An apparently routine bill at Wednesday night’s Government of the Student Body meeting sparked questions about potential misuse of GSB funds.

The bill, titled “Healing Racism in America,” is a proposal to allocate $750 from the senate discretionary fund to help set up a series of workshops for approximately 30 Iowa State students for the diagnosis of racism and the discussion of how to establish racial justice, equality and unity.

Or at least that was what was supposed to happen.

On Tuesday night Senators Chris Juhl, design seat, and Mark Nimmer, OCC seat, attended a preliminary meeting for the establishment of the workshops.

After attending the meeting Juhl and Nimmer decided to have their names taken off the list of those sponsoring the bill.

Tuesday’s meeting was run by Timothy Radloff, a graduate student in sociology, the same man who would be in charge of the workshops if they were approved and funded.

Nimmer said he did not approve of the way the workshop was being set up or run that night.

“I didn’t like the way the meeting for the workshop was handled. It seemed like the agenda of one man,” he said.

Juhl agreed with Nimmer’s view of Radloff.

“I went to the meeting to see what people’s views on racism are. All the speaker was interested in talking about was the problem of white supremacy. The person that was running this last night is the person that will be running it later, and I personally don’t think this is the way these things should be run,” Juhl said.

Nimmer added another example of problems he had with the leader of Tuesday’s meeting.

“An Iranian man stood up and wanted to talk about how racism affected him here and in his own country and was basically told to sit down,” Nimmer said.

Another problem that arose was the lack of ISU students participating in an activity that was to be funded by ISU.

“The bill says 30 ISU students are to attend this. A sign-up sheet was being passed around and at least 15 of those names on it were not ISU students. Counting the graduate students there, there was a total of six Iowa State students,” Juhl said.

GSB President Adam Gold then spoke out.

“Less than 15 of these names were students? I think we have to be very careful that the money is being spent for ISU students,” Gold said.

A motion was then passed to table the bill. The bill will be reevaluated and voted on at next week’s GSB meeting on Wednesday, October 2.