Saying he had gotten his point across, Government of the Student Body Senator Mark Holm dropped a resolution last night that called for a formal reprimand of the Iowa State Daily.

The revised resolution was critical of the Daily in several areas. It said: “The Iowa State Daily has consistently misrepresented the truth, has sensationalized issues [and] printed inaccurate information without appropriate research done.”

The Senate discussed the resolution at the end of its weekly meeting. Holm dropped the resolution after discussion. He said it was simply his intention to give Daily officials a wake-up call.

Senators failed to approve a motion to waive the first reading of the resolution, which would have allowed it to be voted on Wednesday, GSB’s last meeting of the semester.

Holm, liberal arts and sciences, presented about 230 signatures of students who said they were displeased with the Daily and wanted the resolution passed.

“… if this bill doesn’t pass I’m going to have all of them call you [senators] up and chew you out for not passing the bill,” Holm said.

During Holm’s discussion of the resolution, he cited errors in Wednesday’s Daily including a front-page photo of Darren Davis that should have been of Troy Davis, named a Heisman Trophy finalist Tuesday.

Several senators backed Holm. “I think this bill is a necessity,” said Senator Travis Keister, business. “I think it is important to take care of this semester.”

Others said GSB would be overstepping its bounds by passing the resolution.

Senator Milton McGriff, non-traditional, said the things the Daily gets right outweigh its mistakes. “Even the New York Times has corrections,” he said.

Daily Editor Chris Miller, who attended the meeting, said he was glad the resolution didn’t come to a vote. “Of course I’m pleased the issue has come to rest,” he said. “I’m still disappointed that our elected student leaders publicly condemned my organization without ever bringing any supposed problems to my attention.”

In other news

* GSB allocated funding to the ISU Sailing Club for new equipment.

* A resolution criticizing parking conditions on campus passed with a 20-6 vote after amendments were made.

“I think this is something that is good for the students, and it is something that the students want,” said Senator David Ammann, OCC.

Senator Amber Powell, OCC, said she is against lowering ticket fines. “By lowering ticket fines it will cause more chaos,” Powell said. “It’s going to drive people from the parking in the stadium to parking on campus.”

* After three weeks of discussion, a much-debated bill to purchase new computers for the GSB office was postponed indefinitely.

Adam Obrecht, agriculture, said the Senate was never going to come to a compromise on the bill, which dealt in part with a Macintosh/IBM debate.

“Why do we need new computers?” Obrecht asked. “We don’t. From what I hear from almost everybody, everything is working fine.”