Kansas University Student Senate expects lively discussion at Wednesday night’s meeting, following a contentious vote that split the Student Executive Committee last week.

Friday night, two days after a university-wide town hall forum on race, the committee passed a motion of no confidence in the leadership of Student Body President Jessie Pringle, Student Body Vice President Zach George and Student Senate Chief of Staff Adam Moon.

The motion criticized a lack of action on their part on multicultural issues and demanded their resignations by 5 p.m. Wednesday, asking the full Senate to begin impeachment proceedings if they decline to step down.

The motion passed 6-3, with one abstention. Here’s how the members voted, according to Senate communications director Isaac Bahney.

Voting for the motion of no confidence were Graduate Affairs Director Angela Murphy, Finance Committee chair Tyler Childress, Jacob Coons (voting proxy for Multicultural Affairs Committee chair Bahar Barani), Student Rights Committee chair Madeline Dickerson and University Senate Executive Committee representatives Shegufta Huma and Brent Lee.

Voting against the motion were George, Kelsey Campbell (voting proxy for University Affairs committee chair Lauren Arney) and University Senate Executive Committee representative Chance Maginness.

Pringle abstained from voting.

The Student Executive Committee also has a number of non-voting members, including the Senate Chief of Staff, who has voting privileges only in case of a tie, according to Bahney, who is also a non-voting member.

George summarized the situation Tuesday at the University Senate Executive Committee meeting, which Maginness, Huma and Lee attended.

Maginness said that although he supported improving the situation for black students, the no-confidence vote was not the proper way to make change on campus.

“I found the entire process to be a farce of democracy, and to invalidate the votes cast by the Student Body, who we are representing,” he said.

Huma strongly supported ousting the leaders based on issues she said dated back to the spring semester.

Lee said he did not think the leaders adequately responded to race issues raised at the town hall forum, prompting his vote of no confidence. However, he said he was happy to see the list of 11 proposals for improving diversity on campus that Pringle, George and Moon released Monday night.

Lee said the leaders now appear to be “doing the best they can to get on top of this.”

The drama has even sparked discussion online, with dueling petitions on actionnetwork.org started by organizers who are unnamed but describe themselves as KU alumni. One petition supports ousting the Student Senate leaders, while the other calls for keeping them in office.

The full Senate is scheduled to meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union.