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A shortage of academic advisers may result in students paying more next year.
Administrators are traveling to Beaumont Wednesday to propose an approximately 5-percent tuition and fee increase to the Board of Regents.
The proposed increases are multipronged: an increase in the advising fee and a 4.1-percent hike in tuition.
The Fee Increase
Students pay $60 in academic advising fees. Under the proposal, students will pay $73 and $90 during the 2010 and 2011 academic years, respectively — a 2.5 and 3.1 percent increase.
The two standing candidates for Place 5 City Council are headed to a runoff after anticipated overseas ballots did not arrive.
Ryan Thomason and Lisa Maria Coppoletta awaited the results of expected out-of-the-country ballots Monday, which held the potential to determine the elections’ fate.
“We had three ballots that were received that came from outside of our country, but none of them were from the jurisdiction of San Marcos,” said Joyce Cowan, Hays County elections administrator. “The outcome is not changed as far as the City of San Marcos.”
The winner of the Place 5 City Council seat has yet to be determined, but officials say a runoff election may not be necessary.
The Hays County Elections Office is waiting on 32 ballots coming in from residents living outside the country, which could be all candidate Ryan Thomason needs to clinch the seat.
Thomason needed three votes to avoid a runoff with Lisa Marie Coppoletta based on early voting and Election Day results. Thomason is 0.1 percent of the votes shy of winning. He will have to wait until Monday to hear if there will be another round of elections.
Students may have a new incentive to cheer on the Bobcats this homecoming.
The University Bookstore is providing a discount of up to 30 percent off maroon Texas State T-shirts Monday in a joint effort with the Associated Student Government.
Sen. Brice Loving, who authored the bill “Marketing Promotion: Monday Maroon Madness,” said the campaign’s mission is multi-pronged.
The goal of the project is to increase school spirit, while ensuring students attend and stay until the end of home football games.
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A rodent infestation caused Commons Dining Hall to close Friday — perhaps, for good.
Bill Nance, vice president of Finance and Support Services, said officials are determining whether the space that holds the dining hall would be “better used as an educational service.”
“With the space needs of the university, should we renovate it so that a dining hall goes back in there?” Nance asked.
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A San Marcos resident shot and killed two 16-year-olds and injured another during what is suspected to be a home invasion. A fourth teen is in custody.
According to police, one teen was carrying a handgun and two others were carrying pellet guns that appeared realistic.
Students may have an unlikely follower in the coming weeks — Texas State.
The university is jumping on the social-media bandwagon, creating an official Texas State Twitter, Facebook and, soon-to-come, YouTube page.
Behind the outreach are David King and Yvonne Taylor, who are new to Texas State as of March. The two publication writers in the Office of University Marketing will head the Twitter and Facebook pages, respectively.
Hello friends,
As I begin my term as editor in chief, I feel this is a particularly exciting time to be a journalist. We are a part of a unique setting within our society — a university campus. Herein lies a place filled with opportunity. A place that — by its very nature — fosters and thrives on exchange of diverse ideas. And in the center of this exchange is one completely student-run medium — The University Star.
Clay Patterson has been assigned a lofty responsibility this coming year — representing the opinions of the entire Texas State University System student body.
Patterson, international studies junior, is Gov. Rick Perry’s new appointee for student regent, a position charged with representing the student bodies of the eight university campuses and more than 64,000 students.
“My goal is to do the best job I can possibly do and hopefully improve on what future student regents have done in the past,” Patterson said.
