Do we have a quorum? Do we need a quorum? Hey, what is a quorum, anyway?

Sunday night, the Student Association finally finished fumbling its way through the Louis Farrakhan issue, but not without a last few hijinks to help us remember the situation.

The group spent a 45 minutes discussing the issue, but then spent another solid 45 minutes trying to figure out how to vote on the issue. That probably sounds like a rerun, or at least sounds pretty similar to something that might have happened before.

If you go hunting around in the Student Association’s attic for a while, you’re bound to discover several situations among cobwebs in which SA action came to a stall because of the fact that some of the senators did not have a working knowledge of the SA Constitution.

Does “working knowledge” seem far too general a term? Well, let’s explain it, then.

We are not saying that each SA Senate member should be forced to know the SA Constitution word-by-word and know the meaning of every sentence inside and out. They are all students just like the rest of us and have other scholastic obligations just like the rest of us.

However, the senators should at least be well-versed in the proper procedures for voting on an issue and what conditions are need to make the vote valid. Present senators and those who join the SA this semester must know the basics.