{"id":11774,"date":"2018-12-13T14:11:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T19:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/?p=11774"},"modified":"2018-12-13T14:11:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T19:11:49","slug":"exec-11-14-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/exec-11-14-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Exec 11-14-18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call to Order<\/b>: 8:50<\/span><\/p>\n

Attendance:<\/b> Evers, Gall, Howard, Kohl, McWeeney, Morabito, Nelson, Straube, Taylor, Wilding (Committee); Menard, St.Amand (Non-committee)<\/span><\/p>\n

Absent:<\/b> Blewitt (Excused)<\/span><\/p>\n

Business:<\/b><\/p>\n

Evers appoints Senator Tavio George to the Vice Chair of the SOARC.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Evers<\/b>: Neither of the veteran members want to be Vice Chair, and he\u2019s willing to ask questions and doing well. He has the drive to get it done.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Committee votes to approve the appointment (8-0-0)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Wilding<\/b>: President Dooley will be coming to public forum to talk about the University\u2019s budget. He is very excited.<\/span><\/p>\n

Menard<\/b>: They think that we don\u2019t know where the University gets its money.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wilding agrees.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Morabito<\/b>: Is there something weird going on with the faculty? A lot of the higher-ups are actually trying to talk to us, and it\u2019s a little unnerving. I think it\u2019s because Dooley is very excited. Past presidents of the student body have not met regularly with him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wilding<\/b>: Communication is very open and honest this year, with the President, the Provost, and various administrators.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nelson<\/b>: Why was Carl Stiles not at the regular meeting tonight?<\/span><\/p>\n

Wilding<\/b>: He was otherwise engaged.<\/span><\/p>\n

McWeeney<\/b>: He sent out an email about it earlier today.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wilding<\/b>: The President of the Rhode Island School of Design student government cancelled their meeting with me for next week.<\/span><\/p>\n

Morabito<\/b>: Are there required office hours next week?<\/span><\/p>\n

Howard<\/b>: Since next week is only two days, office hours are not required. Kudos if you do them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Taylor<\/b>: Do committees have to meet next week?<\/span><\/p>\n

Howard<\/b>: They are not required to, because there is no regular meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wilding<\/b>: The Executive Committee will not be meeting next week.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kohl<\/b>: Cultural Affairs is working on a bill, based loosely on the DACA bill from Cody\u2019s term, addressing transgender rights. Since it wasn\u2019t introduced today, and we still have to meet with the Gender and Sexuality Center, we hope to immediately consider it on the 28<\/span>th<\/span>. We\u2019ll send it out as soon as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

Menard<\/b>: Aren\u2019t we supposed to be apolitical, and wouldn\u2019t it be a resolution and not a bill? What are we asking for?<\/span><\/p>\n

Morabito<\/b>: This is simply our own stance on the issue. We would be stating our support for gender rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

Howard<\/b>: I strongly recommend that it not be immediately considered.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kohl<\/b>: The event this responds to happened in October, so the longer we wait the more it looks like we don\u2019t care. Hopefully the text will be in mailboxes on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nelson<\/b>: This will be fairly simple; it\u2019s just supporting human rights. I take issue with policies that attack people based on gender.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kohl<\/b>: [the memo] said Title IX only applies to sex at birth, not identifying gender. This would be an acknowledgement of rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gall<\/b>: This is a political statement because people take political stances. The important question would be whether or not it is partisan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Morabito<\/b>: I believe the DACA bill was passed in early 2017<\/span><\/p>\n

Taylor<\/b>: The IRS isn\u2019t going to come after us because we support Trans people. We can make it so that it\u2019s not about politics. Rights are not by nature political.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gall<\/b>: [<\/span>to Taylor<\/span><\/i>] That is correct, so long as it\u2019s not partisan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nelson<\/b>: Can we work genderqueer into it as well, not just transgender?<\/span><\/p>\n

Kohl<\/b>: Absolutely. I\u2019m trying to make the resolution as \u2018correct\u2019 as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

St.<\/span>Amand<\/b>: The elections bill is already written, and needs to be on the floor on the 28<\/span>th<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Howard, Taylor speak regarding Bylaws. Menard asks a question, to which Morabito responds.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Taylor<\/b>: We could always make it a permanent committee and reelect people as necessary. It could, for example, have one person to just hold the fort in while elections are not happening.<\/span><\/p>\n

Menard<\/b>: They could also work internal elections.<\/span><\/p>\n

Howard<\/b>: Elections Committee does not require a bill to create. The committee is preemptively defined to be created for the Spring and Fall elections.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kohl<\/b>: Bystander awareness training is tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wilding<\/b>: How has behavior been in the office in the past week?<\/span><\/p>\n

Morabito<\/b>: It seems pretty good, with a solid question mark after that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nelson<\/b>: There was a lot of discussion about the Vice President\u2019s action, and a lot of gossip besides.<\/span><\/p>\n

St.Amand<\/b>: They\u2019re happier, I think.<\/span><\/p>\n

Conversation segues into the term\u2019s resignations.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Nelson<\/b>: This term has just been a lot. Lots of good has happened, but lots of bad things have also happened.<\/span><\/p>\n

St.Amand<\/b>: I think that a lot of people who held the Senate together graduated, and that\u2019s why it disintegrated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Howard<\/b>: This is why it\u2019s important that you aren\u2019t doing all of the committee\u2019s work. If nobody knows how to do work, then the successors to our offices will almost necessarily be weak.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wilding<\/b>: The last thing that President Buck said to me was that he hoped I didn\u2019t see a lot of turnover. [<\/span>sarcastically<\/span><\/i>] That went well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kohl<\/b>: Let\u2019s not corrupt the new people with all the old badness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wilding<\/b>: We have found a house to host Soiree.<\/span><\/p>\n

Taylor<\/b>: [<\/span>to Kohl<\/span><\/i>] If this committee and the other committees are not going to act, then we have no alternative but to complain. If you want us to stop complaining, then act.<\/span><\/p>\n

St.Amand<\/b>: Why is there no agenda for Executive Committee meetings anymore?<\/span><\/p>\n

Howard<\/b>: That\u2019s just for this week. I didn\u2019t make one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wilding<\/b>: We are going to have a Housing and Residential Life style conversation about how to rework Senate\u2019s culture. We can start from the bottom up or go from the top down. I may be wrong, but I don\u2019t feel the divide between this committee and the Senate that has existed previously.<\/span><\/p>\n

Morabito<\/b>: This is my first year on this committee, and from the perspective of a senator I don\u2019t think that whether there is a divide is for us to judge. When I talk to senators, they seem happy. I don\u2019t know if they\u2019re just saying that to my face or if they really mean it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nelson<\/b>: Can we get a big poster for how we want to treat people in the office, where everybody can see it? I think that\u2019d be a grand idea.<\/span><\/p>\n

St.Amand<\/b>: I can make one of those. I know that we shouldn\u2019t be talking about fault, but the way people address each other is important here. Don\u2019t be rude, but please point out people\u2019s behavior because that is important.<\/span><\/p>\n

Menard<\/b>: As someone who just joined a month or so ago, I find that the Executive Committee has been very helpful, and no so much the \u201cboss.\u201d I find that the committee is welcoming, and orientation, while brief, was a pretty good introduction. As people get their bearings, they will become more comfortable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Evers<\/b>: Sounds like we need an SOLC retreat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Morabito<\/b>: If we\u2019re pointing out people\u2019s conduct, could it be in person and not public? We don\u2019t want to be oppressive.<\/span><\/p>\n

Taylor<\/b>: The disconnect that I observe is not what it used to be. In past years, you had no opportunity to do anything in or with Exec. The disconnect now is that we don\u2019t know what the senators are here for, and whether they are supported. This is the best Exec that I think anybody here has seen, but that\u2019s not to say we can\u2019t be better. We need to sit down with members to find out what they are doing and why they are here. We need to give some sort of quasi-priority to their ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nelson<\/b>: Most of the time when somebody is being a little snarky they don\u2019t notice it, because we\u2019re all human. Please pull people aside and talk to them. Also, I give kudos to VP Howard for the orientations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Howard<\/b>: I am required to meet one on one with every member of this organization. I fully intend to request that the chairs meet with senators not from their and send me brief notes to alleviate some of the pressure.<\/span><\/p>\n

St.Amand<\/b>: I am not sure that I am okay with all of that delegating.<\/span><\/p>\n

Howard<\/b>: The responsibilities of the Vice President literally cannot be reasonably fulfilled without delegating some of the work.<\/span><\/p>\n

Menard<\/b>: For attendance and such, look for a clock-in, clock-out type thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

St.Amand<\/b>: [<\/span>to Howard<\/span><\/i>] I recommend that you talk to your predecessors about how to do your job.<\/span><\/p>\n

Howard speaks briefly about his predecessors to the office of the Vice President.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Gall<\/b>: What is new with Campus Labs?<\/span><\/p>\n

Wilding<\/b>: In the IT Governance Committee, we\u2019ve been talking about Campus Labs since I joined two years ago. We\u2019d have to make sure that it works between the Senate and the various departments of URI. I know a lot about IT, but I\u2019m graduating. We\u2019d need somebody to take care of campus labs once I\u2019m gone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Taylor<\/b>: We can find people to take care of it. If we\u2019re spending $40k on this every year, we can find somebody to maintain it.<\/span><\/p>\n

9:33 Morabito moves to adjourn, seconded by Taylor. The motion passes (8-0-1).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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