A message concerning due dates for candidacy in the upcoming student elections was initially not sent out to graduate students, and therefore disallowed graduate students from applying for candidacy before the deadline.

“If it turns out they (intentionally) did not send the mass-mail to grads, they will be held accountable,” said Jason Webber, graduate student, as he introduced the resolution. The date to submit packets had originally been Feb. 17. After the vice chancellor’s office learned of the incident, the deadline for graduate students was extended to Feb. 20.

“Personally, I feel it’s unacceptable to have just a three-day extension,” Webber added.

Vice president-external Vikram Chaudhery also told the senate he had tried to extend the deadline by a week but had thus far been unable to do so.

Another item discussed at Wednesday’s meeting concerned the implementation of a Web-based Instructor and Course Evaluation System. According to the resolution, “ICES Online is a pilot program that many professors employ instead of the paper form of ICES.”

The item appearing before the senate called on members to urge the University to adopt the ICES Online program as an official end-of-course evaluation. There were concerns that evaluating professors, teacher’s assistants and courses online would lower the amount of feedback that these parties received.

In addition, the author of the resolution and sophomore in Engineering Jeff Schroeder was not present at the meeting and thus could not answer questions directly. Though it was up for action, it was determined by a count of 16-3 with 3 abstentions that a vote on the actual passage of the amendment would be delayed until next week.