It’s time for round two.

Students battling a McDonald’s in the Hub are once again planning a protest rally.

The group of protesters — self-named the ISU Activist’s “People Against the McUniversity” subcommittee — is having a meeting tonight to plan an anti-McDonald’s rally for next week.

The meeting will be held tonight in Room 230, The Drummer office, of the Memorial Union at 7:00 p.m.

John Scriver, one of the protest organizers, said this is a planning meeting for the next “McRally,” scheduled for Sept. 12 at noon. The location has yet to be announced.

Discussion at the meeting tonight will focus on executing tangible, hands-on tasks for the upcoming rally, Scriver said.

“If you are interested in taking an active role in the formation of a long-term coalition amongst campus progressives, then I strongly encourage you to attend this planning meeting,” Scriver said.

He said members from all progressive groups on campus and in the Ames community are encouraged to attend.

Drew Chebuhar, protest organizer, said the meeting tonight is to decide what type of rally to organize.

“We also need to prepare for the possibility of a counter-demonstration,” Chebuhar said.

Chebuhar said students who have been gone all summer should realize that this is an important issue for the campus.

“They should realize there are a lot better options than greaseball, fast food places in the middle of campus,” he said.

He said a lot of the protests against putting McDonald’s in the Hub are nutrition based. He said he does not think it is in the best interest of the university’s mission to have the only food option on central campus be fast food.

“If anything, I’d rather see some sort of a student-run facility. Let’s take the brainpower of the great faculty and staff on campus we have and put it to work,” Chebuhar said.

Rob Ruminski, freshmen and organizer of the protest, said when he arrived at Iowa State he tried to find out what the important issues on campus were.

“Almost as soon as I got here people started telling me about McDonald’s and the corporatization without representation issue,” Ruminski said.

The big issue, he said, is the fact that an institution of higher learning is being threatened with having corporate symbols on central campus.

Another issue is that the university is taking a resource away that really served students in the past.

“This really needs to be stopped,” Ruminski said.

To other incoming freshmen and the rest of the students, Ruminski said everyone should get involved in this issue.

“Part of the college experience is getting as informed as you can about the issues that affect your life.

“Students should use the college environment to learn the idea if they want things changed they’re going to have to do something about it,” Ruminski said.