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Wednesday, September 24, 2003
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reserved spaces in the
Southside Garage. The bill
was authored by Senators
Willy Benza, Logan
Renfrew and Jeff Graham.
The bill is one of several
measures the Senate is taking
to show their desire to repre
sent students, said Matthew
Wilkins, speaker of the Senate
and a junior philosophy major.
“Student Senate this year
is radically committed to rep
resenting the student body,
even when it’s politically
incorrect or unpopular with
the administration,” Wilkins
said. “Real changes only hap
pen when people are willing
to speak up.”
Senate Listens Week is set
for Oct. 6-12, he said.
Students may get the
opportunity to attend Senate
meetings to speak their mind
if the Open Governance bill,
currently on second reading,
passes.
Introduced by Senators
Jessica Newhouse and
Natasha Eubanks, the bill
would allow students or
organizations a time period of
two minutes to tell the
Senators their concerns at the
beginning of each Senate
meeting.
Also up for debate is a
Statement of Equality, which
says the Student Government
Association “shall not dis
criminate against, nor give
preferential treatment to any
person on the basis of race,
national origin, religion
or sex.”
If passed, the sentence
would be inserted into the
SGA Constitution. The bill is
authored by Senators John
Matthews, Jessie Miller,
Jessica Newhouse and
Kerri Ward.
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Marti said a router’s failure is
a pretty rare event.
“It only happens once every
two to three years,” he said.
The problem is one of many
that CIS has faced in the past
few weeks since students
returned to classes.
Installing Microsoft’s new
operating system, Windows XP,
slowed logon times during the
first week of classes.
Viruses have plagued the net
work periodically, with the most
recent causing the network to
slow down considerably. Putnam
sent an e-mail out Sept. 12 alert
ing students that one infected
computer can cause slowdowns
for the entire network.
“That message still stands,”
he said. “We are shutting
down (infected) machines as
we find them.”
The viruses are getting more
sophisticated, Marti said.
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nine minority senators, who?
Democrats, believe the mapdi
criminates against minorities.
“It is our contention that)?
plan would disenfranchise!,
million minority voteis.
ZafTirini said.
Lucio said the map doer
draw enough congressional c
tricts along the heavily Hip,
fast-growing Texas-Mexicobo
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fair and balanced plan that loo
after the interest of minorities
Lucio said to Staples, as
ators began to raise their voices
” 1 ‘m at a loss today to seek
you can criticize this plantl
maintains and protects then®
ity districts,” Staples shot bad
Staples said the plan pi
serves all nine minority distne
in the state — seven Hispat
districts and two black distrii
- - and that it will withstand
challenge in court.
Democrats have been figl
Republican redistricting effoc
since this spring but appear
have hit a brick
effort to block a bill frorngettir:
out of the Senate chamber.
House Democrats blocked
bill during the regular legislate
session when 51 of them
Oklahoma to break a quorumii
their chamber.
During the first special leg
islative session, Senai
Democrats had the votes to pte
vent a debate and vote on red
tricting because the orderofbi
was arranged so that a two-ti
vote of the chamber was needet
to bring the bill up for a debate
That requirement was droppe;
during the second special sessin
so Senate Democrats blocked
quorum by fleeing to Net
Mexico, where they wouldkoui
of reach of Texas law offices sent
to find them.
They reluctantly retumedlast
week at the start of the third spe
cial legislative session after on
Democrat broke away and deci
ed to give Republicans aquom
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really slowed down,” he said
“It’s difficult to sort out the (P2I
and) worm traffic.”
Marti said students trying
play games online may ban
experienced problems for i
reason.
“Currently that link is w
overloaded,” he said. “It’s not«
priority, but we are aware
problem) and we will try to fix it
Also, an optical cable a 1
Sept. 15 shut the network i
for three hours.
The network appliance
that will speed up processits
has been ordered, Putnam said.
“The order is cleared anil
out to the vendor,” he said
“It should arrive in a cotipl
of weeks.”
Marti said CIS continue!
to scan residence halls to
and get rid of infected cot
puters.
“One way or another we'f
gonna win,” Marti said. “It's
good battle.”
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piercings out bee
for job-hunting.
Nic Noble, a
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because he was
job. Others, thou
outgrow their piei
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I grew tired of it,
I lost over spring
feel like putting
lost their appeal,”
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HIV and bacterii
may occur whei
metal is used in
ing process.
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as skin irritatio
Toxic Shock Sy
ulcers and tuber
with piercings or
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cedures because
because they had
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received a staph ii
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