The announcement of the winners of the Inter-Residence Hall Association elections will be announced at Thursday’s IRHA meeting.

Voting for candidates took place from midnight Tuesday to midnight Wednesday.

Justin Rasmussen, Richardson Court Association president, ran unopposed for vice president. “I’m pretty confident,” he said about the announcement.

Rasmussen said he had been encouraging residence hall students to vote.

Also at the meeting, former IRHA President Keith Twombley will be giving a special program to members. In an e-mail to Vice President Jessi Raim, Twombley requested to be put on the agenda in order to explain his resignation to parliament.

Several bills will also be voted on at the meeting, including one to approve IRHA’s budget for next year and one making a separate newspaper account for the USA Today Readership Program, which uses residence hall student fees to provide newspapers for residence hall students.

One new bill calls for IRHA to fund the start up of the American Foundrymen Society, said James Vogl, Helser representative and co-author of the bill. The society is open to all individuals interested in developing their casting and welding skills, he said.

Most of the members of the group are materials science engineering, Vogl said. He said it is important for IRHA to help fund the start up because most of the members live in the residence halls. The only other chapter of the club nationwide is at the University of Northern Iowa, Vogl said.

Another bill that will be introduced at the meeting calls for a change in the number of signatures required from students from each association to be eligible to run for a position in IRHA. Formerly, 100 signatures were required from each association. The bill calls for at least 50 signatures to be obtained from all associations but still requires the same 300 signatures, said Colleen Prosser, Towers Residence Association treasurer and co-author of the bill.

She said it is unrealistic for people to be required to get 100 signatures from TRA residents. With the closing of Storms in fall 2003 and Knapp in spring 2004, the population of TRA residents will not be much higher than 100 students, Prosser said.

Another bill calls for a change in voting procedure. As it currently stands, hall representatives can send a substitute to stand in their place at meetings and voice the association’s opinion, but these stand-ins cannot vote.

Prosser said the policy is unfair because “students cannot control the night tests are scheduled.” The bill states the excused person can find a replacement who can vote if the replacement is on the association or hall council executive board.

“We are just trying to make sure student voices get heard,” she said.

The third bill addresses the impeachment rights of IRHA. Currently, when an association president, at-large representative, treasurer and hall representative miss their third meeting, IRHA draws up impeachment papers and sends out a letter to the association of which the person belongs.

However, IRHA is not the body who seats the representatives, Prosser said. The associations seat representatives, yet IRHA has the power to say “you’re gone,” she said. The bill calls for a change in requirements for a member to be impeached. Prosser said the goal of the bill is to set the same standards for all voting members and make it more fair.

The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Wallace-Wilson conference room.