When I walk into Student Government Association’s Student Senate every week I usually do not know what I will be writing about in the paper the next day. The article usually involves legislation or issues brought up in the meeting. But sometimes, how something happens is more of a story than what happens.
Several interesting things worth writing about came up at senate on Wednesday, but what struck me were the repeated motions to either eliminate or shorten meetings and reports. In the interest of time, senators chose to skip almost all of the caucus and committee meetings and reports.
Vice President Rodney Blount commented on the senate decision during his comments, and reminded senators they have a responsibility to the student body to take the time to discuss concerns.
Student Senate is young at the moment, with many new members. While senate did not abuse the ability to skip sections of the meeting last term, it did happen. This is still the first month of the new terms, and I thought it was interesting how easily the motions to hurry the meeting along were passed.
While important and interesting issues and topics were brought up at senate, it was one of those instances when how the meeting happened stood out more than what happened at it.
Submitted by Erin Moody, chief reporter
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