CORRECTION APPENDED SEE BOTTOMThe Senate passed a bylaw change requiring Senators to notify the chair of the Senate of extenuating circumstances in order to miss a Senate meeting.

The bylaw change defines an extenuating circumstance as one that does not occur regularly or semi-regularly.

The bylaw stipulates that an automatic censure resolution be added to the agenda should a Senator miss two or more meetings unexcused.

The Senate tabled a Senate Money Resolution to co-fund a March 30 campus visit from Bill Ayers, a founding member of the Weather Underground and now a professor of education at the University of Illinois in Chicago, as well as an April 3 visit by Robert H. King, a member of the Black Panther Party who advocated desegregation in prisons and spent 32 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit murder.

Some senators expressed concern that money paid by all students would go toward a controversial event, expressed reservations about violent acts committed by the Weather Underground, which the FBI designated as a terrorist organization, and discussed how such an event would reflect on donor relations and media coverage of Brandeis.

The events' supporters said that they had not received as much funding from a social justice grant as they had expected and that they did not believe Ayers would advocate for violent action.

They also emphasized that such an event would be academically beneficial for students learning about the 1960s in the classroom.

Union Secretary Tia Chatterjee '09 reported that sign-ups for North Quad and East Quad senator special elections would open up Monday, and that polls for these elections will open March 8.

The first round of regular Spring Elections will begin April 6.

Student Union President Jason Gray '10 reported that in addition to the previously announced plans for a new Business major and a third semester, a group of faculty is also working on proposing a Business and Communications, Media and Society major.

He added that he would like students and the Union Senate to have more of a voice in academic decisions and suggested that the Senate pass resolutions regarding the proposals that he would announce at faculty meetings.

Gray announced that this semester's State of the Union will be held March 17 at 6:30 p.m.

The Senate passed a resolution in support of the proposed Business and Communications, Media and Society major to be presented to the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee this Thursday.

The Senate confirmed Ben Stein '10 as non-Senate chair of the Club Support Committee.

The Senate voted not to grant the Whiffle Ball Club permanent recognition. Executive Senator Andrew Brooks '09 reported that the club did not respond to multiple requests to come before the Senate.

The Senate tabled granting The Jury permanent charter because Senators said the club is still active even though it had not responded to some requests to appear in front of the Senate.

Correction: The headline originally wrote that senators "will be" censured for missing meetings. They actually only may be censured for missing meetings.