At tonight’s Student Government Association meeting:

• Chief Justice Stuart Kenderes said the Judicial Council decided at today’s meeting to remove Senator Theodore Harden, a graduate student from Otisville, N.Y., from SGA for excessive unexcused absences.

Harden didn’t attend the Judicial Council meeting to defend himself, Kenderes said.

The council also reviewed Senator Vashae Swope, a Lexington sophomore, for excessive unexcused absences, but the council voted that she remain a senator, he said.

The attendance guidelines for senators are now posted in the SGA office window and will be e-mailed to senators, he said.

• President Kevin Smiley said he sends his best wishes to Head Coach David Elson.

“Sometimes change is needed to bring a program forward,” Smiley said.

• St. Louis junior Rachel Wilcox was approved as a student senator.

There will be two more presidential appointments to the senate to be voted on at the Nov. 17 senate meeting, Smiley said.

• SGA passed a resolution that supports the Invisible Children book drive, which collects books to benefit children in Uganda.

SGA plans to put a book donation box in the SGA office.

• Chief of Staff Eric Smiley announced that a request for additional bike racks throughout campus is complete and will be sent to Parking and Transportation Services soon.

• An application is now available online for SGA’s Scholar Development Grant, Senator Dave Vickery said.