The Government of the Student Body tabled their Veishea resolution for another week at Wednesday night’s meeting.

Many senators said they postponed voting on the Veishea resolution because they had not received a lot of feedback from student organizations and students about making Veishea an alcohol-free celebration.

Thomas Hill, vice president for student affairs, was present at the meeting to present his views on the pledge, and to ask for students’ opinions.

“I believe a dry Veishea means just that,” Hill said. “I cannot support a student taking the alcohol-free pledge while intending to drink.”

Hill urged the Iowa State student body to express their honest feelings about the issue.

“It would be helpful to hear [students’] reactions to the pledge,” Hill said.

Milton McGriff, non-traditional, expressed his concern about Hill implying all Ames residents take the pledge for a dry Veishea.

“I think to assume both faculty and staff, as well as many students who are well over the age of 25 to [take the pledge] is very unreasonable,” McGriff said.

McGriff requested ISU cancel Veishea for one year in the memory of stabbing death victim Harold “Uri” Sellers.

“I don’t know if this means a permanent dry Veishea,” McGriff said. “I think, with the no-alcohol pledge, this year, [the administration] is trying to have it both ways.”

Hill said he wants students to make an “honor pledge” when deciding to make Veishea an alcohol-free celebration.

“I think we need to depend on people’s integrity,” Hill said.

Wade Demmer, RCA, said some students said they are considering taking the pledge.

“I think a lot of people are treating this like a regular weekend,” Demmer said. “The pledge doesn’t mean they’re not going to drink; they’re just going to drink less.”

Hill and several GSB members urged students to attend the Veishea forum on Friday with President Martin Jischke, in order to find out students’ feelings on a possible alcohol-free celebration.

The meeting will be held at noon in the Gallery Room of the Memorial Union.

Other Veishea possibilities were presented by a political science class.

Some of the ideas included moving the Taste of Veishea to central campus, doubling the fines and punishments for offenders during Veishea weekend, and lowering the bar age to 19 during Veishea weekend.

The class reasoned that lowering the bar age would reduce people from Welch Avenue, and the bars would offer more alternative entertainment for students, such as pool, darts, etc.

The class maintained the main offenders during recent Veishea weekends are not ISU students. They cited through their research that student arrests decreased from 96 arrests/citations in 1996 to 85 in 1997.

Although the class received several challenges from several of the senators on their proposals, GSB President Rob Weise reminded the senate that these were only suggestions.

“We don’t even know if we’re going to have a Veishea this year,” Weise said.

In other news

• A bill to fund KURE was also discussed. The campus radio station would receive funds to beef up their security and help replace several pieces of stolen equipment. The station was robbed earlier this September.

“I don’t think KURE has done their homework on this bill,” Mike Pogge, LAS, said. “If it gets voted down tonight, they’ll be back here in a month.”

KURE was requesting more than $5,200 to help get their station back on its feet. Pogge voiced concern that the money wouldn’t be well-spent by KURE.

KURE’s bill was passed by a vote of 21 to 5.

“We at KURE think GSB has done a great service,” Lewis Henderickson, treasurer of KURE and a junior in accounting, said. “We’re happy GSB is going to help KURE get back to its established quality, before the break-in.”

• Allan Nosworthy’s hunger strike was also mentioned during the meeting. Nosworthy, member of The September 29th Movement and a graduate student in creative writing, is in day four of his hunger strike.

Nosworthy has stated that he will continue his strike until eight of his proposals for increasing diversity at ISU are met by the university.

The bill asks for GSB to support Nosworthy’s convictions, if not his actions.

• Dimitris Kouzoudis was seated as an international senator.

• Demmer was also seated as RCA senator.

• A line-item transfer to provide GSB headquarters with new computers was passed unanimously.