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Discuss “Explaining the Bill of Rights veto”

After sitting through the Senate meeting last week and observing the discussion and the vote about the resolution in support of the Students’ Rights amendment, I immediately began to question whether I should veto this piece of legislation. I knew I had 120 hours to decide what I should do and that the Super Bowl fell within that time period. (That was my obligatory mention of Super Bowl XL.) On Monday, I submitted my veto to the chair of the Undergraduate Student Senate. This was the first veto in three years; Brian Namey used the last one to veto the Freedom of Information Act. But I will forgo the typical article and attempt to explain to you the reasoning behind the veto.

I had a few concerns with the passing of the resolution at the...

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