Student Government Association members are taking a stand against what they’re calling back door tuition increases this week.

But some plans for the action members will take have changed.

The Board of Regents will vote on a $30 charge for each credit hour exceeding 15 hours at its meeting Friday.

Western’s current policy is to charge students who take more than 18 hours about $300 for an extra course.

Yesterday, some SGA members told students about the charge and asked them to sign a petition against it, Administrative Vice President Reagan Gilley said.

SGA planned to have a sit-in in the Wetherby Administration Building Tuesday, but it was canceled, he said in an e-mail.

He canceled the sit-in for fear of low turn out, Gilley said in an e-mail.

Gilley said the confusion and excitement of elections may mean that some enthusiasm for activities protesting the charge has been lost.

“I think that there have been perhaps miscommunications and misunderstandings between members of [SGA executive board], and that might have been why some things have not gotten covered,” he said.

Executive Vice President Skylar Jordan said the cancelation was a tactical move.

He said SGA members are trying to focus their energy on the board.

SGA members plan on sending e-mails to President Gary Ransdell and the board on Wednesday and Thursday, Gilley said.

SGA will also have interest tables set up in Downing University Center from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, he said.

SGA will host a protest in Mass Media and Technology Hall at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, Gilley said.

“We want to increase awareness about what students can do to try and stop it,” he said about the proposed charge.

SGA President-elect Kevin Smiley said that if the bill passes there’s not much students can do on the university level, but they can still try and talk to the Council on Postsecondary Education and the CPE student representative about the charge and the increase in general.3