LEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT-FACULTY SENATE

2005-2006

Moderator Peter Lubershane, Assistant Moderator Sam Kafrissen, Secretary Peter Kim

I. Call to Order: Meeting is called to order at 7:50 by Moderator Lubershane

II. Approval of Minutes: Minutes approved.

III. Approval of Agenda: Agenda approved.

IV. Announcements:

1) People may log into First Class, access the Senate conference and

carry on conversations outside of Senate.

2) Talent show is on this Thursday from 7-9pm.

3) LHS and David Parker related issue will appear on ABC News tonight.

4) There's a GSA dance on October 28th.

V. Open Comments:

1) President's press conference with his troops was all planned.

Government is lying to us.

2) Senate will have its picture taken for the yearbook next Wednesday.

VI. Committee Reports:

1) Climate met to organize the Talent Show.

2) Oversight met this morning and discussed the honor code and

littering in the hallways.

3) Policy met to discuss the number of Senators and the error in the

Constitution.

4) Executive committee met to formulate questions for Dr. Jones

regarding community service.

5) Thank you elections committee. Elections went smoothly.

VII. Community Service

1) Resolution #3 is unclear on the nature of the ad hoc committee that

will be created.

2) We intentionally left that vague because we do not want to exclude

people such as administrators and the community from joining the

discussion.

3) Motion to bring Community Service Resolution to the table passes.

4) On the community service proposals, Dr. Jones said no to #1, raised

concerns about 990 hours for #2, was in favor of #3, #4, and was in

favor of #5 but didn't know whether it was in the purview of Senate.

He recommended we take this in a slow and democratic manner. We

developed this resolution from various sources. We hope for a

unanimous vote on the issue of community service.

5) Friendly amendment to replace "on" with "with" to correct the grammar passes.

6) Concerns raised about the 3rd paragraph from the bottom.

7) Point of that part is to get people out of their "comfort" zones.

For example, keeping score during a score is not a community service.

8) There should be some kind of a range or balance. We shouldn't

define what other people's comfort zones are. Trying to overly control

becomes a nightmare.

9) Amendment proposed to get rid of the 3rd statement from the bottom.

We shouldn't value one service over the other.

a) Lexington is affluent. People should get out to help the needy.

b) We shouldn't define what these "comfort zones" are.

c) The statement in the resolution would prevent things like

Lexplorations from being a service.

d) We can insert "solely" and change the sentence, but we shouldn't

remove this part.

e) Amendment passes 18 to 17.

10) Amendment proposed to strike statements 4,5,6,7. We should grant

the committee the intellectual freedom to determine these things.

While those are valid concerns, this allows more flexibility.

a) Most valuable part should be what Senate should determine.

b) Senator Weiser dissents.

List of Senators Absent from Senate meeting: *Denotes excused/notified absence.

Ghazarian Gokhale* Metzger-Traber Lees Miake-Lye Pathan Shen*

Wilson Bogart* Chambers Kresser Richardson Serrano

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