T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F T E X A S A T A R L I N G T O N
Thursday
September 30, 2010
Volume 92, No.
21
www.
theshorthorn.
com
Since 1919
BY SARAH LUTZ
The Shorthorn senior staff
Tuesday’s events at UT-Austin and
the Texas Legislature around the corner...
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T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F T E X A S A T A R L I N G T O N
Thursday
September 30, 2010
Volume 92, No.
21
www.
theshorthorn.
com
Since 1919
BY SARAH LUTZ
The Shorthorn senior staff
Tuesday’s events at UT-Austin and
the Texas Legislature around the corner could be the catalyst the Students
for Concealed Carry on Campus organization needs to get started, interdisciplinary studies junior Kenny Jacobs
said.
Jacobs said the group has always
been around, but couldn’t make the
jump to an official organization.
He
said the group still needs an adviser
before it can become a university-recognized organization.
Jacobs traveled to Austin in 2009
to lobby for the legislation to allow
concealed carry of handguns on college campuses.
The bill in the Texas
Senate passed but did not make it to
theTexasHouse.
Hesaidifitcomesup
with the Legislature again, it will pass.
“The Speaker of the House was
against it,” he said.
“So by the power
that he had available to him it never
got sent to the floo
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