The third legislator general in Student Association President Christian Zidouemba’s administration resigned last month.
Freshman Adam Galland, the youngest legislator general in SA history, submitted his resignation Feb. 8. He said he resigned for “personal reasons” and because the SA’s bylaws create inefficiencies within the operations of the body.
“Like many people, I came to realize and understand that this iteration of the Student Association has lost its way and is definitely inefficient,” he said.
Galland said amendments to the bylaws, like those passed in the SA’s Feb. 21 meeting, create positions that are designed to oppose one another. He said he was “partially” optimistic about the governing documents review committee’s upcoming rewrite of the SA’s bylaws and constitution, but he was concerned that they would still be overly complex.
“The point is not that the regulations that go into governing the Student Association are wrong,” he said. “It’s that their existence over-complicates and makes participation in the Student Association a very contentious and constantly adversarial thing.”
He said reducing regulations, not modifying them, would improve efficiency in the SA.
Galland is the third legislator general to resign this year, after Dylan Basescu resigned in July following his attempt to remove Zidouemba from office and Andrew Harding resigned in late October.
The SA Senate confirmed freshman Joe Calcigatrone as assistant legislator general in their meeting Monday. The senate approved sophomore Aditcharan Thyagarajan and junior Cradler Volmar as assistant legislators general last October.
