Eight members of Student Government will travel down to College Station, Texas, this weekend for the Conference of Student Government Associations.

The conference, held annually at Texas A&M University, is the main national student government conference in America, said Student Body President Katie Cox, who will join Senate Speaker Adam Weyhaupt; Kristin Rutter, vice president of academic affairs; Art Davis, vice president for student affairs; and senate members Jessica Catto, Joe Robbins, Hugh O’Hara and Yve Williams in attending the event.

Rutter said about 150 schools will send delegates to the conference, which will continue until next Tuesday.

Cox, Davis, Rutter and Weyhaupt also will give presentations to conference attendees about student fees and student representation on university committees and boards.

Davis and Weyhaupt will discuss their experience in giving a school’s student government more influence in the student fee application process, Rutter said.

“Our student government is unique in that we have a say on student fees,” Rutter said.

Cox and Rutter will talk about increasing student involvement in the university governing process – specifically, getting a student representative on a school’s Board of Trustees or its equivalent.

Illinois is the only state in the nation to require a student representative on a school’s BOT, Cox said.

The presentations will allow the four to help out students from across the United States, Cox said.

The other four Eastern delegates, meanwhile, will spend their time talking with students from other schools to learn what other student governments are doing and how they are solving problems from student fees to honor codes.

“The most important part of the conference is making contacts with student governments across the country,” Cox said.

Rutter, who attended the conference last year with Cox, Davis and Weyhaupt, said the trip is worthwhile.

“The four of us learned a great deal (last year),” Rutter said.