The Government of the Student Body convened for the first time this year Wednesday night to discuss possible changes to campus security.

“The Board of Regents has a policy that states that campus police, for regent universities, will not be armed, but they recently asked the universities to review their policies,” said GSB President Brian Phillips, senior in political science. “If any change is to happen, it will be for all universities across the board, so we are starting to collect some hard data for ISU.”

Beginning next week, a 10-question survey will be distributed throughout campus, collecting student feedback about that decision and asking students about how safe they feel on campus.

The survey will collect 1,000 replies and be a key factor in the future decision of whether campus police should be allowed to carry weapons.

Some discussion was also heard for Political Action Week, and GSB senators were asked to volunteer.

“We want to capture the attention of new students and encourage political discourse,” said Devin Hartman, president of ActivUs and senior in political science.

Scheduled for Sept. 17 to 21, the week is designed to promote thought, dialogue and action in the political sphere, especially about such hot-button issues as immigration and gun control. The next planning meeting will be at 3:30 p.m. Aug. 28 in the Memorial Union food court.

The GSB filled a few committees with new faces and also appointed a new chief justice of the supreme court – John Gish, junior in political science – as well as five new associate justices.

“I’m excited to be nominated for associate justice,” said Susan Fratzke, senior in political science. “This is my first meeting, but I’m going to dedicate myself to this work.”

The University Affairs Committee received four new appointees and the Public Relations Committee received three. GSB also appointed Trevin Ward, senior in political science, to the Information Technology director position and Patrick Mooney, junior in computer engineering, to the Webmaster position.

“I fired Pat from IT director, and hired him as Webmaster. It’s just moving around some people to jobs they are more qualified for,” Phillips said.

Finally, GSB discussed a logo change for its organization.

“The logo was bothering some senators, and we decided that a change was best,” Phillips said.

Phillips said the logo change last year lacked features distinctive to Iowa State, and that the other state universities all had features unique to their campuses.

“PR apparently needs to spice it up,” said Thomas Danielson, GSB senator and junior in civil engineering.

He said the debate over the logo would probably be long and drawn out.

“Kind of ridiculous for just a logo,” he said.