I know I write a lot
about how much I hate being in SGA, but seeing as how most of my posts
are derived from sources of frustration it only seems natural.
Thankfully, I finally decided to resign on Friday. My posts may come a
little slower, but if not writing ever again means not having to go to
SGA, I consider it a bargain.
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"Senators,
We have a lot on the agenda for tomorrow’s meeting. Please come prepared to do the following:
During Open Forum, we will hear from four individuals:
- Dr. Cofer regarding the University budget
- Representative Sara Lampe regarding education
- Victoria Culver regarding Bears Bringing Hope and the SAC Budget
- Speaker Bernet regarding Constitution changes
During Old and New Business, we will discuss all of the old business resolutions that are in your inbox or on the DMS, the four attached resolutions, and the following five that will be on the DMS soon:
- One resolution approves the Constitution
- One resolution approves the Wyrick changes
- Two resolutions concerns the Rec Center Fee
- One resolution concerns renovations to Glass Hall computer labs
Check the DMS for these additional resolutions and for the minutes.
Reminders of useful information:
- Voice Retreat: Applications for VOICE Retreat are available on the SGA website, and the event will occur April 8 – 10. They are due this Friday, March 25
- Long Range Plan: A presentation about the long range plan of the University will be held this Wednesday at 3:30 in the library.
As you can see, the agenda is packed, so please attend and plan to stay longer than usual. If you must resign or cannot attend, let me know.
Respectfully,
Jon Stubblefield
Sergeant at Arms
Missouri State University"
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"Jon Stubblefield,
I am sorry that I was unable to attend the March 22nd Senate meeting. I will give an explanation for this in due time, but I feel that in order to effectively communicate this, I must first explain what happened in last week's (March 15) senate meeting.
As senate last week dragged on and on, I found it increasingly hard to focus on what was happening. My mind began to wonder and began to question what my role in Senate actually was. Was it to voice my and my organization's opinion to representatives of the whole student body? No, the vast majority of resolutions are inane and I don't have an opinion on the matter. Was it to perform the tasks associated with my committee? No, I realized that nothing important happens in committee once I was assigned the task of creating a 'catchy title' for the game day chant competition. Two weeks in a row.
After concluding that I didn't actually need to be in SGA for it to proceed smoothly, my mind began to wonder to other topics such as the frailty of life, what 'love' really is, and humanity's role in the vast and unforgiving universe. These are pretty weighty topics, as I'm sure you can deduce; and after I spent a great deal of time pondering on them I felt like a much wiser man.
And we still weren't out of open forum.
(Note for the reader: open forum is the first part of a senate meeting and is usually very short. This one lasted at least an hour because somebody was talking about changes to the constitution.)
Now to the point of this Email; why I wasn't at senate last Tuesday. If I read your Email correctly, it would appear as if this week's senate would somehow exceed the time that last week's senate irreversibly stole from everybody in attendance. I would have loved to show up to senate at 5:30 after committee ends at 5:15, without a real chance to eat dinner, and sit there staring at the wall until we adjourn. Unfortunately, I concluded that my family life was more important and if I missed my granddaughter's graduation for a senate meeting, I would never forgive myself.
Unable to think of anything to do with the rest of my now free Tuesday evening, I thought harder and came up with about three hundred things. I couldn't help but wonder what life would be like if every Tuesday was like this. It was too enticing, so I decided that I would never attend an SGA function again.
I guess you could say that I am resigning, but I think that the term resigning doesn't give justice to everything I put up with (e.g. sitting through people painstakingly correcting the resolutions for minor grammatical errors, arbitrary senate procedure, endless debate over things that don't and never will matter, an overall feeling of hopelessness, etc). A more appropriate term would be surrender. Surrendering implies that I fought for as long as I could, but caved through force of sheer attrition.
I surrender.
Josh Hanes"
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"Hi Josh,
Thanks for the interesting resignation—or surrendering—from the position of senator. I’ll inform Adrianne and Justin of this so they can follow resignation procedures.
Have a great rest of the semester, and thanks for your time.
Jon Stubblefield
Missouri State University"
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"Senators,
We have a lot on the agenda for tomorrow’s meeting. Please come prepared to do the following:
During Open Forum, we will hear from four individuals:
- Dr. Cofer regarding the University budget
- Representative Sara Lampe regarding education
- Victoria Culver regarding Bears Bringing Hope and the SAC Budget
- Speaker Bernet regarding Constitution changes
During Old and New Business, we will discuss all of the old business resolutions that are in your inbox or on the DMS, the four attached resolutions, and the following five that will be on the DMS soon:
- One resolution approves the Constitution
- One resolution approves the Wyrick changes
- Two resolutions concerns the Rec Center Fee
- One resolution concerns renovations to Glass Hall computer labs
Check the DMS for these additional resolutions and for the minutes.
Reminders of useful information:
- Voice Retreat: Applications for VOICE Retreat are available on the SGA website, and the event will occur April 8 – 10. They are due this Friday, March 25
- Long Range Plan: A presentation about the long range plan of the University will be held this Wednesday at 3:30 in the library.
As you can see, the agenda is packed, so please attend and plan to stay longer than usual. If you must resign or cannot attend, let me know.
Respectfully,
Jon Stubblefield
Sergeant at Arms
Missouri State University"
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"Jon Stubblefield,
I am sorry that I was unable to attend the March 22nd Senate meeting. I will give an explanation for this in due time, but I feel that in order to effectively communicate this, I must first explain what happened in last week's (March 15) senate meeting.
As senate last week dragged on and on, I found it increasingly hard to focus on what was happening. My mind began to wonder and began to question what my role in Senate actually was. Was it to voice my and my organization's opinion to representatives of the whole student body? No, the vast majority of resolutions are inane and I don't have an opinion on the matter. Was it to perform the tasks associated with my committee? No, I realized that nothing important happens in committee once I was assigned the task of creating a 'catchy title' for the game day chant competition. Two weeks in a row.
After concluding that I didn't actually need to be in SGA for it to proceed smoothly, my mind began to wonder to other topics such as the frailty of life, what 'love' really is, and humanity's role in the vast and unforgiving universe. These are pretty weighty topics, as I'm sure you can deduce; and after I spent a great deal of time pondering on them I felt like a much wiser man.
And we still weren't out of open forum.
(Note for the reader: open forum is the first part of a senate meeting and is usually very short. This one lasted at least an hour because somebody was talking about changes to the constitution.)
Now to the point of this Email; why I wasn't at senate last Tuesday. If I read your Email correctly, it would appear as if this week's senate would somehow exceed the time that last week's senate irreversibly stole from everybody in attendance. I would have loved to show up to senate at 5:30 after committee ends at 5:15, without a real chance to eat dinner, and sit there staring at the wall until we adjourn. Unfortunately, I concluded that my family life was more important and if I missed my granddaughter's graduation for a senate meeting, I would never forgive myself.
Unable to think of anything to do with the rest of my now free Tuesday evening, I thought harder and came up with about three hundred things. I couldn't help but wonder what life would be like if every Tuesday was like this. It was too enticing, so I decided that I would never attend an SGA function again.
I guess you could say that I am resigning, but I think that the term resigning doesn't give justice to everything I put up with (e.g. sitting through people painstakingly correcting the resolutions for minor grammatical errors, arbitrary senate procedure, endless debate over things that don't and never will matter, an overall feeling of hopelessness, etc). A more appropriate term would be surrender. Surrendering implies that I fought for as long as I could, but caved through force of sheer attrition.
I surrender.
Josh Hanes"
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"Hi Josh,
Thanks for the interesting resignation—or surrendering—from the position of senator. I’ll inform Adrianne and Justin of this so they can follow resignation procedures.
Have a great rest of the semester, and thanks for your time.
Jon Stubblefield
Missouri State University"
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