OSA Senate Minutes
September 23, 2014 at 4:45 PM
Reeve Memorial Union, Room 221
I.
II.
Call to Order – Pledge of Allegiance at 4:56 PM
Roll Call –
College of Letters and Science (12)
Grayson Bourke - Excused
Daniel Dennis – Absent
William Fath – Present
Valerie Hagen - Absent
James Martine – Present
Lindsey Newhauser – Absent
Michael Riley – Present
Benjamin Stepanek – Present
Steven Thompson – Present
Hallie Turnbull – Present
Troy Winkelman – Excused
Jeramiah Gruendemann – Associate – Present
Kylee Kubis – Associate - Present
III.
Open Forum - none
IV.
Approval of the Agenda - approved
V.
Approval of the Minutes - approved
VI.
VII.
Education & Human Services (5)
Nursing (3)
Taylor Bombinski – Present
College of Business (5)
Anne Cummins – Present
Stuart Karas - Excused
Ashley Meyer – Present
Chase Mitchell – Absent
Guest Speakers – none
Officer Reports –
a. OSA Directors – none
b. OSA Office Manager – (Rae Ann - wetzelr@uwosh.edu) – Julie and I will
updating Student Handbook, a few minor changes so if you are part of a club/org
please read it.
c. OSA Advisor – (Sharon – kipetzs@uwosh.edu) – voter ID Reggie and Sharon
meeting with a group on Friday and asking student senate to help out with tabling.
Reggie will show a PowerPoint the week before voting.
d. OSA Academic Liaison – (Crystal - buss@uwosh.edu) – no report
e. Speaker Pro-Tempore –(Jackie – osaspeakerpt@uwosh.edu) – counting
attendance this week
f. Speaker of the Assembly – (Nicole – osaspeaker@uwosh.edu) – no report
g. Vice President Pro-Tempore – (Lindsey - osavppt@uwosh.edu) – no report
h. Vice President – (Graham – osavp@uwosh.edu) - OSA Senate retreat, plans
changed not able to go to rec, Olive Garden, great discussion, good goals
including supporting the Sexual Assault campaign It’s On Us, branding OSA
professors get students involved in OSA, open forum with colleges that you
represent, more resolutions from the ground up, template for OSA resolution sent
to all. Hopper working on a resource with all of intuitional knowledge booklet,
Hopper spear head it outline what we do here and new members get acclimated to
the system.
i. President – (Jordan - osapres@uwosh.edu) – E cigarettes met with Chancellor
Roter and want students opinion on this – needs to be so we will have further.
Run with the Cops, Oct 9 will be a $1,750 to the run few of you that want to run
will run for free. USA Today app launching will not market until Oct 6 and play
around with app, lunch next week; marketing will be down with signs next to
newspaper stands on campus. Hockey bus that we had last week Friday huge
success, two buses for next game. Advanced Titan are still in debt and if they are
not better by December they may have all costs cut. Parking will do a master plan
with the campus master plan in a year or two. Committees make sure you work
with chairs of committees and give them more than 30 min. Limit president
powers and other areas that we have to clean up on the constitution our document
is a living one and it does need to change. Advanced Titan what we do if they do
not come up with a plan. Will come up with a plan all governance boards will
meet on campus and they will review on what we can do to help advanced titan
one of the multiple options, in the past committee chairs I have not received a
chair, the chairs who contacted students in this room the students not as
cooperative as they should be. E-cigarettes, referendum or resolution became of
the language that is inserted in as the general public comes through this building
too. Answer: We are not writing policy, we can be involved in policy but we are
just writing up a resolution on our stand. UW System does not have a policy on
that.
VIII.
Presidential Appointments –
SS 14-014
BE IT RESOLVED: That the OSA Senate gives recognition and voting privileges to those
Organizations with “Assembly” after their names:
1. The Comedy Club – new, Assembly
Sponsored by: Nicole Lehto, Speaker of Assembly
Dispense
Motion to move to floor Riley, 2nd by Stepanek
Discussion
Make campus laugh. How many members do you currently have? Six. Riley: Will you be
requesting allocation? Not this year. What do you plan on doing? Practice comedy, bring
in comedian if bring in group, do comedy for university
Vote, voice passed, no objections, no abstentions (09/23/14)
SS 14-015
BE IT RESOLVED: That the OSA Senate gives recognition and voting privileges to those
Organizations with “Assembly” after their names:
1. Oshkosh League of Legends Club
Sponsored by: Nicole Lehto, Speaker of Assembly
Dispense
Motion to move to floor Kubis, 2nd by Fath,
Computer game 27 million daily top bingo games big game a lot of depth to it and lots of
strategy to it. Have play together; watch a lot of the professional team collegiate level
competition. Are you planning to request allocations? Not sure yet endorsed by and the
creator of the game can help us out with your club. How many members? 20 people
representative Oshkosh Gaming Society would not mind if it is a separate club have it
grown. What would you plan on doing during your club meeting? Because of the strategy
we can teach not able to teach a game if you do not have the resources for it. Talk, teach
stuff, and Saturday play together.
Vote, voice no objection, no abstention (09/23/14)
SS 14-016
BE IT RESOLVED: That the OSA Senate gives recognition and voting privileges to those
Organizations with “Assembly” after their names:
1. UW Oshkosh Metal Club
Sponsored by: Nicole Lehto, Speaker of Assembly
Dispense,
Motion to move to floor Fath, Cummins
Discussion
Nothing on campus for it metal and all forms of heavy metal RUB work hand in hand with
them bigger bands. Turnbull: what would you do at the meetings? Discuss types of metal
music.
Vote, voice passed, no objections, no abstentions (09/23/14)
OSA 14-005
BE IT RESOLVED: That the OSA Senate and Assembly approved the following Presidential
Appointments and/or recommendations:
1. Val Hagen, Academic Policies Committee
2. Holly Bloom, Michael Starzel, Reginald Parson, Student Allocations
Committee
3. Grayson Bourke, Race and Ethnicity Council
4. Lee O’Day, Inclusive Excellence Council
5. Daniel Dennis, Radiation Safety Committee
6. Caitlin Hopper, Michael Riley, Segregated Fees Committee
7. Eliseo Lacossiere, Katie Hill, Carly Wahl, Jessica Kelly-Paul, Kurt
Rolfson, Vince Sciano, Andrew Lund, alternative, Brooke Weyers,
alternative, Marnia Garcia, Student Rec and Wellness Center Advisory
Board
Sponsored by: Jordan Schettle, OSA President
Dispense
Motion to move to floor, Stepanek, 2nd by Martine
Vote, voice passed, no objections, no abstentions (09/23/2014)
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
Unfinished Business – none
New Business – none
Committee Reports – none
Discussion – none
XIII.
Announcements – none
XIV.
Adjourn – Motion to adjourn at 5:50 pm by Stepanek, 2nd by Thompson, passed
voice vote 09/23/14