The Flying Cyclones were allocated $14,220 for a new airplane flight simulator at Wednesday night’s meeting of the Government of the Student Body Senate.

The club has 28 members that spend a lot of the time grounded due to Iowa’s bad weather, said a representative from the group.

For $120, a person with a pilot’s license can fly in good weather conditions, but there haven’t been many of those lately, the member from the Flying Cyclones said.

The group is planning on saving the $120 for flights, and they will be able to fly on bad weather days.

The group is also hoping to attract new members with the simulator but said someone who knows how to properly run the simulator will be present while a student or new member is learning.

Bylaw updates were passed at the meeting. The updates corrected grammatical and numbering errors previously in the bylaws.

President of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate Aaron Gross, graduate in entomology, gave an update to the GSB Senate.

Gross said they have been meeting with administration and talking about budget cuts.

Gross added that the Graduate and Professional Student Senate is looking to allocate all of its money this year, something that hasn’t happened in the past.

President Jon Turk, senior in political science, said that he has been working with the Director of Diversity Lulu Wu, senior in biochemistry, on tuition rates — specifically for non-Iowa residents.

Turk said he and Wu have been looking into English-intensive programs that international students have to complete before starting classes at Iowa State.

Turk said they have also been reexamining the admission policy in regard to application of the Test of English as a Foreign Language exam.

The project began when it was realized that a lot of students mistakenly believed that they were fully accepted to Iowa State, and didn’t know they had to complete the English proficiency exams, Turk said.

The GSB Senate also tabled a bill to change the GSB logo.

The senate has been working on changing its logo all year. The logo that was introduced to senate at this week several senators said wasn’t tied closely enough to Iowa State.

It was then decided that the logo had to be adopted by trademark licensing office before the GSB could change its logo.

GSB Finance Director Tom Danielson, senior in civil engineering, gave a program to the senate explaining how regular allocations will work during the next meeting March 24.

Danielson also explained how the finance committee made its cuts during Monday’s committee meeting.

Danielson said the committee started with an across the board cut of advertising expenses, and large cuts of mass e-mails that were budgeted.

The committee then cut competitive trips and travel expenses.

The senate passed a resolution that supports the Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act of 2009, which has been reintroduced to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

The bill reads, “Currently, donations made to a university can be used for improvements to dormitories, classrooms, dining facilities, meeting areas and laboratories on campus, and the donor will receive a tax deduction however, this is not the case for any sorority or fraternity housing project, and Charitable donations made to fraternity and sorority foundations are only tax-deductible if the grant is of a purely educational nature.”

“Each year, fraternities and sororities house 250,000 students nationally, with no expense to their host institution, and since 2000, 80 percent of fatalities in student housing fires have occurred in off-campus residence, such as fraternities and sororities, which due to nationwide city ordinances [including Ames], now require retrofit fire sprinklers by 2012, in which houses can be up to 100 years old and retrofitting fire sprinklers can cost as much as $200,000 which is not tax-deductible,” according to the bill.

Director of Student Affairs Halley Stille, senior in French, reminded the senate that the inauguration ceremony for next year’s senate, president and vice president will take place at 6 p.m. April 5 in the Memorial Union.