LAS Student Council Meeting Minutes

January 17, 2007
Members present:
GSB: Tim, Zaal, Katherine, and Jordan
Adviser, President, Political Science, Geology and Atmosphere Science, Psychology, Economics, PreProfessional Health, Sociology, Biology, Vice president/English, Treasurer/Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy Presentation from the VEISHEA Committee

Veishea
-Veishea service day - March 31
-veishea aide application due by 5pm Jan. 26th (online)
-campus showcase - LAS College is Thursday April 19th
-register for Veishea village by Jan. 31st
-veishea.iastate.edu

New representatives for the Biology Club
-Kristin and Molly

GSB Elections: John Newman and Jordan Nye
-Jordan Nye was voted in as the new GSB Senator for LAS Council

Report from President
-There are 10 departments in the LAS College that did not have representatives on LAS council last semester...Leah will be contacting the department chairs to see if they would like to find a student representative
-We may have a position opening for secretary for our council...anybody interested?

Report from Treasurer
-Money was dispersed into each club's account on January 9th
-LAS Council currently has approximately $10,000 in its account

Report from Advisor
-Applications will be coming out in the near future for the Laura Vernon Scholarship...more info to come

Veishea Committee for LAS Council
-Julie Neppl and Malory Klocke
-Meeting Tuesday, January 23 at 3:15 at the Library
-Will discuss LAS council's display for VEISHEA village on the Saturday of VEISHEA

Constitution/Bylaw revision
- Thanks to Tim, Catalina, and Jordan for getting a rough draft of this finished
Constitution:
- Article 3, Section 1, 2b: What is distributed studies??
- Article 3, Section 1: There is no C....skips from B to D
- Article 3, Section 2, C: should say "fall" instead of "spring"...may also re-word this as some representatives serve for just a semester at a time
- Article 3, Section 3, part A2: absence policy: change wording so absences are recorded by semester rather than the representative's "term," only allow one free absence per semester (not counting the first meeting of each semester...or just not counting the first meeting of fall semester?), add wording: an excused absence counts as half an absence (allowed 2 excused absences per semester), should the absence policy be different for GSB senators?

By-Laws:
- Article 2, Section 2, B2: reference this to the GSB by-law
-Leah will meet with the "Constitution Revision Committee" to go over some more changes to the Constition and By-Laws. The council will be emailed an updated version before the next meeting, and revision will continue at the next meeting.

Open Forum
-A concern was raised that a couple clubs meet during the same time as LAS Council. It was noted that this has been the time LAS Council has met for years...it would be hard to change the meeting time because there would most likely not be another time that works for everybody. If you still have concerns about this, talk with Leah, but otherwise you will just have to work around LAS Council's schedule.
-Note: at next week's meeting we will be voting on giving funding to the music department for their conference in March

Next meeting:
-January 31st, 5:10pm, Bessey 203, guest speaker Olivia Madison