I must agree with the sentiments expressed by former USG President Matt Roan in his letter to the editor this week. The students of Penn State would be best served if the USG Senate could be altogether ignored.

The Daily Collegian ought to do a service to its readership and stop offering such an easy forum for this grossly misguided group of juveniles. There are many, many other stories to be found in the leadership and service organizations on campus; certainly in other aspects of your student government alone. The senate is a small, small part of USG, but for tradition's sake, has always received an amazingly disproportionate amount of Collegian coverage.

As a former Collegian writer and editor, I understand why. It is easy news. The senate makes idiots of themselves and wastes everyone else's time as much as possible in a year such as this one.

For starters, since when did student government members start aligning themselves with political parties? And wasn't Jason Covener a senior when he was first thrown out of USG in 1998?

I would encourage the Collegian news staff and student government beat writers to make efforts to focus on the work of other branches of USG, the projects, and initiatives of the executive committees, the academic assembly and the supreme court — the ones that might actually matter to some students. Don't even attend the next few months of senate meetings and save your readers from the headache.

This year, no one cares what they are talking about anyway.