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ASUCD SENATE AGENDA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS 6:45, Mee Room April 30, 2010

I. Call to Order

Meeting is called to order at 6:45 PM.

II. Quorum Roll Call

(Juarez, Thongsavat, Alday arrived late)

III. Presentations A. University Communications

We have a planning committee and we’d like to see who would like to join us. We plan on taking 120 students it’s Wednesday at 8.

The reason why we’re doing this is that the conference is a great way for all students no matter who you are open to ally to go and learn about how our privileged oppression work out on campus and in society. We really wanted to come here to announce because few senators have gone to this conference. There’s a student government section at this conference where all UC senators meet so this is a good chance to meet. We really want to change that. Think about it, applications should be available tomorrow at CCC. I really encourage everyone to go. We even put on a workshop to deal with certain issues on campus. How does ucsd do? I’d go and help out.

Ekhator: it’s really awesome that you schedule around a weekend not midterms and finals. It’s the first meeting I went to in Davis or else I wouldn’t be doing anything here, period. It’d be awesome to get more student body representatives.

Juarez: As you all know, we’re not part of UCSA but the students of color conference share ideas and dialogue about the various issues on campus. I got the meet the president from UCLA, SD, SC, SB and all the other UC campuses. It was just a really good space to see the issues they’re tackling at other campuses. With everything happening across the campus- hate crimes- it’d be really good to foster these problems across the UC system. I’ve gone 4 times and encourage everyone to take part.

We’re having a fundraiser at Alibaba’s next Friday, just say student of color conference. Three thousand people go to this conference, we’re taking 120 it’s very small. Thanks for listening.

IV. Status of Legislation Previously Passed

V. Introduction of New Legislation

Authored by: Lee Co-authored by: Sabastian Introduced by: Lee Referred to: B&F

An ASUCD Senate Bill to allocate $2,497.00 from Capital Reserves to purchase two 21.5-inch iMacs for STS/Tipsy Taxi. Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

Authored by: LING Co-authored by: Lee Introduced by: Lee

An ASUCD Senate Bill to allocate $11,900.00 from Capital Reserves to purchase ten 21.5-inch iMacs for The California Aggie.

VI. Public Discussion

VII. Public Announcements

Lee: All of you got my email I just wanted to keep everyone posted there was a technicality wit the bylaw. If you have any questions you can talk to Previn or me. We do not have to start the entire hiring process again but the interviewees will be asked to be interviewed again. The committee should be scheduled for next week so keep an out for me.

Menovske: Is it really necessary to ask the president to present on the committee before not to be present again?

Witana: it was improper hiring of the committee. And as a result, their entire interview process had to be redone.

Juarez: how will the scheduling work? I’m confused.

Lee: basically, as pro temp, I can just whoever I want. I usually do first come first serve. What happened is 3 senators signed up for b&f. I believe I sent out an email before the one you replied to so 2 already had signed up. What happened was one of those senators could do EAC which was later that day which is why everything was moved around the way it was. The only time I’m not doing first come first serve is if we have a situation like that, if a senator can do one later also. I always send out the emails and I always make it fair. It’s just a matter of switching it to get the committees filled. I could check through my inbox and clarify.

VIII. Approval of Past Meeting Minutes

IX. Appointments and Confirmations A. B & F Chair

B. B & F Ho: given your experience, if you could improve on one unit, what would it be? One unit that I have taken a special interest in is experimental college there can be a lot of work done in that unit. We can all benefit from that.

Stefan: Hm actually I haven’t thought of that. Funding gender or any issues I support that. But I guess things I wouldn’t support are, can you get back to me?

Leticia: Um I would say classical notes and campus copies. I know what we were working on last year was to get it to be the main copy place for the student body. Not to put Davis copy shop out of business, but they kind of dipped in. ideally, I’d like to see all their machines working.

Amani: I’d say the post office I worked fort he past two years and they would definitely benefit if they had more publicity money if they used their PO box because it’s 80% unused. Students don’t know about it and could if they would.

Ho: I guess this is for all returning commissioners. How many are there? Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

Stefan: Two.

Ho: Okay we all apply to make a difference. My question ties in to why you deserve another term. What did you do with your term to earn another?

Leticia: Well first off, this would hopefully be my second. I’ve been pretty rational and unbiased about my decision with B&F and what I’ve basically done there is gone to every single meeting, good with my attendance, put a lot of my input and a lot of my input was unbiased and rational which is a huge factor when making decisions. i want to dig into auditing and getting more involved with the commission. Towards the end of the year I’d like to get more involved this year I want to do another vice chair.

Stefan: Before that I sat in with the interns I’ve always been interested in ASUCD now being apart in the commission I get to voice my opinion for the students because I’d like to benefit everyone. I just seen so many great bills we’ve used with our money, campaigns that have happened this year.

Juarez: There’s been a lot of issues in the past of what constitutes a good financial bill or just a bill. What in your opinion constitutes a good, well presented bill that should review or decide on?

Amani: a big thing I’d take into consideration is something that just how many students are benefiting from it. A big thing is a spending bill that will save money such as investment in equipment that will save money like I’ve talked to people on Ag TV, even picnic day. Things we would normally rent but would save in the long run.

Stefan: As you said, how many people it covers, large groups and extra funding. Going back to the question before, I also think that to cut funding, the only thing I could think of is things like the Buzz for example which I’m not a big fan of. Which seem to be like, they advertise as a school but they are unnecessary, the budget.

Amani: I would say a good bill is one that gets to the point such as organization because last year we had trouble with the bills. I’d like to see one that gets into detail and gives a list of what they’ve done already, what they need, and why they need it. It’s good to bring in the receipts to see what you’ve done because we are just giving them the money and see in detail specifically what they want. On top of that, I’ve gone by the dollar for student ratio I think it’s a good starting point in business and finance we strictly look at numbers. That’s one of the most important things to look at. It does vary with situation but

Leticia: I think for me, how well it is prepared when they come to see us. Their research, prepared for their events, see if other places will fund them, if this is a last minute thing to put on a good event for all the students here. It definitely helps to know that hey thought about it not just oh whoops we’ll come to ASUCD. If it’s a club event, they should utilize asucd as a last resort.

Juarez: My last question is speaking to experiences, the commission before dealt with spending breakdowns, money allocations, that sort of things.

Amani: A big thing is I’m vp for davis democrat and for that I draw a budget. I also did a lot of this work in high school doing fundraising. I’m campus coordinator so I’m familiar with AS protocol.

Stefan: I’m actually a transfer so I don’t have much at davis. I was in charge of business club so I was in charge of funding. Any fundraising or approval had to go through me. I’m also 4th year economics.

Leticia: Besides being on the commission last year, my freshman in Davis I was treasurer in my sorority so I was in charge of allocating the budget in my sorority, how much should be put in equipment etc. recently, me among 4 others were in charge of recruitment budget which is a pretty big budget. We actually had problems and trouble. We didn’t think we had as much we did which taught me a lot of where everything should go. Future years, we need to cut down from certain areas.

Amani: My previous year I was apart of Filipino healthy career I was banquet coordinator we started rocky because we inherited prior years debt. We had to deal with a really small budget to commemorate the alumni with a tight budget working with a lot of people. It was definitely an interesting year and good experience. Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

Chen: thanks mr VP. Past of being B&F, what experience do you have giving that opinion consistency what makes you qualified for speaking for something when everything is against it?

Amani: Well when I strongly believe something, I do hold true to it. I’m notoriously outspoken. As for experience, back to we definitely stepped on a few toes but if that’s what I believe that’s what should be done and should be spent, I am not afraid to voice my opinion in public speech.

Stefan: I have no problem with doing that either. I usually work for the situation. But if the project makes sense, I will disagree with is and in the end, I usually do it in real life anyway. If you tell me something I’ll disagree, not to just disagree but because I want to know what’s on the other side.

Leticia: I think commissioners need to speak at meetings. And with that said, this year really helped me as the year progressed to help the year progress. With a commissioner I’m disagreeing with the commissioner on the board. It’s important for everyone to voice their personal opinion. Everyone has their opinion of which aspects should be passed on the board. It is our job to deliberate in detail and come to the best decision by putting everyone’s best opinion out on the table so it’s very important to voice your opinion. Just because we’re hired for a reason, we’re definitely there to say what we think. There are so many people on commission to help each other see other sides and we learn that if we didn’t say anything, you’ll realize that you wish you had something. That’s the whole point of the meeting.

Menovske: I feel like a few of you might have touched on this question, so feel free to pass. Each one of us identifies ourselves with a group on campus. How do you think you’ll be able to look at the bill with keeping your views and ASUCD in line?

Leticia: The way I’d look at it is we’re business and finance commission not one with specific interests and the AS and the student body. Any bill that’s presented in front of me, even if I don’t personally agree with me, but the numbers add up and others agree, I’ll consider it.

Amani: I agree with that. I will give every bill a chance I have my own personal views that I am not insecure with. I am left wing but I wouldn’t make fun of the right wing. As I said before, it depends on who the bill covers, the minorities.

Stefan: Just going into it, I remind myself that the budget we’re working with is everyone’s tuition so we have to go in thinking the most and analyzing the bill for what it’s most important for. Not which ethnic community it’ll benefit. I always keep that in mind not necessarily who it’ll benefit.

Leticia: We have to leave all our biases and prejudices aside and really try to treat everyone the same way. Blank out who it’s for but the way the bill is actually written. We’re looking at hardcore numbers it doesn’t matter if it’s benefiting a certain community of whatever it might be.

Tanner: I actually have a question for Sergio. How many of those questions were following the bylaws?

Cano: I was actually looking up the bylaws with Jeff and we’re allowed to ask questions about qualifications, experience, and capacity to perform. It’s important to stress the capacity to perform because we’re giving these people a lot of power. Under the capacity to perform guideline, you may very well see bills that don’t effect a large amount of students. How would you do it differently to have a good student to dollar ratio to avoid situations that dealt with the ethnic crowds?

Stefan: For sure you can’t only take into consideration the dollar to student ratio, that’s absurd. I’d approach that bill the exact same way. If the arguments make sense and dollars add up and truly benefit students, I’d give it the same amount of consideration even if the group if a lot smaller.

Leticia: I don’t know what groups you’re thinking of but for me, ok, helping ethnic groups also helps the whole community. It doesn’t mean dollar per person ration but effect on the image of the school and funding small groups- I see nothing wrong with that. I completely support it.

Stefan: Going off my previous answer, I believe the dollar to student ratio. I stated in my previous answer where it’s important to acknowledge and just take it from there. Depending on the Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

circumstance, with smaller communities, we have to look into the bill and see what the committee has done in the past. Above all, that has been a really important thing to see what they did to fundraise. Yes, dollar to student ratio is a big aspect and you should go from there. Small committees I don’t have a bias for them over large communities. So it’s up to the quality of the bill and try to fundraise and see what they’ve done to the point where they have to rely on us;.

Amani: It’s how well they planned it out, how much they planned out their event, how hard they tried to fundraise. That’s the most important thing because how much they put into is how much we should give out.

Cano: I agree it’s not all about the numbers. I yield.

Witana: Confirmed. Congratulations.

C. EAC

Percoco: I urge for a very very speedy confirmation.

Witana: Do we have any questions for these candidates?

Juarez: I’d just love to hear any future plans you have for this commission, a direction you’d take EAC and what you can take to the commission.

Zach: we already started looking at new ideas during the first meeting. We should get more aggie pride throughout the city because once you pass the campus, it’s just the city of davis.

Isabelle: What we discussed in our last meeting is having a forum to show different students still in high school the associated students in davis are all about, what leadership is like in college, ease them in.

Hannah: What’s important following last year’s picnic day fiasco is connecting the community with the students to see a smooth overlap between the two. There have been problems in the neighborhood and after talking to other people, I’d like to see the commission working with neighborhood to ensure better communication and working up to spring quarter to help out with picnic day.

Rombi: EAC helps out with a lot of events as do all commissions but I was wondering what each of your role would be and how would you make these events successful?

Zach: EAC is liaison between UCD and the rest of the community. It’s our job to see everything runs smoothly.

Isabelle: we divided our group into smaller groups to see what’s going on. I know last year I worked really hard on the specific event I was working on and if we look at least year to incorporate into this year, we can work to make this year more successful.

Hannah: I’m actually more excited for this year because I spent a lot of time working on the safe boat project which took a lot of time and effort. This year we’ll benefit from not working on that. We’ve been talking about a lot of new events. So not only will we be continuing last years, but also adding news ones we’ve been talking about for years.

Witana: Confirmed.

D. EPPC

Rombi: I was not sitting in when these candidates had these interviews. But last week I was impressed with their contributions and I would highly recommend a speedy confirmation. Do any of you have any new projects and plans to get EPPC on campus?

Manny: I’ve been working on this thing with frats and sororities talking to them already getting a Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

sustainability chair within them. Basically EPPC- the way we do audits, we’d give them the tools for their houses so they can monitor all their energy and waste consumption throughout the year. Ultimately have this big green greek week in the spring including some sort of environmental service project and a whole bunch of fun stuff. We’d have a sustainable sorority and fraternity of the year- a big title to get everyone excited to win as EPPC commissioner.

Sarah: something I’d like to focus on is the freshman class because as a freshman last year I knew that in the beginning of the year you want to soak up as much info as possible. Being fall quarter right now, getting EPPC out there is very important to focus on the freshman because they are a sponge. Whatever we can get into their heads, hopefully they can transition throughout their college career. Me and Andrew were thinking of starting an environmental education program in the residential dorms to educate them in what categorizes into recycle, etc. in Segundo, and transfer to tercero and cuarto.

Andrew: first off, I’m interested in reaching the freshmen through working together with student housing as a sustainability intern there. And my hopeful position as EPPC commissioner hopefully some cooperation will work out there. Additionally, I think it’s a bit disappointing that davis as a campus hasn’t come to terms with a standard logo across the board. It’s a bit confusing as students when there are different bins to recycle or compos or put their trash in- landfill, when there are different signs on campus at different times. A standard logo as a campus to use, the simpler the better. Davis can participate in CA wide programs to move us along and get us more excited that we’re apart of a statewide movement.

Juarez: I just wanted to ask about previous experiences. I know you’ve touched upon plans and directions but I’d like to hear more about past experiences.

Manny: I am currently the global warming … . I’ve done a lot of programs working with EPPC.

Sarah: coming from high school, I did an internship with SF environmental department leading an ECO friendly sale. In high school, I was also the associate student body treasurer so I also have a background in budget. Last year this goes for leadership, I was participating in the co-ed alpha pi omega in finance.

Andrew: In high school, I was founder of alternative energy organization working with local government and school to create an alternative energy class building solar panels from scratch. Additionally, I participated in the campus center internship program working with other student groups.

Menovske: Being an EPPC commissioner, what is the most environmentally pressing issue on campus and how can you make a difference?

Manny: I think that one of the pressing issues is not having everyone collaborate between environmental groups. That’s what I’ve been working on as a member of CALPIRG and it’s important to have because there are so many issues out there with various groups working on different things. Why not have everyone work together to make a bigger impact? Overall a wider variety of students like my sorority-fraternity idea, getting people who usually don’t think about issues to think about it.

Sarah: Broader scale is environmental education. First step to making sure everyone can be more eco friendly is get the word out there. Get people to learn more, what it is to learn more, how they can make a difference and maybe instead of putting on tables only the people interested, we can target people who normally wouldn’t be environmentally conscious such as the freshmen class.

Andrew: the most pressing issue would be washing down what the word sustainability word means and breaking it down through education and letting people really know what it means to be green? Washing down the buzz aspect, but let everyone know it’s a long process. And let everyone know what it means specific to our climate, our area, our students.

Witana: Confirmed, congratulations.

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Rombi: Do any of you have any new ideas for confirmation?

Spandana: Well for sex generation we were thinking of having a privileged workshop.

Rachael: I think it’d be cool to work in some new programs that open the access for what gasc is because I don’t think many people know what it is and we can educate the larger student body in the work and why it is important.

Hattie: I think it’d be important to educate the general public and student body to become increasingly aware of gender and sexuality.

Tanner: I want to let all of you candidates to refuse question. And two, people at the table and are allowed to openly ask you about qualifications. If there’s any questions you’re not comfortable answers, you don’t have to answer it. Please tell us about your past experiences on this campus.

Hattie: I’m a second year and I’m in my third gender and women’s studies classes and I’m just really interested and started paying more attention when other professors told me about it. They’re the same thing and it’s just so aggravating seeing the discrimination that people face. I’d like to help educate people.

Rachael: I also am a second year so I haven’t been here that long. I am a women and gender study major so I’m relatively qualified as well as I can be, academically. This my first time actually doing action and having more hands on experience.

Spandana: I’m a third year and I volunteered I’m a peer educator and I have also been in commission.

Tanner: Thank you.

Menovske: Tanner answered my question but have all of you been safe zone trained?

Spandana: I have.

Rachael and Hattie: I have not.

Ekhator: About your qualifications regarding your capacity to perform the job. With that being said, what do you think is the most pressing issue facing the LGBT and if confirmed, what would be the first thing you do?

Hattie: I think that people misinterpret the LGBTRC to be only pertaining a small group of people but it benefits a large group of people and there’s I don’t know, it’s a tough question. But a mass education like in the quad where people can stop and learn and just open the group of people to benefit from the LGBTRC broader.

Ekhator: Sorry I’d like to clarify since my question was broad. What would you do to make the gasc more effective?

Hattie: I’ve been in student body a lot in high school and I’m willing to talk and do anything to help as a team.

Rachael: Kind of adding on to what Hattie said, one of the pressing issues in gender sexuality advocacy, helping GASK would be broadening the stereotypical group of people to help other people get involved. Not only help the cause, but help the face of it.

Spandana: I believe a pressing issue in the community is the biological problem. A lot of people think since it’s biological they expect it to be innate. Public awareness is very important. And gasc can create a lot of public awareness to use its funds for programs to create more discussion.

Ekhator: How would you I guess, increase the awareness efforts? Within student groups and commissions to get the word out? How would you ensure the campus at large to get the word out? Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

Hattie: We talked a little about our meeting a couple days ago. During the blood drive, the table next to it. Since by law homosexual people cannot give blood, we would have them sign a paper.

Rachael: By collaborating programs with other groups like cultural clubs, but if you collaborate with groups of people who wouldn’t necessarily come, connecting with other organizations but not with normal ones we would but broader ones to work together. Educational programs.

Spandana: Apart from the whole campus, there are a lot of issues and LGBT issues there are a lot of problems that retreat to those issues. If you go on a broader sense I was thinking maybe he recommended safe zone training be required for these clubs and issues.

Ekhator: Thank you, I’m asking these questions because groups have to work twice as hard to get their awareness out there.

Witana: Motion to confirm? No objections? Confirmed.

F. AAC

IX. Unit Director Reports

X. Ex-Officio Reports A. Commission Chairs

Alday: - Set up meeting time with HEP to begin GASC's funding of HIV testing, as allotted in GASC's budget - Tabled at Queer Welcome to increase GASC's visibility in the campus community - Held first meeting of the quarter; talked about future GASC projects as well as ideas for GenSex week and saw informal legislation - Sat in on EAC hiring committee - Set up office hours at the LGBTRC on Mondays & Wednesdays from 10-12 - Contacted student groups about co-sponsorships for the Queer Leadership Retreat as well as the MESA Retreat - Began planning for tabling at Blood Drives, will meet with Alison Tanner this upcoming week to further plan tabling. - Obtained & reviewed a copy of GASC's budget for the 2010 - 2011 academic year.

Cano:

Monday: I held office hours in the Senate Office from 10-12. Later, IAC had their first meeting of the quarter. Thank you to Ozzy and Joey for showing up during the meeting. After the meeting I trained the new IAC members with parli-pro and whatnot. Tuesday: I couldn't find a class, so I didn't go. Wednesday: I held office hours in the Senate Office from 10-12.

Lee: This week, I held office hours Monday and Wednesday. I contacted The House about potentially working on hammocks on the Quad. I wrote the bill for Aggie computers. I also wrote a bill for STS/Tipsy Taxi computers. Both bills will be introduced this week. I also wrote a bill for the blood drives, which will be seen today; the bill allocates $500 dollars of ASUCD funds to encourage more blood donations. I attended GASC on Tuesday and OA on Wednesday Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

to discuss the blood drive bill. I spoke with Sabastian, STS/Tipsy Taxi Director, regarding projects between ASUCD senate and Tipsy Taxi. I helped Kappa Alpha Theta make their upcoming event zero waste by arranging ASUCD subsidies through EPPC and getting them acquainted with the zero waste program.

Menovske: Watered the fruit trees Got 7 different departments on campus to agree to put a voter registration website on their own website. Attended the gubernatorial debate at the Mondavi Center Held my office hours 2, in the ARC

Montelongo: Established ECAC SmartSite page.  Held first commission meeting: o Allocated $300 to M.E.S.A. Retreat. o Elected commission vice-chair, treasurer, and recorder. o Approved the payment of last spring’s Eritrean Student Association bill. o Reviewed budget and reserved appropriate funds for funding and programs. o Reviewed commission quarterly and year programs.  Held office hours on Monday and Wednesday.  Went to the CCC and attempted to go to the LGBTRC so as to orient myself with appropriate resources and to introduce myself.  Was present on the Business & Finance Chair hiring committee.  Met with Senator Ekhator to discuss a possible project.  Met with Chair Cano to review parliamentary procedure.  Organized commission materials.  Communicated, via e-mail, with students interested in joining ECAC.

Ramirez: Completed Office Hours: Thursday 8 am-12:00 pm. Attended Gubernatorial Debate and after event with jerry Brown. Met with member of Aggie Micro Aeronautical Team (AMAT) to discuss outreach from ASUCD. Attempted attending Academic Affairs Commission meeting, however cancelled. Completeing paperwork for Interns. Planned Quarter.

Thongsavat: This week I meet with the following people: Dylan Schaefer, City and County Affairs Director, Jack Zwald, ASUCD President, Jerry Brown, California Gubernatorial Candidate, Charlie Colato, Picnic Day Director, Bree Rombi, I attended the flowing events and meetings: California Gubernatorial Debate, Noise Ordinance Meeting, Outreach Assembly, Picnic Day Board of Directors I held office hours on Tuesday and Thursday from 1-3pm. I held office hours in the senate office on Tuesday and Thursday in the quad. I meet with members of the public which include Stephen and Sidd, Stephen had concerns about the following, why our ASUCD President sucks, why the University Chancellor sucks, and why the Coho cold sandwiches suck. I told him I would look into his concerns. I also gave relationship advice to Sidd, he complained about having an official relationship on Facebook which he feels bounds him to "commitment". I tried to do my best to offer him suggestions.

B. Outreach Assembly Speaker

Dias: I gave a training power point to all new members on Outreach Assembly and our goals for this upcoming quarter. We elected a new recorder, Wendy Lu, and Speaker Pro Temp, Trevor Fleshman. We unanimously passed a decision to allocate $100 dollars from Outreach Assembly programmatic budget towards the Blood Source blood drive in November. The money will go to fund both a second and third place prize for the campus club competition for blood donations in the name of certain clubs. We decided on how to allocate grant money for the year. We have Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

split so that we have a cap of $500 for fall quarter, $300 for winter quarter, and $500 for spring quarter. Any money not used in one quarter will roll over to the next quarter. We also discussed upcoming events such as the Club Meet and Greet for the first years which will be held in Tercero and Cuarto dorm areas and Dorm Presentations for first years as an informative way to tell students about ASUCD. I am hoping to bring senators and commission chairs out to speak for the event as well. We have also decided to ask Creative Media to create a logo for Outreach Assembly in addition to a shirt design for Outreach Assembly members to wear to events. We ended the meeting by discussing upcoming projects for following quarters including Safe Boats, Preview Day, and Picnic Day clean up.

C. ASUCD Controller

Chen: - Went to IAC on Monday - Attended the Brown-Whitman gubernatorial debate on Tuesday!! It was a lot of fun. - Went to Outreach Assembly on Wednesday

Thursday Tipsy Taxi Pilot I’m looking into a pilot program for Tipsy Taxi Thursday service. Thursday Tipsy Taxi couldn’t be included in this year’s budget because of a combination of two reasons: we had to close an approximately $35K budget deficit and Geoff Straw didn’t have enough time to oversee the implementation of the service (at the time of budget hearings he was focused on things like closing year-end accounts and revising overcrowded bus routes). President Zwald has negotiated an agreement with the Bookstore whereby the latter party will forward a lump sum for rent, which is what we are planning to use to fund the Tipsy Taxi Pilot.

Experimental College Deficit The Experimental College’s deficit currently runs at $53K, partially because income from tuition has fallen sharply and the increased deficit was necessary to keep the unit afloat. ASUCD does not give a subsidy to the Experimental College; the unit covers its losses from its own reserves. According to Kathy, the Experimental College currently has $105K in its reserves, which at this rate isn’t even enough to keep the unit solvent for two years.

Fortunately the director of the Experimental College, Gaurev Kumar, is cognizant of the problem and is already thinking about how to reduce his unit’s deficit. My office will be working to help him identify spending cuts that can be made to keep the unit’s deficit under control. At this point my goal is to aim toward reverting the deficit at least to around pervious year’s levels, the rate at which the unit would be able to stay solvent for three years. Eventually the unit would have to eliminate its deficit entirely if it’s to avoid having to be subsidized by the Association.

Computer Purchases From Capital Reserves FYI, units currently seeking computer purchases: -The California Aggie -STS/ Tipsy Taxi -CCE -Project Compost -UA, Lobby Corps, City/ County -Willing to fund a portion of the computer purchase.

These will likely be introduced during Senate and going to INC for initial approval.

Possible Physical Expansion of AGTV Office AGTV has grown rapidly since its inception, and its physical location is quite cramped. The unit has been seeking permission to take over and add the adjacent space, which is currently occupied by Book Exchange. This Idea has been on the table for over a year now, and although it’s unlikely that AGTV will be able to take over the BX space, I want to see if there’s any space that we might be able to responsibly move BX, of course preferably with BX’s agreement. If the space takeover is not possible, I want to at least bring closure to the proposal so it does not continue to float around as a tantalizing but unviable option. Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

Giant UCD Forum A huge problem I’ve noticed at UCD is that it’s massively difficult to find specific people or to know exactly what’s happening on campus or around the city. Here’s what I’m thinking about: a giant online forum where students across campus can look for other students with the same interests, scope out job or academic opportunities, find out what events are happening on campus, and more.

The point is to be the default place for UCD students to find information. To do this we would need to provide incentives firstly for people to post on the forum and secondly for people to visit and keep coming back. One example that comes to mind is finding out what events are happening on campus or in Davis. Say a fraternity is hosting a party and wants people to attend; the fraternity wants free publicity for its event, and UCD students want to find out about parties they can go to on the weekend. Or say someone really likes people World of Warcraft but doesn’t know anybody on campus who also plays WoW. What if that person posted in the forum looking for people who shared an interest in WoW? Of the 23,000 students there are on campus, there is undoubtedly a sizeable population that plays WoW- it’s just difficult to find that population. You could create a club, of course, but doing so is a bit cumbersome and you’d also have to bank on the fact that people would actively be searching for a WoW club (which after Fall Quarter is pretty unlikely).

For the sake of brevity I’ll not say too much more on the subject, but the possibilities of something like this are vast. Of course such a project is a little outside my scope, so I appreciate any interest you have in said project.

XI. Elected Officer Reports A. President

B. Vice President

Witana: Friday: I flew to Boston for a weekend wedding Monday: I sat on Senate recorder Interviews with Rudy and my assistant. We had 30 Applicants and 14 interviews before we finally selected the new recorder Tue: I had my office hours Wed: I began training the new senate recorder.

C. ASUCD Senators

Rombi: September 30, 2010

This week I held office hours from 12-2 on Tuesday and Thursday. On Tuesday I attended the Brown/Whitman debate and headed to Bistro 33 after to meet Jerry Brown. Wednesday I attended Outreach Assembly and Lobby Corps. I also contacted my units and set up the appointment for the ASUCD Concert. On Thursday I was a part of the Academic Affairs Commissioner hiring committee.

Fall Quarter, 2010

Spring Quarter was the busiest quarter for me in terms of my projects. The most successful was the Composting. The first week of Spring Quarter we had the kick off in the MU where I helped organize and volunteer stations to help guide students on the proper way to compost. It was very successful and we continued to leave the composting bins in the MU. We continued to have several meetings about how it went and changes or improvements that could happen.

Another project of mine, bringing readers to Campus Copies, was also very successful. CC/CN continued to thrive and their business doubled since my project began. I have worked very closely with this unit and I also helped purchase a new binding machine through Senate Reserves. A few other members in ASUCD helped Campus Copies to make the readers for the Education Abroad Center. I also want to Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

continue to work with CC/CN to help purchase color printers and/or a new printing machine to replace one of their old ones that have so many problems.

My third platform goal, creating a campus calendar, has been going relatively slow. I've had several road blocks as there are so many other calendars for davis out there but I am going to make sure that it gets completed by the end of this quarter. I also want to make sure that it will be used in the way that I had imagined it, as the go-to place for everyone on campus.

As the Pro Tempore for Spring Quarter, I was in charge of handling and organizing several hiring committees as well as running Budget Hearings. I believe that I did a great job and handled it all very well. Budget Hearings, though excessively long, were very successful and relatively very smooth.

I have taken on several more projects other than my original platform goals, such as helping with vital purchases for Whole Earth/Picnic Day, passing a bill purchasing the correct recycling bins for ASUCD units, and a few smaller projects. I would love to finalize these projects before my term ends, and definitely by the end of the quarter. I am also going to be working on a few other projects including purchasing new vehicles for Tipsy Taxi, getting bike racks for Unitrans, and helping organize the big concert for Spring Quarter.

Arce: Quarterly Report Fall 2010  With the rain coming this Winter (I hope), it is critical to work rapidly on my ‘campus infrastructure improvement’ senate project. I have previously spoken with Sal from Facilities Mang. About the issue and will present my report to him. o The issue= Olson Puddle, and with the rain coming, it will continue if not fixed asap!  Spring Quarter I wrote and presented a Memo to the city of Davis, Transportation & Safety Advising Board. I spoke with the board about another one of my senate issues, the Intersection at California Ave. and Russell Blvd. with the blinking yellow light o The city of Davis Civil Engineer (Roxanne) and I then met afterwards to discuss possible solutions to fix the problem o Over the summer, myself, along with Roxanne attended a TAPS meeting that had the issue on the agenda for discussion . Fortunately, they came to an agreement that this would be both a city and university affair, thus all costs/issues would be divided amongst the two. Unfortunately, the committee only meets once a month, so progress is too slow!  A large goal of mine is to fix the situation with the bike path next to the soccer field. I spoke with many students (myself included) that have issues with that path as there is no sidewalk for pedestrians, it makes biking tough, and with the added fact that the path itself is rough, it only adds to the problem. Both are issues I indent on addressing

XII. New Student Court Cases/Prior Weeks Verdicts/ASUCD Court Announcements

Jeremy: We meet in Wellman Hall 109 Wednesdays at 8pm. The chief justice said she deicded to be chief justice again. It will be my turn to run the meeting next week. After that we considered questions for interviewees. It is my intention to be at senate each week to meet and visit each of the commissions by this quarter. With that I yield.

XIII. Consideration of Old Legislation

Cano: I authored this bill to see past president vetoes and for record, there are none I could just see the stamps. I just want it for public records to be stated. I yield. I discussed a timeline for when this would happen and it’s there mostly. We loved it, thank you.

Lee: I think it’s pretty cut and dry, I don’t have any questions. I don’t have any questions so I urge for a speedy pass.

Cano: I just want this written response online. It’s something we’ve already been doing. Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

Menovske: I feel like when the president comes, I’ve seen a few vetoes and every time there is, the president comes and presents it to all of us. I’m pretty sure the recorders job is to write down what he says when he comes and talks, but the minutes are public knowledge. I feel this is very knit picky since the minutes will show what the president says. Maybe I’m just crazy but this just doesn’t make sense.

Witana: It’s just been tradition for the president to come in. Right now there’s no binding the president to come in.

Cano: The constitution says that he will submit an objection with the veto so that is something that’s binding.

Menovske: With that being said, if he already has to submit a formal objection, we’ll have a written copy of his objections for the recorder to put into the minutes.

Cano: I see your point that you can easily look into the minutes but this is more/less for the public who can’t dig through the 20-30 pages worth of minutes. I’ve seen other websites with executive orders and presidential vetoes which are very easy to find.

Menovske: So you’re asking for an entirely new section of our website?

Cano: I take that back.

Arce: I want to just echo andre’s statement about it being easier to access where it mandates the webmaster’s job to make things more clear. It’d be an easier access point. With that, I want to motion to move into senate discussion. This is a great idea and with that, I’d like to call asucd bill #2 to question.

Witana: Objections?

Rombi: There are still some questions.

Arce: I withdraw my motion. With that, I’d like to once again, call asucd #2 to question again.

Menovske: I said the same thing when we saw the bill about improving our logo. There are a lot of things that are unnecessary. This is really repetitive since we have to provide a formal reason.

Lee: I’m going to motion to suspend the bylaw. STS tipsy taxi has one computer that barely functions and one that doesn’t function at all because it had a plumbing leak so now they have no equipment. There is one very bothersome bylaw that says it has to be approved by INC before it is even seen so we are anticipating INC passes it and sends it to the senate. In so, it’s a fairly urgent thing but we want to go through the process.

Cano: (Reads Bylaw 823)

Menovske: I have some questions. I don’t want to be against it but I have questions. I don’t know if we’ve ever motioned to suspend a bylaw before, we have probably, but it was probably a bylaw where we move the meeting something like that. Motioning to suspend a bylaw is kind of sketchy in itself if we want to get around it we can make it up or make a really good point or case or something. So I’m just going to motion to suspend it for this one meeting. The more we do it the more we can keep doing it. I know they need their computers but what if we gave them a code to use our senate computers? I just feel really weird about suspending bylaws. They’re put there for a reason. I guess that wasn’t really a question, more of a statement.

Thongsavat: I see where you’re coming from but I mean, as long as we all do our jobs. It’s pretty reasonable for us to- we make different decisions sometimes but as long as we keep coming to meetings and cherish our jobs and keep the proper bylaws, I don’t think it’s going to be much of a- in terms of having loopholes where the association might change in terms of finance or policy or bylaws we have enough safeguards in place. This body is very capable and I have good faith we conduct ourselves appropriately. I think we should definitely discuss it. This is nothing about Andre succeeding Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

and taking jack’s job and becoming dictator. It’s a joke it’s a joke that was inappropriate.

Lee: taken as friendly.

Thongsavat: In terms of time, Previn could’ve set the time for next meeting to be 2016. That’s just- no one really knows how the time was changed. I didn’t. I’ll leave it at that.

Chen: Okay, provided this bylaw is suspended for this one time and this bill is allowed to be introduced, we’ll see it in INC tomorrow morning. Personally, I think this bill should be seen after being introduced, it gives the author time to write a good bill. INC needs to improve the concept. If they needed to improve it only, we wouldn’t be able to see what they’re spending and INC is the first hurdle the author has to jump over. We have the network administer in the committee, myself, a lot of people to see if it’s a good people. I would prefer that bills be introduced to senate first so they know it’s a good bill then goes to INC. I or Cano will introduce the bill to switch it around so it’s introduced in senate first then INC. I don’t think it should be that way anyway. it’s a very good point and I do want to urge everyone

Lee: I wanted to bring up that we feel it’d be better to do it in the reverse anyway. the bylaws a little problematic to begin with I agree with Menovske. In my dreams I’d want certain things suspended. I think this is one of those rare circumstances. This is one of those exceptional circumstances look at the reality of it and if it’s not approved by inc for whatever reason, this motion will be withdrawn. As far as being the author, I’ll have limited options and this is the best option we came upon.

Menovske: If it’s still a possibility to introduce it as urgent next week, I don’t really see what the issue is, just introduce it as urgent. I know it won’t get to INC and it won’t get their input but that’s why the idea of introducing legislation as urgent was introduced. Suspending a bylaw, the rule of governing, is unnecessary.

Lee: All bylaws are created equal, this is a fairly minor bylaw. I’d rather have it go through inc than introduce it as urgent. It’s more serious to suspend a bylaw than to do this. I really like that’s what it boils down but that’s the lowest common denominator. I motion to suspend the stated bylaw.

Castillo-Ruiz: they have shit on their computer. That’s urgent. Introduce it as urgent.

XIV. Other Business

Lee: THIS BILL WAS INTRODUCED IN NORMAL PROCEDURES BECAUSE AS YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH THE BILL WAS INTRODUCED ACCORDING TO THE RULES. WE ARE RUNNING AGAINST THE. Other than that though, we did approach external affairs to comment on what the commission thought of it. Just as a brief overview, I will be passing around rules. The bill is basically about the blood drive coming up it’s the largest drive. This is a competition between sac state it’s kind of a student pride thing as well. As a sponsor organization, the goal is to get recruitment up as you know hospitals need blood and depend on drives such as this. We really want student groups to benefit from this competition. In addition to the first place prize, this bill proposes to match it and split it into a third and fourth place prize. This bill has multiple purposes. One, it shows us what we really mean what we mean to do a student blood drive. It also demonstrates school pride with our cross city rival and encourage students to volunteer and do something good. It’s meant to help OA to build relationships and it’s also to give student groups a source of funding a sort of boost something they can benefit from. I’d very much like the co authors to speak as well. I will yield.

Dias: I’ve been in touch with some over summer and they feel ASUCD doesn’t do much. This would be a good way to reverse that. We’d be funding money to directly affect them. We cut down a lot to increase our budget. We need a new start this is our new year to start over. I just want them to still see faith in what we can do.

Amanda: I’m a blood direction. If this bill can be passed we can get blood out to people who need it and increase participation and get this school more involved in the blood drive. Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

For some reason over the summer there was a glitch that Joey and I don’t even know happened. We got paid for five of those weeks we’re trying to cut it. We’re trying to amend the budget to cut five weeks of our pay.

Chen: Basically, he wants to cut his budget. I don’t think there should be that many objections but the director wants to cut his own budget. I also want to touch on minutes form last week- sorry I had to leave early. There was a point that the director paid them on accident but that is not what happened. What he wants to do is balance those weeks. They got paid for weeks during the summer they weren’t supposed to get paid for. It will be balanced out.

Lee: It’s pretty cut and dry so that our paperwork matches our actual pay, a matter of technicality. We’re moving 26, 27, 28, 29, 40, 41 which will no longer be paid for. Motion to amend that.

Lee: Motion to consider closing experimental budget.

Second.

Witana: Any objections? Seeing none, the budget is now closed.

XV. Public Discussion

Alday: We were wondering about how giving more money to student groups will support our efforts to standing against msm policy? We were a little concerned about that.

We all though it was a great way to meet people.

Walz: I know that you didn’t go into detail about why this bill helps raise awareness for FDA MSM policy and I kind of agree with you. Andre explained his thought process but I kind of want to modify this bill so it mentions that groups banned from giving blood can still participate in the competition. It should state that but it might not be needed to say that it is used to raise awareness because that’s not what the point of this bill is.

Leon: I’m from blood source and to speak behalf on this bill and hearing it so quickly. It really does help save lives and entice groups to save lives. I’ve received emails from people battling leukemia and she is still urgently searching for blood or else she won’t make it. We want to encourage students to come out and thank you for hearing the bill.

Menovske: I’m all for blood drives, but being a member of a community that isn’t legally allowed to donate blood and being apart of a group that isn’t allowed, I feel ASUCD shouldn’t give money to a group for second and third place prizes especially when not all members on ucd can participate. And if they can, it’s not made clear that a gay fraternity can participate, or can their friends go and include their name? It’s really not our job to pay something that really isn’t our area to stepping on, it’s the blood source.

Alday: It’s a poor way to show ASUCDs stance. It’s a poor way to continue throughout that. It’s still a little problematic I feel.

Menovske: The bill does say that LGBT focus students are allowed to participate but the fact that they have to add our community as a line is a problem. We shouldn’t have to point out a specific community. This can be worded a lot better to make LGBT people feel safe.

Ekhator: I agree 100% with Levi. I don’t see why we would allocate this much money for prize money where the money should go towards much more needed places rather than prize money. We scrutizne these bills so hard, I don’t know why we should allocate money from senator reserves for prize money. Why can’t blood source fund the whole thing? If not, then the rest of the money for prize money shouldn’t come from senate reserves. It doesn’t sit well with me. I don’t think any organization that collects blood to collect blood discriminates. It’s the FDA policy, blood source would gladly take anything that’s in the business of saving blood. Allocation $400 for prize money is not right.

Zach: if this bill is approved, a follow up is necessary and or strongly recommended because it increases Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2 involvement in the blood drive so in the event that this bill is passed, number should be compared from last year.

We actually have a target goal and have talked it over to blood source. They’re expecting 1300 pints but our goal is 1500 for ASUCD.

Zach: that’s a great goal, and in the event it is passed for next year, I’d like to see those numbers again.

Juarez: I think one of the reasons we have blood source is funding. Bloodsource is a huge organization I’m just wondering why they can’t increase the number of dollars that’s been cut for this event. $500 doesn’t seem like a whole lot especially seeing that this is your most important blood drive that can set precedent for future donations. I’m just wondering what is up I guess?

Bloodsource is a nonprofit organization so anything we do make usually gets recycled back into the environment for new doctors. Any money allocating into this blood drive is to ucd and sac state so total 1000$. We seem like a large organization, but bottom line, we really aren’t. we don’t have the funding for that so the prize money we allocated, we don’t have much for future.

Juarez: your purpose is to hopefully get people to donate blood. I’m apprehensive but as of now I haven’t really made up my mind. There’s obvious concerns so I’d like to hear other people.

Lee: we hadn’t seen it formally by both gasc and eac they approved it unanimously so I will take it that overall both commissions recommended for this bill to pass. Asucd has sponsored the blood drives. You go out and see our name on everyone of those logos and I think it’s a great thing for this association. Why I wrote this bill partially is because we are terrible sponsors. We sponsor it to safe lives and it’s a community event. Any club would love it, fantastic for OA and really show that any club can get the money. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of progress. This bill is designed to get people to come and people who come will sign petitions and become activists. Obviously, this isn’t perfect. The only perfect thing is we want FDA policy to change. This bill has been designed to include this group as well as possible. There’s gunna be a competition and $500 and bloodsource is nonprofit, they don’t have the money to donate more. As sponsors, it’s a great idea to donate another $500 so if they’re willing to put in the time, it’s a fantastic idea. I personally would love FDA to get rid of this policy. This bill if anything does that to help that goal. As far as the msm policy, we can put our hands up and say no, we’re not gunna help recruitment or say yes, we will help recruitment by getting them out to help them become activists. I really don’t think there needs to be a star contrast and this bill can work for everyone’s advantage.

Tanner: We did in the past decide to no longer provide monetary support for the blood drive.

Lee: Clarifying that, we did not agree to no longer provide monetary support. It seemed like the commissioners really did want to use the money that was allocated to them. We did not band money form bloodsource for the future. They actually agreed to move that money over they don’t need $1000 for rental subsidies we really just want to see you guys take activism in these issues. No we are not banned from using money form the blood drives.

At this time, we haven’t put out a position or stance because it’s a rule set by FDA but we have been working closely to ucd to find answers and ways to get more statistics and data to prove to the FDA there’s no evidence to their claims but as of now, there has been no official statement.

Tanner: I want to ask a question to anyone who can answer: will outreach still provide $500 for th eblood drive?

Dias: yes, last night

Tanner: So gasc has a funding for msn issues. Asucd does spend a substantial amount on the blood drives. Though we do have a statement, it says that we do oppose the policy and therefore to want to provide funding for a discriminatory practice on campus which do violate our principles of community.

Dias: People are looking too closely to this as prize money. It’s more than that it’s supposed to bring together campus organizations to save lives. This is helping those people to help save lives. Msm members in clubs do have faith and think this bill is a good thing. It allows them to be apart of asucd and help their causing issue. It’s what their club and organization wants. If asucd gives them this chance to participate in an event we hold Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2 anyway. as outreach assembly speaker, please put good faith in us we’re here to do what we’re said to do. Bridge those gaps.

Menovkse: I’m gunna read number 1 out of our asucd senate bill of rights. First bill of rights for asucd is you have the right to be free from discrimination of race, sex, status, political belief, etc. with that being read, that made it pretty clear that if asucd is co sponsoring an event that discriminates any group on campus, that is not okay. That goes against one of our seven bill of rights. I’m not hating on blood source they save lives but comparing gay rights to saving lives is not okay. Saving lives is great but the right of our community and our country are also important. That members of LGBT are discriminated because of this policy are in effect in a organization that my members are trying to co sponsor is not okay. It goes against the first right on our bill of rights. Someone brought up that the money isn’t going anywhere.

Moch: About the part that all groups have a chance to win the prizes, it’s true but all groups don’t have a FAIR chance. It ends up being the work of queer men having double the work. They have to go up to other people to ask them to donate blood and it ends up them having to get others to gather blood for them and it’s really hard. It’d be double the work to get the same prize. The prize is available, but isn’t at a fair rate.

Menovske: Alpha phi does the king of hearts every year and one of theirs is who can give the most blood. It’s really hard for my frat because none of us can but luckily they worked out a system where if someone gives for them, they get double the points. It’s really hard for us because any situation where you have to just say hi I’m gay, is not a comfortable one. It singles out organizations that aren’t comfortable with asking other people to give blood for them.

Ekhator: Of course we should want to see our student groups get paid but bigger student groups with higher capacity have an inherent advantage. The argument that we should do this for the student groups isn’t really valid because it doesn’t give each student group an equal chance of winning. I don’t know, I think that the most fair way of distributing money to student groups is that everyone has a fair chance of winning. I think it’s a great idea in theory but when you hatch it out realistically, giving students money in the form a prize isn’t ok if it cuts out part of the student group.,

Menovkse: someone mentioned this is asucd money going into an asucd event. But having our name on fliers doesn’t make it our event, it’s blood sources. They’re funding blood to save lives and after reading the bill of rights number 1, me along with a few others in this room have a right to disagree with a bill that’s extremely discriminatory. I just don’t think it’s okay. The bill itself is an honest bill I’d like to support but FDA are not good people.

Lee: When I made my comment earlier, I didn’t mean to disparage certain communities’ rights to any means. I just don’t think it’s a zero sum game; it’s just ridiculous that we have to choose. By promoting the drives, we can promote that issue and hope it comes to an end. It doesn’t have to be a zero sum game. I just want to put on the record that my comments were clarified. Thank you.

Romero: With this bill trying to provide that one member can’t go from a organization, is that $500 prize included with them?

Yes, we just put a list on the bottom and tally it on the bottom.

Romero: I myself am from multiple organizations and knowing that second and third prizes are available does take away from the competition. Instead we should publicize and promote the $500 prize instead of adding more.

Rombi: this bill does both ways for me. I can see how it’s kind of offensive and not really fair for everyone but it also pulls at my heart because I’ve had family that needed blood to keep going. For me, that’s where I see it. It’s a great thing for people to do but at the same time blood source and everyone apart of us has been trying to make it able for everyone to participate. While it may not be fair, I don’t know how it works. I don’t know how a pint of blood compares to an hour of volunteer. I don’t donate blood myself because needles freak me out but I think it’s nice trying to help groups out on campus because of how much clubs are looking for money. I think it’s a cool way. We’re not giving money to blood source; we’re giving it straight to clubs. One thing as far as equality, my group is really small, there’s lots of groups that are super small like Chess Club has 30 members and if they want to get money to participate in something, that can be an incentive. I think that’s part of what an actual competition is about, trying to get people to help you as well. If you have an event, you’ll tell Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2 people because you want people to come. If you can get $500 that’s important to you because you want to tell people to come. I go both ways but I don’t see this as necessarily a horrible thing.

Lee: Just to add to that, the situation itself is terrible. There’s not way of making this event completely fair and that’s something I struggled with when I authored it. That’s why I said don’t let perfect be the enemy of progress. The policy sucks and if I could change it in the next ten minutes, I would. But in the meantime, this bill was designed to be as fair as possible and it definitely doesn’t satisfy people but in the meantime as a sponsoring group, it’s our duty. I’m on the same page as everyone else not being a great policy but I just don’t think it’s a reason to give up on it even though it actually helps our goal.

Menovkse: I agree with the previous speaker it should be as fair as possible which is why I’m thinking now funding 2nd and 3rd place isn’t the best idea. But writing a resolution instead of using students money that says “whereas we don’t agree with the policy, we agree with saving lives...” whatever, it shouldn’t necessarily be asucd money. I just really wanted to touch on a comment about chess club. It’s open to anyone. Being a member of a limited community, it’s not open to anyone. Comparing chess club to LGBT is not cool.

Rombi: I didn’t mean for it to be offensive, I was just comparing it to a smaller group. I was just trying to say that if you’re in a small group or isn’t as large as top ten biggest ones on campus, obviously it will be harder work. I didn’t mean for that to be offensive. I apologize if that was offensive or not cool to say but if you’re in a small group it takes a lot of work.

Juarez: I didn’t like the way OA participates but I’m pretty sure they can still participate and get excited and pumped during the blood drive. There’s already $500 and $100 put forth by OA so the possibility of more prizes seems fair to me. I’m wondering if the additional 400$ would hinder participation and getting them to donate.

Dias: No I wouldn’t but the clubs involved definitely would. A lot of the clubs especially small ones wouldn’t want to go all out and put in their efforts for only $100 if first place is $500. OA would but the response from the clubs would be lacking.

Juarez: Now maybe 200 and 400 dollars would get some organizations some help and provide them incentive to donate which is the purpose of this event. We’re speaking as to doing something about taking a stance on the msm policy. GASC is already planning to be there tabling so I don’t really agree putting in the $400 saying we’re getting people to sign a petition.

Audience member: the bill should be focused on prize money because that’s what it’s about. I didn’t get offended I was cool with the chess club. It’s not the fact that we’re small. In my group of ten people, we raised $10,000. Since the bill is about the money, all students should have equal playing field to achieve those prizes. Queer students have to do double, triple, quadruple times the work unless they do something if they get more points but even that is debatable.

Tanner: just the stunning ratio, the original prize money is $500 is to get 1300 students to participate. We’re expecting 200 more students to participate by including $500 more dollars. That does not seem like wise spending to me. We’re only asking for 1/6 the increase for an exorbitant amount of money.

Leon: I just wanted to clarify if this bill isn’t passed that we’ll still give this money through one hour volunteer work.

Ekhator: regarding the event, I don’t think it’s horrible at all. I think it’s a very positive and great event. Personally to me if it were off campus I’d be the first one there and recommend as many students as possible to go. Our endorsements and sponsorship are associated students and a campus project that discriminates isn’t in the best interests of our students mind. Endorsing passing this bill would clearly be against our asucd constitution and I would hope that we would vote accordingly. It’s a great event I’m going to donate blood myself. It’s against our constitution, not all student groups can win money.

Lee: I wanna bring up when I was in external affairs supporting veterans from ucd, serving in ucd, was to pay for postage to veterans. I bring this up because there’s a don’t ask don’t tell policy. Students aren’t comfortable with rotc on campus. I want everyone to put this in context. I’m not illiterate; I know what the principles of community are.

Ekhator: This event questions our legitimacy to uphold our bill of rights, Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

Jeff: Technically the dollar to student ratio does fit. I myself am not allowed to give blood because I have blood drawn every three months so I feel for those of you who can’t. I feel like it’d be cheaper competing for the prestige like a cash prize we’re giving out. On a whole other issue, are there cheaper alternatives? A plaque would be fine.

Ekhator: there’d be a cheaper way. If we don’t give prizes, this isn’t an end all or be all. Just like jeff said, we can reward groups in different ways, put their names somewhere. We can be innovative and creative.

Thongsavat: Two questions for blood source: what is the donation policy is in terms of I you’re not able to donate for sexuality, traveling, tattoo, etc?

Leon: To not donate, they’d still be registered and if they come in a try to donate, that still counts as an attempt. They can still volunteer their time. One hour constitutes one point.

Thongsavat: I definitely see a lot f valid point in these arguments and it does take me both ways and if we’re honest with this bill, we should go back and forth. I’ve talked to andre and other sides which are both valid. But after hearing both sides, looking at the overall picture and seeing what we can do for the student body, I think it creates dialogue. If asucd will have such a public stance on it in terms of having it on every sign, then what is our mold? If we’re helping out on this project, I don’t know what other ways besides gasc tabling and this bill, how else can we actively help people donate blood? We should make this an event where we can put all our resources forward. If it’s 500 it should be 500 if it’s based on principle. We should support this bill. It’s one of andre’s projects. We can’t reach every student but we can try. I can’t remember the last time we passed something that was TRULY fair.

Menovske: I actually didn’t know that you all give points for people attempting to give blood, but that still doesn’t get rid of FDA’s problem. FDA is not good people and the fact that you give points for any people that attempt kind of turns it into a charity. Oh, I like to get tattoos. I like to travel. I like to have sexual encounters with males, is still discriminatory. It’s still not okay. Whereas it’s an honest effort to give points to people who try to give blood, it is still not okay and it is still not okay that the student government is giving money for something that is discriminatory.

Percoco: A ton of organizations need money. I thought this was a creative way for people to get money and for groups to participate. I don’t think finding a cost effective way to fund this event is the answer it should be all or nothing. To me and EAC, this is a way to give money to organizations in a fair and creative way. I urge you all to pass this because although this is money, it does make a difference.

Lee: I just wanted to reply to a few comments, jeff we’re not spending 500$ on the blood drive we’re not giving the money to blood source. We’re not giving it to an event; we’re giving it at an event to a group for another event. I wanted to tell all of you the rotc narrative, the memorial union is named after veterans who served. Past senate tables have sent care kits to students serving in Afghanistan. What about don’t ask don’t tell? When it says in our bill of rights. They’re part of an organization that can’t really do anything. There a lot of parallels. Blood source must follow laws made by FDA. Same goes for our alumni serving in Afghanistan. It’s a relevant parallel and there are a lot of gray areas where we can use our powers as senators to make it clear where it is not clear. If we give this money and give out recruitment, the number of people who would be aware of an issue of injustice will be more than otherwise. OA and GASC will do all of this but without the money it will be harder than if we had the money. Like I said and I hope this resonates, this bill is not perfect. The perfect bill would be that FDA’s policy is rejected. I’m trying to do something that will make the whole campus community know more about what asucd does and enrich our community and patients in the hospital for an event that we sponsor. Do we sponsor the event? Do we not? It makes us look very poor as an organization we should really do something substantial. Money talks and as I would like for this event to be fair, it cannot be. These are all good faith things. I truly resent the fact that a lot of efforts that have been made to do what we can with what we have with a law in Washington we can’t do anything about suddenly turns people into charity cases. This is meant to enrich our clubs and community. This is why I’m fighting tooth and nail for it.

Menovske: I feel like we’ve been on this for a while and everyone has probably made up their minds where others have lots more to say. I’m going to motion to call this bill to question.

Williams: So we will still be meeting next Tuesday 6 pm in the Fielder room. I’m sure all of you know the debauched shit storm that’s happened the past couple days. I’m sorry for all of that but I felt it was necessary. Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

This situation has evolved so the best thing I could’ve hoped to have possibly happened has happened. That is my opinion for the matter at hand.

Witana: If bylaws were that untouchable, we would not have the ability to suspend it for a week. We’re just doing way with it for the benefit of other. We have our hands tied behind our back for a certain bylaw. When I was a senator, a bylaw we suspended actually improved another bill. Now this bill cannot be seen by business and finance because now it has to be seen urgent. As a senate, now we are kind of just ignoring a problem when we should’ve suspended the bylaw that is simple that can be changed and should be changed.

Eckhator: I agree with Previn that was a very yeasty point.

Menovske: You could’ve waited a week to see it. But now that it’s brought a week before, it allowed us to decide if we could see it now or see it again later in urgent. The vote shows that a majority of us wants to see it as urgent. I just think that in this particular case, the argument doesn’t really apply. First of all, we have a new recorder say hello. We have a new recorder, say hi. I just wanna say I don’t want to see objections for the format is different. She won’t do it the same way as our temporary and Megan did. Let’s please not make her new job a horror film, a comedy, or a romance. Second, I wanted to ask a question on the bill andre introduced. The aggie wants 11 new computers?

Lee: 10 computers. I don’t know if anyone remember but I announced it last year it went through INC I’ve been the liaison for two quarters. This is final hoop it’s going through so yes it’s ten computers and it’s been announced previously. You can look at the minutes from last quarter.

Thongsavat: A few things, the meetings for asucd concert 3-4 in the amc room regardless of new position, I welcome you. Here of the difficulties planning this event. If you’re interested in helping out, I really want the senate to have one project we can all work together. I need your guys’ help and I would love to work with anyone willing to work with this committee. Secondly, I talked to paul and Heather from csi we’re having a fair and I would like asucd to table and be more present. That’s my personal stance. It’s usually las tminute. We have so many services and it’d be really nice if we could have a good presence there. Also the Buzz, Osan did a good job on mc but I’m mixed on the performance. Real quickly, the organizers really want asucd involved. Danny was trumped out three cycles ago and that’s really bad. They’re really interested in working with asucd and wants our help.

Ekhator: We’re supposed to do a direct representation of what the students want so we should at least assist in consulting purposes. It’s not about the quality of the performance don will talk more about it later.

Lee: first thing, for entertainment council, I’ve wanted to discuss wit the table. I talked to perry the direction of EC and tong tsai, adam, it’s a proposal to get a short list of pre-approved acts that we’re likely to get onto the winner elections ballot. It’s a nonbinding vote which gives entertainment ability to know what choices are. Maybe 5 acts to get voted on. It’s designed to get better election turnouts and for students to vote on the way the fees are spent. All the staff likes it very much, if the director is on board, good to go. Overall, it defeats the purpose of tying it into elections. Also generating higher election turnouts, they can have a lot of fun with it attaching it to their cards but that’s each individual person. As far as the parties involved, they both like it. If it worked out this year, it’d be at the discretion at the direction. It’s worth a try. It’s an experiment but with very low risks and high award.

Rombi: I wanted to remind everyone that I’ve been wanting to get the board together at the Coho. I’ve gotten lagging responses from everyone but best is 9-10 Wednesday morning. We can go in and get a tour. If anyone has any questions.

Lee: So public meeting is scheduled last Thursday of October or first Thursday of November in Walz new Tercero.

Rombi: I’ve been to senate meetings at the Coho it’s pretty loud but we could sit in the new Coho.

Ho: So I just want to come back to the buzz being attendee, to be honest it’s the first time I’ve ever gone in four years. And there’s good reason why. There has been no buzz. Basically, it shows the buzz’s potential but no matter how good of a band or group we get, if we have crappy infrastructure, it’ll be a bad rep for us and people will be like, ‘oh the buzz screwed up.’ Which is exactly what happened with the cataracts. They requested to turn the music louder or light brighter, we must be more responsive to them. If anyone was there, Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2 the sound was abysmal. At one point there was only bass, no one knew what happened. That’s not a good production especially if we spend that much money we’d hope for everything to work out. I think the ballot is really cool but it is also a lot of red tape but maybe a sub committee from EC to see what happens. We are representative of the student body. The ballot is a novel idea say people vote on it but we don’t get it, what then? That is all I have to say I yield.

Ekhator: I’m just going to piggy back what Don said I agree the cataracts weren’t respected as much as they should. I was hearing the sound guy exchanging insults with the cataracts. That should never happen. We wants so much progress but I didn’t even realize to be able to want something we have to be able to house it and handle it but I don’t know if right now we can. There are security issues right now. Thousands of students wanting to take photos with the cataracts. My mic went out a bunch of times I had to put in batteries myself. There are definitely a bunch of things that need to be improved. Tell us what you want and we’ll try to give it. There should’ve been a sub committee a long time ago. From a person with music interests a lot different from other people, getting indie bands and rap groups more underground definitely has an appeal in davis. But if we want your everyday student to support, we should get an attempt to find more mainstream bands. There’s a lot of cost but we can at least work towards it. I wanted to also talk about how we ask questions applying for positions. It seemed like there were issues of me asking about capacity to perform. I think it’s important to evaluate and not limit ourselves because we’re employers that if I’m going to hire you and give you this much amount of power, how you can handle it then end up with tense situations later.

Cano: I yield.

Dias: something unrelated, the presentation we gave on get to know asucd last year I put together an event on the 8th but have to find a time in place in tercero and talk to them about how to get involved. If anyone wants to get involved, I’d like to have some senators or chairs come out and speak with me.

Lee: I agree, the bylaws- it’d be nice if everything was black and white but there’s a lot of gray areas. It makes a lot of things complicated. Some things are clearly political. The presiding officer who presides over the meeting has capacity to judge. if someone has a strong objection I think we’re safe to let the presiding offer make that call. Another thing, I know that some of the commission chairs haven’t gone through orientation yet.

Witana: Everyone got the email about getting trained for protocol.

Lee: I don’t want to make this a huge deal and it’s not a personal thing but I really do want to let it known that formal and informal recommendations, they’re required to give their professional opinion. The entertainment council proposal is great, I want to move on trust me I have things to do with my life. This is a way for students to let their voices be heard. What OA is promising is we go down that list. If we don’t get our first choice, we’ll get the top act. As far as the committee idea, it’s better to just ask the students directly especially since you all know our elections have dismally love turnouts. How do you want us to spend your fees? It’s perfectly legitimate.

Rombi: at first I thought it’d be a good idea but I think there’s too many letdowns like if people don’t see who they wanted, people will be upset. Or what if we literally can’t get any of the top 5, we’re screwed.

Lee: individuals will do that but other things will entice others as well. EC gets to pre-pick events that are very possible not just Kanye or Lady Gaga.

Thongsavat: About the interview process, I really don’t like it. It really limits us and restricts us. I know safeguards were put for valuable reasons, but if I’m trying to confirm someone for student county affairs, … . and if we’re really going to ask someone if they’re qualified, id on’t know how their experience or qualifications can really check what a qualified person needs to be. I don’t know.

Ekhator: today I made it a point to give certain scenarios or ask questions that aren’t normally asked because I’ve been annoyed that sometimes we ask repetitive questions or ineffective questions. These questions we don’t ask because we think we can’t ask or just don’t ask. We should do our best to find the person best for the job. Think about a real job, you’re put in scenarios.

Thongsavat: very few times, we rarely know what’s going on in the interview room. How did you come to that process or conclusion? That’s important and we don’t really get to bring it up. A lot of times people are against asking questions that don’t relate to qualifications thinking it’ll get personal but it’s not. Also I was at the buzz Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2 when the sound problems were going on. We paid $500 which is equivalent to a high school dj. I think it was on the par of the sound artist and the dj but we have to talk about ti again because if it goes on again outside of davis, it’ll be really bad. It was a waste of money.

Menovske: I had something to say about the buzz but I don’t want to talk about it anymore. I feel like again we have this situation a lot it can be resolved by people outside the senate. I would like to motion at least a 5 minute break, important phone call. Like I said, the conversation’s kind of going back and forth.

Ekhator: I think legitimately that the confirmation part is the second part of the interview process and in a real interview, you’re asked a lot of questions and specifically, the scenario part if important. If you notice a tend, a certain polarizing instance, you see behaviors of a chair, it’s important to take note of that when you’re hring. Either highlight that, try to address that in one way shape or form. Make sure you know who you’re hiring and how they’ll react in a given situation. It’s good to know where your employers stand or how they would judge certain things.

Romero: I wanted to say that we all at this table know these problems but don’t ask the questions but the fact of the matter is the last table thought they incapable so therefore had to make this bylaw to control themselves. While we might be able to make smart rational decisions, will the next table? Since a previous table had to make this bylaw, we’ll just have to accept that all tables won’t be as cool as us.

Ekhator: I think sometimes it’s appropriate to use that to ask questions.

Castillo-Ruiz: the only example that stuck out is the one that Thongsavat proposed. No one at this table would do it. Examples people have been saying is that it’s been well within the bylaw, how will they handle it?

Ekhator: our presiding officer is gangsta.

Williams: Due to various events in the past couple events, I’ve become incredibly familiar with the confirmations of the bylaws. During confirmations, you’re allowed to ask questions and discuss. Thought it’s very limited on the questions you can ask, there’s virtually no limits on what you can discuss. So it’s time to sit back and discuss if they’re capable on the senate. It’d benefit the senate if they just sat back and discussed.

Walz: I think that’s a terrible idea! You don’t interview someone and then discuss about them in front of them and in front of a huge crowd of people. It should be done in private. Interview is when you ask the questions and later you discuss.

Williams: By 2/3 count you can close meeting and kick everyone out. Unfortunately, there’s not allotted time to discuss so it has to be done in front of the interviews. Quite frankly, I’ve been asked what kind of pokemon Id like to be they’re not always the hardest questions.

Menovske: I know for a fact we’ve talked about this and how awkward it’d be if we discussed about the person while being interviewed there. We could ask them to leave but it’d still be in the minute so they could read it in the minute. It’s all a big mess. A perfect scenario would be to have a private senate meeting and call the person back next week. But it’ll never be perfect. If you don’t think you got to ask the questions you want to, don’t confirm them.

Williams: I couldn’t agree more with Levi.

Ekhator: not all of us have balls, so I find that statement problematic. It’s hard because it seems like it’s a personal respect factor and respecting them is finding the best person for the job. It’s tough but instead of objecting and voicing my concerns, it’s best to discuss with the senate.

Menovske: Automatically assuming people with breasts have vaginas is not okay. I don’t want to get into this with you.

Juarez: Sorry I have to pick up my sister form the airport but I didn’t expect to be here so late. I think there is a stigma behind objecting to confirmations. If we want anything to ever happen we should start I guess standing by what we want to do which is be the one person to object during confirmation. I’m one of those people who hesitated objecting but now I’ll start because I feel we’ve been lacking there. I don’t know if it’s really hot in this room, but there were a lot of hisses and snaps but I think today was one of the best Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2 confirmations. We really took the time to figure out what they want and what they’re all about so as a table, we should take some time to really find out about the people we’re appointing to these positions. I don’t know if discussing to appoint them in front of them is the right thing to do but I do feel there should be more conversation about these people who will be putting on events for our students. Sorry I have to leave early.

Williams: This is freakin’ awesome. A commissioner was being confirmed and a commissioner chair came this close to I don’t want this person on this chair at all, but no one objected and this person did get confirmed. This is not okay.

Lee: I just have to update everyone on what the situation is for b&f.

XVI. Any Other Business

Witana: Please remember to fill out your office hours for the rest of the quarter. We want them set in stone by next week.

XVII. Adjournment

Meeting is adjourned at 10:55 PM.