October 24, 1967 SGA Senate meeting minutes

TOWSON STATE COLLEGE STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION OCTOBER 24, 1967 The meeting was called to order by President Cullison at 3:30 p.m. in Smith Lecture Hall. The reading of the minutes was dispensed with. ANNOUNCEMENTS: 1. a. Mr. Cullison met with a portion of the Board of Trustees last week. He had a limited opportunity to question the board. b. Mr. Cullison announced that after looking at the schedules of the Senators, he feels that we could not very well change the Senate time at the present. 2. Mr. Barkley announced that budget hearings were completed except for UCCF, Chess Club and MENC. 3. Miss Miskelly announced that one of our biggest problems in Senate is the constitutional amendment policy. Miss Miskelly said that the SGA must first change the amendment policy before it can change the constitution. Petitions are available for circulation to change the policy. 4. Mr. Ward announced that several Towson students went to Frostburg for a convention on drug use on campus. The Chair was relinquished to Miss Miskelly. OLD BUSINESS: 1. Miss Gregory moved to remove the motion on special events from the table. The motion was seconded and passed. The motion was voted upon and passed unanimously. 2. Miss Pryor moved that we reconsider the student union fee increase. The motion was seconded and passed unanimously. Mr. Johnson moved that we accept his resolution and that it be sent to committee and rewritten and that committee will report bacl to the Senage at the next meeting. This resolution will be attached to the increase of teh student union fee. The motion was seconded and passed. Miss Georgulas moved that Senate adopt an increase in the student union fee of $25 per semester for day students and $5 fee increase for evening and summer school students. The motion was seconded and passed. Miss Miskelly announced that clubs that were stricken today should not have their budgets passed according to her interpretation of the SGA constitution. Her interpretation was not appealed by the body. 3. Budget Requests-- Mr. Barkley moved that Senate allocate $15,715 to the College Centre Board. The motion was seconded and passed unanimously.