The last Faculty Senate meeting for the semester will be “a big brou-ha-ha” with Board of Regents President Owen Newlin speaking to the Senate, said John Robyt, professor of biochemistry.

This will be the first time Faculty Senate members will get a chance to address a member of the Board of Regents since the April 17 meeting that dismissed a proposal by the Senate to postpone the naming of the new honors building after former university President Martin Jischke.

Robyt said he doesn’t think Newlin will be received very well by the Senate.

“It won’t be hostile, but it will be fairly cold,” he said.

Christine Pope, president of the Faculty Senate, has a more positive outlook.

“Iowa State faculty members are always polite and civil so I expect they will be so on the 7th,” Pope said.

She said it’s not required for the President of the Board of Regents to speak at a Faculty Senate meeting, but it is custom.

Robyt said in his six years as a senator the Regents’ president has only addressed the Faculty Senate twice.

“It’s a height of arrogance that he’s going to come after what he did,” Robyt said.

Newlin could not be reached for comment.

The Regents made the decision to name the honors building after Jischke without implementing the regular five-year waiting period.

“[The Regents] may try to justify themselves,” Robyt said. “However, in the past they haven’t tried to do that.”

In 1984, the library was dedicated to President William Parks and Ellen Parks two years before the president’s retirement. But Robyt said the bigger issue is that most people don’t want to see Jischke’s name used at all.

“No one disliked President Parks the way they disliked Jischke,” Robyt said. “Jischke was disliked roundly by faculty and students. He did a lot of damage here.”

Robyt said Newlin will probably try to resolve the naming issue.

“It’s going to be hard to patch things up,” he said.

The Faculty Senate is also expected to address budget issues with Newlin.

Pope said the Regents have not been trying hard enough to save Iowa’s three public universities from budget cuts. She said they need to take a stronger approach with state legislators.

“[The Board of Regents] have their lobbyists, but they need to take their case to the people of the state of Iowa,” Pope said. “The money that has been eliminated by the state legislature recently has been equal to the budget of UNI, so its like eliminating one of the universities in the state of Iowa. I don’t think most people realize that.”

Other items on the agenda include the seating of next year’s new senators and senate president and a motion by Tom Emmerson, professor of journalism and mass communication, to endorse the current efforts to make more records of the Iowa State Foundation open to the public.