The following are meeting minutes from the Senate meeting. The Senate meets every Monday at 5:30 PM in Room 318 on the third floor of The Commons. These meetings are open to all students to listen to discussion. If you would like to present an issue, please contact the Speaker of the Senate, Steve Gilmore, in advance so you can be added to the agenda.
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5:36
Everyone here except Adrienne and Thaddeus
Minutes approved
Week in Review
Danielle
Town Hall meeting – Wednesday May 9th in Harbor multi-purpose room. Just SGA representatives.
Terrance
New DVD’s in library
Steve
Commons advisory board
Commute club meets in area right in front of common vision.
Summer projects finalized, most can be undertaken.
Talk about student org storage space.
Narmin
Around the world
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JL20-0607 Changes to the SGA Budgetary Policy
Favor: 8
Opposed: 0
Abstain: 1
Absent: 1
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NY Times Presentation
These programs survive through the professors usage.
Penn state gets just under 3,000 NY TIMES a day
Customized program
Opportunities for being published
By only relying on internet, you only learn exactly what you are looking for. By having the newspaper, you have chance to learn more than just what you are looking for.
Nytimes.com/college
Nytimes.com/timeselect
Times talk – students get together and talk about an article from previous week/month.
40 cents a copy for 14 weeks - $5,600.
Will provide pilot program – month of free, or two months at 20 cents.
Faculty workshop during pilot program.
Randy Jones’ job is rack distribution
USA today is more of a paragraph paper – NY times is more comprehensive and wants to provide more along with the actual paper.
Tuesday – science times; arts and leisure day; different sections every day geared towards different disciplines
Randy Jones
Randy.jones@nytimes.com
Similar or a little more cost, but close.
Very academic school so important to have a paper that understands that.
People probably wouldn’t really miss these old papers if we had the times – a better paper
If we didn’t get a local paper, how would you get local news?
Can get NY times services even without USA today. Major paper would be Sun for local news – don’t need times and post, but can talk to sun and see if they could deliver their papers separate from times.
Having a hard copy of the news, might pick up to look at just because.
Randy Jones promised a sign on racks that could say “brought to you by SGA”
Times and Sun independently ideal. (really expensive)
Maybe we could put some front page samples of all papers, to show why we want both – PDF a couple articles about similar topics to show differences.
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TRW
Eric Grollman and a bunch of other people attended meeting with TRW; discussion about how paper is run. Students thought they don’t do a great job, and TRW said they are under staffed.
Front page article with 22 factual errors (weak attempt to bash SGA and student activity fee).
Opinion editor decided not to change because it was an opinion. Current editors think that opinions shouldn’t be associated with TRW as a whole. TRW really intense about not cooperating with other student organizations.
Opinion section mostly written by editors.
Said reporters aren’t interested in events that student organizations are interested in. If no one picks up stories, they don’t get covered.
Loudly publicize that TRW is under changes – to try to get new people interested so more people would be enticed to work for the paper.
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Town Hall meeting
Next Wednesday
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Formal Dance
Meeting with committees who will be on and off campus
126 tickets sold as of last week.
300 minimum. Before Saturday at noon need to try to double that number. Flyers in office to try to double that number.
Executive Reports
David-
Election board did incredible job on this election. This was most complicated election I’ve been a part of (over a dozen complaints), and had polling station staffed all 3 days.
Also, totals and demographics: in this election, top vote getter for senate got close to 800 votes. When there was more competition, top was 1,300. That gap representative of difference between new record for turnout
Gabe-
Campus connect had event this morning, free hour. Aimed at getting people who were going to be mentors and faculty mentors together in same room.
Phil-
Working on finishing up all projects by end of the year. Finished budgetary policies, working on manual.
Additional allocations for this year finished – for next year will be taken care of tomorrow in marathon meeting. At least 99% allocated
Narmin-
Around the world over.
Tabassum-
Transition materials
Nayana-
Passed legislation to give organization penalty for stealing money from SGA. SAE Fraternity. House is going to make effort to keep records with bad behavior. Organization will present documentation talking about what happened and what they will do to make sure it doesn’t happen in future. Will not be able to reserve any space until they do this.
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Mike
Thursday going to compete in Quiz bowl national championship. Getting back 12:20 am on Monday.
Danielle –
Planning another adopt a road
Phil
Fee forum Wednesday – noon.
Sketch –
Magic the gathering… gathering may 16th
Thaddeus-
Saturday may 12th
Accapacaluau
Tabassum
Vtech stuff – candlelight vigil Thursday night (RSA) and banners have been mailed to Vtech. Unsigned one staying up on main street.
David-
Complete SGA survey.
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everyone except Terrance and Adrienne
7:11