Earlier this month, you probably received an e-mail inviting you to take a survey for the Government of the Student Body. GSB was very fortunate to have 1,565 students, who generally match the campus demographics, respond. From the results of the survey, 10 conclusions have been drawn regarding debt, job prospects, fees, and other campus [...]

Executive Announcements
February 25, 2009
Textbook Tax Exemption Update: The Iowa Senate has now also filed a bill to exempt taxes on textbooks for both Public and Private Post-secondary students at all businesses primarily selling textbooks. There were 15 co-sponsors for this bill, including Quirmbach, Danielson, Dotzler, Bolkom, Stewart, Beall, Schmitz, Heckroth, Olive, Appel, Kibbie, Black, Sodders, [...]

I’ve heard that we’re not accessible enough, that posting the agenda and the minutes aren’t enough, and that some people are tired of having their meticulously divined blog posts moved down the list by the weekly GSB Cabinet posts. So, welcome to a new running feature I like to call: Senate Preview! [...]

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2-18-09 Meeting Minutes

By Rick Hanton, GSB Director of IT

Off-Campus Housing Website: I have been working alongside Liaison Tracy to form a plan for an off-campus housing website (similar to the U of Iowa’s site) designed to provide tenants and landlords with pertinent laws and information and to provide an easy tenant-landlord link for those seeking housing [...]

Off-Campus Housing

The Off-Campus Housing website is moving along well. I received a lot of good feedback from various senators at my meeting a few weeks ago and we feel that we have a pretty good idea of what we want to do with it and what features we would and would not like [...]