Graduate students will soon have the opportunity to voice their opinions about WSU Pullman becoming a tobacco-free campus following ASWSU’s first meeting of the fall semester.

Following a referendum that went to vote during the ASWSU elections in March, WSU assembled a task force of about 10 administrators responsible for implementing policies to support a tobacco-free campus.

The task force now has plans to survey graduate students, who are not involved in the ASWSU voting process. The findings will be presented in the spring to the WSU Board of Regents, which will vote to determine whether the initiative becomes Washington Administration Code.

“We are really shooting to have this go into effect in the summer of 2015,” said Dakota Renz, a sophomore ASWSU senator who sponsored the bill last semester as a freshman delegate.

The ASWSU also appointed two new committee chairs, voting unanimously for Billy Orgeron and Jackson Fu.

Orgeron, who served for five years in the Marine Corps, became the chair of the Student Veterans Committee, while Fu, a student from Hong Kong, became the chair of the International Student Council.