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situations and educational and re
search equipment for institutions and
agencies in the two university sys
tems.
AUF beneficiaries include the Uni
versity of Texas System, receiving 67
percent, and the Texas A&M Univer
sity system, receiving 33 percent.
The AUF receives funding from
the surface revenues generated from
the PUF land endowment and in
vestment from the PUF investment
portfolio.
The information in this report
comes primarily from the University
of Texas Investment Management
Company’s web site and from a re
port to the Texas A&M University Sen
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Brady to speak
on U.S. relations
Spade Phillips, PI
By Matt Kowalski
Rep. Kevin Brady will speak to
the Jewish Student Association,
other students, faculty, staff and
community members about Unit
ed States-lsrael relations at a din
ner tonight from 5 to6 p.m. at the
Hillel Jewish Student Center on
University Drive.
Aaron Horvitz, coordinator of
the dinner and a senior political
science major, said he met Brady
at a College Republicans meeting.
He and Rabbi Peter Tarlow, rab
bi for the Jewish Student Associ
ation, contacted Brady's office
and invited him to speak to the
group.
Horvitz said Brady is a valu
able person to speak about U.S.
policy in the Middle East because
he serves on the International Re
lations Committee, which pro
vides foreign aid to Israel. He
said the event is a good way for
Brady to meet some of his con
stituents.
“Your vote doesn’t really count
much in an election, but when you
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dent paychecks, combining the two
subtractions for Social Security and
Medicare, totals 40 cents of every
hour worked or $2.4 million, which
is sent to Washington. Gramm said
if the act passes, students would
see a 15 percent increase in their
paychecks two months later.
On Oct. 21, 1998 Congress voted
on Section 2023, the Student Tax
Fairness Act in Congress’ Omnibus
Appropriations Act, allowing nego
tiations for filing exclusions to the
tax.
Gramm said A&M has been
working at a “marginal disadvan
tage” when recruiting graduate stu
dents because private colleges
unity to fix it,’’ Gramm said.
“We are treating students like oth
er state employees.”
Burness said she supports the
act because many college students
live on tight budgets and do not
have time to work a second job.
“The act helps ease the burden."
Burness said. “It is like a raise.”
Fees
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president and a semd
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change.
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get to speak to someone one-on-
one, that really makes a differ
ence," Horvitz said.
There will be a panel discus
sion at 6 p.m in Rudder 601 to
discuss the Eastern, Naturalist
and Christian worldviews as a fol
low-up to last week’s teleconfer
ence debate. Michael Neely, di
rector of Christian Leadership
Ministries, said each representa
tive of the three world views will
have ten minutes to make an
opening statement.
Richard Stadelmann, a pro
fessor in the Department of Phi
losophy and Humanities, will rep
resent the Christian worldview.
a question and ansm
and an open discuss”
opening remarks.
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sent the Naturalist World view and
Dr. Nagamangala Anand, in the
Department of Mechanical Engi
neering along with Dr. M.M. Rao
from the Veterinary Diagnostic
Lab will represent the Eastern
worldview. Neely said there will be
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