Tony Luken, current Government of the Student Body speaker of the senate, was seated as the Inter-Residence Hall Association vice president at Thursday’s IRHA meeting.

A bill to fund promotional costs of the “Got Ignorance?” campaign was passed after extensive debate. Vice President Luken cast the tie-breaking vote.

“[This is a] good campaign for all of Iowa State,” said Timini McDonald, Wallace Hall representative and co-author of the bill. The bill was also under heavy debate at association senate meetings, said members of IRHA.

The Towers senate was split on whether the bill should be passed, so one member of Towers Residence Association voted yes and the other voted no to represent the constituents, said TRA President Dave Breutzmann.

TRA Treasurer Colleen Prosser said she didn’t like the bill, but she liked the purpose of the campaign. Birch-Welch-Roberts Representative Clinton Middaugh agreed with Breutzmann and said BWR was split on the decision to support the bill. Eric Peters, Willow Hall representative and IRHA president-elect, said, “the heart of the bill is there.”

The money is for a “good cause even though the bill is messy,” said Jennie Erwin, Union Drive Association president.

A billing asking for $1,500 for start-up costs for the American Foundrymen Society was passed. Brandon Judas, Union Drive Association at-large representative, said AFS is a great organization, which will teach anyone what they want to know about metals. President Jessi Raim also serves as the society’s vice president.

The organization’s current impeachment laws will remain the same because a bill calling for a change was defeated. “People who you don’t represent shouldn’t be able to remove you,” said Breutzmann, co-author of the bill.

IRHA members should only have the right to remove executives that IRHA chooses, Breutzmann said. However, said Andy Tugan, Linden Hall representative, only IRHA members have the experience with other members to know if they are accountable.

Beginning next year, members of IRHA will be able to have a qualified voting substitute at meetings when members cannot attend due to an excused absence. Until the bill goes into affect, a substitute can appear in place of association presidents, at-large representatives and treasurers. Breutzmann said, hall representatives voices are equally, if not more important than other members, who are currently allowed to have voting substitutes. A bill changing the number of required signatures in a petition to run for an IRHA position, from 100 signatures to 50, was also passed.

The Student Environmental Council also presented to IRHA about re-starting the recycling program in the residence halls.