The Student Action Team is looking for more members to help lobbying in Springfield.

“Student Action Team is a student lobbying organization that goes to Springfield to lobby for what students want,” said Eric Wilber, chair of the committee and student executive vice president for student senate.

This year Wilber wants to push the Capitol Bill, a bill for construction projects around the state.

“There hasn’t been a bill like this passed in eight years,” Wilber said.

This bill will help complete many different projects for Eastern, such as replacing the old power plant.

Wilber said that is the only bill that will be lobbied for now.

This meeting is going to be the second meeting of the year.

The Student Action Team’s first meeting was Sept. 1, but only five people attended because of Labor Day, Wilber said.

Wilber said he hopes more people will show up for today’s meeting.

He went to state and local government classes in the political science department last week to get members.

Next week, he is going to Registered Student Organizations to try to get more members.

Wilber is also using this group as a voter registration platform as well.

“Student Action Team and voter registration kind of go together,” he said.

Rock the Vote will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 17 in the library quad. A regular voter registration drive with the Office of Minority Affairs will take place Oct. 6. The time and place for this drive is being determined.

Wilber said membership of the Student Action Team was low last year, and he decided to increase it this year. He also said the best year the Student Action Team had was Spring 2006.

“Student Action Team got the highest increase of money from the state.(that) year,” Wilber said.

The SAT will meet at 7 p.m. tonight in the Bridge Lounge of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Heather Holm can be reached at 581-7942 or at haholm@eiu.edu.