Seniors will have to wait another week for this year’s first Pub Night after class presidents announced yesterday that they were still negotiating with the Office of Student Activities over how to address the University’s safety and image concerns — a development that annoyed many upperclassmen and left some disenchanted with the Thursday night tradition.

Senior Jarret Guajardo characterized the delay as the latest injustice visited upon the student body.

“We’re getting hit from all sides — the bike ban, no Band and now this,” said Guajardo, who was notified by e-mail last night with the rest of the class of 2007 that the event would not be held this week.

Pub Night, renamed Senior Night in 2003 to deemphasize the alcohol component, has been plagued in recent years by excessive drunkenness, on-site scuffles and vomiting on the Marguerite buses that shuttle seniors to the weekly venue. Vivek Agrawal, a senior class president, said that instead of running the event along the same lines as previous years, the executives were trying to formulate a sustainable plan to ensure Senior Night’s future.

“The sticking point is accountability for seniors,” he said. “They are representatives of Stanford.”

The Office of Student Activities could not be reached by press time.

Some ideas that the senior class presidents and the University have batted around include arranging cabs to take sick students home and hiring sober monitors. Last year, event organizers slapped $500 fines on students that vomited on the Marguerite, but locating guilty parties was difficult, Agrawal said. To remedy this issue, organizers may begin scanning SUIDs as students board buses to help track down out of control revelers.

Faris Mohiuddin, the senior class president who circulated last night’s e-mail to the class of 2007 list, said that he had received about a dozen responses, most of them less angry and more curious about what issues needed to be ironed out with the administration.

In addition, Agrawal tried to emphasize that the current situation is no one’s fault.

“This isn’t the administration’s fault, and it isn’t the senior class’ fault,” he said.

But some upperclassmen disagreed.

“I am very disappointed,” said senior Matt Krensky. “They’ve had all summer to plan this. While I don’t hold any of the class presidents individually responsible, this would have been a good way to kick off the year.”

Senior Josh Merritt took a more conspiratorial view.

“It’s just another step in the slow path that the University is taking to try and eliminate alcohol from a lot of the activities students enjoy,” he said. “They started our freshman year by banning alcohol at all-frosh dorm parties to the Mirrielees RF banning Beirut in the entire dorm.”

Others questioned whether the proposed changes would change the tone of an event whose very nature involves the consumption of alcohol.

“It is what it is,” said senior John Collins. “I don’t see how they’re going to prevent whatever behavior they are worried about. Either Stanford wants to do it or they don’t.” Collins added, however, that the continuing uncertainty might temper students’ behavior.

But some students said that bellyaching about the situation was unbecoming of seniors near graduation and adulthood.

“It seems like a poor reflection of the senior class that we need the University to organize something like this for us,” said senior Jackie Bernstein. “If I really want my Senior Pub Night, my friends and I should find a designated driver and go to Nola’s.”