STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSEMBLY
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
1 University Station, A6210 · Austin, TX 78712-0810
(512) 471 – 3166 · Fax: (512) 471-3408 · http://www.utsg.org
THE
108TH SESSION
OF THE
STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSEMBLY
STUDENT GOVERNMENT GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING
Tuesday, October 21st, 2014
SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY: BRAYDON JONES, UNIVERSITY-WIDE REPRESENTATIVE
CLERK OF THE ASSEMBLY: JORDAN DURRANI
PARLIAMENTARIAN: DANIEL WARNER
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Call Meeting to Order
First Roll Call
Approval of the Minutes
Guests
a. Dr. Francisco Cigarroa, University of Texas System Chancellor
i. Introduced by Cameron Crane. SG is very important. Both Preisdent of Health
science and as chancellor, SG voice is always very important in deliberations. All
about students. Halls inspire you to do very best. The sacrifice for those who
support you is also very important. Speaking from the heart tonight. Hard to
believe 6 year tenure is coming to end. Handing keys to Adm. McRaven.
Amazing how time goes by. In order to excel in administration, you have to set
priorities. System is so large. Has my tenure made the system better? Brought
together presidents of all campuses together to add value to UT. 5 themes- All
the campuses are very different. Everyone agreed that we need to position UT
Austin as the finest public institution in the nation. Needed to improve the
health of texas. UT Austin/TAMU can’t be the only 2 research intensive public
schools in the state. Need the others to become AAU universities. Plant a larger
goals in south texas. Underserved area. Become leader in energy and engineering.
Well, what did we do?- In order for UT Austin to succeed, needed a school of
medicine. Key ingredient. Facilities of Cockrell school of engineering were
diminishing- risked losing competitive edge. Got board of regents to make long
term commitment to school of medicine- $25 mil perpetuity + $5 mil faculty
recruitment. Didn’t expect tuition bonds to fail- board needed to support
Powers. Need data and facts. In order to meet demands, we need addl 9000
engineers for the next few years. Board unanimously approved. Utilized reports
as means of getting legislature to support South Texas medical school efforts.
Have improved health of Texas. Have to support all schools- instill competitive
spirit between institutions. Board matched philanthropic gifts. Want AAU
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institution outside of Austin/TAMU. Plant large flag in ST- divorce between UT
Brownsville and local community college. Panhandle/Brownsville not eligible for
permanent university funds. Need to execute our visions. After 3-4 hours of
deliberation, parliamentarian says to create new university. Combine universities
under 1 umbrella and get 2/3 approval from Legsilature. Able to get legislature
to get united on this front and voted unanimously. Educate more engineers.
Establish energy research group in Houston. I’d like to step down when you find
a recruitment. Will be director of pediatric transplant center in San Antonio.
Bystanders, enhance safety, great place to teach and do research. Keep tuition
below CPI. Q/Patrick- what focuses will set apart Dell from other medical
schools across state? Starting from scratch- when I walk into this room, what is
the physiological response? Learn vision, hearing, brain synthesis, pathologyinterdisciplinary. First med school built at existing AAU in 7 decades. Can take
courses at other colleges at UT Austin. Be great leaders in academic medicine.
Austin zone of innovation. Q/Cavazos- thanks for ST initiatives. What do you
see for UT RGB in future? Hope all enhance aspirations. Aim high, raise the bar.
Recruit great faculty. Dean of medical school is having a ball with all efforts.
Energized a community. Q/Rosales- UT Austin focal point. How do we bring
student talent to level of Ivy league? Want a diverse student body. Faculty needs
diversification too. Inadequate when you look at level of deans/presidents. Want
kids to pursue careers in education administration. Q/Nalley- What are
McRaven’s greatest challenges? He’s got a full glass- needs to work with
Legislature. Rebuild bridges. Gets to find Bill Powers’ successor. Build on great
things he did. Beautiful challenges. Q/Sacks- expansion of research beyond UT
Austin? About scholarly contributions AND education. Want frontline research.
Emerging universities. Support campuses that don’t get lots of state supportboard has to allocate funds as their lifeline.
Open Forum
a. Marsha Reardon- new to UT and Austin. Student Philanthropy Coordinator and Special
Campaigns. Thanks Day November 6th. Will have cool things for you. Get involved in
social media. 10-2 at Gregory Plaza. If UT Austin relied on tuition only, it wouldn’t last
past November. You’ll get a t-shirt if you’re an ambassador. Leaving handouts for you.
Shoot me an email or call.
b. Max Williams- SComm is bad. Lee Leffigwell message- lots are deported because of
political problems. Most deported are not violent criminals. Unnecessarily reduces
revenue.
c. Brandon Lonn- Latino Jewish Coalition- speaking about SComm. If you look back at
your family lineage, your family was probably a stranger in a foreign land. Provided
opportunity and safety. It doesn’t practically help either. Secure community undermines
trust between police and immigrant community.
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d. Lizeth Urdiales- SComm. Affected with the threat of deportation. Parents couldn’t
forward education because of citizenship status. If I withdrew from campus because of
mono, would have lost status as citizen and been deported. Meant that they couldn’t visit
me either. Surrounded by supporters at UT. Affects all of us. Even from city of Austin.
e. Yann Garcia- Food Studies. Fall flavored cookie demos. Lots of sustainable events
coming up.
Ex-Officio Member Reports
a. Graduate Student Assembly
b. Senate of College Councils
i. Academic Integrity week- tabling outside of greg gym. Change of honor code
about 2 yrs ago. Luncheon learns- faculty talk about integrity. President Powers
will be speaking from 1-2 in this room on Thursday. President Search
Community too.
c. Events and Entertainment
Administration of Oath
a. Leo Carter, LBJ School of Public Affairs Representative
b. Ethan Orkin, School of Undergraduate Studies Representative
Internal Appointments
External Appointments
Advisor Report
a. Dean Lilly
i. Reminder of Higher Edu Coordinating Board appointment. Considered for
position on board. ESB representative- applications available. Encourage all to
apply. Flu shots.
b. Alex Kappus, Deputy to the Dean of Students – akappus@austin.utexas.edu
Executive Reports
a. Kornel Rady, President – korirady135@gmail.com
i. 1200 have used SafeRide. Looking to have security guards for Nov 3 FAC.
Longhorn Advocates. Will be hearing about that soon.
b. Taylor Strickland, Vice President – taylor.strickland@utexas.edu
i. Will talk to you about things. Meeting about banners. Changing dining hall times.
Flexibility for students living on campus.
c. Chris Jordan, Chief of Staff- christopherjordan@utexas.edu
d. Nathan Waters, Communications Director- watersnathan1@gmail.com
i. Update- SG Listens page rough outline. Get programmers to make an amazing
version of this. Reach out to anyone from the comm team. Here for y’all.
e. Rachel Miller, Internal Financial Director- Rachel.miller@utexas.edu
i. HAPPY TUESDAYYY. A&m conference to see their student government. Hey
to LLAs. Shannon motioning to amend budget- allocate funds for state relations,
will move funds.
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f. Kyle Mason, External Financial Director- kylemason1@utexas.edu
i. Will be tabling soon. Have a LinkedIn for student government. UTSG alumni.
g. Nosa Aimuyo, Administrative Director- nosaaimuyo@utexas.edu
Director and Executive Staff Reports
a. Amanda- Freshman Founders are going well. 3DayStartup. Expected to have 45-50
startups. Plan UTE week. Party on the Plaza committee apps opened. Please apply.
b. Dylan Adkins- LLA- updates. PCL opening. Went well, lots of people come around.
Lots of treats. Working on parking order, want work orders.
c. Amber- agency met for the first time- 14 members. Excited to work with them. UpdateHabitat for Humanity built a teepee. That’s bad. Halloween, keep it in check. Graphic is
being sent to Chris.
d. Arjun- PSAC- voice to President Powers. Outreach and feedback- tool for students to
reach out to Powers. Many don’t know about it. Need goals and initiatives, and want to
follow up on these.
Judicial Report
Unfinished Business
New Business
a. AR 22- In Opposition to Participation in the “Secure Communities” (S-Comm) Program
and Compliance with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Detainers
i. Program run by ICE. Local police officers can pull people over for minor
offense and authority to put them in local jail and detain them for 48 hours- 4th
amendment probable cause. Overwhelmingly failed in Travis County. 82%
reporting are nonviolent. Voting to defund it later this month. Voice student
opinion. Make sure that we represent students who can be affected by this.
Matter that affects those at UT. Q/Barth- Bring this closer to students? For all
language issues so we can sit down and solve it, vote y/n after we’ve talked about
all this. Q/Barth- who drew the legal conclusions? Court of NW US circuit. One
includes a UT law professor interpreting SComm. Q/Crane- Ut Board
Rules/Reg- Member Max Patterson can’t put to vote by attaching title. Also, not
directly University-related issue. Requires “not opinion of UT” statement.
Instilling of fears on this campus because many aren’t willing to come forward.
Focusing on working on issues- intent of ensuring student representation.
Students are terrified of committing minor violations that can cause deportation
to faraway countries. If we’re not the voice of students, who is. First Whereas,
voice of students in assembly are not the beliefs of the system. Not putting an
end to this legislation- point of order- structurally wrong with legislation.
Commissioner’s court- would push it afterwards- would we be able to talk about
before committee. Speaker- will consider fast track at later date. Point of order
has been removed. Q/Vaughn- approx. how many are affected on UT campus?
Demographic/age based breakdown. Have not been able to find that data
because not all coming forward. Examples of students here at UT, Daily Texan-
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more than 5 are directly here. Need to take action because of magnitude.
Q/Vaughn- was Obama specifically talking about Scomm? No, he was talking
about comprehensive immigration reform. Large population of undocumented
students. Quite large effects here on campus. Don’t want others to know they
are undocumented. SG has interest in representing this. Q/Long- will it be CIR
or Scomm or both? We as authors want it to represent a stance against all.
Commend to committee.
b. AR 23- In Support of the Core Values of UT Football Coach Charlie Strong
i. Introduced Pavil Patel- involve folks who aren’t in SG. Roger Goodell even
came to talk about 5 core values- honesty, no stealing, no weapons, treat women
with respect and no drugs. Even those who he’s suspended- makes sure they’re
ok afterwards. Meets with families and teachers. Testament to respect and love
of players. Commit to committee.
Budget amendment- state relaations didn’t need the money, so transferred to special
projects. Suspended rules and move $500 to Special Projects. Passes.
XVI. Speaker of the Assembly Report- Braydon Jones– braydon.k.jones@gmail.com
a. What’d you think about chancellor? Rep Crane did all that. Made request. Great that he
came. Very proud. Thanks Cameron. Yesterday sent an email for all. Absence policy
report done. Half absences, not full. Congrats to those with perfect attendance. CC me
on emails. Use proper template with legislation. Try to make committee meetings.
Committee chairs. Full authority to chairs. Not my job to be oversight. Can always come
to me. Go to exact committee chair- they’re with you every step of the way
XVII. Assembly Committee Reports
a. Academic Affairs Committee, Chandler Foster- chanmfoster@gmail.com
b. External Affairs Committee, Jessica Sherman- jessicasherman@utexas.edu
c. Financial Affairs Committee, Shannon Geison- sgeison223@gmail.com
i. Will be approved, will be notified. These funds are there for any initiatives. We
can help how we can.
d. Legislative Affairs Committee, Sergio Cavazos- sergiocavazos@utexas.edu
i. Will be working on AR 22. 5 oclock on Sunday. Will be sending email out
before Friday reminding everyone that it will be at the SG conference room. He
will also be sending the agenda.
e. Rules and Regulations Committee, Melysa Barth- melysabarth@utexas.edu
i. Thanks to everyone who came to our meeting, including Becky and Veronica.
Disappointed with how it unfolded, and everyone is at fault. Make sure the next
meeting is more structured and for the meeting to be an hour and a half. Please
don’t raise your voice and yell at someone. If you come in late you won’t be
allowed in the meeting. Going to be structured. Don’t come in late.
f. Student Affairs Committee, Jamie Nalley- jamienalley11@gmail.com
i. Will be meeting Thursday 6:15 in the SG office.
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XVIII. Representative Reports
a. Long- food forum next week in the SAC in front of Zen. Oct 29 1130-130, fill out a 8
question survey. SAC food court.
b. Rosales- Texas THON pancake night at Pike.
c. Cavazos- Texas Men of Excellence- supporting research of leukemia. Lots of
philanthropy. More info for 3v3 basketball tournament. Really appreciate your support.
d. Rotwein- Oct 20 from UT Athletics- survey to come up with new name for student
section. Check your email.
e. League of United Latin American Citizens- oldest on campus/country. Oct 30 hot
chocolate Gregory plaza- May switch to smoothies. Come support us all.
XIX. Announcements
XX. Second Roll Call
XXI. Recess