coming Saturday for another match up. They move up in
the national rankings to 16th.
ii. The Volleyball team lost both matches on the weekend to SD School of Mines
and Black Hills State. They will host Dickinson this coming Wednesday at 7 pm at
Graichen Gym.
iii. The Men’s and Women’s Cross Country team competed at the Jimmie open,
Jesse Dorado finished in 2nd place with a time of 26:58, while Richard Wright
placed 8th. The women ran at the Hastings open, top runner was Anna Fuka with
time of 20:15.
Fine Arts
i. NO REPORT
Communication and Social Sciences
i. Psychology Club is having Dr. Erin Klingenberg as a speaker this Wednesday at
8:30 pm in the lower conference room of the student center.
1. She will be covering what it is like to be a campus psychologist and to
give an idea of what is one of the things to do with psychology as a
profession after college.
ii. The Theater department’s performance of the musical, “Little Shop of Horrors,”
will be performed on October 27th through October 29th at 7:30pm as well as a
2pm matinee on the 29th.
1. Please come and support the theater department. It will be amazing!
Business and Information Technologies
i. Mr. Deger will be hosting meetings for Society of Human Resource Management
at the beginning of November.
ii. Business Process Integration Management (BPIM)
1. Totally online degree
a. Concentrates on Wyoming Community Colleges
iii. Next week there will be a new issue of the Newsletter which is sent out to about
2000 alums
iv. Advising week is coming up – New Spring Schedule is out
Education
i. NO REPORT
Science and Math
i. NO REPORT
Other Reports
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Announcements
i. All-Senate Get Together is at 11:00am
ii. Student Senate Bonding is October 30th.
Adjournment
i. Meeting adjourned at 7:57pm.