The Government of the Student Body decided against reprimanding its president at its Wednesday meeting.

College of Business senator Kyle Perkins dismissed an order during the meeting’s open forum that would have reprimanded GSB President Sophia Magill. The order stated Magill had publicly misused and abused her position to support a personal cause in an Oct. 7 letter published in the Iowa State Daily.

“After much discussion between President Magill and I, I’ve decided this situation doesn’t warrant censure of the president,” said Perkins, an author of the order.

Magill said she was glad she had a chance to talk with Perkins and other authors of the order.

“Everyone agreed it was kind of throwing things out of proportion,” she said.

The senate passed a reprimand of Off-Campus Senator Matt Denner after debate about the order’s purpose. Denner was reprimanded for unexcused absences from two meetings, being more than 15 minutes late to another and not regularly attending office hours.

“If you guys decide you want to censure me, that’s fine, and I can respect that,” Denner said. “But I would have appreciated being approached before.”

Speaker of the Senate Henry Alliger said the order was not a personal attack and upheld the rules stated in the GSB bylaws.

In other business, a bill to fund advertising and publicity for the first GSB crow hunt passed 19-13. Some senate members and an ISU student voiced their disagreement with the hunt and its usefulness, while others supported the event.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator James Vogl said he didn’t feel it is the students’ responsibility to take care of the crow problem and that a hunt was not a responsible use of GSB funds.

“Also, there are students who are vegetarians who are morally opposed to hunting and things like that,” Vogl said. “I think we’d be insensitive to those students views if we didn’t think about that.”

Denner said the hunt isn’t an effective way to control crows.

“The estimates are that there are about 10,000 crows in Ames every night, so, even if we shoot one-third of them, there will still be a lot of crows to defecate on things,” Denner said. “Crows are migratory birds; they’re going to come back all the time.”

Off-Campus senator Ben Albright said if the hunt helps one student not get “crapped on,” then he’s done his job.

“This is by no means a solution, but it helps,” Albright said.