Senate Meeting
May 24th, 2007
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ASUCD SENATE AGENDA
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
6:10, Mee Room
October 4, 2012
Senate Meeting
May 24th, 2007
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I. Call to Order
Meeting is called to order at 6:10 PM.
II. Quorum Roll Call
(Zokaie is absent)
III. Presentations
A. Roosevelt Institute Campus Network
Akshaya: I used to come to senate meetings all the time, I used to write for the Aggie. I’m actually here to talk about something completely different about the Roosevelt Institution Campus Network. Reggie was the former person who led it. I’m trying to revive Roosevelt, in a sense, on the Davis campus. It is a progressive policy think tank, progressive in the sense that it identifies as progressive and is not affiliated with a political group. To talk about a brief history, I believe it was founded in 2005 and there were two chapters in Yale, Stanford and then Davis right away. The leaders here have been really active on a national level as opposed to a local level. Over the summer, Asha and I were at High Park, New York and we were there for a leadership summit and we met with other leaders of Roosevelt and we decided that one thing we wanted to do was revive Roosevelt on UC Davis campus. Our goals are to build up our local chapter and get our name out there and the second goal is to find a place for Roosevelt as a space for leaders on campus to gather and connect. When we were at the summit, one thing we were both impressed with was the air of being able to talk about all these different things that people are passionate about and beyond that, motivate and support each other. That’s something we wanted to bring to this campus as well. We want leaders to help each other, support each other, and network. What does Roosevelt do? There’s lots and lots of publishing opportunities. It’s just an undergraduate journal, the best ten ideas get selected and published. Beyond that, there’s also ways that you can blog. I won’t say they get picked up all the time but every so often it does happen where people that write on different topics that they’re passionate about get picked up by prominent bloggers and newspapers. We’re really new right now but we’re thinking about having a Davis journal where students will submit it to us and we can get it going. That is a goal for this year. For me, what I decided to take on this leadership role with as was basically because I felt it was a way for students to really make change. I know a lot of you are more aware than other students about policy. They think it’s something hard, something that doesn’t affect them, but we all know really well that it does. The reason I’m here, I’m not asking for anything, but Asha and I thought this was a good place to start and it might be something you’re interested in knowing about.
Bottoms: You just answered my first question which was why you’re here but what’s the overall mission of the Roosevelt Institute?
Akshaya: To get students really engaged and involved with policy. There’s multiple things going on on a national level like the millennial generation voices, there’s trainings for you to go through. They’re trying to put together a millennial generation, if we can call ourselves that. It’s a lot of doing things on your own. We don’t have an agenda, it’s up to you what sorts of projects you want to work on. It just really depends on your interest.
Bottoms: How do y’all get funding right now?
Akshaya: Through private sponsorships and donors.
Goss: I’m interested in, are you trying to do policy and leadership? I like both but what is your emphasis?
Akshaya: That comes from Asha and I being very different people with different passions. Asha will be taking the lead on the gathering leaders while I’ll be doing paperwork and getting rooms.
Goss: Is Roosevelt’s thing to mostly make policy recommendations?
Akshaya: It really depends on the chapter involved. One chapter was really interested in fairer hiring practices so they had stickers that they mailed to local businesses and asked them if they minded putting this sticker on their window.
Goss: Do you have any policy group that you specifically identify with?
Akshaya: Something I’m really interested in is women and how southasian women are portrayed on TV. It’s what I’d be writing my thesis on.
Kimball: Did you pass around your contact information?
Akshaya: Sure, it’s
B. Scholarship
Carly: I’m here to talk to you about ASUCD scholarships. This summer I was working with Rebecca on raising money, it was actually really fun. It brings joy to my life. We made a lot of progress. I haven’t calculated recently but I’m pretty sure we have 25,000 dollars already donated and there’s Vice Chancellor De La Torres, Dean Johnson and a couple others that said they would donate and we’re just waiting on them too. We’re also doing a huge push at the CoHo next week asking people at the register if they want to make a dollar donation. We’ll also have a push from Sacramento for people to talk about it and proceeds from the Police Department’s Fun Run will go to the scholarship and any other things like if we can publicize and pass out fliers. I believe on October 8th, there will be a push on the UC Davis page to talk about what we’re doing. It will also be in the UC Davis magazine and the parents’ letter to get them to donate and the pushes we still need to do are contacting alumni. We’re waiting until we finish all the meetings with administrators then we’ll send out a letter to the alumni we have in the database. Another thing is we want to get our other units involved. We have more units than just the CoHo. We’ve been working with AggieTV who will be creating a video. We have a 300,000 dollar endowment right now. We just take the interest off. What’s great about our program is that it’s a peer-to-peer selection. It’s not GPA-based so if you have a low GPA but are excelling at other things, then there’s no reason they shouldn’t have it.
Han: It’s really inspiring to see what you’re doing. I’m excited to see how far this goes.
Carly: My goal is to get an ice rink the first week of winter quarter before I graduate.
Goss: one, you’re a rockstar. Two, your fixation with this floor is disturbing. Three, I like your shoes. Four, what can we do to help at the start of this new year?
Carly: Last year we did a donate your week’s paycheck. I don’t know the protocol if I can hand Kathy a paper with your names and say, “hey they said you could take their money.”
Goss: We are charged with bettering the student body. This is imperative.
Sheehan: Talking to professors right, I made arrangements to do so but I’m wondering about a standard protocol. I don’t wanna be like, hey… money.
Carly: If you all have several professors, I could help out with the first meeting going through the run through. Rebecca and I have a system now, we each know what to talk about. I would totally be down to go to meetings. We have an actual testimony from one of the scholarship recipients.
Bae: Regarding the whole paycheck thing, I would prefer it not go through our meeting right now. Yeah, it’s $50 but it’s up to you. If it’s something you want to pursue, it would be a little more meaningful if you all did it on your own time.
Costello: I’m curious what system you have to keep track of efforts to reach out to people. It would be helpful if you had a googledoc so we could write down which professor you were interested in going to so we could go together or make sure we don’t ask them twice or anything like that.
Goss: Thank you for coming, we all appreciate it.
C. Rebecca
Sterling: There was suit to the court, and I wanted to let you know where the court is at. There are currently about 4 people in the court and I was wondering if anyone sat on the interviews before summer. Do you know the names of the individuals who were appointed but never showed up? As you all know, the past chief justice has resigned so right now we have 4 members of the court and I’ll be going back and reviewing our minutes to check if he really was and he says he was. I thought there were 6 openings but if there really are 4, there are only 5 vacancies. Appointing a chief justice, it can be done 1 of 2 ways. I can either appoint a chief justice now from an already sitting justice which can move forward more quickly or if you would like a chief justice appointed independently by the table, then I can post a hiring individually which wasn’t done before but I’m not opposed to it. That would extend the process of having the court settled. As of now, we don’t have a full court. I have met with the most senior member who has let me know they are still having meetings. As far as that issue, that’s all I have to say. I don’t think it needs to be continued that much. On other topics I wanted to touch on, as you all probably know, this Saturday is the ASUCD Employee summit. I’m really excited for it and I hope we have a good turn-out. We bring together the entire leadership of our summit and I would like to bring together all of our employees. All the directors have been contacted many times. If you would all be there, it would mean a lot to have your presence as the leaders of our association and lead groups in break-out sessions. It will then by followed by some tailgating for our homecoming game. This week is the lead up to homecoming. Tomorrow is the pajamarino, the 100th time it’s happened. It’s one of our aggie traditions, it’ll be really fun!
Goss: I would prefer to see the chief justice promoted from within as we’ve seen in the past. The court is a very insular body that takes seniority very seriously. I think we’ve seen what happens when this table takes it into their hands in figuring out how qualified a justice may or may not be. I’m a huge fan of Emma, by the way.
Cano: There were 9 justices in spring, 6 left so you initiated the hiring. We hired 3 individuals and it was a close one. One that couldn’t come worked for KDVS and did not accept the position so we contacted the runner up. I’m not sure if they accepted but we did appoint 3 people. One got appointed at the last meeting, Jefferson. One was a transfer student from Oregon, a girl. And Kaitlyn graduated so that brings us to 5.
Sterling: I have the 4 currently serving.
Cano: There were 2 appointments that have yet to be confirmed, one questionable that I think withdrew. I recommend appointing within for the chief justice.
Bae: The court is a mess and I think we need to fix it immediately.
Sterling: Back to our little tailgate, a little update: we can’t have a keg. But we’ll still be having beer of course. I guess we can’t have kegs at our tailgates.
IV. Status of Legislation Previously Passed
V. Introduction of New Legislation
VI. Public Discussion
Areff: I’m the president of Davis College Democrats, I look forward to working with you and the amazing amount of people who works with you to make sure this ship stays afloat. Last year we had UC Davis students take part in specific legislation going through, I’d like to take a forward working relationship with you and I hope we can all work together. I hope we’re represented better in Sacramento than UCSA.
Bae: Are you or the Davis College Republicans having showings of the presidential debates?
Areff: Yes, we have rooms reserved and we’ll be holding little meetings and watching the debates.
Gilbert: Is it possible for us to see a debate between you and the Davis College Republicans?
Areff: Actually, Kabir I mean Senator Kapur and I had an interesting conversation about it yesterday.
Kapur: Areff had a really awesome idea if we had it on campus if anyone on this table wanted to join either side to get our campus involved on issues and get other students involved. I would join the Davis College Democrats against the death penalty because I really want it out of California as soon as possible.
Naomi: Hi, I’m Naomi, I’m CalPIRG campus organizer this year. I don’t know how this works but we’re working on a bunch of cool campaigns. We’re also doing environmental campaigns, plastic bag ban, promoting energy efficiency, banning wasteful agricultural subsidies.
Kirk: Hi, I’m with a climate resource group on campus. Our new roll out is November 19th, I’m here to do some preliminary inquiries as to what ASUCD would like to contribute to the climate survey so I’m asking you for ideas.
Bae: Are you with the Vice Chancellor Reed?
Kirk: Yes.
Bae: How were you selected? How often do they meet? How many students are part of your group? UCOP is doing a UC-wide survey on campus climate. They’re trying to have at least 25-30% of our student body vote. I chuckled a little knowing the turnout for our elections.
Kirk: Technically, there were 4 student reps, I’m the only one who shows up which seemed a point of contention when media came out. I’m actually representing you and it’s been interesting. How was I selected? They didn’t tell me, I just submitted my info after an initial email. We meet whenever we feel we need to, on average once a month. We need it when we have a particular project or aspect of a survey then we subdivide it and do our own work. I’m here to meet and greet and ask what ASUCD can offer, wants to offer, and wants to know.
Bae: We were disappointed because we were brought in very little and the fact that we didn’t have any students on board was very disheartening for both Rebecca and I.
Crisologo-Smith: What’s going on in November?
Kirk: The UC system is having a UC-wide survey to figure out how people feel about stuff. Nobody wants to call it that, apparently climate survey is what it’s being called. It’s meant to address all aspects of student life, faculty and staff so pretty much everyone affiliated with the UC so the Med center and other laboratory branches.