Session of november 13, 2025

November 13, 2025

Minutes Recorded by: John Mascorro

Visitor(s): Dr. Conn

Call to Order at 11:02 AM

Senator Kodama prays

Roll Called

Minutes Approved 11:04 AM

Reports:

PPT Chandler: Nothing I can think of at the moment...

VP Zoboroski: Senate does a couple things at the end of the year. One of them is SI Blitz pizza. If y'all are going to an SI, and you have time before or after, please drop by. I hope you guys are going to SI. My grade needs it, but I'm a senior, so we ball. Also we have the tree lighting ceremony that we'll need volunteers for. Since we're gonna do the gift cards next semester, all of the things you do this year will go towards the spin the wheel, horse racing, whatever you wanna call it. 

PPT Chandler: The SI Blitz is Saturday the 6th.

Chairwoman Riccio: Do you want us to volunteer now?

VP Zoboroski: For the pizza, they want two young men at 10AM in the post office to help with drinks. The other 6 can meet at Glaske around 1:30 to help. Again, I would assume most of y'all are gonna be there... Is there a machine design one?

Senator Kodama: No, there's not.

VP Zoboroski: Okay yeah that's what I thought. Yeah if you guys could just stay for like 30 minutes after your session. For the people in the morning, you're helping Ms. Shoemaker

VP Zoboroski: Also volunteers for Ice Cream, said Jason in the discord.

Special Business:

Old Business:

New Business:

Announcements:

Open Forum:

VP Zoboroski: We have the suggestions. This one says "More trees planted on campus". We've got this one before, but like where are we gonna put them? This one just says Otter Pops. Go buy your own Otter Pops, they're not expensive. 

Senator Dempsey: Otter what?

VP Zoboroski: Otter Pops, you know, like the popsicles.

Dr. Conn: For otters.

VP Zoboroski: This one says that they should bring back Asian-style food and have the chopsticks. I don't remember using any chopsticks before. This one asks for a car washing station on campus.

Chairwoman Riccio: There's that broken sprinkler over by Mabee, we could just have them park there.

PPT Chandler: There are water faucets by Auto and the Civil labs.

VP Zoboroski: It seems like all the suggestions we get either take a couple cents to solve, or a couple thousand dollars.

Chairwoman Riccio: Can we get standing desks in classes, like in the back?

VP Zoboroski: Can you stand the classes? Because there are some I can't. Like machine design. Also that's like when in elementary school the principal just stands in the back.

Chairwoman Riccio: I was homeschooled.

PPT Chandler: Should we have people put their names and emails so we can get back to them and actually answer them, like "Go buy your own Otter Pops"?

Senator LaQuey: A student last week approached me and Senator Hansen after Ice Cream last week, who works night shifts as an EMT, and it's very hard on her. She's tried to do online classes, but they fill up very quickly. There are a lot of dual-credit classes that she can't take that would be very beneficial to her. She also wanted to see if students with jobs could get registration priority.

Chairwoman Riccio: Has she talked to her advisor and professors?

Senator Hansen: Yeah. There's pretty much nothing she could do.

Senator LaQuey: I did tell her to talk to the Registrar, but also I am forgetting a lot of details.

Chairwoman Riccio: There are a lot of people she could reach out to.

VP Zoboroski: There definitely is a solution, I don't know exactly what it is, but I do think that if she finds the right person, they will work with her and try to reconcile that.

PPT Chandler: Yeah, it's more likely that talking to the registrar will be more effective than professors or deans, because they might not be able to do anything about it.

Dr. Conn: Are we in Open Forum? 

A general "Yes" from those gathered.

Dr. Conn: Did you talk about lighting LeTourneau? 

A general "Yes" from those gathered.

Dr. Conn: Yeah, its on the 1st, we just need volunteers to help mainly with clean up. Also, y'all have been getting spammed by me for the student satisfaction survey. Please do that, because we actually do care and use that data in order to make some changes. Usually you need like 25-30% to actually do anything with that data, but right now we have like 9%. Please take it, and also tell other people to take it.

VP Zoboroski: Do you not need people to hang up the lights?

Dr. Conn: No, we can get student life to do that. Steve Mason is gonna have a big fake switch and then people will start plugging things in.

Chairwoman Riccio: There's a women's rugby tournament this Saturday. There will be t-shirts for sale and concessions. LETU Rugby Instagram has more information.

Chairman Amerson: After the rugby tournament, there's a Pro-Life skeet shoot event at the gun range.

VP Zoboroski: Next week, I will get volunteers to do the lighting LETU once I get the info from Wanda.

Session recessed at 11:29.