ISU GSB President Turk to give address in last meeting
March 31, 2010
The Government of the Student Body Senate will hold its last meeting of the session Wednesday night.
The meeting will feature GSB President Jon Turk’s State of the Student Body address — as outlined by the GSB Constitution.
Turk has worked on various projects this year, including the Peer to Peer Financial Literacy group, the Green Umbrella organization and the Mind the Gap campaign.
The meeting will also have the passing of the allocations for fiscal year 2011.
The total expected designated student fees revenue for next year is $1,692,562.50.
The senate will discuss how to allocate the funds between several organizations including ASSET, the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, the Student Activity Fee reserve and several of its own accounts.
Inter-Residence Hall Senator Sagar Chawla, senior in biology, wrote a bill that is also up for debate, which would allocate $5,000 to the GSB diversity initiative.
“GSB has shown interest in taking a larger role in diversity and social justice through initiatives like Mind the Gap Executive Committee, and there are numerous organizations on campus that focus on diversity and social justice issues, and GSB can support them by providing explicit funding and encouraging them to work together by sponsoring an event that would be coordinated by multiple social justice and diversity groups,” according to the bill.