Campus Events Commissioner Tamara Chellam ’00 reported that this year’s Carnival, headlined by the Vandals, was different from previous years. Many of the concertgoers were under 17, according to Chellam; college students appeared in substantial numbers after 6 pm. Chellam also said that the beer garden was rowdy, especially during Mad Chad’s performance.

CCLA has two parties scheduled for this weekend. Chellam describes Friday’s party as a "mini rave" hosted by Table Manners. Saturday’s party will be in the Clark I courtyard. The theme is being kept secret.

Chellam also reported that she was almost done picking CCLA deputies for the coming year, but still had a number of prospective chairs to interview.

Community Affairs Commissioner Janelle Lin ’00 announced that Daniel Smith, a member of Greenpeace, would be speaking at the Claremont McKenna Athenaeum on Wednesday for Earth Day. His speech would be followed by a reception in the Smith Campus Center courtyard.

Environmental Affairs Commissioner Aaron Ginoza ’02 added that Smith had worked on toxic campaigns and was, according to many, an exciting speaker.

Residence Halls and Food Commissioner Samantha Brenner ’02 reported that room draw was "kind of a mess." Brenner, Dean of Campus Life Matt Taylor, and Housing Director Deanna Chalfant are all scheduled to meet in the near future. Brenner asked senators to contact her with ideas. Dean of Students Ann Quinley asked to participate in the meeting; Brenner agreed.

President Richard Park ’00 asked senators to give him their position evaluations over the coming week. The evaluations will present senators with an opportunity to propose a change to their job description, duties, or procedures. Chellam said that she would submit an evaluation recommending a change to the composition of the CCLA executive committee.

Park said the proposals would be voted up or down at the next meeting.

Next year’s proposed budget was distributed to senators. Vice President Putnam Shin ’00 explained that the budget was the result of 10 minute interviews with representatives from each organization, followed by a total of over 12 hours of deliberation by the Budget Committee. The Budget Committee consists of Park, Shin, North Campus Senator Robi Ganguly ’00, and South Campus Senator Michio Brunner ’02.

Despite the time put in by the Budget Committee, Shin recognized that the proposed budget was "not final." He stressed that they had to cut a total of $100,000 from proposals.

Some organizations are allowed to "rollover" surpluses and debts from year to year. Most organizations see their surpluses reabsorbed by ASPC. Chellam asked if ASPC would reabsorb CCLA’s debts from this year.

Park suggested that the proposal be dealt with by a small group, which would present its recommendation at the next meeting.

Park voiced his concern that representatives from The Student Alternative and The Asterisk were not being included on the Print Media Committee as voting members, despite the fact that ASPC bylaws provide that a representative from each ASPC funded publication be present and voting. The upcoming Print Media Committee meeting will determine The Student Life’s Editor-in-Chief for the fall semester.

Communications Commissioner Emeka Okereke ’00 said TSA and Asterisk representatives had not been present at any prior meetings, due to the fact that they were not formally invited. While he has invited them to the meeting to select TSL’s EIC, he does not plan to give them voting privileges. Doing so, he said, would make the committee unrepresentative.

As it stands, two of the five voting members of the committee are TSL members. Okereke and his two deputies comprise the other three voting members. Previously, Conor Friedersdorf ’02 had been a student at large on the committee, but resigned in order to run for the position of TSL EIC.

Ganguly objected to denying TSA and The Asterisk votes due to lack of past participation. "It’s not like [the Print Media Committee] has meant a lot," he said.

Academic Affairs Commissioner Sarah Jackel ’01 said that adding new voting members would be "a loaded move right now." She expressed her concern that certain senators were pushing for the members to be added for personal reasons.

Ganguly charged that the committee hasn’t met often and hasn’t followed procedure. He asked if it would have been better had the members been added five weeks ago.

Jackel responded that it would have.

Park asked Director of the Campus Center Neil Gerard for input. Gerard said that the language of the bylaws was intended to create a committee representative of media ASPC finances. It doesn’t only exist to choose the Editor-in-Chief, but also to create a forum for "discussion of anything to do with media."

Gerard recommended that representatives from all active publications be included as voting members at the next Print Media Committee meeting.

"If you don’t come, you lose voting privileges?" Brunner asked.

"The committee hasn’t done anything important," Ganguly said.

Okereke replied that if Senate wanted to make TSA and The Asterisk voting members for the meeting, they should "just go ahead." In response, he said that he would use his power to add community members until the effect was balanced out.

Okereke, addressing Ganguly directly, said that he has spent too much time "working on your pet issue." He said that adding the proposed members would make the committee unbalanced.

Chellam commented that it was "the same senators trying to get in Emeka’s way."

"We don’t have the power to not follow the bylaws," Brunner said.

Brenner then introduced a motion to leave it to Okereke to interpret the bylaws as he saw fit.

After further discussion, Park asked for Gerard’s input.

Gerard said that, in his opinion, Senate had "a moral and legal" responsibility to follow its bylaws to the letter, meaning that they should vote the measure down.

Jackel said that Senate’s moral responsibility lied in following the spirit of the bylaws, which would mean keeping the committee the same as it has been for the entire semester.

Park then put the motion to a vote.

"Neil said we shouldn’t, so we can’t," Ganguly said.

The motion carried with six in favor, four opposed, and three abstentions.

"What the hell was that?" Ganguly asked.