Intercom

o People feel the need to party and not slow down, our school as a community should have more than one amnesty for students who get drunk and high and do crazy things on the weekend.

o I am on the mock trial team, I have familiar area working with people and groups

o I want to tackle the food situation on campus.

o I don’t like the way that they treat their employees and certain things that they do in the dining halls.

3. Mireya

o English and writing major

o Running for H&S Senator

o We are underfunded at times

o There is no connection there at the end.

o No alumni at the end who come and give spirit and motivation to the current students at H&S.

o It we make H&S as equivalently important as the Park, Whalen and Business school our school can go far.

o Question: What organizations are you apart of?

o Answer: Community Council, Writing, Floor Rep, hair and makeup artist.

o Question: You talked about making H&S as important as other schools, any ideas of how to do that?

o Answer: What I notice is how awesome the park school has connections, I think it would be pretty awesome if we found alumni in the H&S to do things like that with us. I wish and will work to bring more.

4. Emily

o Double major in politics and writing

o Running for H&S

o Goals would be to alleviate the stress caused by the ICC for double majors.

o I would try to work with the dean to make the ICC flow more smoothly.

o I would like to work to get a big actual area of study into LGBT studies and Native Americans.

o It is an issue that is kind of close to me, I would like to make sure we institute a major or minor in one or both of those studies.

o Work to get the theatre arts studies to have their own school.

o Question: H&S is a lot of different majors across the school, how would you go about representing that variation?

o Answer: I have two large areas represented in politics and writing. I would try and reach out to everybody that I didn’t now before I make any move.

5. Irez

o Park School

o Journalism major

o I have been immersed in the journalism major my entire life.

o I come from a family of activism, I hold that high in my priorities

o I want to represent park because of what it means to me, it is a symbol of passion.

o What it has been doing for years is bring us together.

o As the VP of my SGA in high school, I learned how to represent a large amount of people and balance advocacy as a leader.

o I study public development and public representation.

o I presented a thesis at Yale on public development.

o Unity is something that we all need to tackle.

o As the park senator I think I would be very capable to tackle that issue

o Question: What extracurricular activities?

o Answer: APAC, I do a lot of stuff at Cornell.

o Question: What kid of bills would you want to put forward?

o Answer: With bills I am not sure but with programs I think we need to see a lot of pluralism and diversity in the products that park produces.

6. James

o Senator at Large.

o My step father is the NY Physical Therapy association president and in the last couple of years he has created a lot of policy changes in the NY State and nationwide, he is my inspiration.

o I am here a lot because of the situation last semester, the systematic miss information, the issues that evolved on campus, I think that SGA handled it well and I would’ve loved to be apart of it.

o Sophomore.

Discussion:

Ø Dom: I will be interested to see; I did not know there would be two H&S candidates. Irez is awesome and a great choice for the park senator, he came to almost all of the value sessions and brought something new to the table every single time. He has shown a real respect for SGA and a real interest, I think he is a great choice.

Ø Kyle: Between the two H&S Candidates I think they both would be great candidates. Emily definitely looked more as to what H&S does, Mary more talked about Alumni engagement, but SGA isn’t really in charge of that, a lot of her ideas were great for SGA as well. I would feel more comfortable with Emily.

Ø Matilda: I agree, she also had very concrete things that she wanted to input as well, what I think is really important as well, we want to do more things and she knows what she is talking about.

Ø Joseph: I agree with Kyle; I see Emily as the perfect candidate for that position. She is very precise, what she wants to do.

Ø Carlie: I agree that they both will be really good additions to SGA, but I also agree about Emily, because she can continue the legacy Kyle James has started with LGBT.

Ø Ekeza: James also did his research, he spoke about how the miss information, I like how he brought that up, because that is a key point Dom brought up in his bill.

Ø Marieme: For H&S, I really liked them both. I think Emily is good for H&S seat but Mary has some great ideas too.

Ø Matt: Theo and Tim have really good points, like Tim how he has experience with being senator before.

Ø Ezeka: Theo had good points that I can agree with as well.

Motion to move to voting: Christie

Second: TJ

Voting on senators:

Tim: Class of 2017

In favor: 7

Against: 0

Abstaining: 0

Theo: Class of 2018

In favor: 6

Against:

Abstaining: 1

Emily: School of Humanities and Sciences

In favor: 6

Mireya: School of Humanities and Science

In favor: 0

Abstaining: 1

Irez: Park Senator

In favor: 6

Opposed: 1

Abstaining: 0

James: Senator at large

In favor: 6

Opposed:

Abstaining: 1

Motion to move to continuing business: Ezeka

Second: TJ

VI. Continuing Business

A. LGBT Studies Bill

Ø Meeting time: Friday at 2:00pm, in the Demot room.

Ø If you want to be on the committee and haven’t gotten the emails raise your placards now.

B. FAFSA Bill

Ø I was going to meet with one of the chairs today, but this meeting didn’t let that happen so tomorrow we are having a meeting.

Ø Will follow up with a meeting with financial aid office.

C. SOTSA Bill

Ø Update in officer report.

D. Committees Representation Bill

Ø Once we have updates.

E. No Confidence Bill

Ø No updates.

F. Course Evaluations

Ø No updates.

G. Student Bill of Rights

Ø The commission is being assembled and there will be opportunities to join it.

Ø There will be an open invitation for senate members to join.

H. Shared Governance

Ø We are meeting in a rapid fashion to get something in front of the board of trustees, by the February meeting.

Ø Fairly small committee, we just decided to add administrative assembly.

Ø We started in the first meeting by setting some ground rules.

Ø Focused on equitable governance.

I. PEACE Bill

Ø We met on last Wednesday, the engagement section of the bill.

Ø We planned on to try to get all of the ALANA students on the email list.

Motion to move to officer reports: TJ

Second: Christie

VII. Officer Reports

A. Dom

Ø Welcome all new senators, you are now voting members.

Ø Since we have 5 new senators, if we can find a time with you all maybe next week before SGA to run a small orientation.

Ø Will give you a chance to learn more about constitution, voting rules etc.

Ø Sorry to everybody that I have been all over the place since we got back.

Ø One request, I have heard a lot since I have been back on campus, referring to last semester as the situation and I am confused on campus as to why we have been doing that. There are a lot of specific things that happened last semester.

Ø I think we should be specific about what we talk about.

Ø I think it is in this group’s best interest to really name the things of last semester.

Ø To new senators, feel free to ask any questions.

B. Kyle Stewart

Ø We 8 open seats, Class of 2017, 2016, Music school, grad school, varsity sports, club sports, transfer.

Ø If you join communications committee, you will be part of a news letter.

Ø Last year we did a weekly video called this week in SGA, we will start this up next semester. I would like a volunteer for tonight’s meeting.

C. Matilda

Ø Elect her is happening on February 21st.

Ø It is a program that is designed to help women get elected on campus.

Ø It teaches women to be more comfortable running for office.

Ø Please register.

D. Kyle James

Ø I will tell new senators about duties.

Ø Happy that the LGBT Bill is moving forward.

E. Evan Layne

Ø After a heavy December 8th meeting, we allocated over $50,000 dollars.

Ø There are a couple spots open on the appropriations committee.

F. Marieme

Ø Senate orientation, I will be sending emails about that.

Ø If you have some bill ideas, let me know.

Ø We are looking for the senate this semester to get involved.

Ø Laptops and phones are not allowed unless related to SGA.

Ø Eboard stay after for quick meeting.

Ø Attendance is important.

Ø Take care of yourselves.

G. Sierra

Ø Next week the full board is coming onto campus.

Ø Goals for the next 18 months.

Ø Survey has been released to the entire campus community.

Ø Committee member including myself will be presenting to the board next week.

H. Matt

Ø Thank you to those of you who came to the recruitment night.

I. Alexa

Ø I met with Lima on Friday and will be meeting with Carrie, tomorrow to start moving forward on the semester.

Motion to close officer reports: TJ

Second: Jonathan

Open Agenda:

Ø 11:30 on Friday and they are hiring a new registrar and you can have a meeting with her and you can ask her questions, there is free lunch. You can be in the process of choosing.

Motion to adjourn: Irez

Second: TJ

Call for acclamation.

End Time: 9:04

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