Potential 8 a.m. classes next year, free taxi services and improved registration were among the topics discussed during last Tuesday’s AUSA Senate meeting.

Students who voiced concerns or petitioned Senate financial support attended the meeting. Some expressed their concern about the high costs of reserving space for student activities. For example, it costs $175 for students to rent space to show a movie.

Sen. Jamie Grim stated that she is in the process of seeing what can be done to lower the cost.

In addition, representatives of Free School, from the Diversity Committee asked for funding and advertising. Free School is a program where any student or teacher can teach a class on any subject such as free-style dancing.

The Daniels Entrepreneurship Society asked for support in advertising and for permission to distribute flyers in dorm mailboxes. The Senate referred the request to dorm staff.

“As a whole we do support you as long as you go through the proper channels,” said Vice President Molly Brown.

President Brian Kelley was pleased that students came to voice their concerns.

“It was really refreshing that they were back around,” he said.

Impeachment rules came into discussion as Sen. Kelsey Yamasaki expressed his concern. The issue was whether a senator could miss a certain number of Senate meetings because of class requirements such as conflicting classes.

The Senate generally agreed that school comes first and it would be fine as long as the senator they fulfilled his or her Senate duties. The constitution states that if a senator misses more than five meetings, the rest of the Senate has the option to impeach.

Sen. Jeremy Neil reported that the class registration process would be smoother in the future. Study abroad students will no longer get to register early, since Internet access abroad is easier. This will eliminate 400 students from registering early.

Sen. Joey Ham reported on the development of a university-run taxi program for weekend and Thursday nights. The transportation is supported by DU health and counseling centers. However, the program is not being advertised as a designated driver program in order to ensure it does not appear that the university condones excessive drinking.

Ham also reported that he is against a plan for the university to introduce 8 a.m. classes for the entire undergraduate program next year. Classes now begin at 9 a.m.

He asked for comments or suggestions from students on this issue. He said student performance could suffer in early morning classes. Sen. Betsy Peterson argued that it would either be earlier classes or classes on Fridays.

“Do you do classes on Friday or do you do them at 8 o’clock,” said Peterson.