The Independent Council asked the Judicial Board to restore control of the organization to its members last Sunday, charging that the Rensselaer Union Executive Board had limited the rights of the council through a "series of unconstitutional rulings."
At time of publication the J-Board was still deliberating but promised a decision by Tuesday night.
The main causes of the conflict were actions that have given the E-Board an increasing amount of control over the financially ailing IC during the past two months.
In September the IC had agreed to restrictions on its actions in exchange for the E-Board paying its $2,500 in debts.
Later, when the E-Board discovered that the IC was still losing money on its film series, it forbade the council from spending any more money and ordered it to cancel the film series.
It was these E-Board actions that prompted Sunday’s J-Board case, according to IC President John Reid.
