Comments on: AMS Council: June 17, 2009

By: archives

archives — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:52:40 +0000

Re the Student Court overhaul: most of what Council approved are prospective Bylaw amendments, which still have to be submitted to the students in a referendum or at a general meeting before they take effect. The change from 5+2 to 7 is one of those.

Sheldon

By: Korczyk

Korczyk — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:08:20 +0000

… and like Phoebe, I had no idea it even existed until now. :/

By: Korczyk

Korczyk — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:07:55 +0000

They spent two grand on that website? Wow… did anybody do any research before hiring the web designers?

By: Phoebe

Phoebe — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:38:58 +0000

I wasn't even aware that voting website existed. No one else mentioned its existence either until now. $2000+ well spent on WordPress modifications!

P.S. – I would've done it for $500. Any takers? Takers? No? =(

By: Neal Yonson

Neal Yonson — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:12:19 +0000

That is a very good question.

The culprit is probably the fact that recent code changes haven't made it onto the AMS website. Both the "Recent Code Changes" and the "Code of Procedure" documents are from Mid-2008.

Also, if I recall correctly, Johannes said he was the only person who showed up for Student Court hiring (others were invited). So if he overlooked the recent code changes, which is likely since the documents aren't up to date, no one was there to catch it. It is unfortunate that he did not have any eagle-eyed law councilors to set him straight at the time.

Not an excuse, but a possible explanation. Send some emails...

By: Clare

Clare — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:17:12 +0000

I would be interested to know why 5 judges and 2 alternate judges were appointed when included in the code and bylaw overhaul of the student court that was unanimously passed by Council in March was the implementation of 7 judges and the removal of the previous 5 and 2 alternates model.