4:32 pm
Absent:
N. Saputo, V. Santana,
J. Trompke, E. Mead,
S. Doiron, C. Abreu, C. Ryer
Arrived
Late: M. Ryan
Left Early: None
Guests: Abraham Scarr (MASSPIRG), Jonathan Ring
(Student
Trustee), Daniel Rooney
Leung/ Runyan (Unanimous)
· President Dalton went over the handout on
SGA goals for
2003-2004 which is attached to the end of
these minutes. She
asked if there were any questions. Chair
Lappas wanted to
know if the Log covered SGA meetings.
President Dalton
informed him, and the rest of the group,
that the Log was
interested in doing that and in working with
us so she will try
to work something out.
·President Dalton announced that Dr. Cahill
needed two volunteers to take the current bus schedule, that is way to vague
and hard to follow, and create a more clearly defined schedule. Chair Lappas asked if volunteering for this
would count for an office hour and, after consulting with Secretary Spano,
President Dalton told him that it could.
Senator Meshesha and Senator Alexis volunteered.
MOTION: President
Dalton entertained a motion to appoint
Matthew Cogliano to the Food Service
Committee.
Runyan/Alexis (Unanimous)
·President Dalton asked Senator Alfonzo how
the banner for homecoming was coming and Senator Alfonzo said that she needed
help. She could not find anyone to help
out. President Dalton, Secretary Spano,
Senator Milan, and Chair King all said that they would help out with the
banner.
· President Dalton reminded everyone to meet
at Central
Campus at 11:30am on Saturday for the
Homecoming parade.
· President Dalton announced that Kimberly Chambers, the
Chair of Judicial Affairs had resigned and
there were spots
open for her position as well as for senior
senators and
for freshman senators. Screen-ins will be announced soon.
Senator Alexis asked if you could be a
senator and a chair and
President Dalton told her yes.
MOTION: Vice
President Batastini made a motion to accept the
President’s report.
Peralta (Unanimous)
· Vice President Batastini announced that the
Haunted Happenings meeting on Thursday, October 9 went well and she received
all of the supply lists. She mentioned
that she had talked to Treasurer Garvey and came up with a set budget of $20
for each group. She said that there
were lots of great ideas and it is going to be a great day.
· Vice President Batastini reminded everyone
about the set up for Haunted Happenings on Saturday, October 25 from 4-7 and
about Haunted Happenings on Sunday, October 26 from 12-5. If you cannot remember what shift you signed
up for please see her.
· Vice President Batastini announced that she
still needed lots of people to sign up for the blood drive on Monday, October
20 from 9-3. She urged everyone to
seriously consider donating blood.
Chair Lappas asked if anything was being done to try to lure people into
giving blood like a movie, but Vice President Batastini told him that it was
strictly a blood drive.
· Vice President Batastini informed everyone
about the new copier log. All groups
and clubs have to log what they copy.
Next to the copier there is a black binder that must be filled out when
you make copies. You just simply write
the date, group, color of the paper, how many copies you made, and just include
a copy of whatever it is you are copying.
· President Dalton announced that she had
good news. We don’t have to accept all
the reports anymore so hopefully this will save us a lot of time.
· Treasurer Garvey brought up the speaker
series tickets and
announced that the preferred tickets that we
were going to give to
Senator of the Moment go with the dinner
tickets, which
typically go to the President. However, there still will be a
Senator of the Moment, just with different
prizes.
· Treasurer Garvey announced that he was
postponing his finance presentation.
· No Report.
· No Report
· Treasurer Garvey reminded his committee
that there was
a meeting on Thursday, October 16 at 6:00. They will be
going over the WMWM proposal, which should be in your
mailboxes.
·
RULES
COMMITTEE
·Chair King asked if there were any questions
or discussion about the senate speak time amendment that was brought up and
distributed last week. Senator Leung
asked if all senators speak and Chair King replied that only the senators that
want to speak and that have something to say would speak. Chair Lappas asked if we could make a board
of senators so that they can all be prepared.
Treasurer Garvey told him that this was more of a time to speak about
whatever they see fit so they don’t really need to prepare.
MOTION:
Chair King entertained a motion to pass the
Amendment on page one, article one,
section E of our
Constitution to include senate reports in
the agenda.
Batastini/
Laine (Unanimous)
· Chair King then opened the floor to speak
about the special elections amendment that was also brought up and distributed
last week. Treasurer Garvey doesn’t
think that it is ready to be placed in the Constitution because it needs to be
changed. Chair Lappas asked if this was
an addition to the referendum and Chair King informed him that it was not. This amendment will be reviewed again next
week.
MOTION: Chair
King entertained a motion to send this
Amendment on special elections back to the Rules Committee.
Batastini/ Milan (Unanimous)
·Chair King reminded her committee that there
will be a meeting next Tuesday, October 21 at 7:00.
· Chair King opened the floor to Senator
Cahill who introduced a new amendment dealing with the referendum. Senator Cahill passed out his proposed
change to the referendum and then asked for any questions or discussion. Treasurer Garvey thought that it should be
required that whoever is proposing the referendum must report it to the senate
so that they have an idea what is going on.
He also felt that if the referendum is changed to an either 2/3 vote or
10% of students signatures than the percentage of signatures needed should be
bumped up. There was also some
conversation about the part time student rules. This issue will also be brought up again next week where we will
vote on it.
·
STUDENT
LIFE COMMITTEE
· Chair Boucher said that she has held two
meetings so far and only one person has showed up so she has not gotten the
chance to decide on anything.
· Chair Boucher also informed the group that
she had left a message at the campus police, but no one got back to her. Vice President Batastini informed her that
Lt. Anglin was planning on coming today, but she told him not to because she
felt it should be advertised more so that other students can be aware and come
with questions. They set a tentative
date on Tuesday, October 28 so as soon as this date is definite it will be
advertised.
·
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
MOTION:
Chair Skorker
entertained a motion to appoint Maura Harrington as Assistant Chair of the
Academic Affairs committee and to appoint Candice Curtain and Emily Mead to the
Academic Affairs committee.
Peralta/
Williamson (Unanimous)
· The next Academic Affairs meeting will be
Tuesday, October 14 at 7:30 at his dorm (Bates 13B). They will be working on posting class cancellations and the
e-mail drive.
Dr.
Brossoit reminded him that the IT department is really busy right now because
they just moved to Central Campus so he told him to make sure that he gives
them time to settle.
· GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
· Chair Lappas
needs people in his
committee so please if anyone is interested leave a message in his box.
.
·
JUDICIAL
AFFAIRS
No
report
·
PUBLIC
RELATIONS
No
Report
· Senator Williamson mentioned that she was
approached by
one of the 200 students she represents and
he was concerned with
the inconvenient time that they stock the
fridges at Chartwells.
Also the prices of drinks have gone up to
$2.00! Treasurer Garvey
added that Chartwells has also been closing
early.
· Treasurer Garvey feels that we should set
up a public safety committee where students can meet with and be more involved
with Campus Police. Chair King asked if
he had discussed this with Lt. Anglin yet and he replied that he hadn’t yet
because he was just in the early stages of this idea.
· Senator Leahy requested having another blue
safety light in the back parking lot of Peabody Hall. Chair King told her that in order to do so the whole parking lot
has to be dug up. Dr. Brossoit told
them to bring this idea up with Lt. Anglin when he comes to speak to the group.
· Dr. Brossoit mentioned that we are now 6
weeks into the
semester and told the group to “Cowboy up”
because you need to
maintain a certain G.P.A. to be on Student
Government.
· Jonathan Ring wanted to clarify that the
referendum passed on
September 30 is now article 10. He also wanted to know if the
Amendments were going to be debated next
week. Which
Senator Cahill said it would be debated next
week.
· Senator Runyan announced that on October 24
there will be a
horror fest at the Salem movie theater
starting at 6:00. They will
be showing 4 movies and it only costs $20
for the whole night or
$7.50 per show.
· Senator Pereira announced the HAS dinner
October 15 in Vet’s
Hall at 6:00. There will be performances and free Hispanic food.
· Senator Alexis announced that MSA will have
its 2nd meeting
October 15 at 4:30 in the underground. They are postponing Final
Destination 1 & 2 until next Wednesday
so that they do not
take away from the HAS dinner.
· Senator Cahill announced that the Program
Council is having
hypnotist Michael Anthony on Thursday,
October 16 at 6:00 at
Vet’s Hall.
· Daniel Rooney wants to know if we could have the board of
Trustees
come to some meetings so that we can ask them
questions.
President Dalton said that that is definitely something
that can be looked into.
MOTION: Vice President
Batastini made a motion to
adjourn the meeting.
Peralta
(Unanimous)
SUBMITTED BY MICHELLE L. SPANO