April 18, 2006
Ninth Senate
Call to order
The meeting was called to
order at 4:30 p.m.
Roll Call
Present: Senators Bautista, Bybee,
Mewes, O’Harra, Ojeda, Rawson, Riggers, Sherpa, Smith. President Racich, Vice
President Ambriz, Committees Director Bloomsburg, Media Relations Director
Rohde, Associate Justice Wittman, Associate Justice Vaughan, Associate Justice
Astle.
Excused Absent: Senator
Hanson
Audience: Ernie Williams, Ron
Smith, Brandon Lytle,
Approval of Minutes:
Approval of the minutes for April
11, 2006. Motion Senator Rawson, second Senator Sherpa. Senator Smith stated
that on page three during the discussion about imminent danger he remembered
Provost Fernandez talking about police, thought that was important and wanted
that added into the minutes. Senator Smith made a motion to add that to the
minutes. Discussion ensued. Myndie informed the group that the reason she had
not added that part of the discussion is that most of it came from the Senate
members in separate comments and that the information had not come directly
from Provost Fernandez. Senator Smith withdrew the motion. Motion to approve
the minutes Senator Riggers, second Senator Sherpa. 9 Yes, 0 no, 1 Abstention
(Senator Smith).
Student Government Advisor
■ Ernie
Williams- Informed the Senate that he will be off campus until April 25
beginning tomorrow morning.
Student Activities Coordinator
■
LCSC Administration Communications
■ Ron
Smith- Informed the Senate he will be on campus tomorrow. Will see everyone at
the SBOE meeting Thursday. Tomorrow afternoon there will be a campus master
plan committee meeting, hope to have a draft of the master plan after the
meeting for everyone to review and critique. Please feel free after it comes
out to submit input.
Executive Communications
■ President
Racich- Asked question of Ron Smith regarding the planned 8 am Executive
Session of the SBOE. Ron replied that there is a planned executive session at 8
am, he stated he was not sure why. Also stated that they may have one Wednesday
night as well. President Racich stated that Senator Sherpa is going to be
testifying during open forum which will be starting directly after the
executive session. Also informed the Senate that the Dine with Dene that is
scheduled for April 27 is in conflict with the information session for those
coming into Student Government as outlined in the Bylaws. Options are to cancel
the Dine with Dene or reschedule to May 3 at noon. General consensus from the
Senate was to go ahead with the May 3 date for the Dine with Dene. Asked about discussion
topics for the Dine with Dene, one topic that she has planned for discussion is
Residence Halls. Asked if anyone else had any ideas for topics, if you have any
ideas for topics get them to her soon to give Dr. Thomas time to research the
topics.
■ Vice-President
Ambriz- Nothing.
■ Media
Relations- Nothing.
■ Director
of Committees- Sine Die Barbeque. Discussed dates, decided on May 12 at
Judicial Communications
■ Associate Justice Astle reported that
the elections went fine. AJ Wittman reported that the card swipe system worked
really well.
Committee Reports
Faculty Senate: Committees Director Bloomsburg reported about the plagiarism software
that was discussed at the meeting. Will cost the administration about $3000 for
the software and 80 cents per student to register. All papers would have to be
submitted online, the papers would then be submitted to the database. After the
paper is submitted to the database it remains there so that people can’t
plagiarize you. Discussion ensued. Senator Bautista made the point that
sometimes when you write something in your own words the database could find
something that matches your writing. Bloomsburg stated that is called
unintentional plagiarism and this was discussed in the meeting as well.
Explained that the database would look for eight word strings. President Racich
asked about what happens if you “plagiarize yourself.” Bloomsburg also stated
that the software use would be optional for the professors. Scheduling was also
discussed during the meeting. Julie Crea will be doing the scheduling for the
campus and they are working on a way to view all of the scheduling locations on
campus online. Senator O’Harra had a question regarding the intranet posting
about the scheduling as it was confusing. Ron Smith responded that Julie can
schedule all of the locations on campus, if you are unsure who does the
scheduling call her and she will do it. Rather than having to call 10 different
locations to schedule different rooms on campus Julie will be the central
location. But you will still be able to
schedule rooms through the other scheduling locations on campus as well, Julie is just the central location for ALL scheduling.
Bloomsburg reported that there will be new ID cards. Everyone is welcome to
submit ideas for the new ID cards to Julie Crea. The new ID cards will be free
once they have the new picture on them. Senator Bybee added that the card will
be called the “Warrior One” Card. Next year there will be vending machines added
to the system and you will be able to buy things from the vending machine with
the card.
Graduation Banquet: Vice-President Ambriz reported that the committee had a quick meeting
before this meeting and the planning is going well.
Old Business
None.
New Business
None.
Senate Information Reports
■ Senator
Bybee talked about the Alumni golf. In years previous the Senate has been a
hole-sponsor for $250. Proceeds of the event will go to scholarships through
the Alumni Association. Bloomsburg reported that he had seen some information
that came out that stated that the ASLCSC was already a sponsor. Senator
O’Harra reported that the Alumni Board will be meeting tomorrow night if there
is anything that the Senate would like brought up. Discussion ensued regarding
the number of holes that have been sold in the past. Senator Bautista requested
that Senator O’Harra get information from the Alumni Board about how the event
went last year and bring some kind of documentation back to the Senate. Senator
O’Harra brought up the 911 Scholarship. The general consensus was to “sit on
this” until Senator O’Harra comes back with more information.
■ Myndie
read two emails from Charlette Kremer from the
Audience Time
■ President
Racich brought up the ASLCSC Leadership Award. Myndie added that she has not
been able to locate any criteria for the award. Needs to be a graduate that has
been in some kind of leadership position. Need to get nominations for the
award. Stated that it has been mentioned to her that the Senate Pro-Tem, Senate
Majority Leader, President, Vice-President and Chief Justice have been the ones
to vote for this award in the past. Senator Smith stated that he was involved
in the vote last year for the award. Couldn’t remember exactly what the process
was last year and wasn’t sure if they had done things as they were supposed to.
Myndie added that there are no guidelines for this award and that should be
addressed.
Adjournment
Motion to adjourn Senator
Riggers, second Senator Rawson. Unanimous. Meeting adjourned at 5:05 pm.
Respectfully Submitted by:
Myndie VanHorn