The mystery surrounding the existence of the Student Association’s Supreme Court bylaws is over, but the incident is another black mark on the SA’s already full ledger of blunders.

SA Supreme Court Justice Cam Davis found a copy of the bylaws in the archives after Senate Speaker John Fallon requested the document by Feb. 4, 1990. Finding the bylaws, the rules and regulations of the SA Supreme Court at the end of the semester is absurd.

It is equally ridiculous that the court would enter the fall semester without a copy of the bylaws. And if the bylaws were believed to be non-existent, common sense should dictate the court to create one—the copy found by Davis is only two-years old.

This mistake is compounded when one realizes the court heard and made a ruling on a case in early November without using the SA bylaws.

Furthermore, it is insulting to every NIU student that SA President Huda Scheidelman found the discovery “interesting,” again making her leadership abilities questionable.

The SA is supposed to be to NIU as the national government is to the United States. Mistakes will happen, especially since SA members are students first, but the Judicial branch of the NIU government operating without any rules is unthinkable.

Maybe the five members of the court feel they are credible and knowledgable enough to handle the job on their student-status alone. However, everyone has to play by the rules, even the SA.