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Friends Just Peace Institute, a branch of Friends Congregational Church in College Station, is co sponsoring the event, which will feature live music, food, more than 80 exhibitors and vendors, games, and a garage sale benefiting Twin City Mission. Marathon to benefit the heart association The 13th Annual Medical Micro Marathon benefiting the American Heart Association begins 8:30 a.m. Saturday at the Joe H. Reynolds Medical Building. The fun run is organized by the Texas Aggie Medical Student Asso ciation Classes of 1998 and 1999 and is sponsored by Scott and White Memorial Hospital and Clin ic, Columbia Medical Center and Copy Corner. Patients' teaching power focus of lecture Distinguished physician Ellen Beck, M.D., will describe the teach ing power of patients during her April 29 lecture at the Texas A&M College of Medicine. Beck will speak at noon in the Reynolds Medical Building Lecture Hall I as part of the second annual O.C. Cooper Lectureship. The Cooper Lectureship is spon sored by the College of Medicine's Department of Family Medicine and was established last year to honor retiring physician and professor O.C. Cooper, M.D. 12th Man Foundation to hold competition The Texas A&M Twelfth Man Student Foundation is sponsoring its International Shoot-Out Competition benefiting the U.S. Cerebral Palsy Association 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at G. Rollie White Coliseum. The charge is $5 to shoot 50 free throws. The new legislation will provide more services to some ad less to others for the remaining five months of the fiscal m WASHINGTON (AP) — In a gauge of how the federal budget climate has changed, Democrats considered those winners in the huge compromise spending bill for fiscal 1996 that Congress pre pared for President Clinton’s promised signature Thursday. The House approved the legislation 399-25, and Senate passage was expected quickly. The $159 billion measure, covering nine Cabi net-level departments and dozens of agencies for the remaining five months of the fiscal year, will provide additional services for some Americans and less for others. There is $1.4 billion to help hire 100,000 local police officers, but $278 mil lion — about a third less than last year — for the Legal Services Corp., which provides lawyers for the poor. The bill was the product of grueling talks be tween the White House and Congress. In the end, the administration had won $5 billion more than the House had approved months ago — still leav ing spending for all federal agencies a whopping $20 billion below 1995 levels, according to the non partisan Congressional Budget Office. “The world has changed and we’re headed in the right direction,” said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston, Rk leader in the GOP drive to slice federal specq and shrink government. Democrats preferred to focus instead rat* money they restored. That included $350 mil for Clinton’s prized Goals 2000 educationrefc program, down $22 million from last yearbutc inally targeted for elimination by the House,li the Occupational Safety and Health Adminfe tion would get $305 million — a 2 percent cut 6? last year instead of the 11 percent reduction Hi House initially approved. Democrats pointed to the $7.2 billiontli would be spent for education for school distal with large numbers of poor children. That mi be the same as last year, but $1.2 billion mg than the original House figure, a cut Demon) had warned could cost the jobs of 40,000 teacb Grants to states for social services willtj $2.4 billion, or $419 million less than a jo ago. Pell grants for college students will belli billion, about a one-fifth cut from last year,! Department of Housing and Urban Develi; ment will see a $5.5 billion reduction in tob get to $19 billion. Northgate Continued from Page 1 said that because Northgate is an important part of A&M tradition, it is essential to have a student representative sit on the board. McDaniel said having an A&M representative will hope fully provide feedback represen tative of a majority of students’ opinions that can be presented to the council as it makes deci sions about the revitalization and restructuring of Northgate. “If we can achieve that,” Mc Daniel said, “we have successful ly represented the Texas A&M student population.” Pavlinski said his first goal as the Northgate liaison is to inform students about the Northgate project. He said communication between the city and the student body has been lacking in the past. “I just want to bridge the gap between the city and A&M stu dents,” Pavlinski said. One of the biggest misconcep tions that students have about Northgate, Pavlinski said, is that the district is like a strip mall, be ginning at E-Z Mart and ending at the Dixie Chicken. He said stu dents do not realize that North- gate encompasses a larger area, which includes the neighborhoods behind the stores and bars. Pavlinski said that some stu dents think of Northgate as a dirty place where they drink on the weekends. “They think ‘Northgate - that’s us,’” Pavlinski said. “That’s our place to hang out.” Pavlinski said that in some of his environmental design class es, students have discussed how architecture is declining in the wake of cookie-cutter designs, which are somewhat repetitious models that lack originality. “I think Northgate is a unique area of College Station and needs to be treated as such,” Pavlinski said. “We don’t want to lose it to another strip shop ping center.” But, Pavlinski said, North- gate’s infrastructure, parking and streets need to be renewed. Overall, he said there needs to be a balance between Northgate’s historic past, its present status as a student hangout, and what it will become in the future. “I’d like to keep Northgate the student center it is right now,” Pavlinski said. “But I’d also like to see it preserved as part of the heritage of where College Station came from.” Morales open Austin office AUSTIN (AP) - Dens::;-' Senate candidate Victoria moved part of his campaign® ation from his pickup tmckti; office Thursday. But the new space isn’t fan cy, and the Dal- las-area school teacher says an office and its trappings won’t change his style. “Please do not think any thing has gone to my head,” Morales told supporters outside the cram; office, located about I from the Capitol. “I’ll i that at no time will I ( become someone else.” Morales made his way iiii>j Nov. 5 general election Republican Sen. Phil Grant 1 ter leading four candiditefc March primary and defc U.S. Rep. John Bryantii April 9 runoff. 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