Members of the Student Association Senate marched from an aborted senate meeting to SA President Kevin Miller’s office Sunday night.

Senators angry at Miller’s lack of availability for scheduling meetings walked from the Holmes Student Center’s Clara Sperling Skyroom after quorum for a “special session” meeting called by Miller was not met.

Miller had called a special session of the senate to give them an opportunity to reconsider vetoes made by Miller to the Campus Activity Board’s budget recommendations.

The senate had approved a recommended allocation of $508,924 at last week’s senate meeting.

Miller had reduced the budget by $83,943 to a total recommended allocation of $424,981.

Meyer, Gravel and members of CAB will file a complaint to the SA Supreme Court today alleging, among other things, Miller had exceeded his constitutional powers and had injured the CAB members named on the complaint.

The complaint then asks for the court to restore the CAB allocation to the $508,924 originally recommended.

Laisha Fox, SA senator and Campus Activities Board president said she tried to meet with Miller in September.

“We got one in January, a semester later,” Fox said.

Doug Reisinger, acting president pro tempore, said the executives of the SA cannot do anything at this point.

“Yelling at each other will not change a thing,” Reisinger said in the Skyroom. He suggested for them to go to Miller’s office.

After quorum was not met, Bertrand Simpson, associate director of University Programming and Activities stayed and discussed the veto with the senators and members of CAB.

Simpson alluded to the reason for Miller’s budget veto being because of the Big Time Entertainment committee and the Convocation Center.

After the pack had arrived in the Campus Life Building, they were informed by some members of CAB that Miller had just left. Sen. R.J. Gravel and Speaker Andrew Nelms then called and left messages on Miller’s voice mail.

“We’ll be here for a while,” said Sen. Jeff Meyer.

While the group waited outside of the SA office, Brooke Robinson, SA director of public affairs, returned briefly to the SA office.

“How about you stand up for something you believe in when you don’t have a microphone in your face?” Robinson said to Meyer. “You are such a media whore.”

Eleven senators showed up for the meeting, which required 17 in order to be held.

“We stood at ease for four minutes,” Reisinger said.

Nelms said that to his knowledge he had never heard of a meeting not meeting quorum. He said the finals schedules probably contributed to the lack of senators present.

Despite the meeting problem, the veto’s budgets will go ahead as changed, Nelms said.

“The senate did not reconsider the bill because we did not meet quorum,” Nelms said.

Many of the senators and members of CAB still present after the meeting complained that Miller had left quickly from the meeting, before answering questions.

Shortly after the meeting, Meyer said the changes to CAB’s budget went beyond the normal line item veto power the president has. He said Miller gave amended numbers instead of vetoing specific lines in the budget.

“How was what he did a veto?” Meyer asked shortly after the meeting. “It was an amendment.”

Robinson refuted Meyer’s claim. She said Miller had gone through the bill and vetoed the increases only and not the proposed budgets lines.

“I think your propagating lies,” Robinson said to Meyer at the Skyroom.