· Web viewSTUDENT SENATE SESSION XXXVI I – MEETING 14 January 31, 2016 – 6 PM – Paul College Room 165 AGENDA Call to Order: GUEST: UNH Police Chief Paul Dean: Good evening

STUDENT SENATESESSION XXXVII – MEETING 14

January 31, 2016 – 6PM – Paul College Room 165AGENDA

I. CALL TO ORDER:

II. GUEST: UNH Police Chief Paul Dean: Good evening everyone. Cam had asked me to come tonight to give a presentation on active shooter response. The public safety survey really showed me the concern that students and faculty has about this. I want to give you a presentation. Three words I want you to know. Run, hide, and fight. You might remember that in a situation. We are in an era in our world when it comes to the active shooter and the radical active shooter. We saw that in France and in San Bernardino. That’s not to say that our campus is not a target but it’s not fair to say that it couldn’t happen. Your colleagues will ask you did you ask the chief what the lock down policy is here? We can’t do that we have over 300 buildings think of it like a city. How would you lock down a city? So what we do is we train for these things. The difficulty I have with the training for you at all of our campuses there are 16,400 students and 4,000 or so staff. I have been averaging 4 of these a week and I’m still not getting to everyone. All state employees are receiving the training in this video.

Danny: We had to watch a video on alcohol should we be showing this?Dean: Yes

Amanda: Do you know if they’re going to update it?Dean: the message is the same

Aaron: the number of doors that aren’t lockable?Dean: 100% of the time they are not looking around a room. They are looking for mass amounts of people. In columbine they planned that. At Virginia Tech he was looking for mas amounts of people. A smaller room with lights off. The type of people who are trying to cause and wreak havoc and explosives are an absolute game changer. The police are highly trained. The admin

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is so supportive at this campus everyone takes this seriously. We can’t say this won’t happen here we can’t say that. If you can run get out. Have you heard a gunshot? It’s going to sound different. Trust your instinct.

Hannah: The automatic lights are a problem?Dean: that’s a good point but there are still light switches

What’s the response time?Dean 2 minutes at any place on campus.

Jake: the only way that we can help by reporting you guys ahead of time?Dean: Call 911 every single time. Any of you have live safe? You can have a conversation with a dispatcher.

Dean: this is built out of survivors talking about what they did. The take out part is something that they can’t do. I believe it is in there with everyone. When I showed my wife this video she said she couldn’t but she could. If someone comes in here with a gun they can’t get all of you if you react. In Virginia Tech they all just huddled and that’s why so many people got shot. There was a young man who took 4 bullets for students and he wasn’t thinking he would have to do that that day. You have to have that survivor mindset. I can’t 100 percent tell you won’t be victimized. I respect you too much to tell you that. There are those people who think that there should be a gun policy that you could use them here. I don’t think this is an appropriate venue for guns. I don’t think from sitting in a class room that this is the time and place. Where would you give money too? Mental health. We as a society don’t take care of mental health. When someone doesn’t take their medication and they are acting strange they don’t know that. We have a behavioral intervention team that meets every week and we dealt with 62 students in mental health cases and since you’ve been back we have had 5. Students and professors are talking. The dean’s office is the gatekeeper for that. We make sure that they are seen and that they are taken care of. More students get help and are able to become more successful. That’s why we are here. In 2008 a young lady called the police department on her friend who sounded like someone who needed help. And we removed someone who had weapons and those weapons. Imagine if she didn’t say something that day? It was going to happen in 3 days. This is real. The only way I can help is if people call. We want to stop it before it starts to get help to them. Get the word out on


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this and I really want to get this on the internet. We are out there pushing it. I work for you. Every day I work for you. Whatever you need contact me. You matter to me more than you know

Dean: we have monthly meeting with me and student senate and a committee. You should have a voice. You may not always agree. But we need to have a conversation.

Cam: Because this issue because this is important to I will be adding an addendum to the student master plan about student safety it will be added tomorrow.

Allison – Is there any way that this program can be shown at freshman orientationDean: The idea is that we want to focus that on when they get here. We talk about this with parents. The rationale that they use is that they won’t retain it.

Amanda: I was an OL Julie Spiller the Wildacts where they are all in one room.

Dean: would this be something they would want this to be included.

Lincoln: at freshman orientation people asked to have a presentationDean: I only get to talk to the OL’s once and I give them information. The time they have is very structured. There isn’t a lot of time.

Nick: We all went into a room and watched this video about SHARPP why can’t we do it at that time

Shannon: Have we tried Rachel’s Challenge talking about survivors and watching the video. It’s focused on survivors and it has safety and what to do. We had one or two that we watched but that was the most memorable.

III. ROLL CALL

IV. COMMUNICATIONSA. Senators and GuestsB. Graduate Student SenateC. Liaison to AdministrationD. Senate Executive Board


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Doug: I have a few things to report a couple of month ago and we made an ordinance about trans rights. The issue is getting attention in the paper.

Amanda: office hours start this week make sure you are there 4 hours a week. There is a student leadership award ceremony and you can nominate people. People deserve this and you think we meet the criteria. It doesn’t hurt to try. I know you are keeping up with the semester so try to keep up.

Chris: Hi everyone my name is Chris and this is the big thing for everyone if you are interested in SAFC feel free to ask me any questions we need to fill this spot send Abby an email and me an email so we are all on the same page. We need to know in the next week.

Justin: I don’t have too much for right now. We have 4 or 5 things that we are working on we don’t have a time yet but I will be sending that out.

External affairs Jon: So I’m not going into the details of what we are working on there are some events coming up to get some senators that we are working on within advancement and the town with certain things. I’m dealing with the stuff with getting senators on the Durham town council. Come talk to me if you want to know.

Alison: I hope you had a great break this week I meeting with Erin and I you have any comments for her I would love to know. I’m also on the extension team bringing a new sorority in the fall. And we have two sororities speaking this spring. There will not be an email this week. Send me your schedules.

Emily: This week on February 3rd, there is going to be basketball going on and it’s going to be like a demo. Council people we will be meeting in the gym.

Sam: hey how’s it going? To everyone in my council we haven’t met yet. I posted in the group about that in addition to that I will be passing along paul’s message. There is plenty of room in the room with him, he’s not intimidating I will work to coordinate it.

Student Trustee: So we have been doing some really great work on the board. So for the university system of NH all of the higher ed for the state of NH Keene Plymoth, Durham, Manchester, and Concord. We have the student board which I chair. We have set aside we set out for


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core initatives for the board voter engagement and turnout. We want to get the word out that there will be a bus. There is a domicile. If someone tells you can’t vote if you are a full time student that’s illegal. The second topic was title nine the cost sharing and cost services they get together are going to hold costs flat which will save a lot of money. Long story short we are seeing whether or not we have that. UNH secure is done with transition. A lot of other campuses don’t have our capacity for that. We represent 35,000 students. One of the things we are going to work on gender identity and other discrimination. There wasn’t something to protect everyone. Technically if UNH wanted to go into that they can kick you out for being non cis gender they can choose to fire someone or not hire them. We were sucessfully after a brief debate with legislature, we have more inclusive language. I want to thank Doug for that and we are officially more inclusive than they were. I don’t care if the governor says you can’t she is wrong. We have an election law committee in the state former dean of the economics before paul college big supporter. You don’t need a photo id.

Doug: thank you Lincoln it was a team effort. On Election Day and in Durham and if they tell you you can’t they are committing an illegal act. We will have people there making sure that people aren’t doing that.

Danny: do they have information for students in the surrounding towns?Lincoln: they have a website

Lincoln: it’s very easy that if you declare but you can change it if you want.

Doug: if you are undeclared you can declare

Lincoln: I sat with ACLU on Thursday we had a lot of things about the importance of student voting they have been really great advocates. There is a senate bill trying to strip the college id to strip of validity. There is member from the house that supports it. Title 9 issues that is another resource that we have we need students to know what is available to them to anyone involved in an incidence. We have great resources here on campus. You have to look for the resources really hard we want them on one page and we want something on the system page really cool things there linking you to things there and also links to each institution pages that will maximize that we are working really closes with offices Rubenstein has been a really great resource for us. What we would really like to do. Plymouth state has


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made headway on the NH page. There is a lot of things that we are talking about. That’s all.

E. Student Body Vice PresidentF. Student Body President: good evening thank you for sitting

through the presentation. As you guys have seen we are trying to get more policies and things of that matters. The VP will be out of commission for the remainder of this week. Send all communications to me. I expect all of you to go to the state of the university and that will be 150th anniversary of the university is coming up. The president is outlining things that will go in to the celebration. Reach out to me if you have any questions. This Friday at 3 o’clock there is an article about to talk about things with NPR and I think that is going onto NPR. Please see me after the meeting. The new provost has been selected her name is Nancy Target and she will take over that. The one that is there now will move back into his old position. There were recommendations to the President to bring in a new associate vice provost there is a search for that in March and there will be public interviews at the end of March. The students ask the best questions. Next as I said when Paul Dean was here there will be an addendum in the student master plan because campus safety is important and we are fixing it. Clement stole the thunder about a presidential debate for the democrats here on campus. Pay attention to it at nine o’clock. That’s all I got for now as I said no VP this week. Nick: is that going to be open to students?Lincoln: speaking with Chris that will be negotiated. NBC is a corporation and they need to pull strings so that it looks good on TV we do not know what seating is going to look like. We will know very soon. I would anticipate it won’t be all student seating. The ne provost super big deal I don’t know how anyone feels about the provost but she is the interim president of university of Delaware. We are pulling her to be here which is a huge deal. We are bringing someone of that caliber to this university.

G. Student Senate Speaker: Petitions are out and you need to have those signed the information is out and there is a direct communication about that. If you have friends who are interested in it. Who here is in a different org? Can you talk to them about that? That would be helpful. For the people who are not here today if you are friends with them


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encourage you to talk to them and send them to Amanda to speak to them so we can adjust them. If you’re talking to Amanda we can work to help you. I would encourage to not just send an email and talk to them one on one. If you’re stepping down tell your hall council. It’s better to get ahead of that. Let’s remember to tell someone about it. That’s all I have.

V. NEW BUSINESSA. XXXVII- 3.13- Removal of SenatorsB. XXXVII- 2.14- Approval of SenatorsC. XXXVII- 38- Approval of Election Committee MembersD. XXXVII- 39- Approval of Judiciary Committee MembersE. XXXVII- 40- Approval of First-Year SenatorF. XXXVII- 41- Removal of Campus Structure ChairpersonG. XXXVII- 42- Approval of Campus Structure ChairpersonH. XXXVII- 43- Removal of Community Development

ChairpersonI. XXXVII- 44- Approval of Community Development

ChairpersonJ. XXXVII- R25- Ticketing for UNH Athletic EventsK. XXXVII- R26- Athletic Events During Breaks

VI. OTHER BUSINESSMotion to remove non-traditional student affairs liaison: passes with one abstention

VII. ADJOURNMENT

Student Senate Bill XXXVII – 3.13 Removal of SenatorsIntroduced by: Executive Officer, Amanda BarbaDate: January 31st, 2016

Be it enacted by the Student Senate of the University of New Hampshire to remove the following individuals as Student Senators for the remainder of session XXXVII:

Cheryl Fong: Babcock 1Rezwan Ali: Engelhardt 2


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Zach Dumont: Haaland Hall 1- I’m going to be starting a study abroad program to go to china and I don’t live there any wayKatie Williamson 1Conor Phelps: Williamson 4

Senate Action: Passes Unanimously Speaker Verification:

Student Senate Bill XXXVII – 2.14 Approval of SenatorsIntroduced by: Executive Officer, Amanda BarbaDate: January 31st, 2016

Be it enacted by the Student Senate of the University of New Hampshire to approve the following individuals as Student Senators for the remainder of session XXXVII:

Zachary Dumont: non resident 1Emily counts: Haaland 1Corey Giallongo- Gables 1Erik Comeau: Non res 3Lauren McGrath: Co hetzel 1Nathan Whitehead: Engelhardt 1 A result of some absences I was removed last semester but I will answer any questions you have.Alexander Pinentel: Fairchild 1

Senate Action: passes unanimously Speaker Verification:

Student Senate Bill XXXVII – 38 Approval of Election Committee Members

Introduced by: Student Senate Speaker, Gabe HoffmanDate: January 31st, 2016

Be it enacted by the Student Senate of the University of New Hampshire to approve the following members of the Student Senate Election Committee for the remainder of session XXXVII:

Gabe you can’t associate with a candidate

Sarra Vallon

Senate Action: passes with one abstention Speaker Verification:


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Student Senate Bill XXXVII – 39 Approval of Judiciary Committee Members

Introduced by: Parliamentarian, Doug MarinoDate: January 31st, 2016

Be it enacted by the Student Senate of the University of New Hampshire to approve the following individuals as members of the Student Senate Judiciary Committee for the remainder of session XXXVII:

Doug: for those of you who are not familiar with this we make sure that whatever is coming to the floor is ready for the floor. If it’s ready to be presented to the senate. We need more people for judiciary.

Nathan Whitehead

Gabe: this is important we don’t have a lot of people it makes the resolution less scary it is not a lot of commitment.


Student Senate Bill XXXVII – 40 Approval of First-Year SenatorIntroduced by: Student Body President, Cameron Cook, Student Body Vice-President, Ryan GroganDate: January 31st, 2016

Be it enacted by the Student Senate of the University of New Hampshire to approve the following individual as First-Year Senator for the remainder of session XXXVII: Cam: So as you guys know Colleen O’hara had to resign to serve our country which left a gap in the position the best course of action would be to make an appointment. We needed to have an interview committee Kathleen was an exceptional choice. To have her as the new first year senator.Kathleen Clark Senate Action: Passes Unanimously Speaker Verification:

Student Senate Bill XXXVII – 41 Removal of Campus Structure Chairperson

Introduced by: Student Body President, Cameron Cook


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Date: January 31st, 2016

Be it enacted by the Student Senate of the University of New Hampshire to remove the following individual as Campus Structure Chairperson for the remainder of session XXXVII:

Aaron Scheinman: I got added and I took over as bm


Student Senate Bill XXXVII – 42 Approval of Campus Structure Chairperson



Be it enacted by the Student Senate of the University of New Hampshire to approve the following individual as Campus Structure Chairperson for the remainder of session XXXVII:

Cam: Christian Merheb There was a vacancy of this spot so we searched for a new candidate and we found that one of the first year applicants he is very intelligent and is capable of doing this job well which is important and an add to the team.


Student Senate Bill XXXVII – 43 Removal of Community Development Chairperson

Introduced by: Community Development Chairperson, Matthew Reuter


Be it enacted by the Student Senate of the University of New Hampshire to remove the following individual as Community Development Chairperson for the remainder of session XXXVII:

Matthew Reuter

Cam: I was approached by him to resign from this and to quote him: I love you all and I am not a crook.



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Student Senate Bill XXXVII – 44 Approval of Community Development Chairperson



Be it enacted by the Student Senate of the University of New Hampshire to approve the following individual as Community Development Chairperson for the remainder of session XXXVII:

Danny O’Leary

Cam: thank you for sticking with me on that I started working with finding a new one it coincides with CD chair he has experience with this body and it will be seamless transition

Erik: Would you see the current responsibilities to be moved to CD to coincide?Cam: yes there will be bylaws related to that.


Student Senate Resolution XXXVII – 25 Ticketing for UNH Athletic Events



Whereas, University of New Hampshire (UNH) Athletics currently charges undergraduate students 1,023 dollars for the 2016-6 Academic year and charged 998 dollars during the 2014-15 academic year for their student fee, and

Whereas, this service guarantees that all UNH students have access to free tickets to all UNH Athletics competitions that are not NCAA sanctioned playoff competitions, and

Whereas, UNH Athletics ought to be striving to distribute these tickets in an active manner to draw students to competitions, and

Whereas, students want more access to tickets so that they can gain back as much value from their dollar as possible from their Athletics fee, and

Whereas, not every student has the time or the ability to go over to the Whittemore Ticket Office before a competition, and


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Whereas, occasionally student-athletes and mascots at UNH will go around Holloway Commons and pass out student tickets in an attempt to draw more students to games, and

Whereas, there is a large amount of traffic each week that travels through Union Court in the Memorial Union Building, and

Whereas, UNH Departments have access to the tabling services that groups can use in Union Court, therefore

Be it resolved by the Student Senate of the University of New Hampshire to ask that UNH Athletics, starting in the Spring of 2016, work with the Memorial Union Building to coordinate a system where during the weekdays leading up to UNH Athletic competitions the MUB Ticket Office, on behalf of UNH Athletics, sells and distribute student tickets to the student body.

Cam: before I speak to this I’m going to read in some changes the last whereas and they descend to last get rid of those. As I have detailed we pay a lot of money to watch those events. Right now you have to go to the Whitemore box office to get tickets that’s not getting enough students. We have this really great resource the MUB we have the product bring them to the high traffic area to maximize dollar value. They realize they didn’t have time or forgot. I want to see this become a reality. The way I originally phrased this it was not the most conducive way to go about it. I want to approach them after it has been given out. Basketball is big right now.

Aaron: it was implied that you need tix for everything but you don’t need b-ball tix or volleyball

Lincoln: if the intention if this is to be implemented in a certain time frame I think that we should have that in thereCam: yes we could do that

Lincoln: in the third whereas to amend ought to be should

Amendment: Lincoln: the very intention changes the meaning. It’s more of a mandate. You need to do this to drive up attendance so I think it should be changed

Amendment passes unanimously

Discussion on res: Aaron: have you in your writing talked to them about this with athletics and tix officeCam: it has to do with tech and moving them to different offices and changing logistics and they’re not opposed to the idea

Aaron: they had not thought about them not showing up after they get tixCam: no


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Amendment to add be it further resolved that this process be implemented no later than the fall of 2016

Passes unanimously

Discussion on res

Silas: I think this resolution is awesome the MUB’s motto is the center of campus and everyone goes through the MUB at least once a day or once a week. I think this is awesome.

Aaron: my sole concern with this is that for the very popular games they sell out very quickly. So they can’t sell them one place without running up. And Friday rolls around and you have a ticket and you don’t go.

Sam: is your concern because there is a limited number of tixAaron: yes

Erik: It’s a student’s right to get those tickets. Students who may not want to go but get tix. I think it’s not a big concern

Lincoln: I would just remind this body this does not outline the particular system on how to do that. The particular ticket mix up and it shows them that it needs to be more inclusive to students

Jake: is there a reason why for tix in the MUB and not online?Cam: I don’t know if they could but they can work on the same system as the MUB

Jake: Because with Kygo you could get online to diversify the way they get them

Cam: I like that people are thinking about the logistics we should be looking at more but this is one solution to do more accurately the more students the better. As I said before it’s all about maximizing student involvement.

Amendment: Aaron: to distribute these things digitally in the first be it resolved.

Jon I would say no to this because it is too soon to tell them to have a digital system to say yes to that. He is using this to start the conversation for the future.

Lincoln: In a similar vain I would love that idea but I’m familiar with the athletic dept with their skittish on new things I don’t want to layer on things I think it’s a great long term discussion.

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Discussion on Res:

Lincoln: could you bring the digital thing up to them?Cam: yes I will bring it up.

Katie: I think this is very important for students living in will and Christ it’s a long walk it takes like 25 minutes I’m always in the MUB passing through giving them the opportunity to get those tickets is good. Putting it in the center is more important on getting the word out.

Erik: All the ideas in here are great if this is implemented in a way that we say we will. A lot of times we make resolutions they don’t come out correctly

Comment: this isn’t necessarily this won’t be put into place right after this and as of right now we should pass this to talk to all of these people.

Senate Action: Passes UnanimouslySpeaker Verification:

Student Senate Resolution XXXVII – 26 Athletic Events During Breaks



Whereas, students play a large role at University of New Hampshire (UNH) intercollegiate athletic events, and

Whereas, some of these major athletic events happen when students are on break, and

Whereas, some of these major events, primarily when they are an intercollegiate playoff event, such as the 2014 quarterfinal and semifinal football playoff competitions UNH hosted, cost us large amounts of money to host, and

Whereas, this money comes primarily from students tuition and fees, and

Whereas, many of these competitions are locally or nationally televised, and

Whereas, having little to no students in attendance has negative impacts when seen on television, and

Whereas, it is a net negative from a perspective regarding revenue to not afford students an opportunity to attend these competitions, therefore

Be it resolved by the Student Senate of the University of New Hampshire urge that the following departments: Dining Services, Residential Life, Housing, UNH Police


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Department, Athletics and the Durham Fire Department, work collaboratively with students of developing a strategy for affording students the opportunity to remain on or return to UNH campus for these competitions.

Cam: before I go into this I know the content behind this this is a project Ryan and I have been working on this we hosted a game on campus over break, To host that it cost us a lot of money it was 50,000-60,000 dollars we have had this happen over here. And students have not have an opportunity to go see these games. Students couldn’t stay for the games and that’s not fair. A lot of students can’t go. This is a conversation that we have had with the admin we need some form of accountability on students. We don’t know how many students are in the dorms during this time. I have been at these meetings. This is to put these ideas to pen and paper.

Katie: I want to friendly amend the date to 2016

Erik: I think the be it resolved at the bottom it should be developed.

Aaron: I want to propose adding Whereas having low student attendance projects a negative image to a national television audience including recruits prospective students parents and alumni.

Lincoln: Before parents, add potential donors.

Q: Erik – To the author, would you rather it say to included but not limited to? Or would you rather keep it how it is?A: Cam – I think it’s okay to have it

Q: Nate – I am in full support of this, I have a coworker that comes up all the time and he asked me if I wanted to come but I couldn’t because of the winter break. Implementation is not a problem, sure it’s a problem for future reference. It’s kind of a waste of time. If you guys have an idea, maybe talk to the author afterwards. If you like the ideas support it.

Q: Lincoln – To the author, could we add advertisers?A: Cam – Yes

Q: Nick – Do you want to keep housing?A: Cam – Yes, like 3-4 dorms will be back open. We’ll get an emergency staff back up. It would be asking to open a few housing spots for a short period of time. The concern they have had is that there will be some form of online system. That’s how they would track names for a safety perspective.

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about that?A: Cam – Yes, it is being considered. It would be part of the implantation process.


New Business Resolution- Active Shooter protocolsIntroduced by: SBP cam cook and USNH Trustee LincolnLincoln: cam and I through this together a few minutes ago the police department had no time during orientation I think it’s a slight to the police department we need to get this going and we need to do it now

Nate: This is a great idea and I’m sure 90% of you agree please Cam: I’m excited about this with SAFC this is a great start to get to more students. From a timing prospective this is perfect it is happening now and they are planning it now. And we run a better chance of this getting in.

Lincoln: we have to change some friendly amendments because it isn’t consistent.

Jon: do we wanna keep it more broad and get rid of orientation?Lincoln: I think it should be there and it’s hard to have 15,000 people watch.

Sam: if you scroll up friendly of a population

Lincoln: I want this to be directed to Julie Spillers office by the end of Wednesday

Passes unanimously


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· Web viewSTUDENT SENATE SESSION XXXVI I – MEETING 14 January 31, 2016 – 6 PM – Paul College Room 165 AGENDA Call to Order: GUEST: UNH Police Chief Paul Dean: Good evening