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1 Student Senate Agenda Date: April 12, 2017 Time and Location: 6:00pm Student Senate Chamber; The U I. Call to Order i. 6:00 pm II. Pledge of Allegiance III. Roll Call IV. Consent Agenda a. Approval of agenda b. Motion: Floerke, Second: Arney i. PASSED V. Guest Speakers a. CAB i. Drea Higgins and Aaron Bartz: Hi, I m Aaron and I m the current president of CAB, I ve been in cab since my freshman year, I have never seen a senate meeting run before. I m Drea and I m the advisor, so most of you probably have heard our issues and I wanted to come in and speak and give you a break down. The number that was thrown out to you very early was the $28,000. So ultimately where that came from was the rest of the programs we had for the spring semester was $23,000; this was everything and the cab payroll. We like to joke that they get voluntary paid. Given the number of events they do, its far below minimum wage. NACA is a conference where we find our performers and we can do block booking at cheaper costs, so the cost you see is the cost to take the students, hotel rooms, and the conference. What we did from there is we meant with Dr. Larry and Amanda from the budget office and came up with ways to get this number down. Some of the big areas of how we got to that number was the T-pain concert that was voted on, after our first performer skyrocketed out of our price range. We made about $45000 but when we put out numbers we put out about $70,000. On top of that we do a movie program and have grown tremendously. What once was 10 movies is now 1 movie a month and now it is 8 movies a month and $14,000. Quick and dirty how were rectifying things we took away some 123 Thursday craft nights and we removed our participation from the spring spectacular. We are still going to participate but just not financially. We have done some sponsor films and we shifted some money from the DLS budget. The cab contributionthe participants pay $25 this year they paid $50. And the last thing was the allocation from the student orgs committee. So all of that cut down to the $11,000 number and these were the options we presented to SUFAC. One option was a bailout, option 2 is covering us for this spring and pay half of it

2 back in one year. Option 3 would be paying us back in full over 3 years. So the student impact, so with each of the options we looked at if there are about 100 people at an event- the cost is about $ for one and the movie contract- the more we offer in the year the more movies we get so it gets cheaper. Payback for the one year would be no impact. Option 2 would be about 4 shows cut- potential impact 400 students. And option 3 it could be about students. How do we go about making sure this doesn t happen again? We will set up frequent meetings with Jara, Tricia, and SUFAC- we want to be able to be held accountable and budget that we do now we pick events and we ll preset the limits so that we can break it down to events, printing, contracts, etc, lastly we could wait to lock in performances until later but the con is that we set our schedule for the whole year because students might not know some things in advance. The bigger part would be desire vs. risk of having a big concert every 2 years. We took the brunt of that hit when he didn t show up and had a lot of costs to cover that couldn t be refunded. Would you rather see large scale programming with fewer. 1. Rosa: So with artists performing here is there nothing written in the contract? a. Drea: People usually don t want to take the risk because there not making that much money, because of that they don t take on the cost of the stage or anything unfortunately. b. Rosa: So for clarification an artist can just not show up and that s fine? 1. Drea: For the T-pain, he didn t get any money out of it so we still would have been out in that situation but I know we ve never been in this situation before. c. Rosa: Could we look into getting contracts to ensure this doesn t happen again? 1. Drea: With contracts that are large scale our risk manager evaluates and basically they look at it and say yes we can take that risk or no we can t and with his lawyers we couldn t agree. 2. Dr. Ringgenberg: It s the state of Wisconsin contract and we attach a UWL rider to it and in my 30 years here that is the only time that s happened. 3. Aaron: When we initially sent out the survey, we came to the conclusion on T-pain because Chainsmokers were out. Our job on cab is supposed to

3 bring people who want to go so we thought it was something we had to do because it was what students wanted. 4. Drea: We reached out to our agent and some other schools to ask how T-pain had go and other places had raving reviews and then this happened a. Floerke: Going forward I would like to see that you acknowledge the clause that was taken out but my question was on to clarify the videos and I realized it was $ Drea: So every year we renew the contract and recently that switched. The previous contract was DVDs and they were lesser quality but now we have a device that gives better quality. We don t have to go through the hassle of the DVDs. 2. Dr. Ringgenberg: The way that we do it with these videos allows closed captioning and we are allowed to show the movies for 48 hours and the old ones we could only do about 24 hours. a. Arney: So could you talk about the DLS again, you re cutting $7500 from DLS, how did you make that choice, as a biology major I benefit from this. 1. Drea: There are multiple DLS budgets on campus. Ours happens every other year and we bring a variety of people and we ve had a range of people and each department hosts their own. i. Arney: I guess I would say that I wouldn t want to do that, I guess I think it s interesting that we have 4 movies a month but cut the DLS budget. 2. Drea: That is also a carryover budget that we save so there are about $15000 in the budget and we get money from OMSS, Res. Life, and University Centers. We used to host DLS in the rec and the staging used to cost so much money and by cutting this one year of participation we are still able to do a smaller DLS speaker that maybe fit closer to you students heart and maybe this would help the students be more engaged. There will still be money in this fund, it will not be abolished.

4 a. Kallis: How did you come to the conclusion to do tpain again? 1. Drea: Just talking to studenbts, receiving s, the board and we took that and interpreted as still wanting to see the show. 2. Aaron: The first time we did the show we sold out so we thought it was a good idea to bring him back. i. Kallis: Was there an idea about what would happen after or was it just putting it on? ii. Drea: I will take the blame of not calculating well. b. Garcia: So how much would it have cost if you didn t bring him back and if you had refunded the students instead of paying for a second event cost? 1. Drea: No matter what we paid about $20,000 for the staging, food and extras- $5000, and so I m thinking it would have been about $5-$7000. b. Dr. Delgado i. Dr. Delgado: I also brought Dr. Harold. I m Dr. Delgado and I work in the sociology department. I talked to you all last semester about this too and we ve made some progress and are implementing the plan. You can see the 4 pillars. I wanted you to see this for all of the goals that are under there and where it says learn more about 1 st year action step it shows the priorities. I will share this with you all through your governance folks. This is an outline for what is about the be accomplished. So the first one where it says transformational education is things like increasing students abilities to high impact learning environment Like studying abroad so we sent out a survey that evaluated the high impact practices. My purpose today is to point out to you what has been done. We know that 1 st year students are not going to look for internships but if we look at studying abroad we see that students that identify as heteero and we ve realized that students in CLS are more likely to do research undergrad projects. This will help us figure out our next steps. This tells us what has been accomplished and what hasn t. We did a survey with the community about how they feel about the university but they don t think we are very good at telling the community what we are good at. So to follow up with that we took the data from faculty and staff and calculated how many hours they do of community engagement. So our job in strategic planning is to figure

5 out where are we going, we decided collectively that the 4 priorities are the most important and now we are implementing it. It s important to have a plan and follow it, ultimately we are all here for students success. a. Roberts: You said has to be done so I m wondering who the power is behind with that? 1. I ve been here 6 years and there hasn t been another one since now and I think it s good to have a vision of where we should be headed and we collectively got the voices of people who are here. If you think of terms in have to be done, you have to have a strategic plan in order to get accredited. It has changed over time that now we should have a strategic plan. a. Floerke: So in regard to that, who holds you accountable to this? 1. I was asked to do this job half time, I have no carrot, no stick and no power but now I work with this half time in the. Somehow this works and people do the strategic plans, I think it brings excitement that there is a plan and we are following it. I m not sure why I did it but I felt like I needed to do something about it. 2. Dr. Knudson: I think it s the idea of the campus being collectively together is identifying key strategies in order to further the university so we look to some positions of authority to keep it moving along but it will take people from all over. But I think it s great how it is laid out month by month, I think that she does a great job but I think the leadership team are responsible for helping. 3. Dr. Delgado: There are people on each campus that are in charge of certain things and it is broken up throughout our staff. Each priority has different people accountable with it. a. Lang: The community is different demographics than the community, can students voices not how can we get the recruitment for the incoming students by following this plan, how would this affect them and how is it that one person could take on so much work at one time, with the demographics of the classes, being a first generation student I m concerned with finishing college instead of focusing on internships? 1. Dr. Delgado: What are the benefits students should get in the years to come? If we see that there are some gaps whether if students are gaining or not gaining with high

6 impact practices, so this helps give us retention rates and high impact practices covers a lot of things. So our job is how to ensure that students graduate with at least one high impact practice so our job is looking at why are some students not getting this? I think we have about 97% do that. So with career services, with first generation students know that there are internships but it shouldn t be a barrier by being in a specific demographic. We are also looking at the UWL 100 experience. It looks like students who are 1 st gen and in UWL 100 are more likely to be retained so this experience is beneficial but we don t have this for all students but how do we get it for all? We want to make sure that the pillars are intertwined- tackling issues with equity and diversity and we know that all of these things have to come together. Our job is to try to make it better for the students that come after you. I m hoping that the voice of the students here are enough to help the students that come after you. That s the hope- that we can carry this forward. That one example with the internships, you may not note that this is happening but it is. a. Kallis: I m a little curious, you said that members of the LGBT+ community are more likely to go abroad? 1. That s from the survey and it is a dichotomized question and there is a sexuality question on that survey as well. It has to be categorized as that and 2000 students responded in 2014, but that is pretty think in the literature that students that identify as a non-male and LGBT+ are more likely to study abroad. Not sure I know as to why that is, maybe one of you wants to do a research project, but we are not unique at UWL when it comes to that. b. Roberts: So this is a plan for about 3-5 years, is it fixed or a variable plan? 1. We have the first-year plan on the website but we think that strategic plans should be living plans and be tweaked as going on. Things can change the priority but that does shift based on what we come across. c. Dr. Arney i. Dr. Arney: My name is Jeremy Arney and I am a Political Science and Public Administration professor and I was asked to come in and facilitate a discussion on institutional racism, sexism, and white privilege. Let s

7 imagine that this is the first class, did anyone hear about the essay contest that happened for white privilege in Connecticut. What I have done is brought 2 essays and I ll have you read it and it s an essay from one of the entrance. I picked this case study because Westport Connecticut is 92% white and African Americans are about 1.4%, I will jump into institutional sexism and we ll go from there. Any opening thoughts or comments on the essay? a. Floerke: He s super smart for only being a high school student. b. Roberts: I think he touches on an issue about racism about how deep that history really is and I don t see that echoed a lot in present day. When he talked about the issues with the houses, you can t put a band aid if you don t know how deep the cut is. c. Dr. Arney: We wouldn t be America if there wasn t racism. I think people often rationalize things to make themselves feel better about something or the color blind thing to ultimately make themselves feel better. When I read about the comment with college in the essay but when I went to high school people used their ethnicity to get scholarships to get to college but my friends of color who were getting this am I jealous? i. Bhatoya: I think it s a natural reaction to feel jealous but you have to train yourself to take a step back and look at the whole picture. ii. Gunaratnam: Some people might be jealous of students of color getting scholarships but there are things that come with being of color other than that. Because you re white you have the privilege of some things not happening. 2. Floerke: I think that was a big thing for me that stuck out to me and the big thing and reminded me of when I was a bad teenager and would be hanging out in Target and messing around but no one would ever stop us so realizing that if I was another color would it be different? e. Kallis: I just did research on this but African Americans make up 60% and those statistics are terrifying and the imprisonment rate is so high. There is a criminalization that for white people they are not getting punished based on skin color. La Crosse juvenile system is one of the highest but in this community a young African American black man will get arrested twice, but it s shown in

8 statistics that across the county but if you want research and statistics I can give them to you. f. Rosa: For me being a black person, how he went in target, here we ve been downtown just standing and cops came up to us and told us to break it up. We ve had cops walk through our group and this isn t even on weekends but just going to get ice-cream and have had cops try to break us up. It s not often discussed how people of color have different experiences in La Crosse. 1. Dr. Arney: I ve heard from some international students that people will drive by sometimes and say something demeaning, which is so incredibly sad. But with the neighborhood resource offices, but the system of care within a county so getting second chances, so at least they are trying to do things and addressing this. The way he ended it, would you still speak out for themselves is that going to make a difference? Do you think that kind of mind frame in every classroom, will that help breakdown some of these barriers? We ll talk more about that with the second essay. Humans are genetically inclined to stereotyping and they learn instincts about things. So if you go without training and no diverse experiences, you re relying on other people s. Any opening thoughts? g. Roberts: There s a quote: what we fail to question is why our hard work is always successful - never having to face the early outcome of working so hard and doing so well and still not getting a job. When people talk about the American dream that s why it s such a fallacy. h. Giles: I don t know if I completely agree, we saw that with our last election- I think it s true for your middle class white person that it is always associated with success but we saw that happen this last November. 1. Dr. Arney: Can we talk about the wealth thing? I have a hard time wrapping my mind around it too I ask my class what is the most important- ethnicity or socioeconomic status- my professors used to think that it was race and I didn t understand. In the essay she talks about grades so I guess this is more of the institutional part but it s the implicit bias that I m talking about. How can you fix unconscious racism?

9 j. Hodges: Something that stuck out to me where fight plans quotewe rejected a bill to hold senators accountable except for our own personal problems. Being privileged is a privilege within itself. 1. Dr. Arney: Do you think it s similar to a trust fund though? You get the intersection of socioeconomic and race? i. Roberts: Even black people who would have a trust fund still have to deal with this, that s why I say that race is more important. There is such a severe look on white privilege. k. Floerke: I ve looked at it where shit tends to happen but to people of color and women there seems to be more shit that happens. The numbers show with privilege that there are opportunities at every point in society. It s the little things but they ve added up but in my opinion race is more important. l. Rosa: I think we should talk about one disadvantage group, were not saying that white people with economic issues don t have issues but that s not this conversation so I just want everyone to be able to realize that. 1. Dr. Arney: It s human nature to do that, early on people learn about out groups and in groups and people generalize about the out groups and the in group is a special individual. That goes with kids and studies where people are wearing different colored shirts. m. Kallis: The intersectionality, when you talk about minorities and I think that we have to recognize how many intersections there are- race, sex, gender, age, there are so many different intersections, it s not a race to the bottom of saying you are more disadvantaged- this conversation is about one portion of a whole system disadvantaging a lot of people. n. Roberts: Talking about wealth and when talking about this- for example Bernie Sanders talked about the economy but I think we need to make a point that privilege is more of a privilege than wealth. 1. Dr. Arney: Well this is a problem for our whole society though right? So what if we changed some of the policies but being aware that it hurts us as a society. p. Bhatoya: I know from experience with some professors that everyone s opinion is equal, so the kid that s saying his opinion matters more than others, recently I ve become the kid that fact checks and saying something isn t true. Like today, I had a

10 professor before class that said let s make sure everyone talks and he doesn t shut down conversation that could be destructive. The line about civil discourse, people have instances where people of color are not there to defend themselves but as leaders at the university there should be more of a push in shutting down this conversation. The courses I ve taken have been a lot of lies. 1. Dr. Arney: I do try to call bullshit on things that are said sometimes. I m here right now so I obviously care but let s say students with mental health issues say something that s incorrect in one of my classes, it s nice to see them in class so if that person makes a comment that isn t right it s hard to address that because you don t want to shut them down. I m glad you brought up the university because even as Chet said, how will they defend themselves. I think that professors should take accountability but I think that this should be a plan of all universities. I think that s going to happen in those groups and most of the faculty I know love and care about the students. Someone mentioned if the strategic plan was going to last 5-10 years down the road but it s a process that goes on. It d be nice to know that your university is thriving after you leave and that administration that are trying to oversee those colors are going to see that too. q. Garcia: Going off of that a lot of the professors are still white, so people calling on those white people in Colorado, a bunch of students got drunk and were running around and the police tweeted good job pioneers and imagine if they had been different colors. White people are the police and white people are at the private university. 1. Dr. Arney: To bring this back to your format, does anyone know about the house minority leader in Minnesota? Basically she called out the good ol white boy network and I ll show you how it went down. Thoughts? r. Hodges: I thought it was interesting how he took it as a personal attack. s. Mason: A lot of the time if you are the one with privilege you re not used to being hurt, a lot of times when some one gives another opinion, if you don t think that racism exists, it takes people a long time not to react and were just trying to help.

11 t. Burgess: In general when there are issues of racism a lot of white people just look the other way but as soon as white privilege is brought up to them they ll freak out. I guess that s how I see it but it s upsetting. u. Roberts: This echoes the women on this campus too and I ve heard it a lot with group projects as well, it s easy for men to do it and that it s not always noticed but it s happening in every day and classes and it s constantly having to prove themselves more and it s an experience a lot of people have. v. Racquet: I can see it in this room on not an outward scale but even just discussing resolutions people get offended very easily but it s important to just listen. w. Rosa: I ve seen it from a lot of people in this room, that we don t understand or that we re looked down on and I definitely feel that as a black woman it is not covert it is very overt and when we have discussions of color with certain students having language classes. x. Lang: I think that ignorance is a big role in this. As a student of color sometimes I am racist too. We like to beat each other in things but essentially in this class I was one of the students who spoke the most but the class was also really early but Jeremy would always like to take that approach and at times people did take sides but our history books are skewed because they were written by white people. I myself don t like compliments but there is z. Antello: Since you brought this issue here but with people here how would the males feel about employing policy here where minorities and women would speak first? How would people feel about that? 1. Quashnick: This is a senate, people speak equally in this room and is administered by someone. 2. Antello: So why would you take offense to bringing affirmative action to this room? 3. Floerke: What does that mean within our body itself? This whole issue is very complex, but if you try to rationalize it in this context, I m not saying you should but I m saying if you did that.. would someone take offense, would it bring more chaos? 4. Rosa: Point exactly. I m not a man but my hand was up. I don t think we need to take an affirmative action step but

12 VI. VII. if we took a moment to pause before we speak, I don t think that we n people feel that some of there opinions are more important than others. When I feel spoken over, I think I have an understanding of how politics work yet as women we are silenced. 5. Gunaratnam: This is a room where we all should be informed about politics but some think we are more informed. Personally I wouldn t mind it if women wanted to speak first, we re here for a long time. I m not saying we should, we re not all equal here, even though we should be. a. Floerke: I think that we need to work on the speakers list as a body but it s still up to the chair and it should be constant dialogue. It went to a conversation and when that happens in a body like ours the talking over each other happens because the meeting isn t as formal, so whoever raises their plaque should be the people called on, Pat does a good job with facilitating but we should listen to him. b. Hodges: I wouldn t mind if the women in the room spoke before us but a lot of the time us guys do dominate the conversation and a lot of people might not feel safe speaking so we should all take a step back sometimes. Are we speaking just to speak? 1. Dr. Arney: You have to realize and pause and take a moment to think about it, the whole point about this whole thing is that we ve aware when we do that and we should try to fix it and next time you ask me back. Harvard has an implicit association test and you can see where you fall, the majority of people have implicit bias even towards their own race. I also have an 8 minute video called racial facial and it s a blend of historically how the nation have treated people and even recently. It s fairly new and that s how I was going to end it. Great conversation thanks for having me come in. General Student Body Open Forum Officer Reports a. President: Jacob Schimmel i. Schimmel: Thank you, so I ll try to keep it short. I m pretty sick. This past Monday we went on a great lobby trip and we had a good line of communication. Legislators feel more open to talking about what you would want with the 35 million, that s a good conversation we ve been having and we will be following up. We tried to focus on college and

13 VIII. IX. university committees, It s likely that a separate bill would be drafted to go to those folks. Recently, I figured out that Speaker Voss has an interest that would put back the opt out option and the JFC throws in things they want in the budget. There will be the April 19h hearing. I would really like people to go to this one if they can go. Last thing, I ve organized a call in day for all UW schools so I m asking that all of you make about 3 calls to the legislative offices I put down and I want us to reach out to them about the opt out option. We are trying to get as many students as possible involved with this so the opt out doesn t come back. If each of you could make 3 calls. 1. Bhatoya: what makes a better impact- a script or your own stories? a. Schimmel: They re not all the same it s just got blanks where you can talk about your own story. b. Vice President: Patrick Brever i. Brever: We met with the admissions office last week and making sure that vanguards stop there and they are meeting tomorrow to talk about it. Get your resolutions in and we don t want to have 2 week rule arguments, please get transitional report by the end of the month. 1. Given: Would you be able to go to admissions and talk about OMSS and I didn t hear them say anything- this is our multicultural students area where they go to succeed. The way he approached it sounded like the multicultural students needed special help and it was really disgusting so if vanguards could walk by and be accurate. c. Chief of Staff: Lauren Mason i. Mason: I don t have anything but if you all want to get together to make calls at my house around 1 or2 pm d. State Affairs Director: Tyler Halloran e. Local Affairs Director: Madison Wescott f. Inclusivity Director: Karlie Stefan i. Stefan: If any of you want to carry on the conversation just shoot me an . RHAC Reports i. Rubert: RHAC will be having their fest on Farwell Street and RHAC is holding later elections and our blood drive is April 19 and 20. Advisor Reports i. Dr. Ringgenberg: Consultant coming in tomorrow to look at the cell phone service. a. Kallis: I went out on the patio today and there are tiles loose that

14 might have moved after winter and it was completely rocking and it would have been hard if I were in a wheelchair. b. Quashnick: Midwest Computer Regional Conference but the university messed up the food and we requested it at 12 and it didn t show up until 12:45 for some people and we couldn t figure out why it was that slow and this was the first conference we had here but the food and it was the boxed lunches and I heard a lot of complaints. We had our distinguished lecture and we had a brilliant women come in and they brought refreshments late and interrupted her and she knows her stuff. I don t know what happened there. c. Roberts: I know you saw us at those tables and then we faced a lot of backlash, why are those tables not appropriate, they have a great view. i. Dr. Ringgenberg: I think that since Judy works there you have a right to be there and eat lunch with each other I think that s fine. I still want to talk to both of you but there are a lot of explanations. X. Committee Reports i. Kallis: I wasn t able to attend the textbook rental committee, they talked about the retention policy but there is a policy that if a professor uses a class for a book and the book is discontinued, we have over books stored and once the retention policy ends they become free books, professors turn in paperwork to keep those books on hand. Should we be storing these books for up to 7 years, but how do you feel about us turning into a warehouse. a. Olp: I think that 7 years is a long time, I really enjoy getting free books. b. Garcia: 7 years is a long time but if it was 3 or 4 there are classes that are sporadically offered and they want the book back. c. Bhatoya: What would happen to the books if we didn t retain them, would they give them away immediately? 1. Kallis: There is a process for this to happen, once the free book period is over we send them to better books which is a free book program for college students that can t afford textbooks. We aren t selling the books and the author has a rule with sending it back. d. Bhatoya: I think that I see it as a better option to go to e. Floerke: Me and you work there and it sucks packing them up but have you thought about getting in contact with MJ? 1. Kallis: 7 years is a long time and we waste a lot of boxes.

15 XI. XII. DOC met and we discussed our upcoming social and we had an update with hate/ bias repots- 142, we have a lot of events coming up- ATP tomorrow from 6:00-8:00 it is a open mic night, 3315 centennial April 19 at noon- 2 there is an Ally workshop. I would love to see you all there. ALANA has the phenomenal women s dinner and it is semi-formal attire, drag show April 27 th. ii. Burgess: JCES met last week and we had a mini grant GF request go through, a. Arney: It s going to be a trial run of ordering menstruation cups on campus. iii. Quashnick: I hope you all voted yesterday but coming next week you will have a resolution. iv. Olp: I m on the student orgs committee and we didn t meet because we didn t reach quorum. v. Brever: I went to SUFAC and I believe next week. Organizational Reports i. Gunatratnam: Students for a free Tibet have an event in the hall of nations from 11-4 on Monday, give us a shot, it s not a huge time commitment. Unfinished Business a. SA : Resolution Requesting a Comprehensive Review of Feminine Hygiene Products and Dispensers on Campus i. Brever: I was sent this today that this is the list of sponsors for this. ii. Arney: So here s our resolution, I know we talked about it last week but if more people have things to say please let me know. iii. Kallis: Rainbow Unity would like to be added to the sponsors list, we talked about how to make this as inclusive as possible. I move to amend feminine and replace it with menstruation because that s not always just for women. Is there a possibility to get this to also go in men s bathrooms as well? iv. Gunaratnam: Can I add myself as a sponsor? v. Roberts: I would like to echo Senator Arney s comment from last week about the men in this room who don t have to experience it. vi. Giles: College Democrats would like to be added as a sponsor. vii. Rubert: Just to fulfill your request I m obviously in support of this, it s just to let you know. viii. Kallis: Move to amend- If we don t say on campus but instead we say in all bathrooms- ALL male, female, and all gendered bathrooms.

16 XIII. a. Floerke: I don t know I understand where you are getting at but couldn t that be confusing to administration? How are we going to communicate that? 1. Kallis: I don t think that this is going to cause confusion, I don t think it would be confusion, we could add a whereas clause, I can assure you that the in person meeting I can say that. 2. Call to Question: Quashnick, Second: Garcia a. PASSED- Y- 96%, N- 4% b. SA : Resolution Allocating Student Organizations Money i. Olp: So this is the same exact thing outlined as last week, allocating $4000 to cab. a. Call to question: Olp, second: Zander i. Y- 85%, N- 15% New Business a. SA : Resolution Approving Green Fund Request for Outdoor Connection Whole Trees i. Garcia: Hey, what are the outdoor connection trees, these have been my life in senate for the past few months so now that we approved this. ii. Arney: Thank you for speaking for our behalf at the hearing during all of that. iii. Quashnick: As far as I know, the Green Fund will be receiving but I heard that the current Green Fund requests we would not have enough money so we would have to pick and choose. iv. Kallis: Since we had such a lengthy discussion we should already pass this- motion to suspend 2 week rule, second: Tashner v. Floerke: Objection, I want to see the other Green Fund requests before I see the other ones. vi. Garcia: I think it s unfair just because it involved what went down, I think we should look at it through the lens of the new bylaws. vii. Roberts: move to close discussion, second: Rosa XIV. Discussion i. Roberts: This is in light of Kevin Hundt s conversation from last week, we were worried about the logistics of the public forum but what if we had another Facebook page that is for the students themselves, less formal way to express opinions and I would volunteer myself to oversee the page. ii. Brever: would this be in addition to the student association page so this would be in addition to that? a. Roberts: I wasn t aware we had that. iii. Bhatoya: Is there a way to allow people to not comment on things but

17 XV. if they could just open that one to allow people to comment, is that possible? iv. Rosa: You can open it for people to look at it but not comment. v. Given: With the comments I can see the comments that would come that could be negative, and people might be like fuck student senate but all of the feedback is important. Yeah we are a blank blank blank but if we had the ability to accept comments, I think there are a lot of voices and that we heard a little slice of the pie today. Representing our student senate and constituencies but I think that it s a good idea. vi. Given: With the seriousness of this can we just slap a title on it and it s okay? a. Mason: It looks to me that you re looking for ways to get more students feedback, is that what you are trying to do because we already have a page? vii. Arney: I think what Willis and I were looking for was an open forum type of thing but I don t think students use the fb page to complain about things so if we had an open forum page I think it would be better. a. Brever: I think that is a good idea and could get students more involved. viii. Given: We could have each senator have their own page so it s more targeted towards their constituencies. xi. Arney: I have a couple things to talk about, so one thing, the cross walks over here it is super dangerous, you can t even see the crosswalk painted on and it s a pretty busy walk and its nerve racking watching students dodge cars. I would hate for something to happen before something happens. a. Schimmel: I can try to find some people with that and can work with Victor on that. 1. Arney: Also I have planned a Meatless Monday thing in the Union and Whitney so if anyone wants to help me with that it would be great and lastly, next Wednesday from 4-6 Rep. billings is coming. We are meeting in the Union and if students want to come to that go for it. Is anyone interested in going to the water listening session? xii. Olp: So on the 3 rd would people want to come to my house to eat pizza and other foods and just hangout. Announcements i. Garcia: Guess what there are still 9 spots for the backpacking trip, if you want to go on it you should and you should tell your friends to go. ii. Tashner: It s on Us is April 30 th and people are letting us use their

18 volleyball courts so that s exciting. XVI. Adjournment i. Motion: Tashner, Second: Gunaratnam a. 8:50