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An author of a New York Times best-seller spoke to a split crowd last night.
Daniel Pink, author of the common experience book A Whole New Mind, drew a crowd at his presentation at 8 p.m. Wednesday.
The code police use to enter apartment complexes is no longer secret.
Howard Williams, San Marcos police chief, confirmed officials use a single code to get into local apartment complexes in case of emergencies. However, he said the code is frequently passed around.
Free sexually transmitted infection screenings could become available at the Student Health Center.
Students and faculty have begun calculating the financial costs of providing free STI screening following a grievance brought to ASG Sen. Colter Ray, University Relations Committee chair.
Shanna Shultz, Bobcat legislative intern, is in charge of researching the possibility of free STI screenings.
San Marcos police arrested two San Antonio men after a home invasion at University Heights apartment complex Tuesday night that left one man shot.
The residency had seven people in it at the time of the crime, two of which were residents, one Texas State student and one alumnus. The victim is in the University Medical Center at Brackenridge in Austin and in stable condition.
Associated Student Government officials say recent selections for appointed positions were not influenced by personal or organizational affiliation.
Three out of six of the directors of the newly-created tailgate committee are members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
Michael Flowers, athletic liaison and a member of Phi Delta Theta, said the fraternity encourages its members to be involved.
Brian Cuban spoke to Texas State students and faculty Wednesday about how hate speech has connected itself to the Internet and social networking sites.
Cuban, a Dallas attorney and brother of Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, got national media attention in May when he wrote the executives of Facebook requesting Holocaust denial groups be removed from the social networking site.
“I’m not an activist,” said Cuban after the lecture. “The issue has personal relevance to me and I’m just trying to do what I feel is right.”
It is the second semester since passing time between classes was reduced from 15 to 10 minutes.
The ASG University Relations Committee members are researching the possibility of returning to a longer walking period between classes.
ASG Sen. Brice Loving, marketing senior, said he was concerned when the time change was initially implemented in fall 2008, but found there was no feasible solution.
Texas State courses were not meeting the required number of classroom hours, which meant five minutes were taken from walking time and added to class.
Members of City Council appointed seven volunteers at Tuesday’s meeting to function as a collaborative task force for the city’s radio station, KZOS-FM 92.5.
Kenneth Bell, San Marcos Fire Marshall and Emergency Management Coordinator, said the task force will directly affect the station’s success. Council members were given the opportunity to nominate volunteers and voted for seven from the list of nominations.
Buying from vending machines on campus might not mean scouring in your pockets for change for much longer.
A bill proposed by ASG Sen. Tommy Aguilar, a member of the Student Relations Committee, would mandate the addition of card readers on more vending machines in residence halls.
Students could flip on their televisions and see classmates in front of red and blue flashing lights.
Camera crews have paired up with the San Marcos Police Department to film students during their encounters with police officers.
Cineflix Productions, in association with the G4 network, is filming footage for its coming series Campus PD. According to Cineflix Productions’ official Web site, the show will “depict university life from the perspective of the law enforcement professionals who police them.”
