4:31 pm
Absent:
N. Saputo, V. Santana, J.
Trompke, E. Mead, C. Abreu, J.
Pereira
Arrived
Late: M. Ryan, J.
Williamson, R. Theberge, K. Leung
Left Early: A. Dalton, J. Alfonzo, J. Peralta, S.
Boucher
Guests: Abraham Scarr (MASSPIRG), Jonathan Ring
(Student
Trustee & CFACT), Melissa Zardas (Political Science), Kamaka
Scipp, Ralph Sherrick (Editor of SSC Log),
Candace Curtain,
Michael Raskevitz (CORE advisory), Elizabeth
Paz (MASSPIRG)
Chair Lappas pointed out that in the first page under the President’s Report there was a typo, the word “they” was written twice.
President
Dalton announced the minutes for October 28, were
accepted as changed.
· President Dalton announced that the E-Board
held screen-ins
this past Monday.
MOTION: President Dalton entertained a motion to
accept
Michael Patrick
Higgins to Freshman Senate.
Batastini/
Runyan (Unanimous)
· President Dalton reminded the group that
the Student
Advisory Council applications are due on
November 17. The
position as advisor is for this current
year and for next year. If
anyone is interested talk to President
Dalton.
·President Dalton also reminded the group
that some people have not returned the e-mail regarding press release. She
explained that local newspapers would be printing a little bit about all the
members of Student Government.
· President Dalton informed us that she has
been working with
Eileen O’Brien from the Alumni Association
in coming up with
a senior class gift. The Alumni Association will match
whatever the seniors raise.
· President Dalton announced she will be leaving the meeting
at 5:00 because she is representing the
Student Government
Association at a dinner with Goldie Hawn.
· Vice President Batastini announced that she
had met with the Catholic Student Community, START, and MASSPIRG, and they
discussed hunger and homeless awareness week and Attitude for Gratitude. They discussed a hunger banquet to be held
in the Mezzanine dining commons where there will be some students classified as
high class and they will eat a big meal, others will be middle class and eat
rice and beans, and the rest will be low class and eat just rice. There will also be a speaker there. She also mentioned that on November 20 is Attitude
for Gratitude so you can bring any non-perishables to room 204 in the campus
center. The group with the most
donations will win either a pizza party or a free breakfast.
· Vice President Batastini announced that
there will be no meeting next week because it is Veteran’s Day. When classes
are cancelled we have no meetings.
· Treasurer
Garvey reminded everyone that COSGA applications
are due by the end of this
meeting. He went over the selection
process, which included filling out an application and having
an
interview if the E-Board finds it
necessary. He also reminded that
once you are selected you have to
sign a contract, if you sign the
contract and bail out on the
conference you will be
held responsible for the
$600 trip cost.
· Assistant Treasurer Mazza reminded the Junior Senate that they will be doing a Robert’s Rules workshop at the next meeting.
· Assistant Treasurer Mazza let the group know
about 2 Salem State International students who lost all of their belongings in
a fire.
MOTION: Assistant Treasurer Mazza made a motion to
donate $500
to the fund to help out
these students.
Theberge (Unanimous)
· Secretary Spano requested that all the
Chairs give her a list of all members of their committees by the end of this
meeting.
· Secretary Spano handed out 4 general
admission tickets to go see Goldie Hawn.
· Secretary Spano brought up office hours and
told the group to be creative with their office hour. Lately President Dalton has been making suggestions on the board,
but it should not be up to her to brainstorm ideas. Don’t be afraid to start a big project. Anything that is beneficial to the students would be perfect for
an office hour.
·
SENIOR SENATE
· Senator Ryan told the group that she was stopped by police at
O’Keefe on the way to the meeting and they told her she couldn’t park there
because it was closed for Goldie Hawn.
She had to drive all the way back home to get her tickets so that she
would be able to park on campus because the other parking lots were stuffed because
of night classes. With O’Keefe center
closed off there was no parking for students who had to go to class. Dr. Brossoit told her that the Parking Task
Force has decided to break into subdivisions.
One of them dealing with the question of how parking is changed during
events (like the speaker series event) and another group is dealing with how to
communicate these changes to the students.
·
JUNIOR SENATE
· Junior Senate announced they will have a speaker next meeting
and a game to enforce Robert’s Rules.
· SOPHOMORE SENATE
· Sophomore Senate expressed their concern with the advisors
not advising. Senator Theberge
for one had a huge problem with
advising and was really disturbed by it. Chair Skorker told
everyone that getting an audit from the registrar would help so
there were no sudden surprises come advising time. Dr. Brossoit
said told her to talk to the chairperson, if that doesn’t work go to
the dean. He also mentioned that
Career Services helps a lot too.
· FRESHMAN SENATE
· No Report
· Treasurer Garvey announced that his committee met with the
Political Science Academy and went over their proposal. He had Melissa Zardas from Political science
explain their trip to the group. She
informed us that in February they will be going to Boston for 3 days to the
Harvard National Model United Nations, which is a competition that simulates
what the United Nations does. It is
part of a class and 16 people will be attending
MOTION: Treasurer Garvey made a motion to fund the
Political
Science Academy $1250 for their trip to the Model United
Nations in Boston.
Mazza/
Cogliano (Unanimous)
·
RULES
COMMITTEE
·Chair King announced that she had a
productive meeting. They went over the
terms for the glossary, cleaned up the impeachment process, and mainly
concentrated on the election process.
Some suggestions were to contact MTVs Rock the Vote and to contact
Kiss108. Also they had spoken to Bill
Murphy from the SGA website who said that there was no reason why we could not
hold online elections. They also
discussed senate projects.
· Part time voting rights were brought up and
it was suggested that part time students do a referendum .
· The Rules committee will meet after next
meeting on November 18 at 7:00 in the ground floor of the Campus Center.
· STUDENT LIFE COMMITTEE
· Chair Boucher handed out a paper with her
ideas and some room for suggestions.
· Dr. Brossoit told Chair Boucher that we are
now 8 or 9 weeks into the semester and if her schedule prevents her from
meeting with her committee than maybe she should think of other ways to get it
done.
· CONCERT COMMITTEE
·
Treasurer Garvey informed all the members of the concert committee that
they will be receiving an E-mail about a meeting time. They are still in the preliminary stages
waiting for a response from the President regarding money from the
reserves. Treasurer Garvey went over
the basic procedures for putting on a concert along with themes, genres, and
other committees that will be needed as the concert rolls closer.
·
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
· Chair Skorker introduced his guest speaker
Michael Raskevitz who is a member of the core advisory and he spoke about
proposed changes to the core curriculum.
MOTION:
Chair Skorker entertained a motion to appoint
Sarah Godbois
to the Academic Affairs committee.
Runyan/Milan(Unanimous)
· Chair Skorker announced that he, along with
Nicole Couture and Candace Curtain, met with Dean Shea about giving athletes
gym credits and they were informed that gym credit is already available to
athletes they just have to inquire about it.
· Chair Skorker announced his meeting that
will be held after this meeting at 6:30 in the Heritage Room. All are welcome to attend.
· Chair Skorker also brought up the fact that
the Academic Policies committee made their meeting time on Tuesdays from 3-5,
which is ridiculous considering they know that the members of the committee
have senate meetings every Tuesday.
· GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
· Chair Lappas announced that he will be having a meeting next
Monday, November 10 at 2:45 in the Campus Center Underground.
· Interim President Batastini reminded Chair
Lappas to hand out the Voter Registration forms that are in his mailbox.
·
JUDICIAL
AFFAIRS
No
report
·
PUBLIC
RELATIONS
· Chair Ryer announced that her committee
will not be meeting on Wednesday.
· Chair Ryer informed us that the SSC Log is
going to start sending a reporter to Senate Meetings so SGA will have coverage
in the Log. The editor-in-chief was
asked to include lots of things in the Log including, but not limited to, a schedule
of events and an update on parking. He
replied that if we supply him the information then he will print it. The e-mail address is ssclog@yahoo.com.
· Senator Cahill brought up the amendment to the referendum
that
has been posted, but he also wanted to change it so that it required 2/3 of the
senate vote or signatures from 10% of any undergraduate day students. There was much debate about the fact that
the posted amendment was changed with no notice so Senator Cahill decided to
just deal with changing it so that instead of requiring 2/3 vote of senate AND
signatures from 10% of undergraduate full time day students you only needed
either or.
MOTION: Senator Cahill made a motion to change the
referendum to
require either 2/3 of the senate vote OR signatures from 10%
of
undergraduate full time day
students.
Williamson
(In favor: 7, Against:7…Motion Fails)
· There were a lot of people who thought that
the percentage of
signatures should be upped to 15% or 20% so
this will most likely
come up again.
None
· Sharon Rivers announced that the Alliance
is accepting resumes
for directors or stage managers for plays
they will be
putting on in February. Also on November 21 there will be an
AIDS benefit dance so if you are interested
in helping out join
the committee.
· Senator Williamson announced that her and
Senator Theberge
are championing a recycling bin next to the
elevators at Peabody
Hall, so use it.
MOTION: Acting President
Batastini entertained a motion to
adjourn the meeting.
Alexis/
Laine (Unanimous)
SUBMITTED BY MICHELLE L. SPANO