The University Judiciary Committee announced its subcommittee chairs for the 2003-2004 academic year at its meeting last Sunday.
The Committee has four standing subcommittees: issues, data management, sexual assault and social. It also operates the Student Legal Defense Fund, an autonomous subcommittee.
Second-year College students Joshua Sear and Jeffrey Tebbs will oversee the issues subcommittee, which will be a new addition next year.
The issues subcommittee merges the previous constitution and bylaws standing committee and the statute of limitations ad-hoc committee. This reorganization will allow the group to pursue broader reforms, Tebbs said.
"It's basically a catchall committee," he said.
The data management subcommittee, which maintains the Committee Web site and mailing lists, will be chaired by second-year Engineering student J.V. Nable, who also was elected to serve as a judge for next year.
Revising the Web site, which has not been updated since July of last year, will be a top priority, Nable said.
"We want to make the Web site more usable by members of the University community," he said. "As it stands now, its pretty out of date."
The sexual assault subcommittee now will be led by first-year College students Timothy Ormsby and Leslie Ann Brooks.
Second-year College Student Catherine Rylyk will head the social subcommittee, which organizes events, including an end of the year banquet.
Rylyk said she hopes to see the UJC become a more close-knit family during her term.
"We're not a social organization per se," she said. "But it would be great to see everybody get to know each other a little better."
Third-year College students Carter Peatross and Eli DeJarnette will co-chair the Student Legal Defense Fund. This will be Peatross' second term as chair for the fund. DeJarnette also will serve as Student Council Vice President for Organizations next year.
The Student Legal Defense Fund provides bail for students arrested for nonviolent offenses in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. One goal of the subcommittee will be to increase awareness of the fund, DeJarnette said.
"Most students do not know" about the Student Legal Defense Fund, he said.
Committee representatives elect subcommittee chairs from a pool of interested Committee members, which can include judges, counselors, investigators, educators and first-year judges. If there is competition for a position, applicants undergo an interview process with the executive committee, which recommends candidates.
Several subcommittees will be co-chaired this year, which is unusual. Because chairs do most of the work in a subcommittee, it helps to have two people to share responsibility, DeJarnette said.
"We try to get as many people involved as possible," he said.
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