• Call to order
• Invocation by Senator
• Pledge of Allegiance
• Roll call by Secretary Donovan
• Senators Marshall, Moskowitz, Gorospe, Reid, Richard, and Brown were found absent
• Approval of the minutes

Presentation by Tiger Paw Productions President Alexis Cronis

• Put email in minutes for people to send questions- acronis@clemson.edu
• SP: do you ever work with student groups to let them put on performances?
• AC: mainly focus on major acts, but last semester also partnered with the Barnes Center for an event for students to perform
• JL: relationship with administration
• AC: advised by Campus Activities and Events, they know the most about production

Presentation by Senior Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. Doug Hallenbeck and Director of Campus Activities and Events Ms. Mandy Hays

• Clemson has the infrastructure for about 13,000 students, have close to 19,000 students
• Very limited space in Redfern, Fike, Student Union, field space, library
• Looking to put card access on more of the academic buildings
• PS: opening up Harcombe as a study space?
• DH: no longer pursuing that project, there’s a cost associated with opening that up and requiring staffing, but potentially looking at that for finals week
• MR: LGBTQIA+ students finding a space on campus?
• DH: to be able to give anybody space we have to take space away
• CJ: Vickery Hall currently unoccupied, process for allocating that space?
• DH: “space” team responsible for fielding requests for big-time spaces, go through a process to allocate that space
• Campus Activities and Events manage Hendrix, Union, Auditorium in Tillman, Barnes Center, etc.
• Advise Central Spirit, Clemson Live, and Tiger Paw Productions
• Provide leadership and community development opportunities
• Primary contact for campus ministries

Academic Affairs, Shreya Shankar

• WELCOME KATHLEEN!!!
• Killian and I will be meeting with Neil Burton from the Career center to discuss increasing professional development resources, and then begin assembling team of those who have expressed interest in working on the project
• Matt will be reaching out to Deborah Faresteen to discuss why cheaper transcript initiative didn’t work in the past.
• Tremaine will be reaching out and conducting research to see what exact issues ROTC students and student veterans are having with registration times.
• Mar and Madison to reach out to Kathy Hobgood, director of housing, to discuss printers on all residence halls.
• Meet with Academic Advising Committee to discuss Major/Minor fair to be held in the Spring
• Looking to create more research opportunities for humanities majors
• CU Drop in Research Spotlight
• Please submit graphic designs for CUDIRS banner to email below
• Contacting companies to buy podium
• Looking for professors who want to present research; submit names if you know anyone
• Matt looking to get food trucks behind the library for finals week.
• Kathleen to serve alongside Tremaine on summer reading committee.
• Kathleen wants to work on having students reach out to local schools to encourage them on education
• Exploring expansion of undergraduate research opportunities
• Unified database of research opportunities in every College
• Going with Dr. Griffing to talk to undergraduate associate deans about undergraduate research fair
• Contact info-
• Shreya Shankar
• 843-260-4372
• shanka2@clemson.edu
• @shreyatheslaya

Athletics, Josh Hutchinson

• Updates
• Welcome Morgan and Melanie!! We are so excited to have you guys on our committee and I cannot wait to see what new ideas you guys bring to the table!
• Athletics Updates
• Software meeting this week. I hope to get the waterfall effect back concluding the meeting.
• Rachel and Izzy are working on Penalty for selling tickets
• Will have short term implementation for this year and a long term implementation for the future
• Potential CI to create new software system
• Return ticket distribution is on Thursdays at 5pm
• Working for a better redistribution plan for the future
• Campus Rec Updates
• Constituency report coming soon—August, Katelyn, Banner, and Morgan are working on this
• New open rec hours for courts 4 & 5 are as follows:
• Volleyball: Monday and Wednesday 7-11pm & Tuesday and Thursday 5-7pm
• Indoor Soccer: Monday and Wednesday 5-7pm & Tuesday and Thursday 7-11pm
• Badminton: Friday 7-11pm & Sunday 3-5pm
• Table Tennis: Saturday 8-10pm (in Lower Fitness Studio)
• Projects
• Penalty for selling tickets—Rachel and Izzy
• Campus Rec Constituency report—August, Katelyn, Banner, and Morgan
• Ticketing Software updates—AJ and myself
• Contact Info
• Josh Hutchinson | 803-727-3854 | jhutch4@g.clemson.edu

Campus Life, Jacob Livingston

• Updates this Week
• WELCOME DAVID!
• Multicultural Dining Hall Day is TOMORROW from 5-9 PM in the Fresh Food Company (Core Campus) Dining Hall
• Halal food should be available every Tuesday & Friday in Fresh Food Company for lunch
• Continuing student housing contracts begin NEXT MONDAY, OCTOBER 2ND!
• Meeting with Kathy Hobgood on Tuesday—let me know if there are any concerns you want me to bring to her!
• Congrats to Jade, the CUSG Rep for Miss Homecoming!
• Tapingo and Jessica Ruday are the heroes we all need but don’t deserve. | jwlivin@clemson.edu | (843) 855-2516 | SC: @jacobsayshi | Twitter/Insta: @jacob_livvy

Finance & Procedures, Miller Hoffman

• Legislation:
• Second Read
• Supreme Court Confirmations
• Big 7 bylaw change
• Non-Operational Funding
• First Read
• Non-Operational
• News:
• MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW
• Elections bylaws changes interest meeting
• Wednesday, 6:30pm, Conference Room
• Come talk to Emma Schafer (Elections Dir.), Lindsey Wright (AD), and me about changes to the elections process
• If you are looking to give positive support to us, please come out.
• Bylaws TF
• Continuing to work on preparing Elections section
• Expect to see this next Monday
• SEE YA @ RETREAT!!
• mhoffm5@g.clemson.edu / 803-412-5983 /
• “You’ll never get ahead by always trying to keep up.”
• PREPARE TO SUFFER AT THE HANDS OF F&P @ RETREAT
• #UNDEFEATED

Health & Human Services, Madison Gregoris

• Updates:
• Welcome Aubrey to HHS!!!
• Clemson Against Drunk Driving (CADD) Campaign
• Meeting with Ms. Crystal Fulmer (Healthy Campus) sometime this week or early next
• Confirmed Waterdrop for Friday night downtown
• Come talk to me if you have ever sold food late night downtown with another organization that you’re in
• Redfern STI testing completely booked
• Reason why AID upstate wasn’t here this year - stats
• Clemson Values Survey
• Shameless Rachel Reid plug
• Individual Project Updates:
• Anna - working on getting outdoor concert space secured
• Stephen - online resource book for students, working on a PDF of all things HHS now
• Jay - CADD
• Aliyah - tampon receptacles in all-women housing
• Daniel - flu shots
• Perrin - Tampon/Pad drive, diversity component to CUSG
• Call me/beep me/if you wanna reach me | 3155592066, mjgrego@g.clemson.edu, SC: @madisonj315

Transportation & Facilities, Patrick Gorospe

• Updates
• Credit agency numbers
• Equifax — 1-800-349-9960
• Experian — 1‑888‑397‑3742
• TransUnion — 1-888-909-8872
• Innovis — 1-800-540-2505
• https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faqs
• Fall 2017 Career Fair
• Tuesday, September 26
• Engineering, Computing and Sciences Fair Day 1, 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm
• Wednesday, September 27
• Business, Healthcare and Communication Fair, 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm
• NEW - Thursday, September 28
• Engineering, Computing and Sciences Fair Day 2, 9:00am - 12:00pm
• CUSG Duolingo Spanish club -let me know if you’re interested!
• Mayoral Election in Rock Hill, SC on October 17 (during Fall break)
• scvotes.org to request an absentee ballot
• Let me know if you’re from Rock Hill and let’s chat about the election!
• Projects
• Jessica Ruday - brainstorming new safety event idea. Exploring game day transit revival
• Andrew O’Steen & Lisa Uy - survey results presented to Todd
• Derwin Simpson & Emily Anders - exploring the concept of nap pods of campus
• Monica Rozmann - working with CUPD to explore the possibility of a school-wide active shooter training
• Upcoming Meetings
• Dan (weekly)
• Todd Barnette (bi-weekly)
• Peter Knudsen (TBD-campus planning)
• ITSAB (9/26)
• Gary Gaulin (TBD)
• Green Crescent Trail Steering (Rescheduled-9/27)
• HMU 803-371-0959 | pgorosp@clemson.edu | @heyitsmepatg (coffee, free food, friendship)

University Services, Mikey Summers

• WE NEED APPOINTMENTS
• Computing Advisory Board
• CI Advisory Committee
• Intellectual Property Committee
• Intellectual Property Committee student position revived
• @Leland
• Catherine is working on student representation on City Council. Comments? Thoughts? Could you talk to her?
• ITSAB First Meeting this Week

Clerk, Jack Council

• CUSG on-campus activities
• Scroll of Honor/Memorial Park
• The Archives
• Fort Hill
• FALL RETREAT
• If you ever have any questions or just wanna hang out,
• 704-488-3242
• jcounci@g.clemson.edu
• Snapchat/Insta: @jack_council

Secretary, Kara Donovan

• Hope everyone is happy with their committees!!
• "Final" seating chart (please sit in your seats so it’s easy for me to look up when taking attendance)
• Dress code
• Missing CUSG Retreat is 2 absences regardless of whether they are excused- please don’t miss it!
• Points
• Funding board (weekly)
• CUDIRS (weekly)
• “Sharing with Senate” (weekly)
• Multicultural Dining Day 9/26
• Green Zone Training 10/12
• Shoutout to B & Christian for most points :)
• CUSG Google Calendar- send me events!
• Meet the Senators
• Contact Info
• (410) 220-7220 | donova3@g.clemson.edu | Insta: @kara710 | Twitter: @kdon710 | Snapchat: @karadonovan710

Pro Temp, Steven Patrick

• Fall Retreat
• Waiver
• Field Day
• Talent Show
• Mediocre food, delicious fellowship, everlasting fun and friendship :)
• Mentor/Mentee Forms

Vice President, Jaren Stewart

• We’ve raised $100 shy of $1000 for hurricane relief
• International reaches and Global citizenship
• Shoutout to Senator Sincavitch
• So now you’re probably wondering why myself and others have made the decision to sit during the pledge of allegiance tonight. On a national scale, this trend isn’t new. There are people who have felt that our country has done them a disservice by reserving the pursuit of happiness to the majority. I am speaking for the minority. I am speaking for those who have been discriminated against. I am speaking for those who have been isolated or thought of as less than simply because skin color. I am speaking for those who have not felt welcome at Clemson. Here in student government, we understand the motif. We understand the Clemson family, and how it does not include everyone. For most of us, that was our motivation in trying to become part of something bigger; something that has the power to heal the dysfunction. In student government, this has been said so much and so often that it has lost its meaning. What do we actively do to change campus? Will sitting down during the pledge actively help? No. But this collective gesture does bring light to an issue that hurts us daily. The marginalization of minority students.
• -2007 black face party
• -2014 The Cripmas party
• -2015 The sit-in that lasted 10 days and 9 nights
• -2016 The KKK leaflets on Clemson’s campus
• -2017 According to the President of the United States I am considered a “son of a bitch” for sitting during the pledge of allegiance.
• When you’re asking how minority students feel targeted, those are the big things. The smaller things include being the only brown face in a classroom Monday through Friday, having to play the game of who’s racist or not when you’re trying to join a club or ask for help in class. When your colleagues think it's okay to drop the “n-word” because it's in a song. I am the student body vice president, I ran a campaign and won an election. Yet everywhere I go you’ll see me wearing my name tag. Why? Because it is much easier to be the student body vice president than it is to be a black student on this campus. When we all applied to college, we checked the important things; academic ranking, tuition, room and board, and of course football. Seventeen percent of Clemson students looked for another number. The ethnic diversity. The number that tells the extent in which they must conform to feel welcome. Do you know that Clemson is 83% white? Does that go through your head daily, do you think about it when you’re picking out your shoes, or what you’re going to have for lunch. We have a multicultural dining day, that's amazing, but it also acknowledges the fact that consuming food from another culture is not normal. Our racial divide is ingrained and its real.I am blessed to be here and to have the opportunity to serve as the student body vice president for the next year. My vision for this senate is that we will be remembered as one body that encourages something real. There is something in these hills, there is something in these chambers and there is something in each one of you that has the potential to change Clemson forever. The next time you hear the word go tigers, take it to heart. Go out and repair what is broken here. Create the Clemson family for all of us.

Senate President, Leland Dunwoodie

• Steering
• Food in Senate unprofessional? - do what GSG does
• Maintain a more serious tone? - emails, not phones, during Senate
• Meeting with Pi Alpha Phi Wednesday 9/27 at 4pm in the Core Starbucks
• Redundant points being made during Senate - email people
• AJ and Rachel talking to Steering about the Values Statement - pair and share
• Alumni Internship Network going into TigerTies resource page and ping staging
• Joint Senate
• Service Project
• Homecoming Build: Sign Up to Build Up
• Shoutouts
• Rachel Reid - MDD
• Sloane Perkins - halal
• Banner Brock and Jade Richard - Campus Rec
• Rachel Reinker - Deloitte
• Updates
• Alumni Internship Network
• Leland Dunwoodie | 269-759-4768 | ldunwoo@g.clemson.edu | @lelanddunwoodie

Old Business

• Senate Bill 15
• Author: Miller Hoffman
• Sponsor: Janay Crosland
• Purpose statement: To approve the following appointments to the 2017-2018 Undergraduate Student Government Supreme Court.
• JS: move to call this bill to question
• SB 15 passes
• Senate Bill 17
• Author: Miller Hoffman
• Sponsors: Karl Bossard and Connor McCormick
• Purpose statement: To update the Student Body Student Organizations bylaws to reflect the appropriate changes for Sponsored Student Organizations.
• PT: move to call this bill to question
• SB 17 passes
• Senate Bill 18
• Author: Christian Jones and Bryson Daniels
• Purpose statement:To approve the recommended non-operational appropriations.
• MG: con- a need for checks and balances, there is a lot of overlap between Blue Key and CUSG, and while they may be diligent right now that doesn’t mean they always will be; also need to look at the purpose of funding board to help organizations become more independent, Blue Key requested more this year than last year and this doesn’t seem to be scrutinizing the independence of this organization; finally the impact of the funding on Clemson, Tigerama doesn’t seem to be impacting as many students as it does alumni
• JH: pro- yield some time to Connor about the voting for Blue Key’s allocation
• CM: I will definitely get back to you if you ever have questions; the overlap is a valid concern, but no Blue Key members voted on this allocation
• JH: yield time to Samuel
• SR: increase due to costs of production staff, adding screens in ADA section → $5,000, also exploring sponsorships from outside organizations
• MG: point of information- there is a $3 charge on tickets sold in Hendrix (from the 2016 funding board budget presentation from Blue Key)
• AG: hostile amendment- in line 12 to change October 16th to October 6th
• BB: move to send this amendment to second read
• AG: waive
• TM: pro- great amendment
• DK: move to approve this amendment by acclimation
• Amendment approved by acclimation
• IK: pro- seen lots of intertwining in CUSG and various committees going under scrutiny, have full faith in this funding amount
• JS: con- discrepancies in Blue Key’s budgets for 2016 and 2017, extra $1000 to tickets and extra $1000 for a skit prize, as well as fireworks money that was initially denied last year, $12000 difference in budgets, also this event is largely focused towards alumni despite proceeds benefitting students
• SS: pro- no one on Blue Key voted for this
• RR: con- a lot of discrepancy in the facts which is concerning
• JC: pro- not the best time to address these discrepancies right now, Tigerama is in 2 weeks
• JS: con- move to make a hostile amendment
• AA: pro- a lot of planning has gone into this and it would be a disservice to this student group
• PG: con- Blue Key members will be voting on this bill as part of this body; also funding done on a reimbursement basis, would be a disservice to spend the student activity fee without getting the facts straight, alumni do make up a large part of the audience
• JC: pro- incorrect date on the bill is on the authors and me, not funding board; a lot of this could have been answered in first read, trust funding board and their number
• BS: con- move to call this bill to question
• CJ: second-largest student-run pep rally in the country, a 61 year-long tradition; Samuel and Blue Key have been working to increase attendance, trying to get people involved in skits
• SB 18 passes

New Business

• Senate Bill 19
• Author: Miller Hoffman
• Purpose statement: To approve the recommended non-operational appropriations.
• CJ: Tiger Scratch isn’t yet a registered student org?
• MH: this allocation is contingent on the recognition going through, it’s nearly all the way there, yield time to Connor
• CM: won’t get the money until they’re an official student organization, likely end of this week
• BB: does he have a board and advisor as well?
• MH: yes he has gone through that whole process
• JR: is the 11000 for one person
• MH: no for the whole team, direct event expenses
• CJ: move to send this bill back to F&P
• Objection
• Still in 1st read
• KD: what are we debating?
• MH: I will take this back to F&P and we will get to the bottom of this, treat this as an error
• PG: once this is sent back to committee, could this come back to funding board for another hearing?
• MH: facing a time crunch, don’t want to start retroactively funding, but yes absolutely, it’s in the organizations department of CUSG right now, we will change this in committee
• JS: Tiger Scratch shouldn’t have been recommended an allocation by funding board per the bylaws, could they get an emergency allocation
• MH: yes, but this is a time issue trying to get the project started for College Emmys
• ST: is Taekwondo the full name of that group?
• MH: yes that is the name they are registered under
• BD: move to send this bill back to F&P
• RR: objection
• Back in first read
• JS: could this be revised to come back for 2 reads next Monday?
• RR: what are you all going to do
• MH: wait until they are recognized as an RSO
• LU: move to send this bill back to F&P
• SB 19 back in F&P
• Senate Bill 20
• Author: Miller Hoffman
• Purpose statement: To approve the recommended operational appropriations.
• CJ: move to send this bill back to F&P
• SB 20 back in F&P

Announcements

• KS: homecoming build starts on Wednesday every day through next week, link sent in groupme
• RR: move for a roll call
• JS: orientation ambassador application is out
• JC: inappropriate conduct during Jaren’s speech, validating those concerns of minority students
• LD: Miss Homecoming next Monday at 7 in the Brooks Center, Senate starting at 8pm next week
• AK: natural gas vs. solar energy poll
• BS: AXO proceed night at Your Pie tomorrow night
• AS: move to adjourn