Student Senate tomorrow will debate the controversy of the semester–what to do about Senator Eric Schmidt.
The sophomore senator from the CBA and La Crosse City Councilmember spoke out last month against a request for the Student Senate to endorse its own referendum. When he asked a group of students lobbying for the endorsement–which was to be made before the students were given a chance to voice their opinion at the polls–about the ethics of a governing body endorsing its own referendum, he took fire from those who felt offended.
A letter calling for his impeachment was dropped, but an alternative punishment, a collegiate “naughty slip,” is to be voted on tomorrow night. Controversy surrounds the move, and university officials have questioned the wisdom of the senate’s by-laws, the vague language of which allows senators to be reprimanded for showing disrespect–whatever that means and to whom it means what has led the Senate’s Legislative Affairs committee to try and flex its muscles by interpreting the laws loosely.
Keep an eye on TheRacquet.net for the vote’s results.
