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Agenda

Tuesday September 11, 2007

6:30 p.m. Mills Library

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I. Call to Order

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II. Special Business

·���������������� Election Commission - Voting Results

o������������ Elizabeth Akama-Makia – Galloway MDC Rep

o������������ Bee Lyons – Galloway SoCo Rep

o������������ Amy Newman – Veasey MDC Rep

o������������ Krysti Vo – Veasey SoCo Rep

o������������ Chelsea Payne – Raney SoCo Rep

o������������ Anthony Lucio – Hardin MDC Rep

o������������ Jose Bautista – Hardin SoCo Rep

o������������ Mackenzie Lloyd – Senior SoCo Rep

o������������ Jayce Hafner – Freshman Senator

o������������ Lydia Nash – Athletic SoCo Rep

o������������ Ruanda McFerren – Raney MDC Rep

o������������ Amelia Wildenburg – Freshman SoCo Rep

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III. Announcements and Constituent Concerns

·���������������� Complaints about school getting larger.

·���������������� Scared about slipping paper underneath doors to trigger the motion-detector alarm.�� Lacey will talk to ResLife about this.

·���������������� Construction noise – we’re thinking about getting some soundproof fencing.�� Cache is in favor of it, that’s for sure!

·���������������� First floor Martin air control has been broken in the hallway and bathroom.�� And they want more air back.�� Cache and Lacey will figure it out!

·���������������� Concern over the name of the WAC came up.

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IV. Departmental Liaison Reports

·���������������� Arkansas Garden responses:�� some wanted it to change, but most other responses were to keep the garden as it was.�� Please forward your responses to BJ.

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V. Committee Reports

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• Elections Commission with Amanda Brooks
• Multicultural Development Committee with James Murray
  • Latin dance September 15 in Brick Pit at 9 p.m.
  • September 24 is the movie BABEL showing in the Burrow from 8:00-10:30
  • MDC and Project Pericles are bringing another Little Rock integration leader, as well as a Founder of the Arkansas Organization of CURE (Rehabilitation of Prisoners/Ex-Cons).�� She will be here October 4 from 12:10-1:00 in the Burrow.
• Social Committee with Sam Jackson
  • Faux Rush Week next week:
    • Monday – Old School at 8 in Burrow
    • Tuesday – Northside rush 6:00-7:30
    • Wednesday – sensory overload festival-type thing.�� Inflatable’s + food = great fun for everyone!
    • Thursday – Southside rush
    • Friday – Campus-wide Lip-Sync contest; looking for at least one team from each dorm.�� Encouraged to sign up.�� Only 15 spots available!
    • Saturday – FOAM PARTY!!!
  • WINNING DORM GETS $500!!!
• Media Committee with Megan Wooley
  • Troubadour and Aonian have applications out for Editors and Committee Positions that are open.
  • Profile situation:�� Hiring Managing and Associative Editors (email Megan Wooley or Rainey Gibson)
    • Possibly revamping the Profile and having better featured articles
    • Have maybe a monthly issue beginning next semester
    • First real edition comes out November and picks up in Spring Semester
    • PUT IN NOTES:�� HIRING PEOPLE AND WANT NEW IDEAS.�� EMAIL NEW IDEAS!
• Council on Residence Life with Robert Fureigh
  • Double-checking about getting all dorm information in… but he thinks it is all good.
  • Cache Carter is going to talk to Physical Plant and Ryan Hughes will keep on keeping those sweet notes in the sweet bathroom.
• Campus Kitty with Hina Mehta
  • No Haunted House this year, so a Campus Kitty 5K race is going to go down outside the race at 5:00 p.m. on October 5, 2007.
• Environmental Concerns Committee with Maggie McKinney
  • Retreat was postponed, but they’re on for this weekend!
  • Meeting with Judy Jones helped get a trial program started for recycling glass mostly on Southside areas (Couch, Front street, etc.)�� Front Street bins are outside Apt. 6 and 21 on the backside.�� Houses have one between McCreight and Dickinson, Couch has one on every floor.
  • Talk about getting portable ashtrays for people who are just too lazy to get up from the oh-so-comfy Pecan Court chairs.
  • Recycling at Front street for paper and stuff is getting talked about too.
  • Campus-wide “Cigarette-butt clean-up” is something Maggie would like to see happen, but realized the unlikeliness of it.�� That would be fun though!
  • We need to educate dorms about not confusing recycle bins with trashcans because they really won’t take
  • Owen Wilkerson is the Recycle man on the job; he’s lining up the rides every week and stuff like that.
  • Off-Campus students are welcome to recycle by using the Physical Plant recycle bin (behind the building).
  • Glass cannot be taken to the EcoHouse… Too messy
• Academic Policy with Katie Pearce
  • Adding a new member to the Registrar Office
  • Campus Web will soon be able to show you (seniors) your audit.
  • Concerns about school increase – forward to Katie.�� Meeting coming up there.
• Student and Academic Concerns Committee with BJ Fogleman and Katie Pearce
  • Emails to forward about Arkansas Garden to BJ
• Finance Committee with Samantha Bode
  • RLC – Total after 2^nd Allotment = $2,590.00
  • Future Investors – Total after 2^nd Allotment = $1,550.00
  • PBL – Total after 2^nd Allotment = $2,900.00
  • Troubadour – Total after 2^nd Allotment = $40,000.00
  • Frisbee – Total after 2^nd Allotment = $7,700.00
  • Alpha Psi Omega – Total after 2^nd Allotment = $800.00
  • SHARP – Total after 2^nd Allotment = $1,802.84
  • MDC – Total after 2^nd Allotment = $16,875.00
  • $11,465 allotted this second FinCom meeting.
  • With “numbers” projected from last year, we still have $62,000 in discretionary.
  • To get a discretionary proposal in, the Senate Website hosts a request that should be sent to Sam Bode at least 2 days before the next Senate Meeting so it can be read and presented.
• Communications Committee with Lin Poff
• Committee on Committees with Shlok Vaidya
  • Meeting with Welcome Week
  • The MDC thing is being worked on because groups WILL be met with.
  • Something like that is going down with RLC too.
  • We’re looking into problems between appointing people and they’re wanting to be involved or not or being x’ed by the Admin.
  • Going to work closer with JRC.
• Executive Committee with Will Green
  • One washer on Southside working?�� All were working except for one in Couch.�� Circuitry might be wrong, coin machines might be full?�� If the machines are NOT working, call the number on the machine and send an email to ResLife.�� Talk about getting a coin machine is going around.�� Also, this is supposed to be the last year in contract with the same company, and thoughts of implementing the OneCard to pay for laundry is being worked.
  • Maggie is going to meet and work on getting water-efficient machines.
  • It’s not that the washers and driers are not turning on and churning, but it is that the machines do not WORK.
  • Email Dr. Hardin and talk to RA’s and get the word about washer/driers to the Administration.�� Probably Buhler.

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VI. Unfinished Business

• Budget Approval?�� I think we just approved it!
• President Cloyd is willing to come back because we’re limited to 5 minutes for questions.
  • We’re very early in the process of getting a new Residence Hall.�� Options include a Normal Dorm, Suite Dorm, Houses-Dorm thing.�� Opportunities are endless.
  • Geothermal and environmentally friendly building is really being considered.
  • 1,225 head-count right now.�� Board wants 1,300 grand total.
  • Trying to keep the student-to-faculty ratio.
  • As far as disruption and noise for the future years of construction go, it is going to be loud.�� We’ll just have to deal with it.
  • Feb. 2008 and June of 2009 should be the work schedule for Harkrider… It is probably going to be the loudest and most disruptive of all construction.
  • “What is in the long-term best advantage for the college?” is the question that the football committee must ask itself.
    • Students on Committee:�� Molly Morton, Cal Rose, A.J. Berna, and Laura Broederdorf
• No Smoking Proposal
  • Talk about whether a punishment should be $100 or $20?�� Escalating fines could work?
  • Point about not liking the “blanket sheet”, non-specific policy made just for ���ϲ�����.
  • Idea about enforcing policies already set up instead of changing to this campus-wide ban thing.
  • 1.�� Where does the money from the fine go?�� 2.�� Why attack just smoking?�� We all know there are other things on campus that go on too.�� Number third:�� who is going to enforce this on faculty members and guests?�� ~Shlok
  • Communication is a good point – people need to know WHAT the dealio is.
  • “Wait wait… If I say ‘aye’, does that mean I’m saying ‘no’?”�� ~Nick
  • Motion to not accept the new policy but work with the current one on campus.
• Please put in notes about NOT WALKING ACROSS HARKRIDER STREETS.�� “Don’t be stupid and run through traffic… on a HIGHWAY.”

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VII. New Business

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VIII. Adjournment until September 18, 2007

Clean up: ��Veasey, Raney, Galloway

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