An Ohio University Graduate Student Senate resolution supporting the Board of Trustees’ evaluation of OU President Roderick McDavis is in the works but was tabled at last night’s meeting to clarify its position on OU Faculty Senate’s recently passed referendum.

The resolution states that Graduate Student Senate supports the idea of shared governance and adds that an anonymous evaluation survey — a referendum for which voting faculty passed Friday — is “not the appropriate action.”

“If you’re critical of the administration, you should at least put your name on your comments,” said William Tarter, black affairs senator and a sponsor of the resolution.

Natalie Pariano, senate’s vice president for communications, said the board’s implementation of a 360-degree evaluation for McDavis does not adequately specify how the input from the six constituent groups participating in the evaluation will be collected.

“I don’t support just a dialogue because there’s no record,” she said,.

The resolution was tabled for senate’s next meeting after Jason Hartz, fine arts senator, said the tone of the Graduate Student Senate resolution implies that Faculty Senate is neglecting other groups on campus.

In the resolution, OU Student Senate President Brian Footer is quoted in a May 5 Post letter to the editor as saying the Faculty Senate evaluation process “neglects all the constituency groups and focuses on just the faculty.”

At Graduate Student Senate’s next meeting, the resolution will be amended and then put to a vote.

Also at last night’s meeting, senate introduced a resolution urging OU to better protect sensitive information, but the resolution also was tabled for the next meeting.

The first step should be to remove Social Security numbers from servers, said Shane Tilton, Individual Interdisciplinary Program senator.

“This is a huge problem, and the problem exists because all the information is put on a server,” he said.