The Government of the Student Body will hold a very involved meeting Wednesday, discussing several resolutions and the university’s sexual misconduct policy.

At the Sept. 25 Board of Regents meeting, the regents passed a resolution establishing guidelines for sexual misconduct policies and asked the state’s universities to review their policies and report updates at the Dec. 11 Regents’ meeting.

Dione Somerville, dean of students, may appear at the meeting to give the Senate an update on the sexual misconduct policy.

Sommerville said she couldn’t give specifics about updates to the policy in case she couldn’t appear before GSB Wednesday, but said she is hoping to get student feedback on updates at the meeting.

Andy Baumert, president of the Office of Government Relations, will also address GSB on Wednesday. Jonathan Turk, speaker of the Senate and junior in political science, said Baumert will give an overview of what the Office of Government Relations does.

Turk said this year within GSB there have been many efforts to work on lobbying different state officials. He said it would “be appropriate to have a connection with the office” and to visit them with further questions regarding the lobbying efforts GSB has been working on this year.

The Senate will be required to confirm support for a textbook tax fee holding resolution, as well as a resolution regarding tobacco on campus.

There are a number of financial items that will be discussed at Wednesday’s meeting as well. Most of what will be discussed is routine maintenance of GSB’s finances, such as the Senate resolution, “Giving Student Fees Back to Students,” in which “no actual transfer of money occurs,” said Tom Danielson, finance director and senior in civil engineering. The resolution is a means to see how much money will be given to regular allocations during the next process.

GSB will also be voting on funding a program called ASSET — Analysis of Social Services Evaluation Team — at Wednesday’s meeting.

ASSET is an organization in the Story County area funded partially by GSB, the United Way of Story County and the State of Iowa. GSB provides yearly funds for the organization, which specializes in evaluating social programs. ASSET evaluates programs and organizations that aid people suffering from addictions, mental health facilities and child care services.

Funding computers for the Frederiksen Court Community Center will be voted on as well. According to the bill, written by Paul Keppy, vice-speaker of the Senate and senior in political science, “Many of the students who utilize this space are not Frederiksen residents and there is a great shortage of computers for student use in that part of campus.” Therefore, a bill is up for second read on Wednesday to fund a total for $6,343.40 for four Dell computers as well as desks, chairs and security equipment.

GSB has also been discussing the potential switch of e-mail systems from WebMail to either G-Mail or Hotmail. A final decision is expected to be made soon, as the switch of operating systems will take place next semester or the next school year.