Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, April 15, 1996

STUDENT SENA TE MEETING 26-17 Monday, April ^/f996 Moyer Student Union Room 201 6:00 p.m. University of Nevada, Las Vegas Student Government Office of the Senate President . Patrick T. C. Smith Terry A. Moore Studies Senate President Pro-Tem[ Shawn a J. Campbell Liberal Arts Terence Carroll Engineering Leia Fleischman Fine & Performing Arts Joe Laxague Business & Economics Laura Zurek Hotel Administration Julie Wong Education Joaquin F. Trujillo Business & Economics Dan Fendell Human Performance & Development Jeremy A. Aguero / el Administration ' ilher Anderson Business & Economics Phoebe Block ( Student Development ? Douglas deBecker Architecture Marlon A. Howard Student Development James Kimmet Liberal Arts Bryan W. Lawe Hotel Administration Veronica Perez Liberal Arts William Price Communications Andreas Roell Business & Economics Robert W. Solomon Education Craig C. Spanton Science & Mathmatics Terrie Taylor Student Development Posted in accordance with Nevada Open Meeting Law (N.R.S. 241.000) at the following locations: Moyer Student Union, Frank & Estella Beam Hall, Flora Dungan Humanities, Classroom Building Complex, and Thomas Beam Engineering Complex. CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS • UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA 4505 SOUTH MARYLAND PARKWAY • Us VEGAS, NEVADA 89154-2009 • (702) 895-3477 • FAX (702) 895-4606 jJF Student Senate Meeting 26-17 SUPPLEMENTAL AGENDA 04/15/96 6:00 PM Moyer Student Union Room 201 fa 18 4 osTfl'SS Agenda 1. New Business Action item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $1,200.00 lor me iravei expenses associated wun u April 25-26, 1996 Board of Regents meeting attended by the incoming and outgoing CSUN Executive Board members. Additional Information Special notes: Posted in accordance with Nevada Open Law (N.R.S. 241.00) at the following locations: Moyer Student Union, Frank & Estella Beam Hall, Flora Dungan Humanities, Classroom Building Complex, and Thomas Beam Engineering Complex. University of Nevada, Las Vegas Student Government Office of the Senate President STUMDEEENTTI NSGE N2A6-T1E7 MINUTES Monday, April 15,1996 Moyer Student Union Room 201 6:00p.nu I. CALL TO ORDER SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH called the meeting to order at 6:02 p.m. II. ROLL CALL PRESENT ABSENT Jeremy Aguero Heather Anderson Shawna Campbell Terence Carroll Douglas deBecker Dan Fendell Leia Fleischman Marlon Howard James Kimmet Bryan Lawe Joe Laxague Terry Moore Veronica Perez William Price Andreas Roell Robert Solomon Terrie Taylor Joaquin Trujillo Julie Wong Laura Zurek II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Minutes for Senate meetings 26-13, 26-14,26-15, 26-15 are up for approval. Motion to approve made by SENATOR HOWARD, seconded by SENATOR PRICE. SENATE SECRETARY Dineen Barkhuff questioned the Senate about a section of the minutes during meeting 26-14. Motion to wait for approval of minutes for 26-14 until the minutes for meeting 26-14 could be reviewed further on the tape made by SENATOR CARROLL. First and second concurred. Minutes 26-13, 26-15, 26-16 now up for approval. Move into a vote. Motion passes 19-0-0. CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS • UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA 4 5 0 5 SOUTH MARYLAND PARKWAY • LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 8 9 1 5 4 - 2 0 0 9 • ( 7 0 2 ) 8 9 5 - 3 4 7 7 • FAX ( 7 0 2 ) 8 9 5 - 4 6 0 6 SENATE MEETING 26-17 / APRIL 15, 1996 IV. BOARD AND COMMITTEE REPORTS A. SENATE COMMITTEE REPORTS SENATOR FLEISCHMAN-Campus Safety and Awareness had a campus safety walk last Monday. Findings were lights around dorms are non existent and lights in front of mail room all burned out, as \ as lights around the library. Found eight (8) places they would like to place blue lights. Also discover the Senate Annex unlocked, open and unattended at 9:35 p.m. The annex is supposed to be closed at 5 p.m. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN and vice-chair SOLOMON took the key to the annex that was left al unattended in the desk and locked the annex. The annex was open the next morning, but there was no and wondered how the annex was opened without a key. The key was not returned until four (4) days later when SENATOR SOLOMON was asked if he had taken the key and he supplied the key. There is a phone in the annex, and the people that are supposed to be on duty in that office need to be held accountable for their responsibility to watch that place. SENATOR CARROLL-Rules and Ethics are going to have a meeting next week to discuss the Senators that did not complete their required speeches the last semester. Bylaws is going to have another meeting to discuss Bylaw changes. SENATOR ZUREK-Ways and Means held a meeting today and there is another one next Monday. B. DIRECTOR REPORTS a. Nevada Student Affairs—not in attendance. b. Student Information—no report, handed out OSI page for Tuesday's paper. c. Elections Board-not in attendance. SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH informed the Senate for Director Araiza if anyone needs or wishes to have election results, must submit a request to Director Araiza, and she will supply them as soon as is possible. d. Organizations Board-not in attendance. SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH informed the Senate for Director Cole that there is a meeting tomorrow, no meeting next week. e. Student Services—not in attendance. f. Entertainment and Programming-Spring Fling is this week, students get in to concert events free WITH a student ID. Needs help if people want to volunteer, and encouraged Senators to attend the events and to encourage constituents to attend. If anyone would like a detailed schedule of the events for the week, see him. MTV Grind is having Tryouts on April 23. C. FACULTY SENATE COMMITTEE REPORTS SENATOR LAXAGUE—Curriculum—Committee attempted to reduce the number of students on the committee from 2 to 1, but that did not happen. Another subject discussed in the committee was the idea of every college having its own curriculum committee to deal with its own curriculum and to give ideas to the main curriculum committee. Would be a good idea for students and professors to have input into the curriculums that they teach and are a part of, rather than the committee who is sometimes unfamiliar with a certain curriculum to make judgments. SENATOR TRUJILLO—Library—will be meeting tomorrow. SENATOR CAMPBELL-Status of Women-They did secede from Faculty Senate and are now a Presidential Committee under the umbrella of the task force. Discussed sexual harassment issues, sexual relations policy, and gender equity issues. Working on having a child care canter in the pre-school on campus so that parents that have children who are not potty-trained can use the facility. Discussed possibility of having more than one meeting a semester. 2 SENATE MEETING 26-17 / APRIL 15, 1996 SENATOR LAXAGUE—Parking and Traffic—Committee decided to recommend using the money raised from the parking fee to reconfigure some of the north campus lots. President Harter replied to the committee that she needed to have a higher consultant look at the job before she made a decision to move on the recomendation. SENATOR ANDERSON-Admission-Did not make quorum. Rescheduled for 2:30 on Friday. SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH--Preschool--There is a meeting on the 24th. There is a regent visit scheduled for this Thursday. D. RESIDENCE HALL LIAISON Passdown Ceremony was yesterday for Executive Board members. Today is National Residence Hall Honorary Aware Day is today. Have sent in official application for national office. E. BUSINESS MANAGER REPORT Business Manager Karla Kirk advised the Senate of the Executive Board expenditures for the preceding week. Advised the Senate of the current and estimated future financial situation of KUNV. Also requested clarification from the Senate regarding fee waivers for the newly elected Senators. The Senate advised Business Manager Karla Kirk to address the problem to the Bylaws Committee. V. PUBLIC COMMENT [in accordance with N.R.S. 241.020 (2)(c)(3)] Craig Spanton addressed the Senate as to why he has vacated his Senate seat. He has switched his major, and did not think it fair to maintain his previous seat when no longer a member of that college. Is working on getting the word out for someone to fill his seat. Would like to remain on the committees that he is on and plans on staying involved and working with everyone as much as possible. Julie McKain introduced herself to the Senate. She has turned in an application for the open Senate seat for the college of Health Sciences. VI. UNFINISHED BUSINESS No unfinished business at this time. VII. NEW BUSINESS A. Action Item: Discussion/approval of Japanese Association (Nihongo Club) funding request in the amount of $300.00; Motion to approve made by SENATOR CARROLL, seconded by SENATOR ROELL. SENATOR KIMMET expressed concern that this application for funding is very vague on the description of participation in the event to be funded for. SENATOR ZUREK stated that the request was in order and passed through Ways and Means Committee. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN yielded the floor to Lisa Leonard, a coordinator of the Unity Fest and she provided explanation of the club's involvement in the event. Move into a vote. Motion passes 18-0-1. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN abstained. SENATE MEETING 26-17 / APRIL 15, 1996 B. Action Item: Nomination of Kyle Lopez to the open Senate seat for the College of Student Development; Motion to nominate Kyle Lopez, close nominations, allow him to speak for no more than two minutes to be followed by limited question and answer, a division of the house made by SENATOR CARROLL, seconded by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN. SENATOR MOORE questioned is anyone else had turned in an application for the open seat. SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH replied that there had not been any other applications. Kyle Lopez spoke to the Senate and answered questions. Motion to table per Bylaw 4 made by SENATOR CARROLL, seconded by SENATOR AGUERO. Move into a vote. Motion passes by unanimous acclimation. SUPPLEMENTAL AGENDA-ITEM 1 - Action Item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $1,200.00 for the travel expenses associated with the April 25-26, 1996 Board of Regents meeting attended by the incoming and outgoing CSUN Executive Board members. Motion to approve made by SENATOR MOORE, seconded by SENATOR PRICE. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN stated that Senate Bylaw 43 requires that a breakdown of the costs be provided to the Senate, and that was not provided. Motion to waive Bylaw 43 made by SENATOR CARROLL, motion dies on the floor. Lengthy discussion ensued on whether the Senate wishes to spend the money to send all of the current and incoming Executive Board members to Reno, where the next Regent's meeting is to be held and when. Motion to move into a committee of the whole made by SENATOR CARROLL, seconded by SENATOR CAMPBELL. Move into a vote. Motion passes 13-6-0. SENATORS KIMMET, PRICE, ROELL, ZUREK, LAWE, MOORE. Move into a committee of the whole. Motion to move out of the committee of the whole by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN, seconded by SENATOR CAMPBELL. Motion to table made by SENATOR SOLOMON, seconded by SENATOR LAWE. Move into a vote. Motion passes by unanimous acclimation. VIII. CLOSING REMARKS SENATOR TAYLOR-Congratulations to the new Executive Board members. SENATOR CAMPBELL—Addition to Status of Women committee, they will now be obtaining by appointment where each department submits names. members 4 SENATE MEETING 26-17 / APRIL 15, 1996 SENATOR LAXAGUE—New undergraduate catalogs will be out that curriculum committee changed a lot of core. Encouraged the Senators to try to become members of their college's curriculum committees. Disappointed about the loss of Craig Spanton on the Senate. SENATOR KIMMET-Regarding the trip to the Regents meeting, it makes sense to send SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH, other current Executive Board members have not earned the right to attend the meeting. Congratulated the new Executive Board members, feels the Student body would have been in good hands no matter the results of the election. SENATOR PRICE- Congratulated new Executive Board members. Encouraged Senate to attend activities for Spring Fling. SENATOR ROELL—Congratulated new Executive Board members. Commended SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH on a job well done. SENATOR PEREZ-Latin Enrichment Program was this past weekend. Was a beneficial program for Latin high school students from Las Vegas. SENATOR CARROLL-Spring Fling is a great idea, Entertainment and Programming Board should be praised for their efforts. Reminded Senators to finish their speeches before the end of the semester. SENATOR DEBECKER- Regarding the Regents trip, SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH should attend as the only representative of the current Executive Board. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN—Spring Fling is great. Thinks the Senate needs to start fresh, should send SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH, but not STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT PIDA, or maybe the Senate should wait until the May Regents meeting. Regarding the Annex situation, maybe the Senate needs to give the Annex back to the Health Sciences. SENATOR FENDELL-Having the Annex left open while on the Safety Walk was an embarrassment. SENATOR SOLOMON—Need to be sure that the Annex is locked. Needs help to put up valuable awareness signs. Needs suggestions for blue light locations. SENATOR TRUJILLO—Apologized that he could not make the campus safety walk. SENATOR MOORE-Congratulated the new Executive Board members, encouraged the Senate to work with them. Announced that SENATOR TRUJILLO is the new President of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Addressed SENATOR ANDERSON about a letter that she wrote to the Rebel Yell charging him with misrepresentation of himself regarding the Jean Nidetch Scholarship Committee. Was a mistake on his part, and was an oversight on his part to call the Rebel and ask them to remove that committee from his resume that he had submitted over a month before when he was a member of the committee. SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH-regarding the annex, if Student Government gives the annex back to Health Sciences, it will not be available to students any more, it is an issue that needs to be addressed and solutions found. 5 SENATE MEETING 26-17 / APRIL 15, 1996 IX. ADJOURNMENT Motion to adjourn made by SENATOR MOORE, seconded by SENATOR LA WE. Move into a vote. Motion passes 19-0-0. SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH adjourns the meeting at 7:04 p.m. 6 (