The need to change the standard arose out of complications from the new SU Speaker Series, which was created to encourage groups to appeal for high-cost speakers at the beginning of the first semester rather than throughout the year.

But after cancellations from Al Gore and Sofia Vergara, the group’s large remaining balance led many members to consider giving student groups whose appeals were rejected last semester another chance to get their events funded.

The vote in favor of lifting the rule, which the group has typically held to over the past several years, was 11-6, with one member abstaining.

As of Wednesday night, SU Treasury had $113,978 left in its account to allocate over the rest of the year.

“There’s a reason these groups chose these speakers in the first place, because they think they are the best speakers for this campus and for their group and I think it makes sense to give them a chance to re-appeal [for] those speakers rather than forcing them to [make new appeals],” sophomore Sean Janda said.

Speaker of the Treasury Julian Nicks, a junior, said he does not think the change will affect the majority of student groups whose appeals have been formerly rejected.

“I think we’ll see a few speakers come back, possibly, but I don’t think it’ll be a huge influx of people re-appealing for speakers. Speakers are a lot of work to get out and just with the short amount of time it’ll be very clear with most agents whether the person is available. So I don’t expect a huge rush,” Nicks said.

Numerous members of SU Treasury expressed concern that the decision may lead groups to continue appealing solely for speakers.

“We would like to encourage groups to think creatively about the programming that they’re bringing to campus; we have the resources to fund awesome things,” said senior Cody Katz, vice president of finance for SU.

“Looking at the appeals from this past year, they’re either speaker focused … or they’re kind of internally group focused. But in addition to that, we have student groups so they can program for the student body, so they can program outside and reach out to the maximum number of students as possible, and along those lines, we want to see events that will attract large groups of students,” he added

Sophomore Treasury members Jake Lichtenfeld and Greg Porter voiced some concerns with the group’s decision.

“Although I value bringing speakers to campus, I personally prefer events that are run by students, I think that a lot of the student body gives more value out of student-run events than 1-hour speakers. But we do want speaker appeals—we want a balance,” Lichtenfeld said.

“I think allowing groups to re-appeal undermines the decisions the body previously made. It opens the door for controversy and puts new events at a disadvantage,” Porter said.

Many student groups leaders voiced personal discontent with how their appeals were dismissed in the process of SU Speaker Series selection, which involved groups speakers being lumped into ‘packages’ that members chose among. Last fall, more than 30 packages for medium-cost speakers were considered before John Legend, Sofia Vergara and Amy Chua were funded.

“SU Speaker Series kind of let us down as far as package selection, I don’t think we should have been dropped so quickly,” senior Sheri Balogun, the media coordinator for the African Students Association, said. “I think you stop looking at events themselves.”

Her group failed in its appeal to bring actor and model Djimon Hounsou to campus, but was approved to bring comedian Gina Yashmere to campus Tuesday night.

“That’s the whole package rationale, just stick together what looks best based on dollar amount and fund that. Clearly a lot of people disapprove of that and I’m sure they’ll be making a lot of changes in the future,” she said.

Other students voiced similar approval with the decision to let groups re-appeal.

“I feel like sometimes they [Treasury] get misguided and all they’re thinking about is money and not necessarily what students want,” freshman Reuben Riggs said. “I’m glad they’re going to reconsider [appeals] instead of just stockpiling money.”

Katz said he hopes to see innovative programming come onto the docket looking into the coming year.

“If any student group or any individual has an idea for an event that would be beneficial to campus and that students will love…they should come and talk to us or they should come and appeal to Treasury, because we have the funds and the resources to be able to fund things like this,” he said.

Nicks said he plans to email group presidents with more information in the next day or so.

The elections established the teams that will lead SU Treasury and Senate through the spring election cycle.

Junior Julian Nicks was re-elected to his position as the speaker of the Treasury, and sophomore Josh Aiken was elected to be speaker of the Senate, defeating two other senators to take over for senior Dan Robinson.

In SU Treasury, sophomore Sean Janda was re-elected as budget committee chair, and senior Maia Lamdany and sophomore Jake Lichtenfeld were elected co-chairs of the sudent group activities committee.

In SU Senate, junior Neel Desai was voted University initiatives chair, junior J.R. Davis was voted campus services chair, and sophomore Matt Re was re-elected as chair of the academic affairs committee. Two of the races were contested in the group’s meeting that lasted more than three hours.

Three constitutional amendments and half the seats in SU Senate and Treasury will be up for a campus-wide online vote. Elections will take place from Tuesday, Nov. 1 at 8 a.m. until Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 5 p.m.

“In comparison to past years, these are the most highly competitive and contested elections we’ve seen,” junior Mamatha Challa, vice president of administration for SU, said. “I think it’s exciting because it gives the student body the opportunity to choose who they want to be in office rather than just confirm people…it actually makes incumbents responsible for their past decisions.”

There are 17 students are running for 10 open Treasury positions, and 20 students running for 14 open Senate seats. Last year, 20 people ran for 19 open Treasury positions, and 14 for 13 Senate seats.

The three constitutional amendments being placed on the ballots include one to remove mentions of a nonexistent equipment committee from the constitution, another to reassign the role of advising to the Diversity Affairs Council to the Vice President of Administration and a third one to decrease Senate size—which will take place over future election cycles.

Challa added that beyond the number of petitions received, she was also pleased with the diversity of students who are running for SU this year.

“I think that we did a really great job this year recruiting a more diverse array of students than we normally do. One thing that I am excited for is having more female candidates for Senate, as well as some non-business school students running for Treasury. We also managed to recruit a high number of freshmen to run,” she said.

Sophomore Greg Porter noted that the increased interest in this year’s elections is pushing candidates to vie more fiercely for their seats.

“I think it will actually make people campaign more and try to get people who aren’t actually their friends [to] vote for them,” Porter said. “People are going to have to try harder and campaign harder…as opposed to just using popularity.”

Candidates have been drawing chalk advertisements across the South 40 and campus, posting flyers around campus, forming Facebook groups and talking to individual constituents.

Freshman Michael Byrne and junior Kai Zhang both dressed in formal attire and walked around the DUC to promote their campaigns for Senate.

Byrne, currently filling an open seat in Senate, said he hopes to use the position to promote school pride.

“I plan to use the coalitions I’ve built in the Senate to work on a range of issues—from fostering school spirit and tradition by emphasizing our alma mater song to improving the admissions process by incorporating student input,” he said.

Zhang, who is running for re-election, said he hopes to continue his projects already under way and start working on new initiatives, including building international recognition for the school.

“I [have] started to work closely with [Vice] Chancellor Baker…who is in charge of the library service. We have achieved and are doing a lot of things together, like [redesigning] the new illumination system of Whispers Café, decreasing of the login time of public computers in [the] library, computer lock projects, etc. We are now working very hard on the reliability of the printing system,” he said. “I can see my effort finally turns into result.”

Challa said that she generally appreciates students with the experience and initiative to take advantage of the positions they are applying for.

“I value candidates who have tangible ideas for improving the quality of life on campus, as well as candidates who have strong connections to the Wash. U. community and are willing to go out of their way to find out what the student body wants,” she said. “I also really value candidates who have experience actually being involved in student groups and a perspective of student life outside of Student Union.”

With additional reporting by Michael Tabb

• Sean Janda
• Jake Lichtenfeld
• Chantel Miller
• Maia Lamdany
• Ross Passo
• Sara Harris
• Shannon McAllister
• Brett Kopin
• Aron Lurie
• Jacob Trusnky
• Pavithra Anand

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• Kirsten Miller
• Daniel Bernard
• Michael Cohen
• Jeff Lin
• Greg Porter
• Greg Jones

Legislation intended to prevent a repeat of last year’s Bristol Palin fiasco failed to pass Student Union Treasury by one vote on Tuesday.

The constitutional amendment would have made student referendums faster and more effective.

The final vote was 11-6, but it needed a two-thirds margin to pass.

Student Union found itself in a bind in January when Treasury approved funding for bringing Bristol Palin to speak during Sexual Responsibility Week. Students were outraged and SU was unable to reverse the decision because by the time the referendum could be held, the contract would already be signed.

Under the amended constitution, a petition officially filed against a Treasury allocation would freeze funds for 48 hours after the funding decision was made from the time that the chief justice receives notice that a petition is circulating. This would allow students time to obtain signatures from the 5 percent of the student body necessary to reach a referendum vote without a group being able to spend its allocation.

In the current system, referendums cannot be held until at least 10 days after a petition is filed. The amendment would have changed that to two days.

The legislation would also change procedure so funds would continue to be frozen until the referendum would take place.

Sophomore Sean Janda, the budget committee chair, sponsored the amendment. He said that many of the people opposed to the change lost sight of how infrequently referenda arise.

“I think the big thing is referenda aren’t submitted all that often, which means it’s fairly rare that people even have cause to examine the procedures,” he said. “But since there was one that was attempted last spring, it’s given us an occasion to look at the procedures and realize they don’t make sense the way they are right now.”

Senior Kirsten Miller voted against the amendment, mentioning that many group appeals are already happening on a very tight timeframe.

“I’ve been a member of a group that had, the next day, been in the SU office filling out expense requests because we needed to get hooked up the next day. It’s not necessarily the fault of the student group treasurer,” Miller said. “You [are sometimes] pushed back on the docket until just a couple of weeks before your event.”

Other members noted that a reactive response to the Brisol Palin decision last January was not something that the group should pursue.

“I know for Bristol Palin, right after it came out…at the time I was really upset about it and looking back on it today, I think it actually would have been not necessarily a bad thing,” sophomore Greg Porter said. “I really see the value in an event that’d get the campus that pissed off and I think that some of the events that you could get the referendums passed, to some extent might even be the best events that we fund.”

One major argument against the change was that it would cause undue harm to student groups hosting controversial events by placing restrictions on their ability to sign contracts in the event of a petition being filed against them.

Janda noted that beyond many of the reasons given, much of the opposition to the change was not in the spirit of his personal view of Treasury.

“I think there are Treasury representatives who believe that the job of Treasury is to make these hard decisions and that there shouldn’t be a legitimate means of recourse by the student body and that, to them, the legitimate means of recourse is the elections,” he said. “However, there are other people on Treasury who believe that the goal of Treasury is to represent the wills and desires of the student body and since treasury’s not going to be able to do that every time, there should be a legitimate means of recourse for the student body.”

Janda said he hopes to bring the amendment before Treasury again next week after talking to group members to try to sway them in favor of the change.

“I don’t think it’s dead, I think it’ll pass at some point. I’d prefer it pass sooner than later, but I do think it will pass,” he said. “If students feel particularly strongly either way about it, I would urge them to get in contact with Student Union…and they can come to Treasury—Simon Hall 113 at 9:30 [p.m.] next Tuesday—to voice their [thoughts].”

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Members of Student Union vote on Wednesday evening.

The change, pending majority approval by SU Treasury and two-thirds of the student body, would cut six seats—four from the College of Arts & Sciences, one from the engineering school and one from the business school.

Senators J.R. Davis and Neel Desai sponsored the amendment. They stressed it would improve competition for SU Senate, making sure people who win seats genuinely want the job, and pressure senators to perform their work.

Three vice presidents of administration have failed to pass the amendment in the past several years. This is the first time it was sponsored by students outside of SU’s executive branch.

Junior Mamatha Challa, vice president of administration, said she was pleased that the amendment she proposed two weeks ago ultimately made it past its first hurdle.

“I’m really excited,” she said. “This is probably the first time it’s been proposed by the senators themselves, which was one of the strengths about it.”

The amendment to SU’s constitution needed two-thirds of the vote to pass. The final vote was 15-7 with 1 abstention; senators were holding bated breath as Speaker of the Senate Dan Robinson verified that the abstaining vote didn’t count against the measure.

Robinson said that while he tries to remain impartial, he was particularly pleased with the group’s discussion concerning the change.

“I think that we had a really productive dialogue in the body,” Robinson said. “I’m glad senators were able to put forth [the] initiative.”

While some senators voiced concern about the amendment ultimately discouraging students from running for SU Senate, numerous freshmen considering running for office said they approve of the legislation.

“I’m glad that they were able to get it through so that everyone can vote on it—this gives the entire school the opportunity to vote on how they are represented,” said freshman Hamilton Cook, from the School of Engineering & Applied Science.

Madhana Pandian, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences, said the arguments in favor of the change transformed her initial doubts.

“When it was first introduced I had all negative thoughts, because the first thing that came to mind was that the increased competition would make it impossible for freshmen to get on Senate…but I really did side with the decision that was made at the end. The people on the pro side did a really good job of presenting their argument,” she said. “I also really enjoyed the open discussion on both sides.”

Speaker for the Treasury, junior Julian Nicks, said he does not envision the constitutional amendment being nearly as contentious when Treasury considers passing it next week.

“I don’t think it’ll be nearly as hot of a debate,” he said. “I don’t imagine it being even close to this much discussion.”

Treasury member Sean Janda, a sophomore, echoed his sentiments.

“I think that if Senate is going to pass it…it only affects their body, so I think Treasury should pass it as well,” he said.

The change proposed cutting Senate’s size from 28 to 22 members. This would increase competition for spots and thus ensure seats go to people who would take advantage of them, said junior Mamatha Challa, vice president of administration for SU.

Challa, who served as speaker of the Senate last year, sponsored the constitutional change.

After a discussion fluctuating from supportive to critical and even hostile, the final vote was 14-10, but required two-thirds of Senate’s votes to pass.

Seven of the 10 dissenting votes were from senators in the College of Arts & Sciences, which would have lost four of its 16 seats. The other two seats would have been taken from the engineering and business schools.

Numerous senators at the meeting spoke in favor of the change.

“I’ve been around the block a while, and…it looks bad when we don’t have enough people running for these spots,” senior Becca Craig said. “We’ve had so many initiatives and outreach chairs and other projects to try and increase the amount of people running and the retention—and it’s not working…this is what will work.”

But as discussion over the legislation intensified, senators started defending their schools’ seats, and comments became increasingly pointed.

“Under the Student Union constitution, the role of the vice president of administration is to maintain the interest and involvement of those participating in Student Union, and this amendment seems to clearly contradict the constitution by limiting involvement,” freshman Senator Michael Byrne said. “To come in and think about deciding on a constitutional amendment with very little time to go over it—I think is kind of ridiculous.”

Challa noted that most of the votes against the amendment were from newer senators who may not be as familiar with long-time efforts to solve the body’s involvement issues.

This was not the first time students have looked to decrease Senate’s size.

Student Life editorials from as far back as 2006 have noted that cutting seats could restore competition to the Senate, keeping write-in candidates from getting spots they don’t care about. In the past three years, Challa is the third SU vice president of administration to push for the change. And she’s the third to have her vision cut short.

Although Challa could pursue other means of getting the amendment passed without a two-thirds Senate majority, she said she doesn’t want to advance an agenda if it’s not what the body wants, and she’s contemplating how to move past Wednesday night’s decision.

“I don’t want to do something that the Senate body truly doesn’t want to do; however, if there’s room for senators possibly changing their mind with more communication about the issue, then I may move forward with it,” Challa said. “I wouldn’t be comfortable going forward with this if I can’t get two-thirds of Senate to be in support of it.”

A savings account, comprised of funds that were allocated to student groups but were never spent, has accrued to more than $300,000. At the end of each semester, SU re-collects unused funds so they can be used on other programming.

Almost half of the money in this carryforward account is from the past three years alone.

While the money may provide a beneficial safety net, its growth is beginning to hurt student groups struggling to get funding they actually need to operate, said senior Cody Katz, vice president of finance for SU.

“This money isn’t being spent when other groups can use it,” Katz said. “One thing is just looking closely at who these groups are who aren’t spending all their money…is it a fluke or is it happening again?”

Katz said that part of his job as vice president of finance involves examining the groups who fail to allocate large portions of their budgets.

Among the major offenders from 2010 to 2011 were Sports Club Board, ArtSci Council and Architecture School Council. Those three allocations alone racked up nearly $40,000 in unused spending.

Katz said that he hopes to drain the carryforward account by up to $60,000 this year to put the savings account back on track. As vice president of finance, he’s responsible for deciding how to allocate the money—though his decision is subject to Treasury’s approval.

He said he plans to wait until the end of the semester to decide how to spend the excess funds—whether to transfer them into Treasury’s appeals account, offer student groups increased budgets or personally plan an event to see the money put to use.

This year, some carryforward funding was used to fund student use of the Athletic Complex’s McWilliams Fitness Center. In past years, the money had been used to sponsor programs such as Sleeve A Message beverage sleeve advertising, purchasing new computers for student groups and increasing student group budgets.

“Right now I want to wait and see where Treasury is at the end of the semester,” Katz said. “I have no specific plans right now; if something comes along that we could use it for, that’s something to look into.”

Student group leaders voiced discontent that their speaker appeals were rejected to save money when there are additional funds available.

“Because the quality of the speakers presented was so high, I would hope that if SU had enough money in their carry forward to bring another speaker to campus, they would,” senior Harish Chamarthy, co-president of Ashoka, said. “Had they had more money, I think they would have been more receptive to funding our speakers and other speakers.”

Ashoka’s appeal for $50,000 to bring Dr. Sanjay Gupta to campus was rejected at Treasury’s meeting last Tuesday.

Katz acknowledged that while including carryforward in the speaker appeal process may have had some impact, he disagreed with the notion that it would have made a significant difference.

“I don’t think Treasury kept in mind—oh, we could have more money. I think they were fueled by their passion to bring certain speakers over other ones,” Katz said. “I think the Treasury body for the most part didn’t have any specific numbers in mind.”

Speaker of the Treasury, junior Julian Nicks spoke in favor of Katz’s choice not to give Treasury carryforward funding before speaker appeals. This way, he said, carryforward may act as a safety net in case Treasury runs out of money—not just be spent on another speaker.

“I personally value the fact that carryforward was not put into the account before [funding the] SU speaker series,” Nicks said. “We have received appeals that have almost added up to the amount we have left in our account, so that is something to take note of.”

Sophomore Sean Janda, co-chair of Treasury’s budget committee, said that the carryforward funding is a huge benefit considering that SU Treasury spent so much of its appeals account on speakers.

“I think the [appeals] account is a little bit below where some people would ideally have it right now,” Janda said. “I think Treasury funded as much as it did in the past few weeks under the impression that it might be getting some of the carryforward account—it would be a strain if it didn’t.”

SL: Where are you from?
ET: New Orleans, Louisiana.

SL: How is freshman year? What else are you doing on campus?
ET: I’m taking class. I’ve tried to go to a few club meetings, but the campaign has kept me really busy.

SL: What are you studying?
ET: I’m in ArtSci. I think I’m going to major in political science, but I’m taking some classes in urban studies and environmental policy to look at those as other possibilities.

SL: What is one word that describes you best?
ET: Dedicated

SL: What were you excited for before coming to Washington University?
ET: I was most excited to become part of a new community. I’ve never lived anywhere else but New Orleans, so I was excited to experience a new culture and new people and new experiences.

SL: What is your favorite thing you have done on campus so far?
ET: There have been so many…I really enjoyed all the orientation activities where the whole freshman class got to be together. I look forward to planning more of those throughout the year.

SL: What is your favorite place on campus?
ET: Whispers. It is a great place to study, but also you get to see people and talk to people as they are walking through.

SL: What prompted you to run for freshman class council?
In high school, I was the class president all four years, and I became very close to my class…[and] my city so I wanted the same experience here at Wash. U. and in St. Louis. I also did the Leading Wash. U. Style pre-o where I got to meet a lot of the Student Union…members. I thought Wash. U. Student Union sounded really interesting and wanted to get involved.

SL: Tell me a little bit about your slate.
ET: Our slate is called Slate Louis because our main platform was we wanted to get our class united not only on Wash. U.’s campus and more prideful for Wash. U. but also in the city.

SL: Like what?
ET: We named our slate Slate Louis because we wanted to unite our class through on campus programming but also a lot more off campus programming to get the class unified and spirited about Wash.U. but also about the city of St. Louis.

SL: What are some ideas that you have?
ET: We want to do more events like the Big Bang, taking the entire class out into the city, but we want the class to have input and be able to vote and tell us where they want to go.

SL: How is it for you to have just won this election?
ET: I’m excited to meet more members of the class of ‘15 and to hear their ideas…and make this the best freshman year possible for everyone.

SL: Tell me a little bit about yourself.
ET: I have lived in New Orleans my entire life, and I have a deep-rooted pride in my city. I really want to transfer that pride to St. Louis…I think a lot of people come to Wash. U. and like they say, the infamous Wash. U. bubble, they don’t really get to know St. Louis, and I’d really like to get to know St. Louis as a city in addition to getting to know Wash. U.

SL: You won with about 30 percent of the vote. What does it mean for you to have won in such a competitive environment?
ET: I am really grateful for all of our supporters and all the people who helped us campaign. All the other slates did a wonderful job campaigning. It was very competitive…but everyone was very respectful to each other, and all the other slates ran a very clean campaign, and they were all very worthy candidates themselves, and I am very grateful to have won by the margin that I did.

SL: What are you most excited about for the next year?
ET: I am most excited to get to meet the members of my class and for us to be unified and to get to know the city of St. Louis.

SL: What will be your role as President?
ET: Since the Freshman Class Council is a programming body, my role is to plan creative and innovating programming that unites the freshman class, but also to advocate the freshman class needs to the other bodies of the Student Union.

SL: Tell me one thing about yourself that most people don’t know.
ET: When I was little I wanted to be an F.B.I. agent, but you have to be 5’1” and I’m only five feet tall.

Courtesy of Christine Pavia

Members of the newly elected Freshman Class Council: (L-R) President Emma Tyler, Internal Vice President Jodi Small, Treasurer Andrew Hausdorf, Secretary Kara Chung, External Vice President Andy Lee.

The results were announced Wednesday evening.

Tyler’s entire slate, “Slate Louis,” was elected. The slate includes External Vice President Andy Lee, Internal Vice President Jodi Small, Secretary Kara Chung and Treasurer Andrew Hausdorf.

Five slates ran in the highly competitive election. Michelle Winner, of the “Fun to the Fifth” slate, came in second place in the election for president with 26.9 percent of the votes.

“I’m excited to meet more members of the class of ‘15 and to hear their ideas…and make this the best freshman year possible for everyone,” Tyler said.

The Freshman Class Council will work with the other branches of Student Union, including Senate and Treasury, to advocate on behalf of the freshman class and to program activities for the class.

“I was happy to see so much enthusiasm. It was impressive to see how much time and thought went into it. I am excited to work with them,” Student Union President John Harrison York said.

A total of 699 freshmen voted in the election. This is almost 47 percent of the 1,497-person class.

Seven appeals were not funded, including ones for Sanjay Gupta, Garry Kasparov and Ashley Judd. SU Treasury also rejected appeals for Djimon Hounsou, Chris Gardner, Patch Adams and Bill McKibben.

The allocations leave SU Treasury with about $87,000 to fund student group appeals for the rest of the year.

Treasury representatives and members of the different groups waited until around 3 a.m. for the final decisions to be made. Emotions ran high as student groups stayed well past midnight to voice support for their own appeals and other speakers they also hoped to see funded.

The vote to fund the Association of Black Students’ appeal for Legend was unanimous. After extended debate, Chess Club’s appeal to bring Kasparov failed by one vote.

“I think chess still carries a stigma even at the university level,” said junior Jacob Zax, president of Chess Club. “I think it would’ve been good for Student Union to have a speaker like this… and it’s too bad it didn’t happen.”

The initial process to choose speakers was to combine speakers into packages and having Treasurers choose packages. Over 30 packages of various combination of speakers were nominated by Treasurers and several rounds of voting were conducted in order to narrow down the list.

Ashoka’s request for $50,000 to bring Gupta to campus was rejected in the first round of voting.

Ashoka members felt that Gupta’s similarity to Dr. Joia Mukherjee (who was funded last week) hurt their cause.

“It’s almost a pick of the draw whether the small speakers go first or the big speakers go first. We just never got a say. We think Sanjay Gupta would have brought something different to the table and have a lot more name recognition,” said Ajay Kanakamedala, Ashoka’s treasurer.

As the number of packages was narrowed down through several rounds of voting, Treasury members still failed to arrived at a consensus, even with two packages remaining. Several attempts were made very late in the process to add new speakers to existing packages, or to add entirely new packages. The decision was then ultimately made to vote separately on Legend and Kasparov, both speakers with price tags of over $50,000.

Association of Latin American Students’ appeal for Vergara and Lunar New Year Festival’s appeal for Chua both made it through on individual votes. LNYF had been earlier eliminated in the packaging system but found new life when considered separately.

“I think the whole system with packaging made things really complicated. I almost left because I thought she was out,” said Rina Matsumoto, co-executive director of LNYF. “Amy Chua addresses a lot of issues not covered by the other speakers. She is a superstar because of her issues, not because of her name.”

Beyond procedural complaints, some students said they appreciated the support they received from students outside their organizations.

“The solidarity of other groups who maybe didn’t receive what they wanted–and being mature and standing up for others who they believed deserved the chance–was impressive,” said Zachary Romo, outreach chair for ALAS.

Dates for most of the speakers have yet to be set, though John Legend is planned for the spring semester.

SU Treasury allocated funding for Al Gore, Daphne Kwok, Mukherjee, Deanne Bell, and Jess Weiner last week.