Golden Rule Review Committee

Monday October 26th 2009

Meeting Agenda

  1. I. Call to Order ( 3:36 P.M.)—Get the Party Started

-Members present and Voting

– Stephen Mortellero

– Michael McGriskin

– Andrew Proia

– Chad Mills

– Christa Mckee

  1. II. Approval of the Agenda

– Approved (Member Mckee)

  1. III. Announcements from the Chair

–          Meeting will be held with the Agenda

–          Discussed the Proposal Process for Amendment Recommendation

–          Discussed some of the motions to be made during meeting

–          Overview of the set-up of the Committee; allowing ex-officio members to debate, but not aloud

  1. IV. Announcements from the Committee members

– Andrew will be taking minutes and will asked for cooperation from people while taking minutes

  1. V. Announcements from the Advisor

–          James Bealts will no longer be a member of the advisory committee due to time issues

–          Sherri-Ann Grant Clark will no longer be a member of the advisory committee due to time issues

  1. VI. Unfinished Business

– None

  1. VII. New Business
  • Student Organization Proposals (Nick Olesky, Office of Student Conduct)

–          NICK- Introduction of new Student Org. Proposals

–          EX-OFFICIO- What is Regulation Format?

  • Questioned Answered by NICK

–          EX-OFFICO- Are these new regulations Finalized?

  • Question answered by NICK

–          EX-OFFICO- Questions on 5.011(3)

  • Answered by NICK

–          EX-OFFICO- How is an “event” defined by the Organization?

  • Answered by NICK

–          EX-OFFICO – How is an organization support to vote for a formal event

  • Answered by NICK
  • Follow up by MEMBER MCKEE

–          EX-OFFICO – What defines a “guest” and can a person who is an “uninvited guest”

–          EX-OFFICO- Many of the comments are too board, is there is anyway that we can make these suggestions more specific

  • Answered by NICK

–          EX-OFFICO – At what point does a random, uninvited quest become part of the responsibility of the organization; lets say it is in the Union and we are not allowed to deny access to guest, how do we as an organization deal with these people?

  • Answered by NICK

–          EX-OFFICO – If you are at a large event, if it were to go through Student Conduct, you would have to prove to SC that that person was not an invited guest?

  • Answered by NICK
  • Suggests that the term “guest” should be

–          EX-OFFICO – I do not understand why one guest should hold an entire an organizations future

  • Answer by NICK

–          EX-OFFICO – Can two members acting together can easily get in trouble and both a member of a club, should those organizations be responsible for their actions

  • Answered by NICK

–          EX-OFFICO – Can a person other than the president be delegated to

–          CHAIR MORTELLERO- If I went to an event and I committed and act at a “related activities” can the organization be charged for my Act?

  • Answered by NICK

–          CHAIR MORTELLERO- Why make the organization responsible for a “guest”

  • Answered by NICK

–          CHAIR MORTELLERO- Why was the statement “ after hearing a case involving individuals students, a student hearing panel deems the offense was an organizational offense in nature and not just the actions of an individual member, then the case will be handled as such”

  • Answered by NICK

–          CHAIR MORTELLERO- 5.012(6)(d) “causing to be furnished” means what?

  • Answered by NICK

–          CHAIR MORTELLERO-5.01(6)(e) “state of noticeable intoxication”

  • Answered by NICK

–          CHAIR MORTELLERO- In last years golden rule Section R vs. the new organization, is the intend to make it so the President of the organization is the sole spokesperson of the organization?

  • Answered by NICK

–          EX-OFFICO – Why was this so specific and not just a change of section from OSI to its own

  1. VIII. Miscellaneous Business/Member Discussion

– Proposals by MEMBER MCGRISKIN

  • Subsection of R need to be put back to the way that they were
  • I’m okay with adding alumni and guest
  • The term furnished or causing to be furnish is okay
  • We need to define “guest” and “event”, however, we might need to prevent causing more problems

– Proposals by MEMBER PROIA

  • The changes are expansive and we need to examine each of these changes in its own block

– Comments by NICK

Adjournment

  • Meeting Adjourned 4:38

Golden Rule Review Committee

Monday November 9th 2009

Meeting Agenda

  1. I. Call to Order (3:38 P.M.)—Get the Party Started

-Members present and Voting

– Stephen Mortellero

– Michael McGriskin

– Andrew Proia

– Chad Mills

– Christa Mckee

  1. II. Approval of the Agenda
  2. III. Announcements from the Chair
  3. IV. Announcements from the Voting Committee Members
  • McGriskins resigns from Co-Secretary
  1. V. Announcements from Ex-Officio Committee Members
  • NONE
  1. VI. Announcements from Advisor
  • NONE
  1. VII. Announcements from Guest
  • NONE
  1. VIII. Unfinished Business
  • Proposal 1: Student Organization in UCF Regulations Format
  1. i.      PROIA- “Definitions” be moved to Section (3) and all other sections be renumbered
    1. PASSED
    2. ii.      MORTELLERO- (3)(a)“active and inactive as defined by the organizations constitution”
      1. FAILED 4-1-0
      2. iii.      PROIA Delete the new (4)(a)(2) and amend (4)(a)(3) “One or more members of an organization or its officers has knowledge of a incident, behavior, etc. by an individual at an organization-sponsored, financed, or otherwise supported activity and fails to take corrective or prohibitive action before such incident, behavior, etc. occurs or fails to stop such incident, behavior, etc. while it is occurring.”
        1. PASSED
        2. iv.      MORTELLERO- (4)(a)(3) Delete “One or more members of an organization or its officers” and add One or more officers of an organization”
        3. IX. New Business
  • NONE
  1. X. Miscellaneous Business/Member Discussion
  • NONE
  1. XI. Adjournment-Meeting Adjourned 4:33

Golden Rule Review Committee

November 23, 2009

Meeting Minutes

  1. I. Call to Order: 3:40

-Members present and Voting

– Stephen Mortellero

– Michael McGriskin

– Andrew Proia

– Chad Mills

– Adam Brock

  1. II. Approval of the Minutes
  • Approved by General Consent
  1. III. Approval of the Agenda
  • Approved by General Consent
  1. IV. Announcements from the Chair
  • Proposal 3 will be looked at today as opposed to
  • Adam Brock is a new member of the board with Reggie Paros pending from Brian
  1. V. Announcements from the Voting Committee Members
  • NONE
  1. VI. Announcements from Ex-Officio Committee Members
  • Surprise from student ex-officio at next meeting
  1. VII. Announcements from Advisor
  • Next meeting will be the 7th of December
  1. VIII. Announcements from Guest
  • NONE
  1. IX. New Business
  • Proposal 4 Non-Discrimination: Introduced by Proia and Mortellaro
  1. i.      MCGRISKIN Technical: (A)(5)(b) after “shall” add “be”
  2. ii.      MCGRISKIN Technical: (A)(5)(b) after “delete” add “except”
  3. iii.      STUDENT EX-OFFICO: delete “except allowed by law” and add “except as otherwise allowed by law”
    1. PASSED
    2. iv.      MORTELLARO: delete “age, religion, disability, national origin, marital status, or parental status, or veteran’s status, or sexual orientation” and add “age, religion, disability, national origin, marital status, parental status, veteran’s status, or sexual orientation”
    3. v.      MORTELLARO: after “race” add “color”
      1. PASSED
      2. vi.      PROIA: Move to vote on Proposal 4
        1. PASSED 5-0-0
  • Discussion: Regulations for Golden Rule Review Committee Section of the Golden Rule
  • Discussion: Student Referenda Results on Golden Rule
  1. X. Unfinished Business
  • Proposal 1: Student Organizations in UCF Regulations Format
  1. i.      BROCK: Move to Vote On Changes
    1. PASSED 5-0-0
    2. XI. Miscellaneous Business/Member Discussion
  • NONE
  1. XII. Adjournment

4:55

Golden Rule Review Committee

December 7, 2009

Meeting Agenda

  1. I. Call to Order- 3:40
  • Members present and Voting
  1. i. Stephen Mortellero
  2. ii. Michael McGriskin
  3. iii. Andrew Proia
  4. iv. Chad Mills
  5. v. Adam Brock
  6. vi. Reggie Paros (3:42)
  7. II. Approval of the Minutes
  • Approved by committee
  1. III. Approval of the Agenda
  • None were made
  1. IV. Announcements from the Chair
  • Looking at 1.2 and 1.3
  1. V. Announcements from the Voting Committee Members
  • None
  1. VI. Announcements from Ex-Officio Committee Members
  • EX-OFFICIO- gives equalization novel to all members of the Golden Rule Review Committee.
  1. VII. Announcements from Advisor
  • Christa Mckee has resigned, Good Luck!
  • Meeting with Dr Ehaze about the recommended changes that have been made
  • Please give me your schedules!
  1. VIII. Announcements from Guest
  • NONE
  1. IX. Unfinished Business
  • NONE
  1. X. New Business
  • Proposal 2: Organizational Rules of Conduct
  1. i.      Introduced by Nick Oleskey
  2. ii.      BROCK– Move to add “student organizations are expected to abide by these organization rules of Conduct and administrators and facility are expected to report any alleged violations.”
    1. WITHDRAWN
    2. iii.      CHAIR- 5.012(2)(a) move to add “ deliberately and purposefully” after withholding
      1. PASSED
      2. iv.      PROIA– 5.012(3)(h)  be deleted and replace with “Knowingly participating in an event or participating in an event and failing to take reasonable actions to determine that the student organization is currently on disciplinary probation (with implacable restrictive conditions), has been suspended, or has had their UCF registration revoked.”
        1. PASSED
        2. v.      PROIA 5.012 (6)(d)replaced “behavior” with “violate the organizational rules of conduct”
          1. PASSED
          2. vi.      McGRISKIN- 5.012(7)(e) added “Violate the organizational rules of conduct while under the influence of narcotics or other controlled substances”
            1. PASSED
            2. XI. Miscellaneous Business/Member Discussion
  • NONE

Adjournment- 4:57

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