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various ailments. Nursing students took blood pressures and gathered information for doctors. Dental hygiene students distributed free toothbrushes and literature. The YMCA invited people to join and the group Take Off Pound Sensibly (TOPS) encouraged everyone to drink more water through a top ten list of reasons. Re-Cycle Texas provided literature about their programs ranging from recreational riding to being on Team Arrow, the collegiate cycling team. Lakeridge Place Assisted Living distributed coupons for a free lunch and tour of their community. The respiratory care department had pulmonary function screening which tests to see if the lungs are functioning correctly or if there are problems such as asthma. “I think it was wonderful. There was a large number of people who had the screening performed. The students who worked were wonderful. Even though it was a voluntary thing, they did all of the screening themselves and rotated throughout the day,” chairman of the respiratory care department Ann Medford said. Anyone who has a free health service was welcome to participate in the fair. “Several people came up to me with business cards and asked to get an invitation for next year,” Bowels said. “The main thing for us is for this not to become a commercial venture with a bunch of people selling things.”
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funding completely. They chose not to. Instead, the HAC cut 12.5 percent from the $2.5 million the university would have normally received. “That would leave us with $2.1 million in (Institutional Enhancement),” Rogers said. Those funds are a set amount of money that the Legislative Budget Board had allocated to universities to apply toward staff salary increases and added to funds that the faculty receives to enhance programs and merit promotions. The concern for that money lies in that with a smaller operating budget, MSU would feel more drastic effects without the funding than a larger school, such as Texas A&M, would have suffered. President Rogers also spoke to a newly formed committee last week regarding the possibility of MSU joining a larger statewide school system. The House Committee on Government Reform was convinced that if MSU joined a higher education system, such as the A&M or the UT schools, the university could save money on its biennium budget. “That would not be the case at all,” Rogers said. With five of the nine Board of Regents members hailing from the Wichita Falls area, Rogers said they help bring in business funding from the immediate area. “That would not be the case if we were part of a statewide system,” Rogers said. “In fact, we would have to pay a lot more for the other board’s services.” Rogers implored the committee not to force MSU to join a large system, citing it would cut the university off from the north Texas area in a way that could affect funding. The committee listened. “It appears they have forgotten about that system and moved on to other areas of concern,” Rogers said. That could mean less of a tuition jump, if there is one at all, for MSU students. Joining a large system would also bring system-wide mandates for tuition and fees. If those large systems decided to raise their methods of revenue, the students could be the first ones to feel the effects.
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