The voice, opinions and discontents of ISU students will be represented this year through the two new top executives of the Government of the Student Body. GSB President Ben Golding and Vice President Lisa Dlouhy both came into office with a background of campus involvement. Golding, senior in construction engineering from Cedar Rapids, has been participating in campus events since he arrived at Iowa State. He has served on the Freshman Council, Engineering Student Council, Veishea and the Associated General Contractors before serving a two-year term as GSB engineering senator. Dlouhy, senior in genetics from Bettendorf, also brings experience to her position. Dlouhy’s past activities include president of Fosmark House in Oak Hall, Veishea and both off-campus and RCA student governments. She served with Golding on the senate when she was appointed as an off-campus senator for the 1999-2000 school year. Despite the magnitude of their prior accomplishments, Golding and Dlouhy both remain humble. “There is no single activity that one can do to get himself or herself elected president,” Golding said. “It’s more about the amount of work you’re willing to put in.” Golding and Dlouhy wasted no time getting started on their goals for GSB. “A lot of our time was spent strategizing, getting the cabinet organized and coming up with new ideas for the school year,” Golding said. The biggest and most urgent of all of the topics the executives said they will face this year will be the upcoming tuition debates involving the state Legislature and the Board of Regents. “Our summer was spent collecting information, setting forth proposals and planning for the upcoming tuition debate,” Dlouhy said. Because the state cut its funding for the regent universities, Iowa State, the University of Northern Iowa and the University of Iowa will have to raise tuition to cover the difference. To try to counteract the likely tuition hikes, all three Iowa regent universities are coming together for the first time to present their cases to the Board of Regents. “We have all three schools working together for a proposal to the board, which discusses the significant increase,” Golding said. “UNI, Iowa and Iowa State met to get this joint proposal ready for presentation.” The proposal is aimed to avoid a double-digit percentage increase in tuition for the 2001-2002 academic year. “Many students can’t afford school as it is right now,” Dlouhy said. “We see any increase as being too high, and we want more sympathy given to the ones that this directly affects – the students. Simply put, this is a matter of keeping tuition as low as possible and education accessible for as many people as possible. This really is going to be a huge battle.” To fight the battle, Golding said GSB needs support from the entire student body. “Letters to the Board of Regents and the state Legislature stating our case could give us momentum,” he said. Other plans for this year include a co-sponsorship of the Fall Gala, which will involve students, faculty and alumni and will concentrate on the university theme, “Focus on the Family to Become the Best.” Other plans include a campaign to keep the Memorial Union student-owned and student-run and a possible overhaul of the student evaluation process that takes place at the end of every semester. With intensity stirring and debates brewing this year with the possible tuition increase, Golding and Dlouhy said GSB will have its work cut out for it this year. The GSB Senate held its first meeting of the semester Wednesday night. Issues addressed mainly dealt with staffing needs for GSB including: Confirmation of Josh Brown as a Supreme Court Associate Justice by Wisher and Johnson. Seating of the GSB Finance Committee including: Melissa Brunia, Andrew Kothenbeutel, and Alex Olson as senate representatives; Brooke Sergeant as alternate senate representative; Paul Duncan, John Longobardi, and Richard Prestigard as at-large representatives; Ian Liggitt as alternate at-large representative; and Rob Wiese as advisor to the committee by Wisher and Brunia. T.J. Schneider as Co-director of Academic Affairs by Wisher and Olson. Bruce Adami as Graduate College Representative to GSB by Johnson and Olson.