After leaving the Center for Young Children on Wednesday, SGA President Steve Glickman attended the body’s meeting in his jammies.

Sometimes, a kid’s got to do what a kid’s got to do, and for the students at the university’s Center for Young Children, that meant telling their teacher on the “big kid who stole our animal crackers” — SGA President Steve Glickman.

In a teacher’s report obtained by The Diamondback, an instructor identified only as Miss Othmar described how distraught the children had become Wednesday when they discovered their new friend “Big Stevie” had cut to the front of the line, taken all of the animal crackers and saved them at a table he reserved for other “big kids,” who joined him shortly thereafter.

Othmar noted that she suspected the group were all members of “that student government club.” According to professors’ attendance records, several members of the Student Government Association were conspicuously absent right around snack time Wednesday afternoon.

“It’s no fair,” said 3-year-old Suzie Johnson, pouting. “I love animal crackers. They’re my favoritest. And he took them all for hisself.”

Tommy Stevenson, 4, said Glickman’s actions would have been OK by him, had the undergraduate leader stuck around to play with his new friends.

“He only came for the animal crackers; he never came back when we just had celery sticks,” Stevenson said. “He didn’t even stay for tag! Maybe he was scared we would find out that he stoled the snacks, and we would beat him up. I hope he gets put in jail.”

Footage taken from University Police security cameras surrounding the building shows Glickman entering the center wearing a onesie and carrying a teddy bear at about 12:30 Wednesday afternoon, while the children in the center were having naptime.

“He could have slipped in while everyone was sleeping,” University Police Chief David Mitchell said, after interviewing teachers. “None of the instructors seem to remember him coming or going.”

But the children do.

“I saw the whole thing,” said 5-year-old Jason Patrick Chang. “He took a nap first and then he cut in line. Why didn’t anybody teach him how to share?”

Some of the kids have expressed their intentions to write letters or draw pictures for university President Wallace Loh detailing the injustice.

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