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Patricia Nava said she almost always parks on a neighborhood street because she can't find parking on campus.

"I've got a sticker, but I usually end up parking on the street," the senior geography major said.

She's not the only one.

Residents of the Bluebonnet Hills Neighborhood Association are in the midst of discussing parking bans for the 3100 block of Wabash Avenue nearest campus and possibly the surrounding parallel streets of Odessa Avenue and Rogers Avenue, a member of the neighborhood association said.

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The diving team will spring into action Saturday as part of the first dual swimming and diving meet of the season against Missouri State in the University Recreation Center natatorium.

Head diving coach Wayne Chester said this weekend will be a good test to see what his squad of four divers will be capable of this year.

"We don't know what we're looking for with Missouri State," Chester said. "We don't know what to expect, and don't know what kind of divers they have."

Although it might rub students the wrong way, neighborhoods surrounding the university have every right to ban student parking during school hours.

Such a measure wouldn't be necessary if students would park legally and courteously on city streets.

Blocking driveways and mailboxes of residents in an effort to get to class on time is not behavior becoming of students.

Commuting students also have no choice but to obey such bans if they are properly passed through the city.

For freshman students entering the Honors Program, navigating the system can be overwhelming.

This year, honors students will have the opportunity to participate in the new Watson Mentoring Program, which will pair freshmen with an advanced honors student to facilitate a more smooth transition into college, said Maddison Grigsby, Honors Cabinet vice president.

Grigsby, a junior international finance major, said she took this on as her project for the semester.

Fraternity and Sorority Life is looking to fill a new post after the staff reorganized positions and responsibilities within the office, an assistant dean of Campus Life said.

James Parker, assistant dean of Campus Life, said the director of fraternity and sorority affairs position was created based on the former position of assistant director of fraternity and sorority life. After weeks of ruffling through resumes the search has narrowed down to three candidates, said Robin Williamson, one of the eight members of the search committee.

The university has no policy regarding admissions officials looking at applicants' social networking Web sites despite an educational service company's report that one in 10 admission officers from the nation's top universities are doing so.

Kaplan Inc., a test prep and admission advising company, surveyed 320 admissions officers from the country's top 500 universities as compiled by U.S. News & World Report and from Barron's Profiles of American Colleges. The participants were surveyed by telephone in July and August, according to a Sept. 18 press release from Kaplan.