“To vote or not to vote?”

That is not the question – what has been called into question is the ability of campus partisan groups to hold voter registration drives. This year they cannot, al­though they have been allowed in years past.

As the Oct. 9 deadline for vot­er registration approaches, Stu­dent Activities officials have asked partisan student organizations to put voter-registration efforts on hold until the officials fine-tune their policy.

Rockwall senior Nick Pokorny’s building a better Baylor bowling alley legislation passed at Thursday evening’s student senate meeting, but it left a few spares standing in its wake.

The proposed legislation passed with the vote of 33 senators, but there were eight senators who could not be convinced that Pokorny’s idea to rebuild and upgrade the bowling lanes lost last spring was practical.

Chick-fil-A is once again in the public relations fryer.

The controversy flared up this week when a Chicago poli¬tician said the company was no longer giving to groups that op¬pose same-sex marriage, angering Christian conservatives who sup¬ported Chick-fil-A this summer when its president reaffirmed his opposition to gay marriage. Civil rights groups hailed the turn¬about, yet the company never confirmed it and instead released two public statements, neither of which made Chick-fil-A’s position any clearer.

Baylor students have a new way to write research papers, and it doesn’t involve late nights or Red Bull.

The research paper planner, a new online tool provided by Baylor libraries, offers students a way to plan research projects and papers. By inserting the due date into a textbox on the plan¬ner’s website, students are given a 13-step timeline on how to finish their paper by a certain deadline.