Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, July 07, 1981

CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS 4505 Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, Nevada 89154 Telephone (702) 739-3477 SENATE PRESIDENT RICK OSHINSKI AGENDA Senate Meeting #31 Moyer Student Union Building Room 20 3 4 p.m. 7-7^81 I. Call to Order II. Roll Call III. Approval of Minutes #30 IV. Executive Board Announcements V. Executive Board Nominations A. Entertainment and Programming Board Senator Cathy Powell B. Curriculum Committee Senator Bill Haldeman C. Financial Aid Committee Karen Hoffman VI. Committee Reports A. Appropriations Board B. Election Board C. Entertainment and Programming Board D. Organizations Board E. Radio Board F. ByLaws Committee G. Student Services Committee H. Publications Board I. Other Committee Reports VII. Unfinished Business A. Vacant Hotel College Senate Seat (vote for one) 1. Greg Goussak 2. Mark Welker VIII. New Business A. Creation of Senate Task Force to pursue space for student type-writers B. Implementation of reapportionment of Senate seats-Greg Goussak C. Revision of job description, Information Director-Lee Drizin IX. Open Discussion X. Adjournment CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS 4505 Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, Nevada 89154 Telephone (702) 739-3477 SENATE PRESIDENT RICK OSHINSKI TO: CSIJN Senate and Executive Board: FROMs Rick 0shinski SUBJECT: Dismissal of Senators Be advised that University College Senator, Steven LoPresti, and Allied Health Senator, Robert Scavetta, have been dismissed due to excessive unexcused absences, I have taken this action in accordance with the CSUN Constitution Article V, section E, number 5 which states: "The Senate President shall be empowered to assign excused and unexcused absences to Senators for Senate Meetings and to dismiss Senators accumulating three unexcused absences per semester." This action is effective immediately,but in case of appeal,, nominations will open for these vacant seats on July 14, 1981.. RO/rs CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS 4505 Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, Nevada 89154 Telephone (702)5 739-3477 SENATE PRESIDENT RICK OSHINSKI TO^ CSUN Senate, Executive Board, Department Headsr and Staff FROMi Rick Oshinski, SSUN Senate President DATE: July 2, 1981 Effective immediately, any and all documents which are to be considered by the Senate for action will not be recognized by the chair unless the original copy of such document is in the possession of the Senate Secretary. This action is necessary to maintain accurate records. Information Director Policy I. The Information Director will oversee CSUN press relations and publicity of the activities of the CSUN Executive Board, Senate departments, boards and committees. The Information Director will be responsible for A. Providing both on campus and off campus media with press information, including press releases, photo™ * graphs, public service announcements and public state-ments by the Executive Board, Senate and other CSUN entities. B. Arranging all media advertising, C. Overseeing design and printing of all promotional materials. D. Arranging press conferences when necessary. (^J^y The Information Director will not be responsible fur >A. Delivering materials to or picking materials up from printers or other agents. B. Posting and distributing promotional materials.. III. The Information Director will A. Coordinate off campus publicity with the UNLV Office of Information Services. B. Work in cooperation with the CSUN Executive Board, Senate, department heads and board and committee chairmen. C. Report to the Executive Board. D. Be an ex officio member of the Entertainment and Programming Board. E. Advise the Appropriations Board as to budget amounts necessary for departmental publicity. page 2 IV. The Assistant Information Director will A. Assist the Information Director in performing his duties. B. Perform the duties assigned to him by the Information Director. C. Assume the responsibilities of the Information Director in the event of the inability of the Director to perform his duties) V. The Senate shall nominate and appoint thrree Information Assistants, at least one of whom must be a Senator.. Each Information Assistant will A. Assist the Information Director in performing his duties. B. Advise the Information Director. C. Act as a liaison between the Information Director and the CSUN entities he deals with. VI. The Information Director, Assistant Information Director and the Information Assistants must A. Be CSUN members. B. Have obtained minimum G.P.A.s of not less than 2.2. VII. The Information Director and the Assistant Information Director will be A. Nominated by the Executive Board and appointed by approval of the Senate, B. Awarded a monthly stipend to be approved by the Senate. VIII. The terms of office of the Information Director, Assistant Information Director and the Information Assistants shall be from date of appointment to April 30. IX. It shall be the responsibility of those entities desiring to make use of the Information Director's services to inform him of such. MINUTES Senate Meeting #31 Moyer Student Union Building Room 203 U p.m. 7-7-81 I. Call to Order Senate President Oshinski called the meeting to order at U:00 p.m. II. Roll Call Members in Attendance Patrick Malloy Catherine Clay Cathy Powell MaryBeth Nitzschke Karen Cohen Patrick Thomas-excused absent Derrek Yelton David Campbell Jeff Wild Bill Haldeman Ginger Clayton Roberta Burton Lynn Best-excused late Lee Drizin Larry Hamilton III. Approval of Minutes #30 Senator Cohen deleted in the minutes the ad hoc committee report concerning the Information director was not an official report to read that the report was not an action item. IV. Executive Board Announcements A. President's Announcements President Ravenholt announced that his office hours will be from 1-U p.m. Monday thru Thrusday and sometime between 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. on Friday. B. Vice-President's Announcements Vice-President Roberts announced that she would be having an Appropriations Board meeting on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. C. Senate President's Announcements Senate President Oshinski announced that Robert Scavetta and Stephen LoPresti have been dismissed from the Senate due to exesssive unexcused absences. Also, he reminded the Senate that all documents to be voted on by the Senate the original copy must be in the possession of the Senate secretary before the meeting. Senate President Oshinski announced that Cheryl Jackson has resigned from the Election Board. Guest Present Dr. Carhart Senate Meetings #31 Page 2 7-8-81 Senator Wild moved to suspend with the rules and move into New Business, item D. Federal Student Loan Freeze. The motion was seconded. The motion passed with eleven in favor, one opposed, and one abstention, VIII. New Business D. Resolution Concerning Federal Student Loan Freezes This item was first commented on by Lise Wyman a students who loan was frozen "by the bank from which she reached a promisory note, also Dondi Corleone another student commented on the situation. Senator Wild moved to approve the following resolution: Be it resolved that the CSUN Senate Oppo^ "any budget cuts affecting already promised student loans and basic grant and urge all students to contact their U.S. Senator and Congressman to request that they vote against any such measures as this that deny student their educational rights. Uni^fsc'}y Be it further resolved that CSUEF encourages the/Nevada System to withdraw business from Nevada banks which freeze student loans alreday promised. After much discussion, Senator Haldamen moved to table the resolution until Senate Meeting #32. The motion was seconded. The motion passed with thirteen in favor. , V. Executive Board Nominations A. Entertainment and Programming Board Senator Cathy Powell B. Curriculum lommittee Senator Bill Haldeman C. Financial Aid Committee Karen Hoffman Senator Haldeman moved to approve these nominations as a whole. The motion was seconded. The motion passed with eleven in favor, one opposed, and one abstention. VI. Committee Reports A. Appropriations Board There was no report. B. Election Board Chairman Goussak read the minutes of the Election Board for July 6, 198l. There was only one action item that was the the Election Board and the Senator present at the meeting move into a committee as a whole to discuss the election rules. Senator Clay moved to approve. The motion was seconded. There being no further additions or corrections the minutes stood approved as read. C. Entertainment and Programming Board Chairman Dave Gist, read the minutes of the board meeting held on July 3, 19.81. The board amended the minutes to approve $2^0 to RECCA instead of $200. Also the board approve a calendar of events consisting of 6l schduled events. The board approved a 25^ admission charge for UNLV I.D. Holders, Senior .citizens to SSUN movies, and $1.00 to the general public.. The board approved operating fees of $75.60 for card stock and $18.00 for a rubber stamp and 9-50 a name plate for Phil Horn, Senator Cohen moved to approve the report. The motion was seconded. There being no further additions or corrections the report stood approved as read. Senate Meeting #31 Page, . 3 . 7-7-81 D. Organizations Board There was no report. E. Radio Board There was no report F. ByLaws Committee Chairman, Jeff Wild read the minutes of the Bylaws Committee meeting held on July 7, 1981. The hoard removed the action item of the proposal of an Information Director. The hoard submitted "bylaw to the Senate. S'enator Clay moved to approve. The motion was seconded. There being no further additions or corrections the minutes stood approved as read. VII. Unfinished Business A. Vacant Hotel Colelge Senate Seat (vote for one) Each candidate spoke for no more than 3 minutes and voting was done by a show of hands. Greg Goussak received 8 votes, and Mark Welker received 5 votes. Senate President Oshinski announced Greg Goussak as the new Senator and asked him to have a seat at the Senate table. VIII. New Business A. Creation of Senate Task Force to prsue space for student typewriters Senate President Oshinski passed the gavel to Senate President Pro Tempore Wild to make a brief presentation to the Senate. Much discussion took place. Senator Goussak moved that a Senate issue a directive to the Senate President to do whatever Is ever necessary to pursue needed space for the typewriters. The motion was seconded. The motion passed with eight in favor and three opposed. It was noted in the records the objection of Senator Cohen stating, "because of the inclusion of the words "whatever it takes" she considers the previously adopted motion ridiculous and contradictory to already adopted CSUN legislation. She added that she is embarrassed by the Senate's passage of this motion. B. Implementation of reapportionment of Senate seats-Greg Goussak Senator Goussak moved to implement the reapportionment effective immediately. The motion was not seconded, therefore, no action was taken. C. Revision of Job description, Information Director. There was a motion to recess for 5 minutes. The motion was seconded. The motion passed the Senate was recessed at 5=05 p.m. Senate President Oshinski called the meeting back to order at 5:10 p.m. Senator Drizin moved to approve the job description for the information director as revised, (see attached) The motion was seconded. Discussion took place. Discussion took place. Senator Clayton called for the question. The motion was seconded. The call for the question passed with nine in favor, three opposed, and two abstention. The motion passed with nine in favor, three opposed, and two abstentions.. D. Nominations for University College Senate seats (3) Senator Cohen nominated Charles Bloom. Senator Ilaldeman moved to close nominations on one of the vacant Senate seats. The motion was seconded. The motion passed with fourteen in favor. Senate Meeting #31 7-7-81 Page U IX. Open Discussion fancy Forni a representative from the Information Office read a memo to the Senate concerning the legislation of the Information Director proposal. Senator Haldeman moved to adjourn. The motion was seconded. X. Adjournment Senate President Oshinski adjourned the meeting of the Consolidated Student Senate at 5:35 p.m. Respectfully Submitted by, Respectfully Prepared by, Rick Oshinski Senate President Robin Starlin CSUN Senate Secreatary