The Allegheny Student Government approved a standing Judicial Review Board at their General Assemblies on March 26 and April 2. At the March 26 GA, ASG also heard a rare public warning from their club adviser and updates on next year’s budgets process from the ASG treasury.

Judicial Review Board
The JRB is ASG’s judicial branch; consisting of three students, it “shall review all cases of constitutional infractions” by ASG members, according to the student government constitution. JRB members are appointed by the attorney general and must be approved by a supermajority of Senate for two consecutive weeks.
On March 26, Attorney General Will Lowthert, ’24, introduced four such appointees. Three — Reese Smith, ’24, Andrew Strobel, ’24, and Liam Richmond, ’25, — will sit on the board, while the fourth — Sam Goodwin, ’25, — will serve as an alternate in the case of any conflicts of interest.
All four students were approved.
The JRB is not being formed for any specific case. Instead, it is expected to serve, “just as a standing body, in case there are any constitutional infractions,” said Parliamentarian Ankitha Pamula, ’24, after the March 26 meeting.
All four appointees were given a chance to explain their interest in the JRB to ASG before both the first vote on March 26, and the second vote on April 2.
For his part, Smith pointed to his experience with rules and regulations.
“I’ve read the ASG Constitution a couple of times,” Smith said on March 26. “I’ve also read Robert’s Rules of Order a couple of times, done over 40 hours of training in this — I’ll be sitting for my registered parliamentarian exam at the end of April, so I have some experience with reading and interpreting rules.”
In his pitch to Senate, Strobel cited his two semesters’ experience on the Delta Tau Delta honor board.
“We didn’t have a ton of work to do, but it is important to treat these matters with privacy, without bias and you know, hearing both parties’ sides of the story in regards to whatever may be the concern,” Strobel said.
Richmond said that while he did not have the time to devote to a full ASG membership, he did think he could serve his community on a JRB.
“I think that having a system like the JRB is important for a lot of reasons, both in terms of what we do, and kind of in what we represent as a concept,” Richmond told ASG on April 2.
Like Richmond, Goodwin felt he could contribute by being a part of the JRB, even if not as a senator or cabinet member.
“I thought this would be a great opportunity to kind of give back to the community, serve the student body and provide those layers of accountability,” Goodwin said during his April 2 speech.

Public warning
The March 26 meeting also saw the only public acknowledgement of allegations published in The Campus on March 22 that ASG discourages internal dissent.
After ASG President Nicole Recio Bremer, ’25, swore in Dominic Juliana, ’26, as the fifth senator for the sophomore class, Dean for Student Life Trae Yeckley stood up to remind the room that the meeting was a public one.
“Any personal attacks brought up today, by either senators, constituents or cabinet members will result in stopping the conversation,” Yeckley said. “I don’t anticipate that happening, I just want to remind folks that this is a student government.”
After the meeting, Yeckley said that they made the statement out of an abundance of caution, given the March 22 story.
“I know that we’re coming up on the end of midterms and heading into some really stressful times and you know, tempers can get high,” Yeckley said. “So, just want to remind folks, in a fairly assertive way of, you know, ‘This won’t be tolerated if this was going to happen.’ I didn’t hear any rumors if it was happening, but I wanted to make sure that we’re really clear and on the same page of, ‘This is not what the space is for.’”
ASG did not discuss the allegations at either the March 26 or April 2 GAs.

Finance
During her cabinet report on March 26, Director of the Treasury Lyndsey Robinson, ’24, noted that part of her work that week had included working on individual club budgets. After the meeting, Robinson clarified that club budgets were returning in part due to the strain put on both the college’s Financial Services office and ASG’s finance system by a lack of organizational budgeting.
“It’s just easier to have club budgets, because it’s just more beneficial,” Robinson said.
ASG eliminated club budgets at the start of the academic year, in part, Recio Bremer said at the time, because the previous ASG administration decided against holding club budget hearings.
Recio Bremer’s predecessor, Veronica Green, ’23, told The Campus that same month that she had recommended Recio Bremer’s administration delay club budgeting to the start of the academic year, but not eliminate it altogether.
In addition to the transition conversations, then-ASG Treasurer Hunter Goerman, ’25, said club budgets were eliminated because few student organizations were making use of them.
“A lot of people didn’t know the difference between their club budget and a regular finance request from the general fund, so we just thought it makes it easier just to pull from the general fund,” Goerman told The Campus in September.
ASG next meets at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9, in room 301/302 of the Henderson Campus Center.