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2015 Student Senate Full Meetings

First: Minutes from 29 January 2015 (Full)

Second: Minutes from 3rd & 17th February 2015 (Committee)

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STOCKTON UNIVERSITY

STUDENT SENATE

Notice of Meeting

February 24th, 2015

4:30 pm

Board of Trustees Room

Galloway, New Jersey 08205

609-652-4845




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STUDENT SENATE MEETING AGENDA

February 24th, 2015

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I. Full Senate Meeting: January 29th, 2015

A. Call to Order/Roll Call …3

B. Approval of Minutes …3

C. President Report …4

D. Vice President Report …4

E. Committee Reports

i. Academic Affairs …5

ii. Government Affairs …5

iii. Public Relations …6

iv. Student Affairs …6

v. Finance …7

F. Announcements/Comments from the Public …8

G. Adjournment …8

II. Committee Meeting: February 3rd & 17th, 2015

A. Call to Order/Roll Call …9

B. Committee Reports

i. Academic Affairs …10

ii. Government Affairs …11

iii. Public Relations …12

iv. Student Affairs …13

v. Finance …14




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Full Student Senate Meeting

January 29th, 2015

Presiding: Carl Archut Jr.

Members present: Nick Persia

Mike Tuozzolo

Ziwei Li

Tyler Graff

Kiyle Osgood

Tara Ricco

Haley Matsinger

Maryam Sarhan

Victoria Muraoka

Maurice Brandon

Lauren O’Neil

Emily Zeck

Noya Ilan

Kristen “Murphy” Slagle

Ar-Rasheed Brisco

Mahalia Bazile

Ike Ejikeme

Victoria Dambroski

Katelynn Torcato

Members absent: Zayhira Roa

Louis M. Chevere

Victoria Nucci

Angelo Bechara

Brad Ross

Cristian Moreno

Marina Barsoum

Members late: None

Agenda/Business:

Approval of Minutes

Carl called the meeting to order at 4:30 pm and moved to approve the minutes from

December 2, 2014, seconded by Kiyle.

*Motion Approved 18-1-1




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President’s Report:

Carl announced that he was appointed by President Saatkamp to serve on a working

committee established to assist in the planning of activities and operations at Stockton’s

new Island Campus in Atlantic City (former Showboat Casino and Hotel property). Their

first meeting was on January 6th, 2015 from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm. Carl is currently

working on developing a survey to assess what students will need on this campus. He

said that the committee is scheduled to meet again on January 30th, 2015.

Carl and the Parking committee met on January 16th. He gave a brief update about the

plans for parking; Plans for Parking Lot 0 are currently being reviewed by the Pinelands

Commission. Facilities Planning and Construction expects to complete construction of

Lot 0 by fall 2015. Parking Lot 0 will result in the net addition of approximately 125

spaces. The Pinelands Commission is also reviewing plans to add 40 spaces along the

Fire Lane behind Housing 2. The recommendation to move freshmen residential from

Lot 7 to the North lot was forwarded to President Saatkamp. He accepted the

recommendation, so this move will take effect in fall 2015. Facilities planning and

Construction will not start the New Classroom Building & USC2 construction until

November 2015; therefore, all parking lots will be available at the beginning of the 2015

fall semester.

Carl has reached out to an organization called the College and University Food Bank

Alliance, so he will be working with Claire Cady and Jenna Klaus, to further develop an

assessment of the need at Stockton, among other things. As of now he has a six question

assessment developed. Carl is also working with Chartwells to create an incentive for

students to take the survey. He will also be working with Jason Babin, Assistant Director

of Student Rights & Responsibilities, to make this food bank a reality at Stockton.

Carl also reported that the Students Helping Students Mentor Program launched at the

MLK Day of Service was a success! They had 47 students from Atlantic City high school

and 22 Stockton students come and participate. Everyone had a great time. The mentors

and mentees are working on planning their own day of service activity for some time in

March, so he encouraged senators and students to become involved in this project.

He concluded by reminding senators that the Student Government Association Taskforce

will begin meeting again, every Tuesday evening from 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm in F – 225, to

talk more about how we can structure this government to better serve the students at

Stockton. The task force is currently focusing their discussion on the Inter Club Council

Meetings. He also encouraged senators and students to come to the next SGA task force

meeting if they are interested in taking part in the conversation.

Vice President’s Report

No Report




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Academic Affairs:

Nick yielded the floor to Mike. He talked about a survey regarding the CAPP system, and

your preceptor. They want to see how effective meeting with their preceptor is and how

affective the CAPP system is. They want to show students how the system works as well

as possibly work on improving the system. Mike also updated everyone on what

constitution changes he has been working on. He said that at the next committee meeting

they will be looking at new attendance policies, how the chairs on the senate are elected

and possibly having the students electing these positions, as opposed to the vice president

and the president appointing them. They will also be working on petition time-line

changes. He yielded the floor back to Nick.

Nick said that they are also looking into adding on a new chair executive cabinet position;

judiciary board committee chair. This committee will work on the constitution, they will

also work on conflict resolution among the senators. The details of this are still to be

worked out.

Nick then announced that the reading days are now tentatively scheduled to happen on

December 11th, 2015 for the fall semester and May 2, 2016 for the spring semester. The

finals week is now dedicated to one week, instead of professors having exams when they

choose. Thus this will make finials week much easier on students, and they will be more

prepared. Nick yielded the floor back to Carl.

Government Affairs:

Maryam announced that she has been working on plans for Higher Education week. This

April they will be sending out an itinerary for that week of the events that they will be

having, such as game day, called Family Feud, and an event titled Careers and Higher

Education to talk about the possible career paths that students may be interested in. She

also announced that they will be having another event called Polishing Your Degree that

will give students insights about minors that will enhance the status of their degree. She

also announced that Victoria and Brad will be taking over Maurice’s duty in working with

the campus police.

She yielded the floor to Maurice. Maurice announced that they will be having a program

on Police brutality and building better connections with the campus as a whole with the

campus police and he will also be working with the sustainability trust. Maurice yielded

the floor back to Carl.




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Public Relations:

Lauren announced that the Senate Informer will be ready by tomorrow. It will be 4 pages

this time instead of the two in the previous year. The Informer will outline all of senate’s

accomplishments, what they have been working on, and who is in charge of senate.

She went on to say that we will be collaborating to put on the Queen of Heart Dance on

February 10, 2015 from 8:00-11:00PM, in the Event Room. They’ll be accepting

donations for the Go Red for Woman Foundation. This is a free event but they are

looking for donations to go to that cause.

She also said that Sweets for your Suggestions is starting this semester, with Student

Affairs. The dates are February 18, 2015, March 25, 2015, and April 29, 2015, from 6:00-

8:00PM in G-wing. This is a free bake sale, so students can come out with any

suggestions that they have for the school and they will receive a free baked good in

return.

The Students Helping Students Mentor Program went very well, with a lot of senators

who came out. This is a great opportunity to mentor, so if you or anyone you know are

interested in taking part in this mentor program, please let the senators know.

She announced that the spring election time-line has been confirmed and the petition has

been updated. March 3rd, 4th, 5th will be the interest meetings, and April 14th and April

16th will be the online voting through the Go Portal.

She concluded by saying that they are doing Campus Center Collaborations; one is Go

Red for Woman Quizzo event on February 9th, 2015 at 9:30PM. Senate will be

sponsoring one round of Quizzo. Also they will be doing T-shirt decorating on March

30th at 8:00PM. Lastly, they are looking into keeping fund raisers at the basketball games,

to continue to raise money for the Students Helping Students foundation scholarships.

She yielded the floor back to Carl.

Student Affairs Committee:

Murphy announced that there will be transportation to and from Shop Rite, that will be

available Monday through Thursday at certain times, and there is an attachment in the

email that was sent out, listing all of the times this shuttle will be running. The shuttle

will depart from the Campus Center and you would be picked back up from the Ace

Hardware Store on Pitney road. She went on to say that telecommunications is now

supporting a lot more devices, such as the X-box 360, the Wi and Apple TV and TVoo.

The chart on what is supported, and not yet supported is listed in an email that was sent

out to residential students. She also welcomed a new senator, Katelynn Torcato, and said

that she will be working with Plant Management and Telecommunications, alongside




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Cristian and Marina. Marina met with Tom O’Donnell to discuss some of the changes to

Veteran Park such as lights for the flags, and most likely solar panel energy ran. The

Student Affairs Committee has also been working on other improvements that they will

be working on such as a day where they collect toxic waste that should be disposed of

properly, such as batteries, laptops, and phones. They will be working with other

organizations to collect some of these things, from not only residential students, but also

non-residential students and faculty.

She also said that she met with Lieutenant Parker, acting chief, and they discussed some

of the updates, such as some commuter students were receiving parking citations in North

Lot for being parked there past 10:00PM. They are looking into extending the time frame

that commuter students are able to park in North Lot, so that they can have enough time

to do what they need on campus until campus closes. She also announced that Ar-

Rasheed, Katelynn, and Marina are going to be working with Plant Management to get

toilet seat covers for the bathrooms.

Murphy yielded the floor to Ar-Rasheed. He announced that they will also be looking

into meal plans and pricing, and what constitutes as a meal plan, so that the meal plans

are based more upon what students would like to eat opposed to what they are told they

may count as a meal. He yielded the floor to Murphy, and Murphy yielded the floor back

to Carl.

Finance Committee:

Kiyle announced that there are seven items for supplemental. Kiyle let the senators know

that if there were any further questions on the information that is attached to the consent

agenda to ask, and it will be removed from the consent agenda, so they can talk about it

after the consent agenda. Three supplementals were removed from the consent agenda to

be voted on separately. Kiyle also reported that the account balance as of January 20,

2015 was 61,508.60.

1. Supplemental for RSC Model UN in the amount of $8,614.40 to attend their

national conference in New York, NY.

*Motion Passed: 17-1-2

2. Supplemental for Sustainability Trust in the amount of $168.15 for refreshments

at the Up to Us kickoff panel.





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3. Supplemental for All Star Dance Team in the amount of $3,560.00 for the All Star

Dance Team


The next five supplementals were voted on through a consent agenda.

Kiyle Osgood moved to approve the next five supplements through a consent agenda.


4. Supplemental for History Club in the amount of $1,688 to attend their trip to

Boston visiting historical sites.

5. Supplemental for Student Senate in the amount of $1,899 for the Queen of Hearts

Dance.

6. Supplemental for Greek Council in the amount of $2,500 for the Greeks Week

Closing Ceremony.

7. Supplemental for Stockton’s Veterans Organization in the amount of $3,900 for

guest speaker Alan MO skin.

8. Supplemental for Asian Student Alliance in the amount of $5,097.34 for their

ECAASU Conference.

Announcements/Comments from the Public

Carl Louis from the SVO, who is the public relations officer said thank you for approving

their supplemental to attend the national 2015 conference in San Antonio. He explained

that the additional money for their supplemental would be enabling them to send two

extra student veterans. He concluded by saying that when they get back they will report

on what benefits they have taken away from it and what they can bring back to the

Stockton community.

Carl adjourned the meeting at 5:13 PM




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Committee Meeting

3 February 2015

Presiding: Carl Archut, Jr.

Members Present:

Louis M. Chevere

Nick Persia

Victoria Nucci

Mike Tuozzolo

Tyler Graff

Kiyle Osgood

Anglo Bechara

Tara Ricco

Haley Matsinger

Marina Barsoum

Ziwei Li

Maryam Sarhan

Maurice Brandon

Brad Ross

Lauren O’Neil

Zayhira Roa

Noya Ilan

Kristen “Murphy” Slagle

Cristian Moreno

Alison Rocker

Ar-Rasheed Brisco

Angelo Bechara

Victoria Muraoka

Mahalia Bazile

Ike Ejikeme

Victoria Dambroski

Members Absent: None

Members Late: None

Carl called the meeting to order at 5:10 PM.




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Academic Affairs Committee

Date: February 3rd & 17th, 2015

Presiding: Nick Persia

Members Present: Victoria Nucci Mike Tuozzolo

Ziwei Li Tyler Graff


Agenda/Business:

Nick is working with the SGA task force in order to see what the clubs want and how we

can better represent the students and organization more.

Mike has finalized the survey about the CAPP and evaluation of preceptors. We have

sent the email out to the student body so make sure you take the survey!

Mike is also looking into getting a layout of courses from academic advising for double

majors and for concentrations. As of now, there are layouts for majors, but not for

double majors or concentrations. We are also looking to have double majors put on the

CAPP “What-If Analysis” as it is not there right now. We are hoping this will give

students a better understanding of the classes they need to take.

Victoria is looking into an issue with the library and renting out books. As of now

students need to pay $45 to replace a book if lost, but students have complained about

this policy. Students can buy a brand new book, with the same ISBN, meaning it is the

same book, for $5. We are seeing if students can replace the books if lost, rather than pay

a high amount.




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Government Affairs Committee


Presiding: Angelo Bechara

Members Present: Maryam Sarhan

Maurice Brandon

Brad Ross

Victoria Muraoka


Agenda/Business:

The Government Affairs committee has been working on their goal to raise awareness

about the US long-term national debt, through the Up to Us campaign. The committee

discussed the plan for the month of February and how execution of the plans will occur.

February 5th will be the Life-size Monopoly, February 10th Democracy Café with RSC

Service Learning, and final the 12th will be My Two Cents Day. The committee and

Student Senate as a whole are working alongside the Up to Us team to ensure Stockton’s

national recognition in this campaign. The Government Affairs committee advised the

team on how to properly address this issue with our NJ legislators. The Up to Us team

will visit Congressman Lobiondo in Washington DC on the 13th, and Senator Booker’s

aide Ms. Scudder will visit the team on campus Tuesday the 17th. Stockton currently has

750+ Facebook pledge takers. Maryam is planning on having the Higher Education week

this April with the help of the committee. Brad & Victoria have been hard at work 99%

of their time with Up to Us. Maurice has been a huge support to the team even though he

is not a core Up to Us team member, extended teammates are just as crucial to the

success of Up to Us. Angelo will be reporting the results of Up to Us to the Stockton

community when he finds out on February 28th.

The committee did not meet due to the snow, and did not reschedule a meeting. The

committee has been hard at work wrapping up the Up to Us campaign. The committee

would like to thank all those who supported the campaign and helped Stockton reach this

huge impact in such a short amount of time.




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Public Relations Committee


Presiding: Lauren O’Neil

Members Present: Emily Zeck Zayhira Roa Noya Ilan Victoria Dambroski


Members Late: None

Agenda/ Business:

Another basketball fundraiser was held on February 4th, with about sixty dollars raised,

bringing the total to seven hundred dollars total. The bulletin board in G-wing has been

updated with our logos, promotions and events. The Informer will be distributed to the

Resource Room, Student Development, Bursars Office, and other offices.

The Queen of Hearts Dance on February 10th was a success with around 150 people in

attendance and fifty dollars raised for American Heart Association and Go Red for

Women.

Our first Sweets for your Suggestions tabling started on February 18th and was also a

successful event. Many students brought concerns to the Student Affairs Committee and

Public Relations assisted with setting up the table.

The quizzo collaboration with Campus Center went well, with many students in

attendance to educate about Go Red for Women. Our next event collaboration with

Campus Center is Make Your Own t-shirt on March 30th. Ideas are being considered to

tie in Relay for Life, and have t-shirt decorating for teams at the event. The next Students

Helping Students event is February 26th at the career fair. It will be another time for the

mentor and mentee to meet and walk around the career fair, answer questions and get to

know each other.

Public Relations is working on the PowerPoint to show at the interest meeting March 3rd.

Another large fundraiser may possibly be planned to go towards Foundation

Scholarships, to help reach the goal of a one thousand dollar donation.




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Student Affairs Committee


Presiding: Kristen Murphy Slagle

Members Present: Katelynn Torcato

Marina Barsoum

Cristian Moreno

Ar-Rasheed Brisco


Members Late: None

Agenda/ Business:

Ar-Rasheed is working with the Wellness Center and with Marina, Katelynn and Plant

Management in order to determine the possibility of providing toilet seat covers in the

restrooms.

Marina and Katelynn are reaching out to remove the flower pot currently in front of the

American flag and possibly providing either a drop box for batteries or an event for

common items that are potentially dangerous to the environment in order to dispose of

them properly.

Cristian has been meeting with Lonnie Folks in order to discuss rotating out old or

damaged gym equipment. He is also looking to table with the telecommunications

department in order for them to be available to students and address some of the Wi-Fi

issues directly.

Murphy worked with Katelynn in order to create a survey about the Atlantic City campus

to be released to the students shortly. Murphy also met with Denise O’Neill to discuss the

gender inclusive housing provided to incoming freshman and broken washers and dryers.

A drafted list of rules for the laundry facilities made by Murphy was sent to Timothy

James and is in the review process by RHA and housing staff.

With the help of the Public Relations Committee, Student Affairs successfully had the

first “Sweets for your Suggestions” tabling in G-wing and received lots of feedback from

students. These complaints and complements will be reviewed and distributed to the

appropriate members of the Student Senate in order to address each of them.

Haley has received complaints about the size of the veterans lounge. According to the

students they feel like the lounge does not match the amount of veterans that attend the

school. Haley has gone around to the student body and ask them for their opinion/support

on the issue and all have agreed. Therefor she is starting a committee with the help of

Tom O'Donnell, to relocate and/or expand the lounge.




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Finance Committee


Presiding: Kiyle Osgood

Members Present: Tara Ricco

Haley Matsinger Ike Ejikeme Mahalia Bazile


Members Late: None

Consent Agenda (please review attached document for more information about each

event, if an individual would like to further discuss on of the requests request that it be

removed from the consent agenda and voted on separately):

1. Supplemental for Stockton Music Union in the amount of $620 to purchase a

drum set and storage cage.

Motion Passed 5-0-0

2. Supplemental for Stockton Equestrian Club in the amount of $1000 for weekly

horseback riding lessons.

Motion Passed 5-0-0

3. Supplemental for EDIBL in the amount of $675 for event insurance for one year.

Motion Passed 5-0-0




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4. Supplemental for ASA, Pride Alliance and Stockpot in the amount of $2500 for

the Kit Yan show and slam poetry workshop.

Motion Passed 5-0-0

5. Supplemental for Stockton’s Coalition for Civic Engagement in the amount of

$1950 for College Democrats and Republicans Go to DC.

Motion Passed 5-0-0

6. Supplemental for Greek Council in the amount of $2757 for their Northeast Greek

Leadership Association Conference.

Motion Passed 5-0-0

7. Supplemental for Active Minds in the amount of $1500 for speaker at their eating

disorders awareness/ positive body image day.

Motion Passed 5-0-0

8. Supplemental for Criminal Justice Society in the amount of $3048 for their

academy of criminal justice sciences conference.

Motion Passed 5-0-0

Account balance as of 1/24/2015: $34,081.71

2/3/2015&2/19/2015

Kiyle Osgood

Tara Ricco Haley Matsinger

620

870 Stockton Music Union

Drum Set and Storage

The club currently expanding and is need of drum set to perform shows. They practice multiple times a week.

Live performances,entertainment, allows them the opportunity to use this equipment to earn revenue

Has a secure location for storage. Competitive pricing. expanding and need their own equipment in order to earn revenue.

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Finance Committee

Date

Presiding

Members Present

Members Late

Members Absent

Consent Agenda:

1.

Club

Representative present

Total Cost

Amount Personal Contribution Club Contribution 250

When What Where

Amount of Attendees History

Purpose

Benefits to Stockton

Rational for Supplemental

Club Account Balance

Mahalia Bazile Ike Ejikeme

1,000

6,000 Equestrian Club

Riding Lessons Split Elm equestrian c

30

Provide Stockton students with the opportunity to take horseback riding lessons at a group discount.

semesterly.

Discounted riding lesson. Open to Stockton students.

Expanding interest in this club and needed additional funds to provide more lessons for members. members are restricted by the amount of times they can use this benefit in order to create fairness to all members.

1,004.9

675

675 EDIBL

Event Insurance Around Campus

100+

This Club needs insurance for their programs.

Yearly

a great oppertunity to try new things, and dine on insect cuisine.

Needed for the club to hold any events.

26.65

2. Club


Total Cost

Amount Personal Contribution 3,000 Club Contribution 2,000

When What Where


Purpose




3.

Club


Total Cost

Amount Personal Contribution 0 Club Contribution 0

When What Where


Purpose




2,500

4,500 Pride Alliance, ASA, Stock

Kit Yan Show and wor Alton g203 Apr 2, 2015

75-100

Kit performs original works of slam and spoken word poetry. his show talks about his life as a queer and trans- gender Asian American from Hawaii. His Poetry addresses love and loss, chosen family and given family, coming from an immigrant background, and many queer themes.

Learning Outcomes: Examine experiences through interactive performance, creative writing, and dialogue with peers. By analyzing his knowledge of social justice and information in this workshop. create a written or vocal piece about social change. explore own voice or style of writing.

Inspiring speaker that empowers individuals. Great write up. multiple club contribution.

1,950

1,950 Coalition for Civic Engage

DC day trip Washington DC Mar 24, 2015

20

Trip to DC

Open to both College Republicans and Democrats

Great day trip with event planned out. Open to both political affiliations.

5. Club


Total Cost

Amount Personal Contribution 0 Club Contribution 2,000

When What Where


Purpose




6.

Club


Total Cost


When What Where


Purpose




2,757

2,757 Greek Council

Hartford CT Feb 26, 2015

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Attend leadership conference to learn and acquire helpful information, opportunities for speakers and more

annual

Enriches the leadership of greek council to bring back things learned at their conference to benefit Stockton greek life and students.

Great opportunity for greek council leadership and is done annually

2,905.16

1,500

2,000 Active Minds

Speaker: Eating Disor Alton Mar 18, 2015

200 (based on past history of speakers

Apart of their Eating disorder awareness and Positive Body image event.

Great speaker at a great price

Competitively prices speaker, they had chosen another speaker before but decided to go with a speaker from the active minds speakers bureau, saving $2000. persistent and dedicated club,

7. Club


Total Cost


When What Northeast Greek leade Where


Purpose




8.

Club


Total Cost


When What Where


Purpose




Attend leadership conference to learn andacquire helpful information,opportunities for speakers and more.

attendees want to bring back things learned at their conference to benefit the cluband Stockton students.

Great opportunity to expand their knowledge onthe related subject. Well prepared.

7. Club EriminalJustic Society

18'] Representative present

Total Cost 12,757

Amount E248 Personal Contribution11200 I ClubContributionf 3048

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