Sen. Brad Kuhn said it best at Sunday’s Student Association meeting. “We need to set an example and follow the policies that are set forth,” Kuhn said. “This is not it.”

Various members of the senate insist there is no way to increase funding for different organizations without taking away money from other organizations or raising student fees.

They never pose the question of doing away with unnecessary positions.

In the same meeting, the SA confirmed two more in a long line of new co-directors.

The SA has never needed co-directors. Why would it need them now?

In the midst of senate confirmations of the two prospective co-directors, questions arose to the integrity of Rod Moyer’s student status.

It is a university requirement that one must be a student to hold an executive position.

Moyer, who has been at NIU for about five years, was not considered a student in spring 2001, but he continued to sign documents and act as president for his university organization — Raising Multicultural Excellence — during that semester.

Despite the documents presented as evidence, the senate proceeded to confirm Moyer as co-director of organizational development.

We would be hard-pressed to re-elect senators and house representatives in the U.S. Congress that act in the same manner as our own SA senate.

The senate is in place to provide a service to the student body. The senators that we elect have free reign of $1.2 million of our student fees.

We expect them to take that money and use it for services that will better student life.

We expect them to set an example through the policies they pen, not rewrite policy when they deem necessary.

We expect President George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress to exemplify good decision-making and to ooze leadership capabilities, and we should expect the same of our campus representatives.

This is not it.