The Inter-Residence Hall Association will vote tonight to decide whether or not to approve the new director of academic affairs position.

It will also view some changes made to the academic affairs office, IRHA officials said.

IRHA President Paul Duncan said he has chosen Natasha Krentz, sophomore in aerospace engineering, as the new director of academic affairs. He said she fulfills the requirement to be a member of The Order of Rose and Chessman and has background in student government.

“Natasha has laid out a very concise plan on what she wants to see accomplished with ORC and the academic affairs position this year,” he said.

Krentz served on the Union Drive Association Programming Board last year as secretary, and she said she is excited to fill the position. “Every year we have a [resident adviser], house and student of the year,” she said. “I would like to change that to make it monthly; that is one of my main goals.”

She also said she wants ORC members get more involved with the community. “I want to form an outreach group that will go to area elementary schools and talk to them about why learning is important,” she said.

Also, two bylaw bills will be presented to the parliament concerning academic affairs. The first will ask to change requirements of the director of special events and academic affairs, said IRHA Vice President Steve Skutnik.

“The director of special events will be releasing the responsibility of planning a cultural and educational event and giving it to director of academic affairs,” he said.

The other bylaw bill will lower the number of required representatives from each association on the academic affairs committee.

Two other bills, one concerning a maintenance policy which will contain all repairs needed in the residence halls, will be proposed. If approved by parliament, the list will be sent to the Department of Residence, Skutnik said.

The other bill, proposed by the residence hall homecoming team, asks for $1,000 from the IRHA special events account.

“The money will cover the required T-shirt costs, registration fees, advertising fees and others,” Skutnik said.