Student Government Association Meeting Minutes - March 8, 2004 Call to Order: 5:13 pm I. Welcome, Reading of the University Creed, Approval of the Minutes A. Motion seconded and passed. II. President’s Report A. No Report III. Executive Vice President’s Report A. Invitations to the SGA banquet were passed around. B. Tentative Dates for Forums After Break 1. NCAA Forum – April 14 2. City/University Forum – April 6 C. Faculty of the Year Voting 1. Nominations for the SGA Faculty of the Year Award were taken. The following people were nominated: Dr. Steve Lerch, Karen Casteele, Dr. Scartelli, Dr. Claire Waldron, Patience Bartunek. Karen Casteele was chosen as this year’s recipient for the reward. This will be announced at banquet. IV. Legislative Vice President’s Report A. Election Update 1. A timeline was passed around with election dates and positions open. 2. The next Candidate Information Night will be tonight in the New River Room. 3. The Presidential Debate is scheduled for the 24th from 6:00-8:00 pm in the Commonwealth Room. Appetizers will be served, so please plan to attend! V. Vice President of Student Finance Committee Report A. Budget Hearings 1. A handout was passed around about the Administrative Account Hearings. 2. The budget will be completed over spring break, so please contact Sarah with any concerns before then at smorrisro@radford.edu. VI. Advisor’s Report A. Hopefully many of our current SGA members will plan to return to SGA next year! If you haven’t turned in your information packet please do so. VII. Cabinet/Staff Reports A. Secretary – Kelly Snead 1. Please make sure to sign in when you do your office hours each week! B. Ross Holberg and Anne Brady Moore – City Council Meet the Candidates Forum 1. This forum will be held on Tuesday, April 13 at 6:30 pm. Students are needed to sign up to help with this event. A sign up sheet was passed around. Please plan to attend! C. Publicity – Anne Brady Moore 1. Anne Brady needs help putting up table tents so please volunteer! Senators need to pick up some table tents to take to their colleges. D. Webmaster – Justin Nicholas 1. Send people to the SGA website if they have questions about SGA or elections since it has been updated and looks great! Check it out! E. Chief of Staff – Ross Holberg 1. A staff meeting will be held this Wednesday at 5:00 in the Cascades Room. VIII. Council Reports A. ISAC – Bemnet Zeleke 1. We still need people to sign up for our fashion show. Please contact an ISAC member for more details. B. LAC – Shawn Healy 1. Exec positions for LAC are open so please contact Shawn if you are interested! C. OCSC – Colin Fletcher 1. The Clean with the Dean event is scheduled for April 17th at 10:00 am. College senators should plan to attend! D. GSC – Dante Morelli 1. GSC had a successful reception last week. The next GSC meeting is Thursday at 12:30 pm in the Appalachian Room. IX. Committee Reports A. University Librarian Search Committee – Rachel Lythgoe 1. Phone interviews are being completed now for potential candidates. B. APC – Scott Morton 1. The baseball team has three home games this weekend – 2:30 on Friday, 1:00 on Saturday, and 1:00 on Sunday. Please plan to attend if you will be around! C. Student Media Steering Committee – Anne Brady Moore 1. The committee is planning a student media banquet. To run for a student media exec position, please see the tartan for information about applications. D. Waldron Dean Candidate Search – Kenda Deleon 1. A candidate for the position was on campus today. There is a lot of interest in offering her the position. Please email Kenda with questions or comments about this search. E. College of Business and Economics – Shannon Joyce 1. The Curriculum Committee met and is working on a vision statement. Please see Shannon with suggestions and ideas. F. University Planning and Budget Committee – Shannon Joyce 1. The committee met and discussed the possibility of using the St. Albans land gifted to RU as a sight for an extended campus, possibly housing the new site of visual and performing arts. This is a very important issue, as the idea of whether or not RU wants two separate campuses will affect our future significantly. Discussion was held about concerns with this issue. Please see Shannon with any feedback. 2. There was discussion of adding a new mascot, the Rowdy Red, for Radford Athletics. Discussion was held. X. Unfinished Business A. Motion from A&P Committee – Realignment of drop/add deadlines 1. Dr. Steve Lerch, chair of the Academic Policies and Procedures Committee, came to discuss the details of the proposal that would change the drop/add deadlines for future academic terms. The motion would provide two more days to add classes and align the drop date to correspond with the same time (i.e. students could only drop or add through the first week). Dr. Lerch came to hear student input about this issue. Discussion was held about the pros and cons of this resolution. B. Fall Break vs. Week for Thanksgiving 1. Based on student feedback, a motion was made to support keeping two separate breaks (keeping the schedule as it is). Motion was seconded and discussed. Motion passed 10-4-2. XI. New Business A. Revised Budget Request for ISAC 1. A motion was made to accept ISAC’s revised budget request. Motion seconded and passed. B. IG Task Force Appointment 1. Andrea Alaownis, the current Senator for the College of Visual and Performing Arts, has been appointed to serve on the IG Task Force Committee. The motion to approve this appointment was seconded and passed. Congratulations Andrea! Meeting Adjourned at 6:20 pm.