A new technology committee was created at Wednesday’s Government of the Student Body meeting.

The committee, which will oversee GSB/SUB Computer Lab technology issues, will be a standing committee.

The bill, sponsored by Sen. Jamey Hansen, passed 27-1. Hansen was later seated as the committee’s chairman by GSB Vice President Jennifer Sulentic.

Hansen said the bill would allow the Technology Committee to make recommendations to the Student Union Board and GSB about technology funding in the lab, which is used by both organizations.

Past bills have been sent to the Finance Committee for recommendations and then sent back to the Senate, only to have a vote further postponed.

“This is a cooperative committee,” Hansen said. “This committee can take care of issues, come to compromises on issues, make recommendations, bring them to the Senate, bring them to the SUB.”

The Technology Committee, as stated by the bill, will incorporate representatives from both organizations. The committee will consist of three voting members from SUB, three from GSB and three nonvoting members.

This portion of the proposal ran into some opposition.

“The Senate should have some authority … It’s the Senate’s committee,” Sen. Brian Hille said. Hille made a failed amendment to add two more senators to the committee structure.

Sen. Stein Avloes said increasing the number of members would be useless. Instead, he suggested there be no Senate committee members.

As a standing committee, the Technology Committee will exist permanently unless it’s dissolved by the Senate. It will be added to the GSB Bylaws at the end of the academic year.

In other business:

*Chad Stevens was appointed as a new Supreme Court justice.

*The following people were appointed as members of the Student Fees Oversight Committee: Brian Allen, John Holtan, Adam Obrecht and Jason Waldron, all GSB senators; and Stephanie Carney-Micheals and Daniel Faidley, at-large members.

*Brian Allen was selected as an alternate member of the finance committee

*Recommendations regarding allocations made by the Finance Committee were approved by the Senate, 29-1.

*Criteria regarding the funding for student organizations for the 1995-96 fiscal year were passed, 32-0.

*Students and Staff Against AIDS was granted funding for World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, 20-8.