The student government will consider the approval of four students to the Eastern’s supreme court at tonight’s meeting.

“They are appointed by our student body president, Michelle Murphy, but those appointments will have to be approved by the student senate,” said Zach Samples, a student senate member.

Student Body president Michelle Murphy explained the selection process.

“I do kind of like a rolling application process, meaning that students apply throughout the year, and then I review the applications and start having short interviews which a senator (executive member) usually sits in on,” Murphy said.

Samples gave a hypothetical situation to better explain the relationship between the student government and the student supreme court.

“Just like any other government, we have three branches. If the student government was to amend the constitution and the supreme court deemed it unconstitutional, they would work with us to fix it,” Samples said.

Samples also expanded on what will happen during the approval process.

“Each of the four of them will have a chance to speak, then the senators will have a chance to ask them questions, and then we will vote on their approval,” Samples said.

Murphy voiced her opinion about the approval process.

“The way we do the appointments are completely backwards, we take an incredible amount of time to drill the supreme court people and somehow they get put on new business so (the student senate) will have to have a round of questioning and discussion and then spend time talking amongst themselves before voting is initiated,” Murphy said.

Murphy compared this to the approval of senate members where their approvals are placed on the consent agenda, instead of on new business, where there is not a round of questions or discussions.

Other topics will also be discussed at the meeting, including committee reports.

“We will have a lot to talk about during the meeting, like the World Religions Expo that we are planning for Oct. 25 which will be an informational event to discuss different religions,” said Luke Willman, a member of the diversity committee in the student senate.

Willman, who is in his first semester of participating in the student government, also talked about how he is adjusting to the student government.

“It’s good, I like it. I think since we got through the road block of last week we are ready to be more productive now,” Willman said.

Ed Hotwagner, a member of the student relations committee in the student senate, also mentioned an event they are planning.

“We will probably announce an informal informational event in the quad for students where people can just come out and talk with us,” Hotwagner said.

Hotwagner said this would be an easy way to make students more aware of the student government.

The student government will meet tonight at 7 p.m. in the Arcola-Tuscola Room at the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Rachel Rodgers can be reached at 581-7942 or rjrodgers@eiu.edu.