Students will have a chance Wednesday to directly ask questions of university officials involved in the decision to move student tailgaters away from Jack Trice Stadium.

At its next meeting, the Government of the Student Body will focus on the process leading up to the parking decision rather than the decision itself.

Vice President for Student Affairs Thomas Hill said GSB will be asking questions at its next meeting which, in his opinion, have already been asked and answered.

Hill and ISU Athletic Department Director Bruce Van De Velde will be on hand at GSB’s Wednesday meeting to answer questions from students and senators regarding the university’s decision to move student tailgaters away from the stadium and allow National Cyclone Club members to have the lots previously used by the public. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the Campanile Room of the Memorial Union.

Specifically, GSB will be able to discuss with officials GSB’s pending decision about reducing funding to the athletic department through a cut in the amount of student fees allocated to it. The vote was postponed last week to allow for more discussion between administrators and GSB on the issue.

The resolution, if passed, would take away an estimated $662,750 from the smallest athletic department budget in the Big 12.

Speaker of the Senate and primary author of the bill Tony Luken said he wrote the resolution as a way to make the Office of Student Affairs, Dean of Students and ISU Athletic Department officials accountable for not including students in the process of moving student tailgating.

He said he will only be focusing on the decision-making process during the meeting.

“It’s my intent to discuss nothing but the process at the meeting. We’re not even at the point of discussing the decision,” Luken said.

“If we’re not involved in the decision, then I’m not about to talk about the merits of the decision, because it’s tainted. I’m going to focus on why we weren’t included, because it’s more important that we were not consulted.”

Hill said the process has already been described and addressed.

“What else can you ask? They’ve asked why students haven’t been included and we’ve addressed that. We said it was an oversight. They asked what we would do to ensure it wouldn’t happen again.

“Well, you can’t guarantee it won’t happen again, but we’ve put two students on the [National Cyclone Club] Board, who have said they would consult students before they make any decisions on the board. We’ve also publicly stated we are willing to work closely with students. I don’t know what else [GSB] can do,” he said.

Hill said he is confused as to why GSB continues to bring up the issue of the decision-making process, and some clarification may be needed.

“The [National Cyclone Club] grew, and we needed to make space for them. So we moved general public parking. We didn’t specifically move students or single them out,” he said.

“When you move the general public, who do you invite to a meeting about that decision from the public?… There are so many people and groups that make up the public. Who would have thought students when thinking about the public? I didn’t.”

College of Agriculture Senator Henry Alliger said he believes the parking issue has been “blown out of proportion,” and trying to teach the ISU Athletic Department a lesson for not including students is not the right way to go about insuring students are included in future decisions.

“Taking money away will only hurt students and not advance our cause of trying to get students closer,” he said.

“I don’t see the leverage it gains us.”

Alliger said the resolutions GSB has introduced so far are only fragments that are getting the body nowhere.

“If what we are really trying to do is get students closer, the way to do it is us working with them and coming to a compromise everyone will agree with,” he said.