Controversy over the current A.S. elections may have been brewing among Students Voice! and Tritons United! candidates, but it was rather minimal among members of A.S. Council.

The only real grievance at this week’s council meeting came from TU! vice president external candidate Eddie Herrera, who accused an unspecified person in the A.S. programming office of deliberately covering up his campaign flyers with sign-up sheets for booths at the Sun God festival.

Not surprisingly, no councilmember admitted to being the flyer-masking mastermind, and Herrera continued on a brief rant about “idiotic things” being considered for the agenda of the council even though resolutions he proposed in the past were met with no council backing.

“I don’t care if you mean it to be satirical, but you don’t do this and then deny people the opportunity to defend student rights on campus,” Herrera said, before Vice President Internal Angela Fornero reprimanded him by saying that public input is only welcomed when it is addressed to the council as a whole.

The “idiotic things” in question came in the form of an item of immediate consideration proposed by Revelle College Senior Senator Rachel Corell, whose clearly lighthearted request of $10,000 for her birthday celebration was not as amusing to Herrera as it seemed to be to the rest of the council. Even more laughable than the items proposed — including 2,000 monkeys, eight Sun Gods, two Geisels and one Roger Revelle ­— was the fact that the legislation passed in a 3-1-5 vote in internal committee and actually made it to the council floor.

Barely able to keep straight faces, four senators voted to pass the item, after Thurgood Marshall College Senior Senator Kate Pillon finally objected.

“I’m just doing this because somebody has to,” she said.

On a brief return to serious business, Vice President of Academic Affairs and SV! presidential candidate Harry Khanna discussed a meeting held with Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Joseph W. Watson about the future of Office of Academic Support and Instructional Services.

“Money is not the issue for O.A.S.I.S.,” Khanna said. “The money’s there, it’s just that Dr. Watson doesn’t think right now that O.A.S.I.S. is what it should be.”

Similarly, Commissioner of Communications Soap Chum reported progress on the Student-Run Television fiasco, promising future meetings over the unpopular “acceptable use policy” for Triton Cable that bans nudity and restricts profanity, as well as the future of the station as a whole. Though terms are winding down and interest in certain pet projects seems to be waning, President Christopher Sweeten urged the council to keep up its work and “get out the vote” to keep students involved in the election.

As of publication, 11 percent of the student body had voted with one day remaining before the polls close.