Senate swears in silent senator

Senate is now full after swearing in a High Rise senator who cannot vote.

Dusty Runner was sworn in as the High Rise senator. Runner is a freshman so he cannot vote until he has 12 credit hours but he can sit in as a senator now. He has already brought issues to Senate including getting an ice machine in High Rise. The vote was unanimous with two senators absent.

Senate had $114,768.61 in unallocated funds at the beginning of the meeting.

Senate allocated no more than $14,300 for a Leadership Summit in November. This amount includes costs for hotel, food, and travel for three speakers. The summit was brought up to Student Senate three weeks ago.

The speakers will include JoAnne Owens-Nauslar, Brian Banks, and Nick Scott.

Senator Evans said that students would attend the speakers because they each target a different audience.

Owens-Nauslar will focus on health and leadership at 7 p.m., Nov. 18 and will also hold break out sessions all day. Banks will be speaking about sexual assault awareness and false accusations at 7 p.m., either Nov. 19 or Nov. 20. Scott will present about overcoming huge obstacles in your life at 7 p.m., Nov. 21. These events are open to the community.

The vote was unanimous with Senator Portillo abstaining and two senators absent. Senator Portillo declined to discuss the reasons why she abstained to vote.

Senate allocated no more than $2,000 for Free Movie Night on Nov. 22.

The Health 101 email that is sent to all students will cost $3,774 to renew. Senators will vote on renewing next week.

An orientation for the senators will be hosted in a few weeks so their obligations can be discussed.

Senate will watch a demo at next week’s meeting about Uber cars.

Wayne State College offers free taxi services to students from 10 p.m. – 2 a.m., Thursday through Saturday nights. Senate might decide to make the services free to students. Students can download the phone app to use the service. Senate wants to use this service to prevent drunk driving.

Nine senators attended the Wayne State Conference. Peru State and Wayne State College Senates were also there.

One subject that was discussed at the conference was creating a board policy to have a smoke-free campus on the Chadron, Peru, and Wayne State Colleges. A survey will be sent out to students regarding this topic.

Another survey will be sent out asking student’s opinions about getting iPads or laptops for each student.

Peru State discussed drug issues on their campus and Wayne State brought forward their student participation and sexual assault awareness on campus.

A general assembly will be hosted for Senate to meet with all the subsidiary clubs on campus to discuss topics to improve on campus.