Bangs of the gavel rang throughout the Student Government meeting Wednesday as senators argued over amendments to amendments.
A last-minute resolution was passed to urge the Office of Academic Affairs, Provost Jack Hamilton, Dean of Students K.C. White and Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope to revise the Faculty Senate’s ruling that attendance can be graded and instead grade students on participation, which senators said would be more “intellectually stimulating.”
The resolution was written in response to Faculty Senate’s vote to allow professors to factor attendance into grades. It came from an SG resolution that was tabled and withdrawn last week urging Faculty Senate to reconsider its decision.
University Center for Freshman Year Senator Christian Glorioso moved to send the resolution to the Senate Committee on Academics because its numerical details were amended three times.
The senators argued over the motion to send the resolution to committee for nearly 10 minutes instead of voting on the motion. Speaker Aaron Caffarel threatened to kick senators out of the chamber for not following parliamentary procedure.
SG Executive Director of Academics Thomas Rodgers, who was not initially at the meeting, tweeted to ask if his presence was needed in the chamber. He arrived and persuaded Glorioso to retract his motion.
Rodgers then suggested removing three paragraphs of the resolution that caused most of the debate.
After the paragraphs were removed and an hour-and-a-half of debate, the resolution passed with a 98 percent vote.
Caffarel reproached the senators in his closing remarks about their bickering and disobedience to the parliamentary procedures.
“All parliamentary procedure runs through the chair. … It causes order, and we simply cannot function as efficiently at all if we are running over each others’ words,” he said.
“When you do things like this, it is obviously going to become a disaster on the floor.”
 
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