May 9, 2003

Identity Crisis

By MEGAN ROONEY

Democracy is alive and well at Southwest Texas State University, where students have deployed petitions, student-government meetings, and even a state legislator in a battle over a proposal to change the institution's name to Texas State University at San Marcos.

After the state-university system's Board of Regents postponed making a decision on the name change until 2005, one group, led by Robert Doerr, a senior who is president of the student government, lobbied San Marcos's

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