By Kassondra Granata

The Student Government Association had its last official meeting of the semester last week with passing a bylaw addition and denying the Psychology Club’s requests.

Dr. Laura Tordenti, the vice president of student affairs gave her student affairs report to the senate. Tordenti informed the senate that the University is proceeding with the project of connecting Diloreto and Willard and plans on housing the Student and Wellness Center on the first floor. Tordenti said that they are hiring an architect to design the center.

“I just think you are terrific and I really enjoy grouping with this group, the officers have the student’s best interest in heart,” Laura Tordenti.

Vice President Liz Braun motions to insert a statement in the Bylaws. The statement reads:

“The President must act on legislation passed by the senate with five business days of such legislation being presented for signing, excluding school sanctioned vacation days. If the President fails to act on legislation within this time period it is considered vetoed. The President may extend the deadline for action by requesting an extension from the senate. The requested extension must be stated in terms of a specific number of business days. It shall take a majority vote of the senate to approve such an extension.”

“We basically just took the changes that was expressed by the senate last week and added it to the original motion,” said Braun.

This insertion refers to last week’s debate topic on the President’s ability to pocket veto motions and recommendations that was referred to the Internal Affairs Committee by President Eric Bergenn. The senate agreed in uniform and with no debate it passed unanimously.

With no new business, the senate went to open floor. Sen. Bobby Berriault moved to approve the Psychology Club’s request to use its leftover money for a cooking class.

“I believe that whether you agree or disagree the student government should at least vote on it,” said Berriault. “It’s worth a debate.”

Sen. Chris Marcelli said that the senate should not pass this motion. He questioned the cooking class and said that it had nothing to do with the purpose of the psychology club. The motion failed with eight yes-votes, 16 no-votes and six abstentions.

After the motion failed, Sen. Jeremy Truex motioned to deny the Psychology Club’s line item request. With no debate, the motion passed with 21 yes-votes, five no-votes and three abstentions.