The University Judiciary Committee announced its Issues, Marketing and Sexual Misconduct subcommittee chairs Sunday evening.
Second-year College students Arslan Zahid and John Mathew were chosen as co-chairs of the Issues subcommittee, which is responsible for reviewing UJC’s constitution and bylaws to ensure efficiency. The subcommittee’s past efforts have included establishing a minimum number of trials on which judges must sit, for example.
“[T]his last term the judge pool was expanded and quantitative requirements for judges were established in order to balance workload and to minimize delays for trials,” Zahid said in an email.
Zahid said he hoped to examine the effectiveness of the expanded requirements for judges and look into giving judges more information about their cases before trials start. Mathew said he hopes to improve overall committee transparency and efficiency.
UJC also chose third-year Commerce student Hannah Farmer and third-year Architecture student Paola Mayorga as co-chairs of the Marketing subcommittee, which was created this year.
Farmer and Mayorga said they hoped to collaborate with committee members to create a new website and a “consistent look” for the committee.
Second-year College students Olivia Beavers and Sanjay Palat will take over the Sexual Misconduct subcommittee, which works to help victims of sexual assault receive fair trials. Although cases of sexual misconduct are handled by the University’s Sexual Misconduct Board rather than by UJC, Palat said the subcommittee helps organize awareness events, such as Take Back the Night’s sexual misconduct mock trial.
“During the coming year, I am looking forward to utilizing the UJC’s resources to increase awareness on Grounds of the workings of the Sexual Misconduct Board and about the University’s policies regarding allegations of sexual misconduct,” Palat said in an email.
UJC Chair David Ensey, a third-year Engineering student, said the Alumni Outreach subcommittee chair went unfilled because of a lack of interest in the position. UJC’s Executive Committee is currently in the process of rewriting the mission of the Alumni Outreach subcommittee to redesign the subcommittee’s role, Ensey said.
“In recent years this subcommittee has been underutilized, and I think the level of interest this semester is a reflection of a concern that chairing it might be a boring job,” Ensey said in an email.
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