Government of the Student Body President Dan Mangan called a special session, one senator resigned and senators agreed on a premature adjournment at Wednesday’s GSB meeting.

The Senate adjourned the first time because Sen. Stein Avloes, through a motion that would have prompted the Senate to reconsider a seating bill passed last week, pointed out that the Senate had seated one too many off-campus senators.

Avloes’ motion was eventually dropped because the last off-campus senator to be seated, Sen. Jason Waldron, resigned during the special session. He was the 10th off-campus senator. The GSB Constitution only allows nine off-campus students to serve on the Senate this year.

“It’s nothing against Sen. Waldron, but if we do this, it’s saying that every off-campus student can be a GSB senator,” Avloes said.

But before Waldron resigned, Sen. Brian Allen said another off-campus senator, Sen. Mike Faulise, should be dismissed because he failed to meet attendance requirements.

Sen. Matthew Goodman objected. He said if Faulise, not Waldron, was removed the Senate would still be in violation of the Constitution. He said the Senate would be assuming Waldron should be seated if Faulise was removed.

“When we start the meeting next week, we’re going to still be in violation of the Constitution,” he said. “The seat was not open. We shouldn’t have filled it and we automatically give it to Sen. Waldron, and that’s not fair.”

After Avloes’ motion was delayed for several minutes, Sen. Aaron Cooper made a motion to adjourn the meeting. It passed, 16-14. Sen. Brian Allen and Goodman then erupted because both had bills still left to be discussed at the meeting.

Terri Houston, GSB adviser and assistant dean of students, was also outraged at the motion to adjourn.

“We’ve got other things to address on the agenda that we need to address, that should have been addressed. We’ve got people who are depending on us to make some decisions tonight that are still on this agenda, and it was not even covered,” she said.

“I don’t think it’s right to remove someone from office without them being notified,” added Cooper, defending his motion.

Goodman said the decision was unprofessional.

“We can table for 15 minutes and figure it just like this, but God forbid we cooperate. It’s politics; this is a political decision to adjourn this meeting. It’s not an intelligent decision,” he said.

After several moments of deliberation between senators and executives, Mangan called a special session.

To avoid further debate Waldron then submitted his resignation, saying, “I hope, in the end, everything is cooperated.”