Members discuss bank, 24-hour space
By FINN PRESSLY
Assistant News Editor
A constitutional amendment, 24-hour space and new Key Bank fees topped the agenda at Wednesday night's meeting of the Student Senate.
Keough Hall senator Brian O'Donoghue announced that on Dec. 1 the LaFortune Student Center branch of Key Bank will begin charging a $5 fee to those cashing checks without a Key Bank account.
"It's not really an issue we can fight," O'Donoghue said, adding that most area Key Banks will not even cash checks from non-account holders.
He suggested that should students need to cash checks and are not members of either Key Bank or the Notre Dame Federal Credit Union, they should try the University Cashier in the Main Building. The cashier does, however, have a number of stipulations regarding the amount of the check and by whom the check was written, he said.
In other Senate news:
u Before the meeting, the constitution originally referred to the senator's yearly requirement to attend a "predjudice reduction workshop." The amendment changed that wording to reflect the new name of the seminar: "Celebrating Diversity."
Nevertheless, some senators expressed discontent with the amendment.
St. Edward's senator Paul Sladek called attention to the fact that an earlier letter had erroneously been assigned a docket number. Therefore, the docket number for the matter currently on the floor was one number off.
Parliamentarian Stephen Sanchez noted that the number is simply a reference number, should future senators wish to locate it quickly.
"Just so you know, it doesn't matter what you number it," he said.
Sladek, however, was not convinced.
"As long as we're doing it, we may as well do it right," Sladek said. The authors agreed to re-number the amendment to reflect the change.
The senators then began debate the actual content of the amendment, specifically the use of a semicolon, as well as certain choices of words.
In the end, the measure was passed with three members abstaining.
u Following weeks of meeting with the many rectors on campus, the Gender Relations Committee presented a resolution asking the adminstration to adopt a concrete definition of 24-hour space.
"[24-hour space] is not mentioned in DuLac," Pasquerilla West senator Audra Hagan said. "It's determined by the rectors."
Hagan and Siegfried senator Steven Sanchez said that they found a number of discrepancies between women's dorms and men's dorms. Among them was the presence of hall monitors in women's dorms.
Overall, however, they found that rectors were in favor of expansion of more 24-hour space.
"The majority of the rectors did support the push for more 24-hour space," senator Sanchez said.
The resolution was ultimately approved.
All News Stories for Thursday, November 18, 1999
