Grades have forced the removal of an executive slate from next week’s Government of the Student Body election.

Maple Hall President Mitchell Hayek, who was running for GSB president with Dustin Paulson, was ruled ineligible because of his GPA.

ISU policy requires students to have a 2.0 or higher cumulative grade point average to be an officer of a student organization.

GSB Election Commissioner Caleb Shinn said the issue was brought to his attention during a meeting where Hayek said he was retaking a class this semester to raise his grade point average above the minimum requirement for office.

After that discussion, Shinn said he sent the names of the students running for office to Dean of Students Pete Englin this week for GPA verification and learned Hayek did not meet the requirement.

GPA verification is necessary to finalize the election ballot, which was released Sunday.

“It’s a technicality because we’re not supposed to be able to remove any names from the ballot, but it’s not really an issue because they were not supposed to be able to run in the first place,” he said.

Shinn said he waited until the petitions were in to find out who would officially be on the ballot before verifying the candidates’ grade point averages.

Hayek said the GPA requirement was never mentioned at the GSB candidate seminar he attended, and said the issue is being addressed. Hayek said he had a 2.5 grade point during a Feb. 21 GSB election debate.

Two students running a write-in campaign, Dan Sherman and Eric Oij, also did not meet the requirement.

Oij said that they asked questions during the election seminars and were told that anyone without the minimum GPA would not be allowed to run.

Hayek said he did not know what effect the GPA requirement would have on his role as Maple Hall president.

Drew Larson, Inter-Residence Hall Association president, said IRHA does not have a policy to verify student GPAs for elected office.

Larson said that all officers are registered with the Student Activities Center, and IRHA leaves it up to the center to determine if the students meet the requirements.