Student Affairs Senate
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Olin A
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The Student Affairs Senate was called to order at 1:00 pm by Vice President Ben Schilling.
Roll Call
38 members present
i. Members absent at time of roll call
1. Unexcused: Tom Schroeder, Sara Olson, Allison Behrens, Gabe Taylor
2. Excused: Cody Miller, Hannah Wright, Alex Ahlers, Patty Hawk, Ryan
Sutter, Kellan Schmidt
Minutes
a. The minutes from Oct. 30th were approved
Special Orders
Officer Reports
a. President
i. Service hour challenge
1. Total hours: 2,818.5
2. Advisory committee
a. Ideas for promoting the link to log hours
b. Talk to Phil if interested in attending this meeting
ii. Religious Student Organization Summit
1. Meeting will be set this afternoon
2. Talk to Phil if interested
iii. Constitution for the Nebraska State Student Association
1. First meeting will entail formalizing the constitution
a. Advocacy in student affairs
b. Student across the state can ban together for issues that affect
higher education
c. Increase communication
2. Next week there will be a resolution for support of the initiative
iv. Board of Governors & University Judiciary
1. Applications are in the student life office
2. Submit applications by Fri. Nov. 16th
b. Vice President
i. Last week senate
1. If someone has a question about procedure—rise and question
parliamentary order
2. SB-8 was passed last year, so ThePACK is a recognized student
organization
3. Confirmed with Clark Chandler that there are 3 licenses that ThePACK
can use for music broadcasting
c. Treasurer
i. No report
d. Secretaries
i. No report
e. Parliamentarian
i. Table indefinitely
VI.
VII.
1. Motion is swept aside and motion cannot come back to the floor for a
whole calendar year
ii. Refer to committee
1. Committee will revise the legislation, answer questions and bring the
resolution back to the floor
iii. Table definitely
1. You can table the bill for as long as you would like
2. Set aside until the definite moment and then we can hear it again on
the floor
iv. Time crunch
1. SAS will finish at 1:50 and if we’re not done with the legislation—it will
be the first order of business the next week
f. Technology Advisor
i. PRS system instead of hand voting will begin next week
Committee Reports
a. Academic Affairs
i. Meeting at 9 pm, Wed. Nov. 7th
ii. Process team will present committee revisions next semester in January
b. Budget
i. Budget hearings this weekend
ii. If your advisor in the student organization is unaware of this please make sure
they are informed
c. Campus Grounds and Safety
i. Safety walk
1. Largest attendance ever
2. Thank-you to everyone that attended
d. Multicultural Affairs and Minority Viewpoints
i. No report—committee will meet after senate
e. Public Relations and Elections
i. Advertising for SAS
ii. Refined message for Wesleyan Wheels
iii. Like us on Facebook and follow on Twitter for prizes!
f. Student Affairs
i. Meal plans
1. Survey will be sent out in a few weeks
ii. Legislation in the next two weeks is under process
New Business
a. SR-5
i. Sen. Woodus motioned to consider SR-5
1. Sen. Wilson seconded
ii. Secretary Roth read SR-5
iii. Sen. Miller proposed a friendly amendment to change the SHOUTcast
Subscription to $399.90 and the total reflected this change: total = $742.77
iv. Period of clarification
1. Sen. Jones moved to reflect the new total of $742.77 throughout the
resolution
v. Period of discussion
1. Sen. Miller rose in favor of SR-5—these are all things that would have
been in their budget, had they been able to submit a budget last year
vi. Sen. Evert moved to previous question
1. Sen. Mumford seconded
b. SR-5 passed by unanimous vote
c. SR-6
i. Sen. Evert motioned to consider SR-6
1. Sen. Ryan seconded
ii. Secretary Roth read SR-6
iii. Sen. Schied asked why The Pack isn’t using CSIT’s material
1. Response by Michael Crake
a. CSIT couldn’t offer anything that was newer, equipment that
they were offering was old and isn’t compatible with their
system
iv. Sen. Damme asked the Budget Committee what they constitution stated about
reimbursement
1. Sen. Miller—there are no guidelines for reimbursement at this time
v. Sen. Pirnie inquired about the spending that occurred during the summer
1. Response by Michael Crake
a. Michael tried to get into contact with people and he couldn’t
reach, the current station manager stated that there was a
possibility to be refunded by SAS so Michael purchased the
items because he was told (by the current station manager) that
SAS would refund him
vi. Sen. Jones asked for specifics about who made the purchases
1. Response by Michael Crake
a. All supplies were purchased by Michael Crake
vii. Sen. Woodus asked about what the miscellaneous expenses were
1. Response by Michael Crake
a. He wasn’t sure exactly how the Budget Committee divided
expenses up
2. Response by Budget Chair, Mandi Miller
a. All expenses that have been submitted have matching receipts
viii. Sen. Klimek asked if the budget handbook specifically stated anything regarding
reimbursement
1. Sen. Miller—no
ix. Sen. Menousek asked what repercussions would come from these not being in
the constitution
1. Sen. Miller—the Budget committee will work on editing the budget
handbook after budget hearings
x. Sen. Damme asked why the Communication Department was willing to pay for
these charges
1. Response by Michael
a. In the original resolution they asked for enough money for
everything to work out, but when things did work out they went
to the Communication department for funds
xi. Sen. Jones asked what would happen if SAS did not repay the Communication
department
1. Karri Sanderson said that the department need to pay the expense
2. VP Schilling stated that the SAS Executive Committee would still hold
the power to decide who would take the hit
xii. Sen. Pirnie asked if the Communication department paid for the subscription
with the hopes of being reimbursed
1. Response from Michael
a. Thought it would be easier to come to SAS and get money, if he
had known this he would have asked for a longer trial period
through SHOUTcast
xiii. Sen. Klimek asked who, specifically from the Communication department was
asked about providing funding for the SHOUTcast subscription
1. Response from Michael
a. Dr. Whitt
xiv. Period of discussion (moved by VP Schilling due to time constraints)
1. Sen. Miller rose in favor of SR-6
a. It stinks that people spent money they didn’t have, but they
were not breaking any rules because reimbursements are not
mentioned in the constitution or the budget handbook
2. Sen. Jones moved to divide the question to separate the SHOUTcast
subscription from the reimbursement requested by Michael Crake
3. The question was divided
4. $505.99 will be reimbursed to Michael Crake
5. Sen. Klimek moved to previous question
a. Sen. Mumford seconded
6. Sen. Jones motioned for a hand vote
a. This motion was not seconded
b. The motion died
7. Sen. Miller motioned for a roll call vote
8. The motioned passed
9. Sen. Evert motioned to insert the word Studies between the words
Communication Department in the BE IT RESOLVED section of the
resolution
10. Sen. Damme asked if period of clarification counted as a period of
debate
11. Sen. Damme—point of order
a. Can amendments be made during the period of debate on the
entire resolution
12. Parliamentarian Katie explained that after a question was divided we
cannot make amendments to the resolution
13. VP Schilling stated that SAS separates the period of clarification and
period of debate in order to senators not to be confused with the
number of times they can speak
14. Sen. Damme asked to suspend the rules
15. Sen. Miller moved to reconsider the first part of the division
a. Sen. Menousek seconded
16. Sen. Damme asked that if two “Be it Resolved” sections were made—
what is actually happening with the entirety of the resolution?
17. Sen. Jones spoke about specifics in Robert’s Rules of Order
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18. Parliamentarian Katie recommended that SR-6 be sent back to the
Budget committee
19. VP Schilling entertained a motion to send SR-6 back to Budget
committee
a. Sen. Woodus moved to send SR-6 back to budget committee
b. Sen. Miller seconded
Announcements
a. Interested in being an NSO leader
b. Waffle Man
i. Tomorrow at United Methodist Church from 7-9
ii. Tickets are $5/person
iii. $6/person at the door
c. Election viewing party tonight in Olin B
d. Tomorrow is Bingo in the dining hall
Adjourn at 1:50 pm