Student Senate Notes: October 18, 2007

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Student Senate debated several issues last night, including the power of Senate to remove senators for election violations, the use of Senate money to fund travel and the dismissal of three senators who were absent from meetings and office hours. Below is a recap of the debates.

REMOVAL OF SENATORS FOR ELECTION VIOLATIONS

Student Senate passed a bill that would allow the Student Executive Committee to discipline student senators found to have participated in egregious election violations.

The previous policy only allowed students found to participate in election violations to be punished by the Elections Commission, which did not have the authority to immediately remove those students from Senate.

In that case, a senator could have committed an election violation during elections in April but continued to work in Senate until the Senate year ended in May. Senators would also lose rights to any monetary compensation they received for their work and be prohibited from participation in Senate for 12 months.

The bill was authored by the Student Rights Standing Committee.

THE USE OF SENATE Money TO FUND TRAVEL

Student groups with a travel exemption can now receive funding for any registration fees that are acquired because of their travels.

Adam McGonigle, Wichita sophomore and student executive chair, said he authored the legislation to resolve a discrepancy in a decision made over the summer.

This summer, the Student Executive Committee passed legislation that allows only groups that exist for the sole purpose of traveling, such as the Model United Nations, which exists to travel to conferences where it participates in a debate that resembles the United Nations, to be the only groups allowed to receive funding for travel. Other groups cannot travel on Student Senate money.

However, the Senate Executive Committee failed to include in the change that groups with a travel exemption could also receive registration fees for conferences they travel to. McGonigle said the bill was simply meant to resolve this issue.

SENATE DISMISSALS

Before full Senate met, the Student Executive Committee met and discussed the suspensions of 15 senators who were suspended for not attending meetings and missing office hours. One dismissal, Nick Squier, a business senator, leaves the business school with no senate representation because Julie Strick, the other business senator, recently resigned. The decisions regarding the suspensions are below:

Allie Owens (Off-Campus) – dismissed

Anne Slaughter (Fr/Sr CLAS) – dismissed

Nick Squier (Business) – dismissed

Jen O’Neill (Non-traditional) – resigned

Kimberly Redlin (Fr/Soph CLAS) – resigned

Julie Strick (Business) – resigned

Jessica Ward (Graduate) – resigned

Jose Artiaga (ASHC) – reinstated

Quinton Cheney (Jr/Sr CLAS) – reinstated

Gina Gay (Jr/Sr CLAS) – reinstated

Jarod Morgenstern (Journalism) – reinstated

Sam Schlageck (FA) – reinstated

Grant Treaster (Fr/Sr CLAS) - reinstated

Tom French (Fr/Soph CLAS) – tabled

Scott Paradise (Off-Campus) – tabled

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