The president of the Government of the Student Body will announce his plans to form a committee to highlight student diversity on campus at Wednesday night’s GSB meeting.

“Student diversity is an important part of my platform,” said Jon Turk, president of GSB and senior in political science.

This committee is not just for international groups, but minority groups including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups on campus as well, Turk said. The committee will act as an umbrella organization to keep in contact with all campus multicultural organizations.

“We have strong multicultural organizations, but we have a lot of them,” Turk said.

Turk also said he hopes to get the word out about multicultural events.

In 2006, former GSB President Emily Jensen launched the “Got Ignorance” campaign to establish awareness against prejudice on campus, Turk said.

GSB has received awards from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for its efforts creating campaigns like “Got Ignorance” in previous years.

However, these GSB organizations have been dormant for the past couple of years, Turk said.

Turk will also announce at Wednesday’s meeting that he plans to establish a taskforce to encourage financial literacy through peer-to-peer education.

The idea behind this task force is to set up a system so graduate and undergraduate students get paid to go out to student groups like the Inter-Residence Hall Association and teach them about financial literacy, Turk said.

There are courses available right now including human development and family science 182 and 183, Turk said.

“We have been discussing making a course, such as HDFS 183X, a required course at the Regent level,” Turk said.

It is difficult to make a course meet the special requirements to make it mandatory for all students, however. Turk said it would probably take a year for the bill to go through the Faculty Senate if it is passed.

GSB will also vote to fill the seats of two graduate senators from the Graduate and Professional Students Senate and one Campustown senator who will collectively represent 4.500 students.

Teresa Tompkins, senior in political science, will be filling a Campustown senator seat. Lidia Esteve Agelet, graduate student in agricultural and biosystems engineering, and Navneet Malani, graduate in electrical and computer engineering, will be filling the graduate seats.

The graduate college is a section of the university that has students that vary in age and could raise issues that may not be affecting the undergraduate class, Weber said of why GSB enacted legislation to incorporate GPSS senators into GSB.

Each senator represents 1,500 students, said Michael Weber, speaker of the senate and senior in family finance, housing and policy.

The Off Campus Government Constituency Council will also introduce legislation to change its name to the United Residence of Off Campus.

“We want to address students better. Something with the word government in the title tends to turn people away,” said Katherina Dimenstein, senior in interior design of why the senators created a bill to change their name.

The Off Campus Government Constituency Council will be on central campus from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday playing bags and offering candy and food as a get back to school event, Dimenstein said.