The most senior adviser in the Student Association lashed out at the SA senate by offering $5 to any senator who could come up with a “concrete reason why the SA exists.”

Recycling Adviser Dave Broustis wrote in his last report that he has yet to see the SA accomplish anything worthwhile for students in the four years he has worked with the group.

Broustis also accompanied his report with a graph showing “The SA Circle” which demonstrated how the senate goes through the year fighting over internal issues and in the end accomplishing nothing.

To end the cycle, senators need a purpose, he said. “If every senator just picked out one goal and got it done throughout the course of the year, we would have 40 goals accomplished.”

He also suggested a major event, such as a tuition protest, to spark senators into a feeling of purpose.

The report, which was given to senators at the last SA meeting on Nov. 18, was criticized as “silly” and unprofessional by Sen. Kevin Craver.

Craver said this is the third time Broustis has criticized the senate, and during the last meeting he announced that Broustis’s report “should be recycled.”

However, Craver said he also is concerned about the lack of progress made by the senate. “I’m afraid his point is valid.”

He said SA senators have the responsibility as a “collective” to change their ways, but he said leadership needs to be channeled through Senate Speaker Preston Came.

Came said he is trying his best to lead the senate, but student and senate apathy get in the way. When asked how senators can be motivated, Came said, “That’s a good question.”

Came said the main job of the senate is deciding how student fees are used and representing the student position to the administration.

He said some senators’ expectation of the senate are too high. “There’s only a limited amount of things we can do.”

Broustis said he has met with SA President Rob McCormack, and admitted that his report might have been too harsh.

“I realize that a lot of work is done in committees,” he said.

Broustis also admitted that he rarely attends SA meetings and staff meetings, but he said he does his job in the recycling department.