STUDENT SENATE
SESSION XXXVII – MEETING 11
November 22nd, 2015 – 6:00PM – Paul College Room 165
AGENDA
I.
II.
III.
CALL TO ORDER:
ROLL CALL
COMMUNICATIONS
A. Senators and Guests
B. Graduate Student Senate: I don’t think I have anything specific to report I
am not sure what my exact role is I will give advice where I see fit.
Lincoln: They still use the FOC
C. Liaison to Administration
D. Senate Executive Board
Doug: We did not have judiciary today. So I am going to schedule for the
Monday or Tuesday before that meeting. So for members and anyone
wants to submit the deadline is the Monday night after thanksgiving. We
want to get that out very quickly so that we can have that done. I am going
to be very strict on that deadline.
Amanda: Hi guys. Thanks for being so great during that. You will all
getting an email from me about all the meetings you have missed.
Abby: If you can’t be at SAFC please get a proxy. We had a lot of PPR’s
last week. For the ORO’s peace and justice passed a food for thought two
it’s a conversation starter. Cab passed a comedian for winter. The DSC
gala will be December 11th. AGIS got passed the fall publication is good
for print. If you have more questions on what we have been doing. We
went to a conference this weekend to see how unions worked with SGA.
They do it a lot differently than us.
Lincoln: Food for thought?
Abby: It’s at the freedom café at 6pm
JP: The discovery program is under review we are working for NAVITAS
students.
Abby: We will be meeting on Fridays on 2:10 next semester. Along with
the majority it was the only time Sarra could meet and we need her there
Zach: This week I will be meeting with Banks, Timmons, and Peschi to
discuss parking garage areas and the issues regarding Main Street and
Garrison Ave. Looking at our next meeting we are looking at 4 resolutions
from my council.
Danny: Come to my meetings Friday at 3 we have 2 members.
Jon: December 4th is the seacoast holiday party. Hopefully on December
6th we will have voting on people sitting on a town council. That might not
be possible but we will see.
Cam: For Allison: She is meeting with Erin and if anyone wants to share
with her let her know
Emily: How are all of you? Next meeting we will have a fun resolution
coming from my council we will be having one more meeting before
break
Sam: I am working to make a FAQ for the SRRR for things you wish you
knew when you got here. Email me and get you constituents. I arranging
ride a long’s for my members with the UNHPD.
Lincoln: Thank you for bearing with me tonight. Board meeting on
Thursday went well. Other than that ask me. It’s really great stuff.
Cam: Go home eat turkey.
Gabe: I know people have different thoughts on what you should wear.
Use your judgement on that. No meeting next week. Thanks to Emerson
and Lincoln for filling in today.
E. Student Trustee: Thank you everyone for having a great conversation
tonight. Anyone have any questions on anything else. I had a conversation
with them outside. If you have any questions at any time reach out to us.
So anyway right now so we just did the fee units minus athletics. So
anyway the next step as I envision it at a date unknown we would have a
thing on the three parts of the UPAAA UPFA POTU once we have that
my hope would be that we would have Scala come and talk about the
RCM. That will be open to everyone. This is interesting to know why the
costs are the way that they are. With the 5 million dollar budget with the
things that have been happening. Look at thing I sent out tonight so we
can vote on it. We used to call it the fee oversight committee now we call
it the FAC so it has undergone a great transition. It would be way longer it
would create animosity. You would get Marty Scorano in here and grilled
him about silly things. Ow we talk to these 3 honchos at the university so
we can look at the three divisions. What we did tonight is look at the fees
and tuition because that is where the money goes to. We will then vote on
those three things. Conor will write up a thing and send it to the president
and I will give it to the board
Sam: What happens if we fail?
Lincoln: So say we fail the MUB we would say we are not accepting that.
The president can override it. But what would happen is we would look at
why we failed it because we don’t like the expansion on Union Court and
we would talk to the students and we would find out why. There would be
an educational process. We would either see an increase or we might not.
Sam: Can we get the presentation today?
Gabe: I have not heard from Conor. But we will work on it but we can’t
do that tonight.
Lincoln: This will be out with the agenda the next time.
F. Student Body Vice President
G. Student Body President
H. Student Senate Speaker: Conor Sandin can’t make it so Lincoln will be
helping the best he can.
Guest: Ted Kirkpatrick: So I’ll be brief but I’m here for questions too. So many of you
knew vice president Rubenstein. He became president of granite state college. We invited
a number of new administrators. Chris Clement and Victoria. This is for retention
strategy to retain them through graduations. I think the president and the provost thought
it might be time to bring the dean of students underneath the provost office. They spent
many years trying to get the student life integrated to academic life. The provost wanted
to act on something very quickly. I am acting as the acting vice provost and the dean of
students and underneath this is the counseling center, SHARRPP, BIT team, Denise
Nelson, health services, and the CED. All of those are under the dean of students. There
are other offices that we don’t know if they will be under the provost. It’s a very fluid
situation. This year I think I want to focus on working with student life. We have a
website now. If you tried to google us before you wouldn’t be able to find it. We put on
there all of the things students should be looking at. We thought there were so many
places you have to go to find what you need. I want to focus on two things with students.
We’re very mindful of the cost of higher education. One key issue is the mental health of
our students and their general wellbeing. We want to give them all the support they need
to do what they need to do. Everything that we can do to work for students were going to
do for students. Accountability and Resilience somethings that we are working with
students on that. We want you to work on that because life is tough. I see the greatest
generation in your eyes. The world is going to ask more of you because everybody sees
you as the shapers of the 21st century. Half the planet would trade place with you in a
second because the know that you will be shaping the world. We want you to have the
character and intellect. Be accountable for the choices that you make. When you read
things from my generation when people do bad things and they point blame on people.
Martha Stewart never took responsibility for what she did. She went to prison. Don’t be
like Martha Stewart I want you to be better than that. When I am reading about all of you
I want it to be good stuff. Questions? I am grateful for the administration for being here
tonight they have done some great stuff. Faculty is important to what you do. Gallup
recently did a poll on alumni the UNH ones are happy with their jobs, lives, and the work
they do on this planet. It’s a pleasure to work with them. I was up in New Brunswick and
it’s a five hour drive.
Reswan: When did you start working for UNH
Kirkpatrick: Many years ago. I came here in1977 for graduate school. I came here for the
homicide person. I came here to study homicide. I thought when I came here this is nice
place to be for a few years. The way I fell into it was by accident. I was fortunate to have
a scholarship to a private college. When I came here and realized that this is a mid-sized
school that focuses on research. I continue to think that is a great thing.
Emily: How do you want to accomplish tasks with mental health?
Kirkpatrick: young people overtime are affected by different things. One of the things
that were worried about is how anxious everybody is. The cultural loud speakers scream
at us to be afraid. One of the nice things about the vigil was how many of you came
together. I was moved by that. One of the things I want to do is help students with
anxiety. Now we talk about these things. We’re talking a lot about anxiety. We want
another psychologist to be accessible for the students that are in need. We want to do
education to address students in this. It’s not all bad, there are great things happening in
the US when bad things happen. When you are struggling we need to deal with that
openly. I have to make sure as acting dean of students that those things are open. Same
with SHARPP we have to offer education and these services to students to allow them to
be prevented
Danny: How often are you available to students?
Kirkpatrick: We will have an office suite and that will happen sometime next week. Right
now my office is in Murkland and Denise is in T hall. The meetings I have are with
students on planning, referrals, my role is an academic dean is not to coddle you. I am
going to give you some good solid advice. I can’t change reality but I can certainly help
students address these issues. I have a portfolio of people I can send students do. The
other half of the day is administration. I bet all of you want to graduate so I approve
those. I want to help within 24 hours. Any student can schedule a meeting with me. A lot
of freshman come into the COLA and branch to other colleges. My job is to help students
by the end of their sophomore year sort it out.
IV.
NEW BUSINESS
A. XXXVII- 3.10- Removal of Senators
B. XXXVII- 2.11- Approval of Senators
C. XXXVII- 32- Removal of Judiciary Committee Members
D. XXXVII- R16- Prohibiting Tobacco Use on Campus
V. OTHER BUSINESS
Ryan: From my understanding we will not be voting on budgets tonight. There are
department heads tonight to answer any questions you may have.
Lincoln: I sent out an email of all of the things I have received tonight courtesy of all the
lovely folks in the room. Conor’s sick so I appreciate everyone for being patient. We’re
gonna start with an overview of the process. Since I was not prepared for this. We should
be begin with a conversation on OBA Office of business affairs. We vote on four sections
of the university. What we have is a collection of fee units. I don’t know about you but I
don’t feel comfortable voting tonight. So we can have a convo on all of the thing. Any
questions? Is it clear to the people here?
Kirkpatrick: Would it be possible for David May to speak on his department? That might
help with the big chunks of information of time
Sam: If we’re not going to voting are we moderating using Roberts rules?
Gabe: So with the new thing we are doing is the conversation we are running them
through the chair but with more flexibility.
David May: Can I assume everyone got this presentation and everyone saw it. I would
like to go department by department and explain. Housing the budget is a 3% increase
across the board. This is the first increase in all of the apartments in a few years. We are
at almost at 109% in res life. This is how the budget breaks out. If you take the revenue
retention and other things it’s about 75% of their budget. They only have 25% of their
budget to work with. The part of this is to update the Woodside’s bathroom. We are
going to change the locks and make them combinations. We are also going to work
toward having two hydration stations in every building. If I look at this there is a 3%
increase in revenue in forest park, laundry, and forfeited deposits. The other thing that
might peak your interest is the repair and damages went down by 14%. We are going to
take the money we earned to back that because there are more students. The RCM
strategic plan went up 1%.
Lincoln: RCM is the budgeting model we use at the University. It is broken up into 21
different budgets. It allows them to operate the way that they want to do it. I think it is in
between. To fund the things that don’t bring in the revenue we want. They have a tax and
that is 15%
Dave: It goes to 15% in FY17
Lincoln: You pay 100 dollars in housing so 15 dollars is sent to the university as a whole.
There are different types of taxing but it all balances out in the end.
Dave May: The facility cost is all the costs that housing has. It’s a very big piece of the
budget. The revenue that comes in from the outside of the university that is taxed at 15%
the RCM strategic initiative is 41/2 is a tax on staffing that goes into the president who
uses that for initiatives through RCM.
Lincoln: Stop at any time to ask any questions of us.
Jake: There is a change of 0.0% but there is an increase?
Dave: that might be wrong it might have gone up a half a percent. It’s actually 0 but it
went up due to increase in staff labor.
Aaron: There is a bigger increase?
Dave: It will be a larger increase because the revenue is up.
Shannon: To what percentage are you aiming at?
Dave: in 18 it’s going to 16 in 19 it’s gonna go up consecutively 16 17 18 19 so by 20 it
will be at 18 percent. That is our guidelines for building our budgets.
Lincoln: This is what the last iteration looks like: This is the RCM manual and these are
the tax rates. So when he says they’re going up this is what it means. These don’t actually
go up
Chris: to Lincoln’s point there will be another one on other departments and the dollar
value as well.
Dave: so in 16 it went up half a point to 14. In 20 it will be 18
Chris: I think it might be 21.
Dave: Any more questions on housing?
Jon: Why were the locks chosen for the first?
Dave: I’ll have to get back to you Denise isn’t here
Jon: because they are further away
Dave: The Memorial Union Building (MUB) There are a lot of great programming
happening in the MUB. So I mean there are a tremendous amount of things happening in
the MUB. They have a lot. They help with wildcat link. They do a good job with the
commuter newsletter. The building is really your building. Any questions? I will tell you
the one thing that is really overwhelming thing in the MUB is packages.
How many did we process this fall?
Maryanne: Update we have processed 50,000 and were up 56%
Dave: We know that there are some buildings in the OBA that need more wifi. We are
working to get more installed to have the wireless work better. We all have a lot of
devices and we are working to get it better for everybody. The other thing that I would
say that the IT website has a place you can report problems in different buildings. Let
them know so that they can do something about it. So the budget in the mub is a 3%
increase on the fees. There is a lot of variance between a lots of the items with descriptors
next to them. The transfer for renovation and repair is so that we can do something about
the mail room to help all and more students
Aaron: What is the new software?
Maryanne: There is going to have a new mailroom software that matches amazons.
Wildcat link is now being paid for by us. You can be able to use your password once to
take care of notification for student groups and clients.
Dave: anything else?
Dave: Dining: How many have a meal plan? We have broken 11,000. If we weren’t
doing a good job you wouldn’t be buying it. We are still working on the 10 million dollar
expansion for hoco. So we have spent the 10 and half million without increasing the fee.
The budget has been managed very well over the last years. I would say two of the things
we are looking for over the coming years is a face lift for stilling’s. It’s time that we did
that. Maryanne has started a study of the MUB about dining and union court. Those are
the two big things dining is working towards. It’s about a 2.7% increase overall. Those
are the process the meal plans are going up 3. The swipes are going up between 2 and 3.
If we look at the budget loan and interest payments are up 301 next year they won’t start
charging us until next January. Any questions on dining?
Lincoln: What’s up with cats cache?
Dave: John?
John: The use of cats cache is in a slow decline because many of you have credit cards.
It’s still a strong revenue fee. It will be flat in the coming ears.
Gabe: Anything we haven’t mentioned you would want to say:
John: A lot of focus on sustainability to make an impact on the local community. This
budget has allowed us to work on worker problems. This is a straightforward budget. If
you like what we are doing you’ll see more.
Shannon: Wages and labor went up?
John: Student wages will go up next year. Based on the call out rate on the evening I
mentioned I want to work on that.
Aaron: The theme nights I tend to avoid them like the plague there are to crowded, what
do you guys have a science for them?
John: were visits the dorms and we receive from the dorms. We have surveys. They tend
to be a student driven idea. We ask what you would like to see to increase the value
Dave: They are busy nights because our students enjoy them. We have 11,000 students
with meal plans but only 2500 seats.
John: by 7:30 the flow of individuals allow you to have a great experiences.
Jake: is there a reason you incentivize swipe plans?
Dave: The incentive to buy a meal plan is because we offer a much lower price.
Jake: Is there any possibility of lowering the pay at the door cost?
John: part of the reason we have that is so that we can know what we have year to year.
Most of the budget is salaries and wages. The door prices are set so that we have a bit of
bonus. We reduce the price to 9 dollars if you have a friend with a plan
Jon: is there any type of plan for guest swipes? I know there aren’t a lot on the lowest
plan.
Dave: the problem with that is that we are trying to keep the cost down.
John: 47% are on the core plan.
Dave: so that’s 3,000 meals and if we double that goes to 6,000 we have to cover the food
costs for those meals or get rid of something else
Hannah: Meal plans don’t carry over to the next year, why?
John: It’s a new fiscal year. I am trying to figure out how to do it over the years but it’s a
liability. Most students want more dining dollars. We are looking at different plans to
allow more guest passes. But we want it to be the best for the lowest cost.
Dave: Transportation I gotta assume everybody knows about the services dirk and his
team provide. The fee is very small. Its 3 dollars. The big CNG busses cost: 525,000.
We’re working very hard. I am signing a piece of paper on Monday for 8 busses. It’s a
shot in the dark. But we need 8 busses and we have the money in the reserve to cover the
20% match. Maybe we got an opportunity. I am applying for a grant and hopefully we
will get it.
Danny: Is that replacing busses
Dave: yeah we need to do
Danny: will you sell these?
These will go for $5,000
Zach: It is worth noting that the money goes into the new busses we get
Sam: The addition of new routes, if that is in the 18 budget is there a projection
Dave: No we don’t the survey was to see what students want. We would want to use the
president’s strategic funds. We have about 4,000 that have responded but I can’t really
tell you what it says yet
Nathan: I was a mechanic for 2 years. The depreciation is not that bad. You have to think
about the mileage on these things. At least 50 times a day for 12 years.
The old ones were way over 400,000
Danny: Do you make money on cash fares
We only make 30,000 dollars.
Zach: could you expand on more projects with this budget?
Dirk: all I can say for access is up in demand they have gone up. Safe rides and medicat
are going up.
Dave: the other thing dirk and his team have done an outstanding job the last year and a
half. It’s a break even on thee rides we need to save money. In the coming years we want
to have the campus connection have more trips. The trips to Newmarket and other places
are down by a half because all of the apartments in Madbury commons. It’s a lot of
money to not have a lot of people.
Dave: Campus Rec: Everybody is really familiar with what we do. Are there any
questions with what you see up there? There is an increase in guest services. We have to
pay for the constructions in the facilities and the sq. footage is going to go up. I think the
other thing is that we are able to put money into R and R which we haven’t been able to
do. The old section is gonna have problems so down the road we won’t have to increase
fees.
Lincoln: Is that differed maintenance? It’s a built in chunk of money to take care of the
old section
Dave: If we don’t do that we will have a major cost increase
Dave: When we came into this semester we were able to get it down $228 dollars. The
rest of the fee with the expenses going up 11 dollars by 3 percent.
Lincoln: this fee is going up and all the other stuff is going up?
Dave: one is for the whit and student rec and the indoor pool. That’s the service to cover
those loans.
Gabe: Any questions?
Jon: enrollment in classes?
Stacy: participation has been very steady this year
Sam: Programming that is not necessarily that are in the rec center?
Stacy: they are not with campus rec
Jon: What about the construction of boulder field
Stacy: There will be a celebration for these things.
Jon: also students have been wondering the time tables for the pool?
Stacy I will have that by the end of next semester.
Dave: Thank you everyone.
Ted Kirkpatrick: SHARPP health services and counseling center. SHARPP. The fee
increase of $3 is to hire the male violence counselor. 14% of that is funded through the
university. The male counselor Zach is great and is funded by grants which are running
out.
Shannon: How do we make this permanent to fund this?
Ted: We would need to increase the fee and put it into the SHARPP budget.
Shannon: How much longer will the grant last?
End of this year
Shannon: If this is ending and we are looking at increase in the upcoming budget?
Ted: Yes for FY 17
Sam: So there is a $1 increase to the safe walking program are we expanding that or
leaving it the same?
Ted: we are implementing that in the spring when the weather gets better. It is a helpful
thing to have on this campus. I don’t want to intrude on your lives unless I have too.
Students have argued that having those people present are helpful in making people feel
safe. This would be a way of institutionalizing it for FY 17.
Shannon: Right now it says we are getting 204,000 in grants?
Ted: that is not grants it’s what the university is given to do these things.
Terry Winters: IT budget: The academic tech fee pays for this classroom and it pays for
student clusters the media labs it pays for the blackboard portal. We are migrating to
campus from blackboard. This is to make sure you have access and help for this. We have
infrastructure in the classroom library. We promote teaching and learning to help faculty
include tech in their teaching. Students were telling us that they want teachers to use
blackboard so that students know what is going on. We are trying to promote that use.
The overall fee it is currently 193 a year. We want to increase to 195 a year 1) we now
have engaged with campus to give a 24 hour tech support so now when you click on help
in campus you can get live virtual chat. We negotiated the first year price so we got a
good deal. 2) We are very grateful for Peter T. Paul for the donations and because of all
the renovations to tech infrastructure we have to maintain it we need to increase the
budget to 8% to fix all of the equipment for R and R. it’s a 1% increase
Aaron: There have been a rash on new software that students can get for free why don’t
the students have that in other computers:
Terry: it’s not just an individual thing it’s on a network there are a lot of testing that have
to do.
Lincoln: it’s different when you have thousands of devices.
Ted: Counseling Center: Dr. Cross has talked to you about services because of the
increased demand for it. That basically that what we are asking for is a 4.4% increase and
the additional on top of the 3 allows for another staff member in the counseling center. It
would help to better serve the needs of students on this campus
Ryan: I was understanding that they don’t have room for that?
Cross: There is a group room and what I hope to do is transfer that to two offices to make
more room. That’s the only way we could go ahead
Jon: How many does that give us?
Cross: we have 11 so 12. We have only one full time
Cam: Why a decrease in the summer fee?
Cross: Nancy said 66,000 is the max that we could put in there we put in there.
Gabe: more questions?
Peter: Are there any plans in the near future to replace the psycho neurologist?
Cross: We don’t have one are you asking if we will get one?
Peter: Yes
Cross: We don’t see enough need for that right now but maybe in the future we can make
private referrals that are paid for by the insurance
Ted: Health services is a large operation under Charles. We are happy to say we are not
making any more requests. So flat funding for next year. A benefit to all of you. Dr.
Charles says that the health services building is inadequate. We know that we should be
expanding space needs over the next five years. Some of the spaces there are not being
used the way they were intended which is awful I think we can all agree on that.
Sam: So I see a line for S and W strategic initiatives what is that for?
That is salaries and wages. That’s 4 and half percent. The line under capital projects that
would be where money for capital projects would be.
Jon: How often is that class under review for alcohol violations?
Every year. There is plenty of information that they get and they learn
Ted: there are a number of students that who are at a point where it is almost a life saver
for them. I am convinced that they are in place for a good reason. That includes
sometimes a not so great message.
VI.
ADJOURNMENT
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything”
-Alexander Hamilton
Student Senate Bill XXXVII – 3.10 Removal of Senators
Introduced by: Executive Officer, Amanda Barba
Date: November 22nd, 2015
Be it enacted by the Student Senate of the University of New Hampshire to remove the
following individuals as Student Senators for the remainder of session XXXVII:
Fairchild: Gillian Adiwinata
Amanda: She asked to be removed she is busy with school and stuff.
Senate Action: Passes Unanimously
Speaker Verification:
Student Senate Bill XXXVII – 2.11 Approval of Senators
Introduced by: Executive Officer, Amanda Barba
Date: November 22nd, 2015
Be it enacted by the Student Senate of the University of New Hampshire to approve the
following individuals as Student Senators for the remainder of session XXXVII:
Amanda: If you want to add yourself you’ll put up two fingers and say “I want to friendly
amend myself to this bill”
Senate Action: No Action
Speaker Verification:
Student Senate Bill XXXVII – 32 Removal of Judiciary Committee Members
Introduced by: Parliamentarian, Doug Marino
Date: November 22nd, 2015
Be it enacted by the Student Senate of the University of New Hampshire to remove the
following individuals as members of the Judiciary Committee for the remainder of
session XXXVII:
Nathan Whitehead
Senate Action: Passes Unanimously
Speaker Verification:
Student Senate Resolution XXXVII – 16 Prohibiting Tobacco Use on Campus
Introduced by: Health and Wellness Chairperson, Emily Counts
Date: November 22nd, 2015
Whereas, tobacco smoking is a hazardous health choice that has been documented by the
United States Surgeon General since the initial Surgeon General’s Report in 1964, and
Whereas, it has been documented as the leading cause of lung cancer as well as chronic
bronchitis and emphysema in men and women, and
Whereas, secondhand smoke is correlated to lung, lymphoma, leukemia, larynx, pharynx,
nasal sinuses, brain, bladder, rectum, stomach, and breast cancers, and
Whereas, the medical care costs that come from secondhand smoke are over $10 billion
per year as noted by the American Cancer Society, and
Whereas, ongoing scientific research suggests a link between dementia, depression, and
the act of smoking, and
Whereas, secondhand smoke is hazardous and responsible for 2.5 million deaths of the 20
million deaths smoking has caused since 1964, and
Whereas, secondhand smoke causes an estimated 42,000 deaths per year in heart disease
and 7,000 lung cancer deaths from nonsmokers, and
Whereas, secondhand smoke contains 7,000 various chemicals of which 250 are known
to be harmful to humans and 69 are known cancer-causing agents, and
Whereas, the following chemicals are found in cigarettes acetone, acetic acid, ammonia,
arsenic, benzene, butane, Cadmium, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, hexamine, Lead,
naphthalene, nicotine, methanol, tar, toluene, hydrogen cyanide, ethylene oxide, Nickel,
Polonium 210, and
Whereas, the same chemicals can be found in nail polish remover, hair dye, household
cleaners, rat poison, rubber cement, lighter fluid, battery acid, car exhaust, embalming
fluid, barbecue lighter fluid, batteries, moth balls, insecticides, rocket fuel, road
pavement, thermobaric bombs, and manufacture paint respectively, and
Whereas, there are currently 1,543 college campuses in the United States (US) that are
smoke-free, and
Whereas, many of them are similar to ours, including but not limited to: the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, Northeastern University, Harvard University, and the
University of Maine at Orono, and
Whereas, in New Hampshire, Nashua Community College and Plymouth State University
have already gone smoke-free, and
Whereas, 45.29% of UNH students are in favor of a tobacco free campus and 22.44% of
UNH students are undecided on the matter, and
Whereas, this is the majority of UNH students who are either in favor or indifferent or in
favor of a tobacco free campus and,
Whereas, 65% of UNH males and 81% of UNH females have never used a cigarette, and
Whereas, only 2% of UNH males and 1% of UNH females smoke tobacco daily, and
Whereas, tobacco smoke is polluting the air of the 97% of students who do not smoke
tobacco daily, and therefore
Be it resolved by the Student Senate of the University of New Hampshire to urge the
President of the University of New Hampshire to ban tobacco smoking, specifically
cigarettes and cigars from the University of New Hampshire.
Senate Action:
Speaker Verification:
Questions and Comments on Resolution 16 Prohibiting Tobacco Use on Campus
Emily: If you have any questions on the body parts and other things I can answer. Live
free or die ends when you impede on others right to do the same. The administration is
for this. This was revolutionary in the 90’s when we had the 20 foot rule. We are behind a
lot of schools in the New England area. We currently have a federal grant that healthy
unh is using we want to be the healthiest campus by 2020. Governor Hassan has passed a
proclamation that all higher education campuses go tobacco free.
Danny: Enforcement through this to my knowledge is to report it to conduct. How do I do
that if I do not know them?
Sam: How would you report a student to conduct? You would have to ask for their ID
and bring them through the conduct system. This can be enforced by the RA and the
housing people. This would have to be a huge culture shift of telling people.
Lincoln: The only people who are allowed to ask for ID is administration.
Sam: Students cannot demand for the ID they would have to ask. RA and other faculty
would be the best bet.
Danny: What is stopping a member of the general public from doing so?
Lincoln: This is technically state property. You can’t punish somebody you can say you
can’t smoke here
Danny: So would a student get a student off campus?
Abby: It’s self-enforced if it gets to the point of being intrusive.
Lincoln: They can’t arrest you for it they will take you off campus. I don’t think they
would enforce this.
Jake: In the document itself you use the term majority, couldn’t the term majority be used
to include those who oppose it?
Emily: Yes
Is it saying that all of tobacco?
Emily: Vapes and e cigs will be perfectly legal still it’s just cigs and cigars
Brennan: Do you think Emily has actively representative of the student body in this?
Cam: Yes absolutely she has done an amazing job
Brennan: Do you think she will be able to take information and use it and carry it out?
Cam: Yes
Lincoln: What do you mean carrying out?
Brennan: To implement health stuff through health services
Cam: Yes I would absolutely expect her to carry out the implantation.
Hannah: How long would it take to implement
Emily: Going off of the other school 1-2 years depending on how long the process will
take. I would love for it to be implemented by fall of 2017. It takes a while for this sort of
thing to go through.
Hannah: Would there be public promotion for this?
Emily: Yes we would form a committee to ask what they need to make this a part of the
university. We need to give them a lot of time to adjust life accordingly
Sam: In terms of implementation they are doing a major review of the SRRR if this is
passed we could potentially have it in there by next year.
Lincoln: The fourth whereas how did we get those numbers?
Emily” A health services survey
Cam: 2,000 students filled it out.
Shannon: So right now I know that you guys have covered how you plan on enforcing
this. Right now there concern that the 20 ft. rule that isn’t been enforced. Why do you
think students will follow this?
Ryan: To be honest I couldn’t tell you what 20 feet away is. I can’t tell you that. I can tell
you that right now you are sitting on UNH property and I can tell you that. Banning that
on campus you can tell you are there
Shannon: Do you think college students can tell 5 feet away from a building?
Ryan: I can agree on that but overall whether they are 20 feet or not. There needs to be
more enforcement.
Cam Kenney: So some students on this campus are international and smoking is more
socially acceptable.
Emily: we have had smoking for a long time. I understand that smoking is a stress relief
and I understand it’s hard to be far away from home. I want to work with health services
to come up with healthy ways of doing this.
Peter: Did you have any plans to help deal with the physical withdrawal symptoms?
Emily: this is difficult because the addiction is different from nicotine. I have email
confirmation form people who will be helping with the addiction aspect of the
implementation process.
Jake: Seems like second hand smoke is a big factor in this, can you give more details of
how long it takes for that to affect people
Emily I do not know
Ryan: Even thirty minutes can cause damage to organs people who are affected by
second hand smoke will be affected. Every person is different but in the amount of time it
takes to walk to class if you’re in a dorm and someone is smoking and the smoke comes
in there is no exact if you’re out in one minute any exposure is an increased risk
Reswan: So first of all this is a great thing if we pass this but one of my concerns is the
enforcement I did not hear any specific enforcement thing. You can’t smoke in dorms or
class rooms and academic building. So the people who want this they don’t want people
smoking on the street how will a student report?
Sam: It’s up to you. You would go up to them and speak to them personally. If enough
people go up to them they will see a change in the behavior. If you see them on quad way
the best way to deal with it is to tell someone that the behavior is not tolerated
Danny: What will the penalty be?
Emily: I am going to give you an idealistic hope. Part of the implementation is figuring
out the details. I will give my answer and bump to Sam. I would like to make it very
similar to alcohol. And instead of an alcohol class it would be focused on coping
mechanisms. Here are other options here is where we can help you
Sam: This would be a call from conduct. No fines but community service and something
similar to alcohol. It’s not something we are trying to punish them for life
Danny: Will student senate have any oversight over the process?
Emily: we will the body right here will
Sam: That falls under the judicial affairs chair position.
Lincoln: Would you provide us a synopsis on what you want?
Cam: The more I talk to students the more I see them see this in favor. The conversation
is getting louder. Frankly I think the timing is right, now is the time to act. I think this is
the right thing to do for students.
When you did your research did you see any negative backlash on campus?
Emily: I was on a biased site about smoke free campuses so they didn’t have that
information
Cam Kenney: What kind of conversations should we be having?
Lincoln: This has been minimally productive. What we should figure out if the students
want the smoking ban. The conversation needs to be rerouted. It’s a little bit
embarrassing. How are we gonna enforce this? I don’t care.
Zach: Out of curiosity as a bus driver would this affect the bus stops on Main Street
would this ban be able to cover those areas?
Emily: Any street that are part of the town of Durham you can smoke on the sidewalks.
Lincoln: Are we sure that the sidewalks are not owned by the university?
Emily: I talked with Scott Chesney and he said they are not part of the university.
Sam: You did an event the other day in the Murkland court yard can you tell me how that
went?
Emily: I talked to a couple hundred students and only 5 said they were against the
banning of smoking. 2 students who were smoking that they were for it. A lot of nursing
and nutrition majors have supported it. It was nice to hear the students express the
support for this.
Cam Kenney: Where do you stand on this?
Lincoln: I don’t have enough at this time
Aaron: Do we have any data that says that this is representative as a whole?
Cam: Most survey responses yielded more female responses because there are more of
them.
Lincoln: Did you reach out to enrollment management?
Emily: I have not yet
Cam: So when the trustee asked me on my stance I gave this. Once again this is a
grumbling that has gone on for years with students and faculty. The TNH has reached out
with their regards to this. There have been students and faculty come to me to say they
want this. Students want this I urge you to vote in favor.
Cam Kenney: Lincoln do you have an opinion on this now?
Lincoln: I was very disheartened that we haven’t gone to enrollment management. When
I talked students it was make or break. I understand I don’t have thousands of survey
responses. We are such an enrollment dependent university we haven’t talked to them.
Brennan: What was the consensus on the meeting about other colleges?
Cam: I am in contact with the other schools who have done this. 3 of the 5 have done it
and talking to them it’s the trend. It’s what everybody is moving toward. The noise is
getting louder on there
Abby: Does SEAC have an opinion on this?
Molly: We haven’t talked about it as a group the topic was brought up by 2 other people
and they had a negative view on this. SEAC as a whole I cannot speak for them.
Cam: Do you have any information on enrollment from other universities?
Ryan: If UNH had a smoking ban would they attend…10% of the people did not say
likely or unlikely to attend. I think that it would be positive
Peter: When gathering information what was the representation of international students?
Emily: I am not aware of that information.
Lincoln: To Lauren: Did you address your hall council and what was their feeling on it?
Lauren: yes we brought it up there wasn’t too many opinions on it but most people were
against it because of the logistics because of their rights however we feel as though they
didn’t have as much information towards it.
Lincoln: to Hannah: Did you speak to your hall council and how did they feel?
Hannah: Some were against who smoke cigars others were for it
Did you address your hall council and what was their feeling on it
Reswan: I talked to 77 residents in Engelhardt about this and I was shocked. 63% of
people were against it.
Did you address your hall council and what was their feeling on it?
Nileesa: I did speak to my people a lot of them were against. They didn’t want to take
away that right to those who do smoke
Katie: I spoke to the members on my floor the Williamson residents were not in support
of this resolution. They were concerned about the people already smoking and they
doubted it could be enforced. And there is a lack of education the amount of people we
spoke to were against it
My floor had the proper information
Lincoln: To Jon: Do you know how your hall feels about this
Jon: We have a huge NAVITAS representation and they were against it for the rest they
were mixed 50/50
Ryan: Is it not true that students have to go to hall council?
Doug: Yes
Ryan: would it be safe to assume they are doing that?
Doug: Yes in order to be a senator you have to go to those meetings
Lincoln: to peter: Did you speak to your hall council and what was there opinion?
Gabe: rephrase the question
Lincoln: do they have an opinion?
Peter: With my dorm I had reiterated I was not for or against. A lot of people were
against it. There were very few people who were for it. I would talk to them and they
would be for it and others said it was not good. They don’t like it
Jouval: There are a lot of extremes on banning it and why not just regulate designated
smoking area?
Emily: Well I do work for the senate but you want my opinion on it. I am absolutely
against designated areas because it encourages smoking on campus. It shows it in a
concentrated area which gives off a different representation. Only 3% smoke on people
smoke daily. They are making it look like more people. If the senate wants designated
areas we can do that. We will however see a high concentration in the same area
Hannah: Is there a way that the ban could be voted on by the entire student body?
Gabe: We could have a ballot initiative a long with voting on these things. It could
happen but it could happen
Graduate Student Senate Rep: The clarification from the GSS we didn’t have any formal
support on anything or a ban we had a discussion. Did that survey go to all students?
Emily: Just undergraduate
Brennan: Did you see the lack of students who smoke?
Katie: That was concern from Williamson was the lack of support for the health aspect it
was from their peers and it was one of the main reasons
Brennan: assuming she can do this with a timeline and can work with support services
Katie: If it is sufficient if they can get the help they need to quit then they may change
their minds
Zach: are students not aware of the services?
Emily: A counselor maybe added to their description of tobacco help. Help will go out to
students with an addiction. College is stressful all of the outreach will be aimed at finding
better coping mechanisms. It is a way to help a person during a trying time. So my goal
would be to give students a healthy way to deal with the stress.
Lincoln: To Jordan: What do your residents think of this?
Jordan: We didn’t have a meeting but I did speak to students and they are for it because
they were non smokers
Lincoln: Would you say you are prepared
Jordan: Not 100%
Amendment to change the survey results to have undergraduate put in
Lincoln: As the author would you be comfortable using that tititle the title of the survey?
Emily: Sure
Lincoln: would you feel more comfortable about the formal title?
Emily: Yes
Doug – Lincoln, where do you want to see this change?
Lincoln – The graduate student did not feel like this was representing them so I thought
changing it to the title of the survey so if people have questions they can see survey.
Point of Information - Ryan – Adding this, is the same thing as having a footnote.
Gabe – We will put that in.
Point of Information – Lincoln – It is not the same
Gabe – Correct having it in text is different than having a footnote.
Amendment to the Amendment was called to question
Passes with 5 nay’s
We will now move into the amendment
Passes Unanimously
We will now move into the amendment to the amendment
Passes with one nay
We will now vote on the amendment
Passes with one nay
Lincoln: to jouval: what is the opinion on your constituents?
Jouval: It’s targeting those who do smoke. It has good intentions but at the same time
there are people who are addicted to caffeine or drinking so my view on people maybe
there should be designated smoking areas that are not high traffic. Either they are going
to stay within ten feet of the building it’s not just the students who are affected by this. I
think we can reach a consensus to have designated areas.
Jouval: do the cottages count?
Emily: yes it counts for all of the schools areas
Jake: I motion to table to a later date next semester or March 13th
Gabe: Would you like a motion to a definite time of March 13th
Emerson: Point of info we are on spring break at that time
Jake: March 6th
Ryan: January is out of the question and February is out of the question because we are
on break. We want it to have more time to get this out so there is more time.
Sam: My only concern is that this wouldn’t get done for next year it would not getting it
done by the time we want it to be done, a lot of the SRRR is done in January
Emily: Given what everyone has said this is poorly written for what students want. I need
to go back and do better student better opinion. This does not fit student polling. I would
be able to get answers for you.
Doug you can amend something that is brought to the floor.
Jon: Can Emily pull it off the floor?
Gabe: no
Zach: motion to call to question
Passes with necessary 2/3
Motion to postpone to march 6th
Passes with one nay and 5 abstentions