The Graduate Student Senate voted unanimously Sunday night to approve the formation of a committee that will edit descriptions of student government rules and regulations.
The Undergraduate Student Congress voted Sept. 7 to form the committee in order to make the UOSA Code Annotated easier to understand and more relevant to students.
The GSS also voted for the addition of a new paragraph about impeachment of UOSA Superior Court judges to the Judicial Code of Conduct. The proposed paragraph clarifies that reasons listed are not the only reasons for impeaching a judge.
“If you had a justice sell crack to small school children, that’s not on the list, so they could arguably not be impeached,” senate chair Silas DeBoer said.
The addition was approved 54-1, with two people abstaining the vote, and the bill will move to the Undergraduate Student Congress for approval this Tuesday.
Another proposed legislation was to change the amount of time UOSA has to fill a vacancy for Superior Court judges. Currently, a vacancy must be filled within 30 days, but GSS voted unanimously to change it to 45 days.
“This will make it less of a rushed process in choosing these people,” senate secretary Esther White said.
All five UOSA Superior Court positions are currently open, DeBoer said. UOSA will accept applications until noon Sept. 20. All students are eligible to apply if they have been at OU for two consecutive semesters, and all applicants receive an interview.
Senate members unanimously approved director appointments to the UOSA Executive Branch, approved last Tuesday by the Undergraduate Student Congress. The Senate also accepted members to its eight committees.
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soonerboomers 1 year, 8 months ago
Look at Silas DeBoer defend his absurd clarification that you can impeach justices for reason other than the constitution provides. It is because of selling crack right Silas, not because you guys absolutely embarrassed yourself last year by racking up the biggest fines in student government history by directly ignoring a court order to allow for equal time right?
What an idiot.
quotetheraven 1 year, 8 months ago
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ad-hominem.html
"Description of Ad Hominem
Translated from Latin to English, "Ad Hominem" means "against the man" or "against the person."
An Ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument. Typically, this fallacy involves two steps. First, an attack against the character of person making the claim, her circumstances, or her actions is made (or the character, circumstances, or actions of the person reporting the claim). Second, this attack is taken to be evidence against the claim or argument the person in question is making (or presenting). This type of "argument" has the following form:
The reason why an Ad Hominem (of any kind) is a fallacy is that the character, circumstances, or actions of a person do not (in most cases) have a bearing on the truth or falsity of the claim being made (or the quality of the argument being made)."
glazedwithrainwater 1 year, 8 months ago
As these comments are moderated, I find it incredulous that name-calling would be allowed on this forum. I realize that saying "What an idiot" may seem innocuous to some, but it shows a lack of respect for other people and their opinions.
Anonymity makes people cruel, doesn't it?
-so much depends...