Student government to debate funding, amend impeachment process

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President Julian Neely addresses his fellow Student Government members during their first meeting of the spring semester Jan. 16 in the Campanile Room of the Memorial Union. During the meeting they elected Jacob Schrader, current IRHA senator, to be chair of the civic engagement committee and confirmed Emily Rizvic as new election commissioner.

Madelyn Ostendorf

After last week’s cancellation, Student Government will catch up on a funding bill and bylaw amendment as well as the seating of a new senator Wednesday.

Chabad on Campus, a student organization aimed at providing a traditional Jewish experience and a home away from home for Jewish students and the student body as a whole, is requesting $3,050 to host an event called “Memories of a Child Survivor of the Holocaust.”

The funding would help to cover the food, lodging and travel for the speaker, as well as the standard speaker’s fee.

The Senate will also see a bylaw amendment to “Reflect Accurate Impeachment Process for Election Commission”. The bill, introduced by Speaker Cody Woodruff and Vice Speaker Kelsey Culbertson, aims to update the current bylaws to reflect the Election Commission’s change to a student organization.

Zach Mass, a junior in software engineering, will be seated as a voting senator on the Interfraternity Council (IFC) prior to the resignation of the previous IFC senator.

Ten items of new business will be read in, eight of which are funding bills.

For more information or to contact your senator, visit stugov.iastate.edu. The senate meetings are open to the public on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the Campanile Room of the Memorial Union.