Student Government Association
1353rd General Session
March 6, 2014
University Rooms
1. Call to Order- President Street
2. Roll Call- Secretary Thomas
3. Approval of 1352nd Meeting Minutes
a. Senator Goncalves motions to approve the 1352nd meeting minutes
b. Seconded by Senator Okere
4. Officer Reports [2 min per officer]
a. Director Knox- Met with Athletics and they will be working on having a
SPSU/KSU night at a future baseball game either April 9th or April 30th. In
addition, the Block Party (MANDATORY EVENT) will be March 27, 2014 from
11:00a-1:30p on The Green. She is currently in the process of speaking with
Athletics to collaborate for the event.
b. Director Saeed- No report
c. Director Delaney- Director Delaney has made the executive decision to halt
all mini survey production now due to several concerns about them from a
majority of members within SGA. He will be talking with his committee to
propose new ideas for the mini surveys. Director Delaney also went to his
consolidation meeting about Health Services. New policies and proposals are
being created that may and will affect the majority of students. Please be on
the lookout for those changes and let your constituents know. Everything is
looking very promising and positive and it will be an exciting time. He also
attended the Undergraduate Policies and Curriculum Committee today.
Changes to courses, both small and large, are being made to certain pathways
so please be on the lookout for any of those changes. Also, a new requirement
for syllabi has been produced from the Faculty Senate that includes the
addition of a sentence that will help clarify the responsibilities of students
with their attendance to class. The sentence is stated as follows: “Students
are solely responsible for managing their enrollment status in a class;
nonattendance does not constitute a withdrawal.” This sentence also with
the recommendation of more clarification on “W” and “WF” grades should be
added into all syllabi by the upcoming semesters. This is in response to the
policy that is requiring KSU to be more strict and up to date on class
attendance for financial aid purposes. If anyone has questions about any of
these please let Director Delaney know so that he may address them as soon
as possible.
d. Director Robersoni. Masquerade Ball-- March 14th 7:30-11:30 [MANDATORY EVENT]
1. There will be 3 Shifts for officers to work-- 6:30-8:30p; 8:1510:15p; 10p-12a
2. Lookout for a Doodle
ii. President Street’s Parking Spot Officer Competition—The person that
brings the most guests to Masquerade Ball gets Katherine's parking
spot the week of 17th -21st the officer’s name must be mentioned at
the door in order to keep count of who is winning.
iii. 50th Anniversary Time Capsule Initiative has been moved to Friday,
August 22nd, which is the day of 1st Year Convocation for the 20142015 school year.
iv. SGA Elections—will be from March 24th-26th. Mandatory election
meeting will be Friday, March 14 at noon. Campaigning will begin
Sunday, March 16th through March 26th.
e. Director Reardon-
i. Relay for Life: If anyone has money turn it in and put it in a bag with
your name on it please.
ii. Silent Auction: It has to be changed again; the current options are at:
The Block Party, by itself with a potluck, or the (last meeting of the
semester) swearing-in event.
f. Advisor McCrary- No report
g. CPO Hudson- No report
h. Treasurer McCullough- The budget: remaining balance is $6000 and $5000 in
encumbered funds and $8000 was allocated for Masquerade Ball.
i.
Secretary Thomas- Guests sign in.
j.
Vice President Chestnuti. Escalade rock climbing wall was a fun group activitiy. Thoughts for
the next SGA social included Skyzone. If anyone has additional
thoughts, ideas, or suggestions, email them to Vice President Chestnut.
ii. Today, Senator Templeton and Vice President Chestnut went to a
meeting to present to the university the time capsule idea and they
loved it. SGA will be moving forward collaborating on that event.
iii. SPSU SGA Executive Board visited last week and met with Dr. Papp.
Conversations about how to begin to involve students from SPSU and
KSU in one another’s activities began, and ideas were shared
regarding the institutional motto.
iv. The Office of Diversity and Inclusion will be extending the KSU ignite
survey for two more weeks. There will be survey-a-thons in Prillaman
Hal on the 13th of March, Social Sciences on the 17th of March, Burrus
on the 18th of March, Student Center on the 19th of March, and ending
with Clendinin on the 20th of March. If you are available to come to
one, please do.
k. President Streeti. President Street met with Dr. Papp and discussed the question that
was raised regarding the allocation of monies to football and away
from other sports programs. He said that the football program will
not cause any reallocation of funds from other sports programs to it.
Football will be funded by the increased student fees and the fundraising that has been conducted by the Athletics department. KSU's
classroom occupancy rates are now 3rd in the state, surpassed only be
UGA and Gwinnett. This will allow us to look into building additional
academic buildings on campus. President Papp will be pulling
together a committee to help with the implementation of the smoking
policy from the Board of Regents. Stay alert for that announcement.
ii. The President's Planning and Budget Advisory committee has had a
delay in discussions of the proposed budget because KSU has been
asked to present consecutively with SPSU so that the approving body
will be able to analyze both budgets while considering the
consolidation.
iii. Ensure that invitations are being made on Facebook for the SGA
Masquerade Ball event.
iv. President candidates will be receiving an email to meet jointly with
President Street to discuss the involvements of the position.
5. Open Forum [1 min per officer/guest] (5 min)
a. Senator McLeod- Dr. Franza wants to implement, the Dean’s Advisory
Committee for the Coles College of Business, which would require at least
two students to be on the committee.
b. Senator Fields- He and Senator McDaniel are partnering together to host the
first debate among the three major political parties clubs on campus (College
Democrats, College Republicans, and College Libertarians).
c. Senator Hubbard-She was accepted into the STEM program and encourages
others to join as well.
d. Senator Uzoije- ISA hosting their annual International Bazaar next Tuesday,
March 11 from 12-2p in the University Rooms.
e. Senator Monago- She spoke with the STEM Advisor and she wanted to create
a program for all departments similar to STEM that may help benefit other
academic programs around campus.
f. President Street- The Golden O’s packet is available on Owl Life. She will
choose volunteers to be a part of the SGA’s Golden O’s Committee to
complete the packet in time.
6. Football Ticketing Town Hall-Thomas Lindsey (20 min)
a. Student Ad-Hoc Committee- started late spring of 2013 with certain
organizations representing KSU students.
b. Two options for ticketing for future football
i. Option1
1. Allows course credit hours to prioritize who gets each
available ticket
ii. Option 2
1. Priority based on credit hours plus membership in the Black
and Gold organization (membership helps to have priority
even after graduation).
iii. Option 3
1. Online reservation-NON lottery, based on window of ticket
availability. Tickets will be allocated based on order requested.
It will be first come first serve.
iv. Paying athletics fee and must be necessary to be eligible for any of
these options
1. Military veterans are allowed for student tickets that are not
paying athletic fee
v. Stand-by line- 10 minutes prior to the start of the game, all unused
tickets will automatically be pooled into stand-by tickets. Still based
on first come first serve.
vi. The committee wants help from SGA to inform the student body of
these options. They are looking into a polling of the campus during the
week of April 14th Owl Express to get more student feedback.
vii. Away game ticketing is based on the availability of the other
university.
viii. Senator Oruada motions to extended presentation by 5 minutes
ix. Seconded by Senator Carter
x. Pass
xi. In order to protect the integrity of the lottery system, tickets cannot
be transferred to a certain person and would be put in a general pool
for standby tickets.
xii. Senator Uzoije motions to give permission to the Ticketing Committee
to move forward with the polling of the current three ticket options.
xiii. Seconded by Senator Carter
xiv. Director Reardon amends the motion that there be a hold on the SGA
endorsement on polling the students pending more information and
change of options based on future town halls.
xv. Senator Uzoije approves amendment
xvi. Senator Carter accepts approval of the amendment
xvii. Vote
1. Yay-27
2. Nay-0
3. Abstain-1
7. Announcements (5 min)
a. Senator Jackson motions to reduce announcements to 1 minute
b. Seconded by Senator McDaniel
c. Pass
d. Director Roberson-Masquerade Ball Committee please meet upstairs,
immediately following the meeting
e. Senator Okere- The “Spin to Win” event ends March 30th
f. Senator Carvajalino-RHA’s sex awareness event “Tasty Arousal” is tonight in
the University Village Suites.
g. Senator Prater- If anyone is interested in meeting Michael Coles hosted by
KSU Hillel tomorrow at 11am.
h. Director Knox- Student Services Committee please meet after the meeting.
i.
Senator Duke- KSU Pride Alliance is hosting their annual Drag Show tonight
in the University Rooms.
j.
Director Reardon- External Affairs Committee please see her after the
meeting.
k. Treasurer McCullough- Many honors students kicked out of the honors
dorms and were moved into subpar dorms on campus. This is something
SGA needs to look into and figure out details.
8. Executive Session (10 min)
9. Adjournment
(Estimated time: 60+ mins)