Student Government is supposed to have three branches of government within it: the executive, legislative and judicial branch.

The executive board makes up the executive branch, the Student Senate makes up the legislative branch and the Student Supreme Court is supposed to be the third branch of government.

For the past 12 years, however, Student Government has gone without this important part of the system.

Student Government has been trying to reinstate it for the past two years.

Two years ago former Student Body President Sean Anderson pitched the idea to start up Student Supreme Court again.

Current Student Body President Levi Bulgar said that last year’s president Cole Rogers made appointments to the Student Supreme Court, but nothing really happened with the project.

One of the jobs of the Student Body President is to oversee the Student Supreme Court, but this year Bulgar has to work alongside the project to get it up and running.

“We haven’t had it since 1996 and it is important to work with adviser Ken Baker (director of campus recreation) and the other members so it will be able to stand on its own two feet,” Bulgar said.

Bulgar thinks the only reason it died out in 1996 is because the cases were not important enough or because the president at the time just did not care.

“This is a form of checks and balances that we need and I am surprised that we did not have it before,” Bulgar said. “I am very confident that it will not die out this time because there are lots of people interested and I don’t think it will be a problem for me to start it up again.”

The Student Supreme Court looks at if the Student Bill of Rights is violated.

“If this happens, action will be taken and justice will be served,” Bulgar said.

An example of a person going against the Student Bill of Rights would be the clause for academic freedom.

“If a student is a Democrat and a teacher is a Republican and they argued a lot in class but his grade was not representative of his work, then that student could bring that up to the Student Supreme Court,” Bulgar said.

He also said there were a variety of reasons and that it is mostly academic freedom and freedom of association that is upheld by the Student Supreme Court.

It is different from the judicial board in the fact that judicial board deals with the Student Conduct Code and the Student Supreme Court deals with the student Bill of Rights.

There is no time frame as to when the Student Supreme Court will start running, but Bulgar said he did not want to rush things.

“I could easily rush it, but I don’t want to since it has not been running for so long and I want to do it right this time,” he said.

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