Making good on the promise of last semester’s final piece of new business, the Students’ Association Senate opened the first meeting of 2010 with an amply emotional rendition of “The Genesee.” Singing ran the gamut from heartfelt to non-existent.
Call To Question
Brought to you by renowned satirist Ross Brenneman, "Call To Question" highlights the most thought-provoking, interesting and outrageous moments of the Student Association's weekly senate meetings. (Note: While the author currently serves the Campus Times Publisher, opinions in CTQ are the author's own, and do not represent those of the CT.) It is published weekly on Tuesdays.
On the High Wire
January 26th, 2010 by Ross Brenneman
The Story So Far
January 19th, 2010 by Ross Brenneman
It was an eventful fall semester for the 2009-10 Students’ Association Senate. So much seems to have happened, and yet we still felt it possible to boil down everything to an ample list of accomplishments.
Fair and Famous
December 8th, 2009 by Ross Brenneman
When last we left the SA government, the assembly had assessed fall break expansion plans, was figuring out winter bike storage and elected freshman senator Rohini Bhatia to the Steering Committee. Now going into their final meeting, the Senate had limited new business but a lot of ground to cover before winter break. AWAY WE …
Before and After
December 1st, 2009 by Ross Brenneman
When last we left our government agents, Thanksgiving loomed over a meeting rife with uncertainty and backtracking, and freshman senator Rohini (RO-HYNN-EE) Bhatia had taken her place at the table. With a vacancy on the Steering Committee, the senate moved to elect a member to the spot, but due to doubt over Steering Committee’s openness, …
Traveling in Steerage
November 24th, 2009 by Ross Brenneman
“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
—Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”
As the senate convened last night, there was a new face at the table: freshman Rohini Bhatia, who agreed to replace impeached senator Chisoba Umesi. Although we don’t remember her ever being sworn in, she received a warm …