ASCSU Cabinet Director’s 4/1/2008
President’s Report –Katie Gleeson
As we enter the second week of elections, please remember that we are all here to serve
students and should be positively working toward the future of CSU and ASCSU.
 Meeting with Paul Kowalczyk: Vice President Trout and I met with Athletic
Director Kowalczyk last Thursday to discuss the athletics student fee increase
proposal. As you are probably aware, athletics will ask the Student Fee Review
Board for an additional $15 per student/per semester fee increase for the FY09
year. We did express our frustration with the process to AD Kowalczyk and the
many questions we expect SFRB to have.
 Meeting with Vice President for Student Affairs Blanche Hughes: Last
Wednesday, Vice President Trout and I met with Blanche Hughes. We discussed
the athletics fee increase at length and communication between the administration
and ASCSU and suggestions for next year.
 Leadershape: Attention ASCSUers, anyone who has intentions of returning to
ASCSU next year and is interested in attending the best week-long leadership
retreat ever, Leadershape, please e-mail me your name and contact information.
Each year, SLiCE reserves spots for ASCSU members to attend Leadershape and
they are looking for names of folks who have not yet participated to go this year.
This is an incredible opportunity; I encourage you to think about applying.
 ASCSU FY2009 Budgets: Director Wilke and I have been discussing the budget
suggestions we will make the new President and VP elect for next year. Directors,
please see Director Wilke or Controller Laue with budget updates and/or
suggestions for next year. This is VITAL for proper budgetary planning.
 Elections: Senate will be cancelled this week in order for all ASCSU members to
attend the Theatre Debate. This is a MANDATORY event for all ASCSU
members. Please remember to keep elections discussions out of the office. I am
here to talk to anyone who has questions about the role of the president, the role
on the Board of Governors, etc. Finally, do not forget to vote on April 7-9th on
Ram Web. Please remind all of your friends as we hope to reach 25% student
turnout.
 Collegian Advisory Committee: The Collegian Advisory committee will meet
this week to discuss any proposals forwarded to the committee.
 CSU/City Liaison Meeting: This Wednesday, the City of Fort Collins and CSU
will hold its CSU/City Liaison meeting on campus. For suggestions of items of
discussion, please inform Director Freudenthal.
 Transfort: I wanted to remind everyone that ASCSU is in the middle of a three
year contract with Transfort. The contract ends in June 2009. ASCSU pays
Transfort based on increases/decreases in ridership for the previous year. Please
see me with questions.
Dates to Remember
4/2/08: ASCSU President/Vice President Debate, LSC Theatre
4/7/08-4/9/08: VOTE on RamWeb for ASCSU President, VP, Senator, For-Ever-Green
shirt design
4/2/08: CSU/City Liaison meeting
Vice President’s Report – Trevor Trout
There is no Senate meeting this week.
Student Fee Review Board: Athletics is proposing a $15.00 fee increase. We
will be hearing from Athletics on April 8th. University Counseling Center and
Hartshorn Health Center fee were endorsed to cover mandatory cost increases, for
the extension of a counseling position and a new psychiatrist in addition to
mandatory costs.
 Senate: If you are interested in running for the 38th Senate please apply now!
 Organizational Representative Working Group: This is an Ad Hoc committee
of highly invested ASCSU members who will be tackling pressing city and
university issues. WE WILL BE MEETING THIS UPCOMING SUNDAY!
Meetings will be held Sunday nights at Alley Cat. Drinks will be provided.
Finance Report – Chris Wilke
 Student Funding Board: Distributed a total of $202,634.68 this year we have no
more money left to distribute for the rest of the year besides possible reversions
from other events funded.
 SFB Meetings: We have had some reversions! We will be having a Funding
Board meeting Thursday at 5:15pm. We will be hearing from 2 of the groups on
the waiting list this week. May have more reversions coming up. Probably will
only have 2 more funding board meetings for the rest of the year. It’s been a
spectacular year for funding board!
 Legislation for SFB: It’s coming! Senator Sarah Walker has started drafting out
the legislation for Senate. All amendments have passed Student Funding Board
but they all need to be approved.
 ASCSU Budget: I have begun to work on the ASCSU Budget for academic
year 2009. I would like to meet with each department within the next week
to discuss what you feel would be appropriate for next year. Also, any
ASCSU input would be greatly appreciated during the initial planning phase.
From there, after elections, we will do some tweaking for the President and
Vice President Elect and present to SFRB, SFB, and then Senate.
Dates to Remember
4/1-4/2008 – SCASLA: LA Days
4/3/2008 – Org. of Graduate Student Writers - 2007-2008 Reading Series - Lyn Hejinian
4/6 - 4/9/2008 – Metalsmithing Guild of CSU: Visiting Artist: Tom Muir
4/9/2008 – Psi Chi - David Campbell Lecture
4/11/2008 – Colleigate Horsemen’s Association – Questionable Shellfish Improvised
Comedy
4/11/2008 – Gillette Entomology Club - Topics in entomology- live insect display and
pheromone communication in bark beetles - Dr. Seybold
4/12/2008 – Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity - TKE and Fossil Ridge High School: Fort
Collins, Fort Collins 5k Run to raise awareness for our local volunteer fire departments
4/20/2008 – Liberal Arts College Council – Saul Williams
4/24/2008 – Org. of Graduate Student Writers - 2007-2008 Reading Series - Richard
Tayson
5/5/2008 - Colloquium in the Life Science - Ramanan Laxminarayan
Controller –Emily Laue
ASCSU Account Status Report
Executive Cabinet Report
Account 23-6150
March 31, 2008
Department
Academics
Administration
Community Affairs
Diversity and Outreach
Leadership Development
Legislative Affairs
Marketing
Senate
Student Services
Supreme Court
Ram Ride
Total Allocation
$500.00
$153,813.42
$750.00
$3,000.00
$7,500.00
$11,600.00
$20,000.00
$1,000.00
$48,365.02
$2,000.00
$69,674.99
Total Income
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$9,852.00
$0.00
$0.00
Total Allocated for Account
Total Income for Account
Total Expenditures for Account
Budget Balance/Percent Used
Account Balance
Total Expense
$238.30
$97,140.38
$1,448.80
$35.00
$3,687.81
$4,349.50
$8,592.76
$289.61
$36,684.40
$1,303.87
$73,766.33
$318,203.43
$9,852.00
$227,536.76
$90,666.67
$100,518.67
% used
47.7%
63.2%
193.2%
1.2%
49.2%
37.5%
43.0%
29.0%
75.8%
65.2%
105.9%
71.5%
Chief of Staff –Ben Schrader
 Parking Service Committee: ASCSU has four voting positions on the PSC. For
quite some time ASCSU has had only one member present and for several
meetings no representation at all. It is very important to have representation from
the Student population. Many changes will be occurring quickly regarding
parking due to the huge amount of construction that is/will be taking place on the
CSU campus. These changes will greatly affect all of us in regard to parking.
Here are the remaining dates for the PSC this school year: Wednesday April 9 and
Wednesday May 7, 2008. Meetings are to start at noon and can last until 2:00pm.
Both remaining meetings will be held at the Lory Student Center Room 220-222.
For more information please contact Andy Shank or myself.
 SLiCE/ASCSU Grad assistant: We have decided upon a candidate for next
year’s SLiCE/ASCSU grad assistant from the SAHE program. The candidate’s
name is Brett Rundle. Brett is a graduate of Kansas State University. He holds a
BS in Finance and Marketing and a minor in Economics. Brett has spent the last
year working as a leadership consultant for Beta Theta Phi. If you have any
questions you can talk to Seth Walter, Pam Sampson or I for more information.
 ELECTIONS: As we are half way through campaign season I want to remind
you all that there is NO CAMPAIGNING IN THE OFFICE!!! Also I am hoping
that we can all focus on our jobs and what we need to get done, even though many
different things will be going on... So please, do your jobs, because I will call
ya’ll out publicly if you’re slackin!
Dates to Remember
04/01/08 Matt Roloff: Little People, Big World
04/02/08 Communicating Climate Change
04/02/08 Women at Noon
04/03-05/08 Studio Dance Performances (these are really cool!!!)
04/04/08 Women's Tennis vs. BYU
04/05/08 Women's Tennis vs. Utah
Academics –Dan Palmer
 TEXTBOOKS:We are having a thank you event for all who participated on the
textbooks legislation, their friends, and all who want to come on Saturday, April
5th from 11am-3:30pm at Rolland Moore Park.
Each member of the academics department (and Blake) will have ten faculty
signed up for this campaign by Wednesday April 2nd.
The walk for cheaper textbooks is starting up again. Orders are due by April 15th.
We will present information about the walk for cheaper textbooks to different
student groups. We need your help calling faculty and putting up door hangers.
We will pass around a sheet on Wednesday April 2nd at the debates.
 HONOR CODE: We have failed. We are looking for help from senators to write a
bill to formalize the language for the honor code, and that will empower next
year’s Director of Academics to actually do something about the honor code.
 2010 BUDGET: Russ and Caiter will begin working on this over the coming
week. It is one of the Academic Department’s long-term goals, and we want to
start working on the budget so that we can start on it earlier next year.
Community Affairs –Katie Freudenthal
Hello everyone! I hope your all doing well and staying up to date on the director’s
reports.
 City Council: Ram Leader Courtney Sullivan has been going to City Council
Meetings in my place because I have a mandatory class on Tuesday evenings.
Council is very aware of ASCSU’s presence at their meetings and this really helps
city/student relations. Thanks for your help Courtney.
 Housing Fair: The housing fair was a great success! We gave out 500 forevergreen t-shirts. The catch was that students had to take a short survey on the Over
Occupancy Ordinance. Many students were unaware or didn’t know the details
on this ordinance. It was a great educational outreach event.
 Vote Coalition: Due to scheduling conflicts, this meeting unfortunately had to be
pushed back a week. One of our agenda items will include a “kick off” publicity
event for the Vote Coalition and hopefully highlights about the President’s
Commitment to Civic Engagement. I will keep you updated.
 City Council is coming to Campus: I have finally secured a date with the city
manager’s office. It will happen April 29th most likely from 5:30 – 7:00 pm. The
exact time may be subject to change but the 29th will be the exact day. The entire
Council, Mayor, and City Manager will be in attendance. This is a pretty cool
event ASCSU is hosting, as the ENTIRE Council has not been on campus at the
same time for several years. I am working with Director Settle on marketing.
Mark your calendars!
 City/CSU Liaison Meeting: There is another quarterly meeting this Wednesday
and I will be in attendance. I have a few agenda items for discussion such as the
Council/Campus Event, Boarding House Permits, Occupancy Outreach, and
possibly a few more updates.
 Voter Registration: Are you registered to vote? I am picking up more Voter
Reg. forms Tuesday. We can register people to vote. Help register or inform
others that ASCSU can provide that service. Please see me or Assistant Director
Lenz for more information on voter registration.
 Environmental Affairs: Assistant Director of Environmental Affairs Vieth has
had a recent success with his compost program. He informed me today that it
should be up and running in the residence halls next month. Congrats Will!
Important Dates to Remember:
April 29th 2008: City Council is coming to Campus – exact times still TBD but most
likely 5:30 – 7:00 pm. Watch for updates/marketing.
Diversity & Outreach –Gabe Barela
 I spent the weekend in Estes Park at the “Somos Rams” Leadership Retreat. This
was a retreat hosted by El Centro Student Services and was designed to bring
freshmen and sophomore students into El Centro and familiarize them with staff
and resources offered through El Centro. We took approximately 30 students and
engaged them in leadership and cultural relevant workshops. The central theme
of the retreat was the “circle of elements.” This is a central philosophy El Centro
uses to train its staff and outreach to potential students. My particular role in this
Retreat was to serve as a resource and facilitator for the workshops and students
involved.
 The Human Race Machine is now on display (March 31-April 8) from 10-4pm.
This display will alternate between the Art Lounge and Sunken Lounge in the
LSC. With machine people will be able to interactively see how they would look
as a member of another race. You can also age yourself and see how your
offspring would look with your partner.
 We Are State Campaign is scheduled to be launched this week, Thursday April 2.
From 11-2 you can come in and sign a declaration of acceptance and get a T-shirt.
The goal of We Are State, is too increase awareness of inclusive language,
diversifying your campus experience, and ways to stop hate. A website with
several resources will also be launched as part of this campaign. Contact
Assistant Director Jaimes for details.
Dates to Remember:
3/31: Cesar Chavez Day-De Novo Play 7pm LSC Theatre
4/1: Workshop with De Novo Cast 10am LSC Theatre
4/1: Out of Focus Film Festival-Pride 6pm LSC Commons
4/1: Matt Roloff-Little People, Big World 7pm LSC Theatre
4/2: Women at Noon Series-Recap: Alternative Spring Break, Juarez Mexico 12pm LSC
214-16.
4/2: Women’s Study Colloquium: Marvel Moreno from Barranquilla to Square PaulPainlevé: A Latin American Writer as a Global Intellectual. 3:30-5pm LSC 214-16.
4/2: Daryl Davis: Klan Destine Relationships 6pm Clark A 101.
4/3: Out of Focus Film Festival-Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 6pm Durell Center DC
Bottoms
4/3: Oveous Maximus-Slam Poet 7pm LSC Theatre
4/5: Dancing Around the World 7-11pm Top Floor LSC
Leadership Development - Mitch Trebesh
Quote of the week:
“The goal of many leaders is to get people to think more highly of the leader. The
goal of a great leader is to help people to think more highly of themselves.”
- J. Carla Nortcutt
 The Involvement Project:
 For all Directors: Please include Ram Leader progress within your
department within the Directors Reports each week.
 A few of the projects that the Ram Leaders have been working on thus far
include:
 SMILE Projects for Student Services Department
 Attending weekly City Council meetings for Community Affairs
Department
 Assisting Marketing Department with the Web Site
 Helping Chief of Staff Ben Schrader with the CSU/MTV event
 Assisting President Katie Gleeson with her duties
 Assisting Vice President Trevor Trout with his duties
 Leadership Development Involvement Project Ram Leaders:
 The Leadership Development Ram Leaders are working with the
department to help create an RLT slide show.
 I-Ball:
 Ram Leaders have formed a committee to work on I-Ball and have begun
work on this event. More info to come soon.
 The Bridge Project:
 We are going to be working with 3 CSUnity groups. The three projects
will be with the following agencies:
o Colorado Forest Service
o Rocky Mountain Raptor Program
o Larimer County Food Bank
 All of the Ram Leader committees are working on various projects: from
creating a t-shirt for the project, to fundraising, to researching possible
transportation options.
IMPORTANT DATES
April 11th- 3rd Meeting at Lincoln for the Bridge Project
April 12th- Bridge Project/CSUnity Date!!!!! WOOT WOOT!!!
Legislative Affairs Department –August Ritter
Hello: to dispel the rumors I have been hearing about my absence… I am not dead. I am
in fact alive and well. I did not spend the last two weeks in a Mexican jail. I was taking a
breather with the fam in Moab Utah. But thanks for all of your concerns and questions
about Mexican jails anyway. I’d like to thank Holli and Mary for holding down the fort
while I was gone. It doesn’t seem like anything monumental has happened since I was
gone but here are the few things I have to update you all on.
 The tracking report: We are tracking fewer and fewer bills down at the
legislature every week since some of them are either getting passed or are dying
in their respective committees. If you have questions about these just let me
know.
 Severance Tax for Funding Higher Education: There have been some different
proposals about an increase in a severance tax to help fund higher education next
year. Most of these proposals look like they will be sent to the ballot in November
of next year. (only one will go to the voters). Right now it looks like we might be
teaming up with environmentalists to pass something in the fall that would benefit
both of us. Representative Buescher also has something that would help fund
higher ed. (If you want more details just inquire) While all of these proposals look
great, and they are, none of them is really the “BIG FIX” we are hoping for. I
worry that if voters pass something that helps higher ed, but not as much as it
needs, they will be less likely to vote for something to help higher ed again in the
future. But that is all just speculation from me. I suppose we should be grateful
for any help we can get from the state at this point.
 Lobbying in the final days: As the session comes to a close there will definitely
be some opportunity for those of you to lobby down at the capitol that haven’t
done so already this year. If you are one of those people, or you want to lobby
again, please email me at your earliest convenience and I’ll be sure to let you
know when I am heading down to the capitol again… to change the world…one
tuition dollar at a time.
Marketing –Mark Settle
 Ski Bus: Snowriders is doing a great job selling discount shuttle rides to
Breckenridge and Keystone. We're running an ad on Thursday to ensure that all
seats are filled.
 ASCSU Website: Our working group is meeting this Sunday, at 2:30, to work on
the website. Our present website is moving forward every day.
 RamRide Website: I have a fantastic update on the future RamRide website. I
look forward to telling you more at Senate, next week.
 Elections: Our website has been updates with new elections stuff, and tee shirts
have been designed. We're doing a big three day voting push to get the word out
about voting. We're targeting specific groups with specific messages (ie, Seniors,
did you know you can still vote? etc).
 Community Affairs: I'm working on a project with C.A., though I can't remember
what... it's due toward the end of this month, so I should try to remember.
RamRide –Alliy Barrell
I hope everyone’s weekends were great! We don’t have too much going on…
 Thank You event: We are looking into where to have our thank you event this
spring. We are currently thinking either broomball or bowling, if you have a
strong opinion, let us know!
 Open House: We are planning our open house, and looking into inviting
sponsors, legislators, and administrators. Our tentative date is May 2nd
 Rides: We gave 825 Rides this weekend!
Dates to Remember
5/2/08-Open House (tentative)
Student Services – Zane Guilfoyle
Welcome back, August!
 ForEverGreen: Don’t forget to vote for your favorite design on RamWeb during
the ASCSU elections.
 Weekend Ski/Board Shuttle: Is this weekend!!!!!!!! Tickets are on sale in the
Lory Student Center basement in room S14 at the CSU Snowclub office. Prices
are $10 for Snowrider members and $15 for non-members. Pick up location will
be the Westfall parking lot, and the bus will be leaving at 6:30am with light
snacks provided!!!!!
 CSU vs CU Lacrosse Road Trip: The game is Saturday, April 26, 2008, with the
woman’s game starting at 5pm and the men’s game following at 7pm. The buses
will be leaving from the Transit Center at 2:30pm. Admission for both games
plus transportation is $15.50, otherwise game tickets cost $8. Tickets are
available at the CSU box office. If you want to be a bus host for this event,
please let me know ASAP!!! For volunteering we will provide you a ticket into
the games!
 Student-Coach Mixer- The Student-Coach Mixer will be April 29 from 11am2pm in LSC Room 228. The entire football staff as well as student players will be
in attendance to share their insights on plans for next year as well be there to
answer any questions that you may have! Food will be provided!
 RLT Projects: Other than the Lacrosse Trip, our RLT’ers also have a SMILE
project planned for April 25 on the LSC plaza from 11am-1pm. We are
tentatively planning on serving Snow cones and lemonade!
Dates to Remember:
4/5/2008 – Weekend Ski/Board Shuttle
4/25/2008—SMILE Project
4/26/2008 – CSU vs CU Lacrosse Road Trip
4/29/2008-Student-Coach Mixer
Judicial Report –Cari Stepsay
“Know your rights: Academic dishonesty” the article written by Katie McLaughlin and
Robert Drost appeared in the Collegian on Monday, March 31, 2008. This is a first step
in the direction of being proactive. Look forward to the court doing more things to bring
awareness to the campus. If you or anyone you know has questions regarding academic
dishonesty please let them know the court can help as well as the Office of Conflict
Resolution.
 Appeal Hearing: Only one this week and one next week.
 New Innovations:
o We will be looking into robes to wear as advertisement. Possibly on the
Plaza with signs saying, “Ask me about my robe”. If anyone has any
feedback regarding this idea, please let anyone from the court know or
email us.
o As most of you have noticed, the constitution that sits in the senate
chambers has seen many days, the court is hoping to find the funding to
replace the raged constitution with the newly ratified constitution
concluding this year.
 Internal:
o Dan Gearhart and Mark are working diligently on improving the courts
portion of the website. Look forward to being able to find any information
regarding constitutions for Sports Clubs, SAVA, and all bylaws. Since
our project is being proactive and more involved we will also include the
options for pursuing academic dishonesty.
o The court has a training this Wednesday regarding our participation with
the Office of Conflict Resolution. The Court will now play a large role in
the student’s option to speak to either a hearing officer from the Office of
Conflict Resolution or, now, a Justice regarding their options and paths for
an appeal.
Elections Committee Report –Emily Laue
Important Dates:
April 2nd – Debate in the LSC theater
*Please be there at 7pm
*Candidates must be dressed business casual
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April 7 , 8 and 9th – Voting begins on RamWeb, tell all your friends!
Elections Committee:
Meeting April 1st at 4:00 pm and again April 3rd at 3:30 pm