The religious symbols in the Memorial Union Chapel were discussed at open forum during Wednesday’s Government of the Student Body meeting.

Because of this discussion, the University Affairs Committee’s resolution to either keep or remove the symbols was post-poned until a later date.

Anastasia Bodnar. president of the Atheist and Agnostic Society and graduate student in agronomy, said she has organized two discussions with different religious groups on campus to gather information to create the chapel space into an ideal space for everyone.

Bodnar said she did not appear at the meeting to represent the Atheist and Agnostic society, but rather she came on her own.

“The Chapel is exclusively a Christian space, one example is the cross on the east wall,” Bodnar said. “Judaism and Muslim religions both pray to the east, which may present a problem for them.”

Chandra Peterson, GSB vice president and junior in political science, gave up her chair to Michael Weber, GSB speaker of the senate, to voice her thoughts on the Chapel Resolution.

“We are a representative body,” Peterson said. “The University Affairs Committee has been doing a fabulous job, however we have students that we know want to talk to us, and yet we are wondering if we should hear from them.”

Ethan Dahlhauser, a sophomore in geology, addressed the senate as well.

“I was displeased to hear about this issue through the grapevine, so to speak,” Dahlhauser said.

Dahlhauser voiced his opinion against altering the Memorial Union Chapel as he has not had time to take action on this issue.

Sagar Chawla, IRHA senator, member of the University Affairs Committee and senior in biology, said he thought the students had plenty of time to notify the senate as the bill was held in committee for an extra week.

Halley Stille, GSB director of student affairs and senior in French, also mentioned that the executive branch did send out press releases notifying the student body of the issue.

The senators could not agree on how to best fix the issue however.

“I was just in the chapel during our recess, and noticed that there was plenty of room on the east wall, and a curtain for the cross, so if a student needed to pray to the east they would have plenty of room,” said Derek Grygiel, Frederiksen Court senator and senior in chemical engineering.

Off-Campus Senator Jacob Johnston said he doesn’t understand how four bare walls is diverse and that students should be adding to the room and not taking away from it.

The GSB Chief Justice reminded the senate that they were not the ones who could establish the rules as to what students could bring in and out of the chapel, that is the Memorial Union Board of Director’s job.