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Page NEWS THE BATTALION Tuesday, June 19,ll Dii?tm Arps PM P.DPLUnfl /)a;d here lje Have The ai^eti'a) laujreajce School. °F CoAiEDy/ A)/^aieD AFTek a LEOE/JDARV CoflEbiA/J pgoAi YouS [AARTia) Uuzeace? A LE&EA)t>?> tV --r TRuE, gi6 tfousE \a)A5 A '04 uttle Dull. Bur " T 5T/ll Ka)ouJ \aJFIAT 5 The ijorst .Th^t Could AaFPEa) v LMS /A Cia;e>m^t/c Al/ASTE!^- Fiece 1 X Thi/uk D^L66//Y6 E>Aa)/)a) AS $°^EB°bY's The 11 fl&L U www.rdelunalcom^lC The pantastico Chronicles BY J. GOLDFLUTE HECTOR Y PEDRO Adrian Republicans debate cuttinj disaster relief WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are divided over their plan to cut $389 million from the government’s chief dis aster response agency, even as Tropical Storm Allison finished tearing a path from Texas to New England. Republicans included the Federal Emergency Manage ment Agency cut in a measure providing $6.5 billion for the rest of fiscal 2001 for defense, education and other programs that the I louse Appropriations Committee approved last week. The full I louse plans to debate the measure Wednesday. But with the 1 louston area alone reeling from an estimated $2.1 billion in damage, one local congressman — who happens to be Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas — is against the FEMA reduction, spokeswoman Emily Miller said Monday. In addition, WTiite House budget chief Mitchell Daniels and FEMA Director Joe All- baugh have written letters questioning the reduction. .And other lawmakers from stricken states say they want to put dis aster funds into the spending bill as it makes its way through Congress. Asked if DeLay might also seek disaster aid for his commu nity, Miller said, “When he knows the needs, he’ll do the re sponsible thing.” The episode demonstrates the cross-currents Republicans face as they try balancing the re sponse to a destructive stod with their — and PresiG: Bush’s — desire to limit fedej spending. GOP leaders say they art tennined to hold the bill’sp; tag to $6.5 billion. Erasing;: proposed FFMA cuts wot force them to choose among, ther increasing the mease: cost, finding other reductit elsewhere or removing so; spending from the measure. Republicans on the app: priations panel said the red. tion was justified beai FFMA had more thanSli lion in reserve left this ye, The GOP-written spend; ! bill instead includes S389n lion for flood control pro; repairs to federal facilitii other types of assistance, of which is aimed at indi lawmakers’ districts. “We think given what know now they have suffii money to get through the said Rep. James Walsh, R-N a senior member of the Ap: priations Committee. Fi 2001 runs through Sept. 30 i At the panel’s meeting week. Democrats tried to store most of the FEMA mo: losing 32-29 on an ameneb that also would have boo; spending for emergency hea: and cooling aid for the poor “This (the FEMAreducte is something that isn’t going stick,” said the committee’s; Democrat, Rep. David Obe Wisconsin. Housing Continued from Page 7 “Tt generally takes an off-campus fa cility three years to settle down,“ Thomas said. “Plus/Traditions and the Callaway House are not cheap, which causes the price of housing to become a factor.” Within the 8,300 residence hall spaces available, the Department of Residence Life has decided to diversi fy on-campus living options and tailor to customers needs. “We are currently experimenting with different types of halls,” Thomas said. “We are working on converting more rooms into private rooms.” Thomas said that the demand of pri vate rooms is on the rise, and they will begin converting some of the balcony- style rooms in Hughes and Keathley of the FHK complex during Spring 2002 to private rooms. He said that the balcony dorms are perfect for converting to a private room because of their size. He also said that the Department of Residence Life has converted some of the modular rooms into apartments. GARZA Continued from Page 7 sentences. Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered further study but also said in a statement Monday that there was no evidence of racial bias in Garza’s death sentence and no reason to delay his execution any further. “Juan Raul Garza’s guilt is not in doubt,” Ashcroft said. Garza was convicted of murdering a man by shooting him five times in the head and neck. Ashcroft said Garza also ordered the murders of two other men, paying the killers $10,000 each for one of the slayings and money and a car for the other. “The facts of Garza’s case are im portant,” Ashcroft said. “Seven of Garza’s eight victims were Hispanic; the prosecutor in the case is Hispanic; the presiding judge is Hispanic; at least six of the jurors are Hispanic; and all of the jurors indi vidually certified that race, color, reli gious beliefs, national origin and sex were not involved in reaching their re spective decisions.” The original Justice Depaiti study showed that 80 percentol fendants charged with capital fenses over a five-year period*; minorities. The study also found that just® of the 94 U.S. attorney districts counted for about 43 percent oi|| cases in which prosecutors sought; death penalty. Garza’s attorneys cited 26 cases:' volving crimes similar to Gaffi where prosecutors did not seek: federal death penalty. 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