Robert's Rules
The declaration that allows a discussion to continue after the proposal is first read.
What is a second?
A nice-looking outer layer complete with buttons and pockets, usually worn in a business formal setting.
What is a suit jacket?
What is 2 hours?
A temporary committee that meets to address a specific issue within Senate or the student body.
What is an ad hoc committee?
The team that works under Elzinga, comprised of various VPs and senior administrators.
What is the President's Cabinet?
A senator chooses not to vote on a particular proposal.
What is abstaining?
The place where dress code will always be communicated.
What is the weekly agenda?
An opportunity for growth that pairs a senator with an experienced student on campus.
What is upperclassmen leadership mentoring?
The 50% + 1 attendance requirement to conduct Senate business.
What is a quorum?
Last year's student body president.
What is Tyler VerMerris?
The only time that the President will vote.
What is a tiebreaker?
An article of clothing worn on the lower half, made of denim but with visible lacerations, inappropriate for either a business casual or business formal settings.
What are ripped jeans?
The lowest number of campus events you attend that must be unrelated to clubs, orgs, groups, or dorms you are already a part of.
What is 5 events?
The roles on Student Senate that are not elected.
What is senators, team leaders, and two VPs?
The actual name of the Cheese.
What is Jonah in the Belly of the Whale?
Moving that a proposal be deferred to a later date.
What is tabling a proposal?
The type of Senate meetings that will always require business formal clothing.
What are professional development meetings?
The number of tardies that equals an absence that equals a strike.
What is 3 tardies?
The ability of the student body to put a proposal on the Student Senate agenda if it has 25 signatures from full-time students.
What is the power of initiative?
The year that Student Senate was founded.
What is 1918?
The action that causes discussion on a proposal to end.
What is vote to vote?
A type of dress shoe, usually brown or black leather, appropriate for a business formal setting.
What is a loafer?
The minimum amount of time you must notify a Cabinet member (Senate meetings) or Team Leader (team meetings) in advance if you cannot attend.
What is 4 hours?
The amount of votes needed to amend the Student Senate bylaws.
What is a simple majority?
The city where John Calvin was born.