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Longarzo said.
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.
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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.
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