Carleton Student Association

Senate Minutes

Monday, October 21, 2002

Secretary: Ann Deming

Officers:

Luke Hasskamp, President

Blaine Eubanks, Vice President

Greg Martin, Treasurer

Angela McLaughlin, Senate Advisor

Senators:

Dr. Chuck Ansell Chuk Kittredge (Greg Rafert)

Alex Cook Scott Kleinheksel Dodd Sadeghi

Seth Cooper Reid Koester Dean Shaffer

Dave Gold Jessica Kumar (Becca Stark)

Anya Karasik Ainsley LeSure Carey Tinkelenberg

Hudson Kingston Andrew Liesch Erin Williams

Katie Rohach (inter campus senator)

( )=Excused or absent

Meeting called to order by Pres. Hasskamp (8:00)

October 14 th minutes approved

Officer Reports

- Treasurer Martin
- College Budget Committee met: tuition will go up around 6% next year
- Vice Pres. Eubanks
- Eubanks worked on Budget Committee, Task Force and went to the College Budget Committee. Eubanks is still working on the Carter packet
- Pres. Hasskamp
- Met with Dean Govoni and Pres. Oden
- Discussed Iraq
- Went bowling with St. Olaf student government-Thanks to all who attended. Note: senator Koester did not attend.
- Senators need to attend a Budget Committee meeting each term

Committee Reports

- Charter (Eubanks)-No meeting this week (no charters)
- CSL (Sadeghi)-Met Tuesday at 5pm
- Looked at interest house review, met with Dean Govoni
- Hasskamp: Where does one go to start an interest house? Start with Res. Life
- EAC (Kittredge)-Met today
- There will be a wind energy meeting this Thursday
- Looking into using more Corn Gluten for fertilizing. McLaughlin: this causes sever allergies to some people, need to look into putting signs up wherever this fertilizer is used
- SOPE is trying to raise composting awareness
- Looking into the possibility of buying energy efficient cars and vans
- ECC (Williams)-Meeting held 4:30-6pm in Olin 103
- Carleton writing program will be reviewed (writing program includes all writing programs on campus-more an assessment of all writing done on campus)-Bush Foundation grant given for this purpose
- Governance-No meeting
- PR (Shaffer)-still working on the contact list of senators to be placed in residence halls
- TF (Eubanks)
- Laundry cards should be here in use by Wednesday. Cards are being given out for free to make up for some costs. Letter being written to MacGray regarding the loss in revenue of about $4,000

- Karasik: Do interest houses get cards for free as well? No idea
- Sadeghi: How much would the cards cost? $5 plus there will be $3 towards laundry already on each card

- Bad smelling water in Townhouses is due to sulfur deposits in the pipe system, they think they have a solution
- More bike racks will be put in at the library in the spring
- St. Olaf (Kleinheksel, Rohach)
- St. Olaf is still on fall break, will start school on Wednesday
- St. Olaf student government decided not to take a stand on Iraq given the large Republican presence on campus
- Bowling went well-Carleton beat St. Olaf with one less person on the Carleton team. Carleton senators and officers bought themselves championship rings
- Budget (Eubanks)
- Motion to discuss David Reidel Inc. and CLA

- David Reidel Inc. would like to appeal for full amount, $7,437
- Leona Kwon: There will be a slideshow, a panel of professors, and an open forum on their travels when they return
- Motion to amend to full amount, Discussion: Martin: it is not unreasonable to ask for 53 students to pay $20. Koester: are there 53 students signed up? Yes, they have over 120, but will have a drawing to choose 53. Kleinheksel: Where will the money come from? Capital Reserves.
- Call the Question (18:0:0)
- Vote to amend amount given, and give them the full $7,437, seconded, failed (3:15:0)

- CLA-motion to send CLA back to budget committee (17:0:1)
- ITS (Ansell, Gold)-No meeting, will get updates from ITS next week (Troy was absent again)
- Still working on popularity contest
- LeSure, Williams, Deming: The connection in the off-campus houses is very slow and not working properly
- Kittredge: What can be done with old computers? Bring them to the basement of the CMC, there is a storage room
- Dining (Cooper, Sadeghi)
- A solid student opinion is needed before change can happen, working on a student survey
- Williams: HOW will this committee/survey help the current food situation? There will be proof of what the students believe-grounds for changing the current system
- Kittredge: Shouldn't we be able to go ahead and change the food system? Aren't we the 'daddy behind this all?' Martin: Whose daddy?
- Sadeghi: Survey will focus on quality, hours of operation, meal plan types, price, and conversion rate
- Gold: Can put together an online survey
- Different from dinning board because: there isn't much of a 'dinning board' anyway, and this ad hoc committee does not work with Marriott, they will work more independently

Old Business

- Iraq
- Last week: typed up a resolution, got 312 signatures of students in favor of Carleton joining with other colleges in a union to oppose the war in Iraq, about 4 dissenting views. Also gathered about 400 email address for colleges around the nation-will email them our resolution if it passes
- Discussion: Kittredge: the wording needs to be reviewed. Eubanks: everyone specifically likes the wording. Shaffer: this was hardly a random sample! Eubanks: yes, it was as good as could be expected-gathered in a short amount of time (both tabling and speaking with people in the dining hall, table-to-table). Liesch, Williams: I do not agree with this statement.
- Wording rearranged and reviewed-changes made
- Motion to amend wording, seconded, passed (17:1:0)
- Motion to pass this resolution for senate, seconded, passed (13:4:1)

New Business

- Eubanks: Received an email regarding putting all cards on one-sounds promising
- Ansell: It is a good idea to get involved with Northfield youth, work on communication through the Northfield Union of Youth
- Hasskamp: Voter registration deadline passed, so the agenda topic can be disregarded
- Martin: Talk with Northfield News about having candidate platforms available on campus

Announcements

- Gold: will put senator pictures up this week
- Deming: senator Kleinheksel looks HOT tonight
- Hasskamp: Funding approved for Fall Concert (November 16 th), $5,000 for the concert, $800 for transportation. Carleton students will have to pay $8, St. Olaf students will pay $5, and general admission will be $20.
- Tinkelenberg: Rec. Center Board in working with Terry Rivers, any questions or comments can be taken to Tinkelenberg.

Motion to adjourn, seconded, adjourned (9:30pm)