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I. <\/em>Call to Order <\/em>Michael (9:05)<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n

II. <\/em>Roll Call\/Prayer<\/em><\/p>\n

Present:<\/em> Benjamin Bergey, Michael Spory, Janelle Freed, Sarah Beck, William Morris, Heidi Bauman, James Souder, Nels Akerson, Darian Harnish, Peyton Erb, Matt Dean, Todd Hooley, Dan Sigmans, Amin Laboriel, Katie Landis, Mariah Elliott, Gabe Brunk, Hannah Wenger, Vi Dutcher, Amy Springer, Ken L. Nafziger<\/p>\n

Absent: <\/em>None<\/p>\n

III. <\/em>Approval of Minutes<\/em><\/p>\n

Motion 220910-1 to approve the minutes: James<\/strong><\/p>\n

Second: Nels<\/strong><\/p>\n

Motion passed unanimously<\/strong><\/p>\n

IV. <\/em>Announcements<\/em><\/p>\n

a. <\/em>Hospitality card-<\/em> Michael shared that the hospitality committee will be circulating cards to sign for various people and departments on campus so be on the lookout for them!<\/p>\n

V. <\/em>Committee Reporting: Campus Ministries\u2014<\/em>Heidi shared that the committee talked a lot about the strategic plan and ways they are planning on meeting their goals.\u00a0 They also discussed chapel and ways that they can boost attendance this year.\u00a0 They are looking to students for ideas for what ideas would bring a lot of people in.\u00a0 Possibilities mentioned so far are bigger name speakers or others from the community.<\/p>\n

VI. <\/em>Old Business<\/em><\/p>\n

a. <\/em>Committee switch\u2014<\/em>Katie shared that she signed up for the IRB committee, which meets at 12:30 on Wednesdays once a month and that conflicts with her schedule.\u00a0 Hannah offered to switch committees from the Safety Committee to the IRB. Yay teamwork!<\/p>\n

b. <\/em>Retreat debriefing and reports<\/em>–Ben asked for responses from senators as to how the retreat went from their point of view.\u00a0 Many senators agreed that they liked the structure of the meeting and were impressed with the brainstorming and diversity of ideas brought forth by senators.\u00a0 Overall, everyone felt it was a success.\u00a0 Ben passed around a comprehensive report from all the various committees so we can all see what happened in each group. Continue to keep the rest of the senate informed with things going on with your committees!<\/p>\n

VII. <\/em>New Business<\/em><\/p>\n

a. <\/em>Idea drive-<\/em> Michael shared that the Idea Drive committee is planning on having the drive from September 29-October 01.\u00a0 There will be a chapel announcement and some shirts that they would like students to wear to advertise the drive.\u00a0 They are also planning on placing boxes around campus (library, cafeteria, mailboxes, Commons, Science Center, and Common Grounds, chapel) for people to write down ideas and place them in the box. There will also be a board in the Campus Center for people to write ideas. They also want people to walk around wearing a white shirt on Thursday for people to write ideas on: Hannah, Todd, James, Katie, Mariah, Michael and Amin all volunteered to wear shirts for this.<\/p>\n

b. <\/em>Marketing procedure- <\/em>Katie shared that the marketing committee is set up and is willing to work with anyone who will need to promote an SGA event.\u00a0 Talk to someone on the marketing committee if you need help with promoting your event!<\/p>\n

VIII. <\/em>Open Floor<\/em><\/p>\n

–<\/em>Ben shared that Spirit Week is the week of October 5-9.\u00a0 Monday is Water Balloon Frenzy (water balloon fight on the lawn), Tuesday is Jammin\u2019 on the Plaza (BYO Instrument to Thomas Plaza), Wednesday is Random Acts of Kindness Day (promote goodwill!), Thursday is S\u2019more night on the hill (smores in the fire pit at 7:30) and Friday is Royal Pride Day (wear EMU colors).\u00a0 They will need the marketing committee to help promote this week since it\u2019s going to be very different from previous years.\u00a0 Heidi volunteered to be the Spirit Week committee representative to the marketing committee.<\/p>\n

-Ben shared that the Harrisonburg Student Summit happened yesterday and had the same format of our SGA retreat.\u00a0 Both Ben and Michael attended and shared that it was a great way to network a little with JMUers and community members.\u00a0 Ben and Michael may be coming to SGA for support for a possible summit at EMU on justice with citizens of Harrisonburg. Michael shared that he met with a Harrisonburg City PR officer who was wondering how to interact with students best and he thinks it would be a great idea to stay in contact with her to have a link to what is going on in the greater community outside of EMU.\u00a0 Ben also shared that he went to a session called Citizen Relations where they talked about a section of town where violence is present and looked at how we can be more aware of our community and effective ways to help those in need.<\/p>\n

-Sarah shared that Trinda Burkhalter in the bookstore was very enthusiastic about helping out Sports Enthusiasm committee and was willing to donate a few items and offer us a 20% discount on additional items.\u00a0 If you think of something students would really like to see given away at a game, let someone on the committee know!<\/p>\n

-Mariah passed around a snack sign-up sheet for meetings.<\/p>\n

-Darian shared that the Dream Act has been piggybacked to a defense-spending bill and the Republicans in Congress decided to table the process for right now.\u00a0 As of right now, it is not going to be voted on and it is not looking like forward motion will be made this year.<\/p>\n

-Ben shared that he and Michael met with Loren who would love to talk to SGA senators anytime they would like to talk to him about an idea. Don\u2019t be afraid to approach him!<\/p>\n

-Office hours will start this week; we\u2019ll have a lock box with a combination for the key.\u00a0 An e-mail with come around with that information.<\/p>\n

IX. <\/em>Adjournment<\/em><\/p>\n

Motion 220910-2 to adjourn: Will<\/strong><\/p>\n

Second: Sarah<\/strong><\/p>\n

Motion passed unanimously<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meeting adjourned (9:44)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I. Call to Order Michael (9:05) II. Roll Call\/Prayer Present: Benjamin Bergey, Michael Spory, Janelle Freed, Sarah Beck, William Morris, Heidi Bauman, James Souder, Nels Akerson, Darian Harnish, Peyton Erb, Matt Dean, Todd Hooley, Dan Sigmans, Amin Laboriel, Katie Landis, Mariah Elliott, Gabe Brunk, Hannah Wenger, Vi Dutcher, Amy Springer, Ken L. Nafziger Absent: None....<\/p>

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