A commission studying city-Iowa State relations will meet Monday night to discuss causes of celebratory riots and the chronology of last year’s Veishea celebration.

This meeting, at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the Campanile Room of the Memorial Union, will be different than previous meetings.

“We have done a lot of fact-finding at other meetings to get ourselves oriented to exactly what we are working on,” said William Rock, commission co-chairman. “The commissioner thought we should get right down to the brainstorming and discussing issues and throwing out ideas. This meeting will have a lot more of that.”

On Monday, the commission will discuss reports from two of the three working groups of the Veishea task force, which is a separate entity.

Group one of the task force is studying the events and chronology of this year’s Veishea celebration as well as previous celebrations, according to the commission’s Web site. Group two is examining the underlying causes of celebratory riots.

Rock, vice president of the Government of the Student Body, said he hopes that audience participation will increase with the beginning of the fall semester.

“There hasn’t been a very big [audience] turnout,” said Laura Bestler-Wilcox, commission co-chairwoman.

Rock said one goal for the commission is to find ways to improve the sense of community in Ames.

“Everybody has this feeling that there is something wrong with the community relations in Ames,” Rock said.

Rock said his discussion group is in charge of asking “What would it look like if we didn’t have any problems with the community relations?”

The other informal discussion group of the commission is looking into the best ways to get feedback from the community about those relations.

Reports from the commission and the Veishea task force will be submitted to ISU President Gregory Geoffroy by Nov. 30. In April, Geoffroy suspended Veishea 2005, and he will determine the future of the celebration after considering the report’s recommendations.

“Obviously we have to go from A to B,” Rock said. “[Our findings] should give us a pretty clear idea how to do that.”

The city-university commission has 22 members and is co-chaired by Rock; Bob Kindred, Ames assistant city manager; and Bestler-Wilcox, assistant director of ISU student activities center.