More than $32,000 was allocated at Wednesday night’s Government of the Student Body meeting, but the group differed voting on a request to furnish more than $29,000 for Sloss House.

GSB boted to approve a resolution supporting the Varsity Task Force written by Senator Anthony Maly, junior in political science. The resolution supports the research and investigating that the Task Force has been doing to turn the Varsity Theater into a student-run cinema.

The resolution will be sent to Dan Saftig, president of the Iowa State University Foundation; Thomas Hill, vice president of Student Affairs; Warren Madden, vice president for business and finance and Richard Reynolds, director of the Memorial Union.

Jacob Wilson, vice speaker and sophomore in political science, wrote a bill on behalf of Sloss House, which requested $29,886.99 for new furniture.

At Monday night’s Finance Committee meeting President Jon Turk mentioned that he received an e-mail in June from the Provost’s Office, which mentioned they would be willing to match a donation up to $31,000.

Turk said he was not sure if the offer was still good because it had been a few months since had heard from them, and then suggested cutting the funding in half. He then reminded the Committee that the Senate has already allocated over $90,000 this year including special allocations. The lack of information caused GSB to decide to wait on any decision to allocate funding until the issue is resolved.

Additionally, three representatives from the student radio station KURE 88.5 FM asked for and received $26,472.42 to replace faulty 15-year-old equipment. The station’s old equipment is failing: some dials don’t work and the radio crew is worried it won’t last much longer. The new equipment they are planning to buy will allow DJs to broadcast from anywhere wireless internet is available instead of having to broadcast via telephone.

ISU Ski and Snowboard Club representative Clayton Severson, junior in biochemistry, requested $2,395 for this year’s Rail Jam. The event was canceled last year after the sponsors who promised equpiment did not follow through.

GSB annually allocates money to the Story County Analysis of Social Service Evaluation Team, which is a collection of five groups who work together to help local social services. ASSET does allocations in January and GSB has a bill to potentially allocate $143,364 to ASSET for the current year. The money will be distributed to 14 agencies that support the priorities set by the committee.

The priorities set by the Finance Committee are: Programs and services that promote personal safety, with regards to violence and abuse; childcare services, with specific emphasis on infant and toddler care; substance abuse prevention and treatment, both group and individual care; programs and services that go toward domestic violence, and rape; legal services that are not provided by Student Legal Services; and other services that provide a direct benefit to students services that are of indirect benefit to students.

The priorities have not been changed from last year because they worked out well, said GSB Finance Director Tom Danielson, senior in civil engineering.

The University Affairs Committee Chair Luke Roling, senior in chemical engineering, made several announcements as well. The Committee received blueprints for the Friley Windows area and are furthering their work on that project.

Roling also announced that the Committee is looking for suggestions on changes or improvements from students on CyRide services for next year.

The Rules Committee announced that its members will begin looking at the campus enforcement of the tobacco policy next week.

During comments from the Executive Branch, Turk mentioned the trip to Texas he and other GSB members took to meet with student government representatives from Big 12 schools over the weekend.

“We got a lot of great sustainability ideas from the University of Colorado who operate at a zero percent waste level,” Turk said.

It was also mentioned that there will be three vacancies in the Executive Cabinet next semester.

Elisa Berzins, director of human resources and development, Mike Beals, director of special projects and administration and Halie Mohr, secretary, will all be stepping down from their roles.

At press time, GSB was still discussing several key issues including a resolution to send to the Memorial Union Board of Directors for their meeting Thursday.

Jacob Johnston’s bill, which was tabled for two weeks, was the first resolution that was written.

The bill has since been amended by the University Affairs Committee and currently reads, “that the Government of the Student Body does not endorse the removal of all religious symbols in the Memorial Union Chapel, and be it further that all students be welcomed to add their own religious items into the Memorial Union Chapel in a respectful and conscientious manner.”

Johnston has previously said that he wrote the bill because he wanted everyone to have the chance to be heard.

The second resolution written by Jacob Wilson is in support of a more neutral space.

The bill reads that, “ultimately, all decisions are left up to the Memorial Union Director and Board of Directors, be it therefore that the Government of the Student Body recognizes the need on campus for a space that students of all faiths can use to worship, reflect, evaluate, and examine, and the Government of the Student Body shows its support for a religiously neutral reflection space in the Memorial Union that welcomes and celebrates all faiths and belief systems while respecting the great diversity on our campus and encouraging whosoever wishes to use the space to do so proudly.”

At the University Affairs Committee open forum last week Wilson said that he needs to speak for the students who aren’t being represented and that as a white male, the majority, he needs to be looking out for the minority.