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Incoming freshmen will find it’s not too difficult a task to make friends at Texas State.
Friends don’t let friends text and drive.
The slogan may sound awkward now, but recent studies are shedding light on the high risks associated with text messaging while driving.
It may seem obvious, most people know the practice is unsafe. Yet, despite knowing that steering an automobile while navigating a two-inch keyboard is dangerous, Americans do so everyday.
It is rare a deal can benefit two parties so well.
However, San Marcos could work a deal that would benefit the town as well as military veterans.
Jude Prather, who is serving in Iraq, has outlined several steps to help encourage veterans to come live in San Marcos.
We all pay our taxes
They can be maddening, but they do provide for some essential services.
Everyone benefits from clean water, a strong military and the public roadways.
And because everyone pays for the construction and maintenance of these roadways it would be assumed that everyone on them would be equal.
But, like the infamous pigs in George Orwell’s satire Animal Farm, some people have decided they are more equal than others.
HR 848 levies a new tax on radio stations. The tax is supposedly to go to artists to compensate them for their performance on albums, according to an article in the June 17 issue of The University Star.
This might seem like a worthy cause at first glance. However, this is simply the recording industry trying to pilfer every last cent from where ever they can. According to Dan Schumacher, general manager of KTSW, record labels stand to collect as much as half of the performance fee.
EDIT: Gov. Rick Perry vetoed HB 103.
A lot has been written about this session, and from people more experienced in state politics. However, anyone can see this session was filled with little more than political posturing.
University students should be used to the legislature failing to address their problems, but they should at least expect their chosen representatives to not make life harder for them. However, the legislature failed in even that regard.
There is a unique sense of pride in being a bobcat.
Freshmen filled with apprehension quickly start appreciating how wise their decision to come to this institution was. There are few better places to spend an academic career than in the crown jewel of Central Texas.
However, Texas State does have a problem everyone needs to work together to overcome: there is a divide. The divide exists between Texas State students and long-term or non-student residents. There is no physical divide to point to and symbolically tear down, but it is a problem needing to be dealt with.
House Bill 1875 is dangerous.
If Texas Rep. Vicki Truitt’s (R-98) bill passes, thousands of Texas students will be unable to afford an education.
According to the March 31 issue of The University Star, the bill will require prospective students to have health insurance before they enroll for classes.
Twenty-five to 30 percent of Texas State students are without health insurance according to Emilio Carranco, director of the Student Health Center. Unless each and every one of them finds an extra $ 1,000 to $ 2,000 a year, they will be unable to graduate.
