Hoya staffers after Thursday’s sit in

The Hoya’s now-infamous April Fools’ Day issue caused a lot of angry vocalization last week, and even prompted a sit-in of over 40 students in The Hoya’s office following an emotional and indignant town hall which at least 100 students plus a Jesuit and several faculty attended.

(Asked if the University was preparing a statement about The Hoya’s April Fools’ Day issue, spokesperson Julie Green Bataille referred me to Olson’s office. Check back later for their response.)

When it convenes again after Spring Break, the GUSA Senate will undoubtedly join the fray, perhaps by passing a resolution that GUSA Senator Nicholas Nelson-Goedert (COL `10) drafted over the weekend (full text after the jump).

In the email in which he announced to several student organizations that he would be introducing his resolution, (curiously, Nelson-Goedert told me he hasn’t yet informed the whole GUSA Senate), he also said he was working on legislation that would make “students’ actions while on a newspaper endorsed by the University” subject to Student Code of Conduct.

So is this GUSA Senator pursuing disciplinary action?

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