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SO ME, YOU AMP JESSIE SOTTA GO POWN THERE AMP FIMP HER, HUH, IT LOOKS PRETTY PAMOEROUS. . Insurance Continued from page 1 something, but we haven’t fig ured out all the details yet. We’re getting into the time where we are trying to build a budget, so we’re going to try and get that decision made in the very near future.” Perry said more will be known today after the University releases its budget guidelines. However, Perry was confident that a solution could be found. “I’m certain we’ll come up with something to approach the graduate issue — I’m cer tain of that,” he said. “It’s for part-time employees who are faculty and staff that we’re still looking at.” Steve Hassel, the System’s Writing Continued from page 1 Russell, will also join the team. A Web-based teaching and learning tool called “Calibrated Peer Review” will be used to institute writing skills into science and engineering pro grams to graduate well-rounded students. CPR was first developed for the chemistry department at UCLA and was implemented in A&M’s chemistry department in the fall of 2002 by professor M. Larry Peck, Hobson said. CPR teaches students how to evaluate writing on a certain topic such as math or the sciences. Then, students look at and compare poorly- and well-written pieces on the subject, and eventually post their own assignments. After evaluating oth ers’ writings and their own, these students' cri tiques are taken into consideration and a final copy is turned in to the professor. All of the inter action is anonymous and takes place online. These CPRs will take place in a regular class room environment as an added part of the cur riculum. “When students write about what they are learning, they learn the material better,” Hobson said. Three faculty members from the physics, math is sending a negative message about graduate education. “The Texas Legislature has sent a message by passing this legislation that they are not concerned with the well-being of anyone seeking advanced study in Texas,” said Josh Peschel, president of the Graduate Student Council. “They have placed an addition al financial barrier on graduate education in this state.” However, Peschel is confi dent A&M will help graduate students cover the increases. “A&M fully realizes the essential role that graduate stu dents play within the University, and I am absolutely confident that they will do everything in their power to maintain our high quality of graduate educa tion,” Peschel said. and biology departments will attend an instructor retreat July 31 through Aug. 2, where they will learn how to write CPR assignments. The program will target first-year calculus classes, a fundamental biology class, biology 214, college physics for engineers and pre-service teachers, Hobson said. The program also will improve grading processes, Patterson said. He said some students feel they are limited when taking a multiple-choice exam and wish to have the opportunity to show what they know. This program will give students a chance to answer in short answer or essay format. WALS will run for four years beginning this fall, and nine new faculty members will be cho sen each summer to participate in the project. Faculty members will have a structured way to evaluate if the program is helping the students learn, Hobson said. At the end of the four years, a symposium based around the results of the WALS project will take place. One goal of Vision 2020, Patterson said, is to increase the skills with which A&M graduates communicate with the world and with others. “We hope to teach students that not everything in the world can be solved by choosing among five choices,” Patterson said. director of benefit programs, said two factors contributed to the increased costs. “It’s a significant change for our System,” Hassel said. “Health care costs are going up, but they’re not going up as dramatically as last year. For the part-timers and graduate students, increases are driven more by the reduction in employer funding than it is by increasing health care costs.” Hassel said the Legislature left a door open for universities to help out graduate assistants, but other part-time workers might not be so lucky. “Of course, that’s all dependent on funding, which is a big ‘if’ right now for all of us,” he said. Some students say the increases mean the Legislature Hong Kong cleared of SARS, WHO says HONG KONG (AP) - The World Health Organization removed Hong Kong from its list of SARS-infected areas Monday, but warned the territory to keep up its guard against future out breaks that might put it back on the list. WHO officials urged Hong Kong to avoid a repeat of what NEWS IN BRIEF happened in Toronto, where a new outbreak was discovered after Canada's largest city was taken off the WHO's list. Two people died of SARS on Sunday in Toronto. Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa said the territo ry was "of course happy" about the WHO announcement, but he expressed sadness over nearly 300 deaths from the dis ease and cautioned, "this could come again." Hong Kong's removal from the list was expected. Sunday was the 20th day since the last con firmed SARS patient was put in isolation in Hong Kong, the con dition set for the territory to be taken off the list. Only Beijing, Taiwan and Toronto remain on the list fol lowing the ebbing worldwide of the SARS crisis since its peak in March and April. THE BAXIAL® Court Continued from pagel “This court has long recti nized that ‘education istheteii foundation of good citiza ship,’” O’Connor wrote, quoiiii from another landmark the Brown v. Board of Educati;: decision that integrated pel schools. “For this reason, thediffe® of knowledge and opportiro through public institutionsi higher education mustbeaccc* sible to all individuals regards of race or ethnicity,” O’Coima wrote. At the same time, the ct® struck down a more rigid, pt;- based admissions policy University of Michigan unde- graduates. That vote was W with three of the court’s liberal justices dissenting. The difference was a mat: of degree. The Constitutionpe- mils schools to considers applicant’s race as one am® many factors when weight; which students will win a at a top-notch school, 0’Co® wrote in the more signifies law school ruling. Whatascki cannot do, she and other justice said, is install inflexible or a«h matic racial preferences. The law school and its ers argued that a “critical mass of minority students is essenti; to break down racial stereotype and benefits the entire stuck body. Minorities mustbepresa in more than token numbers ensure all students can inters the university has said. But no student’s transcrip; will note that he or she“Worfc and Plays Well With ( Justice Antonin Scalia r in mocking reference to lan guage more often associated with grade school report cards. The importance of racial understanding,” or of sin ply getting along with otherpeo- pie, is a lesson of life leamedh; “people three feet shorter and!- years younger than the grown adults at the University'll Michigan Law School, in ii- tutions ranging from Boy Sctf troops to public school ki»- gartens,” Scalia wrote indffli Chief Justice Willi® li Rehnquist and Justices Anfa; M. Kennedy and Clarefi Thomas also dissented in 4* law school case. Thomas, the court’s only black justice, accused the la* school of maintaining “anexcla- sionary admissions system tto it knows produces racially dis proportionate results.” “Racial discrimination is nd a permissible solution to tlii self-inflicted wounds of thiselit ist admissions policy,” he wroK Michigan says it accepts only academically qualified student' no matter their race. In the companion cast O’Connor joined Rehnquist Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas Stephen Breyer to strike t the undergraduate school’s Iff ] point grading system. Tki| school automatically ga« minorities a 20-point boniis more than for some measureso: academic excellence, writiif ability or leadership skills Outstanding athletes also got 3 points, as did impoverish^ applicants. Stevens, Souter and Ginsbuip dissented. The cases put the Administration in an awkwars spot. The White House hadsidet with white applicants rejecteda| the Michigan schools, but not called for an outright end to affirmative action. Stude ship dur Sandle model Titone MALIBU Sandler n Jackie Titc emony tf celebrity bulldog c tuxedo. 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