Student Affairs Senate
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Callen Conference Center
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The Student Affairs Senate was called to order at 1:00 pm by Vice President Ben Schilling.
Roll Call
45 members present
i. Members absent at time of roll call
1. Unexcused: Diane Hawkins, Barbora Hubena, Erin Kautz
2. Excused: Phil Bakken, Spencer Randazzo, Adam Winters
Minutes
a. The minutes from April 16th were approved
Officer Reports
a. President
i. No report
b. Vice President
i. Service Hour Challenge
1. We met our goal
2. Keep logging hours because it goes until Homecoming 2013
ii. May 8th Student Research Symposium
1. Schedule will be online soon
a. Over 250 students are presenting
2. All classes are cancelled
c. Treasurer
i. No report
1. Contingency $13,655.64
2. Operating $235.42
3. Project $24,999.61
d. Secretaries
i. No report
e. Parliamentarian
i. No report
f. Technology Advisor
i. No report
g. Faculty Advisor
i. No report
Committee Reports
a. Academic Affairs
i. No report
b. Budget
i. No report
c. Campus Grounds and Safety
i. No report
d. Multicultural Affairs and Minority Viewpoints
i. No report
e. Public Relations and Elections
i. Voting booths
1. Senators, encourage constituents to vote
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2. If Senators signed up for a time to sit at the voting booth it is important
to be punctual!
f. Student Affairs
i. No report
New Business
a. SB-23 (Live Band Karaoke)
i. Secretary Baxter introduced the bill
ii. Sen. Dlouhy proposed a grammatical friendly amendment
1. Sen. Love, Student Affairs chair, accepted this amendment
iii. Sen. Fisher asked if the Fall 2011 date was correct
1. Karri Sanderson and VP Schilling confirmed this was correct
iv. Period of Clarification
1. Sen. Tangeman asked if the date of this event was the same as Jim
Wand
a. Karri Sanderson stated that Jim Wand is at 9 pm so the time will
not overlap
2. Sen. K. Johnson-point of clarification-did senate fund anything for
Sunday Fun Day last year?
a. Sen. Jones stated that Senate was originally going to fund
Karaoke, but it fell through so they ended up paying less and
paid $2,210 for the DJ, Photo Booth and Caricature artist
3. Diane Hawkins stated-as of last week $35,000 was approved by Senate
for resolutions, the budget Senate passed this year took money from
contingency fund to guarantee a balanced budget. Funding for next year
depends on carry back and organization spending. Carry back last year
carry back was 10,000. Next year senate is going to have less money
than in the past two years.
4. Sen. Dlouhy rose against SB-23 on the grounds of Diane Hawkins’
comment
5. Sen. Jones rose in favor of SB-23 and stated the event will be a huge PR
event for SAS in order to promote filling the open seats in senate
6. Karri Sanderson added a point of clarification, SB-23 lists $3,000 as the
contract price, but if she gets a block price the price the contract will
drop to $2500 or even $2000 if more schools book the block
7. Sen. Stajduhar rose in favor of SB-23 stating that Senate can scrutinize
funding next year
8. Sen. Fisher rose in favor of SB-23 stating that it is a fantastic idea for
New Student Orientation, but also reminded Senate that this issue of
spending is something that he has stated many times throughout the
semester. He stated that Senate needs to start having a realistic
conversation on spending; we’ve put ourselves in an interesting
situation because Senate has adopted a culture of “use it or lose it” in
terms of funding.
9. Sen. Klimek rose in favor of SB-23 and pointed out that budget alarmism
is not the way to look at this and stated that senate’s budget is
dependent on the ebbs and flows of the enrollment cycle so some years
there is going to be more money and some years there will be less. He
also pointed out that senate recently spent over 50,000 on remodeling
the Prairie Wolf rooms
10. Diane Hawkins confirmed that there was a decrease in enrollment and
an increase in spending, but also stated that student fees increased by
$25 last year to compensate for this but confirmed that spending by
senate will have to decrease next year
11. Sen. Stadjuhar moved to previous question
12. The motioned was seconded and the motion passed carried
v. Vote count
1. SR-23 passed
b. SB-8
i. Secretary Baxter introduced SB-8
1. Period of Clarification
a. Sen. Jones asked if a potential member of the Nebraska
Community Blood Bank (NCBB) organization could speak about
their goals and objectives and asked how they were different
than the Red Cross club (an existing club on campus)
i. Jack Burt stated that they are different from the Red
Cross Club because the donated blood will be
distributed locally, there will be two blood drives/year
and he stated that they will work with the Red Cross
club and Karri Sanderson to ensure that each donation
event will be at least 60 days apart
2. Karri Sanderson stated that, historically NWU has contracted a time
with the Community Blood Bank, but having a student organization on
campus with student leaders is a better way to organize these events.
She also stated the reason that the Red Cross Club is in existence is
because its founder had an internship with the Red Cross and one of the
requirements was to start the Red Cross club on the college campus
that she attended
3. Sen. Fisher asked Karri Sanderson if there is a point where we saturate a
market, specifically, will having two clubs on campus with the same goal
be a problem
a. Karri Sanderson stated that she can’t tell an organization not to
exist unless they violate a law or discriminate
b. Karri Sanderson gave some examples of similar clubs on campus
i. Exuberance is similar to Exclusive step show, but both
clubs are still running
ii. A few years ago Fun Club was organized and it was
essentially the same as WEB and Fun Club is no longer
in existence
4. Sen. Fisher asked if Karri could speak on her historical knowledge about
the longevity of organizations with similar purposes
a. Karri Sanderson stated that Young Dems and College
Republicans are both political clubs that function just fine even
though interest tends to ebb and flow with political cycles. She
stated that if Senate recognizes them as a club it will not affect
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us in a negative way—if they don’t maintain their club and the
interest declines then they will eventually cease to exist.
5. Sen. Taylor asked if the representative could elaborate more on their
club objectives
a. Jack Burt stated that the club will meet twice a semester, one
meeting will be to organize and sign up for the routine blood
donating and the other meeting will be to discuss the
importance of blood giving. He also emphasized again the
importance of the local blood donating and stated that the local
aspect is the major difference between the Nebraska
Community Blood Bank Club and the Red Cross Club
ii. Sen. C. Johnson asked if the two clubs will coordinate with clubs to ensure that
donation times are two months apart so students can donate multiple times
throughout the year
1. Karri Sanderson stated that there have already been scheduling events
made in order to allow for this
iii. Sen. Klimek asked the representative if the club would need money
1. Jack Burt stated that he doubted that they would ask SAS for any
funding
2. Karri Sanderson pointed out that if the club needed money they would
have to submit a request in the form of a resolution next semester and
then senate could decided on the exact funding to give them
iv. Diane Hawkins stated that there were three groups formed in 2012-13 and just
until recently two have not requested an account number and one has not
requested funding
v. Sen. C. Johnson stated that SAS allocated Red Cross club $2,000 for next year
vi. Period of Discussion
1. Sen. Stahr rose in favor of SB-8 emphasizing that this is a good way to
retain and keep donors
2. Sen. Fisher rose in favor of SB-8 stating that the communication
department has worked with the Nebraska Community Blood Bank to
help encourage donation and introduce different ways of donating. He
also stated that there plausible and logical reasons to avoid blood
donation scheduling between the Nebraska Community Blood Bank
Club and the Red Cross Club
3. Sen. Jones moved to previous question
a. It was seconded and the motion carried
vii. Vote count
1. SB-8 passed
Announcements
a. Tuesday, April 30th is the tentative final session of Senate
b. Jazz band at Brewsky’s at 7:30 pm, admission is $5
c. Homecoming meeting for student organizations on Thursday at 4pm in Prairie Wolf A,
content of the meeting: how student organizations can be involved in homecoming
d. Food Cart this week is Walking Tacos, look for the WEB cart between 2-4 pm
e. Celebrate May with the following events, which are free to all NWU students:
4:30- 8:30 pm –Laser Tag on the Green Space (teams of 5; 2 teams at a time); food
cart that day is Ice Cream from UNL Dairy store
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5:30 pm Picnic (dining hall closed for dinner) Free for all students
9 pm –Screen on the Green (outdoor movie)
f. WEB is sponsoring a trip to the Henry Doorly Zoo on Saturday, May 4. This program
is free for all NWU students (non-NWU guests are not eligible to attend).
The bus will leave at 11 am from the Weary Center, and we will leave the zoo at 3
pm. You will need to bring money for food, drinks and other items you wish to
purchase at the zoo, sign up in CSI
g. Theta Chi Stir Fry Philanthropy, Thursday, April 25, 7pm – 9:30pm, Theta Chi Chapter
House, $5 tickets purchased prior to the event, $6 tickets at the door
Come support Sage at Theta Chi's stir fry philanthropy. Sage is the niece of Theta Chi
senior, Kellan Schmidt. She was born with complications at birth and her family is
seeking a medical procedure that will maximize her potential in life. All proceeds
from the event go to Sage's medical treatment
h. Tonight at 8 pm in SC235 first meeting of Human Resource Management, free treats!
i. AGD is having their second annual Ivanna Cone philanthropy, proceeds go to diabetes
awareness, Tuesday, April 30th at Alpha Gamma Delta Chapter House, homemade
toppings will be served with the ice cream, tickets are $5 at the door and can be
purchased by any AGD woman
j. Reveille still has open positions, specifically, a News Editor, looking for someone
involved on campus and aware of events, questions contact
htangema@nebrwesleyan.edu; all campus survey will be coming out soon about
student desires about the newspaper
k. RHA is hosting quittage tonight in Knight Field House, Curtis Dlouhy is a Snitch, nbd
l. DZ’s Kelly Yogurt Philanthropy is tonight
m. Next Tri Beta speaker will be lecturing about Herpetology (branch of zoology concerned
with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and
gymnophiona) and reptiles)
Adjourn at 1:37 pm