Student Body President Levi Bulgar presented two of the members that he appointed to Student Supreme Court at last night’s meeting.

Those members are Jacob Griffin and Jarred Hausmann.

Jacob Griffin, a junior political science major, is also the president of the EIU Republicans and treasurer of Phi Alpha Delta, the pre-law fraternity.

“I was approached by the student body president,” Griffin said. “I want to make the court more accessible to the student body and I want to establish the third co-equal branch of government.”

Jared Hausmann, a sophomore political science and communications major, said he heard about the Student Supreme Court through word of mouth.

Hausmann is vice president of the EIU Republicans and a member of Phi Alpha Delta.

“I’ve always been interested in law and government,” Hausmann said. “I want this to set the precedence for future courts.”

Ken Baker, student government advisor, said he wanted Student Supreme Court to be as closely related to the real Supreme Court.

Two other students, Marsheela Stinson and Quentin Frazier, were appointed, but could not make it to the meeting.

Bulgar has two more interviews this week.

Bulgar wants to take this one step at a time, though.

“I could’ve easily taken the first seven applicants and appointed all of my friends,” he said. “I want people to show promise. I want to do it the right way so, when the next person comes along, they don’t have to start all over again.”

In the end, there will be six associate justices and one chief justice.

“I have an idea of who the chief justice will be, but I don’t want to announce it until the whole court is filled,” he said.

Bulgar encouraged everybody to apply for these positions.

The Student Supreme Court also wants to promote the Student Bill of Rights.

Bulgar also said the constitutional review committee would look and see if any changes needed to be made to the constitution because of the emergence of Student Supreme Court.

Also at the meeting, the proposal to have a committee on constitutional oversight passed 25-0-0.

“Next week, we will vote to convene the committee,” said Drew Griffin, chair of the external relations committee. “If that passes, any student can tell the speaker they want to be on the committee and it will take us two weeks to put a roster up.”

Before the bill passed, an amendment to take out the part where it says, “in the event of a tie, the Chairperson’s vote shall count twice” was brought forward.

It was unanimously voted on to strike this part from the proposal.

Another proposal to research extending bar hours passed at the meeting.

“We are going to talk to the bar owners and get a survey of the students,” said Eric Wilber, student executive vice president. “We will also go talk to RSOs.”

The library hours research is still in progress as well.

Chris Kromphardt, chair of academic affairs, said that he would look into the fact that library hours were extended five years ago from midnight to one in the morning.

He will also meet with Dan Nadler, vice president of student affairs, and the library advisory board.

Two other proposals were presented as well.

One proposal was for additional allocations for Student Senate elections and the other was for a line item transfer for University Board that went through apportionment board and now needs the approval of student government.

Student Senate took place in the Arcola-Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King, Jr. University Union Wednesday.

Heather Holm can be reached at 581-7942 or haholm@eiu.edu.

Student Body President Levi Bulgar speaks about his decision to take the time to create “the Student Supreme Court, not just a Student Supreme Court” during the student government meeting on Wednesday night in the Arcola-Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther

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