A student group filed suit against the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Senate after it temporarily closed its meeting Tuesday to discuss a senator's expulsion.

Penn State Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) filed the action in USG Supreme Court Friday.

"What they did was unconstitutional. What they did was wrong," said YAF Chair Sean Clark. "I don't know what [USG Vice President] Kris Ankarlo is smoking, but I want some of it," Clark said.

Ankarlo asked Town Sen. Maya McGeathey and the gallery to leave the room before discussing McGeathey's expulsion for nearly 30 minutes on Tuesday. The suit asks USG Supreme Court to order Senate to keep all meetings open except to discuss paid personnel and legal matters, as outlined in the USG constitution. Ankarlo said he viewed the incident as a legal matter.

"Furthermore, it's in bad taste to [publicly] discuss disciplinary actions against senators," Ankarlo added. Ankarlo said YAF has grounds for the suit, but that he used moral and ethical judgement when he temporarily closed the meeting.

"This is a couple of kids who have nothing better to do with their time," Ankarlo said. "People like to make much ado about nothing."

Ankarlo said he does not think McGeathey would have been expelled had the meeting been open because senators' true feelings would not come out. Clark, Senate president last academic year, said he would also like to see the session's minutes released.

"If one of my elected student representatives was kicked out for having 10 absences, I would want to know [about it]," he said.

He added that Senate likely closed the meeting to avoid hurting anyone's feelings. Taylor Rhodes, USG Supreme Court chief justice, granted the motion Friday for the court to examine the suit. He said the case would be resolved in the first half of this semester.

The immediate impact on Senate is "uncertain at this time," he added. Senate voted to permanently remove McGeathey following the closed session for having 10 absences from Senate meetings.

McGeathey said she only missed three full meetings. Senate determines absences by the number of roll calls missed, but McGeathey said there is a discrepancy about whether or not she missed 10 roll calls.

"I'm going to do my best to make sure something like this never happens again," McGeathey said.

She also commended YAF for doing what they think is right.