Making Bill Nye Eastern’s science guy will be one of the four bills voted on during today’s Student Government meeting at 7 p.m. in the Arcola-Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

The University Board requires an additional $22,870 to cover the lecture’s total estimated cost of $29,756. If approved, the projected date for the lecture will be April 1, and students will be admitted for free.

Community members will have to pay $3 per child and $5 per adult, but only after students are given an allotted time to sign up for their ticket with the Student Life office.

The Nye allocation was tabled for the past week and the senate will now vote on a decision. Another bill was tabled and will be voted on tonight regarding whether to allocate around $780 for Executive Vice President Levi Bulgar and five others to visit Southern Illinois University on Feb. 1 for an Illinois Board of Higher Education Student Advisory Committee conference.

In new business, Student Body President Cole Rogers’ Winter Wonderland suggestion will be discussed. The Apportionment Board voted 7-1 with two abstentions on Jan. 17 to approve the allocation of $9,915 for the Feb. 21 event.

Eric Wilber, AB member, voiced his concern for Student Government conducting events similar to UB productions. Two bills will be presented on this subject. One bill will approve the release of the funds from AB, and the other bill will approve the event’s expenditures.

Vice President for Academic Affairs Alison Kostelich said she will have an extensive report on Tuesday’s Faculty Senate meeting in which guest speakers discussed students’ mental health needs with the faculty representatives.

Director of the Counseling Center Sandy Cox, Vice President for Student Affairs Dan Nadler, and University Counsel Rob Miller gave the presentation at the Faculty Senate meeting.

Several appointments are also scheduled for tomorrow’s Student Government meeting.

Speaker of the Senate Megan Ogulnick confirmed she would appoint the final two committee chairpersons during the meeting. Ogulnick did not appoint chairpersons to the Housing committee and University Development and Recycling committee during last week’s meeting because of a lack of experienced candidates.

Ogulnick also has the option of appointing nine new senators during the meeting. However, she said there would not be nine appointments.

Rick Kambic can be reached at 581-7945 or at rwkambic@eiu.edu.