By Crystal Luong
News Assistant
In a rare situation, the Student Government Association failed to have a quorum to pass resolutions on the table at the weekly meeting Wednesday night.
The resolutions to be presented before the floor were from the Rotoract Club and the Black Student Union.
The Black Student Union had a resolution to seek SGA support for their M&M’s Soul Food night next Tuesday. BSU sought 30 percent of the General Fund to subsidize the costs of the dinner, as a part of its celebrations for African American Heritage Month.
However, according to SGA bylaws, a quorum of at least 22 elected representatives is required in order to vote on resolutions.
At the point that SGA President Ben Elliott declared the failure to have a quorum, only 20 representatives were in attendance. The sophomore class was absent, primarily because of its fundraising event, Singled Out, scheduled directly after the SGA meeting.
Elliott expressed his disappointment at the absence of SGA members and requested full attendance at the next meeting. According to Elliott, lack of a quorum usually happens once a semester.
“In my four years of SGA experience, it’s maybe happened four times. It’s really rare,” Elliott said.
Katrina Scott, president of BSU, said the dinner event will still go on despite the fact that their resolution could not be voted on.
“We hoped to get it passed because the event is Tuesday, but we’re still doing the event. We planned for the dinner and thought it would be great for SGA to support us, but our members didn’t expect it to be a free event.”
Since this week’s resolutions were not voted upon, the SGA agenda next week will be full with five resolutions.
February 13, 2003