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Behind Closed Doors: Sex best played on individual terms

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Claiming that you read Cosmopolitan Magazine for the beauty advice is like claiming that you go to Hooters for the wings. It’s all an elaborate sham to cover up your true sexual fiending. Cosmo exploits the “sex sells” mantra to its fullest. It publishes everything related to sex, from daily sex positions online to more “Better Sex Guides” than a person could read over an entire lifetime. But Cosmo’s rapport is flaccid at best. Its advice not only misses the mark, but also racks up a staggering number of innocent casualties.

When you mix two great passions in life, sex and food, the end result is dynamite. However, Cosmo somehow butchers the combination with advice that becomes ridiculous. Possibly the most disturbing advice I’ve ever come across: Cosmo’s Ultimate Guide to Sex suggests that women should, “Get fruity! A mashed banana or peaches inserted in your vagina is a delightful invitation for him to whoosh his penis around in it! Once you climax, switch to 69 position for sweet afters.” Really, Cosmo? I’m pretty open-minded, but a mashed banana? I don’t think many vaginas are very happy when they have to deal with fruit stuck inside them. And my limited anatomical knowledge simply cannot fathom how to clean out all those tiny crevices.

Maybe you prefer savory to sweet. Well, in that case, Cosmo recommends this little tidbit: “Sprinkle a little pepper under his nose right before he climaxes. Sneezing can feel similar to an orgasm and amplify the feel-good effects.” So, let me get this straight. Hide a pepper shaker under a pillow. Then, at climax, surprise-attack your partner with a sensation similar to the combined explosion of farting and sneezing. People talk, you know. You’ll be referred to as that freaky kid with the ground pepper fetish.

And when all food fails, Cosmo wants you to take sex into your own hands and fingers. Cosmo claims that fingering a male’s anus during sex will activate his prostate gland, producing an overwhelming orgasm. Sorry, Cosmo, I’m going to have to decline this one. Bottom line: I don’t mess with poop. No way, no how. I don’t care how overwhelming this orgasm might be; playing with poo-poo is a no-no for me.

Clearly, Cosmo has nothing to do with my sexual selection. Its tips range from flat-out wrong to downright torture. It’s like the Cosmo staff wants to produce the most unnatural, painful advice possible. I’m looking at you, columnist who wrote that yanking at your partner’s pubic hair is a thrilling turn on. As the legendary Avril Lavinge once said, “I’m thinking, ‘what the hell.’”

Hopefully, after you read Cosmo’s golden rules for sex, you’ve shared a chuckle, maybe a grimace here or there. Cosmo is utterly ridiculous, so just laugh it off. Instead of lamenting over the misleading information, poke fun at its over-the-top advice. Anyone up for a rousing game of sex position charades?

And really, let’s eliminate the belief that we should abide by a singular, ultimate guide to sex. Nobody can confidently say they know how to define “acceptable,” American-pie sex. Don’t take any outside opinion too
seriously. Certainly not Cosmo’s advice, but let’s get meta and talk about Behind Closed Doors’ sex advice.
Don’t believe and practice everything that you read, even in this column. Though I’m not subscribing to Cosmo any time soon, I would hate for you to feel pressured to believe my sexual beliefs. Just because I’m not a fan of feces does not mean you must follow suit.

Make your own sex guide that’s personalized to your preferences. If you get aroused by the texture of mashed bananas, then don’t let me stop you from your simultaneous grocery shopping and booty calling. If you live for the lethal combination of sneezing and climaxing, you’ve got my blessing. Find your own independence. Be a little selfish and do what feels pleasurable for you.

Thrust to the beat of your own squeaky bed. Try out some sex advice, but don’t get all heartbroken when your partner doesn’t like the Indian-rub-burn hand job. Feel free to experiment on your own terms, without Cosmo breathing down your bare, sensually oiled back.

Additional costs hit campus

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With gas prices constantly on the rise, students are beginning to feel the impact on their wallets. The national average per tank of gas is closing in on four dollars, and is currently at $3.761. This increase, a result of the multiple revolutions spreading throughout the Middle East, is predicted to continue into the upcoming academic school year.

Students living off campus with cars are feeling the burden more than others. Manager of Transportation Services Bill Horacio thinks that the cost of gas could effect transportation on campus.

“Without a doubt, we anticipate that if gas prices continue to increase that next year some students will no longer be able to afford to drive to campus,” Horacio said. “In 2008 when gas prices increased to close to the $4 mark, traffic movement on campus was leaner.”

When planning expenses for the upcoming academic year, Horacio advises students to arrange for alternative transportation to campus.

“Students should consider all factors when planning their annual expenses and cost of living budget for the year,” Horacio said. “WAT (Williamsburg Area Transport) has a robust system that can get you anywhere in town at no cost. It is already paid for through your transportation fees.”

Horacio thinks that the spike in gas prices will also increase the use of Zipcars on campus.

“I expect to see an increase in Zipcar membership,” Horacio said. “The Zipcar rates are contracted; the rate is set for at least two more years. The weekly and weekend rates include insurance and fuel. This makes Zipcar sharing alterative very promising and affordable for those that choose to leave their cars at home.”

Students are reacting to rising gas prices with less concern.

“I don’t really think this will have a big impact just because people don’t really look at the big picture of how much they are spending,” Aline Le ’12 said. “They just want to satisfy their immediate needs of going to the store.”

Le lives off campus and commutes to school on a regular basis. Although she doesn’t far away, she finds it easier to drive to school.

“It was always a cost for me to drive places,” Le said. “I used to play varsity soccer and drive places for that.
It was never unusual for me to pay more for gas to live off campus.”

Joanna Weeks ’13 moved off campus this year and also has a car. She said she does not feel the rising price of gas as much as other off-campus drivers.

“I bike to school, so I really only drive my car like once a week and usually it’s just been to Trader Joe’s and back,” Weeks said.

Weeks thinks that rising gas prices could make closer off-campus housing more competitive than it already is as a result of increasing gas prices.

“It might change how many people who are living far off,” Weeks said. “Some people are willing to live off if they can drive, but if gas is more expensive it might change how many people are willing to live far away.”

While Weeks recognizes the rising costs, she doesn’t find it to affect her normal routine very much.

“If gas was super super cheap, I might use my car more,” Weeks said.

Le agreed that if there was a housing option closer to campus, she would prefer not having to drive her car.

“If I could go back I would definitely live closer to campus so I wouldn’t have to drive,” Le said.

Lindsey Hundley ’12, another commuting college student, lives at an off-campus apartment near High Street. For her, driving is easier and cuts down time in her busy schedule.

“I haven’t really noticed the changes, but I think it’s because I am so busy,” Hundley said. “While it is easy to walk, I don’t like walking in the rain or bad weather. If I can be off campus with a car then I am going to.”

Currently, the United States imports 40 percent of its crude oil from European countries, which are major importers of crude oil from the Middle East. Oil barrel prices have risen in multiple countries, including Asia in the past couple days as a result of the Libyan revolt.

Students walk to raise money, awareness for cancer

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Around 7 p.m. Friday, tents and tables littered Busch Field. Under a blanket of threatening storm clouds, co-chair of the Relay for Life committee Erin Skipper ’11 continued setting up tables as 32 out of 53 teams arrived to sign in for the 12 hour-long Relay for Life.

The event, which Skipper and co-chair Brendan Fields have been preparing for with a vast amount of committee members and countless volunteers since September, was nearly canceled due to rain. Despite overcast skies, Skipper and her large team decided to continue the event regardless of the weather.

“We emailed everyone and said rain or shine, we are going to Relay,” Skipper said. “There was drizzle during the opening ceremonies, but after that it was fine. Seven to eight was the worst, and people just opened up their umbrellas and just kept walking.”

Held at colleges and in communities across the country, Relay for Life is an annual event to increase cancer awareness and money for the American Cancer Society.

“Over 4,500 colleges and communities do it and raise money for cancer research and all programs for American Cancer Society,” Skipper said. “Every year people make teams, and each team fundraises to try and raise money.”

Relay for Life at the College of William and Mary raised $48,000 last year, and the goal for this year is to reach $50,000 with 500 participants.

“This year we are at $30,000 something so far,” Skipper said. “We haven’t figured it out all yet. We are still counting, but you can fundraise up until August.”

The 12-hour ceremony was broken up into three parts: celebrate, remember and fight back. In addition to different entertainment throughout the night, there were fundraisers, games and contests, all while a constant stream of participants walked around the field.

“Relay is a dynamic event because a lot of fundraisers are just like ‘woo party fun’ but this one, you really know why you are there,” liaison to the American Cancer Society Tina Fischel ’13 said.

The event opened with a survivor lap, recognizing all survivors in attendance. A speaker followed this, leading up to the luminary ceremony at 9 p.m. During the ceremony, luminary bags were set up around the walk for all those affected by cancer.

“We have a speaker and then a lap in silence,” Fischel said. “It’s really touching, and it’s just a time to reflect and honor cancer survivors and those who have passed on.”

Relay for Life is a part of the larger organization Colleges Against Cancer. This organization focuses on providing awareness and fundraising for cancer year-round.

“Relay is our main event,” Fischel said. “I work with the American Cancer Society year round to organize other things like the Great American Smokeout and breast cancer awareness rallies.”

Fischel is a transfer from UCLA, which has the largest chapter of Colleges Against Cancer. She became involved this year with the hope of expanding the program.

“I really wanted to expand the club from focusing just on relay to do the year round stuff,” Fischel said. “The Great American Smokeout was in November. We made people pledge on a strip of paper not to smoke and we made a chain out of it so it was like chain non-smokers instead of chain smokers.”

Although Fischel has never been directly affected by cancer, she became involved in the cause after witnessing the damage cancer has caused to countless other people.

“My dad does lung surgery so I have seen people with cancer, and luckily no one in my family has been directly impacted by it, but I feel like we should strike back before it gets worse,” Fischel said.

Skipper, who has been involved in Relay at the College since her freshman year, continues to be involved because she feels it is about spreading the message of caring.

“It’s about caring,” Skipper said. “Caring about the future, because so many people are affected by cancer and the American Cancer Society is all about research, making it better for families, and caring for the people who have it and the families. They care about everyone involved.”

While months of preparation are required for this event, Skipper believes all her hard work paid off in the end.

“It is always amazing when people show up because I am like, ‘someone got my emails,’” Skipper said. “I got a few emails the night before saying this is going to be awesome rain or shine and I was like, ‘this is why I do this.’”

Prices off the books

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It’s a well-known fact that textbooks are expensive. Students are faced with this very real problem every semester when professors post their mandatory book lists. But why are they so expensive? Fortunately, there are several potential solutions that could alleviate this stress.

On average, students pay about $900 for textbooks per year. According to a report released by the National Association of College Stores two years ago, the average annual amount spent by students on books was $702. It is outrageous that in two years, the average total price of textbooks increased by $200. Prices have risen at twice the rate of inflation and are now more than three times the price they were a decade ago. The majority of the blame falls on the four textbook companies controlling 80 percent of the textbook market. This oligopoly increases prices and deprives other companies of the viable possibility of making any money in the textbook market. As long as this system remains in place, prices will continue to rise.

While the textbook companies are certainly to blame, the campus bookstore perpetuates the problem because holds the sole right to sell any new books. While on-campus organizations do their part to lessen the blow of high books prices by hosting used sales on campus, they do not solve the problem of increasingly expensive new textbooks. The fault also lies with professors who fail to turn in textbook lists for the next semester’s classes. If the bookstore does not receive a booklist by a specific date, it will only buy back used books for a fraction of the price it would have if it had been aware the class was going to use the same book the next semester. This deprives students of a reasonable return on the textbooks. All of these things work together to empty students’ pockets.

We believe it is possible to change this damaging process with the help of students and professors alike. Students can find alternative ways of purchasing textbooks, such as using online stores like Amazon.com or Half.com. Another cheap solution is to buy and sell textbooks from fellow students. While these resources are useful for second-hand textbooks, they do not solve the problem when the newest editions must be purchased new and at full price.

Professors can help by releasing PDF versions of articles and chapters that students can access via Blackboard and by no longer requiring the newest editions of textbooks. While a new edition may have a few new articles or so, they are rarely worth the inflated price of a brand new textbook. Professors should also investigate textbooks which are available for rental and should do their best to assign these rather than those that can only be purchased outright. Finally, professors can stop requiring textbooks that are outrageously expensive and request cheaper textbooks. It is the willingness of students and professors to buy these textbooks which emboldens textbook companies to continue charging these outrageous prices. If professors turn in textbook lists early, it will allow students to get back some of the money they spent. Professors should be conscientious of the needs of students and the enormous amount of money they must spend every year to attend the College of William and Mary when they assign textbooks.

We believe the practices of both the textbook companies and the bookstore are unfair, and we urge students and professors to find alternative ways to buy textbooks, in order to help students at the College save money. We already spend too much on tuition; we shouldn’t have to spend so much on textbooks on top of that.

Hungry for more options: Meal plan choices are far from gold

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Campus dining has an interesting relationship with many students here at the College of William and Mary. I believe this connection is best summed up in one phrase: can’t live with it, can’t live without it. The quality of the cuisine has been the butt of endless jokes, yet people keep coming back for more. I place myself in this category purely based on the convenience factor. I am already busy enough without having to worry about preparing my own meals, and grocery shopping and cooking would only put me under more stress.

Just to clarify, this article is not going to be a drawn-out criticism of the quality of the food here. In fact, I believe Dining Services does a decent job providing relatively good food and a variety of meal options. Personally, I actually eat healthier here because the salad and fruit are so readily available. I can quickly throw together a salad with a variety of vegetables in it. If one compares the quality of the food with that of other college campus dining facilities, the College is toward the top of the list, especially breakfast at the Marketplace, which I say is probably the best breakfast food you can get for a meal swipe.

My grievance has more to do with the flexibility of the dining options than how the food tastes. I am currently on the Gold 14 meal plan, which just started allowing students to use two meal swipes per meal zone. Dining Services advertised this new feature as if it were some wonderful addition to my meal plan. To me, the idea of a designated meal period is absurd. Not everyone operates on the same schedule, especially with different class and meeting times. This is just an unnecessary restriction placed upon students’ access to meals.

Beyond controlling mealtimes despite differing daily routines and schedules, restricting students to a specific number of meals per week and not rolling the unused meals over to the next week is just another example of campus dining flexing its monopolistic muscles. Excuse my accounting digression, but when a company is paid in advance for a service such as a meal plan, the transaction is recorded as a liability because the customer has given cash and is entitled to the service. I cannot think of another example in which a company is allowed to just cancel part of your order if you have paid up front for the good or service. Every meal plan should operate as a block, which permits students to access their meals at any time and during any week.

Yes, the College offers block meal plans. The largest block, however, gives you about eight meals per week. The available plans do not offer any middle ground. I am either stuck with to eight meals a week or with the restrictive Gold 14 plan. This dilemma would not exist if all meal plans were simply block-based.
The campus meal plans are mired in purposeless regulations. Meal zoning seems all too appropriate in the backdrop of Williamsburg, which also enjoys restricting student housing and noise levels. Moving toward a more simplified meal plan system would probably make campus dining more appealing to those students who have dropped their meal plans.

I figured I would finally speak up regarding a matter about which I have heard countless people complain. It might seem hypocritical to criticize the system when I subscribe to a meal plan myself and when I will continue to do so whether or not dining options are changed. These are just some suggestions for keeping customers satisfied. In the end, Dining Services is a business, and it is important that it continually looks for creative and new ways to better satisfy its customers — the students at the College.

Constructive reform for Honor Council

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The number of student opinion pieces concerning honor system reform has become the source of a potentially unhealthy drinking game. However, as news of the College of William and Mary Honor System Review Committee deliberations dribbles out, I think it’s important to continue to advocate for some of the sensible reforms that actually appear to be getting some consideration. The droves of past editorials would be a true waste if the discussion stopped during the actual reform process.

At the top of the list of achievable policy changes is a recently discussed reform by which students could pursue an expedited sanction process. In the proposal, a student with a clean honor and conduct record could request for an expedited sanction, which means that in academic cases, the professor involved could have a greater say in whether the student’s transgression necessitates an Honor Council trial or if it can be addressed with grading penalties. Classifying the infraction involves both faculty judgment and input from the Dean of Students Office.

This is exactly the type of honor code reform we need. The Honor Council has often been criticized for being too rigid and too uniform in applying classification criteria to cases and, more generally, for not considering more of the student’s history and circumstances. Expedited sanctions would allow non-council community members who know the circumstances and context behind the student and infraction in question to have a greater role in code enforcement.

According to government professor and HSRC Chair Clay Clemens and others, faculty have long desired more procedural clarity and autonomy in the initial stages of infraction disciplining. With expedited sanctions, rather than worrying about the potentially exaggerated effects of a rigid case classification on the student in question, faculty could incorporate their own judgment and experience. More importantly, cases could also have can also have a clear, non-Council source of guidance and consultation in the form of the Dean of Students Office.

From the Dean of Students Office’s point of view, the idea of using administrative judgment to recommend a nuanced, more personalized charge for the given student would be a good use of their skills that would avoid pulling ultimate and extreme authority from student enforcement bodies and imposing new, time-burdensome costs on the administration. Furthermore, the Honor Code is a community agreement with adherence to and enforcement oaths borne by both sides of the academic relationship. Having greater case involvement from faculty at the College, who often have the initial responsibility to confront the student and gather evidence, only makes sense.

There are several other manageable reforms that need to happen, such as those concerning the Honor Council member nominations and election processes. To start with how faculty, administrators and students deal with and classify infractions, however, is a sensible, necessary enterprise. The Council would lose none of its interrogative, deliberative and adjudicative powers, and the expertise of campus members from the faculty and the Dean of Students Office would be better applied. I am pleased to say there seems to be constructive, genuine ideas coming out from the HSRC, and as such, they need to be promoted.

Men’s Basketball: Conference rival Towson names former Tribe assistant head basketball coach

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Former William and Mary assistant coach Pat Skerry has been named the head basketball coach of conference rival Towson.

A graduate of Tufts University, Skerry spent three seasons with the Tribe as an assistant to former head coach Rick Boyages from 2000 to 2003. Before coaching at the College, Skerry worked as an assistant for the CAA’s Northeastern.

When current head coach Tony Shaver took over for Boyages before the start of the 2003-2004 season, Skerry took an assistant position for the College of Charleston. During his tenure in Williamsburg, the College went 33-52 overall and 21-31 in the CAA, in which he will now be a head coach.

Next season Skerry will return to William and Mary Hall when his Tigers take on the Tribe.
“Playing in the nation’s top non-BCS conference, we will need to work hard and play with TU toughness, both key characteristics I have learned from all the coaches I worked with during my career,” Skerry said in a press release.

Men’s Basketball: Conference rival Towson names former Tribe assistant head basketball coach

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Former William and Mary assistant coach Pat Skerry has been named the head basketball coach of conference rival Towson.

A graduate of Tufts University, Skerry spent three seasons with the Tribe as an assistant to former head coach Rick Boyages from 2000 to 2003. Before coaching at the College, Skerry worked as an assistant for the CAA’s Northeastern.

When current head coach Tony Shaver took over for Boyages before the start of the 2003-2004 season, Skerry took an assistant position for the College of Charleston. During his tenure in Williamsburg, the College went 33-52 overall and 21-31 in the CAA, in which he will now be a head coach.

Next season Skerry will return to William and Mary Hall when his Tigers take on the Tribe.
“Playing in the nation’s top non-BCS conference, we will need to work hard and play with TU toughness, both key characteristics I have learned from all the coaches I worked with during my career,” Skerry said in a press release.

Women’s Golf: Tribe finishes near bottom at tournament

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After Monday’s round at the UNC-Wilmington Lady Seahawk Classic, William and Mary sat in ninth place out of 10 teams, looking at Tuesday’s final round as its last chance to move up the leaderboard and salvage its trip to North Carolina.

But the golf gods weren’t on the Tribe’s side, as the third round was called off due to inclement weather, making the second round the final round and leaving the College near the bottom of the tournament.
The Tribe shot a 651 overall, 75 above par and 48 shots off the pace of the invitational’s winner, Conference-USA’s East Carolina University — which shot 27 over par — and ahead of only Siena College, whose 674 strokes placed it dead last.

Perhaps more worrisome for the Tribe than the tournament’s winner, though, were the other teams the College finished behind. With less than three weeks before the CAA Championships, the College finished well off the pace of Old Dominion and James Madison, as well as 12 shots behind UNC-Wilmington — all teams that the College will face again in the conference championships

The Tribe took 325 strokes in the first round — again better than only Siena — before shooting a 326 overall in the second, better than two other scores that round. But the relative second-round improvement wasn’t good enough to overtake the Big South’s Gardner-Webb — which finished just five strokes ahead of the College — for eighth place.

Individually, the Tribe was led by junior Kristen Hamel, whose 159 shots were good for 15 above par and a tie for 22nd place on the final individual leaderboard. Fifteen strokes is the closest the Missouri native has come to par at the end of any tournament this spring season.

Behind Hamel for the College was freshman Emily Gimpel, who finished 34th overall. Sophomore Betsy Birchall finished in a tie for 44th place, while junior Caroline Sweet landed in a 47th-place tie and senior Sarah Whitney finished in 50th place.

The bottom-end of the leaderboard is not uncharted territory for the Tribe this season. While the Lady Seahawk Invitational came on the heels of one of the College’s better performances — the team finished eighth of 22 at the C&F Bank Invitational about two weeks earlier — it was the third of four spring season tournaments in which the Tribe finished in the bottom half of the tournament.

SA changes election code and executive rules

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“This is the lowest point in my senate career,” senator Ryan Ruzic J.D. ’11 said at the Student Assembly meeting Tuesday.

Senator Dallen McNerney ’14, in an effort to subvert the two-week legislative committee process and prevent earmarked funds in the Student Activities Reserve from being used, introduced Using Student Money to Benefit Students Act on the senate floor for discussion and a vote, inducing anger and debate amongst senators.

“It was disheartening that this senator decided to attempt some bizarre secret ambush on the floor of the senate to revoke a bill that passed with a 13-5 vote two weeks ago simply because he wants more money to spend,” Ruzic said.

McNerney described this bill as a partial repeal of a previous Permanent Safety Improvement Act passed April 5th and sponsored by Ruzic.

“I felt I was acting in the best interest of the student body,” McNerney said in defense of his decision not to notify Ruzic, the sponsor of the origional bill, about this repeal bill. “I did not feel Ruzic’s bill was debated enough by the senate.”

The Permanent Safety Improvement Act allocated $21,800 toward achieving greater disability services in academic buildings with 24-hour computer labs, namely Morton Hall, Tyler and the Marshall Wythe School of Law. The Act has led to the installation of additional card swipe machines in these buildings, and plans to add wheelchair ramps were suggested.

“$21,800 is quite a bit of money, even for the Student Assembly, and compared to other expenditures that the Student Assembly has used money for,” McNerney said.

McNerney also objected to including the narrow usage of the student ID card swipe machines, since the academic buildings are open to the public during the day, and the likelihood that the wheelchair ramps will not be installed.

“Adding another card swipe to these entrances would have a negligible improvement in security,” McNerney said.

McNerney has since said that he has received indication from Facilities Management that, due to expenses, no plans are being made for new wheelchair ramps.

“What most students don’t realize, though, and what I suppose Dallen has never actually had to deal with yet, is that the administration always says ‘no’ first when asked to spend money,” Ruzic said. “This act … takes a small but real step toward improving access on our campus for students with a physical impediment … rarely does the SA get to make a lasting difference.”

In response to McNerney’s argument that the bill was not debated enough within the Finance Committee since it came to discussion only two times and did not allow for longer senate debate on the bill, Ruzic replied by saying that the Committee met about the bill three times, and the senate debate lasted for over half an hour.

McNerney’s legislation was forced by a 14-5 vote to undergo the two-week legislative process.

Budget strains experienced by the SA were discussed repeatedly throughout the meeting.

“Please keep in mind that we have no money left,” Chair of the Senate Finance committee Noah Kim ’13 said in his Finance Committee update.

Currently, SA reserves total $14,000.

A financial recommendation by Kim toward a bill funding free STI testing in the next academic year raised concern that the SA budget could be negatively impacted.

“This should be something that the College should directly support, especially with seven of the 10 big schools fully or partially providing this, but has been controversial in recent budget-crunch years,” Ruzic said.

The free STI testing bill passed the Senate by unanimous consent.

Other proposed bills involved election code changes and executive summer spending in relation to the recent SA election controversy and to the past spending violations of the SA president.

While the first two amendments for the Election Code Update Act, which added intent to deceive to the language of designated election violations, passed with unanimous consent, a roll call was necessary for the third amendment, which gave the election commission the power to mitigate election violations depending on the candidate’s intention to violate election rules.

“This is another example that we are increasing rules for no reason,” senator Curt Mills ‘13 said. “I hate what we do … We suck on an active level.”

The third admendment was passed 13-5.

An additional executive spending bill will restrict significant executive summer spending by including a notification process for certain amounts through the Finance Commitee.

“I disagree that this places an unreasonable burden on the executive,” Kim said. “This is a very low threshold of restrictions.”

The third amendment passed by a 13-5 vote.

The SA will vote soon on a bill that will restrict individual publications from asking the SA for money, with the intent of re-establishing the Publications Council as a unit preventing interaction between campus publications and the politics of the SA.

“Where I think the people in this room have good intentions, I wanted to note that 1/5 of our bills used to be procedural, and now 36 percent of our bills are procedural,” Felitto said. “People wonder why people are diverting from the SA, and I think it is because we are diverting from helping students.”

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