New Student Senate members and executives will be seated after election results are announced at Wednesday’s senate meeting.

Speaker of the Senate Joe Robbins will also deliver his second State of the Senate Address.

For the Students’ Voice party, Alison Mormino, a senior political science major, is running unopposed for Student Body President.

Also from Students’ Voice Marty Ruhaak, a sophomore history major, is running for vice president for public affairs against independent candidate Skye Brouwer, a biological sciences major.

Amy Leonard, a sophomore political science major, is running with Students’ Voice for vice president for financial affairs against Tim Edwards, a junior speech communication major with the Common Sense party.

Ronnie Deedrick, a sophomore political science major, is running on the Students’ Voice ticket against Justin Brinkmeyer, a senior geography and technology education major, for the position of vice president for academic affairs.

In other business, the senate will discuss a motion concerning $14,841 in Apportionment Board reserve money for new equipment in the Student Recreation Center.

The senate will also address a bill calling for senate support of a tuition hike, a bylaw change concerning diversity and a senate resolution concerning a controversy over Illinois Monetary Assistance Program (IMAP) grant monies.

On Monday the Apportionment Board resolved to allocate $14,841 from the AB reserve account to Sports and Recreation, a move which now needs senate approval. If the bill is passed it will fund an exercise machine, dumbbells and student payroll, among other things. The item must be tabled for one week according to senate bylaws.

Another motion, if passed, would give senate backing to a 3.5 percent tuition increase to cover losses from severe cuts in state funding. The increase will allow the university to do some deferred maintenance, which helps fund repairs on buildings, filling various faculty and staff positions, and to avoid a decrease in the number of classes.

A bylaw change in conjunction with creating diversity on campus will require every student senator to attend diversity-oriented events on campus.

If passed, the bylaw change would penalize student senate members who do not attend at least one event, program or meeting, per semester, that promotes diversity on campus.

A similar bylaw change passed last semester set the penalty for not fulfilling the requirement as that of missing one committee meeting. The new bylaw changes the penalty to that of missing one senate meeting. In senate attendance bylaws, three committee meetings are equal to one senate meeting, Robbins said.

A senate resolution concerning the need-based IMAP grant will also be discussed. The letter sent to the student senate detailing the where IMAP grants go shows that over half of the state-funded grant money is being awarded to students attending private institutions, which only educate about a third of the state’s students.

The intent of the senate resolution is to discourage IMAP grant awards to students of private institutions and to encourage action by Eastern administrators.

The Student Senate meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Arcola/Tuscola room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

*News editor Jamie Fetty contributed to this report.