Dec. 05, 2017 Meeting Minutes

Student Association

Tuesday, December 5, 2017 Missouri River Room

9:00 PM

Roll Call

Arts and Sciences

Schultz, Adam - Present

Sigurdson, Jake – Present

Ring, Cordell - Excused

Usher, Darcy - Present

School of Business

Harris, Tyler - Excused

Doerr, Shanae - Present

Horn, Justice - Present

Sproles, Kayla - Excused

School of Education

Tappe, Alexis - Present

Hansen, Libby - Present

Fetsch, Katelyn - Present

Luna, Taylor - Present

School of Fine Arts

Brekke, Taylor - Excused

Quinn, Danny - Excused

Senators At-Large

Martinez, Alysha - Present

Duchsherer, Haley - Present

Kvale, Joseph - Present

Graduate School Residence Life

Johnson, Danielle – Present

North, Zack – Present

International Freshman

Homayounpour, Pedram - Unexcused

Haggin, Justice - Excused

Advisor President & Vice President

Dr. Waid-Lindberg - Present

Thielbar, Brooke – Excused

Van Oosbree, Annika - Present

​Minutes Approval

Motioned to approve the minutes by Darcy Usher, Seconded by Justice Horn

Motion Passes

​Agenda Approval

Motion to approve the agenda by Darcy Usher, Seconded by Danielle Johnson

Motion Passes

​Open Forum

Crew – Budget request, Dec 28-31 Minneapolis, $300 per person - includes room, food and materials, $800 total requested for $100 scholarship for the students, $50 per vehicle (2 vehicle total)

Motion to approve $900 by Joseph Kvale, seconded by Katelyn Fetsch

Discussion

Motion to modify to $800 by Jake Sigurdson, seconded by Adam Schultz

Vote: yes - 12 no – 0

Motion Passes

RHA – for students that live on campus, 13 active members, Jan or Feb RHA Q&A, wants to do volunteering, advising body, a bill will have to be formulated in order to make changes and submitted to Marty S

Motion to approve by Darcy Usher, seconded by Danielle Johnson

Discussion

Vote: Yes – 11 No – 0 Abstain – 1

Motion Passes

Business Club – 23 members, bring in speakers, funding for state convention - $75 per student to register, participation in up to 3 events, 23 students want to compete, $1,725 total if all attended - March 23-24

Motion to approve $999.99 by Haley Duchsherer, seconded by Darcy Usher

Discussion

Vote: yes – 10 No – 0 Abstain - 2

Motion Passes

New Business

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Senate Reports

School of Education

Party for all the clubs and education work shop

School of Fine Arts ​​ Nothing to report

College of Arts and Sciences ​​ ​ Nothing to report

School of Business ​​ ​ High School Pitch competition is up this week

At Large ​​ Nothing to report

Residence Halls

Nothing to report

Freshman

Nothing to report

International Nothing to report

Graduate School ​​Nothing to report

President ​​ ​ Nothing to report

Vice President

• Academic Affairs meeting yesterday – added Chem, Bio, BioEd, ChemEd, Forensic Science, added hospitality management

• Zack and Annika had a call with student federation – SHED has been planned Feb 11-12

• Title 9 – BOR will talk about it tomorrow – DOE repealed document on how to go about sexual harassment submission takes place on the university

Committee Reports

Facilities

Nothing to report

Governance

Nothing to report

Public Relations

• Posted 3 senator of the week – Alexis Tappe

• Ordered 24 gluten free cookies for Promenade – invoice coming soon

• People to attend Promenade

• Do not touch envelopes and look into Scentsy’s

• Multicultural Forms

• 4-7 snowflake cutting

• Light up Northern tomorrow @ 7 in front of Graham Hall

Finance

• SD Mines and NSU doing GAF increase exploration

• Meeting about GAF increase, Tyler is putting together a video, sending out to students, info sessions 6pm on Tuesday and Thursday, open 3 days online

Advisor Notes

Official office hours ended today with professors; I talk at graduation

​​​Old Business

Senator Announcements

• 12-13 people at Multicultural Forms about Christmas in other countries, last Tuesdays next semester

• Come to the games this weekend

Adjournment

Motion to adjourn by Justice Horn, Seconded by Darcy Usher

Motion Passes ​