Tonight's Student Council meeting was predicted to go only ten minutes by Representative Paulson. It is never that easy with a Student Council, though.
First, a recap of all of the night's preceding can be found via the ASM press office.
Academic Affairs Chair Jonah Zinn proposed a piece of "legislation" (I put it in quotes because I really don't believe that ASM has the right to legislate) that mandates that ASM will join in the Haiti Relief efforts. Of course, there was hardly any debate about the act, but Finance Chair Beemsterboer did raise some interesting points about the place of ASM. My question is: is that something that should be mandated or is it really just implied since ASM has already started a Relief Day effort?
Also, Tyler reminded the Council for the 50th time that he read 1400 pages of MIU proposals.
We wrapped up by 7:30, not ten minutes but still pretty impressive.
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Perhaps you didn't know, but the U.S. Senate did the same thing.
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ReplyDeleteAbsolutely Max, but the Madison Student Government is hardly equitable to the United States Senate--or even the State Senate. I have no problem with the relief effort nor supporting the Haitian people, but it does raise a broader philosophical question: what is the role of ASM?
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