The Undergraduate Student Government Senate approved freshman Corey O’Bryon to the USG Supreme Court last night.
O’Bryon’s appointment was to be voted on in the last senate meeting of 1992, but was continued to last night’s meeting for further debate.
Centre Halls Senator Paul Yacisin was among those opposed to O’Bryon’s appointment.
“It seemed to me that his qualifications were meager at best,” Yacisin said. “He is inexperienced and I don’t feel that he possesses the right temperment for the position.”
Yacisin said he based his opposition on knowledge of O’Bryon’s hasty resignation from the East Halls Residence Association. Yacisin fears that O’Bryon may still hold grudges or run into new ones, which could slight his objectiveness.
O’Bryon said he will be very professional once taking his position as supreme court justice.
“If such a situation ever arose, I would treat everybody equal,” O’Bryon said. “I don’t care if it was them or my own brother, I will hold everybody to the same standards.”
O’Bryon, who holds a double major in political science and history, also added that he was not the only one to resign from the EHRA. He said that EHRA has been in political turmoil.
O’Bryon said he plans to try to expand the supreme court’s power.
“I would like to see the court have one third of the power where it should be,” O’Bryon said.
Lisa Fields, chairwoman of the Senate Appointments Review Board, expressed her confidence in both O’Bryon’s competence and temperment.
“He is very qualified,” Fields said. “He was well researched, and was very prepared. As for what happened in East Halls, I think he showed great poise and professionalism when he addressed the senate tonight.”