The Government of the Student Body welcomed a new senator representing graduate students at its Oct. 2 meeting.

Ardhendu Tripathy, graduate in electrical and computer engineering, was unanimously confirmed after an impromptu rules meeting.

According to a senate bylaw, nominees must meet with the Senate Rules Committee before they can be seated. Tripathy, however, never met with the rules committee. Sen. Khayree Fitten made a motion that effectively made the entire senate members of the rules committee.

Tripathy was briefed by Sens. Fitten, Barry Snell, Gabby Williams and Zachary Bauer regarding expectations as a senator. Shortly after he was seated with unanimous consent.

In other news, Sen. Jordan Osborne was unanimously confirmed to be seated on as an at-large student member of the Memorial Union Board of Directors. Fitten said Osborne had already been to a Board of Directors meeting.

“He’s already been to a meeting. … Everything’s going well,” Fitten said. “Just by MU bylaws, it requires a senate confirmation.”

Ethos magazine, Iowa State’s longest run student magazine, originally came requesting $16,995. An amendment to the bill funded only one issue of the magazine, rather than all three issues that are going to be printed this year, dropping the price of $16,800 to $5,600.

The funding for a new theme for the website was denied, while the $120 requested to fund the website was cut in half, only giving Ethos $60.

An amendment by Sen. Alex Knee was voted down on a vote of 7-23-3. The amendment would have cut the number of printed magazines from 3,000 to 2,550 magazines per issue. Snell expressed opposition to the amendment.

“They’ve been printing 3,000 forever; I’d really hate to cut that down,” Snell said.

Dan Rediske, GSB finance director, said Ethos used to receive funding for even more magazines.

“When we funded them in 2008 we funded for over 4,000 copies,” Rediske said.

A bill to fund three newly revised copies of Robert’s Rules of Order failed on a vote of 8-23-1. Fitten said he did not believe using Robert’s Rules of Order had any effect on the student experience.

Another bill which would have established Robert’s Rules of Order as the Parliamentary Authority was postponed indefinitely.

In closing statements, Williams encouraged members of the senate to attend the Safety Walk at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7. The safety walk is a way for those in Ames to look for potential safety issues. All are invited.