Although the Government of the Student Body voted Wednesday to cut funding for the ISU Paintball Club trip to Arizona State University, the club still received a majority of its request.

The GSB senate voted 27-3 to cut funding for travel costs from $1,609 to $1,215. ISU Paintball Club members going to the ASU match on Feb. 25 will have to contribute $26 more for the trip because of the decreased amount.

Nathan Gordon, ISU Paintball Club president, said the club would ask their sponsors to donate paintball supplies so that members would not need to pay the additional cost.

Gordon said it was late notice for the club to do additional fund raising.

He said he hopes only one or two members will choose not to go if they have to pay more.

Jason Stanek, graduate college senator, proposed cutting the funding level. Stanek said he wanted to see a higher individual contribution per member than the original bill had. He said the lower amount was more fair for a GSB contribution.

“Everyone’s hurting for money right now,” he said.

Jacob Larson, off-campus senator, said funding four trips for the paintball club in the past two years was an excessive expense.

Gordon said profits from the ISU Paintball Club field, which is also funded by GSB, would be used in future years to pay for travel and participation in tournaments.

“The profits are currently being used to purchase new capital equipment and replace older equipment that had been previously used for travel events,” he said.

At the meeting, the senate seated Melissa Fox, senior in nutritional science, as an off-campus senator and Anna Klochko, junior in political science, as a senator for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

GSB also passed a resolution saying the ISU student body supported the Board of Regents Partnership for Transformation and Excellence, a four-year funding partnership proposal with the Iowa Legislature that would increase state appropriations to the regents universities and hold in-state tuition to inflation.

College of Design Senator Tony Borich said some state legislators suggested state appropriation increases might be withheld because of the resignations of regents David Neil, of LaPorte City, and Sue Erickson Nieland, of Sioux City, and former board president John Forsyth, of Des Moines.

Speaker of the Senate Henry Alliger said the legislators he had talked with about the partnership did not fully understand the purpose of the partnership. The proposal would split $40 million between the three regent universities.

Alternative Housing Senator Ashley Hand introduced a bill to add a referenda question on the 2005 GSB Election adding the Buchanan Hall Association as a recognized residence association. Hand said that adding Buchanan Hall Association was necessary to correctly represent all students by their residency.