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Missing microwaves and broken windows are the beginning in the list of damages recorded in residence halls each semester.
According to the Texas State housing contract, all students are responsible for damages within dorms and apartments.
The contract states, “If the identity of the person responsible for damages to university property cannot be determined after investigation, the director of the department of housing and residential life may prorate the cost to repair the damages among all or any portion of the residents.”
Protestors outside City Hall cheered Tuesday when it was announced the date for mandatory-animal microchipping would be pushed back and public opinion sessions will be held to gauge San Marcos residents’ opinions.
“We would like to come back to this,” Mayor Susan Narvaiz said. “We are in favor of having options for our residents — not mandating.”
The future of the LBJ Student Center is being placed in the hands of the students.
A referendum regarding a proposed $4 flat-rate fee increase for the center will be administered through voting ballots starting Tuesday morning.
ASG President Brett Baker called for the referendum, which was confirmed through the senate. Andy Rhoades, director of the LBJ Student Center, came to speak with the senate during an ASG meeting to address concerns senate members had regarding the increase.
ASG senators met San Marcos police officials head-on Monday night over proposed changes to a city noise ordinance.
ASG hosted City Council members, the city manager and the two top police officials in San Marcos at a public forum in Alkek Teaching Theatre to discuss the revisions.
Sen. Mandy Domaschk set the tone for the night, saying she did not see the ordinance give “any kind of limitation of power.”
Rate increases are on the way.
Meal plans and university-owned hall and apartment rates will increase 3 and 7 percent on average, respectively, for the 2009 to 2010 academic school year.
The Texas State University System Board of Regents approved the proposals from the university officials at their meeting Feb. 20.
The 3 percent increase for the meal plan will generate about $250,000 next year, and the university is planning to help pay for the food service, provided by the contractor, Chartwells.
Sophomores older than 20 with more than 42 credit hours will not have to live on campus come fall semester, according to the director of housing and residential life.
Rosanne Proite said Wednesday the housing policy will undergo a “temporary adjustment” to make room for incoming freshman, and the change will take place in the 2009 to 2010 academic year.
Students might have to re-evaluate what a typical party means to them.
Suggested changes to a city noise ordinance would grant police extra powers to disband large gatherings. It has become a hot-button issue for Texas State students this semester.
ASG and city officials are now calling a public forum to discuss the controversial ordinance changes, which, if passed, could alter the San Marcos social scene and the police authority.
Josefina Ibarra is honoring her sister’s memory in the only way she knows how.
She is fighting for change.
The Texas State sophomore is challenging officials in Hays and Guadalupe counties to add a left-turn lane to Texas Highway 123. Her sister, Samantha Ibarra, was killed in a head-on collision Jan. 9 five miles south of the San Marcos city limits.
Samantha Ibarra, a Texas Lutheran University student, was waiting to make a left turn off the highway when a car struck her from behind and pushed her into an oncoming dump truck.
Ripples from the nationwide economic downturn are reaching San Marcos.
The San Marcos office of the Texas Workforce Commission is reporting a 14 percent increase of job seekers from December 2008 to January 2008.
“We have a lot more people unemployed, and we do not have as many jobs to match them up with as we would like,” said Jo Anne Pruitt, area manager of the San Marcos Texas Workforce Commission.
