Student Council discussed a series of recent tragedies affecting the University community at its representative body meeting Tuesday, proposing resolutions to formally express their grief regarding the stabbing of Virginia State Sen. Creigh Deeds (D-Bath), the murder of University Dining employee Jarvis Brown and the deadly typhoon Haiyan, which recently struck the Philippines.
After holding a moment of silence to reflect on the Tuesday morning stabbing of Deeds, council members proposed drafting a resolution expressing condolence, prayer and support for the Deeds family. Members proposed to pass a concept of the bill, drafting it after the meeting and letting it go into effect tomorrow.
Debate ensued over whether the bill was both applicable to the University community and appropriate, given no condolence resolutions had been passed recognizing Brown or victims of the typhoon in the Philippines.
Council President Eric McDaniel explained because the typhoon and Brown’s death occurred so long ago — Brown was shot and killed on Oct. 17 and the typhoon struck more than a week ago — it was no longer a pressing matter, thus council could let a resolution go through the formal process rather than rushing to pass a concept bill. Because the Deeds stabbing occurred Tuesday morning, the matter seemed more appropriate to be passed by concept.
“We missed the vote about being timely in response to Brown and the Philippines,” said McDaniel, a fourth-year College student. “I would think we should follow the process of introducing the bill, voting and coming up through the committees. I’d like to see the two get the attention they deserve because we missed the immediacy factor.”
Given last Friday’s vigil honoring the typhoon victims and planned vigils for Brown on Wednesday and Deeds on Thursday, council decided that voting on concept resolutions for all three tragedies would be timely. Each was passed unanimously.
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