The Thielen Student Health Center will stop offering HIV testing starting in January, according to the report from the University Affairs Committee presented at last night’s Government of the Student Body Meeting.

Navneet Malani, University Affairs Committee member and graduate student in electrical and computer engineering, said that the testing is funded through the State of Iowa, but they have decided to stop funding the tests.

It is now a priority of the University Affairs Committee to look into how they can bring back the funding, or look into other ways to continue HIV testing at Iowa State, Malani said.

During his State of the Student Body Address, GSB President Jon Turk, senior in political science, covered many issues.

He began with how GSB managed to reach out to several organizations on campus including student services on like health and legal services, and women and LGBT services.

This helped to see what kind of services they are providing to students and to see how GSB can assist them. It was also a good way to express GSB’s commitment to student services, Turk said, including launching the “Mind the Gap” campaign in the spring with the help of Penny Rice, director of the Margaret Sloss Women’s Center. The campaign will bring awareness to students diversity, Turk announced.

He also brought up the CyRide intermodal facility and mentioned strong state lobbying efforts took place, including letters and thousands of postcards which stressed the importance of this project to the Ames community and the Iowa State student body. The proposal has made its way through the first round of cuts.

Turk discussed the Sustainability Umbrella Organization in his speech. It is the first of it’s kind in the nation, Turk said, created in order to unite sustainability groups on campus to better focus its efforts.

The second annual Sustainability Symposium will be hosted on Feb. 23 and 24. GSB supported the symposium by passing a bill for $895.00 which will be used to buy office supplies and help with supplying electrical equipment.

Turk closed his address by discussing tuition and fees.

The good news about tuition, Turk said, is that the university was able to halt student fee increases. However, tuition is going to rise. Turk said that he will stay opposed to the proposed $100 surcharge because students were under the impression that spring tuition and fees were set.

Turk challenged the Senate by saying, “We need to be a strong, stable, united voice to represent this institution during that time.”

Wednesday’s meeting was the last of the semester. The next GSB meeting will be held at 5 p.m. on Jan. 13.