From Senate Vice Chair Paul Waters-Smith at 10:20 pm tonight:
Regarding First-Year Elections
Pitzer Student Body:
Resulting from a miscommunication with the Information Technology Department, the ongoing First-Year Representative election does not accord with constitutional requirements for instant runoff voting. As a result, the Executive Board of Student Government has instructed the IT Department to immediately cease First-Year Representative elections. New elections will be scheduled as soon as online instant runoff voting can be arranged by the IT Department. Elections guidelines for the new election will be approved at this week's Senate this Sunday, 6:30 PM in the Founder's Room.
We would like to thank the Information Technology Department for its time and patience in this matter. The Executive Board apologizes for any resulting inconvenience, electoral or otherwise. Thank you for everyone who has shown concern for the integrity of these elections.
Thank you,
The Executive Board
Disregarding for a moment that the Exec Board takes no real responsibility for any of the three constitutional violations that happened on their watch, I'm just really happy they decided to start fresh and do things above board.
Well done, Exec Board! Seriously! Good luck first-year candidates!
And for another bizarre missive from Treasurer Christopher Wohlers, 23 minutes later:
The incestuous royal family inappropriately yet constitutionally regarded as the Executive Board has awoken from fitful ideological slumber to a disturbing fact: the First Year Representative elections are UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
GOD FORBID
that this would have happened to us wretched huddled masses yet once more.
We are in the grasp of a Constitutional Straitjacket, despite our universally acknowledged UNITY and COMPETENCE.
Some would call this a PICKLE.
A PICKLE.
After long internal consultations with the Oracles, I have decided that there is but one avenue of escape to the blessed FREEDOM that rolls down the foothills of the San Bernardino mountains like honey wine (MEAD): let us bare our primitive selves and fully immerse ourselves in the joyous revelry of the
[Redacted]
:::ANTI-CAPITALIST:::PRO-MUPPET:::[Redacted]
Post-PaintFor, as Eliphaz himself spake in his Second Speech (Job 15:1-10),
What a wise man, uttering windy wisdom
out of a bellyful of hot air from the East,
instructing with useless speeches
and words that have no value!
That's you: subverting piety,
laying unworthy complaints before the God.
Guilt is what has schooled your mouth,
and so you choose devious language.
Your own mouth proclaims your guilt, not I;
your own lips speak against you.
Were you born first of all mankind?
Were you brought forth before the hills?
DID YOU OVERHEAR THE GODS IN COUNCIL?
Snatch away some wisdom for yourself?
What do you know that we do not?
What do you grasp that we have missed?Further freedom may be found by joining us tonight at [redacted] in the consumption of holy communion (JIM BEAM or almond milk for sober vegans).
Chris Wohlers
Pitzer College c/o 2010
Student Government Treasurer
Physics & Environmental Studies
According to the meeting minutes recorded by Abi Darin '10, all five Executive Board members were absent from last Sunday's Senate meeting. Only Communications Secretary Leah Kahn gave notice that she wouldn't be attending. Abi's minutes [blogger's emphasis supplied]:
Student Senate currently meets at Sunday at 6:30 pm in the Founders room above the d-hall.
Attendance: Garbo, Jerzy, Nick, Rob, Sophy, Sean, Abi, Misa, Julia, Liz, Jaclyn, Marie Claire, Hale, Will, Michael, Mimi, Megan, Alex, Christine, Angie, Liz.
We appoint Rob Ramlow-Sachs as Chair for the evening of February 14, 2010. A day for the lovers. Since Rob is a love symbol (lover of the outdoors) for Pitzer College, he was the obvious choice for a makeshift chair person for the evening.
Motion has been passed to move the budgetary requests to the front of the meeting.
HMC Two300 2010 Party on March 6, 2010. Ask for $300. Approved $300.
Sophy is coming to ask for the third time for monetary aid for the Super Mash Bros/ SAC birthday party for February 27, 2010. Now asking for $1200. Sean makes a new motion that we should change it from $400 to $1200. Will thinks Sophy has suffered enough, and we should approve $1200 today. Approve $1200 for Super Mash Bros/ SAC birthday.What's happening on your campus this week?
5-C social chair: this coming weekend there is a CMC RAVE (Flauster Damus?)
APC: met at 8am, Sean forgot everything that happened. Director of local global studies position was discussed. Talks of creating an Ad-Hoc.
SAC: says come join us at 9 PM in the G-H.
PAct: Trips Medieval Times and Chinatown for the Chinese new year.
NRS: Meeting every other Tuesday, throwing a staff luncheon for the 10th of March. April 15, 2010 for a NRS prom.
***Brief interruption by the 5-C Mariachi Band. Happy Valentine’s Day everybody. That includes the lovers, the haters, and the fools. Dancing ensues. Senate just got about 100% more entertaining and pleasant. Motion for musical interruptions every week?
Holden Hall Council: meets on Monday at 7pm
Campus life: met on Thursday
FEC: talked about the global local position
Senior Class: meeting on Monday at unidentified time.
Junior Class: meets on Thursday, party on March 26, 2010. From 7-10.
OA: had a lot of applications, several proposed trips, keep proposing. Saturday afternoon is CPR.
Aesthetic committee: new benches will be for announcement painting purposes. (like walker wall)
New Dorms: got approved painting abilities.
Mead hall: is having some attendance issues, COME TO MEAD HALL COUNCIL.WELCOME NEW SENATORS. Hazing ensues.
Senate Items
Sean motions to create an Ad-Hoc to reach out to the Senators that are not here this week and absent in previous weeks. Question if missing Senators are planning to resign or had alternative reasons for not showing up to Student Senate.
Sean, Nick, Megan, Liz, Charles, Marie Claire, Alex want to be on this proposed ad-hoc.
Megan recommends we reform senate. We talk about this collectively for 7 minutes.
Most people are looking to move forward, perchance by talking to the student body instead of just the senate. Megan recommends a Senate Retreat 4pm Thursday. Marie Claire recommends that we have the retreat next Sunday during senate.
Motion to add this lengthy discussion to the agenda next week. We ayed it.
Motion to only have this discussion at Senate next week. Approved. Abi will send out an e-mail asking students to solicit input on Senate, not on budget requests. This will include requesting agenda items.
Nick brings up the by-laws and the constitution and the ad-hoc to amend these. The biggest issue was with appointments and elections. We decide to not put this on the Agenda for next week.
Sean motions to put Marie Claire and Megan in charge of creating the agenda for next week. Motion passes.
THE END.
Expect an email about senate agenda for next week. Happy Valentine's Day Pitzer College. Stay Classy.
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I am a little confused by the intention, meaning, and tone of Chris Wohlers email. I also sent this communication to Paul Waters-Smith directly after the message about the redo:
Thank you for addressing the issue of this election. However, the Constitution also states that the election must be within 3 weeks of the beginning of the semester. Therefore, I would like to suggest that a special session for election guidelines is called before this weeks Student Senate meeting that way the election could be carried out in a more timely matter.
Every day that this election is delayed is one more day that the Class of 2013 is without a voice in the Student Senate.
“I am a little confused by the intention, meaning, and tone of Chris Wohlers email.”
We NEED to vote for this guy! He’s ADORABLE!