“You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.” – Audre Lorde Student Government of Loyola Chicago February 24, 2015, 4:00 PM Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt MPR South, Damen Student Center, Lake Shore Campus Senate Minutes
1. Roll Call a. Call to order at 4:00PM 2. Visitors and Guest Speakers 3. Approval of the Minutes a. Minutes approved. 4. Unfinished Business a. The Elections Code Amendment: Second Reading (Senator Kelley) i. Sen Kelley (affirmation): CRC has been working closely with the election board to put together these amendments. Overall, things that need to be clarified or revised. If there are any questions about the content of the legislation, I’d be happy to answer those. ii. Sen Kelley (affirmation): I move to make several amendments to this legislation. iii. Sen Kelley: CRC met on Thursday to discuss. These changes are a result of the conversation at Senate last week. Reducing number of candidate meeting from thirty to ten. This other amendment clarifies spending restriction of RSOs that choose to endorse candidates. iv. Sen Kelley (affirmation): Already mentioned first two. For third amendment, committee discussed last week whether or not to allow SSOs to endorse candidates. Came to the conclusion that it was best not to allow SSOs to endorse candidates. RSOs can only receive funding in one of two ways – SAF or from their own membership/fundraising activities. RSOs cannot use funding from SAF to endorse candidate. SSOs are sponsored by university departments, so they receive their funding from departments, which in turn receive their funding from the entire student body. If an SSO chooses to endorse a candidate, they will be doing so with funds that every student has paid into. If an RSO endorses, it is through money the RSO has internally raised. 1. KC: Not entirely accurate. SSOs have money they can use that is not university generated. 1. Sen Kelley: No restriction on a department giving funding to endorse a candidate. Would need to be a policy that says department funding cannot be used to endorse candidates. Only way the CRC, VP and President agreed would make it acceptable for SSO to endorse is if there was a restriction on using department funds to do so, where currently no restriction exists. v. Changed “or” to an “and” because a candidate would have to do all of those things for it to be a violation of the Articles, whereas now they only have to do one to be in the dog house, so to speak. vi. Technicality in regards to length of the campaign period. vii. Replaced 48 with “forty-eight” for consistency.