Tonight’s Student Senate meeting will feature an important person who’s never seen the senate before: Eastern President Bill Perry.

Perry became the president of Eastern on July 1, when former president Lou Hencken retired.

At the meeting, funding for the Illinois Board of Higher Education-Student Advisory Committee (IBHE-SAC) will be discussed.

IBHE-SAC is a gathering of representatives from many universities across Illinois at one location, where they then discuss how different schools’ policies differ and what can be changed.

“It’s very important to us,” said Student Senate Speaker Adam Martinelli, who has attended several IBHE-SAC meetings. “It’s a chance for us to learn different things and we get a lot out of it.”

Eastern will be sending eight delegates to IBHE-SAC Sept. 29 and 30 at DePaul University in Chicago.

While Pantherpalooza ended around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, student executives and senate members were packing up chairs and tables and making sure the day ended well.

“Some of our new appointments have stepped up to the plate today,” Martinelli said.

Rich Higginbotham, student vice president for academic affairs, was one of the student government members working outside at Pantherpalooza.

Higginbotham released a survey throughout the day asking students, “What do you want Student Government to do for you?”

Higginbotham will be releasing the results of the survey at the senate meeting.

Student Senate meets 7 p.m. Wednesdays in the Arcola-Tuscola Room on the third floor of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.