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Texas Tech’s Student Government Association conducted its last meeting for the term Thursday to discuss legislation reforming the Freshman Council and to place a poll on the SGA MySenate website asking students if they agree with a chapel being built on campus. Stuart Williams, SGA senator, proposed a bill requiring members of the Freshman Council to be elected by their residence hall. He said since the majority of freshmen live in the residence halls, and having them represent their dorm would increase their involvement in SGA. According to the legislation, Tech requires all freshmen to live on campus unless they live with their parents. Colin Davis, SGA senator, questioned how freshmen living off-campus would be represented under this bill. Williams said the freshmen living off-campus will still be represented under the bill, and if the bill is passed, revisions could be made to have a representative for off-campus freshmen as well. He knows the issues freshmen face
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Texas Tech is sponsoring “A Conference on Torture” to generate discussion on the topic of torture at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in Holden Hall Room 150. Departments including the Center for Military Law and Policy and the Center for Healthcare Ethics/ Humanity/Spirituality at the School of Medicine have scheduled speakers for the all-day event. Speakers include Matthew Alexander, author and former military interrogator in Iraq, and Michael Holley, former chief prosecutor of the Abu Ghraib detainee abuse cases, among others specializing in an interest in torture. Walter Schaller, a philosophy professor at Tech, said although the topic of torture is not as prominent as it has
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An organization of three years, the Knight Raiders have managed to rise from a low-ranking team to the best college chess team in the United States. “It’s fantastic,” said Hal Karlsson, senior faculty adviser for the Knight Raiders. “We didn’t expect for it to happen this soon.” The Knight Raiders’ A-team competed in the President’s Cup: The Final Four of College Chess competition against
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TEXAS TECH’S CHESS team, the Knight Raiders, won the President’s Cup, which is billed as the “Final Four of College Chess.”
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been in the past few years, it is still an issue that needs addressing. “I think some of I think a the speakconference ers here are like this is going to be important to very interstress the rule esting, in of law and that particular Matthew it applies to everyone in the Alexander will be the United States.” first speaker Richard Rosen Saturday,” Director, Center Schaller for Military Law said. “He and Policy has shown how you can get critical information without using torture. He’s done it.”
Texas Tech law student James Palomo will take part one of the state’s most well-known law internships this summer. Palomo was chosen by the Texas Access to Justice Commission to participate in its summer internship program. The program encourages law students to help deal with legal problems of underserved people and communities, according to a news release by the organization.
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living off-campus, Williams said, because he once was a freshman living off-campus. “I will say that I had no way of contactWILLIAMS ing Freshman Council when I was a freshman, or know of their names,” Williams said. The bill was not passed. Williams said he would like to see more senators share their ideas about potential Freshman Council reform. In other legislation, a bill proposing a poll be placed on the SGA MySenate website asking students whether they agree or disagree with a chapel being built on campus was passed on Thursday. Matt Pippen, an SGA senator and author of the bill, said several students have expressed their opinions to him about the chapel being built on campus. He said students have asked that SGA give them an opportunity to voice their opinion through the MySenate poll.
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