A bill to seat a new vice president will be presented at the Inter-Residence Hall Association meeting Thursday.

Jessi Raim, the new president of IRHA, said she is planning on seating a vice president for the remainder of the academic year. The duties of the vice president include running the meetings and keeping parliament in order.

Raim became president after former president Keith Twombley resigned from the position April 1, leaving the vice-presidential seat vacant.

The American Foundrymen Society Hawkeye Chapter, a recently formed group of students who learn procedures for working with metals, will also request funding for startup costs from IRHA.

Jon Bolluyt, the society’s president and junior in materials engineering, attended last week’s meeting and fielded questions from members of parliament about the society.

Brandon Judas, Union Drive Association at-large representative, said the chances of the bill being passed are good, because all but two members belonging to the group live in the residence halls. Bolluyt speaking to IRHA “definitely helped out in explaining the purposes of the group,” Judas said.

Another bill up for vote will request funding for the “Got Ignorance?” campaign. Sarai Arnold, co-founder of the campaign and sophomore in biology, told members at the March 27 meeting that the purpose was to inform students about discriminatory acts that have occurred at Iowa State.

The rally for the campaign will be held in front of Parks Library at 12:30 p.m.

At the meeting, an update on the theft of the Towers Residence Association master key may also be given. The keys were taken from a student security officer’s residence hall room March 29.

Towers Residence Association President Dave Breutzmann said the locks have begun to be changed and the process is going well. The process of replacing individual room locks began Wednesday, he said.

The individual room locks should be finished by Friday for all of Towers, Breutzmann said, and then the exterior door locks will be changed. Because of safety concerns, the individual room locks were changed before the exterior doors, he said.

The ladies’ restrooms were the first locks to be changed for “understandable reasons,” Breutzmann said.

The President of the Student Environmental Council, Robert Dietz, said the group will be presenting a proposal to implement an increase in the recycling in the residence halls. The proposal calls for the campus recycling program to be brought up to the level it was before budget cuts, he said.

The meeting will be held 7 p.m. at the Gallery Room in the Memorial Union.