Three ASSC members removed from office

This room is next to the Associated Students Advisory office, where most students see the ASSC.  This is where they sometimes meet for their weekly meetings. (Nick Donofrio)

This room is next to the Associated Students Advisory office, where most students see the ASSC. This is where they sometimes meet for their weekly meetings. (Nick Donofrio)

“Alas, all things come to an end; and mine was worse than others.”These were Tim Martyn’s last words as a senator for the Associated Students of Skyline College.On a Tuesday Dec. 4 meeting three people were removed from the ASSC. In addition to Martyn, Senator Lindsay D’Amico, and Commisioner of Finance Melody Hisatake.The common theme with these people was lack of attendence of the weekly ASSC meetings.Hisatake had “missed so many time’s she’s out” Amory Cariadus, the ASSC advisor said.Of D’Amico, “Is she the one with the glasses?” Senator Andrew Lee asked. “She hasn’t been to any of our meetings,” ASSC President Lauren Hernandez said.Finally Martyn, who, ironically enough, was at the meeting to give a presentation, was asked for a speech before he was removed by vote, in which Senator Bob Alberts cast the only nay vote of the night. With the ASSC streamlined, they set to the agenda for their second to last meeting. The main topic of the night appeared to be cafeteria sanitation, mainly concerning the microwave. While the microwave was almost unanimously decided to be in need of cleaning, the school janitors are not contractually obligated to clean it.The ASSC then decided that students would have to clean up after themselves, and the students should be informed of this with an engraved sign near the microwave.However, Skyline View staff writer Juan Diaz, had an additional solution.”Plastic trays would keep the floor cleaner,” Diaz said. Earlier Diaz had dropped his burrito on the floor, and a tray combined with a plate could have prevented that.Food falling on the floor “will attract the wrong type of students,” according to Diaz. Rats. Skyline has had problems with rats on campus in the past, and food and trash thrown on the floor could certainly recreate that problem.While the cafeteria does supply trays there are not many of them. The exchange of ideas was ended when Commisioner of Activites Wendy Smith proposed a motion to post permanent signs in the cafeteria, and to ask the cafeteria to get more plastic trays. The motion was passed unanimously.Aside from this the ASSC covered these things:• ASSC advisor Amory Cariadus passed a motion to talk about changes to the Financial Code at the next meeting. The proposed changes would dramatically change the way grants work, allowing a club to receive a grant only once a year. Furthermore for grants applied to club conferences to be accepted the club must show relevance to the rest of the Skyline College campus, and must prove that they raised at least 50 percent of the funds required to go. There was no ASSC meeting on Dec. 12 to decide anything on these possible changes.• The results of the food drive came in and the Photo club won 500 dollars for coming in first place. The food drive brought in 7918 pounds of food total. • Next semester “things that are 90 cents will go up to a dollar, things that are a dollar will go up to 1.15” according to Commisioner of Activities Wendy Smith.