The Duke Student Government Judiciary decided Sunday to hear a new case filed by senior Cliff Satell, who alleges that the Duke College Republicans have been selective in their membership.
The hearing will take place Sept. 12 at 3:30 p.m. in the DSG office and will be open to all students unless either side petitions to have it closed.
Satell, former vice chair of the College Republicans, said the club violated a Student Organization Finance Committee bylaw when he and senior Justin Robinette, former club chair, were removed from the club’s membership and listserv.
The bylaw defines an Officially Chartered organization like the College Republicans as one that is “dependent on DSG funding and is not selective in its membership.”
Robinette and Satell said they were notified via e-mail Aug. 31 that they were removed from the club’s membership roster by senior Carter Boyle, chair of the DCR.
“It violates per se Duke’s student-organization program’s all-comers policy,” Robinette wrote in a statement Sunday. “All of the evidence I accumulated will probably wind up before the Judiciary to show a pattern of conduct. Before the Judiciary meeting, legislation de-chartering the organization will be brought up this Wednesday and the chairman and chief of staff’s discriminatory, racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic e-mails read into the Senate record.”
Chief Justice Matt Straus, a junior, emphasized that evidence unrelated to the case will be thrown out, however.
“Testimony not germane to the topic of this trial will be disregarded,” Straus wrote in a Sunday e-mail to the defendants.
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