2010 05 04 Minutes
THE NEW SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY STUDENT SENATE MINUTES
Tuesday, May 4 @ 9pm
2w13 St, room 1204
Submitted by Peter Ian Cummings, Secretary of the Senate
PRESENT: Corey Mullee, Peter Ian Cummings, Nate Kleinman, Fonzie Cuaycong, Chris Crews, Ben Fox, Christopher Walsh; and
(new Senators) Anna-Karin Loureiro, Melissa Holmes, Kim Hurley, Nicole Park, Alex Cline
SUSPENDED: Helen Weselcouch, Pat Korte, and Sindy Varela remain suspended for non-attendance, and Daniela Capistrano, Taylor Janes, Eric Eingold, and Rachel Dawn Fudim-Davis are now suspended for non-attendance, under Constitution XII G.
There are 11 qualified members :: 9 are required for an amendment, 7 for a special vote and 6 for a regular vote.
Peter Ian Cummings called the meeting to order at 9:30pm.
1. No party
Peter reports that OSDA has decided USS cannot have any events in the last two weeks before graduation because Shannon Logan says OSDA is too overburdened to provide staff support for it; and because Doris Suarez has blocked all campus facilities for the last week of school. It was discussed whether to have an unauthorized event, or perhaps to try having it at NYU at the Torch Club. Kim pointed out that at this point we probabloy don’t have time to plan anything if it isn’t going to be “easy” (i.e. on campus in Theresa Lang Center). We probably won’t have an end of school party. Next year this should be planned earlier — note to new Exec Board.
2. New School Commons Wiki — Hosting
Nate proposes to allocate about $400 for 5 years hosting for New School Commons Wiki and $55 for 5 years of domain name registration. This was PASSED 7-0.
3. Increase in cost for Domain Registration
Peter proposes to increase the previously allocated budget for domain name registration of Newschoolsenate.org for 10 years, to $400 total including private registration to avoid spam. This was PASSED 7-0.
4. New School Commons Wiki — Report
Nate reports that New School Commons wiki is like a Wikipedia of the New School — anyone can post to it. The Secretary will take it over since Nate is graduating. Nate will liaise with Kim and Peter to effectuate payment for the hosting, etc etc. Thanks Nate for setting this up!
5. Election Meeting
Peter asked whether, for the upcoming officer election meeting, all the names for all the offices would be written on the board at the beginning of the meeting; or whether the names for Secretary and Treasurer would only be declared after the Chair election is over. All the new and old Senators agreed unanimously to declare all the names at the start of the Election Meeting, so this will be done.
6. Summer Planning
Christopher Walsh suggests that unlike last year the new Senate should meet ovver the summer. Peter reports that he is handling the transition and everything is proceeding according to schedule.
7. End of year Email
Chris Crews will draft an all campus email to mark the end of the year; this will be circulated for a vote of the old Senate. He suggests possible topics are: congratulations; keep in touch through alumni relations; a recap of some of the great things we did; what we have funded. Draft awaited.
8. Committees in General
Chris Crews said some committee members may not be representing the students. Chris is trying to compile a list of students who are on committees. He also says we need a good procedure for staffing committees and new committees. He remarks, “we need to get our commmittee ducks in a row.” Quack!
9. Demonstrations Policy Committee
There are 2 students on the Demonstrations Committee. Ben and Chris Crews have sent comments most of which have not been addressed, according to Chris. CC will send out the comments to the new and old Senators.
10. ALANA
Anna-Karin reports that last semester the working group allw orked together to create an internal report on ALANA. It hasn’t been released and the Provost has it. We pushed for USS to be given the report at the same time as it is given to the Social Justice Committee–more news later. (The Social Justice Committee has no students on it.) Theoretically we are supposed to receive the report within two weeks, and will have a set amount of time to revise it.
11. Social Justice Institute
Anna-Karin reports on her proposal for a SJI where students would be trainsed and work in LGBTQ, ALANA, etc, and afforded an opportunity to go to seminars and training workshops. More later.
12. Infospace on Campus
Alex reports on continuing efforts to get an information center on campus for people to get information pamphlets, etc.
13. Minutes approval
Minutes of the three previous meetings were unanimously approved.
14. Presidential Search Committee
Chris Crews says we should remember to keep track of the committee and remind students to make input.
15. Boycott Arizona
Alex proposes a resolution to boycott Arizona in ref to the recent immigration law they passed. Since there is not quorum here for a political statement, this will be considered later or possibly online.
16. Adjournment.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:50pm by unanimous vote.
Respectfully submitted,
PETER IAN CUMMINGS
Secretary of the Senate