After Monday night’s nominations and elections, the Graduate Student Senate has a new president — Juana Nolasco-Cedillo.

Nolasco-Cedillo, a graduate student in professional studies and a GSS member, won the vote for the GSS presidency.

After the election, Nolasco-Cedillo emphasized a “comprehensive program” of graduate student orientation as a priority for her administration. She said library and campus tours would be extremely beneficial to incoming graduate students.

The newly elected president also said she would work with President Martin Jischke and the Iowa Legislature to implement full tuition remission at Iowa State.

This program, which is in effect at many other universities, would provide graduate assistants with full tuition scholarships. Nolasco-Cedillo said ISU graduate assistant students now receive only partial tuition payments.

Outgoing president Kevin Ragland welcomed his successor and said “raising graduate student awareness” of campus events was the most important achievement of his term.

During the meeting’s open forum, members of three GSB executive slates spoke to the Senate.

Presidential candidate Rory Flaherty, a junior in construction engineering, told GSS he would schedule noon meetings with students in order to “earn their trust back.”

Candidates Todd Swanson, a junior in accounting and finance, and Amber Powell, a junior in dietetics, talked of “communication and cooperation” between GSB executives and GSS. They also mentioned a desire to institute full tuition remission.

The third slate, Rob Wiese, a senior in agriculture studies and Matt McLaren, a junior in agriculture business, suggested a weekly campus radio call-in show and the creation of a Director of Minority Relations position as ways to improve GSB’s image. “We can’t afford to have GSB the way it is now,” they said.

In other business:

* The Senate unanimously passed a resolution supporting the “peaceful and spirited protest” of students at universities in the former republic of Yugoslavia.

Natasa Popovic, a graduate student in chemistry from Belgrade, Serbia, told senators that students’ academic freedoms are being violated in Yugoslavia.

* Senator Christina Gandhi, a graduate student in psychology, encouraged all graduate students to attend the spring social, which will be held at “The Zone,” a bar on Main Street, on March 27. She said free pizza and pop will be served from 6 to 8 p.m., with social time following dinner.