The Associated Students of Madison Student Judiciary circulated its decision Wednesday night that the lawsuit brought against the ASM Student Services Finance Committee by the Tenant Resource Center be dismissed.
The Tenant Resource Center was denied funding eligibility by the SSFC earlier this fall due to it not being a Registered Student Organization. At issue was the Center's legal name, which it changed to Students for Tenant Resource Center 10 years ago in order to be eligible for RSO status. The group continued to apply for SSFC funding, however, under the name, ""Tenant Resource Center.""
The SJ also held a hearing Wednesday to hear Student Labor Action Coalition's complaints against the ASM Student Elections Commission. SLAC claimed that absentee ballots in the Fall 2006 elections were not publicized to students as a voting option, even though out-of-town students were allowed to vote absentee. SLAC member and UW-Madison graduate student Mark Supanich said he thinks publicized absentee ballots would have increased student voter turnout from 6.6 percent to ""at least10 percent.""
SEC Chair and SJ Associate Justice Leah Moe maintained the SEC did everything in its power to alert students to the election dates, hours and polling locations, stressing that every location was on the Madison Metro bus route.
