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Texas Senate OKs guns on college campuses bill

Thursday, May 21, 2009

The Texas State Senate has approved a bill that will allow college students and university employees with concealed weapons permits to carry their handguns on campus. It would allow college students who are at least 21-years-old to bring their weapons into state campus buildings. University hospitals and athletic facilities would remain off limits to guns. But private schools would still have the option of banning handguns.

The state senator who filed the bill said he did so because of the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech, where he said victims were “picked off like sitting ducks.”

The bill, opposed by college administrators, faces an uncertain future in the State House.

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The OneCard from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, can now be used at three off-campus restaurants with more merchants set to join.

“It’s a project we’ve been working on for some time now and its finally coming to fruition,” said OneCard Coordinator Chris Bird.

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Cheshire Integrated Transport Services teamed up with Applied Card Technologies (ACT) and sQuid to expand a UK smart card offering to the West Cheshire College and Chester College campuses.

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Sallie Mae is rolling out fee free ATMs on select campuses which enable student checking account customers to withdraw cash surcharge-free using their Sallie Mae Debit MasterCard.

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Heartland Payment Systems Campus Solutions division has recruited 12 higher education districts and campuses totaling 20 different colleges to manage the schools’ financial aid disbursement services utilizing Heartland’s Acceluraid electronic disbursement product.

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Fox News Business has taken a look at university IDs that also double as prepaid cards. Fox dubs the prepaid aspect as “the latest twist on a long tradition of college campus ID cards serving a dual financial purpose.”

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Students at Park Hills, Mo.-based Mineral Area College will be receiving their financial aid refunds faster this year through a prepaid card issued by Central National Bank in Oklahoma.

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