Ithaca College

Get a closer look at SGA! Here are the minutes from our first official SGA meeting! 

  

 

 

Ithaca College Student Government Association

Senate Meeting Agenda

Monday, September 21, 2015 7:30pm – Business 103

 

                                                                                                                        

 

I.                              Call to Order.

 

II.                           Roll Call:

 

III.                      Approval of the minutes

 

IV.                       Guest Speakers

A.         Terri Stewart, director or pubic safety

·             Sexual Assault

·             Good place with leaders to be talking about this

·             IC  SHARE

·             Committee that the college appoints need to do training

·             Used orientation period to put these things in place around sexual harassment

·             NYS passed the “enough is enough” law

·             Clarity Act was amended

¨          Office of pubic safety will publish the amendment

¨          How do we get students and faculty to see this?

·             Campus Save Act

¨          What are we doing against domestic violence?

¨          Need to understand the definition of these issues

¨          Challenged as an institution to train, so students can recognize this violence as it happens

¨          So students can recognize stalking

¨          Any behavior that is unwanted by you that makes you feel uncomfortable is likely illegal

¨          They are there to help with that

·             Borrowed the SHARE acronym from Cornell who got it from Yale.

·             Ithaca College SHARE Website

·             Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education (SHARE)

·             What can we do better to the site?

¨          Flow Charts.

¨          FAQs.

·             You can go to:

¨          Counselors in the Health Center

¨          Clergy

·             You will get immediate assistance, to make sure you are safe and the rest of the campus is safe.

·             They will make sure your physical and mental well being is safe.

·             Tiffany Zeeman (you can talk to her about what we can do as a campus with regard to campaigns/marketing that have to do with sexual assault.

·             Want to make a splash on campus about sexual assault.

·             Public Safety Relationships with Student Body

¨          Four Point Diversity plan

v  Been ongoing work, since September 2013

v  Want to create diversity engagement and inclusion goals

v  Two Goals:

1.            Implement a diversity plan for better relations with students and public safety.

2.          Develop a communication plan.

v  Alana Student Engagement.

v  Staff training and development.

v  Policy development.

v  Workshop the meetings.

v  3 prong:

ü  Education

ü  Engagement

ü  Communication

¨          Conversations with public safety.

¨          Constitutional rights don’t go away.

¨          Police Enforcement of Accountability for Civilian Engagements (PEACE BILL)

v  Resolution that has been passed.

v  What does it mean to pass a resolution?

v  SGA will pick this up, say what it means to pass a resolution, go through it to figure out what it means for us in September 2015.

v  New Bill Process:

ü  Submit your intent for a bill on a Tuesday.

ü  Time to do research, to get a more fleshed out bill.

ü  Run by people.

ü  Bring it in the following Monday to present at a SGA meeting.

ü  The bill will be looked at to see if there is enough research.

ü  If it gets passed, it will with an action plan tied to it

v  What was the thought process behind this bill?

v  Whatever we do has a budgetary impact.

v  Joseph Fenning

v  Johnahn Couce

v  Angela Pradhen

v  Kyle James

v  They are going to rework the bill.

v  People doing research need to be in contact with Terri.

·             Bill process requires a next step, once passed in SGA, then it will be brought to campus committee on college life and campus safety.

·             Message: There was and is a plan that has been put in place that has been ongoing for 18 months, recognize the need for this plan.

·             As a whole the student body has questions about rights and responsibilities.

·             Terri is passionate about public safety.

 

 

V.                           New Business

A.         Voting in appropriations committee members

·             Lexa Panell

v  Junior, accounting and management major, was in appropriations last year, loved being in the committee, seeing all of the organizations on campus and helping them.

·             James Chen

v  Sophomore accounting major, was on last year, joined towards the later half would like to do it again.

·             Oliver Shag

v  Senior, International business and marketing major, minor in Spanish, has not been it, wants to give back to the school.

·             Giovanna Finamo

v  Freshmen, in business administration, would like more business experience on campus would like to learn more about what is happening around the school.

·             Siandre Carolina

v  Business administration concentration in finance, would help with business.

·             Jonathan Couce

v  Sophomore politics and communication studies major, great way to give back to the IC community.

·             Tyler Alden

v  Freshmen business administration major, good way to get involved.

·             Joseph Fenning

v  Sophomore accounting major, was on last year, would love to get back into it, giving ideas.

Discussion:

·             Anyone who is willing to commit, nice to have people with business backgrounds.

·             Attendance requirements, need people who are dedicated

·             Are ready to committee.

 

B.         Senate Seats Platform

·             Charles Kane

v  From Binghamton New York.

v  Interested in politics and government.

v  Always been around it, enjoy it.

v  Ithaca is different than his area.

v  He wants to get rid of all acronyms.

v  Excited to be here.

v  Running for HSHP Senator.

v  Freshman.

v  Studying Health Sciences with a focus in dentistry. 

v  Always been interested in Government.

v  Previous experience: 8th grade was student body president.

v  What would you change? Racial bias, issue with campus security and students, every week, a given police officer has to meet 5 students, to bring down the title aspect between police and student relations bring it to a more human level.

v  How do you plan on representing your school? Trying to represent the amount of work he can put into it.

·             Ezek Allen

v  Freshman.

v  Business Administration Major.

v  Platforms: Voice, making everyone’s voices heard.

v  Difference from high school to college, SGA is listened to more in college.  

v  She wants her voice heard.

v  Great place to learn what is going on and listen and be a part of something.

v  Running for At Large.

v  A bill that you would think about working on? Working off of what she learned from the ALS meeting.

v  Something for freshman to talk to elders to help them adjust to the new surroundings.

v  Would like an informational step by step.

·             Eli Cirotta

v  Junior IMC Major.

v  Minors in politics and economics.

v  Running for club sports senator.

v  Member of the men’s club rugby team.

v  Divide between varsity and club sports level.

v  Have the opportunity to represent a large amount of diverse people around campus.

v  From Vermont.

v  Currently a tour guide, student justice.

v  Served as an RA.

v  Was an orientation leader.

·             Matilda Thornton Clark

v  Senior sociology major.

v  Running for senior senator (class of 2016)

v  Took a semester off to work at Rutgers University.

v  Has experience in organizing events.

v  Community feel at IC.

v  Never went to an SGA event.

v  Transparency of the organization.

v  Visibility survey.

v  Wants to make a change on campus, change how students perceive us.

v  From Princeton New Jersey.

·             Discussion:

v  Experience Diversity.

v  They want to learn and get involved.

v  Contrast between the four.

v  Having different personalities makes it more positive. 

·             Voting

C.         Officer Reports

·             Dominick

v  Working on the Student Bill of Rights.

v  Going out on Intercom soon.

v  Want as many people as possible to play a part.

v  Thank You for constitution day.

v  Constitution day went really well.

v  Started a sustainability working group. Will hopefully pass bills through SGA.

v  Running a digital office hour Thursday September 24 2015.

v   Introduction of Executive Assistants and Chief of Staff.

v  Encouragement to look at constitution.

v  Constitution is on Ithaca.edu/osema/sga.

v  Can change the room for SGA meetings.

·             Kyle

v  Still more seats to fill in the senate.

v  Going to help develop an online tracking system.

v  Can find the bill, if it has been voted, whose desk is it sitting on.

v  Working on marketing SHARE.

v  State of student address, it is going to be a video, share with all of your friends. Will have the issues and solutions.

·             Yena

v  Executive Ball is next Friday.

v  Fun event, music, dancing, food, free.

v  8-11 Emerson Suites.

v  Awards.

v   Facebook event.

v  Semi- formal attire.

v  Elector- program that encourages females on campus to run for leadership positions on campus.

v  SHARE: if everyone can look at the website.

v  Trying to figure out how other campus’s and other SGAs deal with sexual assault.

v  Going to other schools to get more information on how we can look at how other schools are handling things.

v  Green dot institution, active bystander training.

·             Kyle James

v  Assistants.

v  Representation Bill.

v  Intellectual Property law.

v  Indigenous studies minor, try to promote it.

v  Anything you want to meet with him on, he doesn’t have office hours.

v  Checks his email every 5-10 minutes when not in class.

·             Evan

v  Official final hearing time is 10pm.

v  Brand new appropriations committee.

v  Meeting tomorrow.

·             Senate Chair

v  Attendance is very important.

v  Email if you are not able to come at least 24 hours in advance.

v  Meetings every Monday at 7:30pm.

v  3 absences become a problem.

v  2 unexcused lates = 1 absent

v  Don’t fall asleep during meetings.

v  Raise your hand before you speak. 

v  If interested in Senate Committee let her know.

v  Open senate Seats.

·             Ciara Lucas

v  Student Trustees.

v  College for a day.

·             Lema

v  Events for Alumni Weekend.

 

 

 

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