Homecoming Photo Spread The Wave of Women Page 6
NOVEMBER 2018
Midterm Analysis
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Volume 71, Issue 3
Understanding the Midterm Elections Ryan Nickerson and Treyvon Waddy News Editor and News Writer
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Rentable BCycles hit Texas Southern Brandon Aninipot Editor-in-Chief
Texas Southern University now hosts five Houston BCycle stations at its Third Ward campus. Now located at the Student Center’s east and west wings, Recreation Center, University Towers and University Courtyard Apartments. The five locations on campus make up 51 bike docks in total and are now part of Houston BCycle’s larger, 82-station network across the city. With stations at University of Houston and in nearby neighborhoods like Downtown, Midtown, East End, and the Museum District, Houston BCycle and TSU hope to encourage use of the bikes in place of single-occupant car trips. Put into action by Student Regent Kenard Jones’ Modernization Plan, the bikes are just one of the many items Jones plans on enacting while holding his governor elected position. Jones believes the bikes will help connect students to the third ward community in a newer, healthier way.
Of the 19 Black female judges who won in Harris County , 8 of them are alumnae from Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law. Dedra Davis, Lori Chambers Grey, Tonya Jones, Eric Hughes, Sharon M. Burney, Ronnisha Bowman, LaTosha Lewis PayneShannon Baldwin, Judge Maria T. (Terri) Jackson, Judge Ramona Franklin, Sandra Peake, Michelle Moore, Germaine Tanner, Cassandra Y. Holleman, Lucia Bates, and Linda Marie Dunson, Toria J. Finch, LaShawn A. Williams, and Angela Graves.
“Third ward is a historic neighborhood here in Houston but a vast majority of our students on campus aren't able to see the community like they should be able to. With these bikes we’re hoping that students will get off campus a little bit and explore the community that their living in but also explore the community that invested so much into our university for all these years.” Jones said.
Students huddled together anxiously awaiting the results of the senate race between Beto O’Rourke and Ted Cruz.
Commissioner Rodney Ellis, a Texas Southern Alumni, was also key in helping bringing the bikes to campus.
“Earlier this morning I woke up and the sun was shining bright,” said Calvin King, a freshman at Texas Southern University. “And it just felt like, yeah alright, [O’Rourke] is gonna do this.”
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“As a proud alumnus of Texas Southern, I couldn’t be happier about working with Houston BCycle to bring more safe, affordable transportation choices to the TSU community,” said Commissioner Ellis. “For many Houstonians, especially students, owning and maintaining a car can be a hardship. Expanding BCycle to TSU will improve the quality of life for everyone on campus and give more people the freedom to travel throughout the city in an affordable and environmentally conscious way.”
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Houston BCycle offers low-cost membership plans (BCycle continued on page 2)
The “blue wave” energized voter turnout and helped bring a record number of minority women into office. A staggering 121 out of a possible 277 female candidates and over 20 happen to be African-American women were elected. The election results did not exactly reflect what King and many other TSU students were looking for. Below is why this election was actually successful.