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The Court is seeking a new associate justice for the upcoming school year. Interested parties should send their resume and a short statement (less than 300 words) explaining their interest to [email protected] before Friday, August 17. A phone interview is likely to follow. Please reach out with any questions!

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The statement and preliminary decisions regarding appeal cases SBSC-18-01 and SBSC-18-02 can also be found on our website: https://iusa.indiana.edu/supreme-court/index.html

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As a reminder, our public hearing will be in the Moot Court (Room 123) of the Maurer School of Law at 8pm tonight.

Appeals SBSC-18-01 (2018) and SBSC-18-02 (2018) will be Monday, April 9, 2018 at 8:00 p.m., at Indiana University Maurer School of Law’s Moot Court Room 123.

All materials are also located on the IUSA Supreme Court website: https://iusa.indiana.edu/supreme-court/index.html.
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For those interested, the full text of the petition can be read on our website Box folder: https://iusa.indiana.edu/supreme-court/index.html

Reminder: Applications due this Sunday, April 1st!

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The IU Student Body Supreme Court seeks qualified candidates interested in serving the student body. The IUSA Supreme Court works on behalf of students to keep student elections honest and represent the student voice in the university judicial system, primarily through voting on personal misconduct boards and appeals proceedings.

The application below is open until April 1, 2018. Interviews will tentatively be held April 6th - 13th, 2018.

Selected candidates will be nominated for approval at the end of the spring semester or at the beginning of the following fall semester to replace graduating justices. Under normal circumstances, the court uses alternate candidates from the previous round of the interview and selection process if a midterm vacancy occurs.

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IU Sexual Misconduct Policy (UA-03):

What is consent?

"Consent is an agreement expressed through affirmative, voluntary words or actions, and mutually understandable to all parties involved, to engage in a specific sexual act at a specific time:

Consent can be withdrawn at any time, as long as it is clearly communicated.
Consent cannot be coerced or compelled by force, threat, deception or intimidation.
Consent cannot be given by someone who is incapacitated, as defined below.
Consent cannot be assumed based on silence, the absence of “no” or “stop”, the existence of a prior or current relationship, or prior sexual activity.

A person is incapable of consent if they are unable to understand the facts, nature, extent, or implications of the situation due to drugs, alcohol, a mental disability, being asleep or unconscious, or based on their age (pursuant to Indiana law).

Consent does not exist when the individual initiating sexual activity knew or should have known of the other person’s incapacitation."

What is sexual assault?

"Sexual assault includes:
Non-consensual Sexual Pe*******on is committed when an individual subjects another person to sexual pe*******on (see below) without the consent of the person, and/or by force.

Non-consensual Sexual Contact intentional sexual touching by an individual of the intimate area of another person (i.e., ge****ls, breasts, buttocks) or intentional sexual touching of another person with any of these body parts, without the consent of the person, and/or by force."

How do I get consent?

"Consent is agreement or permission expressed through affirmative, voluntary words or actions that are mutually understandable to all parties involved, to engage in a specific sexual act at a specific time...Below are some signs that a person may not be able to understand the facts, nature, extent or implications of a situation due to the use of alcohol and/or drugs and may no longer be able to make a clear decision about giving consent:

If a person is stumbling or falling down;
If a person cannot stand or walk on their own;
If a person’s speech is slurred or they are not communicating clearly;
If a person cannot focus their eyes or is confused about what is happening around them;
If a person has urinated, defecated, or vomited on themselves or around them;
If a person is sleeping or unconscious, he or she cannot give consent."

But what if?

"Remember, being drunk is not a free pass. If you are drunk and you perform a sexual act on another drunk person, you are accountable for your behavior. The person initiating the sexual act is responsible for getting consent."

"As students who hold disciplinary power in the campus judicial process, we condemn the recent violence in Charlottesville and at the University of Virginia. While First Amendment rights are imperative to any educational environment, bigotry, hatred, racism and anti-Semitism are unacceptable and have no place at Indiana University.

Across ideology, our Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, & Conduct recognizes the rights of all students to engage in discussion; to express thoughts and opinions; and to assemble, speak, write, publish or invite speakers on any subject without university interference or fear of university disciplinary actions.

The Student Code, however, also demands that students exercise these rights in ways that respect the human dignity of our fellow classmates. Civil discourse must be peaceful, respectful and nonthreatening. It cannot impede university activity. This includes implicit threats and riotous, violent behavior.

Both individuals and student organizations are held to the same standards of conduct. Students who face discrimination can submit a bias incident report online through the Division of Student Affairs. The Office of Student Conduct also offers a channel to hold student organizations accountable. We urge students to use these mechanisms when their rights have been violated.

We also affirm our campus community’s ability to resolve conflict without administrative action. For example, residence communities, the Office of Student Conduct and the IU Student Association’s own student advocates offer confidential, peer-to-peer mediation services, whether between roommates, neighbors or other students on campus.

As IU students, we have all agreed to these rules of behavior. We did so when we accepted the invitation to join this campus community. As we enter this academic semester, let’s remember that the diversity of identity and opinion can exist without toxicity, discrimination or violence."

Indiana University Student Association Supreme Court
Signed,

Anthony Kail, Bailey Decker, Beth Haxel, Devin Haymond, Esther Yoon, Richard Solomon, Sabrina Gowda, Sean Harrington, Sophie Lahey, Steve Browne and Zoe Need

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