Santa Rosa Junior College Board of Trustees announced Elijah Egger resigned from his position as their student representative during a meeting Dec. 8 following controversy regarding alcohol consumption by students during school-sponsored attendance of a student conference.

The board went on to say that the controversial statements said by Egger for an article of the Oak Leaf in no way represented the views of the Student Government Assembly or the Board of Trustees.

Egger was first put under scrutiny when witnesses claimed he and three others imbued alcohol while attending a student government conference in November at Sacramento. The conference had strict rules against drinking any amount of alcohol during the event.

Egger did not attend either hearing the SGA held upon light of the allegations, causing the board to pass a vote of no confidence against him. Egger is not a member of the SGA, but current SGA Chair Joshua Pinaula said he would encourage his dismissal to the board. The other three accused were all SGA members and were summarily dismissed.

When reached for comment for an earlier article, Egger claimed there was friction between him and the SGA and didn’t attend the hearings because he believed they were attempts to humiliate him. He also claimed the SGA was subverting American values. “We are paying illegal aliens with public funds to try and subvert our democratic process,” he said. “Many of them have very strong anti-American sentiments and they are not there to help the average student, they are there only to help undocumented students and they make it pretty damn clear that that’s what their agenda is all about.”

Egger was elected representative by students April 2015. He was required to attend at least 80 percent of SGA sessions to receive compensation.  He had missed more than 60 percent by the time of his resignation.