At last night’s Illinois Student Senate meeting, the senate discussed that because of a conflict involving attendance at an engineering event, the seven senators that major in engineering cannot attend or vote in the elections; both events take place on Monday at 8 p.m. This is not likely to change because of time constraints.

“It’s unfortunate that no one had the foresight to see that this was scheduled to eliminate the engineering vote,” said Ryan Ruzic, president of the student senate and senior in LAS.

The Committee on Student Rights gave a presentation on various issues on campus including drinking, housing rules and dealing with police. The committee will take this presentation through the various dorms to educate students.

Raymond Morales, the self-titled “brain child” of the March KKK spray chalk incident spoke to the senate about his actions and his resulting experiences. However, his words alienated and attacked many listeners. He specifically attacked sophomore student senator Frank Calabrese, inferring that he was an ignorant political science major.

“He has genuine intentions, but he was very misguided about it,” Calabrese said. “He offended the people he wanted to aid, and he ended up making the campus more hostile.”

Calabrese is actually a history major.

Following Morales’ address and subsequent questions, the senate unanimously passed a resolution encouraging the MTD bus company to allow Safe Rides to pick up students from bars and more off-campus locations. Next week they’ll swear in new officers.