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Ohio University student government president Megan Marzec’s “blood bucket challenge” against Israel, and subsequent arrest of her critics at a Senate meeting, appears to have tipped the scales for one student official who’s sick of the dysfunctional Senate.

Treasurer Carter Phillips tendered his resignation in a floor speech at the Senate meeting Wednesday night, explicitly citing Marzec’s arrest of Bobcats for Israel students at last week’s meeting, The Post reported. (You can watch Phillips’ 5-minute speech, which ends with hearty applause from the Senate, here.)

Phillips said “the environment of this organization no longer empowers me to fulfill my duties.” The Senate “has managed to irredeemably fall” after a string of stumbles, and it no longer cares about listening to other views or compromise, he said.

“Today this body has no organization, no communication, and no respect for its members” – and, in the process, no “credibility” with a weary Ohio University administration, Phillips added.

Referring to last week’s arrest of pro-Israel speakers at the Senate meeting, Phillips said of the Senate: 

We disrupt them when they’re speaking, we chant when they sit down, and we have them arrested for speaking out. All legitimacy we had … went out the door in handcuffs last Wednesday. This is no longer a government, it is a circus.

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