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Meeting Minutes

Thursday, Septemeber 7, 2006

 

  1. Call to Order
  2. Roll Call
    1. Absences: Sen. Saucier
  3. Accepting or Amending of the Agenda
    1. Sen. Tsai: New Business – university wide tech fee
    2. Sen. Paeffgen: Senate minutes posted on line
    3. Sen. Schmitt: Old business - Pigbook
  4. Accepting or Amending of the Minutes
    1. Add roll call vote on alcohol
    2. Accept amended minutes - unanimous
  5. Officers Reports
    1. President’s Report
      1. Meeting with Dean Simson on 9/15
      2. Bagel Breakfast Procedures
      3. Law School Appointments Committee
        1. Pres. Choy & Markus Apelis appointed to faculty hiring committee
      4. 2L/3L Mentoring Program for 1Ls
        1. Want to start this year – not formal, more ad hoc.  Want imput to get this going.  Senators and outside SBA pple
      5. Law School Pigbook
        1. Dean Andelman spent a lot of time on this – in everyone’s mailbox
      6. Approval of Committee Nominations
        1. Nominated senators to chair committees – vote to accept unanimous
        2. Motion to approve faculty appt – vote to accept unanimous
    1. Vice-President’s Report
      1. Committee Goal Sheets
        1. Purpose: reference for senators on committees passed on from year to year – binder kept in SBA office
    1. Secretary’s Report
      1. Meeting Schedule for the Semester
        1. Change Nov 28th meeting to Th. Nov 30 @ 5pm
        2. Vote to accept meeting schedule - unanimous
    1. Treasurer’s Report
      1. Budget Committee Procedures and Deadlines
        1. Choose 13 members from student body – apps due next Monday – review all budget submissions for student groups
        2. Questions – go online to site for info. Budgets posted online
      2. Allotment of 2005-06 funding for Case Law Tennis Club
        1. Wants a default payment of $110 – approved.  As of next year, clubs and orgs separated – no default payments
        2. 2 speaker fund requests – SIPLA approved for $100 and ACS – approved $250
    1. Senate Counsel’s Report
      1. Honor Court
        1. Elected Chief Justice: Johnny Hutchinson
        2. Goals: work on audit procedures for budget, rules of civ pro so students know how to bring matters to court, and draft appeals process
      2. 1L Elections
        1. 7 or 8 seats open – class is on border.  As of today, between 227 and 232 – break is at 230. 
        2. Good turnout at info session
        3. 3L seat open and LLS seat – elections Sept 18 & 19 – voting online
        4. Apps and rules – in Sba office
      3. Approval of Election Procedures
        1. Sen. Kuhn – question about 3L senators – # of reps determined during 1L year and does not change
        2. Sen. Schmitt – election committee advertising?  2 computers at polling station and signs, advertising, etc.
        3. Sen. Nardulli – space around voting – can you put posters of flyers on that stairwell? Can post, but can’t actively stand there and say vote for me
        4. Table issue
      4. Parliamentary procedure training for those interested in upcoming weeks
      5. Constitution and bylaws – no substantive change, bylaws updated, cleaned up formatting
      6. Distinction between clubs and orgs – allow groups who want to do fun things to get together
  1. Committee Reports
    1. Student Life 
      1. Sen Davidson: Bar review @ Colony - mess up in news corrected.  Trying to get a set up for rest of semester.
      2. Fall Ball: Atrium on the square – Sat Oct 14. deposit paid. Sen. Saucier will ask for help for advertising and selling tickets
    1. Community Service
      1. Chris Schmitt: 9/11 Memorial – Euclid & Adelbert –planting flags
    1. Library Committee: Say – issue – library doesn’t open on time at 7:30am – trying to work on that.
      1. Sen. Conard- earplug situation
      2. Sen. Kuhn: keeping it open longer during exams and longer on Saturday? 24 hour library exam week
      3. Sen. Nardulli – student complaining about phone’s volume on 1st floor
      4. Treasurer Chan – installed new lights
  1. Subcommittee Reports
  2. Old Business
    1. Sen. Hudson – need a new member on student faculty relations committee – Secretary Aldes, Sen. Bliss, Treasurer Chan
    2. Sen. Schmitt: organization book - response rate from orgs not good – 15% clubs responded.  Not doing book because of low turnout.  Will do one for the summer – mail to incoming 1Ls before they come to campus
  3. New Business
    1. ABA Rep Katie Mowat: Recap of Annual Meeting & Best Website Award
      1. Went to conference in August: asked law student division to send rep to Equador to conference and endorse the conference – they will send someone
      2. Case – nominated for 2 awards for diversity initiative and won best SBA website award – presented plaque
    1. Sen. Tsai: Technology fee: grad student senate – $400 fee that university is considering applying to all students for technology (line item life health fee).  Most schools don’t charge more than $100.  Senate asking us to support them.  At end of Sept., university budget committee giving report to university and take a vote.  Sen. Tsai would work on resolution to say it’s not in our best interest to have this fee.
      1. Sen. Zink – ask for info before we decide
      2. Sen. Tsai –  report back next meeting
    1. Sen. Paeffgen: minutes posted online and accessible to employers – want to make a rule that if senator wants name taken off and replaced with email, it’s ok.
      1. Sen. Counsel Kringel: propose – 1st initial and last name.  What is the concern? Students can know, but not for employers
      2. Sen. Hudson: can we ever go off the record with certain issues?  Strike from record
      3. Sen. Zink: just abstain
      4. Sen. Bliss: initial for 1st name
      5. Sen. Schmitt: against this – stand up for your opinion
      6. Pres. Choy: minutes published in docket – altering for initials just for site doesn’t harm general intent. Propose if a senator doesn’t want full name, will change on online minutes to initials --- Sen. Kringel – research
    1. Election procedures
      1. Sen. Nardulli – mass campaigning issue – need clarification? Campaign v. mass campaign
        1. put up flyers, but can’t personally tell people to vote for you
      2. Proposed language: No active solicitation of votes?
      3. Vote to accept procedures - unanimous
  1. Announcements
    1. Vice-Pres. Holmes Student org office cleaned and re-done – thanks to those who came
  2. Cheers & Jeers
    1. Sen. Zink: jeer not having 1st bar review at shooters as per tradition
    2. Sen. Malbasa: Jeers to Schticks on principle
    3. Sen. Tsai: Jeers to people smoking on the wrong side of building
    4. Sen. Davidson: Jeer to self for bar review
    5. Sen. Saykiewicz: Jeer to administration
    6. Sen. Kuhn: Cheer to Pres. Choy for taking responsibility
    7. Sen. Schmitt: Cheer to former Sen. Arnold being gone
    8. Sen. Counsel Kringel: Jeer to Kurnik for resigning
  3. Adjournment