In a race marked by little fanfare or campaigning, current Student Government Association senator Adria Green defeated Tim Houston for SGA President 574 votes to 340. Current SGA President Taylor Fore will swear Green in this May, after which she will swear in the new senate. “I think she’ll be […]

Texas A&M University-Commerce may have to move more than 700 students from the Universities Center at Dallas to an unknown location in the coming months. The building, located at 1901 Main St., was purchased by the University of North Texas system from the Dallas County Community College District in […]

A car traveling northbound on Monroe Street crashed into a residence earlier this evening near the intersection of Monroe Street and Stonewall. According to the driver, he swerved to avoid an oncoming car that was traveling at excessive speed. The car caused significant damage to the residence, including possible […]

A sexual assault on the Texas A&M University-Commerce campus earlier this month has local law enforcement raising safety awareness. The incident, which occurred on March 1 around 10:30 p.m. at the West Halls, resulted in a campus-wide e-mail from the University Police Department encouraging students to take precautions when […]

Texas A&M University-Commerce had 36 faculty named in the Fall 2010 Student Recognition Award for Teaching Excellence. Faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business and Technology, and the College of Education and Human Performance were chosen for this award – amongst them were Dr. […]

Renowned astrophysicist Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell gave a series of lectures at Texas A&M University-Commerce last week. Burnell, who according to some made one of the greatest astronomical discoveries of the 20th century when she discovered radio pulsars, spoke to more than 100 A&M-Commerce students, faculy and Commerce community members […]

Though Commerce, Texas is about 500 miles from New Orleans, La., the Mardi Gras celebration at the Morris Recreation Center on March 8 had the traditional sights, sounds and tastes of Bourbon street. Mardi Gras means “fat Tuesday” in French and marks a final day of partying before Ash Wednesday […]

While many political experts believe that Texas will most likely pass legislation allowing students with concealed handgun licenses to carry their firearms into university buildings, groups representative of both the student and faculty body have expressed the same strong opinion on the subject. The resolutions by Faculty Senate and […]

Texas A&M University-Commerce hosted the 2011 TCCSTA Play Festival for a group of junior colleges in the Performing Arts Building March 2-5. The students were very appreciative at the chance to be at this year’s festivities.  “This entire week in itself has been incredible,” sophomore Brady Smith Howard College […]

The A&M-Commerce counseling department and McKinney ISD have teamed up to create the new Harold Murphy Counseling Center, which provides counseling services to MISD students, parents, and faculty. The center, which officially opened on Feb. 22, is the brainchild of Interim Chair of the Counseling Department Steve Armstrong. “I proposed […]