No ruling was given Saturday at an Associated Students of Madison Student Judiciary hearing involving a dispute between the Roman Catholic Foundation-UW-Madison and ASM's Student Services Finance Committee.
RCF-UW argued the original criteria used to deny their request are confusing, subjective and allows for value judgments.
RCF-UW was denied funding by SSFC for the third time in the 2008-'10 academic years Feb. 25, when SSFC ruled that the religious student organization failed to fulfill eligibility Criteria C."" These criteria require groups to provide identifiable educational services to the UW-Madison campus, and the services must offer ""significant components beyond event programming and leadership development opportunities.""
RCF-UW student representative Craig Griffie argued to the Student Judiciary that the dual pronged criterion is poorly defined, unjust and subjective.
""You can look through all the literature they provide, and there is no definition for what these things are. The committee members are able to make an unfair value judgment on how to interpret the bylaw,"" Griffie said.
""There have been committee members who have voted no for us in the past who have switched over and voted yes. If the criteria were to be a good standard of judgment and if there was an objective basis, there should be no switching of votes.""
Associate Justice Trenell Darby said members should be allowed to change their minds because the overruling bylaw was changed.
Justice Leah Moe also said the voting records of members on SSFC were not relevant.
""Dictating that individual members do 'X
