I. Call to Order a. Lani @ 8:05pm b. Sarah S Late; Excused c. Sydnie Unexcused d. Patrick Unexcused e. Cora Unexcused II. Public Comment a. None. III. IV. ASNMU Agenda November 15, 2016 University Center, Charcoal Room Approval of Consent Items a. Agenda- 11/15/16 a. Jamie moves to Approve, Taylor Supports, Approved Unanimously b. Minutes-11/8/16 a. Taylor moves to Approve, Maggie Supports, Approved Unanimously Executive Reports a. President Tristan a. The website is finally updated! Check it out! b. The December Commencement Speaker has been chosen: Marty Reinhardt c. I am waiting on the pages from the Counseling Center to update the information for the lamps. We will also be changing the title of them to Therapy Lamps d. I checked and we have 4 seats on Academic Senate and are allowed to bring things to them ourselves, especially the Academic Affairs side e. There is Presidents Council this week and I will be discussing the Indigenous Peoples Resolution f. There is a Board of Trustees meeting on December 9 th and I will be presenting b. Vice President Xavier a. The Bike Rental Program is done and the Student Affairs is looking into when to meet to put them in Spooner i. Connor: Max is now in charge of the Bike Share Program and if anyone is interested or has specific times, I will send out a doodle poll or something. We need 4 to 5 people at a time; Spooner opened yesterday ii. Taylor: Do you want to do this before this weekend? 1. Connor: Yes b. Tess and Travis didn t leave the Pepsi in the fridge but they cleaned it up so please clean up after yourself so it doesn t happen again i. Taylor: If you have not seen the video, please watch it. It is funny and sad c. Just a reminder that there is a 24-hour email policy for representatives so please reply to ASNMU related emails within that time d. Myself, Tess, and Taylor will be working on the Student Commencement Speaker tomorrow e. Even though Lani and I have discussed impeachment, it is not what we want to do (rest of speech in his Executive Report, below) c. Chair of Assembly Lani a. The Doodle Poll for next semester s meeting has failed so we need to pick a different time i. Tuesday and Thursday promising but it would be around 7:30-8pm again, unless we do it during the weekend and I don t see that happening ii. Jamie: I have class Tuesday nights so that would not work for me. Would I still be able to be a part of things?
1. Lani: I need to have the majority of the representatives at the meeting. I will send out a new poll so fill it out by Friday b. The LRC Tunnel Project poll also didn t work for the representatives I chose: Antione, Patrick, and Sydnie so I am thinking that it will be a next semester project but I will talk to Hannah c. When you are rescheduling your Office Hours, you need to email or text me AND your Chair i. Just give us a heads up, even if it is only a little beforehand. Don t just change them and not let me know d. At the beginning of the semester, we set goals and we have done a lot to accomplish them. Xavier talked about us bringing down the hammer but we have the Food Access Network, the ASNMU Logo i. Taylor: We are working on it e. The Nursing Resolution, Make A Difference Day, our First Bonding Event so we are doing a lot and I don t want you to forget why we re doing this. Your job is to advocate for students and you should be proud of yourself f. Max, hang back after the meeting to discuss representative stuff g. Taylor: If we do homework in the office but is not ASNMU related, do we put it in the log? i. Lani: No, only include your Office Hours and the majority of your Office Hours need to be ASNMU related. If you don t have anything to work on, talk to your Chair, then her and/or Xavier d. Treasurer Sarah S a. SFC is working on the EFG meeting and is being brought a budget by WUPX b. I am approving Connor s Study Lounge Budget request for $360 c. Balance: roughly $10,600 e. ASNMUJ Kayleigh a. If you showed an interest in participating in the Mock Trial, you should have gotten an email today. Everyone is too busy so we will try to schedule it for next semester. Please send me your preliminary schedules so I can try and start planning b. We are reviewing last year s election packet for suggestions for next semester s Election Committee V. Resignations a. Grant Rizzardi- Up Campus Rep a. I do not want to resign but I do not have the time to do my office hours during the week. Max has taken over the Board and Bike Share Program and hopefully this will only be temporary and I can come back. I had some projects I was starting and if you need any help, let me know b. Connor moves to Approve, Taylor Supports; Max, Sarah H, Bianca, Jamie, and Travis Abstain c. Xavier: We don t need to have approval, he s only resigning because he can t do his office hours d. Connor: It came down to office hour issues and it came down to impeachment or resignation and resignation would be in his best interest so he can continue working on things in the future. He will be a great loss and he has done a lot of great work, but in terms of his options, it is important for him so he can do more things in the future. It s not that he s taking it lightly, but the best option is to resign e. Kayleigh: I am not sure if this is Formal Business or not but for that, you need a majority vote f. Taylor: We voted so we would have to revote. We should discuss it and then revote. Point of order: no one wants him to go but it is the only way he can re-apply and be a part of ASNMU next semester. If he cannot fulfill the office hours, it is grounds for impeachment so it is a graceful way to come back and it feels like it is the best option. We should vote and move on
VI. g. Max: I understand I am new and not sure of the rules and regulations but he is an RA and is constantly involved on campus and I know we can t do them during the weekend but I feel he is a special case i. Lani: I was an RA and fulfilled the office hours. We signed up knowing what came along with being a representative and it is in the Constitution and Bylaws. If you do not fulfill them, you can face impeachment. In addition, anyone could bring impeachment charges against him. I am just doing my job and everyone has accountability for the other representatives. Like you said, you are new and unaware but that s how it is h. Connor: This is the best option because he was not fulfilling his office hours and if we vote no on the resignation, the next step would be impeachment because of the Constitution and Bylaws. I know we don t want see him go but if we want to work together in the future, this is the best option. I understand people s hesitancy, but we should be thinking of what he wants to do and that s to work with us in the future i. Tristan: There is only one week left and then he can reapply j. Connor moves to Revote, Taylor Supports k. Connor moves to Approve, Maggie Supports, Approved Unanimously Committee Updates a. Maggie: PR i. The pamphlet will have updated pictures for ASNMUJ, SFC, and the GA with our new logo and new meeting time. I will have a budget next semester, once we have the new logo and that meeting time to finalize the pamphlets ii. Next semester we would like to have a bigger presence on campus so we are working to get us out there. I have reserved the Ticket Booth or the LRC from 9-4 every third Wednesday and we expect everyone to help with those days. I just picked a spot so we have a set place and we are not searching for one. We will talk more about this next semester iii. The day before and after our meetings next semester, whoever is trained on radio, can talk about what the meeting will cover and then go over what happened through Radio-X b. Sarah: PR i. There is a sign-up sheet for the commercials for you to sign up for after the meeting ii. Our first batch is on Friday 9/18 and you don t have to be there the whole time iii. The next round time hasn t been decided but we will post updates c. Kayleigh: For the Ticket Booth, do you want ASNMUJ involved? i. Maggie: Yes, ASNMUJ and SFC 1. Kayleigh: I will make it happen d. Max: What are these commercials for? i. Sarah: They discuss all of our programs e. Taylor: Logo Contest i. We still have zero submissions but when I took the posters to the Art and Design building, the Secretary gave them to the Faculty. Many students are involved and are currently working on it but it takes time and the end date got deleted off the posters so it got extended to be due the end of November f. Connor: What is the voting process for the logos? i. Taylor: Once submissions are closed, Sarah will send out an email and we will meet to project them up and discuss them g. Connor: I just didn t know the Committee process i. Taylor: PR will handle it if there are multiple submissions h. Grant: Where do you submit the designs? i. Sarah: Email them or submit on any of our social media sites with #DesignASNMU i. Connor: Student Affairs
VII. i. We had our final meeting yesterday but if you think of anything we can do before the end of the semester, let me know ii. Bike Share: What works best for everyone to see when to move the bikes, poll or just choose a time? 1. Taylor: Morning 2. Jamie: Is it appropriate that I do not participate? a. Connor: Yes, just last year we didn t have people 3. Max: Is it necessary to move them altogether? a. Connor: It is best to do it altogether so they are all taken and put together 4. Connor: Thursday morning? a. GA: Yes 5. Connor: I will post on FB 6. Grant: We will have to do this, this week and next week because people haven t retuned all the bikes yet a. Xavier: I thought the LRC stopped checking them out awhile ago b. Connor: I will discuss it with the LRC once I know the time iii. Career Closet: Sarah and I are working on organizing it over break and will be restructuring it. We would like members to know about it so they can help if need be and have it ready for future assemblies j. Taylor: External Affairs: i. Dozing Discounts is dead but the standing things we are working on are the Wildcat Wallet and Dozing Discounts 1. We worked on hotels for people and it is hard to keep up on it. It is a hassle and we are not going to do individual hotels. Instead, we will work only with the Wyndham Group and every year we will just have to double check the discount with them. They are in charge of a lot of individual hotels and we won t have to manage as much ii. Wildcat Wallet: we went and talked to six businesses and are working with the Co-op to get students on memberships and help promote the fact that they do the 5:2 deal ($5 to get it and then $2 every time you shop there) 1. Max: I think that was only for a month that you could sign up for a. Sarah: I signed up in September so they re still doing b. Taylor: I talked to them, they kept it permanently, and you can receive a refund at any point. We want to work with them and support the Co-op, plus it is good PR iii. We are planning the conference for March so if anyone has any ideas, let me know. It is going to be committee based so email me and I plan to see if someone is working on some of the same things as us at Tech and/or LSSU. 1. The topics I was thinking so far are Water Safety, Food Insecurity, and Seasonal Affective Disorder. I will be emailing Tech and LSSU to see what they are working on. I also plan to discuss the Indigenous Peoples day but we will be discussing that later in the Agenda New Business a. 24 Hour Study Lounge Budget a. Connor presents: i. $110 for P-Safety to compensate for the time that JxJ isn t usually open and they are covering the other half of it ii. Posters are $250 and we are printing 225 iii. I am still waiting on dining for suppling food and once we know, will be getting the posters done. We can t buy food and in the past, dining handled it iv. Taylor: Did you talk to Starbucks about having extended hours?
1. Connor: When I talk to Sharon, I will discuss that, since its under them v. Taylor: If they did, we wouldn t have to provide coffee and/or tea 1. Connor: I am confident they will cover it and if not, we can advertise Starbucks so not a lose situation vi. Maggie: What posting spots are you planning to use? 1. Connor: I really want to cover housing and took the number from last year vii. Max: Is the Study Lounge for exam week? 1. Connor: Yes, we are in charge of it every year viii. Taylor: We help pay P-Safety because they have to be on task and etc ix. Sarah: We will also have coloring to help with exam stress x. Heather: Have you spoke to Mama D to see if she was going to make soup again? 1. Unknown: She has to go through Dinning now 2. Connor: I am sure it s already been handled and I will know once I speak with Sharon 3. Bianca: comes to BSU and talks about it. She has gluten and vegan options, etc xi. Taylor moves to Approve, Sarah Supports, Approved Unanimously b. Revision of Indigenous People s Day Resolution a. Tristan presents: i. We went to Academic Senate and got their feedback on the changes they would like so everyone should have the copy of the changes in front of them. We will discuss the changes we may or may not want to do and then vote on them ii. I also have the other page that shows what the amendments we agreed on are so that Lani and I can sign it, we have never had to do this before so we are covering our bases iii. Lani: Just remember the two comment rule so make it powerful so we can get through it 1. Taylor: Can we go over them and talk about them all at once then? a. Tristan: I will cover them all. All these changes are what they wanted iv. Max: Who wanted these changes? 1. Tristan: Academic Senate v. Tristan: Columbus Day Celebration section: Say s we do not do; Genocide section: not sure why they wanted the change; Final section: accurate, just grammatical changes vi. Dr. Wilson: I argued, of course, in favor of the Resolution, how it is. It is hard to comment on their comments when I had disagreements. I thought that in striking some of the phrases, especially the genocide one, it amounted more to censorship then editing. I was not going to comment on it because I spoke for myself then as the representative on the senate. The bottom line is, I disagreed, argued, and I think it is best to take the changes and think about them, and they make the decision without my opinions and/or thoughts. I thought it was good how it was and am proud of the position the people, who created it, took. I said that last year. They were against the terms celebrate but the actual word is observe and I want you to make your own decision. Last week, I recommended you follow their changes to get it passed but that was without my personal views involved. vii. Tristan: I understand but did anyone give a reason as to why they did not want the genocide part left it? 1. Dr. Wilson: There is a book with the author of Samuel Elliot Morrison who wrote two books on Columbus and at the Senate, he was brought up. I mentioned that he published the one in 1915 and the one on Columbus in 1942 and then another one in 1955. He ran into trouble because he lacked empathy for those of color and even wrote a history book where slavery was considered a good thing. It is the Peoples history of the United States and I thought it was a good
reference, but I shouldn t be sharing my views on this because I want you to discuss it and make a decision viii. Connor: I may or may not agree with the first edits on observance. If it has been on the calendar in the past, then it has been represented. As far as the second edits, from the classes I have taken, it is hard to see what happened to be anything other than genocide. As Dr. Wilson said, I think it is more censorship than anything and the University is a place of higher education so censoring something because it is too harsh, does not make sense. I do not think we will have a problem finding evidence to back it up. For the third edit, I understand that it is more of a grammatical change. 1. So I would say: the first edit, I will have to decide on after more discussion; the second edit, we should leave it as it is and maybe back it up; and then the third edit, we should make ix. Xavier: They gave us a reasoning behind the first edit saying that we do not currently observe Columbus Day and have classes as regular. The second one they didn t give us a reasoning behind it x. Taylor: We discussed in External Affairs and we came to the same consensus that the second one seemed more like guilt and that they want it gone, but it is what it is. The word is uncomfortable but especially now, we need to own up to the past and support this Resolution. When we spoke, we said we would talk to Academic Senate and discuss how the changes made us feel weird and find out what their problem with it is, etc. If they don t agree then we should go to the Northwind and let the students know the Senate doesn t think it is important xi. Dr. Wilson: I remember the comment before the author was mentioned, the person started by saying the term was inflammatory and I responded saying my father s mother, my grandmother who has passed away, was part Native and part Italian. I thought about how she would respond to this. My grandmother was proud of both her heritages and if I would present this to her, I thought of how she would respond and she would say well Carter, how would you respond if someone said Bill Cosby was a sexual predator? Or that Ojay Simpson murdered his wife? These are factual things and it is the same with this, if it is factual, then it is truthful and it should not be taken out. Again, I am not trying to influence you and think I should step out xii. John: I think you should stay xiii. Dr. Wilson: I was talking to the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Michael Broadway, and I said, Michael, I thought they were really beating up on me and he said yeah. I thought they were censoring ASNMU and he agreed xiv. Tess: I am just wondering if we have compared this Resolution to other Universities Resolutions and what they used 1. Xavier: I am not sure if they even have Resolutions xv. Taylor: I co-sponsored, even though it does not say it and Shelia did look at others but they did not have to pass a formal Resolution, they just did it. It is weird we are not doing the same. Since that was the case, we didn t have any other Resolutions to look at and it shouldn t matter what they said because that s what it is xvi. Sarah S: I say we should not strike the first edit to say we have diversity. For the second edit, I agree they feel uncomfortable and it s ridiculous that they don t want that when it s what happened xvii. Max: I can understand the first being taken out because you are saying the same thing twice. The second one is nonsense and it should be kept. It is a joke not to include it, but we could take out the part on mass European xviii. Jamie: I support Connor and Taylor
xix. Connor: I agree to change Columbus Day to reflect Indigenous Peoples Day. The policy was removal of their land and termination and these things that have occurred, make it important to keep that sentence. It is an argument for Indigenous Peoples Day and we should stand our ground and find a way to have a conversation about it xx. John: I try not to be much of an activist Advisor but it is important to realize ASNMU has four spots on Academic Senate, are they filled? 1. Xavier: Have three xxi. John: ASNMU is the voice of the students and the things we do are not supposed to be written and/or said to be passed through people. If you feel the changes they want are not good, and then stand by it and even if they do not approve it, you have other ways to do this. Don t simply edit it to get it passed, you can go through Housing, Dean of Students, Board of Trustees etc xxii. Xavier: We took it to Academic Senate to make it easier for the Board of Trustees approval, but we don t need their approval to bring it to them xxiii. Jamie: Do we need to vote to make these changes happen? What is the next step? 1. Lani: We would vote to keep or not to keep the changes and it would go back to the Senate xxiv. Travis: I would like to make a motion to leave the first edits as they are and edit the third one because I am agreeing with the conversation so far, Connor Supports xxv. Taylor: It is a good motion but I liked Max s idea to combine the first two. We should leave the colonialization of Indigenous lands and make Columbus Day representing the hundreds of years that they have been repressed. We should make it a bigger thing because it represents the fact that we still do not respect Indigenous Peoples rights and what they have gone through. I would edit Travis s motion to edit the first two lines xxvi. Connor: Point of Order: the motion has been supported so don t we need to vote? 1. Lani: Yes, he made a motion so we need to vote xxvii. Max: So we vote and it is done? 1. Lani: Yes, we have to vote xxviii. Lani: All those in favor of Travis s motion to approve the third edit and keep the first two exactly as they are xxix. Sarah H: If we approve this, it would be done. But, if we chose Max and Taylors motion and then make those edits, it would take more time xxx. John: You have to vote and make a new motion xxxi. Lani: We could table it and move forward later on but we have to vote on the current motion xxxii. Taylor: Point of Order: It would take longer, but if we made another motion to do it, we could put it to Academic Affairs 1. Lani: That wasn t a point of order and we need to vote xxxiii. Vote Results: 5 yes and 5 no xxxiv. Taylor: External Affairs is prepared to go to Academic Senate xxxv. Xavier: I talked to Rachel and she said that if we don t make the changes, they won t approve it, but we don t need their approval xxxvi. Tristan: It is not our job to edit the Resolution, except for their edits, so it is not important for the students. I don t vote but I have to sign this and I agree to changing the first and third edits and leave the second so that they don t have any excuse to deny it again, etc xxxvii. Sarah S: I agree with Tristan, I do not have to do anything but I thought that Max s idea was perfect. I don t want to strike mass European but adding too much anti Columbus
Day for a positive thing wouldn t be good, it would be more bashing Columbus than celebrating Indigenous Peoples xxxviii. Connor: Point of Order, can we table the discussion? 1. Lani: I am voting yes to break the tie. We agreed already to this Resolution for a reason. Our job is to advocate for the students. There will be changes to the third suggestion section, but nothing to the first or second sections VIII. Public Comment a. None. IX. Good of the Order a. Lani: We will be meeting in the ASNMU Office to wrap up for the semester after break. It is still required even though it is not a formal meeting b. Connor: I just want to support the Executive Reports. There was an officer who I looked up to, Commander Brody, and he reminded us to work with him, rather then to deal with him and it is important because when they bring up impeachment, they have to, and you should work with them so they can do their favorite part of the job, versus the not so fun part c. Maggie: Remember, this Friday @ 9am is the commercial or other radio training session so please sign up to be a part of them i. Sarah: This is only for round 1, to be involved at some point, or just to be trained X. Adjournment a. Lani @ 9:24pm Vice Presidential Report 11-15-16 1. Bike Share program: it is time to put our bikes away for the winter so we need to set a time and date for when we are going to do that. I will send out a doodle poll to determine that. 2. The office appliances: Tess and Travis so graciously cleaned the fridge in the office. I know for a fact that Tess and Travis was not the person that left that in the fridge so whoever left that in the fridge should thank her because she didn t have to do that. 3. I would like to reiterate the 24 hour email policy for the new reps. ASNMU has a 24 hour email policy please make sure that if/ when you receive an email you make sure that you reply within 24 hours. Not doing could be seen as neglect of office. And neglect of office is impeachable. 4. Lastly, I want to say that even though Lani and I have been talking about impeachment and things of that sort. That is not our favorite part of our jobs it s actually my least favorite. a. I ran in the election to make NMU better and policing ASNMU is not what I want to be doing. I know I speak for the entire E- Board when I say that we pour our heart out into our jobs because we deeply care for students and we want to represent them. 5. So that being said if you make sure that you are taking care of your own business and everyone is taking care of their own business then Lani and I can do the part of our job that we enjoy. We don t want ASNMU to be a stressful thing for anyone, the E-Board or you guys! We love ASNMU and you guys and we just want to do the best we can to represent the students of NMU. 6. Thank you for being a part of that and for working on that with us. #itslit #gocats *dabs*
Chair of Assembly Report 11-15-16 1. Doodle Poll It seems as if none of the times on the Doodle Poll work for anyone in regards to next semester, so I would like to open it up now to see if you all are opposed to going at 8PM again next semester. Right now the options are either Tuesday at 7:30PM or 8PM and Thursday at 7:30PM or 8PM. If need be, Friday evenings may have to be an option. 2. LRC Tunnel Since there are no times that work for the Reps I have selected for the LRC Tunnel Project. I will meet with Hannah and meet with Sydnie, Patrick and Antione following our meeting so that we can get to work. Please be checking your emails for updates on that. 3. Rescheduling Office Hours When you need to reschedule your office hours, just email/text me and your respective chair as soon as you know you need to have them changed. I am more than willing to work with you all on getting your office hours done as conveniently as possible. I don t want you to feel that I am mad if you can t make it sometimes. I understand that you are a student with a life and have things going on. What I don t want is repetitive absences of your office hours and no communication with me. As long as you communicate with me, everything will be fine. 4. Goals I just wanted to touch base with everyone and remind them of the goals we set at beginning of the semester to let you all know that we have been doing really good work. The most prominent goals we set were to begin the workings for establishing a Food Access Network: DONE. Make an ASNMU Logo: Working on it with an amazing Logo Competition. Essay/Interview Process for Nursing: Working on a resolution. We participated in MADD and had our first bonding event. We are making progress and being diligent about advocating for our fellow students. I am so incredibly proud of how far we ve come since last semester. You guys are doing amazing work and I don t want you to forget that. Treasurer Report 11-15-16 1. The SFC is working on the EFG meeting. 2. SFC is being brought a budget by WUPX 3. I am approving Connors request for $360 for the 24 hour study lounge