Whitewater Student Government

April 12, 2010 Meeting

Posted on April 12, 2010 by karriNo Comments

The meeting on April 12^th started off with moving New Business to go after Speakers. We had two items under Speakers including the University’s Adoption of LEAP and Dr. Rios speaking about Non-Allocable Segregated Fees. A veto brought to the Speaker’s attention by President Scully was discussed and stands.

4/5/10 Minutes

4/12/10 Agenda

Special Orders

Presidential Election Results: Mr. Horlacher

• 243 total student votes
• Click here for Results
• 130 for Mr. Andrew Whaley for President
• 100 for Mr. Jacob Maki for Vice President
• The Senate moved to approve the election results with a vote of 14-0-2.
• Welcome to the Presidential and Vice Presidential positions for the 2010-2011 school year!

Speakers

Non-Allocable Segregated Fees: Dr. Tom Rios

• The only changes from this year to next year in Non-Allocable Fees are: 2.09% change in Student Center, .72% change in Leadership Development, 6.22% change in Health Center, 25.74% change in Williams Center Addition, 4.55% change in Municipal Services.
• TOTAL NON-ALLOCABLE: 3.13% change
• TOTAL SEGREGATED FEE WITH TEXT RENTAL: 3.71% change

University’s Adoption of LEAP: Dean Mary Pinkerton, Dr. Lois Smith, Dr. Tom Rios

• “Our committee recommends that the university through its governance processes adopt and implement shared essential learning outcomes for all UW-W students earning a bachelor’s degree.”
• Read HERE: Baccalaureate Learning Outcomes
• The Senate unanimously voted to table this item to next week’s agenda. The Speaker will put it under Unfinished Business.

New Business

Housing Guide Veto

• President Scully’s Memo
• The Senate needs 2/3 majority to override President Scully’s veto.
• A motion was made to override the Speaker’s decision of 10 minutes non-extendable debate time. The motion failed 6-9-1.
• Sen. Whaley moved to override the veto made by Pres. Scully. He feels we spent ample time discussing this decision and thinks we should stick with the decision the Senate made last week.
• Sen. Abbott thanked Pres. Scully for looking into the issue and has specifically put concerns public. She feels it’s in the best interest of the students to stand behind Pres. Scully’s decision.
• Sen. Jansen thinks the time Pres. Scully took to align his concerns was appropriate but disagrees. He brought up the response time and feels NoMoreDorms’s response time of 12 hours is adequate. Sen. Jansen agrees with Pres. Scully’s concern about seamless integration. He feels the Senate needs to be thinking more in terms of the future about E-mail and telephone services, instead of taking Pres. Scully’s opinion.
• Sen. Gilbert looked up the 2/3 clarification and found that 11 our of 16 Senators is needed to override Pres. Scully’s veto.
• Sen. Neerhof feels the Senate should stick with its original decision.
• Sen. Bomberg feels the Senate should follow through with the IT Committee’s suggestion of using CyberSolutions as the Housing Guide choice.
• It was clarified that this veto is not suggesting the Senate choose CyberSolutions, but only to strike out the decision of the Senate to go with NoMoreDorms.com.
• Motion to override the decision by Pres. Scully failed 8-8.
• Sen. Neerhof moved to reconsider the previous motion. The motion passed 9-7.
• Sen. Jansen moved to extend discussion for 10 mins. with the inclusion of the previous Speaker’s List.
• Sen. Drydyk feels this veto is bringing on wasted time and the Senate’s indecisiveness is negatively affecting the original need for a new housing guide. She thinks we need to override Pres. Scully’s veto.
• Sen. Jansen wanted to say whatever reservations we have against NoMoreDorms.com, don’t you believe we should have a working relationship with the company we chose? NoMoreDorms.com is closer to us and he feels CyberSolutions only throws money at the problem rather than work with us.
• Mr. Rogers, IT believes CyberSolutions is out of the question. He is in full support of supporting a local entrepreneur. He does not feel the necessary needs of the student government were shown in any proposal. He is also a believer of fair business and does not agree with the propaganda (targeted, biased information) that was sent to Senators who voted against the housing guide decision.
• Sen. Neerhof pointed out Pres. Scully’s point of whether or not we have a housing guide to provide service to students. Ms. Jan Bilgen says all contracts are negotiable but she would not do that without Senate approval. The contact needs to be changed because there were some things not stated clearly in the RFP such as terms and conditions that are mandatory by the state.
• Sen. Whaley wants to remind the Senators who they’re representing. Which website would they rather go to when in need of services? NoMoreDorms or our current site?
• Sen. Abbott brought to light the e-mails she received trying to persuade her to vote the opposite way she originally did. She feels she has gotten a chance to speak with students and none of the e-mails she received were from students.
• Sen. Drydyk feels the e-mails sent were representative of business owners trying to get business from WSG and should be expected as Senators.
• The motion on the floor is to override the veto by the President. The motion failed 9-7.
• President Scully’s veto stands.

Video to promote WSG: Mr. Lane Kimble

• Mr. Kimble is going to create a video to promote WSG for his class. He hopes to interview Senators for the video to give WSG a positive piece to put on our homepage, on Facebook, and YouTube.
• Project is due May 10th but Mr. Kimble would like to have a script ready

Executive Board Selection and Approval Process Recommendation

• E-Board Selection/Approval Calendar
• April 13: E-Board Applications made available
• April 20: E-Board Application Deadline at 5 p.m.
• April 25: E-Board Interview Deadline
• April 26: E-Board slate presented to the Senate
• May 3: Last WSG Meeting
• The Senate voted to approve the Executive Board Selection and Approval Process Recommendation with a voice vote.

S09-10:08: Declaration of Whitewater Political Bloc Formation
Submitted by: Sen. Jonathan Bomberg, Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Jansen

• S09-10:08
• Tonight is strictly for clerical and content changes to the legislation.
• “Political blocs” was described as any idea, theory, knowledge creation formed into a platform.

External Committee Reports

Dining Services: Sens. Stephanie Abbott & Sam Gilbert

• A typed up list of information will be available in the office.
• Coils in Drumlin need to be rewound so Players Grill will be closed this Friday and Saturday.
• Updates on the Dining Contract can be seen in Sen. Abbott’s write up.
• Carroll College field trip next meeting.
• The Dining Contract will be finalized May 6th.
• Discounts for items on food points will be put in place next year.

SHAC (Student Health Advisory Committee): Sen. Jeff Martin

• Next week, hopefully, the director of health services will be talking to SHAC about wellness project. He’s going to explain what the wellness project is and what he’s looking for SHAC to do.
• Victims of Secondhand Smoke seminar hosted by Stan Nebel is Wed., April 21st, 6 p.m., Upham 145, FREE

SUFAC: Ms. Anna Schwarz, Clerk

• Committee representatives will bring back concise feedback on the request as soon as the committee gives them the information.
• The committee will be meeting every 2 weeks. Please talk to Ms. Schwarz or Mr. Coenen if you have concerns.

Special Event Policy: Sen. Jeff Martin

• 5 special event levels was changed to 7 special event levels
• Next meeting Thursday, April 15th, UC 266, 3:30 p.m.

Officer Reports

President Tim Scully

• University Curriculum Committee: The Communication Dept. is changing their GPA requirements from a 2.0 to a 2.25. What are your thoughts?

Vice President Riley Mabeus

• Presidential Banquet is Friday, May 7th at 6:30 p.m. in UC 275
• All members of WSG will be invited along with family members already written down.
• Tell Riley by tomorrow at NOON if you would like anyone else to be invited.
• The banquet is business casual at minimum, formal-wear encouraged (not black tie affair)
• Senators look for your invitation in your mailbox

University Services/Luke Schalewski

• Recommended by a few people that WSG sponsor the Off Campus Housing Fair next year in October. Luke will be writing up a plan for next year’s University Services Director.

Academic Affairs/Sarah Herlache

• Faculty Senate is Tuesday, April 12 at 2:30 p.m.
• Meeting with Beverly Kopper for lunch on April 20th with Tim & Riley

Public Relations/Karri Duerwachter

• Obscure Awards: Sarah Palin award to Sen. Stephanie Abbott, Happy Birthday to Mr. Cody Horlacher, and Congrats to Sens. Whaley and Maki.

Legislative Affairs/Scott Coenen

• 66% of the U.S. has returned their census forms!
• 77% in Wisconsin – Best of all states!

IT/Jay Rogers

• Mr. Rogers was not in the neighborhood.

Advisor/Jan Bilgen

• PB Poorman Pride Center Dedication: Saturday, April 17, 9:20 a.m.
• Nonessential Power Reduction on Earth Day: April 22, 8:10 a.m.
• Make a Difference Day: April 23rd go to my.uww.edu to sign up!
• Diversity Forum May 4, 9 a.m. – Presentation, 10:45 a.m. Listening Session

Clerk/Anna Schwarz

• April 27th at 5 p.m. is the day dedicated to scanning hard copies of legislation to get them on our website!
• S90-91:10 Readmitting of Executive Board to Table: Members of the E-board are invited to sit at a specific table. Passed 14-5.

PARLIAMENTARIAN’S TIPZ OF THE WEEK

Reconsidering a motion is generally practiced on the day of a motion. The prevailing side is the only side that can reconsider a motion. A certain strategy could be that if you feel like a motion’s going to fail then you should agree to fail with it so you can move to reconsider it. There is only debate on motions that are considered debatable.

Rescinding the motion is generally used in future meetings, not the day of. You can announce it early, before the meeting, at the Speaker’s discretion. But if you wait until the meeting you need 2/3 majority vote to pass it.

Speaker/Justin Schoenemann

• Standing Rule: 5.2 (C) Have primary responsibility for the Senate.
• If any Senator ever feels threatened or that any inappropriate conversation has been had, he is available for advice.

Unfinished Business

S09-10:07: Special Fee Process Committee Act

• S09-10:07
• The Senate voted to pass S09-10:07.

Whitewater Student Governmenent is the voice for UW-Whitewater. We want to hear what you have to say whether it’s good, bad, or ugly! We meet every Monday at 7 p.m. in the University Center room 259. Come sit in the gallery and see what we’re all about, we’d love to have you!

If you ever have any questions/comments/concerns either stop by our office in the Warhawk Involvement Center in the UC room 140, call the office 262-472-1166, or e-mail ScullyTA20@uww.edu.

December 1, 2009 Meeting

Posted on December 2, 2009 by karriNo Comments

The December 1st meeting was called as a Special Session to the originally scheduled November 30th meeting. Only Unfinished and New Business dealing with SUFAC (Segregated University Fee Allocation Committee) appeals and budget action was addressed.

Unfinished Business

The Chinese Student and Scholarship Association appealed the allocated funds to their organization. CSSA is requesting $2,600 total to help fund events such as the Mood Festival Celebration, Chinese Spring Festival Celebration and a Mandarin language class offered to the community at Whitewater High School.

New Business

Members of the SUFAC committee joined us to hear the SUFAC appeals and action to be taken. Learn about SUFAC at http://www.uww.edu/involve/policy/sufac.php. On tonight’s agenda, new stipulations, the Homecoming Steering Committee, the Chinese Student and Scholarship Association and all other organizations were discussed.

New Stipulations from SUFAC
12. Special Events Support: The funding of the Special Events Support Policy should be included in the non-allocable budget of the Leadership Center or the University Center.

13. Student Sustainability Fund (Sage): The SUFAC Committee has reviewed and tabled the funding request of the Student Sustainability Fund for 2010-11 to the Spring semester of 2010.

The Homecoming Steering Committee’s budget appeal was approved.

The Chinese Student and Scholarship Association’s budget appeal was approved for $600.

All other organization budget appeals were approved with discussion about Intercollegiate Athletics Men/Women and Latinos Unidos.

Whitewater Student Governmenent is the voice for UW-Whitewater. We want to hear what you have to say whether it’s good, bad, or ugly! We meet every Monday at 7 p.m. in the University Center room 259. Come sit in the gallery and see what we’re all about, we’d love to have you!

If you ever have any questions/comments/concerns either stop by our office in the Warhawk Involvement Center in the UC room 140, call the office 262-472-1166, or e-mail ScullyTA20@uww.edu. 

November 23, 2009 Meeting

Posted on November 23, 2009 by karriNo Comments

November 23rd’s meeting was mainly based on SUFAC appeals and Internal and External Committee reports.

Student Issues and Concerns

Senator Stephen Jansen brought his concerns about last year’s director appointments to the Senate. Check out RoyalPurpleNews.com for a video of Stephen’s speech.

Unfinished Business

Mr. Mike Cohen and Mr. Harry Draayers joined us to hear the SUFAC appeals (Segregated University Fee Allocation Committee). To learn more about what exactly SUFAC is and who qualifies for SUFAC funds check out: http://www.uww.edu/involve/policy/sufac.php.

On tonight’s agenda, the Homecoming Steering Committee has come to appeal. The 2009 Homecoming Steering Committee chair Nicolle McClain spoke on behalf of the committee who requested a 2% increase. The committee was not allocated that money in the SUFAC’s suggested budget. The addition to plexiglass to the HSC budget would accommodate disabled students in the Window Painting contest that takes place during Homecoming week. Action for this appeal will occur at next week’s meeting.

Internal Committee Reports

Constitutional Revision Committee: Wednesday, 9 a.m., WSG office (Sens. VerVelde, Jansen and Vaver)

• Finalization of Online Voting revisions needs to have a set deadline soon.
• Working on a new job description for the Legislation Affairs Director.

External Committee Reports

Campus Safety Committee: MEETING TIME (Sen. McMillian)

• Campus is working on a Safety week for the campus.
• Talk to Senator McMillian with any ideas or suggestions to bring back to the Campus Safety Committee. Or e-mail her at McMilliaKD28@uww.edu.

Stand Out Officer Reports

President Tim Scully: FEEDBACK ITEM [scullyta20@uww.edu] Riley and I met with Chancellor Telfer. Since the funds for lab printing are paid for directly by students they go right back to students in the event of a surplus. Members of the technology fee committee that meets in February, should expect to allocate funds to other special tech projects at that time. (The computer lab outside of C & LD is an example of student tech fee funds.)

Clerk Selection Timeline Announced
The Clerk position is a position that is January-December. Anna’s term expires at the end of the year and we would like to have a clerk selected before the end of the semester. Applications will be sent out via the public listserv tonight along with the timeline for selection. Applications will also be available Tuesday morning outside of the office along with the posted timeline. Stay tuned to the WSG website for an application available online. If you have any questions about the position, feel free to talk to Tim, Riley, or Jan.

Give Governor Doyle a call 608-266-1212 and voice your opinion about the Board of Regents restructuring Senate bill 223.

WSG Executive Board meetings are Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in UC 268. E-mail Tim at ScullyTA20@uww.edu if you would like to attend so he can bring enough agendas to accommodate everyone. If you’d like to present/share something with us–we’d be happy to have you!

Faculty Senate meeting tomorrow, Nov. 24 @ 2:15 p.m. in the UC Ballroom.

IT Committee meeting December 2, 4 p.m. in WSG Office.

Parliamentarian’s Tipz of the Week
Section 7.2 Letter H of the Standing Rules: If you feel there are violations within the Standing Rules or Constitution please submit them to Sen. Whaley in writing.

Whitewater Student Governmenent is the voice for UW-Whitewater. We want to hear what you have to say whether it’s good, bad, or ugly! We meet every Monday at 7 p.m. in the University Center room 259. Come sit in the gallery and see what we’re all about, we’d love to have you!

If you ever have any questions/comments/concerns either stop by our office in the Warhawk Involvement Center in the UC room 140, call the office 262-472-1166, or e-mail ScullyTA20@uww.edu.

November 16, 2009 Meeting

Posted on November 16, 2009 by karriNo Comments

November 16th’s meeting was action packed with updates from external and internal committees, SUFAC information, elections results, and campus polling place funding! There’s a lot but hopefully you can find what you’re looking for!

A special guest presentation by Mike Cohen on SUFAC (Segregated University Fee Allocation Committee) started at 6 p.m. in UC 259. To learn more about what exactly SUFAC is and who qualifies for SUFAC funds check out: http://www.uww.edu/involve/policy/sufac.php. There are 9 students and 2 ex-officio members who make up SUFAC. Thanks to Anna Schwarz, Scott Coenen, and Harry Draayers for being WSG’s student representatives!

According to SUFAC’s calendar:
Nov. 16 - SUFAC brings its recommendations to WSG
Nov. 23 - Student Senate has a chance to appeal SUFAC’s recommendations
Nov. 30 - Student Government SUFAC budget action

Internal Committee Reports

Constitutional Revision Committee: Wednesday, 9 a.m., WSG office (Sen. VerVelde)

• Looking over Section 10 of the standing rules and highlighting all parts of it that need to be revised for online voting.
• New idea! Change in how WSG operates in the idea of slates/tickets so members could openly meet and discuss items for future discussion during meetings.
• Taking action on online voting items

External Committee Reports

Faculty Senate: Tuesday, Nov. 10 (Sen. Vaver) Next meeting: Tues. Nov. 24

• Academic department chairs are selected in different ways so they want to create more of a structure to keep consistency between departments.
• Approved Memorial Committee Naming committee requests
• PRIDE center renamed to the P.B. Poorman center
• Robert W. Fiscal Stadium for the new soccer arena
• Campus Climate Survey data coming in December!

LGBT Taskforce: Nov. 11 (Sens. Vaver and Jansen)

• PRIDE center renamed to the P.B. Poorman center: Professor and advocate on behalf of LGBT students on UW-Whitewater’s campus. Killed in a car accident in 2007.
• Looking for nominations for the P.B. Poorman Award for members of staff currently employed full-time at UW-Whitewater.
• $1,500 for printing resources approved by the Chancellor for use of marketing tools
• Brainstorming process of issues regarding transgender students at the university. Contact Sens. Vaver and Jansen with ideas on how to improve this process!

Audit & Review: Series of 3 meetings mid-November (Sen. Neerhof)

• Face-to-face meeting with health department: suggestions and clarifications
• Race and Ethnic Politics minor: meeting with Dean of college

Stand Out Officer Reports

President Tim Scully: FEEDBACK ITEM [scullyta20@uww.edu] iCIT Lab Printing Proposal. A proposal was submitted to Chancellor’s Staff regarding print limit. The limit being proposed is 1,800 sheets per year. Any sheets thereafter would be charged $.05 per sheet. If you print double sided this is 3,600 sheets. Do you think there should be a limit to printing? If so, what should the limit be??

Student Affairs committee meeting time changed to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17.

Legislative Affairs Director Scott Coenen: Census Counts Committee work (Meeting Tues., Dec. 1 @ 1 p.m.)

IT committee meeting: Discussion about new developer and retail software for the housing guide. December 2 @ 4 p.m. Meet in WSG Office.

Parliamentarian’s Tipz of the Week

Parliamentarian's Tipz of the Week!

Point of Information–If you’re confused about information or have a question on the discussion happening during a meeting, stand and say “point of information” to the Speaker. It is the Speaker’s duty to answer your question or yield to someone who can.

Point of Order–If you feel like something’s out of order and rules aren’t being followed, stand and say “point of order” to the Speaker. After recognized, explain yourself and the Speaker can decide the fate of your concern.

Unfinished Business

Elections Results
Tie-breaker between Sen. Jonathan Bomberg, Sen. Jordan Hartwig, and Hannah Bruton for Esker District 5th seat. Majority vote elected Jordan Hartwig to the seat with 9 votes! The elections results were approved by the Senate.

Campus Polling Place Funding
The funding request was approved by the Senate. Now all that’s needed is the approval of the Chancellor!

New Business

SUFAC Allocation
SUFAC Chair Harrison Draayers spoke about the SUFAC Allocations for the 2010-11 school year. If you would like more information on SUFAC Allocation of funds, stop by the WSG office and look at the numbers!

Whitewater Student Governmenent is the voice for UW-Whitewater. We want to hear what you have to say whether it’s good, bad, or ugly! We meet every Monday at 7 p.m. in the University Center room 259. Come sit in the gallery and see what we’re all about, we’d love to have you!

If you ever have any questions/comments/concerns either stop by our office in the Warhawk Involvement Center in the UC room 140, call the office 262-472-1166, or e-mail ScullyTA20@uww.edu.

November 9, 2009 meeting

Posted on November 11, 2009 by karriNo Comments

Whitewater Student Governmenent is the voice for UW-Whiteawter. We want to hear what you have to say whether it’s good, bad, or ugly! We meet every Monday at 7 p.m. in the University Center room 259. Come sit in the gallery and see what we’re all about, we’d love to have you!

If you ever have any questions/comments/concerns either stop by our office in the Warhawk Involvement Center in the UC room 140, call the office 262-472-1166, or e-mail ScullyTA20@uww.edu.

Here’s a quick summary of our November 9th meeting!

No new senators were appointed to off-campus seats but we still have 7 open off-campus seats! Come to our next meeting and get appointed! As far as the on-campus polling place fundraising goes, $6,000 has been raised with the help of the Residence Hall Association and Student Foundation. See the press release below for more details.

Important dates:
Wellness Fair: Nov. 11, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Hamilton Room
Ben Collins (Green Beret here to talk about his experiences in Afghanistan): Nov. 11, 5-7 p.m. Summers Auditorium
Off-Campus Constituent meeting: Nov. 11, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Esker
Mr. Cohen presenting on SUFAC: Nov. 16, 6 p.m., UC room 259

STAND OUT Reports:
President Tim Scully gave us an update on the Online Voting issue. He connected with iCIT and they’re willing/able to do the programming needed to get online voting up and running. He also attended the Student Reps Conference with Clerk Anna Schwarz last weekend and discussed in great detail how we can reorganize to best serve our campuses and our state.

University Services Director Luke Schalewski brought us an update on the housing guide. So far an estimated $1,700 will be raised from landlords currently using the website. We’re trying to get DLK on board but so far it’s not working so well.

Information/Technology Director Jay Rogers updated the website ridiculously well and added this cool blog feature for us to keep the public more informed! www.whitewatersg.org Go exploring!!

Public Relations Director Karri Duerwachter and her committee talked about an idea E-board had about a Crosswalk Campaign. We decided the students need to start doing something about the Main Street crosswalk craziness that’s been going on! We’re going to work on signs to put on the light posts and possibly a WSG music video to “Push It (Push it good)” to go along with the campaign. Hopefully this will keep students aware and to stop being ignorant when crossing the street. No more accidents!!

NOVEMBER 9 PRESS RELEASE:

UW-Whitewater Commits Funds for Expansion of the On-Campus Polling Place

Whitewater, Wisconsin – November 9, 2009 – Whitewater Student Government, along with the Residence Hall Association and Student Foundation are prepared to commit $12,155 for the purchase of additional polling machines for use in elections that are to be held on campus, more specifically for additional use by residents of District 5, Ward 10.

Whitewater Student Government committed $6,155, the Residence Hall Association committed $4,000, and Student Foundation committed $2,000 toward the cost of the polling machines.

Once the machines are received by the City of Whitewater, Whitewater Student Government will process payment to the City of Whitewater.

The on-campus polling place should be ready for use by 2010 elections. The elections will be located in the University Center on UW-Whitewater’s campus.

Until now, only the West side residence halls (Lee, Fricker, Clem, Bigelow, Arey, Benson, Fischer, Goodhue halls) were able to vote on campus, while the students living in the residence halls on the East side of campus (Wells West, Wells East, Wellers, Knilans, Tutt halls) had to travel to the Whitewater Armory for elections.