The Government of the Student Body approved plans Wednesday night to continue its inquiry into the causes behind the April 18 Veishea riot.

The Senate approved $1,037 for the funding of a bill, titled “Free Sandwiches,” allowing a survey to be conducted to get students’ opinions about the causes of the riot.

Tony Borich, GSB design senator and primary writer of the bill, said the more GSB understands the underlying causes of the riots, the better potential policy changes can be recommended in the best interest of ISU students.

“Hopefully, with this information, we can come up with some policy changes,” Borich said. “These policy changes will possibly affect students year-round.”

The bill authorizes Academic Information Technologies to give 1,250 ISU students a random Web-based survey that addresses alcohol and off-campus parties and community relations, he said. Before the survey can be released, the GSB must clear the survey with the Office of Research Compliance.

Their goal was to have the survey released before Spring Break.

“Hopefully, this will aid us in making recommendations regarding the future of Veishea,” said Kyle Krause, Frederiksen Court senator.

Tony Borich told the senate that GSB President Sophia Magill mentioned a possible veto if the wording of the bill was not changed. Originally, the bill implied the Veishea task force did not fully do its job.

The amendment, which passed 20-5, focused on adding the information the report retrieved to the bill.

Magill said she would not comment on Borich’s statement because she was not present at the time he mentioned the veto.

However, she said she had spoken with Borich on Wednesday about the bill.

“I made some suggestions to him on the wording,” Magill said.

Borich said the wording of the bill was not important, but the information to be retrieved is. He said he did not think Magill was serious about her threat to veto.

Both Borich and Magill were members of the Veishea task force.

Kyle Perkins, vice speaker of the senate, said he did not like the GSB executive branch intimidating senators with the threat of a veto.

“If the veto wasn’t brought up, I would have been more in favor of the bill,” he said.

Perkins said the task force did not complete everything the committee had set out to accomplish.

He said more student opinions would be beneficial to finding out the cause of the 2004 Veishea riot.

“This won’t be the say-all end-all,” he said.

A continued effort to talk to constituents of GSB will also help reveal the causes of the riots, Perkins said.

An incentive to complete the survey will be provided by Legends American Grill, 200 Stanton Ave. The restaurant will allow 500 randomly selected participants to receive a combination of a chicken sandwich and fries or chips and salsa from Legends. GSB will pay $1 for each of the 500 free items of food distributed. Legends will cover the difference.

“The incentive is only available to those invited to participate in the survey,” Borich said.

He said those who do not randomly get selected to receive the free sandwich will get $2 off any lunch or dinner entree item.

Andrew Brown, Interfraternity Council senator, said he believes the incentive is not necessary and is disappointed by it.

“The way the bill is written is like we have to bribe students,” he said.

The fraternity council could recruit half of the responses expected without the incentive, Brown said.