Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, November 07, 2005

CSUN SENATE MEETING 36-01 MONDAY, November 7th, 2005 MSU 201, 6:00PM NOTE: Below is an agenda of all items scheduled to be considered. Various items are listed as action items on the following agenda. Reasonable efforts will be made to assist and accommodate physically disabled persons attending the meeting. Please call the CSUN office at (702) 895-3645 in advance so that arrangements may be made. I. CALL TO ORDER II. PRESENTATION OF COLORS BY UNLV ARMY ROTC S T U D E N T G O V E R N M E N T III. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE IV. SWEARING IN OF THE 36th SESSION BY ASSOCIATE CHIEF JUSTICE CHAPEL. V. ROLL CALL VI. APPROVAL OF MINUTES ACTION The following minutes are submitted for approval: 35-30 &31 VII. REPORTS INFORMATION A. Senate Committee Reports B. Faculty Senate/University Committee Reports C. Business Manager Report D. Liaison Reports i. Student Involvement Activities ii. Residence Hall Association iii. Student Athletics iv. Student Health Advisory Committee v. ROTC vi. Leadership Advisory Board E. Rebel Yell Report VIII. EXECUTIVE BOARD ANNOUNCEMENTS INFORMATION 1 IX. INFORMATION ITEM: State of the Senate Address by Senate President Espinoza. X. NEW BUSINESS ACTION A. Action Item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $#2i*made to Swank Motion Pictures for the showing of the Murderball movie. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY06 NSA lecture series budget. As submitted by the Executive Board on behalf of Director Spencer. B. Action Item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $ 1,000.00 to be paid to Sodexho for food at noonsceene. Costs to be encumbered by the CSUN 2702 FY06 E&P (Noonscence) budget. As submitted by the Executive Board on behalf of Director Holmquist. Action Item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $800.00 to be paid to SFC USA, Inc. for the purchase of polos for the 36th Senate. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY06 Office (Senate Expenses) budget. As submitted by the Executive Board. D. Action item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $800.00 for the use of buses to transport students to and from campus for the football game. Costs to be encumbered by the CSUN 2702 FY06 E&P (Tailgate) budget. As submitted by the Executive Board on behalf of Director Holmquist. E. Action Item: Approval of a $260 increase in the Vice President's salary for the month of November. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702-FY06 Wages Budget. F. Action item: Approval of the content of the Vagus Nerve Fall 2005 issue. As submitted by the Executive Board on behalf of Director Marazita and the Publications Board. G. Action item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $14,000.00 to be paid to Haige's Quality Printing for the Vagus Nerve Fall 2005 issue. Costs to be encumbered by the CSUN 2702 FY06 Publications (Magazine) budget. As submitted by the Executive Board on behalf of Director Marazita. H. Action item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $2,500.00 for the CD inserts for the Vagus Nerve Fall 2005 issue. Costs to be encumbered by the CSUN 2702 FY06 Publications (Magazine) budget. As submitted by the Executive Board on behalf of Director Marazita. I. Action item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $600.00 to be paid to Aaron Mathews, Unix Consulting Services for Webmail installation, security audit and training. Costs to be encumbered by the CSUN 2702 2 FY06 OSI (Discretionary) budget. As submitted by the Executive Board on behalf of Director Viesca. (See attachment 36.01.01). J. Action item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $4,500.00 for the pen giveaways. Costs to be encumbered by the CSUN 2702 FY06 Marketing (Promotions) budget. As submitted by the Executive Board on behalf of Director Bourdet. K. Action Item: Approval of a $500.00 per month stipend and a 24 credit fee waiver to be divided equally between the fall and spring semesters for the Senate President Pro Tempore. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY06 Wages and Fee Waivers budget. As submitted by the Executive Board. L. Information Item: approval of (1) CSUN member to serve as the Senate Secretary for the 36t h session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. M. Information Item: Nomination/Election of Viviana DeArmas to serve as the Senate President Pro Tempore for the 36th session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. N. Information Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) CSUN member to serve as the Senator for the College of Sciences for the remainder of the 36th Session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. O. Information Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) CSUN member to serve as Nursing Senator for the remainder of the 36th Session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. P. Information Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to serve as the Chairman for the Bylaws Committee for the 36th session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. Q. Information Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to serve as the Chairman for the Campus Safety and Awareness Committee for the 36th session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. R. Information Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to serve as the Chairman for the Constitutional Revisions and Statutes Committee for the 36th session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. S. Information Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to serve as the Chairman for the Rules and Ethics Committee for the 36th session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. _ 3 T. Information Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to serve as the Chairman for the Ways and Means Committee for the 36th session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. U. Information Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to serve as the CSUN representative to the Rebel Yell Advisory Board for the 36th session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. V. Action item: Approval of Senate Resolution 36-01 which establishes the Rules for the 36th Session. The Senate may choose to send this item to the Rules and Ethics committee for further consideration. As submitted by Senator DeArmas. (See attachment 36.01.02). W. Action Item: Approval of the CSUN Code of Conduct. As submitted by Vice President Lagomarsino. X. Action Item: Approval of the Publications Board Operating Policy. As submitted by the Executive Board on behalf of Director Marazita. (See attachment 36.01.03). Y. Action Item: Approval of the Office of Student Information Operating ^ Policy. As submitted by the Executive Board. (See attachment 36.01.05). Z. Action Item: Committing Senate bill 36-01, which proposes changing Senate Bylaw 27 "Office of Student Information" to "Creative Technology", to the Bylaws committee. As submitted by President Goatz. (See attachment 36.01.04). Action Item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $10,000 to be transferred to the UNLV Oral History Research Center for a paid internship of at least (1) CSUN member and for the sponsorship of the Oral History of UNLV project. Cost to be encumbered from the CSUN 2250-237-2713 Interest Bearing account as submitted by Senator Moses. XI. EXECUTIVE BOARD SUMMATIONS INFORMATION XII. GOOD OF THE SENATE INFORMATION This portion of the meeting is for Senators to discuss the positives and negatives that occurred during the meeting. Senators may announce events pertaining to their college, an organization, or anything else related to the collegiate experience. Items for consideration at future meetings may be suggested. Any discussion of an item or topics under "Good of the Senate" is limited to description and clarification of the subject matter of the item, which may include the reasons for the request.. XIII. PUBLIC COMMENT INFORMATION Public comment will be taken during this agenda item. No action may be taken on a matter raised under this item until the matter is included on an agenda as an item on which action may be taken. The Chairman may place reasonable limitations as to the amount of time individuals may address the Senate. The Chairman may elect to allow public comment on a specific agenda item when that agenda item is being considered. 4 XIV. ADJOURNMENT ACTION 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 Dugan Humanities, and the Classroom Building Complex. STUDENT SENATE PRESIDENT SENATE SECRETARY ADREIL ESPINOZA AARON SPENCER 5 S T U D E N T G O V E R N M E N T CSUN SENATE MEETING 36-01 MONDAY, November 7th, 2005 MSU 201, 6:00PM NOTE: Below is an agenda of all items scheduled to be considered. Various items are listed as action items on the following agenda. Reasonable efforts will be made to assist and accommodate physically disabled persons attending the meeting. Please call the CSUN office at (702) 895-3645 in advance so that arrangements may be made. I. CALL TO ORDER SENATE PRESIDENT ESPINOZA calls meeting to order at 6:05pm II. PRESENTATION OF COLORS BY UNLV ARMY ROTC III. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE III. SWEARING IN OF THE 36th SESSION BY ASSOCIATE CHIEF JUSTICE CHAPEL. IV. ROLL CALL Fred Johns, Francis Keeton Little, Iris Saint, Marco Valera, Viviana Dearmas, Christina Hooshmand, Joe Huerta, Eric Guideng, Melody Melendez, Teddy Sim Jr., Gisele Farkas, Omari Head, Brian Pounds, Henry Jimenez, Andres MOSES , Stephen Nilson, Thurithabhani Seneviratne, Kara Donnelly, Matthew Maxson, Aaron Spencer, Mike Wong, Jaqueline Alvardo, Gary McCormick, were present V. APPROVAL OF MINUTES ACTION The following minutes are submitted for approval: 35-30 &31 SENATOR SPENCER motions to postpone 35-30 and approve 35-31 SENATOR DEARMAS seconds SENATOR JIMENEZ SENATOR JOHNS abstains 2 1 - 0 - 2 1 VI. REPORTS INFORMATION A. Senate Committee Reports B. Faculty Senate/University Committee Reports PRESIDENT GOATZ: need representation on this committee. DC.. LBiuasiisnoens sR Mepaonratgs er Report i. Student Involvement Activities Tom Steter: Wed connection carnival, CSUN carnival homecoming success, thanka for good sportsmanship, 70 entries in parade applications for pride are going out, greek leaders amerging leader, community service spring break open door , last day nov 28th leaves ii. Residence Hall Association SENATOR DONNELLY iii. Student Athletics iv. Student Health Advisory Committee v. ROTC Steven Abbot: Thanks for support top 5 in the country, 3 students in top 20% in the Field train exercise vi. Leadership Advisory Board E. Rebel Yell Report meeting some time next week VII. EXECUTIVE BOARD ANNOUNCEMENTS INFORMATION VICE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE FERREL : Name tags may need correction, ordered shirts come next week, spin media coming at the end of the month, teaching scholarship VICE PRESIDENT LAGOMARSINO : thanks for all of everyone's support with homecoming it was a big success PRESIDENT GOATZ : golf cart training a must, directors did, took a light walk around the campus, ruckus was a success thanks, would like feedback SENATE PRESIDENT ESPINOZA : please correct info on info page, I will work on names , homecoming was fun, gamers ball truck going to work to get them on campus, MTV rocks, senators may feel over whelmed ask questions just ask, VIII. INFORMATION ITEM: State of the Senate Address by Senate President Espinoza: congratulations to the new senate, make a direct impact, grab the bull by horns and get involved, worked with rebel nation, work to excel and take in what the students want, talk to your deans, it is your responsibility to work with your leads , be creative and think out of the box, treat all with dignity, the executive 2 IX. board is here to work with the senate, we need to work together to make all very successful. NEW BUSINESS ACTION A. Action Item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $821 made to Swank Motion Pictures for the showing of the Murderball movie. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY06 NSA lecture series budget. As submitted by the Executive Board on behalf of Director Spencer. SENATOR DEARMAS moves to approve SENATOR SPENCER seconds SENATOR DEARMAS moves to amend the item striking 821 and inserting 850 SENATOR DONNELLY seconds 23-0-0 amendment passes 23-0-0 item passes B. Action Item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $1,000.00 to be paid to Sodexho for food at noonsceene. Costs to be encumbered by the CSUN 2702 FY06 E&P (Noonscence) budget. As submitted by the Executive Board on behalf of Director Holmquist. SENATOR SPENCER moves to approve SENATOR DONNELLY seconds 23-0-0 item passes C. Action Item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $800.00 to be paid to SFC USA, Inc. for the purchase of polos for the 36th Senate. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY06 Office (Senate Expenses) budget. As submitted by the Executive Board. SENATOR DONNELLY moves to approve SENATOR DEARMAS seconds SENATOR MELENDEZ opposes SENATOR JIMENEZ abstains SENATOR NILSON abstains 19-1-3 D. Action item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $800.00 for the use of buses to transport students to and from campus for the football game. Costs to be encumbered by the CSUN 2702 FY06 E&P (Tailgate) budget. As submitted by the Executive Board on behalf of Director Holmquist. SENATOR SPENCER approve 3 SENATOR JIMENEZ seconds SENATOR MOSES opposes 2 2 - 1 - 0 E. Action Item: Approval of a $260 increase in the Vice President's salary for the month of November. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702-FY06 Wages Budget. rules the item out of order F. Action item: Approval of the content of the Vagus Nerve Fall 2005 issue. As submitted by the Executive Board on behalf of Director Marazita and the Publications Board. SENATOR DONNELLY : moves to approve SENATOR SPENCER: seconds 11-11-1 SENATE PRESIDENT ESPINOZA votes in favor motions in favor senators that were opposed to the content: SENATOR HEAD , SENATOR DEARMAS, SENATOR FARKAS , SENATOR SENEVERATNE , SENATOR SIM , SENATOR NILSON , SENATOR HOOSHMAND , Senator Huerta, SENATOR SAINT, SENATOR MOSES SENATOR JOHNS abstained G. Action item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $14,000.00 to be paid to Haige's Quality Printing for the Vagus Nerve Fall 2005 issue. Costs to be encumbered by the CSUN 2702 FY06 Publications (Magazine) budget. As submitted by the Executive Board on behalf of Director Marazita. SENATOR DEARMAS moves to approve and combine g and h SENATOR DONNELLY seconds SENATOR SPENCER calls the question SENATOR DONNELLY seconds 12-11-0 question not called SENATOR MOSES : motions to amend the item saying that this action has had much protest. 13-10-0 items g and h are passed the following senators were opposed to the item: SENATOR DEARMAS, SENATOR HEAD, SENATOR HOOSHMAND , SENATOR NILSON , SENATOR MOSES, SENATOR JIMENEZ, SENATOR SENEVERATNE, Senator Huerta, SENATOR SIM , SENATOR SAINT H. Action item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $2,500.00 for the CD inserts for the Vagus Nerve Fall 2005 issue. Costs to be encumbered by the CSUN 2702 FY06 Publications (Magazine) budget. As submitted by the Executive Board on behalf of Director Marazita. ITEMS G AND H WERE PASSES 13-10-0 4 I. Action item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $600.00 to be paid to Aaron Mathews, Unix Consulting Services for Webmail installation, security audit and training. Costs to be encumbered by the CSUN 2702 FY06 OSI (Discretionary) budget. As submitted by the Executive Board on behalf of Director Viesca. (See attachment 36.01.01). SENATOR DONNELLY : motions to approve SENATOR SPENCER : seconds 23-0-0 J. Action item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $4,500.00 for the pen giveaways. Costs to be encumbered by the CSUN 2702 FY06 Marketing (Promotions) budget. As submitted by the Executive Board on behalf of Director Bourdet. SENATOR DEARMAS : motion to approve SENATOR SENEVERATNE : seconds 23-0-0 K. Action Item: Approval of a $500.00 per month stipend and a 24 credit fee waiver to be divided equally between the fall and spring semesters for the Senate President Pro Tempore. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY06 Wages and Fee Waivers budget. As submitted by the Executive Board. SENATOR DEARMAS : motions to combine and postponed actions items k-u to 36-02. SENATOR DONNELLY : seconds SENATOR JIMENEZ , SENATOR JOHNS opposes SENATOR SENEVERATNE : ABSTAINS 20-2-1 L. Information Item: approval of (1) CSUN member to serve as the Senate Secretary for the 36t h session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. M. Information Item: Nomination/Election of Viviana DeArmas to serve as the Senate President Pro Tempore for the 36th session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. N. Information Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) CSUN member to serve as the Senator for the College of Sciences for the remainder of the 36th Session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. O. Information Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) CSUN member to serve as Nursing Senator for the remainder of the 36th Session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. P. Information Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to serve as the Chairman for the Bylaws Committee for the 36th session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. 5 Information Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to serve as the Chairman for the Campus Safety and Awareness Committee for the 36th session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. Information Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to serve as the Chairman for the Constitutional Revisions and Statutes Committee for the 36th session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. Information Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to serve as the Chairman for the Rules and Ethics Committee for the 36th session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. Information Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to serve as the Chairman for the Ways and Means Committee for the 36th session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. Information Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to serve as the CSUN representative to the Rebel Yell Advisory Board for the 36th session. As submitted by Senate President Espinoza. Action item: Approval of Senate Resolution 36-01 which establishes the Rules for the 36th Session. The Senate may choose to send this item to the Rules and Ethics committee for further consideration. As submitted by Senator DeArmas. (See attachment 36.01.02). SENATOR SPENCER : moves to approve and commit SENATOR DONNELLY : seconds SENATOR JIMENEZ, against SENATOR MOSES , SENATOR HEAD abstains 20-1-2 W. Action Item: Approval of the CSUN Code of Conduct. As submitted by Vice President Lagomarsino. SENATOR DONNELLY :moves to approve SENATOR DONNELLY: seconds SENATOR DEARMAS, SENATOR JIMENEZ abstains 2 1 - 0 - 2 X. Action Item: Approval of the Publications Board Operating Policy. As submitted by the Executive Board on behalf of Director Marazita. (See attachment 36.01.03). SENATOR DONNELLY: moves to approve SENATOR VALERA : seconds 21-0-2 Q. R. S. T. U. V. 6 Y. Action Item: Approval of the Office of Student Information Operating Policy. As submitted by the Executive Board. (See attachment 36.01.05). SENATOR DONNELLY: moves to approve SENATOR SENEVERATNE : seconds SENATOR DEARMAS, SENATOR JIMENEZ aBSTAIN 21-0-2 Z. Action Item: Committing Senate bill 36-01, which proposes changing Senate Bylaw 27 "Office of Student Information" to "Creative Technology", to the Bylaws committee. As submitted by President Goatz. (See attachment 36.01.04). SENATOR DONNELLY: moves to commit SENATOR SPENCER : seconds 22-0-1 SENATOR JOHNS : abstains AA. Action Item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $10,000 to be transferred to the UNLV Oral History Research Center for a paid internship of at least (1) CSUN member and for the sponsorship of the Oral History of UNLV project. Cost to be encumbered from the CSUN 2250-237-2713 Interest Bearing account as submitted by Senator Moses. SENATOR JIMENEZ: moves to approve SENATOR MOSES : seconds SENATOR MOSES: moves to strike "for a paid internship of at least (1) CSUN member and to insert $8,850.00 senator wages,1000 SENATOR MOSES discretionary budget, $60 SENATOR JIMENEZ , $40 senator Huerta, $50 SENATOR NILSON, SENATOR DEARMAS: seconds SENATOR SPENCER, opposes 22-1-0: action passes item AA as amended: SENATOR SPENCER, opposed SENATOR POUNDS , SENATOR DONNELLY : abstains 20-1-2 X. EXECUTIVE BOARD SUMMATIONS INFORMATION VICE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE FERREL : Congrats and keep up the good work, really happy VICE PRESIDENT LAGOMARSINO : good job, in office a lot, freedom of speech PRESIDENT GOATZ : handbooks in tomorrow, pot luck with CSUN nov 17 . GOOD MEETING it will get smoother , look at where your money is going, if you are in a committee please goto the meeting and look into what committee you want to be in , have a good week. SENATE PRESIDENT ESPINOZA : good job getting right into the pit. everyone may not aGree with him, please don't take anything personally that goes on here, please don't or try not to take anymore money for the intrest bearing account. Ihe dosent feel like we should be censoring anything. 7 XI. GOOD OF THE SENATE INFORMATION This portion of the meeting is for Senators to discuss the positives and negatives that occurred during the meeting. Senators may announce events pertaining to their college, an organization, or anything else related to the collegiate experience. Items for consideration at future meetings may be suggested. Any discussion of an item or topics under "Good of the Senate" is limited to description and clarification of the subject matter of the item, which may include the reasons for the request.. SENATOR SPENCER : we should use the money for something better. SENATOR SIM : good meeting SENATOR FARKAS : good we need to be heard more SENATOR MOSES : his nickname is not fair. SENATOR JIMENEZ: congragulations to all the new senators. I hope that everyone can see that I have a lot of passion. I am sorry that I get overexcited some times. I let the item about the nerve touched me. SENATOR JIMENEZ wants to be president pro tem , he respects marazita. SENATOR MELENDEZ : that was a good meeting, this is why we discuss things. SENATOR GUIDENG : I will try not to expose my emotions , he doesn't want to get mushy be we go out and represent out rights. SENATOR SENEVERATNE : see you next week. SENATOR JOHNS : good meeting, the new store at the student union would be really hard. I hope next week , my new bylaw will be on the agenda next week . it is about getting the chaimbers for the senators, tailgates are for promoting sprit for sports, we will have to probably have to use the $ for rebel ruckus somewhere else. SENATOR JOHNS : Jillians is a lot of fun , this will be fun SENATOR VALERA : I am the youngest but it will be fun SENATOR ALVARDO : this was a good meeting , we aren't going to make everyone happy. Senator huerta : good SENATOR DEARMAS : the hockey team is doing very well, we will ask for $ for them and make it out there so we could work for it. mat shepards mom came in to speak about equality, HRC will work for a Gay straight alliance we are all members. I think we shoud have public comment for the end of the meeting . sen pres pro tem will be running, have a good week. SENATE PRESIDENT ESPINOZA: public comment 2 mins XII. PUBLIC COMMENT INFORMATION Public comment will be taken during this agenda item. No action may be taken on a matter raised under this item until the matter is included on an agenda as an item on which action may be taken. The Chairman may place reasonable limitations as to the amount of time individuals may address the Senate. The Chairman may elect to allow public comment on a specific agenda item when that agenda item is being considered. Marazita: thank you for coming to this meeting , it is important that we all care, we all stand where we stand, I do not respect censorship, there is so much great work in the rita devesai: this will go through no matter what, we want to show you that the students didn't want this to happen, censorship happened . branddon greene: my job is to speak for everyone who dose not have a voice. I am inspires by my instruments, we are standing up for our rights. That is why I did what I di today. 8 meron hagos: US government is a public forum : a principal wanted to censor a paper, the state did it for a paper on birth control. senate didn't represent the students, senate didn't help the common good. asmeret asghedon: we chose racism over censorship over racism, it is sad. michelle b. said she was frai XIII. ADJOURNMENT ACTION SENATOR DONNELLY : motions to adjourn SENATOR DEARMAS : seconds 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 Dugan Humanities, and the Classroom Building Complex. STUDENT SENATE PRESIDENT SENATE SECRETARY ADREIL ESPINOZA AARON SPENCER 9