Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, February 01, 1983

CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS AGENDA Senate Meeting #12 Session #13 4:00 p.m. February 1, 19 83 MSU 20 3 I. Call to Order II. Roll Call III. Approval of Minutes #11 IV. Executive Board Announcements A. State of the Campus Address V. Executive Board Nominations A. Publications Board Member - Dr. McCullough and Senator Pettit B. Student Services Committee Members - Denyce Tuller, Holly Reed, Michelle DeTillio and Sam Lieberman C. Entertainment and Programming Board Member - Senator Valvo D. Vice President Pro Tempore - Karen Eckert VI. Board, Committee and Department Head Reports A. Ad Hoc Committees B. Elections Board (2-1) C. Faculty Committees D. President's Committees E. Publicaitons Board (1-31) F. Student Services Committee (1-27) G. Other H. Appropriations Board (1-31) VII. Unfinished Business A. Response to Governor Bryan's "State of the State Address" - Oshinski VIII. New Business A. Nominations for Vacant Senate Seats 1. Health Sciences 2. Education B. Proposed Stipend of $150.00/month for Appropriations Board UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS/4505 MARYLAND PARKWAY/LAS VEGAS, NV 89154/(702) 739-3477 SENATE MEETING #11-AGENDA-February 1, 19 83 page 2 Chairman - Executive Board D. Formation of Ad Hoc Code Review Committee - Oshinski D. Don Good Awards IX. Open Discussion X. Adjournment D J CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS MINUTES Senate Meeting #12 Session #13 4:00 p.m. February 1, 19 8 3 MSU 203 I. Call to Order The meeting was called to order at 4:00 p.m. II. Roll Call Members in Attendance David Begor - unexcused absent Bill DiBenedetto David Mounts Stephanie Pettit Ginger Clayton August Corrales MaryBeth Nitzschke Trent Parks left for a few minutes Robert Barnum Robert Eglet Cathy Powell Mike Waller Calvin Valvo - late Catherine Clay Marc Miller Karen Eckert Jim Eells Eric Emerson IV. Executive Board Announcements 1. President Oshinski He read Matt Hiu's resignation from the Vice Presidency. President Goodall is accepting nominations for the Dist-inguished Teaching Award. He gave his State of the Cam-pus Address. Senate President Wild moved back into item III, Approval of Minutes #11. III. Approval of Minutes #11 Senator Eckert moved to approve the minutes from Senate Meet-ing #11, and Senator Emerson seconded. Senator Barnum moved to amend the minutes by deleting in item III, Approval of Minutes #10 everything from "Senator Eglet moved. . ."to "Senator Eckert seconded." The motion was seconded by Sena-tor DiBenedetto. Senator Parks was present at 4:19 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS/4505 MARYLAND PARKWAY/LAS VEGAS, NV 89154/(702) 739-3477 SENATE MEETING #11-AGENDA-February 1, 19 83 page 2 The vote on the amendment was 7 in favor, 7 opposed and 2 abstentions. The chair did not cast a vote so the motion was defeated. Senator Valvo was present at 4:19 p.m. Senator DiBenedetto moved to reconsider the motion. The motion to reconsider the motion failed with 9 in favor, 6 opposed and 2 abstentions. There being no further additions or corrections the minutes stood approved. At this time, Senator Eckert resigned her Science, Math and Engineering Senate seat ef fective immediatelyso she could resume the Vice Presidency. IV Executive Board Announcements- 2. Senate President Wild f Item V, D has been withdrawn. There will be a Curri-culum Committee meeting at 1:30 in Edu-399. Change the first item D under New Business to item C. Change item D under New Business to "Done" Good instead of "Don" Good. Add item VII, B Approval of Inland Empires Con-tract . V. Executive Board Nominations A. Senator DiBenedetto moved to approve Dr. McCullough and Senator Pettit as Publications Board members, and Sena-tor Miller seconded. The motion passed with 17 in fa-vor, 0 opposed and 0 abstentions. B. Senator Eells moved to approve Denyce Tuller, Holly Reed, Michelle DeTillio and Sam Lieberman as members of the Student Services Committee, and Senator DiBenedetto seconded. The motion passed with 17 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 ab-stentions . C. Senator Eells moved to approve Senator Valvo as a member of the Entertainment and Programming Board. Senator Clay seconded the motion which passed with 17 in favor, 0 op-posed and 0 abstentions. Do Vice President Pro Tempore - Karen Eckert This item was withdrawn. VI. Board, Committee and Department Head Reports A. Ad Hoc Committees There was no report. B. Elections Board Chairman Crum read the minutes from the Elections Board Meeting held on February 1, 1983. The members in atten-dance were Randy Crum, April Morse, Mary Borsellino, Mario Guerrina, David Mounts and Delane Fitzpatrick. The members absent were Jim Wunrow(excused), Mike Waller, Steve Bowie and Calvin Valvo. Dave Mounts moved to disap-prove all the amendments except for 2b, 2d, 2g, 3f, and 5. Mario Guerrina seconded and this motion passed. Senator Eglet moved to approve the minutes- with the addition of 2c, and Senator Powell seconded. Senate President Wild ruled the motion to approve the minutes out of order be-cause of a question of constitutionality. Senator SENATE MEETING #11-AGENDA-February 1, 19 83 page 2 Eells moved to approve the minutes from meeting #14 with all amendments including 2c, and Senator DiBene-detto seconded. Senator Clay moved to amend the amend-ment to include Amendments #1, 2e, 2f, and 4 and 6 and Senator Eckert seconded. Senator Mounts moved to table these minutes indefinitely. This motion died due to the lack of a second. Senator Miller moved to end debate and Senator Eells seconded. The motion carried with 15 in favor and 2 opposed. The amendment to the minutes which was to add amendments 1, 2e, 2f, 4 and 6 and passed with 13 in favor, 0 opposed and 4 abstentions-. Senator Emer-son moved to approve the minutes with an addition to amend-ment #1 to include "by a proxy vote" and to inclrude that a candidate may send a proxy to the mandatory candidates' meeting. Senator Emerson moved the previous- question, and Senator Powell seconded. The vote on the motion to end debate was 17 in favor and 0 opposed. The motion to approve the minutes as amended was 17 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 abstentions. C. Faculty Committees There was no report. D. President's Committees There was no report. E. Publications Board There was no report. F. Student Services Committee Chairman Eglet read the minutes from the meeting held on January 27 at 4:00 p.m. Sindi Glasgow, Jim Eells, Karen Eckert and Robert Eglet were present. Rusty Smith, and Jim Jackson were excused absent. The committee passed a motion to allow students to purchase lecture notes for single class periods for $1,00. The committee also approved a motion to let Student Services run the CSUN Test File out of theii office and charge students 25$ per test for us to copy it for their use, and that $1,00 of credit for the test file use be extended to students who bring in tests that we don't have on file. Senator.1 DiBenedetto moved to approve the minutes, and Senator Eells seconded. Senator Powell moved the previous question. Senator Emerson seconded and the motion to end debate passed with 15 in favor, 2 opposed. The motion to approve the minutes passed with 15 in favor, 1 opposed and 1 absten-tion. G. Other The Nevada Student Affairs Committee submitted bill con-cerning bonds to the Bill Drafters. H. Appropriations Board Chairman Goussak read the minutes from the meeting held on January 31, 19 83. Paul Berger, Karen Eckert, Sindy Glasgow and Greg Goussak,were present. Pam Jacka and and Cathy Powell were excused absent0 Rosana Reyes: was absent,and Rick Oshinski was present as an ex-officio member. Rosana Reyes later arrived at 4:25 p.m. The board approved the minutes of the meeting held on January 24, 1983. The aboard approved the Computer Proposal as submitted. There was a friendly amendment which was approved to include the move of the KUNV transmitter in the original proposal. The board approved a transfer of $48.50 from SENATE MEETING #11-AGENDA-February 1, 19 83 page 2 906-9002 to 3-2-776-4120-902-9407. The board tabled any action concerning the Faculty Senate recommendation to eliminate the 35C per hour received by CSUN for Summer School hours. Senator Powell moved to approve the minutes from meeting #26 held on January 31, 1983. Senator Eells seconded and the minutes stood approved. VII. Unfinished Business A. Resolution in Response to Governor Bryan's State of the State Address Senator Eglet moved to approve the following resolution, and Senator Eells seconded. "Be it resolved the Consolidated Students of the Univer-sity of Nevada offers congratulations to Governor Richard Bryan on his first State of the State Address and . . . Be it resolved the Consolidated Students of the Univer-sity of Nevada offers its full support to the proposals contained therein." This motion was approved with 17 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 abstentions. B. Contract for the Carnival (Inland Empire Contract) for Mardi Gras. Senator Clay moved to approve the contract with Inland Empire for Mardi Gras and Senator DiBenedetto seconded. The motion passed with 17 in favor, 0 oppposed and 0 abstentions. VIII. New Business A. Nominations for Vacant Senate Seats 1. Health Sciences There were no nominations. 2. Education There were no nominations. 3. Science, Math and Engineering Senator Miller nominated Frank Rivera. Senator Eckert nominated Cara Iddings. Senator Mounts nomi-nated Jeff Chadwell. Senator Eckert moved to close nominations for the Science, Math and Engineering Seat and Senator Powell seconded. Senator Powell moved .the previous question, and Senator Emerson seconded. The motion to end debate passed with 15 in favor and 2 opposed. The vote on the motion to close nominations.for Science, Math and Engineering passed with 12 in favor, 1 opposed and 4 abstentions. B. Senator Eckert moved to approve a stipend of $150.00/ month for Appropriations Board Chairman, and Senator Powell seconded. Senator Powell moved the previous question, and Senator Emerson seconded. The'moti6n passed with 15 in favor and 2 opposed. The motion to award a $150/month stipend to the Appropriations Board Chairman passed with 12 in favor, 1 opposed and 4 absten-tions . SENATE MEETING #11-AGENDA-February 1, 19 83 page 2 c C. Senator Powell moved to approve the formation of an ad hoc Code Review Committee with the following mem-bers: Rick Oshinski, Eric Emerson(chairman), August Corrales, Robert Eglet' Jef Wild and Karen Eckert. Senator Eells seconded the motion. Senator DiBenedetto left the meeting at 5:37 p.m. and re-turned at 5: 38;vp:.oi. The vote on the motion to form an ad hoc Code Review Committee passed with 16 in favor, 0 opposed and 1 abstention. Senator Powell left the meeting at 5:41 p.m. D, Done Good Awards Tony Cordasco was nominated for a Done Good Award for leading progress in contemporary music by a shoestring. Senator Eglet moved to approve Tony Cordasco*s Done Good award, and Senator Clay seconded. The motion passed with all in favor. The meeting moved into a Closed Personnel Session at 5:45 p.m. and moved out at 5:55 p.m. IX. Open Discussion President Oshinski thanked all who showed up for the Stu-dent Services workshop. Senate Bill 5 is regarding the out of state fee waivers awarded to students who wish to study at another school. The passage of this bill would renew this program. Senator Clay warned the Senate that next week there will be an item to repeal senate bill 0 02b. Senator Clayton left at 6:06 p.m. before the meeting was adjourned. X. Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 6:10 p.m. Respectfully submitted by, Jef M i d CSUN Senate President Respectfully prepared by, mn -t*est CSUN Secretary