Associated Students of Whitworth University

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1 Associated Students of Whitworth University Minutes February 4, 2009 I. Call to Order at 5:00 PM II. Roll Call Executives: ASWU President, Obe Quarless ASWU Vice-President, Kalen Eshoff ASWU Financial Vice-President, Kendra Hamilton Senators: Arend, Patrick Yoho Baldwin-Jenkins, JaJa Quarless Ballard, Emily Dickson Boell, Aaron Quigley McMillan, Eric VanderHeyden Stewart/Keola/Shalom, Dan Lewis Warren, Jeremiah Sataraka Duvall, John Dorrenbacher Off Camus, Seth Flory Reatives: Arend, Beau Lamb Arend, Shannon Eshoff Baldwin-Jenkins, Mark Bond Baldwin-Jenkins, Ashley Antunes Duvall, Grant Mattox Schumacher/McMillan, Stehen Jansons Stewart/Shalom/Keola, Brittany Roach Off Camus, Angela Anegon Off Camus, Brian Stenberg Off Camus, Dan Dan Quarless Warren, David Kuraya Warren, Breezy Moser Media: KWRS General Manager, Bud Bareither Natsihi Editor, Charley Brinkman Whitworthian Editor, Joy Bacon Coordinators: Activities, Tyson Motsenbocker Cultural Events, Michelle Bess Interactive Arts, Nicole Holland Intramurals, John Ellings Outdoor Recreation, Chris Adams Senior Class, Katie Zerkel late excused roxy excused excused

2 SERVE, Danika Heatherly Secial Events, Kelsey Thurman Sorts Events, Collin Gibbs III. IV. ASWU Mission Statement Michelle Bess Welcoming of Guests Obe Quarless a. Sarah Ozanne b. Morgan Feddes c. Julie Wooton d. Jasmine Linabary e. Ben Bonnema V. Aroval of Minutes a. Minutes from the January 14 th assed b. Minutes From the December 2 nd assed VI. VII. VIII. Financial Vice President Club Udates a. Colleges Against Cancer Sarah Ozanne i. Relay for Life Aril 17 th and 18 th ii. Kickoff date is Thursday February 12 th at 5m in the Multiurose room iii. We hoe to raise $30,000 iv. Meetings for relay are on Tuesday at 7m usually in the ASWU chambers b. Oen Conversation Orientation Club Ben Bonnema i. We had a viewing of For the Bible Tells me so ii. We had Coffee House Conversations iii. We hoe to continue these conversations iv. In Aril we will have a day of Silence v. We hoe to have Magdalene Su Lee come in late may vi. Weekly meetings from 8:30-9:30 in George s Place Coordinator Reorts a. Radio- We are still alive even though we are not broadcasting. We will be moving from KWRS.fm to whitworth.fm with a kickoff arty i. We will have a kickoff arty smashing radios b. Mac Mac Hall in Concert if Aril 23 rd contact Eric VanderHeyden if they would like to erform. c. Activities Events Feb 10 th at 8m slam oets in the HUB. Feb 11 th in the HUB there will be a comedian from last comic standing d. Arend Green with envy dance is coming u. No date is set as of yet. e. Cultural events Food and Sex Feb 14 th 10am-4:15m. f. Secial events Feb 9 th there will be a club fair in the HUB at 7:00. Whitworth unlugged 9:00 Feb 16 th. The Vagina Monologues may not be haening on the 14tth. g. Whitworthian- We will start u daily online starting Friday. First staff meeting is Monday at 5:30. We would love new eole. No revious exerience required. h. SERVE Jamaica tri will be fundraising for Valentines Day with Crush Sodas. Buy them for your friends. i. Interactive Arts A new exhibit will be coming next week on different interretations of love in art. Internal Structure Discussion a. Seth See aendix 1 and 2 b. Kendra How many eole don t really know what is going on? c. Kendra If we want to make changes in the structure of ASWU we need to change the Constitution. By utting structure in the By-laws we have the ability to change easier. We are doing this in resonse to the constituency reort from December. We are moving structure from the constitution to the bylaws. After students vote on changing the set u then we will ask them to allow us to make adjustments without going to an all student vote. We are adding in section eight that we will not make major changes without students being olled. d. Discussion

3 i. Mark- The first roosition includes the dorm being built and the next new dorm? Do we really need to make the change to the constitution by moving the structure to the bylaws? Would we be comromising the constitution? ii. John- Peole elected us to make decisions anyway. In the future elected reatives can still make changes. It makes it easier for us as elected reatives to re the camus. iii. Michelle Most students don t give a rats tail about this We should be doing this within our organization. iv. Katie- We are taking the chunk out to make sure the student body as a say in major adjustments. What is considered major? v. Seth- Each dorm gets to elect at least one member and we can t get rid of senators and reatives. We can only switch how reation is distributed. vi. Katie- The last time that we tried to grou two dorms together students through a fit. I think that students care about regrouing of setu. vii. Seth- We have to seek student oinion first. viii. Katie- I don t like how ambiguous it is for us to take student oinion. ix. Morgan Why does this change reatives? Do coordinators need to be ut to a student vote? x. Kendra Those ositions are not in the constitution anyway. xi. Tyson The various zones should be named after members of the current ASWU so they can live on forever. xii. Patrick How does this work with budgeting? xiii. Seth There is not any lan to change dorm budgets. xiv. Kendra- It is really just a senator within every dorm. xv. Patrick- I needs to be clear to students that dorms are staying individual. xvi. Jasmine In the clause for the constitution where do we draw the line on how small of a dorm can still receive a senator? xvii. Seth This wording is based off of ast money. xviii. Jasmine Where is the money being saved going? xix. Kendra If we save in salaries it may go into unallocated or it may go into budgeting and clubs. xx. Joy We don t set student fees xxi. Eric- Can we extend time for discussion? Motion to extend discussion five minutes. xxii. Emily I have roblems with the wording. In job descritions the is omitted. they are charge will needs to be reworded. xxiii. Michelle Reatives will work rimarily with which senators? xxiv. Seth- Once we have the next new dorm zone six will not have a re since the zone would have its third reative. xxv. Kendra The res work with all the senators in their zone. xxvi. Jasmine- Where do the res go for GE 330. xxvii. Seth- They would have meet with ASWU during GE 330. xxviii. Jasmine Do they have to go on retreats? xxix. Seth There will only be two reatives that go with different leadershi teams. xxx. Kendra We will talk about this on Monday at 5m. I will everyone. xxxi. Kendra We need to vote or continue with discussion. We need to vote to send it to a student vote. xxxii. John- I move that we make the wording changes and vote on the amended roosition xxxiii. Move to vote on roosal one. Aaron Quigley. Seconded John. 1. Arend, Patrick Yoho 2. Baldwin-Jenkins, JaJa Quarless Ballard, Emily Dickson Boell, Aaron Quigley McMillan, Eric VanderHeyden Stewart/Keola/Shalom, Dan Lewis Warren, Jeremiah Sataraka Duvall, John Dorrenbacher

4 Off Camus, Seth Flory Reatives: Arend, Beau Lamb Arend, Shannon Eshoff Baldwin-Jenkins, Mark Bond Baldwin-Jenkins, Ashley Antunes Duvall, Grant Mattox Schumacher/McMillan, Stehen Jansons Stewart/Shalom/Keola, Brittany Roach Off Camus, Angela Anegon Off Camus, Brian Stenberg Off Camus, Dan Dan Quarless Warren, David Kuraya 3. Warren, Breezy Moser Vote asses xxxiv. Move to vote on Proosition two Patrick Yoho. Brian Stenberg seconded xxxv. 1. Arend, Patrick Yoho Baldwin-Jenkins, JaJa Quarless Ballard, Emily Dickson Boell, Aaron Quigley McMillan, Eric VanderHeyden Stewart/Keola/Shalom, Dan Lewis Warren, Jeremiah Sataraka Duvall, John Dorrenbacher Off Camus, Seth Flory Reatives: Arend, Beau Lamb Arend, Shannon Eshoff Baldwin-Jenkins, Mark Bond f Baldwin-Jenkins, Ashley Antunes Duvall, Grant Mattox Schumacher/McMillan, Stehen Jansons Stewart/Shalom/Keola, Brittany Roach Off Camus, Angela Anegon Off Camus, Brian Stenberg Off Camus, Dan Dan Quarless Warren, David Kuraya Warren, Breezy Moser Vote Passes i. Kalen We want to have the vote next Thursday. So that it will be set before the leadershi fair. ii. Kendra We have a lot to do to hel with the camus understanding. Let s throw out ideas. iii. Seth Do we want to call them Proositions one and two iv. Kalen- They are called roosals on the thing we just asted. v. Kendra- We will call them roosal one and two. vi. Eric- Can the titles be easier to inoint. vii. Katie- We can call them roosal one and two and we can ut a aragrah to describe. viii. Lets use Youtube ix. John Tyson was telling us about his lack of qualification in Youtube x. Eric- We should use the chicken suit and gorilla suit. xi. Patrick- I brought a oster idea.

5 II. III. IV. xii. Kendra- You get a rize. xiii. Seth- This should be awareness not looking at voting one way or another. xiv. Jeremiah- Can eole vote yes for one and yes for another? xv. Kendra- Yes. xvi. Katie- We should not as a grou endorse this. We can do this as an individual. xvii. Mark- Can we suort it either way? Shouldn t we be unbiased? xviii. Jeremiah- Why do we want to change? xix. Kendra- Because we are becoming inefficient both financially and size wise. xx. Kalen- For organizations sake it is good to make this change. xxi. Jeremiah- I feel like we are loosing in the number of ways for eole to get involved. xxii. Kendra- Dayna sees that the government is so large that there are too many eole to do the job. There are other ways that eole can get involved. She didn t think that continued growth would be beneficial. xxiii. Joy- Student growth ca is u to They are writing a new strategic lan. We are at 1900 right now. xxiv. Kendra- I need three eole to hel make a YouTube video. (Patrick, Grant, Stehen, and Ashley) Dan will have the suits. xxv. Kendra- Posters will be in your boxes. xxvi. Kalen- We have a sign u sheet for eole to do stuff. We will have a booth at lunch next week. For Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. xxvii. Joy- When is there going to be an announcement? Peole need to have been told a week early. xxviii. Seth- There will be a tomorrow. xxix. Joy- Are we saying eole should vote yes? xxx. Kendra- They are reatives and they can share how they feel. Put it in your newsletter. xxxi. Seth- We will rint stuff ASAP. Student Elections Committee will set elections timeline next week. Obe Quarless a. Can we have the off camus res share i. There have been comlaints about off camus students being to loud by neighbors. As a school we cannot unish them, but we would like to ask eole to have some resect for the fact that they do re Whitworth even off camus. We should try to work on having Sringfest be more community involving. ii. Obe- Brian Benzel will be coming to talk to us. b. All students are invited to join the Washington Student Leadershi Forum in Olymia with the Governors rayer breakfast. Discover the essence of leadershi through Jesus. Terry McGonigal will be the faculty Chaerone for the tri. Lily grant will ay half of the One Hundred dollar cost. We would like to send twenty students. March 5 th -7 th. i. Michelle- There were a ton of great seakers last year. I really areciated it. It is great for networking. I made connections in the Business community and legislature. ii. Contact Obe or Terry McGonigal c. Tray-less udate- At this oint we don t know exactly how much we have been saving. At the end of February we should have a solid idea of how much we are saving. d. Prejudice Across American will be doing a grou ation Feb 9 th at 7m in the Robinson Teaching Theatre. e. Katie- Class of 2009 is graduating this year. Yahh!! i. We will have the Grad fair Feb 18 th where seniors buy announcements and cas and gowns, financial aid will have loan info, health center will have info also. ii. Feb 24 th seniors can take yearbook ictures again. iii. Drs. Sardinia and Pierce are the most influential rofs for the year. iv. Boat cruise will haen in May. v. Please ut the grad fair in the newsletters. Vibes a. David- How can we cut costs for books?

6 IX. b. John- Tray-less seems silly if we are tossing all the dishes during break and the food was not that great. Communicating oen hours would be nice. We had a lot of comlaints with food for Jan term. c. Morgan- The dishwasher broke down over break. d. Seth The Burrito stand is not oen ast 1:30 anymore. e. Patrick- Fitness Center is over crowded. f. Emily Ventilation is oor. g. Aaron- Track is using facilities inside which is adding to the roblem. Meeting Adjourned: The Meeting was adjourned at 6:29m Submitted by: Aroved by: Tyler Hamilton ASWU Secretary Obe Quarless, ASWU President

7 Aendix 1 UNOFFICIAL Sring 2009 Proosal 1 to the Whitworth Student Body Proosal 1 involves a significant and greatly needed reorganization of ASWU s reative structure. If assed, this action will rewrite Section 2 of Article V in the ASWU Constitution. This rewrite will reflect a decision to move to a zone based system of electing reatives. The language of Section 2 of Article V will read as follows: Article V. Organizational Structure: Legislative Assembly Rationale Section 2. Reation a. Housing Districts: The Shalom Center, Schumacher, and the Village as well as the grouing of all Theme Houses are considered to have a constituency so small that giving them a senator would create disroortionate reation. Thus they shall be laced in grous as follows and those grouings shall be called housing districts: i. Schumacher with McMillan (Mac/Schu) ii. The Village with Stewart (Stewart/Village) iii. Theme Houses with Shalom Center (Theme/Shalom) b. Zones: All residence halls, the Housing district reed above, and the off-camus community shall be laced in one of six zones as follows: i. Zone 1 Off-camus, Theme/Shalom ii. Zone 2 Ballard, Mac/Schu iii. Zone 3 Warren iv. Zone 4 BJ, Arend v. Zone 5 Duvall, East vi. Zone 6 Stewart/Village, Boell c. Senators: Each residence hall, and the off-camus zone (zone 1) shall have a senator whose term shall consist of one academic year. d. Reatives: Those zones made u of on-camus constituencies shall have a reative if their total oulation exceeds 220. The off-camus zone shall have one reative elected by the general off-camus oulation and one reative elected by the residents of the Theme house/shalom Center housing district. With the excetion of the off-camus reative, all reatives shall have a term of one academic year and be elected at the beginning of the academic year for which they serve. The off-camus reative shall serve a term of academic year and be elected during the year receding their year of service. This restructuring is intended to alleviate inefficiencies resulting from over reation generated by the current system. With the oening of the new dorm next year, ASWU will consist of ten senators, eleven reative, three executives, eight coordinators, and a variety of suort characters. With so many articiating in assembly meetings it becomes exceedingly difficult to make quality decisions in a timely manner. Furthermore, as the legislative body grows, more and more of the budget must be allocated to salaries. With the change roosed above, six reative ositions would be eliminated, reducing salaries and making ASWU a more efficient organization. Organization Once this new wording is imlemented, reation will be organized in the following manner:

8 Zone Proosal Members Resective Poulations Total Po. # Senator & Com. # Res. & Com. 1. Offcamus, Theme/Shalom x 8 2 x 3 2. Ballard, Mac/Schu x 8 3. Warren x 8 1 x 3 4. BJ, Arend x 8 1 x 3 5. Duvall, East x 8 1 x 3 6. Stewart/village, Boell x 8 Total 15 Range hrs 15hrs 95hrs x Minimum Job Descritions It is imortant to note that Senators will continue to serve in the much the same caacity they always have. Senators will ublish newsletters, organize traditional events, and facilitate community service activities within their resective dorms. As matter of internal organization, a senator is exected to suort the other senator(s) within their resective zone. The role of reatives on the other hand will change considerably. As reatives will be elected on a zone by zone basis, they are charged will reing a broader constituency instead of the residents within a articular residence hall. Reatives also have the job of suorting the senators within their zone in organizing dorm events and service rojects. Measure of Cost Savings Reatives serve for 7 to 8 months and receive comensation at a rate 12hrs/month at minimum wage (currently $8.55). Every January Minimum wage readjusted and in 2010 minimum wage is estimated to reach around $8.80. With the elimination of six reative ositions ASWU will save aroximately $4500 during the academic year. The mathematical breakdown of these estimates follows: (5-7 month ositions) (3 x 12 x $8.55) + (4 x 12 x $8.80) x 5= $ (1-8 month osition) (4 x 12 x $8.55) + (4 x 12 x $8.80) x 1= $ $ In addition to the reduction in salaries, less membershi will reduce other costs related to training activities, ukee, bureaucracy, and other circumstantial costs. The amount saved in these various exense areas is difficult to estimate, but should rove substantial. Future Growth Within a few years an additional residence hall will be added to the East side of the camus. Under the current system the new residence hall would require an extra senator and reative. Under the roosed zoning system this residence hall would fit into Zone 6, relacing the Village. As this zone s oulation would then exceed 220 it should receive a reative, but this will not haen as a senator will be elected to the new dorm adding to the zone its third voting member. With this contingency in lace ASWU will only grow by one member instead of two, which results in the realization of further cost savings. The following table shows how this future change will alter the organizational structure: Zone Proosal (Future) Members Resective Poulations Total Po. # Senators & Com. # Res. & Com. 1. Offcamus, Theme/Shalom x 8 2 x 3 2. Ballard, Mac/Schu x 8 3. Warren x 8 1 x 3 4. BJ, Arend x 8 1 x 3 5. Duvall, East x 8 1 x 3 6. Stewart, Boell, New x 8 Total 16 Range hrs 15hrs 103hrs x Minimum Attached Documents: Organizational Table of Current System for w/considerations for future growth and ossible overflow Revised Article V of the ASWU Constitution

9 Organizational Table of Current System for w/considerations for future growth and ossible overflow Current System # of # of Over Total Senators # ofres. Flow Res. Senators Res. Po. & Com. & Com. & Com Off-camus x 8 3 x 3 3 x 3 Ballard x 8 Mac/Schu x 8 1 x 3 1 x 3 Warren x 8 2 x 3 2 x 3 BJ 1 1(2) x 8 1 x 3 2 x 3 Stewart/Village x 8 1 x 3 1 x 3 Duvall x 8 1 x 3 1 x 3 East x 8 1 x 3 1 x 3 Arend 1 1(2) x 8 1 x 3 2 x 3 Boell x 8 Range hrs 33hrs 39hrs Total Total hrs x Minimum Current System (Future) Senators Res. Total Po. # of Senators & Com. # of Res. & Com. # of Over Flow Res. & Com Off-camus x 8 3 x 3 3 x 3 Ballard x 8 Mac/Schu x 8 1 x 3 1 x 3 Warren x 8 2 x 3 2 x 3 BJ 1 1(2) x 8 1 x 3 2 x 3 Stewart/Village x 8 1 x 3 1 x 3 Duvall x 8 1 x 3 1 x 3 East x 8 1 x 3 1 x 3 Arend 1 1(2) x 8 1 x 3 2 x 3 Boell x 8 New x 8 1 x 3 Range hrs 36hrs 42hrs Total Total hrs x Minimum

10 Revised Article V. Organizational Structure: Legislative Assembly Section 1. Comosition The legislative body, herein called the Assembly, shall consist of senators and reatives. Section 2. Reation a. Housing Districts: The Shalom Center, Schumacher, and the Village as well as the grouing of all Theme Houses are considered to have a constituency so small that giving them a senator would create disroortionate reation. Thus they shall be laced in grous as follows and those grouings shall be called housing districts: i. Schumacher with MacMillan (Mac/Schu) ii. The Village with Stewart (Stewart/Village) iii. Theme Houses with Shalom Center (Theme/Shalom) b. Zones: All residence halls, the Housing district reed above, and the off-camus community shall be laced in one of six zones as follows: i. Zone 1 Off-camus, Theme/Shalom ii. Zone 2 Ballard, Mac/Schu iii. Zone 3 Warren iv. Zone 4 BJ, Arend v. Zone 5 Duvall, East vi. Zone 6 Stewart/Village, Boell c. Senators: Each residence hall, and the off-camus zone shall have a senator whose term shall consist of one academic year.

11 d. Reatives: Those zones made u of on-camus constituencies shall have a reative if their total oulation exceeds 220. The off-camus zone shall have one reative elected by the general off-camus oulation and one reative elected by the residents of the Theme house/shalom Center oulation. With the excetion of the off-camus reative, all reatives shall have a term of one academic year and be elected at the beginning of the academic year for which they serve. The off-camus reative shall serve a term of academic year and be elected during the year receding their year of service. Section 3. Meetings The Assembly shall convene within one week of the commencement of each semester and shall also meet at least once during the January term. UNOFFICIAL Sring 2009 Proosal 2 to the Whitworth Student Body Proosal 2 involves a change to the ASWU constitution. If assed this action will remove Section 2 of Article V on the makeu ASWU s legislative assembly from the ASWU constitution and resituate the language as Section 1 of Article II in the ASWU bylaws. As a current section of the constitution any change to the reation structure requires a 2/3 vote in the affirmative from the student body. Resituating Section 2 of Article V in the bylaws allows ASWU to restructure the reative system with a 2/3 vote in the affirmative from the convening assembly. (Note: Section 3 of Article 5 in the ASWU constitution will be reclassified as Section 2. Furthermore, all sections of Article II in the ASWU bylaws will be reclassified at one numeral higher than classification in order to make room added section. [For clarity see the attached drafts of the roosed constitution and bylaws]. Furthermore, Section 1 of Article V in the ASWU constitution shall be exanded to include a rovision which secures each residence hall s ability to elect an assembly member to re its culture, needs, and oinions. In resonse to these changes an additional section (Section 8) will be added to Article V of the ASWU bylaws checking the assembly s ability to make changes to the reation structure without first seeking student oinion. Rationale This change in rocess is seen as an effective solution to many of the inefficiencies which arise during the cumbersome rocess of reorganizing ASWU to fit Whitworth s dynamic needs. With the high rate of growth in student oulation and the regular addition of new residence halls to the camus, maintaining an efficient and effective student government has grown exceedingly difficult. Given the current system of reorganization, making the necessary adjustments to the reation structure requires a great deal of time, effort and coordination which hinders ASWU s ability to make those adjustments in a timely manner. Checks and Balances The revision of Section 1 of Article V in the constitution and the addition of Section 8 to Article II of the bylaws are seen as necessary measures to check the assemblies ability to make significant and overarching changes to the reative structure. In rewriting Section 1 of Article V in the constitution a basic framework is rovided for how ASWU must structure the Legislative assembly. More secifically, this new language assures that no change made to the reation structure will end the ractice of allowing each residence hall to elect at least one member of the assembly to re them. The language of this revised section follows: Section 1. Comosition The legislative body, herein called the Assembly, shall consist of senators and reatives. Each residence hall shall elect at least one senator or reative to the Legislative Assembly, excet in the case of residence halls where the constituency base is so small that it would disroortionate reation. In such cases the Assembly is required rovide a solution which would allow these smaller residence halls to vote for and be reed by another residence hall s senator or reative. As a manner of rotocol ASWU will seek student oinion through constituency reorts and/or camus surveys before making significant changes to reation structure. In order to reflect ASWU dedication to follow this rotocol, Section 8 will be added to Article II of the bylaws and read: Section 8. Restructuring Legislative Assembly It is a matter of great imortance that students are given the chance to influence any ossible restructuring of the reation system. In order to maintain the integrity of ASWU s decision making rocess, the assembly will seek student oinion through constituency reorts and/or camus surveys before making broad changes to Section 1 of this article. Summary In ractice, these changes will result in a streamlined rocess where members of ASWU will recognize the need for some adjustment to the reative structure, formulate a lan for restructuring, seek student oinion, reformulate the lan as needed, and finally vote on and imlement the lan. Attached Documents Revised Article V of the ASWU Constitution

12 Revised Article II of the ASWU Bylaws Proosed Changes to Article V Constitution Highlighted ortions indicate a change Article V. Organizational Structure: Legislative Assembly Section 1. Comosition The legislative body, herein called the Assembly, shall consist of senators and reatives. Each residence hall shall elect at least one senator or reative to the Legislative Assembly, excet in the case of residence halls where the constituency base is so small that it would disroortionate reation. In such cases the Assembly is required rovide a solution which would allow these smaller residence halls to vote for and be reed by another residence hall s senator or reative. [Section 2 Removed] Section 3 [Reclassified as Section 2]. Meetings The Assembly shall convene within one week of the commencement of each semester and shall also meet at least once during the January term. Proosed Changes to Article II of ASWU Bylaws Highlighted ortions indicate a change Article II. Legislative Assembly Section 1. Reation a. Senators: Each residence hall and the off-camus constituency shall have a senator whose term shall consist of one academic year. b. Reatives: Each residence hall shall add one reative to the Assembly for every 85 ersons who live in that residence hall for a term of one academic year. No residence hall shall have

13 more than two reatives and the off-camus constituency (including all theme houses) shall have no more than three reatives. c. Secial Circumstances: If there is a circumstance where a residence hall s constituency base is so small that it would disroortionately affect equal reation on the Assembly, the Student Elections Committee must roose a lan to solve the roblem. This roosal must then be taken to the Assembly where it must be aroved by a two-thirds vote in order to take effect. [All following sections renumbered as ed] Section 2. Voting Philosohy a. Senators and reatives are not obligated to vote according to the majority oinion of their constituents, but they should make every effort to assure their vote reflects the best interests of their constituency. b. Senators and reatives must reort back to their constituency their decisions on voting matters. Section 3. Assembly Meetings a. All Assembly agenda items must be set and aroved by the resident. b. All aerwork must be comleted and submitted to the aroriate executive officer at least 24 hours rior to the meeting. c. If a ation must be made to the Assembly regarding resolutions or student concerns, the resident must be contacted to rovide an exlanation of rocedure, make certain that all aerwork has been done correctly, and rovide a date and time for the ation. d. All Assembly meetings shall be run in accordance with standard arliamentary rocedure. e. At the beginning of each meeting a roll call shall be taken. A member may be either, absent, excused, or late. An excused member is one who has informed the executive viceresident and has found a roxy to take his/her lace. f. An Assembly member who must be absent is required to adequately inform his/her roxy rior to the Assembly meetings and obtain the necessary information from that roxy after the Assembly meeting. g. Under normal circumstances, a roxy must be aroved 24 hours rior to the Assembly meeting. h. A roxy cannot re a living area in which he/she does not reside. i. Secial meetings may be called by the resident or by a majority vote of the Assembly and shall be called 24 hours in advance. j. All executive officers, Assembly members, and media heads are required to attend all meetings. One unexcused absence shall result in a meeting with the executive vice-resident. Two unexcused absences shall result in a meeting with the Review Board. Section 4. Senator The senator s job descrition shall be osted on the ASWU website. Financial Comensation: Senators shall be comensated for eight hours a week at minimum wage. Senators who are elected in the sring shall be comensated for eight months (Setember through Aril) and senators who are elected in the fall shall be comensated for seven months (October through Aril). Section 5. Off-Camus Senator The off camus senator s job descrition shall be osted on the ASWU website Financial Comensation: The off-camus senator shall be comensated for eight hours a week at minimum wage for eight months (Setember through Aril). Section 6. Reative The reative job descrition shall be osted on the ASWU website. Financial Comensation; Reatives shall be comensated for three hours a week at minimum wage. Reatives shall be comensated for seven months (October through Aril), with the excetion of Shumacher which shall be elected in the sring and comensated for eight months (Setember through Aril). Section 7. Off-Camus Reative The off-camus reative job descrition shall be osted on the ASWU website. Financial Comensation: Reatives shall be comensated for three hours a week at minimum wage. Off-camus reatives shall be comensated for eight months (Setember through Aril). Section 8. Restructuring Legislative Assembly

14 It is a matter of great imortance that students are given the chance to influence any ossible restructuring of the reation system. In order to maintain the integrity of ASWU s decision making rocess, the assembly will seek student oinion through constituency reorts and/or camus surveys before making broad changes to Section 1 of this article.