Top 10 What is Local Both Employers “Bumvertising?” Sides of 4 5 Music7 the8 Gun : Oct. 3 - Oct. 16, 2006 Newspaper for the University of Houston-Downtown Fall Volume 37 Issue 4 atelineS t u d e n t - R u n owntown s i n c e v o l u m e D D but it is up to the students to put By Monica Maza them to good use. Online banking Assistant Editor is a great way to keep track of GatorCard set your spending habits and will Beginning Spring 2007, help you learn valuable UHD will have a new look for budgeting skills that our student ID cards and the card to Attack! you will need for the will also enable a new system for bank account, or (3) a for them rest of your life. retrieving our fi nancial aid faster. paper check. to remember to In preparation for this new UHD has partnered with Higher Once students treat this Gator system, UHD needs students to One, Inc., a fi nancial services choose the Easy Refund Card as a real, verify their mailing addresses company, to bring the new Gator option, the Gator Card legitimate debit online via E-services. The new Card to students, which will will function as a normal card. As with Gator Cards will be mailed have two functions: it will be Debit MasterCard®. This any bank card, directly to all students, so it is UHD’s offi cial student ID card feature will give students make sure to very important that the address and it will offer a new method the option to open a report the card on fi le for each student is correct. of fi nancial aid disbursement. new OneAccount, a free lost if you All students should go to the We all know how tiresome it is FDIC-insured checking lose it so that “My Personal Data” link on e- to get our refund money and this account which offers Higher One, services and, if necessary, update card has the potential to make that students many banking Inc. can cancel their mailing address by Friday, process easier. According to Mr. tools, such as free it and prevent October 13th. Also, if any student Ed Apodaca, Vice President for checking with no minimum their account and transfer money any fraud or theft does not have a current ID card Student Services and Enrollment balance requirement, access to electronically online. In addition, from occurring. Also, any use then they must go to the Offi ce of Management, this card will give online statements, and no fee cash students will be able to use the of this card will be the students’ Student Activities and Events in students the option for one of withdrawals at Higher One ATMs new Gator Card at any place responsibility so be sure to utilize S204, in order for their photo to ® three refund delivery methods: on campus. If students decide that accepts Debit MasterCards all of the free online banking tools be taken immediately. (1) Easy Refund (direct deposit to to open an OneAccount, they worldwide. in order to keep track of your For information on the Gator a new free checking account), (2) will also be able to write checks If any student opens a new account’s transactions. The Gator Card and to access the FAQs, visit electronic transfer to an existing as well as monitor the details of OneAccount, then it is important Card will offer these free features www.uhdgatorcard.com. ■ directly to the Did you know community. After all, our motto By Steven M. Steiner food bank. SGA Teams up with that the food is: “Serving as an example for Vice President, SGA Checks and bankdistributes other organizations through money orders approximately strong leadership and active Houston Food Bank participation within the university The University of Houston– should be made 30 million and community-wide.” With Downtown Student Government payable to “The pounds of a new Community Outreach Association is teaming up with Houston Food food annually? Coordinator this year, Chundra The Houston Food Bank to Bank” and can be With all of that food Smith, the organization looks collect and distribute food for the dropped off at the being handed out, to the future with its eyes set on Thanksgiving holiday this year. SGA office located at volunteers are always giving back to the community Non-perishable food items can S244. Sorry, no cash needed and appreciated. that already gives all of us so be dropped off at the SGA office donations will be handled The Houston Food Bank logs much. Her plans for upcoming located at S244, the Information by the Student Government more than 100,000 volunteer outreach events include a blanket Center at N355, or the Office of Association or by any UHD hours each year. So, if you or and coat drive in November and a Student Activities and Events in employees in the drop off areas. your organization on campus toy drive for needy children from room S204. Collection boxes will To make a cash or credit card would like to give back to mid-November to mid-December. be situated at each of the above donation, please contact The the community, contact The Please be sure to check your listed locations for the entire Houston Food Bank at (713) Houston Food Bank today to set GatorMail and the CIB for all month of October. Once the 223-3700. up a time to help. Reservations the details or contact Chundra at collection boxes are removed in The Houston Food Bank are required for volunteering, so (713) 221-8511. the beginning of November, SGA has been helping the less please contact the food bank to Non-perishable foods will drop off all donated items fortunate population of Houston set up a time before showing up include: canned foods, dehydrated with the food bank on November since 1982. They are a private, to lend assistance. boxed food, and bottle drinks (in 4th. Monetary donations will non-profit organization that is SGA is always looking also be accepted and forwarded leading the fight against hunger. HoustonFoodBank.org for a way to give back to the See SGA page 10 S t u d e n t - R u n s i n c e v o l u m e o n e Oct. 3 - Oct. 16, 2006 editorial attention of the UHD Faculty ISBNs often change from one assign a book with more add- enrollment expenses. Letter to the Editor Senate, which plans to address edition to the next. So the 3rd ons as a benefit to the students. Neither do professors the issue in upcoming sessions. edition of a textbook may have a Requesting less “extras” will not today have all the time they Dateline: Downtown staff Some professors have taken completely different ISBN than discount the price. For example, would like to cover the material writer Sean Augabright does a steps to assist students by placing the 2ndndnd edition. Also, different in my history courses, the a student should learn. There fine service of informing students material on reserve in the library, versions of the same book will publisher bundles other readers is realistically no way for me about the current concerns about selecting material that students have a different ISBN, so pay together with the text at the same to cover all the information a the rising costs of textbooks in can download without additional attention to the title too. You also price as the book itself, or for student should know about the September 19ththth–October 2nd cost, and some have even turned need to be aware that often the only a few dollars more, but for American history from the late- edition. Many professors are also from assigning textbooks to textbooks change editions about less than the individual books fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth concerned about the constantly alternatively providing their own every three years, not the one year cost alone. Another consideration century in fourteen weeks of increasing costs, as well. State material to keep student expenses Augabright suggests. Professors, is that professors may test on class time. Lectures are only a Representative Scott Hochberg’s reasonable. however, aren’t always apprised information that comes from the part of the university process. intentions to investigate the Third, students who follow about these changes. A little text. If a student uses an old It is incumbent upon students to price of textbooks certainly the tips in Augabright’s article, common sense investigation will edition, they may not be aware read and utilize the textbooks to has merit, and UHD students “Textbook Tips,” should be help students, though. First, find of the new information, and by get a better understanding of the should certainly use some of the cautious of some information. The the book publishing company and seeking to save some money may material. Like the proverbial techniques Augabright suggests 10-digit International Standard look at their website. Often, you do them a disservice. stubborn horse at the water tank, to reduce costs; however, there Book Number (ISBN) that anyone can tell if books are in revision Finally, Augabright’s professors can only lead students are some statements in both can use to buy almost any book or if a new edition is due soon. comment that history books don’t to knowledge. Students should articles that need attention. published is a good tool; however, Sometimes, students will find need to change because “It’s seek out the additional material First, I’m curious how much in January ISBNs are converting that they can get an additional history.