Faculty Senate President Christie Pope will meet with the Board of Regents Wednesday to request the removal of Martin C. Jischke’s name from the new Honors Building.

The concern about the name stems from the controversial nature of Jischke’s presidency and the five-year waiting period for the naming of a building after a faculty member, said Max Wortman, president-elect of the Faculty Senate.

Pope met last week with Board of Regents President Owen Newlin. She said Newlin told her there was no inclination on the part of the Regents to change the building’s name.

There has been debate about the naming of the building after former President Jischke, especially regarding the violation of a university policy of waiting five years after a faculty member leaves before naming a building after him or her.

“It’s very important that the faculty opinion be heard. The Board of Regents is somewhat isolated from the faculty, and it would be useful to them to have better communication with the faculty,” Pope said.

“We are trying to establish a precedent of the Faculty Senate being able to talk to the Board of Regents if the university president does not agree with us,” Wortman said.

Pope said she will be reading the resolution the Faculty Senate passed and will attempt to answer any questions the Regents pose.

The Regents have a policy that the faculty senate of any university may not have contact with the Regents unless the president of the university agrees.

“We feel strongly that there is not sufficient communication between the Faculty Senate and the Board of Regents,” Wortman said.

The Faculty Senate passed a motion March 5 resolving to rescind Jischke’s name from the Honors Building. President Gregory Geoffroy told the Senate he couldn’t support the name change because the Regents had made their decision almost two years ago. The Senate reaffirmed its position on the name March 26, deciding to go directly to the Regents.

“Constitution of the Faculty Senate mandates that the president of the university request that [the faculty] be invited to speak to the Regents when they differ with the president,” Pope said.

Jischke left Iowa State in August 2000 to be president of Purdue University. The Regents approved his name for the Honors Building in July 2000.