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The City of Richardson will vote on whether to allocate $2 million towards road construction on UTD's campus, said international political economics senior Samia Hossain of the legislative affairs committee.
The Richardson City Council approved Resolution 10-04, which orders a bond election on May 8 that will be an up or down vote on four propositions, including the money allocation to UTD.
Students that reside in on-campus housing will no longer have to clean out their cabinets before pest control spraying, said residential affairs committee chair and political science sophomore Bryan Thompson.
Thompson said the graduate housing plan endorsement that was tabled the previous meeting will have to be updated and brought back to the senate.
The student affairs committee, chaired by accounting and information management senior Jai Sondhi, is working to extend the 24 hour finals week operating hours of the library to include the week before finals as well because many professors schedule for that week.
Legislative affairs committee chair and neuroscience junior Prashant Raghavendran said there was a low turnout at the SG gubernatorial event. “I probably should have considered the event before late January, early February,” Raghavendran said.
Vice president and accounting and information management senior Remsen Jennings announced that the student fees committee is now finished with the 2011-2012 budget.
President and literary studies junior Diana Kao will fly to Austin March 3 to represent the study body at the UT Board of Regents meeting. She will present the student opinions of the fixed rate tuition plan at UTD.
The school bookstore will offer a text book rentals program next year, said textbook task force chair and political science senior Dina Shahrohki. The Bookstore is also considering a program in which they would buy back used textbooks for 50 percent of the cost if they receive a guarantee from professors that the book will be used for at least four more semesters.
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