Maybe ASUN isn't broken after all.

Tonight the ASUN Senate considered whether to proceed with impeachment against ASUN President Jake Pereira. According to the Nevada Sagebrush, the Senate has voted to indefinitely postpone impeachment proceedings against Pereira. In parliamentary procedure speak, that means the allegations forwarded by the Judicial Council are officially dead.

Cooler heads have prevailed, and hopefully this will not mar President Pereira's term and the Senate's session so early in their tenure. With that, this blog can safely return to mothballs for another four or more years.

They finally did it. They broke ASUN. Or: what a mighty fine constitutional crisis you've created.

This blog has been sitting in mothballs for nearly 4 years. Its contributors, long since graduated from the University of Nevada and the halls of student government, have moved on to bigger and better things. To get a little biblical, we moved on to helping souls that wanted to be saved. It seems in our absence the youthfully exuberant officers, senators, and justices in the Associated Students of the University of Nevada have managed to create quite a constitutional crisis--and only two weeks into the Senate's 82d Session. What promise! There's scandal, intrigue, raw exercises of power, allegations of corruption and intimidation, a secret society is involved, a newly-elected president only two weeks into his term is facing possible removal from office. And, sadly, though perhaps not surprisingly, very little actual reason is being flung around the Joe Crowley Student Union in the ASUN offices in the weeks before summer break.

To shamelessly borrow a phrase from the secret society involved, "for the betterment of the University of Nevada," Vis Lupi Est Grex rises from the ashes mothballs and offers its considered, detached, dispassionate, and reasoned view on the recent goings-on in ASUN. I thought long and hard about whether to publish this post. I am taking this opportunity to make my comments public for two primary reasons: (1) I believe the leaders in ASUN would benefit from having access to these thoughts and (2) I'm growing tired of repeating them on a person-by-person basis. Although I have offered below significant criticisms of how this process has unfolded and whether Pereira is deserving of impeachment, I am not a person with a vote and my only desire is to give those who do have the vote some outside perspective and reliable information. How those with the power ultimately choose to use it is up to them, though I hope they'll exercise their power better informed as a result of this blog post. For those with the intestinal fortitude, or perhaps the slightly masochistic leanings to read a post of 6,542 words, click on. But you were warned.