Government of the Student Body President Luke Roling will give his first State of the Student Body Address at Wednesday’s GSB meeting.

Roling will cover a variety of topics, starting with the status of student debt.

The address will include Roling’s ideas on how to increase state appropriations to higher education and developing a peer-to-peer mentoring program.

Roling will also speak about his willingness to partner with the city of Ames in order to improve and revitalize Campustown, and the possibility of developing a landlord-tenant mediation program.

The address will include some goals for GSB that Roling and Vice President Nate Dobbels have been talking about since February, such as collaborating with organizations across campus.

The cabinet will establish regular meetings with college and residency councils, and will be focusing on a large-scale collaborative diversity event.

In the address, Roling will be mentioning his hopes to unite leadership programs to recognize the accomplishments of individuals and groups, and create new leader networking opportunities.

The last topic the address will cover is improving GSB’s communications.

GSB is striving to be a strong voice to the administration, and to share the voice of the administration with students.

The GSB will also work on reaching out to new students, and bringing GSB to the student body on a daily basis.

The senate will vote on the allocation of $30,000 from the capital projects account to be put toward funding the Varsity Theater project.

The 2009-10 GSB Senate passed a resolution supporting the project, but had to leave the lease to the 2010-11 senate after lease negotiations took longer than expected.

“The Varsity Theater Research Task Force has been in negotiations about a lease through extensive consultation with Memorial Union; Student Activities Center; city of Ames planners; facilities, planning, and management; environmental health and safety; university architects; and the property owners,” according to the bill.

The project has been a controversial one. Former President Jon Turk was against it, as was Roling, originally.

After the resolution was passed, Roling said the best thing he can do is try to make the theater be as successful as possible, if that was the wish of the senate.

The bill, signed by most of the task force members, states “the Cyclone Cinema Proposal presents an opportunity for the GSB to benefit students in a significant and visible way, and create a legacy to the ISU experience on the same magnitude as the Maintenance Shop as when created by students of the 1970s.”

The senate will also look at a bill that would take $2,150 from the capital projects account.

In 2001, the ISU Athletic Department stopped funding the baseball program, according to the bill.

It no longer maintains the field as it used to, so the ISU Baseball Club is asking for money to turface the field, and repair its lawn mower.