The Inter-Residence Hall Association will stop funding ISU’s radio station, KURE in July.

At Thursday’s meeting IRHA will vote to update its by-laws and decide on a bill that would allot $1,500 for the purchase of a Web server for the organization’s Web page.

Among other things, the changes in the by-laws will remove the director of information technology from the radio station KURE’s board, since the station will not be funded by IRHA beginning July 1, 2003.

Colleen Prosser, Towers Residence Association treasurer, said IRHA originally began funding KURE so the station could buy new equipment.

“Back in the seventies, [KURE] didn’t actually have very good equipment and you couldn’t hear them outside of Friley,” she said.

“They were very much a dorm-only radio station and so it made sense for different residence hall groups to fund them.”

However, Prosser said now that KURE has better equipment and can be heard beyond the residence halls, it is not practical for IRHA to continue to fund them with student money.

The Government of the Student Body and KURE agreed to phase out IRHA funding and this is the last year in the process.

“We shouldn’t make them have somebody from [the IRHA] exec be able to sit on the board if we’re not giving them any money,” Prosser said. “That’s not fair to them.”

IRHA President Keith Twombley said if approved, a new web server will make the Internet site more accessible to students.

“It will separate out the tasks of daily office work from serving the Web site of IRHA,” he said.

“Currently IRHA’s Web site is having problems because it is run from a desktop computer.”

He said a server would make the Web site more reliable and available.

The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the Union Drive Association Suite Building 1 conference room.