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September 8, 2004
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NEWS UPDATE
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Student organizations find ways to
deal with the new budget squeeze
Almost finished student center already
becoming hangout for students
New room numbers for St.
Louis Hall and Reinbolt Hall
NEWS ON THE WEB
www.stmarytx.edu/rattler
Prayer group open to St.
Mary's community
be extremely beneficial for all stu-
dents."
Hansen appointed as execu-
tive director of Alumni
Relations
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Other SGA special events
include the Rock Your Vote cam-
paign for the fall semester.
Every October members of the
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rooms in the following two build-
ings, St. Louis Hall, and Reinbolt
Hall.
To view the floor plans for
both buildings with the new room
number designations go online
to:
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Council, is extremely worried
because, "this will affect the num-
ber of events that will be sched-
uled over the year, especially for
the spring semester."
Not only will the number of
events be affected but also the
quality of each event.
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Committee (UPC) attend a con-
ference where they find the talent
that they want to bring to the uni-
versity for their different events.
With about $9,000 being cut they
are not sure if they can now
attend.
Senior Jose Vidal, Director of
future."
Ramirez believes the
official grand opening of
the Student Space will
be in late September or
early October, depend-
ing on when the remain-
ing furniture arrives.
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The asumption prayer group is
inviting everyone to join them for
prayer every Wednesday in
Assumption Chapal at 3:00pm.
The group continually prays
for the university, administration,
faculty, staff, students and for
special needs of indiviudals.
Prayer time lasts for 15-20
minutes and is very informal.
All faiths are welcome. Please
contact Kay Ray with any
questions at kray@stmarytx.edu.
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In a continuing process to
upgrade the sign standard on
campus and to provide ADA
compliant signs, St. Mary's
University will be installing new
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Peter Hansen has been
appointed executive director of
alumni relations at St. Mary's
University. Hansen will be
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with the results so far.
"I think it is really
great to see so many
students using the
space." She is excited to
see the complete prod-
uct. " I think this opens
the door for lots of
executing alumni activities while
serving as the liaison to St. Mary's
Alumni Association.
"Pete Hansen has excelled in
cultivating and stewarding
friends, donors and alumni of St.
Mary's University," Said Thomas
B. Galvin, vice president of
University Advancement. "We
have full confidence that he will
be an effective liaison to the
Alumni Association and in his
abilities to lead the Alumni office
strategically in new ways that tie-
in to the University's strategic
plan."
• “Parking problems coming to a close”
by Mary Ranara
• “St. Mary’s named College with a
conscience”
by Diana Del Valle
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There will be a mass on Thursday,
September 9, 2004 in memory of
Rick Castillo, Director of
Admissions, who died on July 19,
2004.
The mass will be held in the
Chapel of Our Lady of
Guadalupe at 12:30 pm.
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However, she was surprised
about the amount that was cut
. ■ out, "We were told that we were
going to receive around a 10 per-
cent decrease and in actuality it
came out to be 15 perpent
decrease."
The main area that was affect-
ed in the SGA budget was the
amount alloted for conferences.
"SGA representatives wanted
to go to different leadership con-
ferences and now will probably
not be able to attend them," said
Gonzales.
SGA was also affected in their
special events area such as
Midnight Madness and the Ratter
Fest. "We are going to have to be
extremely creative to fund special
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"I am here for about a
half an hour before my
morning class, an hour
and a half during lunch
and usually for a few
hours in the afternoon,"
said Garibay who
commutes to school.
Sevilla likes the com-
fort of the place, "My
friends and I can come
here and just chill," he
said, still focused on his
computer game.
Another added
bonus to the Student
Center is wireless
service availability.
Students can do
homework and check
their email while
watching TV.
Freshman Arianna
Contreras, a General
Business major, likes to
do her homework in
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the Student Center. She
finds it comfortable and
adequate. Plus she likes
the extra noise.
"Sometimes you
don't want to work in
complete silence."
Karen Johnson, Dean
Vidal is also in a bind because Another major area affected is
other organizations on campus the Academic Library,
are looking to UPC for financial Experiencing close to $100,000 in
help.. cuts the library is now being
"Unfortunately, I don't really forced to take an intense and
have the resources to do that this thorough look at their budget, so
year." they can provide students with
Both Gonzales and Vidal the resources they need for then-
do see one positive outcome of classes and projects.
the budget realignments. "These McCoy is sympathetic to all
cuts encourage us to collaborate areas affected but also stated that
with major organizations on cam- the school "didn't cut back on
pus to ensure student events this anything that would diminish or
year," stated Gonzales. hurt student services." She real-
Vidal agrees thinking that it izes that this makes all the differ-
will help bring bigger and better ent departments rethink their
events to the campus. spending strategies, but with cre-
Kathy Sisoian, Vice President ative budgeting, the affected
of Student Development believes areas will be able to provide the
that a partnership is positive, best for the university and the
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