"If you look at the overall change, it'll cost hundreds of thousand of dollars. There's no way around it because everything is going to have to be redone," said Mike Thomson, R-Maryville.
Rep. Mary Still, D-Columbia, presented a bill that would give a UM System student the power to vote on the Board of Curators. Her bill was defeated by bill sponsor, Rep. Mike Thomson, R-Maryville, whose solution would allow a second member from one of the districts to step in as the ninth voting member.
The voting-student approach is opposed by the chair of the House Higher Education Committee -- Rep. Mike Thomson, R-Maryville -- who filed a bill to simply allow more than one curator to be from the same congressional district. Thomson's bill would include provisions allowing no more than two members to be from the same district.
Although, this amendment passed, it did face some opposition from Rep. Mike Thomson, R-Maryville. Thomson said rather than rewarding high-achieving students who will likely go to college, the state should focus on students for which college is less certain.
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