Associated Students of Madison Student Judiciary announced their decision to deny Campus Women’s Center a second appeal hearing Sunday night.
According to the complaint filed by CWC, the organization was asking the court for an eligibility hearing before the ASM Student Council.
CWC presented four counts in their appeal to SJ.
In their first count, they alleged several members of SSFC violated viewpoint neutrality.
“No evidence, however, was presented indicating that any committee members took CWC’s viewpoints into consideration when hearing their second appeal of [General Student Services Funds] eligibility. The only material issue CWC does raise is Rep. (Matthew) Manes’ refusal of their lobby requests,” Vice Chief Justice Nicholas Lillios said in the statement of their dismissal.
Lillios said Manes agreed to hold a lobby meeting for CWC’s first and second appeal, but he did not have to and, therefore, did not violate viewpoint neutrality.
In their second count, CWC stated SSFC members who abstained from voting in the first eligibility hearing should be allowed a motion to reconsider. In their fourth count, CWC said SSFC did not have quorum of members who could make a motion to reconsider their case during the second appeal hearing. SJ contended they were not going to reinterpret SSFC’s current rules, as CWC did not provide them with an alternate interpretation of how those rules should be applied.
CWC alleged in their third count that they were not aware of the rules where “motions to reconsider could only be made at the meeting following an eligibility decision.”
The court summarily dismissed this count as not pertaining to CWC’s second appeal of GSSF eligibility.
Tina Trevi?o-Murphy, programming coordinator for CWC, said the whole staff at the Women’s Center was extremely concerned. She said they had faith in the process and were disappointed things did not work out, especially with what she felt were four really legitimate claims.
She said CWC has a lot of options available to them and they were not afraid to pursue any of them.
“We are not going to go down quietly — I think the campus can definitely expect a lot action form CWC,” Trevi?o-Murphy said. “We are not sure what is going to come out of this, but we’ll do whatever it takes.”
No members from Student Judiciary could be reached for comment.