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Dave House, The Battalion
A LESSON IN LIFE
Fire rescue trainees practice their rescue techniques during a passenger train crash simulation at the fire training school on West Cam
pus. This is Texas A&M's third train crash simulation; the first was in September.
Tuition
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on the student’s age.
lire senior college plan allows for 124 cred
it hours at any state senior college or universi
ty and costs between $8,320 and $8,875.
The junior-senior college plan pays for 64
hours at junior college and 60 hours at any
public senior college or university in the
state. The cost for this plan is between
$6,043 and $6,775.
The private college plan pays the aver
age cost of tuition and required feds for 120
hours at state private colleges and univer
sities. The price of the plan is based on the
average cost of tuition and required fees in
the state’s private universities at the time
of purchase.
Should a person purchase a plan for a
beneficiary who later decides to go to a dif
ferent type of college than specified in his or
her plan, the plan can be converted by pay
ing the difference in the price of the two
funds. If the new plan costs less than the
original, the extra money can be applied to
other college expenses.
Anne Vivero, assistant to the director of
financial aid at A&M, said the availability
of different plans makes the fund a conve
nient option.
“It is so flexible,” Vivero said. “The fact that
plans can be converted to private from public,
or even be applied to out-of-state costs, makes
the fund a very viable alternative.”
If a student decides to go to school out of
state, the plan will either pay the tuition
and fees for that university or pay a portion
of costs equal to the current average cost of
tuition in Texas.
No one currently attending the Univers
ty is eligible for the fund, but students
younger siblings can make their parent!
aware of the plans.
Megan Stock, a junior accounting major
has younger brothers and sisters. Stock sai
that although the plan sounds like a gool
idea, she would have to look into other op
tions before encouraging her parents or any
one else to purchase a fund.
“I like the idea that you can convert plan
and get refunds,” she said. “Butforthal
kind of money you need to weigh other op
tions, like investing in mutual funds, to
which method would yield the morjt profit,
Information and applications for th(
Fund can be pickbd Up at the Financial Ait
Office in the Pavilion, or accessed on the In
ternet at http://www.window.state.tx.us,
The state comptroller’s office can
reached at 1-800-445-GRAD.
New York
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Sen. Alfonse D’Amato.
“It was stacked against us,”
Forbes said.
Pataki said Dole’s big mar
gins in recent primaries gave
him plenty of leeway to choose a
running mate who supported
abortion rights, Buchanan’s
protests notwithstanding.
“I don’t know where these
people live — but clearly not in
the real world,” Bay Buchanan,
her brother’s campaign manag
er, said in response to that,
promising a vigorous convention
fight if Dole took that course.
Only Forbes and Dole were on
the New York ballot statewide.
Buchanan competed in two-
thirds of the state’s 31 congres
sional districts but didn’t get
any reward for his tenacious ef
fort to overcome New York’s ar
cane ballot access laws.
Thursday’s victory capped a
climactic week for Dole, who saw
the nomination he has coveted so
long finally come within reach.
Dole won a 10-state sweep Tues
day, and then saw two rivals quit
the race and endorse him
Wednesday, leaving just Forbes
and Buchanan in his path.
Buchanan appeared in no
mood to get out of the way.
Campaigning in Tennessee as
he scoured the South for a sym
bolic victory, Buchanan said Dole
“waffles” on abortion and labeled
him “the biggest taxer in the his
tory of the Republican Party.”
Looking ahead to the August
GOP convention, Buchanan
told restless supporters: “We go
to San Diego, we break the
doors open to this party and we
takejt over.”
*Taken aback. Dole suggested
hi^ rival needed a little rest
and said peace with Buchanan
would come only if he lowered
the temperature.
“I’m not going to put my hand
out and get it chopped off,” Dole
said. “I expect him to meet me
half way. If he really wants Bill
Clinton for four more years, he
can have him.”
Surveys of voters as they left
their precincts across New York
provided evidence of each candi
date’s niche in the GOP race:
those worried most about abor
tion chose Buchanan, voters dri
ven most by taxes picked flat-
tax champion Forbes.
The most important candi
date quality to New York voters
was experience in Washington, a
big change from the earlier pri
maries, and one that clearly
benefited Dole.
More than six in 10 said
Buchanan was too extreme.
New York voters were evenly
divided over the existing tax sys
tem or a Forbes-backed flat tax
— though even among those
who wanted a flat tax. Dole ran
evenly with Forbes.
As in other primary states,
there was troublesome data for
Dole as he thinks ahead to the
fall campaign: More than half
of New York’s Republican vot
ers said the 72-year-old senator
does not have new ideas.
The exit polling was con
ducted by Voter News Service,
a consortium of AP and the
television networks.
Playing to win here, Forte
invested nearly $1.5 million ju:
to get on the ballot and thenai
other $1 million plus on tele?
si on advertising. After promii
ing weeks ago that he wa
through airing attack ati
Forbes tried one more timet
bloody Dole with ads beratin
the Kansas senator as a habit
al tax-raiser.
New York’s 93 were tt
biggest single-state prize sot
in the primary season.
Next Tuesday 362 more*
be chosen, including 98 froi
Florida and 123 more froi
Texas. Louisiana, Mississipp
Oklahoma, Tennesseean
Oregon also have “Super Tue
day” contests.
The Republican contest the
moves to Kansan Dole’s ho®
turf, the Midwest, where 1M 1
of the GOP governors are Do
supporters. Forbes has talb
of spending heavily in Califo
nia’s March 26 primary,h
hasn’t made much of an effa
yet in the big states that co®
before then.
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Sterling Hayman, Editor in Chief
Stacy Stanton, Managing Editor
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Michael Landauer, Opinion Editor
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Tiffany Moore, Night News Editor
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Dave Winder, Radio Editor
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Brad Grabber, Graphics Editor
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