Well, let’s have some fun. I was going to write about the Student Association Senate, but that’s boring, right?

At least that’s what SA Sen. Bill Kraemer seems to think since he reclined across a couple chairs and took a snooze during last week’s meeting.

And then there is Sunday, when SA Speaker Joe Annunzio said he wanted to get rid of “dead weight” in the senate, so he proposed the senate take a roll-call vote just for the hell of it. Of course, he waited to be sure Kraemer and nine other senators were out of the room.

Yep, dead weight. Hey Joe, why not just cut the number of SA senators in half. Most of them just sit there anyway, except when they’re hungry, thirsty or tired.

If dead weight needs to be unloaded, just change the bylaws to reduce the senate size to about 15 members.

I guess I can’t raz Sen. Annunzio too much. After all he did say at Sunday’s meeting that he will start an Ad Hoc committee. That’s right, it’s called the SA Speaker’s committee—open to every senator who wants to address issues.

With the track record of SA committees and attendances, I can hardly wait to see how this one turns out.

Since Ad Hocs are special purpose committees, I guess we could say the purpose of this committee is to inform the non-dead weight senators of the issues. On the other hand, it seems these non-dead weighters already know the issues. So we could say the committee is to inform those who are not informed and since they’re dead weight anyway the committee is a waste of time.

Well, at least we’ll have two senates. One for senators who want to address issues and one for those who don’t. Bright idea.

I can’t really blame the speaker for this rage of brilliance. After all he is just trying to find a way to to get senators involved.

He even resulted to scolding senators at the meeting.

After scolding senators for not checking mailboxes and basically doing nothing but “showing up for the meeting once a week,” Annunzio told the group “if you’re not informed and don’t even check you boxes, you shouldn’t be here. You should just resign right now.”

I think there is a very serious problem here. One week we have senators sleeping through meetings, the next week we have a 25-minute debate on whether to take a roll-call vote to squeeze some dead weight out and a possibility of yet one more committee for senators who are interested in issues.

Do I see some kind of pattern here? Maybe a little apathy or ignorance, perhaps?

Well, that’s not suprising. After all, since many of these senators (and I use that term loosely) all ran on the same coalition, it seems only logical that they would have similar attitudes.

Well, don’t say I didn’t warn you. I predicted this at the beginning of the semester. I suggested redistricting too. Maybe someone will consider this idea a little more closely now.

While I attended the meeting for a short time Sunday, it seems I missed all of the excitement. Next we had a severe case of what is commonly known as “Star bashing.” I don’t care what anyone’s personal opinions are. I’m glad to see they have them, but I hope to tell ya, personal cry-babiness doesn’t belong in a senate meeting.

Oh well, it’s only appropriate because neither do most of the senators.

In all seriousness, we have a responsibility as constituents to let our senators know what we want from the senate. God knows, they won’t ask us what we want.

Again, I’m talking about the many, not all and unfortunately not the few.

How did this happen? Well, we had xxx students run for the xxx seats. There is no challenge when just about anyone could run and win. Let’s reduce the size of the senate so those who do get elected are elected because they campaigned hard and made known what they stand for. Not just because there was no one else to vote for.