Stetson University Student Government Association
(Meeting Minutes: Wednesday, September 10, 2008)
(7:00pm, Rinker Auditorium)
Quorum Established? yes
How many voting members present? 95
Were any others present? Erica Saviuk, Jeannie Dellutro, Rina Tovar
Proceedings:
1 The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by Will Grauel
2 The minutes of the last meeting (April 30, 2008) were waived and approved.
Executive Reports:
President
 Welcome to Senate
 Meeting with Dr. Beasley on Tuesday about tennis court lighting and hate speech bills
 Giving report at Board of Trustees meeting next week; if you have any suggestions, email
Drew
 Administered Oath of Office
Vice President
 Committee Assignments should be announced near the end of this week.
 Organizational appointments should be finished up by this weekend.
 For those of you who missed the Make-Up Retreat today, you will be notified of the next
make-up.
 Please remember, when introducing legislation as New Business, please send it to me as well
as Katie Peterson before the meeting so we have it for display and so we have it in
our records and can send it to the Committee Chair it will be assigned to.
 Tent Cards/Assigned Seats should be in place next Senate.
 Nominations for President Pro-Tempore should take place next Senate as well. Additional
nominations as well as the actual vote will take place a week after the initial period of
nominations.
Secretary of Communications
 Please email me excuses whenever possible.
 Is everyone on Blackboard? If not, please come see me after Senate and we will add you.
 Yield time to Director DeBevoise:
Community Relations, as provided by Director of Community Relations Hannah DeBevoise
 Sent email to those who signed up for Community Relations Team.
 Find me, and will meet for five minutes after senate.
Secretary of Finance
 The budget will be presented next week
 Yield time to Director Heisner:
SAFAC, as provided by Director of SAFAC Abbie Heisner
 New safac@stetson.edu email address and new office in CUB 206
Secretary of Student Involvement
 Sentate Meet n greet on October 2, Ron Duncan Will be there
 Would like to help plan it let me know
 Adopt an angel help (will be working with Omar)
 Circulated FYS sign up sheet
 Yield time to Director Hicks:
First Year Students, as provided by Director of First Year Students Matt Hicks
 Sign up sheet going around for Event Planning Team; you don’t have to be a first year
student to help
Traffic Appeals Board, as provided by Chair Manzura Talipova
 Putting signs up to prevent unnecessary tickets; taking other measures to decrease ticketing
 Email mtalipova@stetson.edu to sign up for board
Intercollegiate Relations, as provided by Director of Intercollegiate Relations Robert Gilbert
 No report
Special Orders:
 Discussion and Confirmation of Officers
o Parliamentarian: Ryan Lynch
o Secretary of Communications: Katie Peterson
o Secretary of Finance: Andrew Davis
o Secretary of Student Involvement: Taylor Smith
Old Business:
 none
New Business:
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Senator Lynch introduced the Elections Amendment and Vice President Amendment
Senator Avedanke introduced Bioplastic bill
Committee Reports:
Academic Affairs, as provided by Chair Kameron St. Clare
 I have formed an Academic Policy Reform Sub-Committee and have chosen Senator Scott
Pearson to be the chairman.
 If there are any members of the Policy Reform committee who would be interested in
consulting with my APR (Academic Policy Reform) sub-committee, please email myself and
Scott Pearson.
 When the committee is finalized, we will need to set up a time to meet.
 If anyone is interested in being on the committee still, the more the merrier.
Campus Life, as provided by Chair Kathryn Arblaster
 I will be making an appointment with Rina (dean of students) to discuss reservation/special
events coordinator for work study.
Finance and the Budget, as provided by Chair Abbie Heisner
 Look for SGA budget; will be approved soon
 Let Abbie know if you would like to join committee
Policy Reform, as provided by Chair Marissa Pilson
 I’m excited to get my committee started
 I'll be emailing my committee members soon to set up a meeting time
 It’s going to be a busy year for us; we already have 2 amendments that will be coming to our
committee after the first senate.
Residential Living, as provided by Chair Derek Jansante
 Re-introduce Clamshells
 Re-introduce "Cyber-Café" idea
 Meeting with Res Life tomorrow at 6:00
 Meeting with Dining Services hopefully before next Senate
 Those interested in my Committee, we'll meet after Senate for a minute
Ethics and Values, as provided by Chair Akeel St. Jean
 Get committee members familiar with University Values;
 Foster a good relationship with the Values Council;
 Get familiar with professional ethics
 Identify and Investigate Ethical and Values-based "problem areas" in administration.
Open Discussion:
 kudos to Senators Lynch and Deaton for a great start on new legislation; welcome to new
senators
 Keep side conversation down
 Senator St. Jean commends Erica Saviuk for her commitment to the SGA
Announcements:
 Remember to RSVP for the Meet and Greet at Dr. Lee’s house; next Monday at 5:00pm;
dress is business casual
 Model UN meeting has been postponed until next Thursday at 8pm
 Meet at the fountain at 9pm Wednesday evening to help plant flags in the quad
 Yearbook pictures are this Thursday and Friday until 8pm and 3:30pm, respectively; if you
don’t get your picture taken your yearbook picture will be used; no cost to get your picture
taken; seniors are offered cap and gown option ($64 for seniors until October 1; $70 for
everyone else)
 AKPsi Open Interviews tomorrow (Thursday) at 9pm
 Work Study email Akeel; info session immediately following Senate
 Thurman Lecture (Obama Presidency) by Ronald Walters tomorrow (Thursday) at 7pm in the
Stetson Club
 Caribbean Club will have Caribbean Game Night tomorrow (Thursday) at 6pm
 NightCap this Friday at 10pm
 AMA BBQ Friday outside Stetson Hall at 11:30am
 STAND meeting this Friday at noon in Eliz 319
The meeting adjourned at 7:43 p.m.
The minutes were recorded by Secretary of Communications, Katie Peterson