At tonight’s Student Government Association meeting:

• President Gary Ransdell came to the meeting and answered senators’ questions.

He addressed the Board of Regents’ decision to postpone the vote on raises for Dean Kahler, associate vice president of Enrollment Management, and Athletics Director Wood Selig until the next board meeting in January.

This is the first time in 12 years the board didn’t approve a president’s recommendation, Ransdell said.

The proposed raises can’t be compared with raises for other faculty and staff because the circumstances surrounding them are different, he said.

Selig is an asset to the Athletics department, and a significant raise is necessary to keep him at Western, Ransdell said.

Kahler does a good job and is making much less than the previous associate vice president of Enrollment Management, so he deserves a raise, he said.

Ransdell said that he doesn’t know what will happen with Kahler’s raise, but Selig’s raise will most likely come from money taken out of Athletics revenue.

Aaron Pawley, SGA director of academic and student affairs, asked Ransdell if decreased attendance at football games would change tailgating policy. Ransdell said it wouldn’t.

He said it’s not necessary to damage the campus for tailgating, and students should adapt to the changed policy.

Ransdell also addressed the possible relocation of the campus police department to block 12 of the Tax Incremental Finance District, which is near Center, 13th and Kentucky streets.

He said the current conditions of the police station are “deplorable,” and leasing a new building is the only solution.

• Bowling Green sophomore Allan Huntsman, Bowling Green freshman Jonathon Tabor and Nicholas Hummer, a junior from West Palm Beach, Fla., were approved as student senators.

Four senators — Bowling Green senior Skylar Baker-Jordan, Louisville senior Michel Stephens, Bowling Green sophomore Emmett Stephens and Lexington sophomore Daniel Shaw — resigned from SGA in October.

The former senators cited various reasons for resigning, including disagreement with decisions made by SGA’s executive board members.

• Senators passed two bills. One gave $1,500 from SGA’s general budget to help fund the American Collegiate Intramural Sports Regional Flag Football Tournament.

The other bill gave $4,253 of organizational aid money to nine student organizations.

• Sarah Howell, SGA director of information technology, announced that the SGA Web site has been updated, and the bills and resolutions discussed in SGA are now available online.

Formal discussions of raises for two of Western’s administrators have been pushed back.

The Board of Regents voted on Friday to postpone proposed raises for Athletics Director Wood Selig and Dean Kahler, associate vice president of Enrollment Management.

The raises — about $34,000 for Selig and about $19,000 for Kahler — will be discussed again at the next board meeting on Jan. 26 and 27 in Frankfort.

A little before 9 a.m. on Friday, a small group of protestors gathered in the lobby of Mass Media and Technology Hall, carrying neon-colored signs and chanting to voice their concerns about the proposed raises.

Among them was Fabian Alvarez, an English instructor who presented a petition with about 260 faculty and staff signatures to Faculty Regent Patricia Minter to give to the board.

Alvarez said in an e-mail that he isn’t sure what will change between now and January.

“My hope is that things will change, and on the surface, there appears to be some movement,” he said. “Whether or not that is lip service is yet to be seen.”

Selig declined to comment on the board’s decision, and Kahler couldn’t be reached for comment by press time.

Alvarez said in the e-mail that, while the protests went well, they weren’t what ultimately made the difference.

“It was the culmination … overall though, it seems to me that faith has been restored on several levels regarding the relationship among faculty, staff, students and administration,” he said in the e-mail.

Regents were originally going to vote on a revamped contract for Selig near the end of the meeting, which included a longer list of incentives for good performances by Western’s athletic teams and an increased base pay of $175,000.

At the start of the meeting, Chairman Jim Meyer suggested postponing any more discussion of Selig’s raise until the board’s January meeting.

That would give regents time to address concerns that faculty, students and staff have, Meyer said at the meeting.

The board approved Meyer’s suggestion.

Kahler’s raise was included in a list of more than 200 other personnel actions.

Minter asked the board to treat Kahler’s raise as a separate item from the rest of the list so regents could address specific issues she and others had with it.

The board went into a nearly hour-long closed session to discuss Kahler’s raise and decided to bring up the issue again at the January meeting.

Minter said she applauded the decision to postpone discussion of the raises because it showed the board’s willingness to hear faculty, staff and student viewpoints.

Student Regent Kevin Smiley also said he thinks the regents made a good decision.

Many students are concerned about the raises, he said.

Smiley said he can’t predict what will happen between now and January, but he thinks there will be ongoing discussions about the raises between now and then.

“We’ll see how those go,” he said.