Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, June 27, 1978

AGENDA SENATE MEETING #7 June 27, 1978 Moyer Student Union Building Room 203 I. Call to Order II. Roll Call III. Approval of Minutes if6 IV. Executive Board Announcements - yell Editor, Leon Levitt (Vote) V. Executive Board Nominations VI. Committee Reports A. Radio Station Committee VII. Old Business A. Radio Station Committee Members B. Activities Board Members (Vote) 1. Lise Wyman 2. Lorraine Alderman C. Cheerleaders (Discussion) 1. Tina Kunzer D. Senate Vacancy (Vote) 1. Science and Math a. Gordon McCrumb b. Dave Craddock c. Rick Lorber d. Matt Boulton 2. Hotel Administration a. Danny Campbell E. Host Fund Expenditures (Report) F. Committee Nominations 1. Constitution Revisions 2. By-Laws 3. Radio Station 4. Student Evaluation of Faculty G. Vacant Senate Seats (Nominations) 1. Junior Class 2. Arts and Letters (2) 3. Hotel Administration 4. University College 5. Allied Health H. Senate Absence Policy (Discussion) VIII. New Business A. Delay of Senate Meeting ifB B. Speaker Pro Tem (Nominations) IX. Open Discussion X. Adjournment MINUTES SENATE MEETING #7 June 27, 1978 Moyer Student Union Bldg. Room 201 Call to Order The seventh meeting of the Consolidated Student Senate was called to order by the Speaker at 4:00 p.m. in Lounge 201 of the Moyer Student Union Bldg. Roll Call Members in Attendance Dawn DuCharm Phillip Jackson Peggy Race! Lise Wyman Kirk Voelcker Joyce Bridges Bill Botos Peggy Burnham Byron Blasco Susana Reyes Jeanne Harkenrider Ron Deems Scott Greene Rick Gutierrez Joe Matvay Dave Bergen Scott Gonzales Excused Absences Unexcused Absences *Bruce Bayne Lily Rancher *(late) Lorraine Alderman Approval of Minutes #6 Bill Botos moved to approve the minutes as submitted, seconded and passed with two abstentions. Executive Board Announcements Student Evaluation of Faculty The Speaker announced he had sent out forms for the Student Evaluation of Faculty and had a good response. Greg McKinley - Activities Board The Speaker announced that there had been a mistake in the tallying of Greg McKinley's votes for the Activities Board — so the Speaker casts his vote in favor,breaking the tie. Finance Association The Speaker announced that the Finance Association is officially submitting a request for $.1,000 for a conference that is coming up. This will come up for a vote and information regarding the conference will be placed in the mail boxes between now and then. Business Manager President White announced that the position of Business Manager for CSUN had been offered to John Purvis from Greensville, North Carolina. He was the last to be interviewed and came in first above the previous applicants. Ad-Hoc Committee - University Senate President White announced that the Administration had beaten them to the punch in proposing a third body made up of students that would act as a go-between of the Faculty and CSUN Senate. He was informed of this proposal at an Ad-Hoc committee meeting he had attended this past Wednesday. Minutes - Senate Meeting if7 June 27, 1978 Page 2 Day Care Center President White then announced that the Day Care Center will become a licensed pre-school and an instruction facility this fall. Radio Station Training President White announced that Tommy Walker is now going to teach the training program and it will be discussed in Open Discussion. Yell Editor - Leon Levitt (Vote) The President announced the vote on the Yell Editor was being withdrawn this meeting due to the fact that there is an affirmative action suit against CSUN regarding the appointment of the Editor. Health Services Gene Russo, V-P Union Affairs, announced he has been assigned the additional duty of evaluating the health services at UNLV and stated there was one particular area laying dormant. He informed the Senate that UNLV has one of the most extensive psychological services in the country. In room 308 of the Humanities Building, Dr. Richard L. Carhart, is open to the entire campus from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., but if someone needs to talk to him after those hours, he will make arrangements as this is a 24-hour counseling service. CSUN .is taking the role of advertising it this summer and he asked the Senate to help spread the news around. They have a psychiatrist on hand if anyone needs help. 2. He is looking into a full-time doctor now if we decide to have one. President White was asked about a doctor flying down from Reno to conduct the physicals and he replied that he had spoken to the Board of Regents, Greg Neuweiler, Student Body President of UN, Reno, and others, but it is without much effect so far. V-P Russo then asked if the Senators had any in-put they could add to this health program, to please get in touch with him. V. Executive Board Nominations None at this time VI. Committee Reports A. Radio Station Tommy Walker, Radio Station Consultant, announced there was no meeting of the Radio Committee Monday due to no attendance. This committee will have to be formed again. He reported on the FCC application and said it has been tendered for filing by the FCC. After it has been accepted for filing, there is a 30-day period before the commission could take any action on applicati ons. He informed the Senate that the programming proposal applications are in his office on the third floor of the Union Building. He then reported on the location that was being considered for the station trailer, which was the other side of the Boy Scout Building. He is meeting with an equipment representative Wednesday and will get a firm price on some equipment. Training Session - Walker informed the Senate that they have lost the Minutes - Senate Meeting if7 June 27, 1978 Page 3 services of the Communications Studies but still have the cooperation of the Audio-Visual and the on-campus station will be on this summer. They have 29 students who have signed up at this point. President White was asked why the Communications service dropped out and he replied the gentleman's price for conducting the session was too much and with his fall commitments, it looked like CSUN would end up having to take over the job once the summer session was over. VII. Old Business A. Radio Station Committee Members Scratched since they didn't meet. B. Activities Board Members (Vote) 1. Lise Wyman 2. Lorraine Alderman Kirk Voelcker moved to approve both ladies as submitted, opened for discussion. Bill Botos spoke in favor of the and felt they were both well qualified. Since there was discussion, it moved into a vote and passed unanimously. C. Cheerleaders (Discussion) Tina Kunzer Moved to later in the agenda due to late arrival of Ms. Kunzer. D. Senate Vacancy (Vote) 1. Science and Math The Speaker announced that Gordon McCrumb's name was being withdrawn from the vote, since he had failed to turn in a Senate Information Sheet, and Rick Lorber had resigned. This left Dave Craddock and Matt Boulton to be voted upon. Joe Matvay moved to approve the two gentlemen as submitted, seconded. He then asked for a secret ballot, seconded. Opened for discussion and Matvay spoke in favor of the two gentlemen. He then moved for a 7 minute recess to give the Senate the opportunity to meet and talk to the candidates, seconded by Bill Botos. Motion passed. Recessed at 4:34 p.m. Resumed at 4:41 p.m. Still in discussion, there was a call for the question and the Senate moved directly into a vote by secret ballot. Dave Craddock proved the winner with 9 votes against Mat Boulton's 6 votes. There was one abstention. C. Cheerleaders (Discussion) Tina Kunzer The Senate then moved back into the discussion with Tina Kunzer upon her arrival. Ms. Kunzer reported how she was brought before the Senate last semester and cuffed and questioned regarding the budget of the Cheerleaders. She reported that this year she has 6 girls and 6 boys as cheerleaders. Three of these are really capable and can do gymnastics. She explained where the cheerleaders are placed during the games and asked for suggestions from the Senate as to how they could be seen better, since they stand between the 10 and 15 yard lines on the field. Bill Botos suggested an elevated platform, but Ms. Kunzer replied that this would be too dangerous to do gymnastics. Jeanne Harkenrider asked if they couldn't be placed out in the middle of the field. President White announced that the Athletic seconded and two nominees no further Minutes - Senate Meeting if7 June 27, 1978 Page 4 Department would now be responsible for the Cheerleaders instead of CSUN. After a short discussion on where the band would be located this year, etc., Ms. Kunzer asked Senators to please let her know if they had any good suggestions pertaining to what they would like to have the cheerleader do. The Senate then moved back into the next item on the agenda — D. Senate Vacancy 2. Hotel Administration ?. Danny Campbell Joe Matvay moved for approval, seconded and opened for discussion with favorable comments as to his qualifications. Moved into the vote and the motion passed with two (2) abstentions. E. Host Fund Expenditures (Report) President White informed the Senate that the Most Fund Report that had been placed in their boxes was not complete, since he had taken the new Business Manager to lunch after receipt of that bill — and the new one hadn't been received as yet. F. Committee Nominations I. Constitution Revisions The Speaker announced he would like to nominate four (4) for this committee: 1. Lorraine Alderman 2. Kirk Voelcker 3. Ron Deems 4. Gene Russo Bruce Bayne moved to vote on the committees individually, seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Bill Botos then moved to approve the committee as submitted, seconded. There being no discussion, they moved into the vote and the motion passed with one (1) abstention. II. By-Laws Committee 1. Lise Wyman 2. Lily Rancher 3. Bruce Bayne 4. Peggy Burnham 5. Ron Deems ?. Lorraine Alderman Joe Matvay moved to approve this committee as submitted, seconded by Bruce Bayne. There being no discussion, they moved directly into the vote with the motion passing with two (2) abstentions. III. Radio Station The Speaker announced that the three people had resigned and asked the Senate to waive the rule allowing three Senators only on the committee and allow as many Senators as desired to be on the Radio committee. It was moved to waive the original rules and allow as many Senators as desired to have seats on this committee and seconded. Following a short discussion, Joyce Bridges moved to amend the motion on the floor to allow only five (5) seats from the Senate, seconded, Motion passed with three (3) abstentions. Minutes - Senate Meeting if7 June 27, 1978 Page 5 Back into discussion, then moved into a vote to allow only five (5) Senators to be seated on this committee, seconded and passed with two (2) abstentions. The floor was then opened for nominations as follows: 1. Joyce Bridges 4. Scott Greene 2. Rick Gutierrez 5. Bill Botos 3. Byron Blasco Non-Senatorial Seat to Mike Stowers Joe Matvay moved to approve the nominations as submitted, seconded by Bruce Bayne. Motion passed with five (5) abstentions. IV. Student Evaluation of Faculty (nominations) 1. Joyce Bridges 2. Lise Wyman 3. DeAnn Turpen The Speaker nominated: 4. Phillip Jackson 5. Lily Rancher 6. Ron Deems 7. Rick Gutierrez Bruce Bayne moved to approve the nominations, seconded. Motion passed with one (1) abstention. G. Vacant Senate Seats (Nominations) from the Marquis The Speaker announced that some of the nominations had been removed/without his permission and he would like to delay these nominations to allow more advertising of the vacancies. Kirk Voelcker moved to delay the nominations until they were advertised, seconded. Motion passed with one opposed. H. Senate Absence Policy (Discussion) Various opinions were expressed *particularly by Joyce Bridges who felt the Senators should discuss having no more than two (2) absences during the summer. Joe Matvay agreed with Joyce. Bruce Bayne expressed the desire to have the Senate meetings every two weeks during the summer and the Speaker declared this was a good idea because it would allow the Senators to have two weeks between meetings during the summer but declared it unconstitutional. The Senate can move to delay a Senate meeting for a week but cannot move to have meetings every two weeks during the summer. The discussion continued pro and con and how a Senator missing one of the meetings not being informed of what has gone on. Bill Botos reported he thought any Senator who missed a meeting could come to the office and be brought up-to-date. Joyce Bridges then moved to have one excused absence during the summer for vacation if requested one week prior to taking off. The Speaker declared it out of order and said the Senate could not set this policy. She then moved for a resolution to have one excused absence for vacation for the summer, seconded. Moved again into discussion. Bruce Bayne called for the question, seconded. Since there was no further discussion, moved directly into a vote. The resolution passed with none opposed, three (3) abstentions and one (1) absent. Minutes - Senate Meeting if7 June 27, 1978 Page 6 VIII. New Business A. Delay of Senate Meeting #8 Due to July 4th falling on Tuesday, Bruce Bayne moved to delay meeting No. 8 from July 4 to July 11, seconded and passed unanimously. B. Speaker Pro-Tem (Nominations) The nominations were as follows: 1. Susana Reyes 2. Joe Matvay Bruce Bayne moved the nominations be closed, seconded. Motion passed. Will be on the Agenda at the next meeting for a vote. IX. Open Discussion Vacation - discussion again on missing Senate meetings to take a vacation. Delaying Senate Meetings Affirmative Action The President read a letter he had written to Mr. Kitchen regarding the complaint Colleen Newton had filed, and Scott Gonzales asked if the Senate could revoke the term of office of the Editor. The Speaker replied that all appointments end on May 1st each year when the new administration takes office, but the editor's term could be less than one yea Susana Reyes asked if they pick the candidate for his qualifications or because they just want to give them a chance. The President replied according to qualifications. He also reported that all four (4) of the Yell people were qualified. Bill Botos told the Senate that the Executive Board is elected and it should be up to them to decide with whom they can best work. Activities Board Susana Reyes questioned the qualifications of the Activity Board members. Gene Russo announced that the Executive Board screens the people for the Senate and the names are then submitted to the Senate for approval and a vote. If they don't approve the person submitted, then they should say so. Peggy Racel moved to limit the Open Discussion to five (5) minutes longer, seconded. Motion failed with 8 for, 9 against and one (1) abstention. Commencemen t Joe Matvay asked about having the graduate's picture being taken with one of their professors or teachers, and Bill Botos said he thought it would be nice to have CSUN sponsor a Commencement Party. Logo Rick Gutierrez commented on changing the Logo from that of the Minute Man and President White said they had discussed having a contest for a design for the new statue, but decided against it because if only one contestant entered the contest, they would be stuck with his design. He reported that the Rebel Statue is still in limbo and there is a contract with Montyne, but the Athletic Department is responsible for the statue now and Montyne is waiting for a new design to be requested, as the design itself is what the students were against, not a statue. Minutes - Senate Meeting if7 June 27, 1978 Page 7 Bruce Bayne moved to adjourn but the Speaker ruled it out-of-order, as he explained he had a topic he wished to bring up at the Open Discussion, and asked to leave the floor wide open for a brainstorming session. He asked the Senators for in-put as to what they would like to accomplish this year. Suggestions were as follows: 1. Academic Standards 15. R-J/Sun, Valley Times column 2. Grievance Committee 16. Additional lighting at night 3. P.E. Investigation 17. Extension of library hours 4. Judicial Board 18. CSUN Scholarship 5. Voting Procedures 19. Increase communications 6. Survey/Poll between colleges 7. Beautification of Campus 8. Parking 9. Fight Song/Alma Mater 10. Desert Cleanup 11. Specific Study Rooms 12. Senate Communications 13. Discrimination Board 14. Community Service Kirk Voelcker reported he would .like a committee to provide student input into development of master plan for UNLV. The Speaker announced he would like each of the Senators to meet with their college Dean or teacher to find out what is going on in their college. He then suggested that each Senator take home the list of brainstorming suggestions and studying it before the next meeting. X. Adjournment Dave Bergen moved to adjourn, seconded, and passed. Meeting adjourned at 6:05 p.m. Respectfully submitted by: Florida Edwards CSUN Secretary