The Student Association senators better get their acts together now before a meeting comes where their shenanigans are really going to hurt something.

Sunday’s meeting was a complete fiasco. The senate’s collective antics on that night show senators will have to police themselves.

Sen. Kevin Craver and Richard Parkman should round up the others who seem to know what they are supposed to do and give them a little lesson in common sense.

Start with Sen. Kelly Marie McDonald.

McDonald had the most ridiculous reason for voting against the four Supreme Court nominees Sunday night.

McDonald voted against them because their views were too similar.

Apparently, McDonald and the other senators don’t trust the views of SA President Robert McCormack and former Senate Speaker John Fallon.

McCormack and Fallon interviewed 15 candidates for the post. Sixteen applied, but one candidate failed to show for her interview.

It’s good to see the senate isn’t taking for face value anything coming down from the executive board. It’s also good to see the senate wanting more information before making a decision.

However, the move shows how hypocritical some of the senators truly are. If senators came to the meeting with information on why other choices are better, then their actions would be justified.

But as it turned out, senators only made a fool out of the senate.

McCormack and Fallon don’t have any control over who applies and who doesn’t. They certainly cannot pull four totally different people from the street and tell them they have to be on the court.

McCormack said he was disappointed with the senate’s actions. He should be.

The rest of the senate should be disappointed too. Not only did the senate totally blow the court nominations, but they danced around approving the election commissioner.

Alfred Tatum was finally given the green light to continue running future SA elections—even if it did take three different votes to get him in.

Tatum was voted down twice before finally mustering enough votes to win the nod. There must have been a ray of light shining through the Holmes Student Center to open up all of the senators’ minds to show them how wrong they were the moment before.

Parkman was the only one to vote no on all three votes.

Even Tatum’s suspect attitude about the SA is overshadowed by this idiocy. Whoever said the third time is a charm wasn’t kidding. They must have been an SA senator in a previous life.

But only the senate could top its own show. One of the biggest reasons for all of this voting nonsense was because eight senators were missing.

The only thing the campus heard from the newly elected elite were fantasies of making the senate credible and proactive. It’s a hell of a lot easier to be proactive when you are present.

Senators should forget Sunday night. Nobody else will.