4:31 pm
Absent:
N. Saputo, V. Santana, J.
Trompke, E. Mead, A. Dalton,
J. Laine, J. Alfonzo, J. Pereira, M. Cogliano, W. Lappas
Arrived
Late: J. Williamson, R.
Theberge, C. Milan, K. Ryer
Left Early: None
Guests: Abraham Scarr (MASSPIRG), Jonathan Ring
(Student
Trustee & CFACT), Bruce Perry (Campus Center), William
Anglin (Campus Police
No Changes in the minutes
· Acting President Batastini explained that
President Dalton
could not be at this meeting because her
sister is having a baby
girl.
· Acting President Batastini reminded
everyone that senate training begins next week (11/4). The seniors will be presenting time
management.
· Acting President Batastini told all of the
chairs that they must
meet with President Dalton by the end of
this week. It is
imperative they they schedule their
appointments with the
President as soon as possible.
· Acting President Batastini introduced
acting Chief Anglin from
the Campus police who came to speak about
parking issues. He
explained that he understands that parking
is a huge issue, but it
is already getting better. The only word he used to describe
it was a “carnival”. At the beginning of next semester the
elevators will be complete which will open
up more spaces at
Peabody and the trailers at Central Campus
will also be
moved.
Public safety, faculty, and students have joined together
to form a parking committee. He also said that there will be no
more events that require vendors parking
during peak
hours.
This will also make more spots available. He explained
that Halloween was going to be crazy around
here. The streets of
downtown are blocked so he gave the heads up
to not drive
through downtown. Lots of campus police will be around on
Thursday and on Friday there will be
tons. Chief Anglin
informed the group that they have only towed
1/3 of the amount
of cars they normally do because they
understand parking is a
major issue especially with the construction. Senator
Williamson told him that she heard that
freshman got their
hands on a bunch of stickers and are
distributing them to other
Freshman.
Chief Anglin guaranteed her that that is not true.
Sergeant Antonio only gives stickers if they
are legitimately
needed.
Dr. Brossoit informed the group that his committee is
looking into counting the parking spaces to
get a sense of where
there are issues according to class
schedules. A short-term
solution might be to rent out neighboring
parking lots. A long-
term solution would be to get a parking
garage. Chief Anglin
said that he knows Tuesdays and Thursdays
are the busiest days
and that is when the most parking problems
occur. Chair Ryer
asked the Chief when they started ticketing
commuter cars and
he informed her that they ticket commuters
after 11:00PM. Chief
Anglin then closed by saying “ Stick with
us, we are almost
there”.
· After Chief Anglin left the group had a little discussion of
our
own.
Dr. Brossoit told everyone to take the information given
today and give
it out to other students who express concerns with
parking. He also said that every college pretty much
has a
problem with
parking. Chair Boucher asked about the
price we
pay for
parking. After learning that it was
only $10, she
expressed her
concern. Other schools charge a lot
more. She
feels that the
process of getting a sticker should be more difficult
and maybe that
will prevent a lot of students from getting their
cars on
campus.
· Acting President Batastini let everyone
know that Haunted
Happenings was
fantastic! There was left over candy so
everyone
received a personalized
candy bag. She told everyone that she
received lots of
positive feedback and she even shared an e-mail
she received which raved
about the event.
· Acting
President Batastini announced that the groups and clubs
meeting scheduled for
November 6 might be changed to
November 20 because
Congressman Tierney may be coming to
Speak. Also on November
20 is Attitude for Gratitude. If the
meeting is going to be
changed it will be posted by the end of the
week.
· Acting
President Batastini reminded everyone about the can
drive that is occurring
for Attitude for Gratitude on November 20th.
They are currently trying
to figure out a great prize for the group or
club that has the most
donations. Senator Jimenez asked if
there
was a set goal and Acting
President Batastini told him that it was
just a contest.
She also clarified that it didn’t just have to be
limited to cans, it could
be any non-perishable item.
No
Report
· Treasurer Garvey just informed the group
that he has been
keeping busy doing
treasurer stuff in the office.
· Assistant Treasurer Mazza announced the screen-ins being held on Monday, November 3 during community time from 11-12:15. There are positions open for every class senate and for chair of Judicial affairs.
· Assistant Treasurer Mazza brought up the
issue of parking again and asked Senator Runyan, who is also the President of
the Student Commuter Association, if they were doing anything to encourage
carpooling. Senator Runyan replied that they were working on a ride share board
last year, but the semester ended and it did not get finished.
· Secretary Spano handed out the contact
sheets with all Student Government member’s names, phone numbers and e-mail
addresses.
· Secretary Spano once again asked all the
chairs for a list of the members of their committees because she has only
received one.
· Secretary Spano mentioned that some people
have not been doing any office hours and that she was disappointed that the
hours were not being used to meet the student’s needs. She mentioned an idea about a notebook that
she would place in the office where you can sign up and write what it was that
you did during your office hour. She
said that she would review it and decide whether or not it was accepted as an
office hour. She also said that
attending your own group or club’s events was not considered an office hour
because you have to be there anyways.
·
SENIOR SENATE
· Senator Alexis and Senator Ryan explained about senior
audits. Senior audits are forms that tell you what you need to
graduate. It is very useful and your advisor is supposed to
tell you about it, but they need to be
more involved. All you
do to get this is go to Academic
Advising and fill out a form
and it will be mailed to you. Our lovely senior senators told
the group to get on this because it is
necessary and it takes
about 3 weeks to get.
· Senator Alexis and Senator Ryan also
brought up Senior
Celebration, which is on November 3 in
Vet’s Hall from 11-
12:15.
It is put on by career services and it is a great chance to
sign up with career services, talk
about senior activities, learn
about grad school, and look into class
rings.
·
JUNIOR SENATE
· Asked for Jen Clark’s number to get some help for their
presentation next week.
· SOPHOMORE SENATE
· No Report
· FRESHMAN SENATE
· Senator Peralta found people in the streets and once she
found
out that they were freshman she began asking them
questions about issues that they have with Salem State
College. One student reported
that he had no issues so far.
Another said that he wanted to chop off his ear trying to find
a parking spot, this was a commuter.
Also some reported
that they were upset about
Lacrosse being cut, some were
even thinking about leaving this
school because of it.
· Treasurer Garvey informed his committee
that there will be
a meeting Thursday, October 30 at 6:00 in the heritage Room.
They will be hearing a proposal from the Political Science
Academy.
·
RULES
COMMITTEE
· Chair King handed out the amendment on the
special elections that was sent back to the rules committee a couple of weeks
ago. Now it is new and improved and
will be voted on in 2 weeks because next week’s meeting is not enough time to
have it posted for a full week.
· Chair King also brought up that she had the
terms for the glossary and is working on those. Also she tore apart the impeachment process so instead of 3
months we are looking at more like 4 weeks.
· The rules committee will meet next Tuesday,
November 4 at 3:30 (the meetings are usually every other week at 7:00 but
because of Goldie Hawn they made an exception.)
·
STUDENT
LIFE COMMITTEE
· Chair Boucher informed us that she was in
the process of talking with the other chairs about rotating the spot of time
after the senate meetings for committee meetings. The final decision on this will be posted in the office. There will be no meeting this week.
· Dr. Brossoit thanked Chair Boucher for
getting Chief Anglin to come and speak.
·
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
MOTION: Chair Skorker entertained a motion to
appoint Senator Peralta and Senator Milan to the Academic Affairs committee.
Cahill/
Runyan (Unanimous)
· Chair Skorker announced that his meeting
was cancelled and the next meeting time will be announced soon.
· Chair Skorker announced that he would be
meeting with Dean Shea about giving athletes gym credits on Thursday, October
30 at 9am in her office. He encouraged
all to come and tell their stories.
· Chair Skorker also reminded everyone to
meet with his or her advisors because registration was November 6-18.
· Chair Skorker announced that next week
Michael Rascovitz will be coming into the Senate meeting to talk to us about
what is happening in the core curriculum.
· GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
No Report
·
JUDICIAL
AFFAIRS
No
report
·
PUBLIC
RELATIONS
· Chair Ryer announced that she needs people
to join her committee so contact her by e-mail if you are interested.
· Chair Ryer told everyone she will be having
a meeting Wednesday, October 29 in the Campus center lobby at 3:30. They will be discussing flyers and the
website.
None
· Senator Williamson reminded everyone that
it was Global
Warming Awareness week and they were working
on a recycling
program.
They have been asking groups to form coalitions to
support recycling on campus.
MOTION: Senator Williamson made a motion for
Student
Government to join the
recycling coalition.
Theberge (Unanimous)
· Senator Williamson announced that she and
Senator Theberge
met with Ralph, the facilities manager,
about recycling. They
discovered that if they expand on the
program that is already here
(the recycling barrels championed by
faculty) then they will
actually be saving the college money. They are one step closer to
making a difference.
MOTION: Acting President
Batastini entertained a motion to
adjourn the meeting.
Theberge/
Cahill
(Unanimous)
SUBMITTED BY MICHELLE L. SPANO