During its final senate meeting of the fall semester, the Government of the Student Body was adamant on making sure no small details made their way through the cracks during Winter Break.

Wednesday’s hearings began with the official resignation of Senate Speaker Adam Krupicka, graduate student-undeclared – an individual some, including Finance Director Ryan Myers, graduate student in accounting, said was one of GSB’s biggest assets during his tenure.

“He is a person who didn’t just do his own homework, he did everyone’s homework,” Myers said. “This year when I became finance director, I couldn’t have been happier when Adam was elected speaker.”

Krupicka had kind words for his fellow senators during his departing speech.

“This current group may be the best transcendents in a number of years, if not ever,” Krupicka said. “You’ve handled things this semester very well. This senate has had a very productive semester. Just remember that you are all here to make a difference for students and you’ve done a great job of that.”

After his speech, Krupicka and the rest of the senate got back to business. The largest forms of business came in the form of funding bills.

Senate approved bills that allocated $1,303 to the ISU Fencing Club, $800 to the Black Graduate Student Association, $466.91 to the Russian Speaking Student Association and $242 to the Cyclone tennis team.

Along with the allocation of funds to the various campus groups, the senate focused time on passing bills to approve Analysis of Social Services Evaluation Team priorities, a bill that will help dictate how $135,000 is used when the ASSET committee rules on its final budget.

According to the Ames city government’s Web site, some of the purposes of ASSET are to promote coordination among human services planning and funding among the various organizations that sponsor them.

GSB Treasurer Katelyn Verhoef, senior in biochemistry, said although the approved bill is only on ASSET priorities, those priorities would become important when it becomes time for final decisions to be made.

After concluding senate bills, GSB senators got back to a number of in-house issues by assigning new positions and hearing resignation speeches from a handful of senators who will not be returning for the spring semester.

The meeting concluded in the wee hours of the morning with Senator Jonathan Turk, sophomore in political science, emerging as the new vice speaker, while Senator Mitch Hayek, graduate student in political science, was named to the rules committee.

Senators Sean Ogilby, sophomore in architecture, and Sarah Rammelsberg, junior in agricultural education, were both named to public relations committee.