Observer

Issue date: 12/5/05 Section: News

A possible fight between two senators was narrowly averted in the Newark College of Arts and Sciences Student Governing Association after the undergraduate governing body lost order during a debate about the constitutionality of proposed impeachments on Nov. 28.

As other senators fled the room fearing for their safety, NCAS-SGA Senator-at- Large Anthony Diaz, who serves as president pro tempore of the Senate, and Sophomore Sen. Darrius Humphrey engaged in a bitter argument.

Standing less than three feet from each other, with only a small table separating them, the senators pointed fingers in each other's faces and engaged in name-calling.

At one point Senior Sen. Sinan Aladdin had to physically restrain Humphrey while he argued with Diaz.

This is the second time that Humphrey has been in an argument with another senator as a result of a senate debate.

On Nov. 9, a policy argument between Humphrey and Senator-at-Large Eddie Santiago Beck - whom Humphrey opposed for his past involvement in the campus gay and lesbian group and for being the former Observer editor - got heated when Humphrey told Beck, "I'll show you how black I am."

University College SGA President Mubarak Guy told the Observer he grabbed Humphrey by the shoulder and led him from the room "to make the situation go away before anything starts."

The argument with Beck was one of the charges against Humphrey in a bill to impeach him at the Nov. 21 SGA meeting. The bill failed to get a 2/3 vote and is now before the Council of Arbitration.



THE 'FIGHT' ON NOV 28

What started out as a routine senate meeting on quickly descended into chaos.

When Diaz introduced a bill to impeach eight senators who have missed a substantial number of meetings, Humphrey got riled, jumped from his seat and screamed: "He [Diaz] wants to remove anyone he does not favor!"

Humphrey then jumped onto the table, and then to the floor and with the SGA constitution in hand, walked from senator to senator at the dais accusing them of not following the constitution.

Humphrey then walked over to Diaz and two began arguing. The two senators were standing less than three feet apart.

"I am the one who assigns the senators to the committees! You have done nothing!" yelled Diaz, who as president pro tempore presides over the Senate meetings.

"You are trying to impeach senators you don't like!" Humphrey screamed back.

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