The Inter-Residence Hall Association will vote to impeach one of its members and to approve its budget for next year at its meeting on Thursday.

A new bill to re-ratify the agreement with USA Today for the Readership Program in the residence halls will also be voted on.

“Last year we approved the Newspaper Readership Program that provides newspapers for our residents to read,” said Dave Boike, IRHA vice president.

“IRHA has the power to review that decision every year, so this bill will re-ratify the terms of the agreement for next year.”

IRHA President Paul Duncan said he thinks everyone will approve continuing the program.

“This is the first full year that the Readership Program has been in place,” Duncan said. “I think it’s been a great success. The numbers have steadily increased ever since it began and ever since we made the stands more accessible. I’ve only had positive feedback.”

Election results for the new IRHA president and vice president will also be announced at the end of the meeting, Boike said.

Two slates are running: Heather Minish, IRHA director of special events, with Amber Hoermann, UDA vice president; and Keith Twombley, TRA president, with Jessi Raim, UDA at-large representative.

IRHA will also vote on impeaching BLFF/N representative Sarai Arnold at Thursday night’s meeting.

IRHA bylaws state members are subject to impeachment after accumulating more than three unexcused absences, which Arnold has.

“They haven’t contacted me yet,” said Arnold, freshman in biology. “The people that I sent know why I’m not going.”

Arnold has been missing meetings because of her participation in mock trial. Arnold said because she is her hall’s president, the responsibility of going to IRHA meetings falls on her.

“They used to have a position you applied for, and nobody else wanted to do it so they made the hall president go,” she said. “I can’t always go, so I sent my vice president, but IRHA doesn’t have anything in their bylaws to deal with this kind of thing. I was dedicated to mock trial first.”

Arnold said her hall hasn’t suffered from her missing meetings. Although she isn’t concerned about being impeached from IRHA, she said she will be upset if it means stepping down from the hall president position.

“If this goes to trial I will fight it, if for no other reason than that it’s unfair,” she said. “Even if I haven’t been at meetings, I still fulfill my duties as president.”

Duncan, however, said Arnold was contacted about the impeachment.

“Boike said he e-mailed her and we never got a response,” Duncan said. He also said if impeached, Arnold will have to give up being hall president.

“Her voting and speaking rights in the IRHA parliament would be removed so her constituents know she is not representing them well,” he said. “The hall president is charged with being the IRHA representative – it’s one of the duties.”

IRHA will also vote on its budget for next year, the terms and conditions order and a conferences bill intending to make those attending conferences funded by IRHA more accountable for what they learn.

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