Remember the good old days of being a kid and having your mom yell at you for not cleaning up your room? Well, every Senator regressed about 15 years as Speaker Harrell Kirstein admonished them last Monday night at the Senate meeting for leaving the Students’ Association office in disarray.

CALLING ALL MATHLETES: Both accountant and treasurer elections will take place next Tuesday. And better, SAAC is $500 under budget. Surplus!

HOPE IT GIVES YOU HELL, GIVES YOU HELL: Next week, the SA will be voting on its budget for next year. We imagine most discussion will happen within Appropriations, but how else would CTQ get to make an All-American Rejects reference? Cultural relevance!

AND YOU THOUGHT THE SPEAKER COULD BRING DOWN THE HAMMER: Elections officially kicked off Monday at midnight, and the candidates raced to flier. But woe to anyone who breaches ethics under Elections Chair Sumya Hasan’s watchful eye: “No harassment techniques, because I WILL find out about it.” Also, it didn’t seem like Senators Eric Weissmann and Sylvia Guerra made a lot of eye contact. Anxiety!

Platforms can be found here: (link: http://sa.rochester.edu/sa/?page_id=314)

IT’S A PUN! Explaining how the SA Convention works to the Senate, Kirstein notes that candidates will essentially be in a big room and say “I’m candidate so-and-so, running for ‘X,’ and this is why.” Victory!

REGISTRAWRRR: Talks continue between the Senate and Registrar over improving course surveys (that have never enjoyed non-TA, undergraduate input), which apparently involves the approval of Dean of the College Richard Feldman, and three separate committees. Bureaucracy!

“FORMALITY,” NOT “FORMAL”: Finely dressed representatives from theater group Opposite of People will receive SA recognition. No Jackets Required (which CTQ still doesn’t entirely understand) received approval to constitutional changes, and Society of Undergraduate Math Students came back from the dead, but don’t believe any SUMS meeting ever has had 40 attendees. They’re not the Statistics Undergraduate Council, now, are they?

CAN WE ADD “SOJOURN TO SOUTHSIDE”? This week’s “Fill Fauver” event is track and field at 10 a.m. Saturday — but the throwers will be at Southside. Hammer throw!

SPEAKING OF THE SPEAKER (thanks for that shout-out, by the way):
Kirstein, on almost being done: “I will be very sad.”
Senator Janna Gewirtz: “He will be very drunk.”

We only have one more full meeting with the senior senators — none of them are sticking around for Take Five — so we’ll make the most of next week, okay?

Adjourned!