At their meeting Wednesday, ASWSU voted to fill two vacant judicial board seats and reviewed a few bills and resolutions. 

The senators reviewed Bill 52-38. The bill will push the date the election board has to put out a public notice for the election to two weeks earlier, creating more public notice for when people can fill out their packets.

The senators voted to pass the bill. They also reviewed Resolution 52-15, which is meant to reintroduce support from ASWSU for the creation of a Science Learning Center, a place that would function similarly to the Math Learning Center. 

The resolution encourages the office of the provost to explore different spaces for a Science Learning Center.

After approving the resolution, the senators announced that five bills were passed this week and that the final deadline for bills this semester will be this Sunday.

The first nominee for the judicial board was Michael Webster. He said his father is an attorney and hopes to fulfill his duties faithfully as a member of the board. 

“I have a deep love for law,” Webster said. “I hope to follow in [my father’s] footsteps and, if I’m lucky, become half the attorney he is.”

Webster said if appointed to the role, he would aim to make sure the legislative powers stay with the legislature, and not become a role of the judicial board.

The next nominee was Lucas Issler. He is a junior and has served as chief justice of his fraternity’s judicial board. Issler said he pledged to work closely with his fellow members of the judicial board if appointed. 

When asked how they would deal with the possibility of bias, since both he and Webster served on the executive board of the same fraternity, he said he would not let that have an effect on his decisions.

“I feel like we can both be unbiased when coming to decisions,” Issler said.

After hearing from both candidates, the senators voted to approve both nominations and appoint them to the seats.

The senators heard from their guest, Luke Deschenes, director of community affairs. He said this will be his last meeting and that he is currently planning Earth Day events and they are going well.

He also mentioned the Pullman city council and senate meeting last month, which he thinks went well.

The senators announced they will be meeting during dead week but not during finals week.