Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, May 05, 1981

CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS 4505 Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, Nevada 89154 Telephone (702) 739-3477 SENATE PRESIDENT AGENDA Senate Meeting If23 Moyer Student Union building Room 203 4 p.m. 5-5-81 I. Call to Order II. Roll Call III. Approval of Minutes If22 IV. Executive Board Announcements V. Executive Board Nominations A. Executive Board Nominations 1. President- $325.00 2. Vice-President- $300.00 / 3. Senate President- $275.00 B. Radio Station Student Manager- Bill Saxton C. Radio Station Program Director- Phil Harrington D. Vice-President Pro Tempore-Robin Starlin E. Extension of Positions and Stipends 1. UNLV Yell- full month 2. Entertainment and Programming Board-% month 3. Epilogue- h month 4. Bar Manager- % month ~VI. Committee Reports A. Appropriations Board B. Elections'Board C. Radio Board D. Organizations Board E. Entertainment and Programming Board F. By-Laws Committee G. Student Services Committee H. Publications Board I. Other Committee Reports VII. Unfinished Business A. Deletion of item ft5 from Matching Funds Policy (from table) B. Vacant Senate Seats I. Arts & Letters (vote for one) i • • - - AGENDA SENATE MEETING #23 PAGE 2 II. University College (vote for One) 1. Lynn Best 2. Larry Hamilton 3. Stan Pharox C. Approval of 1981-82 Budget (as submitted at Senate Meeting 1122) VIII. New Business A. Waiver of 15 hour work week requirement. 1. CSUN Senate President-20 hours 2. CSUN President- 20 hours IX. Open Discussion X. Adjournment CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS 4505 Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, Nevada 89154 Telephone (702) 739-3477 Attn. CSUN Senate: Please make the following addittion to the agenda for the Senate meeting of May 5, 1981. III. Approval of Minutes 2. Emergency Senate Meeting of April 30, 1981 Thank you for your attention to this matter. Respectfully Rick Oshinski MINUTES Senate Meeting #23 Moyer Student Union Building Room 20 3 4 p.m. 5-5-81 I. Call to Order Senate President OshinskjL called the twenty-third meeting of the Consolidated Student Senate to order at 4:05 p.m. II. Roll Call Members in Attendance Catherine Clay Kathi Kulesza Karen Cohen Ginger Clayton Stan Phares Patrick Malloy Bill Haldeman Jeff Wild Patrick Thomas Andrew Levy David Campbell Roberta Burton Carlene Clay -absent Cathy Powell Mary Beth Nitzschke Steve Nitzschke Derrek Yelton Robert Scavetta -absent Steven LoPresti \ Guest Present Dr. Nitzschke Dr. Carhart Burt Teh John Wennstrom III. Approval of Minutes #23 There being no further additions or corrections the minutes of Senate Meeting #23 stood approved. Approval of Emergency Senate Meeting There being no further additions or corrections the Emergency Senate Meeting on April 30, 1981,stood approved. Senate'President Oshinski asked Martin J. Burzinski to serve as temporary Parlimentarian.' There were no objections from the Senate. IV. Executive Board Announcements A. ^resident'? Welcome President Ravenholt qave a brief introduction to the Senators of his goals and objectives for the coming vear while he is in office. His office door is alwavs open for Senators and students who wish to come in and sneak to him. Senate Meeting #23 5-5-81 Page 2 B. Vice-President's Welcome Vice-President Pam Roberts made a brief introduction to the Senate. She announced that she would like to neet with all the Senators whenever oossible. She also announced that the Ways and Means Committee of the Nevada Leaislature would be meeting on Wednesday at 4:00 D.m. herself and President Raveholt will be making a oresentation on the ratio of Faculty-Senate and on the fee increase. C. Senate President's Welcome Senate President Oshinski informed the Senate that he is looking forward to working with them. He reminded the Senate that the ultimate decision relys in their hands. It is important to keep communication open between the Executive Board and the Senate remarked Senate President Ohsinksi. V. Executive Board Nominations A. Executive Board Stipends 1. President-$325.00 2. Vice-President- $300.00 3. Senate President-$275.00 There was a motion to approve the stipends as nominated by the Executive Board. The motion was seconded. Discussion took place. Alfter much discussion Senator Haldeman moved to amend the motion to give each Executive Board Office a $250.00 stioend. The amendment was seconded. More discussion took olace. There was a call for the rr.<sstion on the amendment which passed. The amendment failed. The Senate was back on discussion on the main motion. There was a motion to amend and approve $275.00 for each officer. The amendment was seconded. Discussion took olace. The amendment failed. The Senate was back on discussion on the main motion, the main motion failed. This item will appear on the next agenda. Senator Yfelton moved to susDend with the rules to item VII. Unfinished Business, B. Vacant Senate seats. The motion was seconded. The motion passed. VII. Unfinished Business B; Vacant Senate Seats Arts & Letters It was moved that each candidate speak for 3 minutes, questions and answers followed, and the voting be done by secret ballot. The motion was seconded. The motion passed. The first to speak was Ginger Clayton, the second candidate was Dondi Corleone. Voting took place. Senate President Oshinski announced Ginger Clayton as the new Senator for the College of Arts & Letters and asked her to have a seat at the Senate table for the remainder of the business. University College It was moved that each candidate follow the same procedure for elections, however, voting would take twice since there were 3 candidates for the seat. Lynn Best, Larry Hamilton, and Stan Phares sooke to the Senate and answered questions. Larry Hamilton and Stan Phares were chosen in the first vote. In the second vote Larry Hamilton received 7 votes and Stan Phares received 8. Senate President Oshinski announced Stan Phares Senate Meeting #23 5-5-81 Page 3 The meeting recessed for 5 minutes. Senate President Oshinski called the meeting back to order for the remainder of the business. V. Executive Board Nominations Senator Haldeman moved to approve items 6,0,0, and E as a whole the motion was seconded. b. Radio Station Student Manaaer- Bill Saxton c. Radio Station Program Director- Phil Harrington d. Vice-President Pro Tempore-Robin Starlin e. Extension of Positions and Stipends 1. UNLV Yell- full month 2. Entertainment and Programming-Jj month, 3. EDiloque- month, and Bar Manager-** month. -4. Election Board-lmonth The motion was seconded. The motion passed unanimously. VI. Committee Reports A. Approriations Board- There was no report. B. Elections Board There was no report. C. Radio Board John Wennstrom gave a report to the Senate. No action items were taken at the meeting. D. Entertainment and ^roaramming Board There was no report. i E. Organizations Board There was no report. F. By-Laws Committee There was no report. G. Student Services Committee There was no report. H. Publications Board There was no report. I. Other Committee Reports There were no reports. VII. Unfinished Business A. Deletion of item #5 from Matching Funds Policy (from table) Senator Levy explained to the Senate that the Ad Hoc committee has not been able to meet to plan a revision. Therefore, this item will appear on the agenda again. C. Approval of 1981-82 Budget (as submiited at Senate Meeting #22.) Vice-President Roberts moved to aoprove. The motion was seconded. The motion passed unanimously. Senate Meeting #23 5-5-81 Page 4 D. Nominations for Vacant Senate Seat Senator Kulesza nominated Larry Hamilton and Lynn Best. Senator Wild nominated Scott Karosa. VIII. New Business A. Waiver of 15 hour work week reguirement 1. CSUN Senate President-20 hours 2. CSUN President-20 hours There was a motion to aoprove the 15 hour waiver for the Senate President and President to 20 hours. The motion was seconded. The motion passed unanimously. B. ROTC Endorsement Senate Nitzschke as the Senate to pass a resolution in support of the ROTC program as a Dermanent facility on the UNLV campus. Several Senators spoke in support of the resolution. Senator Nitzschke moved that the resolution say, Be it resolved that the CSUN Senate, the only recognized voice for the students of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, endorses the installment of an ROTC program as as permanent facility on the UNLV campus. The motion was seconded. Discussion took place. It was noted in the minutes that Senator Haldeman was in opposition of the resolution. The resolution passed with fourteen in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. C. Posters It was directed to the Senate President that 5 posters be made announcing each Senate Seat when a vacancy is available. These posters are to be put in the Student Union to let students know of the vacancies. IX. Open Discussion Senator Cohen welcomed the new Executive Board, and congratulated Senate President Oshinski for a well run meeting. It was announced that Mardi Gras is goina to begin on Wednesday. The Executive Board stioends were discussed by many of the Senators. It was suggested that the Senators speak to the Executive Board before the next meeting concerning the stipends. Martin J. Burzinski informed the Senate about the Foreign Language requirement for the Arts & Letters college that will be coming up for a vote, and there are some departments which are against the requirement, Marty asked for the support of the Senate to promote the requirement. I