At their meeting last night, GSB senators voted 20-15 in favor of a motion to have the finance committee investigate the Iowa State Daily for violation of the GSB bylaws.

Sen. Jeremy Peterson claimed that GSB should decrease its funding to the Daily because last April, Carrie Tett, the newly-elected editor in chief, put up posters encouraging students to apply for work at the Daily.

The problem? The words “funded by GSB” were left off of the posters.

GSB bylaws state that printed materials by student organizations that receive money from GSB must include that information.

The Daily was notified by the GSB Finance Committee of the violation after the posters had already been put up, and since, has completely obeyed the bylaw.

It was a simple mistake by a newly-elected editor looking for more student participation in the paper.

If the finance committee decides to decrease the Daily’s funding and the senate approves, everyone involved will suffer.

First in line: ISU students.

As stated in the masthead on every Daily printed, “ISU students subscribe to the Iowa State Daily through activity fees paid to the Government of the Student Body.”

That is the only funding the Daily receives from GSB, and every penny of that money goes to the subscriptions for students.

If funding is cut, the Daily should be able to continue to print a paper everyday. But in order to do so, students would have to pay to get a subscription to the paper.

Why punish the students?

The motion to investigate the Daily for its “violations” is a waste of time for everyone involved: the finance committee, GSB senators, and the Daily itself.

The motion was petty and childish, completely ignorant of the effect it could have outside the walls of a weekly GSB meeting.

editorialboard: Carrie Tett, Jocelyn Marcus, Katie Goldsmith, Andrea Hauser and Tim Paluch