4:33 pm
Absent:
N. Saputo, V. Santana,
J. Trompke, E. Mead,
K. Chambers
Arrived
Late: None
Left Early: None
Guests: Jonathan Ring (Student Trustee)
Changes to the minutes: The Senate brought up the following changes to the minutes of September 16, 2003:
Under
the Academic Affairs report, Chair Skorker claims that he also appointed Chair
King and Chair Ryer to his committee and they were not listed. Also Laura Downing was misspelled as Laura
Downay.
Batastini/Runyan (Unanimous)
MOTION: President
Dalton entertained a motion to accept David Mazza as Assistant Treasurer.
Williamson/Theberge (Unanimous)
MOTION: President Dalton entertained a motion to
accept
Melissa Ryan to Senior Senate.
Runyan/Garvey (Unanimous)
MOTION: President
Dalton entertained a motion to accept
Jeffrey Laine and Charlene Abreu to Junior Senate
Runyan/Garvey (Unanimous)
MOTION: President Dalton entertained a motion to
accept
Stephanie Doiron and Candice Milan to
Sophomore Senate
Runyan/Garvey (unanimous)
MOTION: President Dalton entertained a motion to
accept
Jessica Peralta to Freshman Senate
Runyan/Cahill (Unanimous)
MOTION: President
Dalton entertained a motion to accept
Wayne Lappas as Chair of Governmental
relations
Runyan/Alexis (Unanimous)
· President Dalton mentioned that after much
consideration we are going to try to go with a concert. Next week we will be forming a concert
committee.
·President Dalton informed us that this
Thursday, September 25, 2003 she would be attending another student advisory
council meeting at Worchester State at 7:00pm.
She told everyone that they are free to go because it is an open
meeting, and then she asked for any ideas anyone might have that they want her
to bring up at the meeting.
·President Dalton also asked everybody to
re-look at the acceptance packet and see if there are other committees people would
like to join because at least one person has to be in each committee. She would like everyone to re-think about
the committees and see her as soon as possible.
·President Dalton also informed the group
that Aniluz Rodriguez resigned from Senior Senate and that Lori DesRosiers
resigned from Junior Senate.
MOTION: Vice
President Batastini made a motion to accept the
President’s report.
Cahill (Unanimous)
·Vice President Batastini let everyone know
that the second part of the Groups and Clubs orientation was last Thursday and
it went well. She also said that if the
President or Treasurer of a group is nonexistent or was not at the meeting than
they must see Treasurer Garvey.
·Vice President Batastini reminded everybody
that the Leadership Induction Ceremony was this Thursday September 25, 2003 at
4:00. She told everyone that they had to dress nice. We took a head count of the people who would be attending and all
are going, which is great since it is a required event for Senators.
·Vice President Batastini announced the
Viking Spirit Award on October 16, 2003, which is an award given to one male
and one female based on G.P.A, leadership, and involvement on campus. Applications are available now and can be
picked up in Room 222 in the Campus Center.
·Vice President Batastini informed the group
that there was a mistake in their binders under the list of mandatory
events. On October 9, there is a
Haunted happenings meeting at 4:00 in the MLK room, this was not on the list.
So please add it.
· Vice President Batastini read a list of the
people who have not turned in their Merrowvista paperwork. She told them to see Sharon tonight and let
her know if you can make it or not. She
then read a list of things that should be brought, which was given out last
meeting. She informed everybody that
the emergency number at Merrowvista is 603-539-6607.
MOTION: President
Dalton entertained a motion to accept the Vice
President’s report.
Runyan/Alexis (Unanimous)
MOTION: Treasurer
Garvey made a motion to donate
$2500 to the speaker
series.
Milan (Unanimous)
· Treasurer Garvey then passed around the itinerary
so everybody who was interested could see.
MOTION:
President Dalton entertained a motion to accept the
Treasurer’s report.
Alfonzo/Runyan (Unanimous)
· Assistant Treasurer Mazza introduced himself to the group and expressed how excited he was to be working with everyone this year and having a lot of fun.
MOTION: President
Dalton entertained a motion to accept the
Assistant Treasurer’s report
Cahill/Runyan
(Unanimous)
· Secretary Spano reminded the senators that
they must hold office hours at least one hour per week. The rest of the Senate
must sign up with Sharon. All office
hours must be completed so even if you sign up for a day early in the week, you
still have to make that hour up either at the end of the week or by serving 2
hours next week. Failure to do so will
result in an absence. The E-Board is
currently trying to find ways that the office hour can be used to represent the
students. She asked everyone to brainstorm
some ideas and that we would talk about this over the weekend at our super-fun
trip to Merrowvista.
· Secretary Spano also reminded everyone that
there is a short meeting after this senate meeting to discuss what the SGA
float and banner will look like for the Homecoming Parade.
MOTION: President Dalton entertained a motion to
accept the Secretary’s report.
Cahill/Leahy
(Unanimous)
MOTION: Treasurer
Garvey made a motion to appoint David Mazza and Johan Pereira to the finance
committee.
Runyan
(Unanimous)
· Treasurer Garvey announced to the members
of the finance
Committee that on October 2 at 6:00 in the
Heritage room MSA
and the Catholic Student Community are meeting
with the
Committee.
He informed them that the group’s presentations
are in their mailboxes.
·
RULES
COMMITTEE
MOTION:
Chair King entertained a motion to appoint Julissa Alfonzo to the rules
committee.
Runyan/Batastini
(Unanimous)
·Chair King explained that her committee met
via e-mail and came up with a new and improved referendum. We all have a copy and one will be posted
outside the SGA office so she would like everyone to look it over and give
suggestions because she intends to present it and have it voted on next week.
· Chair King announced that she is having a
meeting Wednesday, September 24 at 6:00pm in the Presidential Room.
· President Dalton assigned the rules
committee the task of re-doing the agenda portion of the constitution so that
it includes senate reports from each class.
Chair King is thrilled to get working on it.
· Chair King informs everyone that she will
be posting times that she is available to meet with people.
·Chair King informs us that Constitutional jeopardy
will be ready for Merrowvista.
·
STUDENT
LIFE COMMITTEE
· Chair Boucher shared her idea for a concert, which was the
Trippin Billies.
·
GOVERNMENTAL
RELATIONS
Chair
Lappas introduces himself to the group.
·
ACADEMIC
AFFAIRS
MOTION: Chair Skorker entertained a motion to
appoint Jennifer
Runyan and Kareemah Jamal to the
academic affairs committee.
Milan/Alexis (Unanimous)
· Chair Skorker informed us that he met with the Vice President
of academic affairs and all of his ideas he brought up last meeting are already
in the process so he is going to be doing a lot of personal relations talking
to people trying to push things along.
· Chair also shared some ideas that students
have given him, these included gym credits for athletes, surveys in class, and
computer enhanced classes to be marked as such in the course catalogs.
· President Dalton suggested that he work on
class cancellations posted daily on the website.
·Vice president Batastini suggested that he
look into how to change the parameters of a class in the catalog.
· Chair Lappas suggests a way of notifying
students of a course change.
·
JUDICIAL
AFFAIRS
No
report
·
PUBLIC
RELATIONS
· Chair Ryer announces that she will be taking pictures at the
end of the meeting next week for the web page and even if you do not want an
individual picture she would like a group photo.
President Dalton explained that we had two Sophomore
Senators because there were 400 extra sophomores that were not represented. Each senator represents 200 people in their
class so we added two ore senators.
· Chair Runyan announced the Salem State Drinkout this Thursday in Vets hall. There is a casino from 8-10pm with really cool prizes to be won along with karaoke. At 10pm there will be big chair photos and at midnight there will be a sobriety testing, the team with the most amount of sober people at the end of the nights win cash.
·
Secretary Spano passed a sheet around and encouraged people to sign up to be on
Team SGA for the sobriety testing at the Drinkout on Thursday at midnight.
· Student Trustee Jonathan Ring invited everyone who was interested to go to the meeting of the Board of Trustees Wednesday, September, 24 at 6:00pm in Upper South Campus in the Salem room of the Alumni house. They will be discussing human resources and a commencement speaker among other things.
· Sharon announces that she is the advisor
for the Alliance and that next week is GLBT Awareness Week. There will be a
mock wedding Monday, September 29 from 5:00-7:00 in Alumni plaza where 3
couples, two girls, two guys, and a girl and a guy, will be married. There will also be workshops throughout the
week informing students what is means to be gay, lesbian, or transgender.
·Vice President Batastini urges people to
speak up when voting. She would like to here your vote and/or discussion.
.
MOTION: President Dalton entertains a motion to
adjourn the meeting.
Williamson/Alexis
(Unanimous)
SUBMITTED BY MICHELLE L. SPANO