The fate of the Iowa State Daily’s student-fees funding will be decided by the Government of the Student Body Senate Wednesday night, after the GSB Finance Committee released its investigation findings Saturday.

GSB Finance Director Steve Medanic met with Daily Editor in Chief Carrie Tett Friday, after the senate voted 20-15 to launch an investigation on the Daily to look into possible infractions of funding regulations.

Medanic reported Saturday at a GSB Finance Committee hearing that he found no reason to decrease the Daily’s funding, despite arguments from Jeremy Peterson, business, who said the Daily violated funding bylaws.

Peterson said the Daily – which is slated to receive $89,000 in student-fees generated money through GSB – should take a cut because two posters advertising open editor positions did not have “Funded by GSB” printed on them.

He also said he did not find the phrase on the Daily’s Web site until late last week.

Peterson said the finance committee, which recommended a $20,000 decrease in Veishea’s budget last year for a similar infraction, needs to treat each group equally.

“I think that’d be a bad precedent to set,” Peterson said. “I’m asking the finance committee for a decrease, but not necessarily a large or substantial decrease.”

However, the finance committee voted 6-0 to accept Medanic’s investigation findings and make the same $89,000 recommendation for Daily funding to the senate.

“With Veishea, it was an ongoing problem, year after year,” Medanic said, pointing out that Veishea, Inc., broke the bylaw four years in a row and only received a warning for the first violation. “This is the first time this has come up [with the Daily].”

Andrew Kothenbeutel, member of the finance committee, said cutting the Daily’s funding is not the best way to deal with the situation.

“The way I look at it, a decrease right now would be unwarranted,” he said. “It’s taking too large of a step too quickly, and it sets a precedent of us being too harsh to deal with students.”

Medanic said supplements to the student newspaper, such as the weekly High Note entertainment section, sports special sections and other supplements do not need special acknowledgment of GSB funding because they fall under the Daily’s masthead, where the Daily’s student-fee funding is explained in every issue of the paper.

The recommendation for the Daily’s funding will be presented to the senate for the second time Wednesday night, Medanic said, and senators will make the final determination.

“I’d rather take an understanding view than a harsh view,” he said.