Meeting #7 March 22, 2015 Room #273 AGENDA

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1 Meeting #7 March 22, 2015 Room #273 GEND I. CLL TO ORDER II. ROLL CLL 10:00 M E-BORD Office Name Start End resident Tyler Sims Vice resident Franklin Barbosa Evening Vice Michael De Jianne resident Secretary Noel Thomas Treasurer Svjetlana Tesic Social Chair Steph Brown arliamentarian Mel owers SENTE Office Name Start End 4L Senator Melissa Cahir rianna Moure 3L Senator Daniel Gilbert Ghalib Mahmoud Vani arti lex Yarbrough Mark Bittner lan Blankstein James Debartolo 3LE Senator Benjamin Lindeman Jessica Magliette 2L Senator Mariam l-qudah Jill Colban Franklin Chou

2 gostino Zammiello Colleen King 2LE Senator Nedda lvarez Edward Collins 1L Senator aul grapidis Joseph Dellera Dominic DiLeo Brendan Kelly Chelsea Ott my Sachs 1LE Senator Eric Lee Sarah Wilbur No. resent: 17/26 No. resent: Quorum: YES Organization rab Law Student ssociation sian acific merican Law Students ssociation Black Law Student ssociation Corporate Law Society Employment Law Forum Entertainment and Sports Law Society Environmental Law Society Evening Student Forum Health Law Forum Intellectual roperty Law ssociation International Start

3 Law Society Irish merican Student Law Society Jewish Law Student ssociation LMBD Law lliance Latin merican Law Student ssociation Muslim Law Students ssociation hi lpha Delta ublic Interest Network Real Estate Law Society Rodino Society Sports Club St. Thomas Moore Student nimal Legal Defense Fund Tax Law Society Student Veteran s ssociation Women s Law Forum III. MOMENT OF SILENCE IV. SECIL RESENTTION a. Janet LeMonnier Executive Director of Communications i. Wants to introduce communications to the students and figure out what information students need from the administration. ii. Her office provides strategic and implementation support for Seton Hall Law to build and sustain relationships.

4 iii. Encourages students take advantage of all the communication channels present at the law school. erhaps improve LawNet page to improve its effectiveness. iv. lso wants students to stop by her office if students ever need anything. and complete the survey and return it to her. V. UBLIC INUT a. LLS: pril 18 th at Brooklyn Law School from 9-5 Lante Conference i. Register at metrolalsa.org. b. LS: i. Elections will be taking place in the last weeks of pril as well as the E-board transition dinner. c. RELS i. pril 7 th 1. There will be four speakers with rofessor Franzese moderating the panel about the administrate procedures of the Fair Housing ct.there will be a networking event after. d. Senator Wilbur: dmitted Students Event on March 27, 2015 and pril 13, Katya Valasek for more information. VI. ROVL OF MINUTES a. pproval of Meeting Minutes i. Senator Wilbur motioned to approve the Meeting Minutes. 1. Senator lvarez seconded the motion to approve the Meeting Minutes. 2. ll in favor -2 bstentions- Senator Dellera and Senator grapidis because neither either attended the previous meeting. VII. OFFICER REORTS a. Tyler Sims, resident i. Dean Search Student Sessions 3/23, 3/25, and 3/30 at 4:30-6pm in the 5th Floor Faculty Library 1. Encourages all students to attend if they do not have class, especially because a dean s search does not happen very often. 2. Students can also attend a reception if they cannot attend the question and answer sessions. 3. Senator lvarez: Want to make the SB aware that on 3/25 and other Wednesdays until the end of the semester evening students will have a make up from 4:30pm to 6:00pm to the end of the semester. ii. SB Blog page 1. Encourage students to visit the page at blogs.shu.edu/sba 2. dd link to the blog to your respective social media page iii. Important Dates 1. SB Meeting Dates (in Room 10am) a. 4/19 (assing of the Gavel) 2. 3/23 3/27: SB Elections

5 a. The goes out tomorrow and closes Friday at 1:00 pm. b. The E-Board candidates can reach out to teachers and make speeches. c. There will be speeches for the contested positions from 5:30 pm 6:00pm on Tuesday in the Student Lounge. Uncontested candidates do not have to give speeches. Only E-Board members can table and senators can only use word of mouth campaigns. i. Senator lvarez: For the 1Ls, senators cannot endorse other candidates by wearing t-shirts, etc. ii. resident Sims: Encourages senators not endorse because it gives the idea of ticketing. 3. 3/23: Womens Law Forum and BLS - Knowing Our Worth: Ways to Frame and Reclaim the romise of Equality from 5-7pm in the 5th Floor Faculty Library a. Representative Vanessa Coleman: The event is in Room /24: Employer review and Externship Expo from 4-6pm at the Newark Club a. resident Sims pushes students to attend this event. The administration does a lot to get attorneys from big firms to come to these events. i. Senator Wilbur: What if you want to go now but the deadline has passed? 1. resident Sims: Maria Capra if you would like to go. 5. 3/25: Exclusive Screening of Selma at 4:45pm in the Larsen uditorium a. resident Sims: The movie will start at 5:00 pm. b. Molly: lease register early because Molly reserved ticket priority for students over alumni and corporations so please register today if you would like to go. 6. 3/26: Health Law Forum - Calling The Shots On Vaccination: Mandatory Vaccination Of Health Care Workers at 5pm in the 5th Floor Faculty Library 7. 4/8: Take Back the Night from TBD a. Molly: This year Take Back the Night will not be done with Rutgers so this year we must make an effort to show up. b. resident Sims: This was a powerful event last year; encourages students to attend this event. 8. 4/10 4/11: UV Softball Tournament b. Franklin Barbosa, Vice resident c. Michael De Jianne, Evening Vice resident d. Svjetlana Tesic, Treasurer i. Budget Status

6 e. Noel Thomas, Secretary i. Legislative Material and genda ii. Organization Nameplates f. Steph Brown, Social Chair g. Mel owers, arliamentarian i. Thanks to Senator Moure for all the work she is doing. VIII. COMMITTEE REORTS a. cademics & Curriculum Committee Senator arti i. No update. b. Career Opportunities Committee Senator Collins i. No updates. c. Community ffairs & Outreach Committee Senator Zammiello i. Tried to arrange the Fight for ir event on March 28th at the Gateway Center with a student deal but it was unsuccessful. ii. Senator King: You must have the $100 minimum per person plus the $25 to register. iii. arliamentarian owers: There is Cherry Blossom 10K on pril 10 th weekend. d. Governance Committee Senator Moure i. Will discuss later. e. Facilities Committee Senator Yarbrough i. No updates. f. Lawyering & Skills Committee Senator Ott i. Met with rofessor Grosz who talked to Dean St. Romain. There will be an evaluation at the end of the semester to better gauge the new program. g. irate ride Committee Senator lvarez i. Senator grapidis will speak with the Sports Club president for a sports tournament. There seems to be an SB event for a lounge re-opening. ii. Hopes to have a irate ride event where everyone wears blue on a certain day. Looking into making wrist bands and wants to make Seton Hall Law ones. iii. resident Sims: With respect to the lounge re-opening, it will be a re-opening party and also an award ceremony for the professor of the year. iv. Senator grapidis: The idea the committee was thinking about a tournament for all the different activities in the student lounge and crown the best player in each of those activities.

7 IX. FCULTY COMMITTEE MEMBER REORTS a. ppointments b. dmissions/financial id i. Senator lvarez: dmissions is considering changing the admission process to add more character and fitness questions to face issues that have been coming up with candidates who have had these issues. c. Journals d. Library/IT e. Clerkships f. Curriculum g. DSC h. Graduation i. The Graduation committee has been formed and the process began for selecting student speaker and singers. ii. resident Sims: The law school has gone up to #63. From the schools we directly compete with, only Seton Hall Law and Temple has risen 22 places and 17 places respectively. i. robation/grievance j. Facilities X. COUNSEL CUCUS XI. XII. OLD BUSINESS a. pproval of mendment 2 (02/15/15 SB Meeting) i. Senator Moure: Moves to withdraw mendment 2. NEW BUSINESS a. pproval of Dissolution of Intro to Lawyering Committee proposed by Senator Ott (see attached) i. Senator Ott: The committee has been meeting and believes that it is at a point where it can be absorbed in to the cademics and Curriculum Committee. 1. Senator Moure: Moves to remove Intro to Lawyering Committee. 2. resident Sims: oint of Information: oints attention to rticle 6 Section 5(b). The reason he pointed that amendment out is because the constitution requires certain committees to be in existence. Mandatory committees cannot be dissolved a. Senator Lee seconds the motion to remove the Intro to Lawyering Committee. b. ll in favor. c. The Intro to Lawyering Committee is removed. b. pproval of Constitutional amendments proposed by Secretary Thomas (see attached) i. Constitutional mendment 1: 1. Senator Dellera motions to approve mendment #1. 2. Senator Ott seconds the motion to approve mendment #1. 3. Roll Call Vote

8 Office Name Start 4L Senator Melissa Cahir rianna Moure Y 3L Senator Daniel Gilbert Y Ghalib Mahmoud Vani arti lex Yarbrough Mark Bittner lan Blankstein Y James Debartolo Y 3LE Senator Benjamin Lindeman Y Jessica Magliette Y 2L Senator Mariam l-qudah Jill Colban Y Franklin Chou Y gostino Zammiello Y Colleen King Y 2LE Senator Nedda lvarez Y Edward Collins 1L Senator aul grapidis Y Joseph Dellera Y Dominic DiLeo Y Brendan Kelly Y Chelsea Ott Y my Sachs Y 1LE Senator Eric Lee Y Sarah Wilbur Y 4. mendment passes. ii. Constitutional mendment 2: 1. Senator Moure motions to approve mendment # Senator Sachs seconds the motion to approve mendment # Roll Call Vote Office Name Start 4L Senator Melissa Cahir rianna Moure Y 3L Senator Daniel Gilbert Y Ghalib Mahmoud Vani arti lex Yarbrough Mark Bittner lan Blankstein Y James Debartolo Y 3LE Senator Benjamin Lindeman Y

9 Jessica Magliette Y 2L Senator Mariam l-qudah Jill Colban Y Franklin Chou Y gostino Zammiello Y Colleen King Y 2LE Senator Nedda lvarez Y Edward Collins 1L Senator aul grapidis Y Joseph Dellera Y Dominic DiLeo Y Brendan Kelly Y Chelsea Ott Y my Sachs Y 1LE Senator Eric Lee Y Sarah Wilbur Y 4. mendment #2 passes. iii. Constitutional mendment #3 1. Secretary Thomas: There are too many special elections and they cost money, burden the Honor Council and SB. 2. Senator Chou: So the vacancy won t be filled outside of those two special elections? 3. resident Sims: Only contested positions, the others will be automatically filled. 4. Senator Moure: oint of information: It was a reaction to us not being able to pass legislation with enough votes because of all the vacancies. This gives less burden to the HC to fill the seats, their main burden is to uphold the Honor Code. 5. Senator Magliette: Motions to approve mendment # 3. a. Senator DiLeo seconds the motion to approve mendment #3. Office Name Start 4L Senator Melissa Cahir rianna Moure Y 3L Senator Daniel Gilbert Y Ghalib Mahmoud Vani arti lex Yarbrough Mark Bittner lan Blankstein Y James Debartolo Y 3LE Senator Benjamin Lindeman Y Jessica Magliette Y 2L Senator Mariam l-qudah Jill Colban Y Franklin Chou Y

10 gostino Zammiello Y Colleen King Y 2LE Senator Nedda lvarez Y Edward Collins 1L Senator aul grapidis Y Joseph Dellera Y Dominic DiLeo Y Brendan Kelly Y Chelsea Ott Y my Sachs Y 1LE Senator Eric Lee Y Sarah Wilbur Y b. SB approves mendment # 3 via roll call vote. iv. Constitutional mendment # 4 1. Secretary Thomas: This is a clean-up amendment. Take out two conflicting definitions of quorum. 2. resident Sims: oint of information: On page 7, there is the constitutional quorum definition. 3. arliamentarian owers: Deferring to Robert s rules 4. Senator Ott: Motions to approve mendment # 4. a. Senator lvarez seconds the motion to approve mendment # 4. Office Name Start 4L Senator Melissa Cahir rianna Moure Y 3L Senator Daniel Gilbert Y Ghalib Mahmoud Vani arti lex Yarbrough Mark Bittner lan Blankstein Y James Debartolo Y 3LE Senator Benjamin Lindeman Y Jessica Magliette Y 2L Senator Mariam l-qudah Jill Colban Y Franklin Chou Y gostino Zammiello Y Colleen King Y 2LE Senator Nedda lvarez Y Edward Collins 1L Senator aul grapidis Y Joseph Dellera Y Dominic DiLeo Y

11 Brendan Kelly Y Chelsea Ott Y my Sachs Y 1LE Senator Eric Lee Y Sarah Wilbur Y b. mendment # 4 passes via roll call vote. c. pproval of Election by-laws amendments proposed by Senator Moure (see attached) i. Senator Moure: Would like to propose a friendly amendment to number 1. ii. Senator Lee: Motion to recess for 5 minutes. 1. Senator Dellera: Seconds the motion to recess for 5 minutes. iii. arliamentarian owers: oint of information: Go through the amendment in full and then go back and vote on item by item. iv. Senator Blankstein: What does #2 entail? v. Senator Moure: It outlines the procedure that the honor council follows so the accused is aware of the process and procedures. vi. Senator Moure: art B: added the Director of Student Services as a friendly amendment. vii. Senator Moure: art B (1): includes but is not limited to statements from all parties involved 1. Senator Moure discussed with Honor Council chair to reach a happy medium. viii. Senator Moure: Subsection 4 of part D ix. resident Sims: Can you go up and explain the change for #3 and #4? x. Senator Moure: Updated to the sanctions in order of severity. xi. Senator lvarez: oint of information: Does the honor council have to follow this? xii. Senator Moure: Not necessarily. xiii. resident Sims: Met with Josh and will make clear to the next chair of the honor council to follow the election bylaws. xiv. Senator Moure: art (f): The decision of the Honor Council shall remain confidential except as to the parties involved. breach in confidentiality will result in separate violation of the honor code dded to give more confidentiality to the accused. xv. Senator Moure: art G xvi. Senator Moure: Clean up to the governance committee language in Section VII xvii. Treasurer Tesic: oint of information: what about the hearing language and does this mean that the accused will know all the members of the honor council. 1. Senator Moure: No only the Chair will oversee the process and not the original members. xviii. resident Sims: Thank you rianna xix. arliamentarian owers: oint of order: Someone has to ask to divide the amendment into pieces or the whole thing 1. Senator Dellera: Motion to separate discussion by paragraph

12 a. Senator Blankstein seconded the motion separate discussion by paragraph. i. ll in favor. 2. aragraph 1 a. Senator Moure: Motion to limit speakers 90 seconds per speaker. b. Senator Lee seconded the motion to limit speakers 90 seconds per speaker. 3. resident Sims: ny discussion? 4. aragraph 2 a. resident Sims: ny discussion? i. Senator Blankstein: Do they inform you of the contents of their process? ii. Senator Moure: The purpose of this is to inform members of how the appeals procedure works for members who are not necessarily in the SB. iii. Senator King: re there any parties involved besides the parties involved? iv. Senator Moure: in the past other people knew v. Senator King: Can they talk to a 3 rd party with permission? vi. Senator Moure: oint of clarification: breach of confidentially has its own consequences. vii. Molly: oint of clarification: In the past other candidates were interviewed in the investigation process viii. Senator Ott: The language does not preclude bringing in someone else? ix. resident Sims: Correct. x. Senator Moure: You don t need to kept up to date with the process unless you are involved. 5. aragraph (B) a. Senator Blankstein: Is there a frequency of the updates? i. Senator Moure: No, not of now. The hope is that they do it in good faith. ii. resident Sims: oint of information: This process happens relatively iii. Secretary Thomas: add a reasonable time period iv. Senator Moure: friendly amendment: provide updates within a reasonable time period. v. resident Sims: roposes with timely updates prior to the final decision. vi. Senator Moure: roposes with timely updates prior to the final decision. vii. Senator Wilbur: re the updates separate from the results of the investigation?

13 viii. Senator King: dd comma after updates ix. arliamentarian owers: oint of order: one speaker on the list x. Senator Dellera: The language is with timely updates and wants to removes prior to the final decision xi. Senator Moure: Wants to keep that language xii. Treasurer Tesic: Wants to add final results and take out prior decision language. xiii. Senator DeBartolo: What can a person do with these updates? xiv. Senator Moure: To get the accused apprised of the process xv. Senator Moure: removes prior to the final decision and final results language xvi. Senator Kind: wants to add timely results and separate final results language. xvii. Senator Moure: ccepts colleen s statements xviii. arliamentarian owers: Can you read B in its entirety? xix. Senator Dellera: removes the and after the first clause in part B and add a comma after investigation xx. Senator grapidis: add to only the parties involved and the director of student services after taken xxi. Senator Moure: is amenable to all these changes xxii. arliamentarian ower: point of order: start with your suggestions and then proceed to state your friendly amendment xxiii. Secretary Thomas: what is purpose of the appeal language? xxiv. Senator King: after or take out the violation and also xxv. Treasurer Tesic: How long is this appeal process going to take and the honor council does not have to follow? xxvi. Senator Moure: Goes back to process. You should have a right to an appeal. xxvii. Senator Zammiello: Won t they find out? xxviii. resident Sims: No it is confidential xxix. Treasurer Tesic: oint of info: Trying to protect the accused xxx. Senator Moure: This amendment helps protect the accused in the process and helps determines violations easier. 6. aragraph B (1) a. No discussion 7. Changing the number of number 3 to number 4 and number 4 to number aragraph D (4)(b)

14 a. No discussion 9. aragraph F: a. Senator lvarez: add if after or 10. art G: a. resident Sims: ny discussion? b. Senator Moure: Wants to know if senate wants to add a timeline for the appeals process c. Treasurer Tesic: The only this would work is if they split themselves before this process and then there would be some members of the honor council not involved in the process from the outset. d. resident Sims: oint of information: there are 9 members of the honor council including the chair. e. Senator Blankstein: I think you would want to have an appeals process. f. Senator Moure: grees with Senator Blankstein and Treasurer Tesic, wants to add that language. g. Senator King: Can we make them split for an appeal? h. resident Sims: oint of information: You can say that but they don t have to follow it. i. Senator King: wants to add a provision for split. j. Secretary Thomas: The chair will be on both the original and the appeals committee so he will most likely vote the same way twice k. Treasurer Tesic: Emphasized Secretary Thomas concern. l. Senator Magliette: can we use less than the full panel of the honor council? m. Senator Moure: This is all in their discretion. The honor council will figure it out. n. Senator Magliette: Can we put in the language when we recommend that the honor council divides and also specify that we want an uneven amount of members? o. Senator Moure: agrees with Senator Magliette to set up a suggestion for when and how many members the split should entail. p. Treasurer Tesic: This is an election code violation, correct? n appeal would just be re-doing the same thing. Encourages other people to speak. q. Senator Zammiello: how frequent are these violations? r. Molly: There are two in ten years. s. Senator Zammiello: Doesn t see the point of us telling the honor council what to do? t. Senator Ott: The honor council can do what they think is best. u. Senator DiLeo: grees with what Senator Ott said. n appeal in this situation would take away from any legitimacy that the honor council has.

15 v. Senator Sachs: grees with Senator Ott and Senator DiLeo. It would not effect much change especially if the honor council chair is on both sides. w. Senator grapidis: grees with Senator Ott and maybe should strike G(1). We should have faith in the honor council to proceed how they do in the election process. x. Senator Colban: We can t force them to abide by any of these amendments, correct? y. resident Sims: Yes, none of these have to be followed. z. Senator Colban: Understand the importance of the purpose but feels as though all these are useless to a degree. She does not see the point of it. aa. Senator Magliette: n appeal would be beneficial only if the same members of the council are not on the appeal board. bb. resident Sims: oint of clarification: the honor council has been good in following the election bylaws cc. Senator Moure: If we don t like one rule, maybe we should accept all of them. don t let the fact that they don t necessarily have to follow the bylaws affect your decision. dd. Senator Blankstein: There must be an appeals process. even if the honor council doesn t have to follow the rules we propose. ee. Senator Sachs: re the decisions unanimous? ff. resident Sims: no gg. arliamentarian owers: oint of order: there are several options we can do. hh. Senator grapidis: grees with Senator Blankstein and Senator Moure. grees is subsection 1 redundant with honor code. ii. Senator Moure: This is not outlined in the honor code. jj. Senator Yarbrough: Can the SB appoint a supervisor of election that runs the election? kk. Secretary Thomas: Election violations are not of the same caliber as honor code violations so they should not deserve the same appeals process. lso the honor council is impartial. Only the chair knows the name of the parties and the members do not which furthers their impartiality. ll. Treasurer Tesic: Reemphasized Secretary Thomas points. Doesn t see how an appeal process will help. mm. Senator Moure: Wants to add more levels of review similar to the US court system and wants to add more consistency: i. Senator Colban: Motion to end discussion 1. Senator Dellera seconded the motion to end discussion. 11. Section 7(a) a. resident Sims: ny discussion? 12. arliamentarian owers: point of information: If you motion to vote by paragraph, we can split or we have to vote on the entire thing

16 13. Senator lvarez: motion to vote by paragraph. a. Senator Lee: Seconds the motion to vote by paragraph. i. ll in favor. 14. Senator Yarbrough: point of clarification: is discussion over? 15. arliamentarian owers: yes all discussion 16. Section 6()(1) a. Secretary Thomas: Motion to vote by show of hands for all amendments today. i. Senator Dellera: Seconded the motion to vote by show of hands for all amendments today. ii. ll in favor Yes iii. The motion passes. 17. Section 2 a. 18 Yes, 1 bstention. 18. Section B a. 16 Yes, 1 No, 2 bstentions 19. Section B(1) a. 17 Yes 1 No, 1 bstention 20. Section D 4 a. 18 Yes, 1 bstention 21. Section 4(b) a. 18 Yes, 1 bstention 22. Section F a. 15 Yes, 3 No, 1 bstention 23. Section G(1) a. Senator Magliette: point of clarification: can we add the friendly amendment? b. resident Sims: no the vote was put before the friendly amendment c. arliamentarian owers: You can vote it down now and bring it back in a few minutes. d. Senator Magliette: oint of clarification: Can we vote for it e. Senator Moure: Will vote against but will make friendly amendments to it after. f. 0 - Yes, 14 - No, 5 bstentions 24. Section 7 a. 18 Yes, 1 bstention 25. Senator Moure: Motion for recess for 10 minutes a. Senator Blankstein: Seconded the motion to recess for 10 minutes. 26. Senator Moure: Motion to add an item to the agenda a. Senator Magliette: Seconded the motion to add an item to the agenda. b. 7-Yes 7-No c. Item does not pass

17 27. Senator Magliette: Section F says there is an appeals process 28. resident Sims: Yes, it does. 29. Senator King: Section F will new business next time. XIII. RECOGNITION a. resident Sims: Recognizes Secretary Thomas for being elected EIC of Circuit Review Journal b. Senator Ott: Recognizes Molly for doing a great job this year. c. Senator Blankstein: Recognizes Senator Yarbrough for setting up the Gibbons competition. d. Senator Zammiello: Recognizes Senator Moure and Governance Committee Member nthony Osei for the work they did on the Constitution. e. Senator Moure: Recognizes Senator Gilbert for the work he did on the Constitution. f. arliamentarian owers: Recognizes Honor Council Chair Josh Gorsky for the great job he has done this year. g. resident Sims: Recognizes arliamentarian owers and Secretary Thomas for the constitutional amendments. h. Senator King: Recognizes arliamentarian owers for keeping the Senate in procedure. i. Treasurer Tesic: Recognizes Social Chair Steph Brown for an amazing Barristers Ball. XIV. NNOUNCEMENTS a. resident Sims: Read Senator Collins who met with Dean Miles, Bill Miller, Lori Thimmel, nn Rodriguez and discussed career opportunities for students with respect to networking during certain alumni events. XV. DJOURNMENT ND FINL ROLL CLL a. Senator Yarbrough: Motion to adjourn: i. Senator Blankstein: Seconded the motion to adjourn. 1. ll in favor.