The thing that the AVP doesn't understand is that it's called the Faculty Senate for a reason. The early 1990s was witness to a cadre of illiterate undergraduates and a Gramschite graduate student making demands for a diversity requirement that would have made mandated oppression studies. Students don't belong in places where they can make educational policy. We hate to defend the rights of the professors on the Faculty Senate, since most of them still think it's the 1960s, but that's what we have to do. Students don't belong there, just like professors don't belong on the Student Assembly.
Students can always write perspectives, send emails, and yes, even mount a protest.
But they shouldn't go where they don't belong.