Concerns over how law enforcement officers handled themselves during the Veishea riot Sunday were discussed at Wednesday’s Government of the Student Body meeting.

Sophia Magill, GSB president, said GSB is working on a number of things to open more dialogue with the city and the police department.

“This is a sad thing that occurred, and we need to take steps forward,” Magill said.

GSB will send out comment forms to all students so they can write down personal accounts of what happened during the riot, which will then be compiled into an assessment report, she said.

This weekend, GSB will also have four students ride along with Ames police through the ride-along program, she said.

There will be an open community forum conducted at 7 p.m. April 29 in the Memorial Union to address student concerns and to allow dialogue from students about the riot, she said.

“This is a good opportunity for students to voice their concerns,” she said.

She said the forum will be moderated by Ames City Councilman Matthew Goodman and will have members of the city council and police department there to answer questions from students.

The forum will be open to all community members, not just students, she said.

Many senate members said they were concerned about the role students will have in the investigation of police actions, and how the police will be handling complaints from students about police action.

Tony Borich, GSB design senator, said he was concerned with what process the police will be using to evaluate the officers’ actions.

“I would like to know where did [the police] expect them to go at midnight,” said Ben Albright, GSB agriculture senator.

Andrew Tugan, GSB liaison to the Ames City Council, said the police department will present a report concerning what happened during the riots at the next council meeting on Tuesday.

The police department will be launching an investigation headed by the Internal Affairs department due to the number of officers involved in the riot, Tugan said.

“I still have concerns; there are still some things that don’t make sense,” he said.

He said the police had not yet decided how to handle complaints due to the amount and the nature of the complaints made against them.

Many of the complaints were from people who said they were unnecessarily pepper-sprayed, he said.

“Since our president decided to apologize for the students, I want you guys to get an apology from the police department,” said Coryon Byerly, senior in sociology.

Henry Alliger, speaker of the senate, said if anyone felt he or she needed an apology, the police department would do so if the person called and told them what happened.

James Vogl, GSB liberal arts and sciences senator, said he wanted to know what tactics the police used, and what the difference between crowd control and riot techniques were.

The police used crowd-control techniques as a way to disperse the riot and to get people to go home, Tugan said.