The Student Judiciary denied members of the BOOP slate’s request for an appeal Thursday. Slate members requested to appeal the judiciary’s ruling to prohibit slate members for participating in the first meeting of the new session.
The Judiciary ruled Tuesday that members of the slate would be required to make a brochure outlining election rules and are not allowed to participate in the first Associated Students of Madison student council meeting of the new session.
BOOP member David Gardner said slate representatives appealed the ruling because ASM leadership is elected at the first meeting and having all nine of the BOOP representatives missing could change the agenda of council for the entire year.
Although the judiciary denied hearing the appeal, Gardner said he hopes the members who are allowed to participate at the first meeting push back leadership elections to allow BOOP representatives to run and vote in them.
“I think it’s important that as the 19th session we are unified in our opinion and our agenda, and I think that we can do that if they understand the importance of moving these elections,” Gardner said.
