With only a little more than a month left in the semester, the Student Association Supreme Court is finally complete.

With only 27 out of 40 SA senators present at Sunday’s meeting, law student, Mike Betar, 27, needed everyone’s vote to be approved as Supreme Court judge.

After a short speech, Betar got what he needed. Betar answered a few questions and was approved 27 to 0.

Betar was McCormack’s and former presidential candidate John Fallon’s second choice after Jody Jancaric withdrew about two weeks ago. The senate last Sunday agreed to present the next person in line rather than starting from scratch.

Supreme Court appointments were delayed twice this sememster. The senators didn’t feel they had enough information about the candidates the first time. And McCormack didn’t feel prepared to present new selections the following week.

Although the court was just filled, it has had quorum for about three weeks.

In other business, Sen. Mike Ruderman made a motion to make a bylaw change in the attendance policy which would allow for no more than two absences.

According to the proposal, if a senator is absent more than twice, he would have to appeal before the Internal Affairs Committee within two weeks. Otherwise there will be expulsion after final review, directly from IAC.

SA Vice President Tanya Smith would notify all senators through meetings, phone and letter in SA mailbox. Senators would have to contact Smith before a planned absence. Smith said 20 senators are in this category.

Sen. Matt Wetstein added, “The way to encourage attendance is not through expulsion. If you want good attendance at the meetings, pay the senators.”

But Sen. Sadia Ahmed said paying the senators is not the issue. “The reason for this is to get 40 senators at the meetings who will show up at 6 o’clock,” she said. If the senators couldn’t make it on time, they shouldn’t be senators, she said.

After nearly 30 minutes, the motion was postponed until next week.