The ISU College Republicans will have a float in the Veishea parade, following a week of debate between the Republican student group and the Veishea parade committee.

The agreement was made Wednesday after a three-hour meeting between the president of the ISU College Republicans, Vice President for Student Affairs Thomas Hill and the co-chairpersons of the Veishea committee.

“What it boiled down to was a big miscommunication,” said Josh Reicks, president of the ISU College Republicans.

“I laid out my timeline and the Veishea parade co-chairs laid down theirs. Both of us were incorrect.”

The Veishea parade committee originally rejected the float because the Republicans missed the Feb. 25 application deadline by two days.

However, when the committee sent the ISU College Republicans the rejection letter, the committee’s official reason was the ISU College Republicans’ float wasn’t entertaining enough.

“We received a generic rejection letter for all non-traditional floats — that our float didn’t have enough entertainment value,” Reicks said.

“The letter made it sound like they didn’t like our political nature.”

The ISU College Republicans appealed the decision at a March 31 Veishea meeting, where the Veishea committee told the Republicans they were rejected for the missed deadline, not a lack of entertainment value.

The debate between the groups intensified until the Veishea committee realized it gave the ISU College Republicans a wrong parade form that had a Feb. 27 deadline.

Both groups recognized their mistakes. Reicks said the ISU College Republicans erred by not checking the deadlines on the form.

The Veishea parade committee said they erred by giving the Republicans the wrong reason for rejection.

“It was an error on our part,” said Matt Bornhorst, Veishea parade co-chairman. “When we sent the first rejection letter out, we gave them the wrong impression.”

Both parties agreed the problem would have been solved sooner if they had simply met and discussed the issues.

“In retrospect, from the beginning we should have sat down and worked it out,” Reicks said. “All it took was coming together.”