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Harsh Shah, a freshma mechanical engineering said that his hall, Walton,isone the closest knit groups on because of how involved in res. dence hall activities everyoneis, “We are cutting trees togi for the off-campus bonfire, we attend Silver Taps toget Shah said. The lack of professional! in the RHA is another barrie Mahaffey said he is working overcome. “Last year a small group of members were not living i the high standards we have, people won’t listen if you don] represent yourself Mahaffey said. Another part of the Vision Plan calls for a “greaterknow edge by current residents hall history.” “Studying Texas A&M histon is a hobby of mine, and ourdomis have lots of their own rich bistort: I find it a shame that people don know it,” Mahaffey said. Shall said that his hall discus: es their history at meetings. „ “The traditions of our dotj and its history are important. I makes you feel a part of tlit dorm,” Shah said. Not all students feel way, like Longarzo, who sad his hall’s history is not relevant to him. “If I lived in an apartment building, I wouldn’t care about its history.” Longarzo said. Mahaffey is also introducinga Hall Rating Plan in the Vi Plan. This point system will hall presidents on how well are performing. This is similar to the Texas Education Agency’s rating sys tem in that it evaluates what goes on under a president so that the next president knows what works and what does not work, Mahaffey said. This helps in the transition between presi dents each year by serving asa training mechanism. ^tudei Agreement Continued from page 1 ensuring that his home district in Midland have a congressional seat to represent the Permian Basin’s oil and gas industry. Recent proposals seem to indicate the map will give Midland that district, but that could mean that the fanning and agricultural region from Lubbock to Abilene would lose repre sentation — a move opposed by Lubbock Republican Sen. Robert Duncan. The two chambers have rallied their respective stances, taking shots at each other and refus ing to budge. The deal came as Gov. Rick Perry was out of the state touting Texas’ economic develop ment programs with several television appearances. U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay had spent the past three days in the Texas Capitol, trudging back and forth between the offices of Dewhurst and Craddick in an attempt to end the strife and broker a deal. “It is my hope that we can have a final map that we can show you tomorrow morn ing,” Dewhurst said. Craddick said the deal was not finalized, but “we’re pretty much in agreement on the map, but we haven’t seen a map per se.” Small details remain to be ironed out, Dewhurst said. The conference committee agreement still must receive approval from the majority of the House and Senate. The chambers are scheduled to convene again Friday. There was concern that an agreement couldn't be voted on before lawmakers left town to attend festivities surrounding the Texas-Oklahoma football game Saturday in Dallas. Perry is expected to sign the redistrict ing bill. “Our goal is to have fair lines that respect communities of interest, that complies with the Voting Rights Act and I think we’ll be delivering that to you in the morning,” said Sen. Todd Staples, R-Palestine, a lead Senate negotiator. The GOP, which controls the Texas House and Senate and occupies eNWj statewide elected office, says conservator voting trends show Texas should ha?, more Republicans in Texas’ congressional delegation. Democrats, who control the delegation 15, want to keep current district boundaries! Democrats boycotted the Texas Legislature twice this year over redistricti| to block a quorum and thus kill redistrictinj bills. House Democrats fled to Ardmore, Okla., in May and stayed away for four day: to block redistricting in the regular legisla; tive session. Senate Democrats went to Albuquerque N.M., for six weeks beginning July 28 to down redistricting in a second special legisla! tive session. The Democrats returned when one their own party members defected and sail he would return to Austin, giviiij Republicans the quorum they needed to business. Aggie fashions for Aggie Ladies jink -800-321-4466 Lady Aggie Wear.Com We have your size! Small - XX Large Back to School Special! A&M Lady Cotton T’s *7.95 Athletic Gray embroidery + S&H (included) Order online today! EBB ©til Lady T’s Crop Tops Scoop Necks V Necks Fleece and more! 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