Dickinson Town Council voted Tuesday to withdraw proposals to impeach two student leaders, including the Student Association president, but still stand behind one calling for Assembly chair Elahd Bar-Shai’s impeachment.

Dickinson representative Ian Swan plans to withdraw the resolutions regarding the impeachment of Adam Amit, SA president, and Lawrence Faulstich, chair of the Research and Planning Committee, because his constituents respected Amit and Faulstich’s efforts to defend themselves at the DTC meeting.

The behavior of the three student leaders at the Oct. 24 State University of New York SA conference, which included each drinking a beer at the meeting and all three standing by as an undergraduate posed as a representative for the Graduate Student Organization, prompted the resolutions.

According to Swan, Bar-Shai had a prior commitment and therefore could not attend the meeting, but this did not persuade DTC members to retract the resolution.

“Elahd was held on a shorter leash by the constituents of Dickinson Community because of his past mistakes, which now include two censures,” Swan said.

Swan’s mention of “past mistakes” refers to racial comments Bar-Shai made last spring toward then-SA Vice President for Finance Alice Liou during an argument.

Bar-Shai said he will reserve his comments for Monday’s Assembly meeting, and that Assembly business cannot be modified outside of a meeting. Therefore, the resolutions, which are scheduled for the old business portion of the meeting, cannot be removed from the agenda until then. Even then, once Swan moves to withdraw the resolutions, he will need a two-thirds majority to do so.

The resolution regarding Bar-Shai will stay on the table and will be brought to a vote Monday. Swan said he does not think the movement to impeach Bar-Shai has much support.

“The resolution has no chance of passing,” he said, adding that he believes the Assembly will vote to table the resolution indefinitely or find some other way to “push the resolution off the floor.”

Amit was relieved with the results of Dickinson, which was the community most advocating for the impeachments.

“It is clear that a statement has been made,” Amit said. “The student body is rightly upset with our actions, and while their vote can be seen as a reflection of all the good hard work we have done, it is also a demand that we perform our jobs even better.”

Faulstich was unable to comment on the issue because of rules regarding his resident assistant position.

While Amit and Faulstich did attend Tuesday’s DTC meeting to represent themselves, President of Dickinson Community Jevon Williams said it would have been more beneficial if the three had come or sent a representative to the DTC meeting where the SUNY SA conference was first discussed, because there was confusion surrounding the incident.

Williams explained that at that meeting, members were briefed on Bar-Shai’s censure from last year. A discussion about what course of action to take next followed.

“After considerable discussion, we decided that we could not stand for having someone who was censured twice before to represent us to the rest of the SUNYs and on campus,” Williams said.

However, Swan believes that “it will generally be over for the three after next week’s meeting unless they make another mistake between now and spring.”

Amit explained that this is their second chance and they will not let the students down.

“We will move forward and continue all our hard work and ensure the students have the best collegiate experience,” he said.

Off Campus Community College representative Aaron Butler’s resolution calling for Amit’s resignation, as well as OCCC representative Randal Meyer’s resolution calling for the censure of Josh Berk, still stand and will be discussed in old business at Monday’s meeting.