UW-Madison students will have the opportunity to voice a vote of confidence"" for the Iraqi Student Project on the Associated Students of Madison spring election ballot, according to an ASM Student Judiciary decision Thursday.
Student Judiciary members expressed concern on the legality of the project, but approved the group's referendum once they heard the project would not use university fees.
""We understand segregated fees can't pay for this,"" Sam Finesurrey said, a project representative.
The referendum will ask students for support to give $1 per semester and $1 per summer session to the project, with clear guidelines that it is not bound to ASM but will show the voice of the student body to the UW System Board of Regents.
Jenny Wustmann, another ISP representative, said the project is a humanitarian effort to bring Iraqi refugees to American universities.
She said the role of UW-Madison would be as a support group to cover the cost of tuition and transportation, among other things.
Project planners collected enough student signatures to place the referendum on the ASM spring election ballot to garner further student support.
The ASM spring election will be April 1 to April 3.
Craig Griffie, vice chair of the Roman Catholic Foundation-UW-Madison also told committee members the group plans to file another complaint and petition for relief to appeal the decision Feb. 25 to deny RCF-UW student funding.
