University Star

Monday night’s Associated Student Government meeting ended much earlier than expected.

“It was the shortest meeting I have ever been to,” said ASG President Chris Covo. “It was kind of weird. I was flabbergasted when I looked up and it was 7:25 p.m. and we were on questions.”

Sen. Colter Ray, public relations junior, said the brevity of the meeting was partially because of the absence of the guest-speaker on the agenda, Paul Hamilton, director of Auxiliary Services.

Mel Ferrari, student relation’s vice-chair, said the meeting was short, but the senate accomplished important agenda items.

The senate unanimously passed a resolution disapproving of the San Marcos Police Department actions to not inform university officials before allowing film crews from Campus PD to ride in squad cars.

Sen. Matthew Posey, author of the bill, said the intent is not to add to tension between students and police.

“This show could have great negative effects on the university and on the students featured in this show,” Posey said. “And therefore, if you are going to do this again we want to know about it — and by the way, we really don’t like that you did this in the first place.”

Posey said the bill was about communication not condemnation.

The resolution disapproving of the San Marcos Police Department’s actions was assigned to University Relations and Student Relations. Ray, chair of the University Relations committee, and Sen. Brandon Guerra, chair of the Student Relations committee said members decided unanimously to pass the resolution.

Guerra said the length of the reports from the president, vice-president and committees attributed to the brief meeting.

“Because the reports were efficient, there was a canceled guest speaker, only one item that was new and no advisers report — those are all some pretty good factors leading to a short ASG meeting,” Guerra said