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Wares for sale: Visitors gather around a Latino Factory vending booth at the Ninth Annual MEChA National Conference in the Houston Room of the University Center on Sunday. Representatives from the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano/a de Aztlan met on the UH campus Thursday through Sunday.

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Though results of the 2002 Student Government Association election were announced Thursday, votes cannot be certified until the
University Hearing Board makes a decision on appeals filed by independent presidential candidate Fabian Sifuentes.

Slavery was and is one of the most despicable acts by one human towards another. To take away someone's God-given right to free choice is a travesty that cannot even begin to be quantified. To put it into a catch phrase, you cannot put a price on any soul. At least, most people thought you couldn't

The Grammy Award-winning Crow, who first hit it big in the mid-1990s with the album Tuesday Night Music Club and its ubiquitous single "All I Wanna Do," is just one of several nationally renowned acts who will be playing the festival.

The No. 5 Houston baseball team went 2-1 in a three-game series against Conference USA rival Southern Mississippi this weekend.