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A\ 30, 1996 Nation lesday • April sti ttalion -profit events anl should It than thr# of the df’ L pplicatii)« ces are it it be re j have e call nge* Tuesday Page 9 • The Battalion (inton announces new anti-drug efforts is strategy is similar to Nancy Reagan s “just say no counseiing se ^ al1 studentsofci r °, P- m ' 'n Hendeii® Ur - Br 'an K. Willie ■GO III; There will!* and faculty 3D * ation, video andim| rejects at 8 p.m ■ ratre. on Sciences uepjr ” wi| l be an all day, ait exhibition wiiW ultimedia andgf/ mining example ibition Hall. //eekty.OTia siilt .ictivity will folk' \&M Presbytero : 30 p.m. For detail < Yates at 846-1221 mputer scientist' IS majors interesld ips & internshipscas t our DPMA .tamu.edu/HM- Vdpma.html. Call udents Associati* udents group weei- athering at a I /ill be held athp.? ee at 7 6 4-1824 fc MIAMI (AP) — Criticized as A/eak in the war on drugs. President Clinton announced a drive Monday to curb a sharp rise in marijuana use among young people and to stop the spread of the dangerous drug methamphetamine. The administration said Clin ton’s election-year initiative was the opening shot in a 10-year ef fort aimed at returning America to a 1960s, pre-Vietnam level of drug use. “Make no mistake about it, this has got to be a bipartisan, American, non-political effort,” said Clinton, even as Republi cans scoffed at his drug-fight ing record. “Since Bill Clinton was elect ed, the number of illegal aliens is up, the number of drug ad dicts is up,” House Speaker Newt Gingrich said in a Las Ve gas speech. The administration acknowl edged that Clinton erred early in his administration by cutting staff in the White House drug control office. Clinton implored Congress to a PP/'ove his request for a $15.1 billion initiative relying heavily on drug eduction, prevention and treatment programs, inter diction efforts and a craeWlown on drug-related crime and violence. It would amount to a 9.3 percent increase in drug-fighting funds. Clinton made his proposal in a schoolyard at the George Wash ington Carver Middle School in front of hundreds of young people who have taken a pledge to ab stain from drugs and alcohol. “We are here because of what you have done: zero guns, zero assaults, zero incidents of drug- related violence, zero drugs,” the president said. “That’s where America ought to be.” White House drug policy chief Barry McCaffrey acknowledged later there were no major new elements in Clinton’s program. “Everything in this strategy is already being done, absolutely,” McCaffrey said. There is no mag ic solution, he added. Despite Clinton’s political dis claimer, there was a heavy polit ical air around his trip. After the drug speech and an afternoon of golf with brothers-in law Hugh and Tony Rodham, Clinton was to raise more than $3 million for the Democratic Na tional Committee at a fund-rais ing reception and two dinners. The president was accompa nied by his top political aides, and White House press officials were armed with ammunition against expected Republican at tacks on Clinton’s anti-drug campaign campaign. For example, presi dential spokeswoman Ginny Terzano said that the GOP “Con tract With America” made no mention of fighting drugs. Likewise, she said, Sen. Bob Dole, Clinton’s Republican rival, made “zero” mention of drugs in his rebuttal to the president’s State of the Union address. Yet, even McCaffrey said the president’s 1993 cuts in the Office of Drug Control “didn’t work out.” And, a day before Clinton an nounced his policy, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, ranking De mocrat on the Judiciary Com mittee, said the president “has failed to speak. This president is silent on the matter.” Florida has been hostile ter ritory for Democratic presiden tial candidates for 20 years but Clinton’s advisers believe he has a shot at the state’s 25 elec toral votes this year, because of his defense of Medicare against Republican budget attacks and his tough stand against Cuba’s Fidel Castro. Drugs also are an important issue in Florida, sometimes viewed as the nation’s gateway for cocaine and other drugs. The administration said there was cause for guarded optimism on some fronts, with the number of illegal drug users reported to TAAS test scores are up from last year Students have up to eight chances to pass the test AUSTIN (AP) — About 6.7 percent of this year’s senior class, or 12,579 students, have yet to pass all sections of the state test re quired for them to receive their diplomas, ac cording to figures released today. A total of 21,531 seniors — out of a class of 186,229 — took the exit-level Texas As sessment of Academic Skills in March. Stu dents have eight chances to pass the read ing, writing and mathematics test while they are in school, starting when they are sophomores. The seniors who still haven’t passed will have another chance at the test this week. Education Commissioner Mike Moses said he expects the upcoming administration of the test to increase the passing rate for this year’s seniors beyond the final 95 percent passing rate for the 1995 senior class. Moses emphasized that high school stu dents recorded significant gains on the TAAS exit-level test, according to prelimi nary results. Of 208,774 lOth-graders tested, 60 per cent passed, up from 54 percent last year. Eighty-one percent of them passed the reading section of the test, up from 76 per cent last year, and 65 percent passed math, up from 59 percent. There was a 1 percent decrease in the passing rate for writing, to 85 percent. In grades 11 and 12, students also im proved in reading and math compared with last year, and the percentage passing writ ing also went down. Forty-three percent of the 52,141 11th- The Student Mind During a Final Exam ifoe •prof tA-ever covered this! ft Actual —- knowledge oiA- subject. ■ a vuimcle or tornado. / ■ Iliikl The TA/S / teliAda cute. WE Here’s feist-23ctLiA0 relief from, the pressure of scl/iool! <s,rcio(ueitlu,0 seniors eiud grad students can get 4^oo 00 cash back* ^ the purchase or Lease of - ncrplwww.forol.corK for the full'sUr Because Your Brain Doesn’t Have Whfpt c • To be eligible, you must graduate with an associate's ot bachelor's degree, or be currently enrolled in graduate school, between IOfl/94 and 1/3/97. You must purchase or lease your new vehicle between i/a** 1 J It O anoift/S/ Some customer and vehicle ei i oh* -r+' r c-ool ntw Ford or MercuvM at http://www.ford.coru. K thTfuTsto^ have fallen by half since 1985 to 12.2 million now. However, drugs are being used increasingly by young peo ple. The use of marijuana almost doubled between 1992 and 1994 among children aged 12 to 17. The chief goal of Clinton’s program is to motivate the young to reject illegal drugs and substance abuse — much as Nancy Reagan tried in the 1980s with her “just say no” advice. Clinton’s campaign calls for state governments and commu nity organizations to help devel op national prevention stan dards and a program to imple ment it. Further, it encourages schools to adopt comprehensive drug prevention strategies and says the nation must curb the use of alcohol and tobacco by young people. Clinton also proposed making it a crime to store, use or handle chemicals for the purpose of manufacturing methampheta mine. The drug can create a eu phoric high followed by depres sion, paranoia and, when used long term, violent rages. 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Thirty-five percent passed math, up from 28 percent. But the 43 percent passing writing repre sented a 5 percent drop from the percentage who passed in 1995. Of the 12th-graders tested, 44 percent passed reading, up from 33 percent, and 45 percent passed math, up from 35 percent. The percentage passing writing dropped from 51 percent to 45 percent. Texas Education Agency spokesman Joey Lozano said those tested in grades 11 and 12 are students who didn’t pass in the 10th grade. He didn’t have an explanation for the smaller percentage of students passing writ ing. But he said that math is generally per ceived as the more difficult section and an emphasis on that area “might possibly ac count for some” of the difference. 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