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...group of about 150 professors at today’s Faculty meeting passed the measure on a nearly unanimous voice vote after more than an hour of sometimes chaotic debate. They ran out of time before being able to consider the second proposal on the meeting docket, which would delay concentration choice until the middle of sophomore year...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) voted overwhelmingly at last night’s session to endorse legislation slated to be considered at today’s Faculty meeting that would establish optional secondary fields and would delay concentration choice by a semester. If the legislation passes at today’s Faculty meeting, these curricular review proposals could go into effect next year. The UC passed the Concentration Reform Act on a 32-1 vote, urging professors to approve the proposals that the Education Policy Committee (EPC) has submitted to the Faculty. Although the council’s approval is not required...
Congressman Tom DeLay's decision to leave the seat he has held for 22 years may have surprised many state and even local GOP leaders, as well as Democrats. But even before the embattled Texas congressman was revealing his decision to TIME in an exclusive interview, at least one potential Republican successor was already maneuvering to assume his seat. Late Monday night Sugar Land Mayor David G. Wallace,44, a popular second-term city leader whose name is on the ballot for a third term in the May 13 municipal elections, confirmed that he would make...
...Wallace said he had heard rumbles about DeLay's decision over the weekend, and his mayoral reelection website was pulled down for a redesign immediately after the DeLay announcement. Other insiders said they had been hearing rumors about DeLay's tight poll numbers as far back as December. Central Texas Republican Congressman John Carter told the Austin American-Statesman that a week ago DeLay had mentioned his "troubling" poll numbers that showed him in a neck-and-neck battle with his likely opponent in November, former Democratic Congressman Nick Lampson...
...early morning videotape released to his Texas constituency, DeLay said, "I refuse to allow liberal Democrats to steal this seat with a negative personal campaign." But while his departure may be designed to take the national spotlight off the race for Texas's 22nd congressional district, it could still draw national attention, especially since Wallace's candidacy could reignite some bad blood that flared during the Bush-Kerry campaign...