Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, February 12, 1996

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Student Government Office of the Senate President STUDENT SENA TE MEETING 26-10 Monday, February 12,1996 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, INTERIM DIRECTOR STORY; b. Student Information, DIRECTOR HAGEN; c. Elections Board, DIRECTOR ARAIZA; d. Organizations Board, DIRECTOR COLE; e. Student Services, DIRECTOR GREENHALGH; f. Entertainment and Programming, DIRECTOR SALIBA; C. FACULTY SENATE COMMITTEE REPORTS D. RESIDENCE HALL LIAISON REPORT E. BUSINESS MANAGEMENT REPORT V. PUBLIC COMMENT [in accordance with N.R.S. 241.020 (2)(c)(3)] VI. UNFINISHED BUSINESS VII. NEW BUSINESS A. Discussion/approval of Wendy Watson as a member of the Entertainment and Programming Board; B. Discussion/approval for placement of senator Howard on the Bylaws committee, as submitted by SENATOR CARROLL. C. Action Item: Discussion/approval of CSUN Senate Directive regarding vacant CSUN Judicial Council seats, as submitted by SENATOR CAMPBELL; D. Nomination/approval of Senator Marlon Howard as Assistant Director to the CSUN Elections Board; VIII. GOOD OF OF THE DAY IX. ADJOURNMENT cz> cr-, CO COTJl ec ne Posted in accordance with Nevada Open Meeting Law (N.R.S. 241.00) at the following locations: Moyer Student Union, Frank & Estella Beam Hall, Flora Dungan Humanities, Wright Hall, and Thomas Beam Engineering Complex. CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS • UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA 4505 SOUTH MARYLAND PARKWAY • LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 89154-2009 • (702) 895-3477 • FAX (702) 895-4606 University of Nevada, Las Vegas Student Government C S U N S E N A T E D I R E C T I V E W H E R E A S : There is an judicial entity (CSUN Judicial Council) that is essential to the function of the Consolidated Students University of Nevada (CSUN); W H E R E A S : Said entity is necessary to hear student judicial issues and/or case matters, and to make rulings as necessar on such cases brought before the CSUN Judici Council; W H E R E A S : Said entity has been unable to hear student judici cases due to diminished membership for a lengthy ar undue period of time; W H E R E A S : The lack of this entity hinders CSUN business and may continue to do so if vacant judicial council seats are not filled in a timely manner; T H E R E F O R E . T h e CSUN Senate hereby issues a formal Directive to the CSUN Executive Board to issue its recommended nominations for any an all vacant seats now open on the CSUN Judicial Council to the CSUN Senate for confirmation on or before Friday, March 01st, 1996. D A T E D T H I S 1 2 T H D A Y O F F E B R U A R Y , 1 9 9 6 . APPROVED CSUN SENATE MEETING NO. In Favor: Opposed: Abstentions: CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS • UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA 4505 SOUTH MARYLAND PARKWAY • U s VEGAS, NEVADA 89154-2009 • (702) 895-3477 • FAX (702) 895-4606 University of Nevada, Las Vegas Student Government Office of the Senate President STUDENT SENATE MEETING 26-10 Monday, February 12,1996 Moyer Student Union Room 201 6:00 p.m. I. CALL TO ORDER SENATE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE MOORE called the meeting to order at 6:10 p.m. II. ROLL CALL PRESENT ABSENT Jeremy Aguero Heather Anderson Phoebe Block Shawna Campbell Terence Carroll Dan Fendell Leia Fleischman Marlon Howard James Kimmet Bryan Lawe Joe Laxague Terry Moore Veronica Perez Robert Solomon Craig Spanton Joaquin Trujillo Julie Wong Laura Zurek III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Motion to approve minutes 26-07 made by SENATOR HOWARD, seconded by SENATOR MOORE. SENATOR SOLOMON addressed that his name is misspelled throughout, it is SOLOMON, not SOLOMAN. SENATOR CAMPBELL stated that the minutes were precise and well done. Move into a vote. Motion passes 18-0-0. IV. BOARD AND COMMITTEE REPORTS A. SENATE COMMITTEE REPORTS SENATOR CARROLL-Bylaws will meet tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. SENATOR CAMPBELL-Ad Hoc met Friday. Working on the Non-Discrimination Policy and will have that for the Senate at the next meeting. Ad Hoc will be having a meeting this coming Friday at 1:30 to discuss revisions to the Constitution. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN-Campus Safety has a meeting at 8:00 tonight in 210 South, is in need of another Senator to attend. 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 26-10 / FEBRUARY 12, 1996 B. DIRECTOR REPORTS a. Nevada Student Affairs-Has been working with PRESIDENT PIDA on the paper committee. b. Student Information-Web page is in the process of being posted on Nevada Net and within the next two weeks should be on the National Net. Anyone needing pictures for the board outside of the office can possibly get studio time next week. c. Elections Board-Candidate's meeting will be on Wednesday, February 14 at 7:00 p.m. in the MSU. d. Organizations Board-no report. e. Student Services-First meeting for Career Day went well and everything is on track. f. Entertainment and Programming-This Thursday is another Comedy Cafe. The noon scene this week went well. There is another on the 21 of February at the Engineering building. Thunder tickets will be on sale in the union, at engineering and at the sports complex. C. FACULTY SENATE COMMITTEE REPORTS SENATOR PEREZ-Gave report from Curriculum committee. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN-Code committee voted against a proposal that allowed excused absences. SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH-Student Health committee discussed putting a survey out to the students for ideas and improvements for the health center. Pre-school committee discussed the surveys received back, @ 92% of the undergraduates were in favor of the pre-school and supported the system. D. RESIDENCE HALL LIAISON REPORT Residence Hall Association is putting on romance week in honor of Valentine's Day. A number of activities are planned for the residents throughout the week. E. BUSINESS MANAGEMENT REPORT Business manager Karla Kirk informed the Senate of the Executive Board expenditures for the week preceding. V. PUBLIC COMMENT [in accordance with N.R.S. 241.020 (2)(c)(3)] No comment from the gallery. VI. UNFINISHED BUSINESS No unfinished business at this time. VII. NEW BUSINESS A. Discussion/approval of Wendy Watson as a member of the Entertainment and Programming Board. Motion to approve made by SENATOR HOWARD, seconded by SENATOR CARROLL. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN questioned if the E&P board was full. Director Saliba replied that half of his board has resigned, so he has open spots. SENATOR CAMPBELL questioned Wendy Watson as to her involvement with the board up to this point. Wendy stated that she has helped with the Comedy Cafe, and is helping with the preparations of Spring Fling. Move into a vote. Motion passes 18-0-0. 2 SENATE MINUTES 26-10 / FEBRUARY 12, 1996 B. Discussion/approval for placement of SENATOR HOWARD on the Bylaws committee, as submitted by SENATOR CARROLL. Motion to approve made by SENATOR CARROLL, seconded by SENATOR SOLOMON. SENATOR CARROLL stated that this will help the committee to make quorum easier. Move into a vote. Motion passes 17-0-1. SENATOR HOWARD abstained. C. Action Item: Discussion/approval of CSUN Senate Directive regarding vacant CSUN Judicial Council seats, as submitted by SENATOR CAMPBELL; Motion to approve made by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN, seconded by SENATOR CARROLL. Move into a vote. Motion passes 18-0-0. D. Nomination/approval of SENATOR MARLON HOWARD as Assistant Director to the CSUN Elections Board; Motion to approve made by SENATOR CARROLL, seconded by SENATOR KIMMET. SENATOR CAMPBELL expressed concern that it would be a conflict of interest and asked SENATOR HOWARD if he felt it would be. SENATOR HOWARD stated that he felt it would not be a conflict of interest. He has been a member of the Elections board, and has serves fairly and without bias in that position and would do the same. Stated that this is needed because the election coming up is going to be a lot of work, and he can assist Director Araiza better in this capacity than he can as just a board member. Move into a vote. Motion fails 8-5-5. SENATORS KIMMET, LAXAGUE, CAMPBELL, WONG, ZUREK opposed. SENATORS BLOCK, SOLOMON, TRUJILLO, HOWARD, FLEISCHMAN abstained. Motion to move out of the order of the day, back into Senate Committee reports made by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN, seconded by SENATOR ANDERSON. Move into a vote. Motion passes 18-0-0. Motion to narrow the candidates for open Senate seat for the college of Business and Economics down to 2 candidates and vote on all open Senate seats at the next meeting made by SENATOR CARROLL, seconded by SENATOR LA WE. Motion died on the floor. Motion to nominate the candidates for the open Communications seat that are at the meeting (Erin Finley, Will Price, Erika Horvath) made by SENATOR CARROLL, seconded by SENATOR FENDELL. Motion to add Ron Hibble, Brian Kuchar and Richard Kimbraugh to the nominations for the open Communications seat made by SENATOR CAMPBELL, seconded by SENATOR KIMMET. SENATOR ANDERSON inquired if the candidates had been told that they were supposed to attend this meeting, SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH replied that they had not been informed of such. Motion to close nominations made by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN, seconded by SENATOR ANDERSON. Motion to allow each candidate that is in attendance to speak to the Senate for no more than two minutes to be followed by a limited two minute question and answer by the Senate followed by a choice of the top 3 SENATE MINUTES 26-10 / FEBRUARY 12, 1996 two candidates of the nominees for approval made by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN, seconded by SENATOR ANDERSON. SENATOR LAXAGUE disagrees with this motion. Everyone that applied for the position needs to have a fair chance to speak to the Senate. All of the candidates need to be called and given notice to attend the next meeting. SENATOR MOORE agreed with SENATOR LAXAGUE. The Senate needs to allow equal representation by all of the candidates before making a decision. SENATOR HOWARD pointed out that if the candidates are applying to be on Senate, they should be attending the meetings. SENATOR TRUJILLO stated that he believes the candidates need notification before this type of decision is made. People may have had prior engagements, and the item and this discussion were not on the agenda. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN stated that the candidates should be at every meeting as some of the candidates in the gallery have done. SENATOR KIMMET stated that he concurs with the Senators that want to wait on this decision, seeing as how it was not even an item on the agenda for the candidates to know about. Move into a vote of the original motion to allow candidates present to speak and to narrow to two candidates. Motion fails 4-14-0. SENATORS CARROLL, FLEISCHMAN, HOWARD, ZUREK voted in favor. Remainder of the Senate opposed. Motion to have the candidates not present notified , and have them come to speak to the Senate, and to allow the candidates that did show to the meeting to speak to the Senate made by SENATOR CAMPBELL, seconded by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN. SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH granted the motion. Business and Economics candidate Andreas Roell spoke to the Senate and answered questions. Business and Economics candidate Shaun Lehr spoke to the Senate. Business and Economics candidate Robert Levy spoke to the Senate and answered questions. Business and Economics candidate Chas Wasmuth spoke to the Senate. Business and Economics candidate Jason Tupper spoke to the Senate. Business and Economics candidate Nicole Huncher spoke to the Senate . Business and Economics candidate David Kaizer spoke to the Senate. Architecture candidate Douglas deBecker spoke to the Senate and answered questions. Student Development candidate James Chandler spoke to the Senate and answered questions. Communications candidate Erin Finley spoke to the Senate and answered questions. 4 SENATE MINUTES 26-10 / FEBRUARY 12, 1996 Communications candidate Erika Horvath spoke to the Senate. Communications candidate Will Price spoke to the Senate. Motion to nominate all candidates that spoke to the Senate and all candidates that turned in applications for the seat of Business and Economics made by SENATOR CAMPBELL, seconded by SENATOR ANDERSON. Motion to close nominations for the open Senate seat for Business and Economics made by SENATOR CAMPBELL, seconded by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN. Move into a vote. Motion passes 18-0-0. Motion to divide the house and move into a roll call vote to decide on a top two candidates made by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN. Motion dies on the floor. Motion to nominate Terrie Taylor and James Chandler for the open Senate seat for Student Development, and Douglas deBecker for the open Senate seat for Architecture made by SENATOR CAMPBELL, seconded by SENATOR FENDELL. Motion to close nominations for Student Development and Architecture made by SENATOR CARROLL, seconded by SENATOR CAMPBELL. Move into a vote. Motion passes 18-0-0. Motion to nominate all candidates that spoke to the Senate and all candidates that turned in applications for the seat of Communications made by SENATOR CAMPBELL, seconded by SENATOR SOLOMON. Motion to close nominations made by SENATOR CAMPBELL, seconded by SENATOR WONG. Move into a vote. Motion passes 18-0-0. Motion to move back into the order of the day to GOOD OF THE DAY made by SENATOR CARROLL, seconded by SENATOR SPANTON. Move into a vote. Motion passes 18-0-0. VIII. GOOD OF THE DAY SENATOR SPANTON-Good to see the gallery full. Encouraged the Senate to look over the applications well and to choose the best candidate for each position. SENATOR KIMMET-Regarding the Assistant Directorship of Elections Board-it is a known fact that Senator Howard is a responsible person, but for purposes of people outside the Senate, it is better to not have a Senator as an assistant to the Director. It would be a bad public image. Though the process being used to choose the new Senators is tedious, it gives everyone the opportunity to make the right choice and not have any doubts later. SENATOR PEREZ-Enjoyed the speaker at the caucus. Would have been nice to have more people in attendance. Thinks it would be beneficial for the Senate to have a retreat to make the Senate a more cohesive unit. 5 SENATE MINUTES 26-10 / FEBRUARY 12, 1996 SENATOR LAXAGUE-Agrees with Senator Kimmet on his opinion of Senator Howard's being Assistant Director. It looks bad to people outside of the Student Government. Glad the directive passed. The JC is a branch of the CSUN Government that has been out of commission for too long. SENATOR CAMPBELL-If anyone is thinking of filing for Executive Board, there are only two days left. If anyone is even lightly thinking of it, apply. The health center committee-it is a lot of reading and a lot of directions. The survey is very essential. The Senate needs to really help to distribute it. Glad to see all of the applications for the open Senate seats. SENATOR CARROLL-Glad to see all of the applicants that showed tonight, good to see their dedication. Disappointed the appointments could not be accomplished tonight. Space Allocation will have a meeting this Friday at 1:00 p.m. Week of Feb. 20 is Engineers week, encouraged the Senate to express appreciation of the students at the Engineering College. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN-Appreciated the people that came to speak at the meeting, apologized that they have to wait another week. Regarding the retreat, it has been done before and was not successful. It is not Vice-President Mills job to decide who should be the candidates for the JC positions, it is an Executive Board decision. STUDENT BODY VICE PRESIDENT MILLS-Personal Safety Seminar held this weekend was a success. Informed the Senate that choices had been made for nominees in the Executive board meeting earlier. SENATOR LAWE-Thanked all of the candidates for coming to speak to the Senate. SENATOR WONG-Thanked everyone for coming to speak, is in support of waiting on the vote to give everyone a chance. Does feel that everyone should be called to be told of the next Senate meeting. SENATOR SOLOMON-Following last week's Senate meeting, he and SENATOR FLEISCHMAN were approached by an applicant for one of the judicial seats and informed them that he had received a rejection letter. SENATOR SOLOMON's concerns are that the candidates were supposed to have been chosen at the Executive Board meeting today, and this person's rejection letter from Vice President Joe Mills was dated on the twenty ninth of January, 1996. SENATOR SOLOMON stated that he questioned Mills on this, and Mills replied that he only sent out rejection letters to the applicants that did not make the grade check or meet the required number of credit hours. SENATOR SOLOMAN questioned that if this was the case, why would this candidate be told in the letter that he would be kept in mind for further consideration if he did not meet the requirement at the time the letter was written. SENATOR SOLOMON showed concern if the other members of the Executive Board were aware of the existence of these letters and if other candidates had received these letters. SENATOR ANDERSON-Agrees with waiting until the next meeting to appoint Senators. There will now be no questions and no problems with the process. SENATOR TRUJILLO-Thanked the candidates for coming to speak. Pointed out that the wait was in no way done as favoritism, only to be sure to afford complete fairness to all of the candidates. SENATOR HOWARD- The vote that disallowed him to obtain the position of Assistant director will not change the fact that he will work hard for the elections Board. Stated that he was unfortunately naive enough to think that this item would go through without much opposition, but is disappointed that it was a political vote related to the general election that is coming up. Thanked everyone for showing him how the game of politics is played, and will keep it in mind. In the future, if anyone would like to prevent him from being in a position for political reasons, just inform him of that rather than insulting his intelligence and his integrity by the implication that he cannot be impartial. 6 SENATE MINUTES 26-10 / FEBRUARY 12, 1996 SENATOR AGUERO-Thanked all of the candidates for coming to speak and bringing their energy to the Senate. Looking forward to having all of their colleges fully represented. Regarding the caucuses, they are closed door meetings for Senators only. SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE MOORE-Thanked all the candidates for attending. The caucus went well, thanked Bob Coffin for attending and speaking. The Executive Board only discussed the nominees, and their was no actual nominating as per Nevada Open Meeting Law. PRESIDENT PIDA and SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH did acquiesce the responsibility of interviewing all of the candidates for the position to VICE PRESIDENT MILLS. They did not give him the responsibility to select candidates, just to interview them. Motion to reconsider the approval of the minutes 26-07 made by SENATOR SOLOMON, seconded by SENATOR TRUJILLO. Move into a vote. Motion passes 18-0-0. SENATOR MOORE-page 7-under SENATOR CAMPBELL- amend the minutes to read...Emergency Motion to approve contracts for: Vic Dunlop-$700.00, Bruce Baum-$1200.00, Frank Santos-$600.00, Wendy Liebman-$3650.00, Nedlos Inc.-$2000.00, seconded by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN. Move into a vote. Motion passes 18-0-0. STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT PIDA-March of Dimes is having a charity walk, contact him if interested. SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH- Director Araiza has a expressed need for an Assistant Director, and had placed SENATOR HOWARD up for that nomination because he is her most active board member. If there are any suggestions for that position, please let Director Araiza know. SENATOR LAXAGUE will be calling all of the applicants for the next Senate meeting. The Senate used to have retreats, and they became known as wasteful, but the ones SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH has attended were good, and interesting. Use caution, the Nevada Revised Statutes states that caucus are illegal if you discuss business and future agenda/business items. IX. ADJOURNMENT Motion to adjourn made by SENATOR MOORE, seconded by SENATOR SPANTON. Move into a vote. Motion passes 18-0-0. SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH adjourned the meeting 9:25 p.m. Note: All minutes are subject to summation. 7