Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, January 22, 1996

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Student Government Office of the Senate President STUDENT SENATE MEETING 26-07 Monday, January 22,1996 Moyer Student Union Room 201 6:00 p.m. I. CALL TO ORDER II. ROLL CALL III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES IV. BOARD AND COMMITTEE REPORTS A. SENATE COMMITTEE REPORTS B. DIRECTOR REPORTS a. Nevada Student Affairs, DIRECTOR TURNER; b. Elections Board, DIRECTOR ARAIZA; c. Organizations Board, DIRECTOR COLE; d. Student Services, DIRECTOR GREENHALGH; e. Entertainment and Programming, DIRECTOR SALIBA; C. FACULTY SENATE COMMITTEE REPORTS D. RESIDENCE HALL LIAISON REPORT E. BUSINESS MANAGER REPORT V. PUBLIC COMMENT [in accordance with N.R.S. 241.020 (2)(c)(3)] VI. UNFINISHED BUSINESS A. Action Item: Approval of encumbering an amount not to exceed $5,000.00 for the March-April-May 1996 "CSUN PRESENTS: Pleaonastic Tunes Series" estimated estimated expenditures for weekly musical/entertainment performance/clean up crew fees [minimum five (5) weeks throughout the semester]; sound system/stage provider fees; printing/advertising cost for flyers, posters, banners; food, snack nad beverage costs; scheduled event student door prizes; and other miscellaneous expenses as may be needed out of the fy 95-96 CSUN 2702 (Gen) account; CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS • UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA 4505 SOUTH MARYLAND PARKWAY • LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 89154-2009 • (702) 895-3477 • FAX (702) 895-4606 B. Action Item: Approval of encumbering an amount not to exceed $25,000.00 for CSUN major concert event "CSUN PRESENT B.B. KING IN CONCERT" estimated expenditures related to musical entertainment performance/production expenses including performance fee, travel, meals and lodging; sound system and/or stage provider fees; printing/advertising costs for flyers, posters, banners; beverage tickets and tee shirts; food, snack and beverage costs; campus security costs; and other miscellaneous expenses as may be needed out of the fy 95-96 CSUN (Gen) account; VII. NEW BUSINESS A. Action Item: Discussion/approval of an additional 3 credits per semester plus a $100.00 per month increase in stipend for Brian Saliba, Director of Entertainment and Programming, to be encumbered out of the fy 95-96 CSUN 2702 (Gen) account, as submitted by SENATOR CAMPBELL; B. Action Item: Approval of encumbering a total amount not to exceed $9,000.00 for vendor costs of an elections services to provide sufficient clerks, votomatics, ballot preparations, count/certification services and voting ballots for a maximum of ten (10) polling booths to be located campus-wide for the CSUN Executive Board Officers Primary and General Elections on the first consecutive Wednesday in march and April. 1996 out of the fy 95-96 CSUN 2702 (Gen) account; C. Action Item: Approval of forwarding the amount of $5,397.00 to the UNLV Office of the President for the fifth and final year loan payment for the student union remodeling project expenditures made to the student government office complex(MSU 160) in 1991-92 to be transfered out of the fy 95-96 CSUN 2702 (Gen) account; D. Action Item: Approval of waiving the CSUN Senate Bylaw regarding taking a minimum twelve (12) credit hours to remain eligible for CSUN Leadership Award scholarships in order to allow 1995-96 recipient (and former CSUN Senator) O.G. Kennedy to take a minimum of nine (9) credit hours as a UNLV graduate student for 1996; E. Action Item: Discussion/approval of expending an estimated amount not to exceed $3,000.00 for related travel expenses [conference early registration fees ($205p/p); day pass fees ($65p/p); roundtrip airfare departing from Las Vegas ($200 p/p); meals ($15 p/p-p/d); lodging ($162.76per quad occupancy per night)] including Preconvention Workshop Feb. 24th attendance costs ($25 p/p) for four (4) E&P Board members to attend the 1996 National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) National Convention from Saturday, February 24th through Wednesday, February 28th, 1996 in Nashville, Tennessee [Conference Workshops Agenda attached], to be encumbered out of the fy 95-96 CSUN 2702 (Gen) account; VIII. GOOD OF THE DAY IX. ADJOURNMENT 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, Wright Hall and Thomas Beam Engineering Complex. University of Nevada, Las Vegas Student Government Office of the Senate President 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 Phoebe Block Shawna Campbell Terence Carroll Leia Fleischman Marlon Howard James Kimmet Bryan Lawe Joe Laxague Terry Moore Veronica Perez Robert Soloman Craig Spanton Joaquin Trujillo Julie Wong Laura Zurek MINUTES SENATE MEETING 26-07 Monday, January 22,1996 Moyer Student Union Room 201 6:00 p.m. Senate President Smith recessed the meeting at 6:04 p.m. to allow Dr. Carol Harter, President of the University to address the Senate on university issues. Senate President Smith called the meeting back to order at 6:45 p.m. Senate Dan Fendell entered at 6:08 p.m. III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Minutes 26-02, 26-04, 26-06 up for approval. Motion to approve made by SENATOR MOORE, seconded by SENATOR HOWARD. CORRECTIONS: SENATOR FLEISCHMAN—26-06-Item W-page 6-SENATOR FLEISCHMAN, SENATOR ANDERSON opposed the vote. 26-06-Item T-page 5-SENATOR FLEISCHMAN opposed the vote. 26- 06-open discussion-the vote was changed to opposition( 15-3-1). SENATOR CAMPBELL moves to make the following correction--26-02-page 5-SENATOR FLEISCHMAN motioned to allow the candidates to speak, not SENATOR CAMPBELL. SENATOR MOORE-26-Q6-item A-page 2-should read...Constitutional Revision Committee, Senators Moore, Carroll, Anderson, Laxague raise their hands. Move into a vote. Motion passes 17-0-1. SENATOR BLOCK abstained. CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS • UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA 4505 SOUTH MARYLAND PARKWAY • LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 89154-2009 • (702) 895-3477 • FAX (702) 8 9 5 4 6 0 6 SENATE MINUTES 26-07 / MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1996 IV. BOARD AND COMMITTEE REPORTS SENATOR CARROLL—Bylaws will have a meeting this Thursday. Considering having a Space Allocation committee forum. Rules and Ethics met over the break and investigated some of the charges brought against Carl Tolbert and found no wrong doing on Tolbert's part. SENATOR CAMPBELL-Constitutional Revision meeting next week or the week there after. Senators on that committee please fill out the available times on the schedule form put in your box. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN-Campus Safety and Awareness committee members need to get together to schedule a meeting, and the committee is now a Senator short. B. DIRECTOR REPORTS a. Nevada Student Affairs-Director Turner tendered his resignation effective January 31, 1996. Has been working on finding funding for a student athletic/recreation complex. There is no recommendation at this point for his replacement, will have it on the January 29 meeting. b. Elections-no report c. Organizations-There is a meeting this week. d. Student Services-Handed out forms to fill out for President Harter's paper committee. Start selecting hosts for Career Day next week. e. Entertainment and Programming-Distributed a calendar of events for the semester. Kick-off party had decent turnout. Saved $300.00 under budget for the event. Comedy series starts this week, "Comedy Cafe." C. FACULTY SENATE COMMITTEE REPORTS SENATOR MOORE-There is an open seat in the Code committee. He is going to be meeting with the President of the Faculty Senate some time this week, and will be passing any concerns the Senators may have about Faculty Senate on to the President so that he may pass them on to the chairs (faculty) of the committees. Scott Schwartz reported that the Admission committee met on Friday, voted on admissions appeals and on transfer credits. Senate President Smith reported that there is a student health committee meeting on February 9. If there are any concerns for that committee, please direct them to him. Motion to nominate SENATOR MOORE to the open seat on the Code committee made by SENATOR TRUJILLO, seconded by SENATOR LAXAGUE. SENATOR MOORE is placed in the open seat on the Code Committee by unanimous acclimation. D. RESIDENCE HALL LIAISON REPORT SENATOR SPANTON gave the report for Leah Griffith-"we had a great opening weekend this semester. We took a group of new students to a Rebel basketball game and had other activities including: ice breakers, game nights, and a toga night. We would like to offer the student government the responsibility for the campus events board in the dining commons, right now that responsibility is that of the residence hall association executive board." 2 SENATE MINUTES 26-07 / MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1996 E. BUSINESS MANAGER REPORT Business Manager Karla Kirk thanked the Senate for her new computer which is now installed in her office and is working. Reported to the Senate all Executive Board expenditures of under $500.00. Motion to take a TWO (2) minute recess made by SENATOR PEREZ. Senate President Smith grants the motion . Two (2) minute recess taken at 7:12 p.m. Senate President Smith called the meeting back to order at 7:19 p.m. V. PUBLIC COMMENT [in accordance with N.R.S. 241.020 (2)(c)(3)] No comment from the gallery. VI. UNFINISHED BUSINESS A. Action Item: Approval of encumbering an amount not to exceed $5,000.00 for the March-April -May 1996 "CSUN PRESENTS: Pleonastic Tunes Series" estimated expenditures for weekly musical/entertainment performance/clean up crew fees [minimum five (5) weeks throughout the semester]; sound system/stage provider fees; printing/advertising cost for flyers, posters, banners; food, snack nad beverage costs; scheduled event student door prizes; and other miscellaneous expenses as may be needed out of the fy 95-96 CSUN 2702 (Gen) account. Motion to remove from the table made by SENATOR MOORE, seconded by SENATOR CARROLL. Motion approved by unanimous acclimation. Motion to approve made by SENATOR CARROLL, seconded by SENATOR TRUJILLO. SENATOR MOORE yielded the floor to Director Saliba. Director Saliba stated that students have expressed interest in having the bands back playing this semester. Motion to amend the item to read..."CSUN PRESENTS: Bands"...snack and beverage costs:...made by SENATOR CARROLL, seconded by SENATOR AGUERO. Motion passes by unanimous acclimation. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN questioned Director Saliba about scheduling of the bands. SENATOR CAMPBELL expressed that Fridays are a bad day to have entertainment on the campus. Motion to amend the amount from $5,000.00 to $3,000.00 made by SENATOR MOORE, seconded by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN. SENATORS LAXAGUE, CAMPBELL questioned whether $3,000.00 was enough for Director Saliba to continue the event. Director Saliba stated that he would work with whatever amount was approved. SENATOR PEREZ questioned how much the bands cost last semester. Director Saliba stated that a lot of the groups that were booked last semester were local and/or students, therefore costing much less if not free. Move into a vote on the amendment. Motion passes 16-2-0. SENATORS KIMMET, SPANTON opposed. Move into a vote of the original motion. Motion passes 18-0-0. SENATE MINUTES 26-07 / MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1996 ( B. Action Item: Approval of encumbering an amount not to exceed $25,000.00 for CSUN major concert event "CSUN PRESENT B.B. KING IN CONCERT" estimated expenditures related to musical entertainment performance/production expenses including performance fee, travel, meals and lodging; sound system and/or stage provider fees; printing/advertising costs for flyers, posters, banners; beverage tickets and tee shirts; food, snack and beverage costs; campus security costs; and other miscellaneous expenses as may be needed out of the fy 95-96 CSUN (Gen) account; Motion to remove from the table made by SENATOR KIMMET, seconded by SENATOR SOLOMAN. Motion passes by unanimous acclimation. Motion to disapprove made by SENATOR MOORE, seconded by SENATOR LAXAGUE. SENATOR PEREZ yields the floor to Vice-President Mills. Vice-President Mills states that B.B. King has performed in town before and has not had a sell-out crowd. Move into a vote. Motion passes 17-0-1. SENATOR CARROLL abstained. VII. NEW BUSINESS A. Action Item: Discussion/approval of an additional 3 credits per semester plus a $100.00 per month increase in stipend for Brian Saliba, Director of Entertainment and Programming, to be encumbered out of the fy 95-96 CSUN 2702 (Gen) account, as submitted by SENATOR CAMPBELL; Motion to table per CSUN Bylaw 4 made by SENATOR MOORE, seconded by SENATOR KIMMET. Move into a vote. Motion passes by unanimous acclimation. B. Action Item: Approval of encumbering a total amount not to exceed $9,000.00 for vendor costs of an elections services to provide sufficient clerks, votomatics, ballot preparations, count/certification services and voting ballots for a maximum of ten (10) polling booths to be located campus-wide for the CSUN Executive Board Officers Primary and General Elections on the first consecutive Wednesday in march and April. 1996 out of the fy 95-96 CSUN 2702 (Gen) account; Motion to approve made by SENATOR MOORE, seconded by SENATOR LAXAGUE. SENATOR KIMMET questioned if there had been any bids submitted. There was no one able to answer the question at the meeting. SENATOR MOORE stated that the paperwork has been submitted to purchasing as far as he knows. SENATOR CARROLL questioned that 10 polling booths is a little excessive, and does the Senate know the locations of the polling booths. Senate President Smith informed him that the locations are not known at this time. Move into a vote. Motion passes 14-2-2. SENATOR KIMMET, CAMPBELL opposed. SENATORS FLEISCHMAN, ZUREK abstained. C. Action Item: Approval of forwarding the amount of $5,397.00 to the UNLV Office of the President for the fifth and final year loan payment for the student union remodeling project 4 SENATE MINUTES 26-07 / MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1996 expenditures made to the student government office complex(MSU 160) in 1991-92 to be transferred out of the fy 95-96 CSUN 2702 (Gen) account; Motion to approve made by SENATOR MOORE, seconded by SENATOR CARROLL. SENATOR CAMPBELL stated that she did not remember approving such an item last session. Senate President Smith stated that this is the fifth year that the Senate has made this payments. They have been paid every year. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN agreed with SENATOR CAMPBELL in not remembering passing such an expense last session. SENATOR CARROLL stated that he believed it was approved the first meeting of the last session. And that the Senate is committed to pay this money. Senate President Smith provided background of the loan to the Senate from the President's office to expand the CSUN offices and the payments to be made over the next five years, this payment being the last one. Move into a vote. Motion passes 18-0-0. D. Action Item: Approval of waiving the CSUN Senate Bylaw regarding taking a minimum twelve (12) credit hours to remain eligible for CSUN Leadership Award scholarships in order to allow 1995-96 recipient (and former CSUN Senator) O.G. Kennedy to take a minimum of nine (9) credit hours as a UNLV graduate student for 1996; SENATOR FLEISCHMAN takes a personal privilege. Motion to approve made by SENATOR BLOCK, seconded by SENATOR ZUREK. SENATOR CAMPBELL stated that the bylaw may need some revision so that it may be applied to graduate credits. O.G. Kennedy is deserving of this scholarship and the allowance of its being graduate credits. Move into a vote. Motion passes 15-2-0. SENATORS SPANTON, KIMMET opposed. E. Action Item: Discussion/approval of expending an estimated amount not to exceed $3,000.00 for related travel expenses [conference early registration fees ($205p/p); day pass fees ($65p/p); round-trip airfare departing from Las Vegas ($200 p/p); meals ($15 p/p-p/d); lodging ($162.76 per quad occupancy per night)] including Preconvention Workshop Feb. 24th attendance costs ($25 p/p) for four (4) E&P Board members to attend the 1996 National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) National Convention from Saturday, February 24th through Wednesday, February 28th, 1996 in Nashville, Tennessee [Conference Workshops Agenda attached], to be encumbered out of the fy 95-96 CSUN 2702 (Gen) account; Motion to approve made by SENATOR MOORE, seconded by SENATOR CAMPBELL. SENATOR CAMPBELL questioned Director Saliba if he had the four E&P board members to go to the conference and that they would be E&P board members only attending. Director Saliba replied that he had the four members and it would be E&P board members attending only unless the Senate amended the item. 5 SENATE MINUTES 26-07 / MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1996 SENATOR KIMMET questioned that there was already a conference of this nature attended earlier in the semester. Senate President Smith replied that the conference attended earlier in the semester was a regional conference, whereas this is the national conference. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN returns to the meeting. Director Saliba also replied to SENATOR KIMMET that the regional conference was exposure to West Coast entertainment only, whereas this conference exposed nationwide entertainment. Move into a vote. Motion passes 16-0-1. SENATOR KIMMET abstained. Emergency Motion to...Waive Bylaw 33, Section 6B for Toby Cole and only Toby Cole until May 15, 1996 made by SENATOR CARROLL, seconded by SENATOR HOWARD. SENATOR CAMPBELL cited Page 2 of Senate Bylaw 33, Section IV, subsection C, Toby has a certain amount of time to come to the Senate and work the problem out. Toby should take advantage of that time, rather than the Senate just blatantly waiving a Bylaw. SENATOR LAXAGUE yielded the floor to Toby Cole. Toby Cole addressed the Senate regarding the Emergency Motion. If this bylaw is not waived, he would be in a position where he would have to resign his directorship next week. He received a grade point average below the requirements CSUN has for Directors. Due to a mix-up with the TOUCH system involving his attempted drop of two courses last semester, and the failure of TOUCH to drop those courses and he was left with no recourse but to receive the failing grades in each course, resulting in a low grade point average. Feels he has done a good job as a director, and asks the Senate to please waive this Bylaw so that he may continue to do his job this semester. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN questioned what Toby Cole's GPA would be without the two F's on it. Toby Cole replied that it would be a 2.1. SENATOR CARROLL stated that the reason he chose to present this motion is that he feels if the Bylaw is followed, the Senate would be removing an Organizations Board Director that has done a good job. SENATOR KIMMET stated that he sympathizes with Toby Cole's situation, but feels that this can set a dangerous precedent for people to use not making grades. SENATOR BLOCK-Page 13 of the CSUN Constitution takes the matter out of the Senate's hands. Toby Cole addressed that the Constitution is only for elected officials. SENATOR BLOCK cited that he was covered in the constitution under student services. Toby Cole stated that though he had a bad semester, his cumulative GPA is still a 2.0. He is retaking the courses that he received the failing grades in, and is willing to work within whatever guidelines the Senate sees fit to set up so that he may continue his job. SENATOR HOWARD stated that the Senate should not worry about setting a precedent, they should take each case as it comes up to the Senate on its own merit, and should therefore, just take consideration of the situation involving Toby Cole at this time and be a little bit human in their dealings. Move into a vote. Motion passes 12-3-3. SENATORS SOLOMAN, SPANTON, KIMMET opposed. SENATORS PEREZ, FLEISCHMAN, ZUREK abstained. 6 SENATE MINUTES 26-07 / MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1996 VIII. GOOD OF THE DAY SENATOR KIMMET-His vote regarding Toby Cole was not looked at as personal consideration. There were several members of CSUN that had problems with their grades the past semester, and the consideration was not given to each one of them that they may have had a bad semester. This precedent could be very dangerous. SENATOR CARROLL-Feels that the last meeting got slightly our of hand concerning the decision about the computer for the Business manager's office. There was approximately 20 minutes of debate wasted on an item that was eventually passed. The petty bickering needs to stop and the Senate needs to start working as a team. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN-Would like CSUN to get together with the residence halls and have a rape seminar for students. STUDENT BODY VICE PRESIDENT MILLS-Informed the Senate about the workshop series "Superhighway to Success". Needs the nominations for faculty award from each senator by next week. Affirmed that each Senator had received the memo regarding his office hours. Distributed monthly director report evaluations to the Senate. Feels that the decision to waive the bylaw may set a dangerous precedent, the Senate must be careful and watchful of a situation such as this occurring again. Stated that the Senate may want to look into increasing the GPA requirement for student government in order to retain higher quality people. Is already working with the women's center to arrange a rape crisis seminar. SENATOR FENDELL-Apologized to the Senate for a continual lateness to the meetings, he has a class that ends just as the senate meeting begins, and gets to the meeting as soon as he can. SENATOR CAMPBELL-Enjoyed the address by President Harter. Hopes the Senate took note of what she spoke about and the effects those subjects have on all of the students as well as each Senators constituents. SENATOR LAXAGUE-Feels that the debate about the computer was constructive and part of the legislative process. The decision regarding Toby Cole does not set a dangerous precedent, it was an individual case. Feels the director evaluations from Vice President Mills are right on target with the performances of the respective directors. SENATOR AGUERO-Hopes that a seminar is brought about on campus regarding rape, and that student awareness is heightened. Regarding Toby Cole, agrees that is a dangerous precedent, but has heard of other students experiencing similar circumstances to Toby, and would not want to see a person who is doing a good job be faulted for something out of their control. SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE MOORE-Completed the minutes for meeting 26-06 as a favor to the Senate Secretary, if there are any concerns, address them to him. Encouraged the Senators to take some time out and listen to the tapes of the Senate meetings and try to decipher them enough to write them down. Being a host for career day is a good opportunity, encouraged participation. Commended Nevada Student Affairs Assistant Director Tod Story for attending the last few meetings and remaining throughout the entire meetings. Senate caucus next Monday, 5:00. Senate President Smith yielded the floor to Dr. Terry Piper who addressed the Senate on remembering that the date rape in the residence halls last semester is alleged. There has been no conviction or guilt found, therefore it must be addressed as an alleged rape. SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH-The basketball game next week is against Reno, encouraged the Senate to support the team at the game next week. 7 SENATE MINUTES 26-07 / MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1996 Motion to adjourn made by SENATOR MOORE, seconded by SENATOR HOWARD. Move into a vote. Motion passes 18-0-0. Senate President Smith adjourned the meeting at 8:06 p.m. Note: All minutes are subject to summation. 8