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Student diagnosed with active strain Texas A&M University-Kingsville administrators are urging campus-wide tuberculosis testing after a male student was diagnosed with an active strain of the disease late last week. Dr. William Burgin, the local health authority for the Corpus Christi-Nueces County Public Health District, said a private physician notified the district about the case last week. Burgin said the patient remains hospitalized in good condition. The university is not releasing additional details about the infected person because of medical privacy laws, but university spokeswoman Jill Scoggins estimated at least 300 people came in close contact with the person. Widespread...

The holsters at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi are empty this week, but the symbolic call to action has highlighted campus security again, just one week after Texas A&M University-Kingsville was placed on lockdown after an armed suspect was reported to be on campus. Dozens of students from the A&M-Corpus Christi Chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus have worn empty holsters this week as part of a national movement to allow the carrying of concealed handguns on college campuses. The idea is that having a handgun readily available in college classrooms could avert outbreaks of deadly violence on campus,...

Immigration will be the topic of a conference to be held at Texas A&M University at Kingsville from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday. The conference, Borders, Boundaries and Frontiers: A Forum on Immigration Issues, is sponsored by the American Democracy Project at the university. Texas border sheriffs, immigration officials, local ranchers and government leaders, civil rights lawyers, professors and students will be in attendance. For more information about the Borders, Boundaries and Frontiers conference, call (361) 593-2776 or visit www.americandemocracyproject.org sicalderon@brownsvilleherald.com

Ortiz says money coming from the National Endowment For the Humanities U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-Corpus Christi) has announced that the National Endowment For the Humanities has awarded a $24,964 grant to Texas A&M University at Kingsville to support Hispanic studies in South Texas. The title of the project is Hispanic Studies in South Texas. Ortiz said the funding will support a yearlong series of workshops in Hispanic Studies for faculty from four Texas A&M campuses with the aim of developing a cooperative doctoral program in Hispanic Studies. "The Hispanic population in the United States is exploding. It is long...