News in Brief
Compiled by Sarah Choy

SA discusses quorum issues
The Student Assembly proposed changes and debated over procedures regarding the cancellation of meetings and notification by the senators for missed meetings Wednesday.

Law school Sen. Tim Emry believes that the cancellation of last week's meeting has affected the Senate's ability to conduct business.

Junior Dheeraj Jagadev, vice-chair of the Senate, added that the missed meeting coincided with a time when three resolutions needed to be debated. Two of those resolutions, which came directly from students, concerned the renewal of the contract for visiting Arabic instructor Kwame Lawson and a recycling proposition.

"Missing a week does make a difference," SA President Dan Maxey, a senior, said. "Business starts to pile up when you can't make meetings and we can't make quorum. A little bit of added dedication on all our parts would help. There have been aplenty of meetings when we haven't been able to make quorum."

The problem of having the necessary two-thirds of senators present to reach quorum is exacerbated by the fact that only two of the College's five graduate senators regularly attend meetings, forcing almost all of the undergraduate senators to attend every single week in order to reach quorum.

In order to ensure that a missed meeting does not occur again, many senators proposed changes to the procedures of the Senate. Secretary Lisa Keller, a junior, suggested telling the Senate in advance of a prior commitment.

In other news, in honor of Veterans' Day and in remembrance of the Sept. 11 attack, the SA launched a long-term campaign to honor war veterans through the delivery of 138 hand-written letters to veterans employed by the College. The distribution of the letters marks the first time that the SA has ever planned an event in honor of Veterans' Day.