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NEWS battalion !e dge A&M’s minority fig ur# ,ri or, African, 'dent Coalition the (Jniversit isponsibility fd,j blacks pla k&M history ■nts should bm Gaines, form, oilcan statesem Bush signs campaign finance bill public edua te of Texas .Hiding of Ten aid, “more $ realize i the ground 11; e programs 1 they were cm grating studs •der to embn instance, insts ExCel diveni coined i me nation the battalion 7 A Thursday, March 28, 2002 GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Without fanfare, President Bush jgned landmark campaign finance legislation Wednesday as he ipened an aggressive multimillion-dollar fund-raising swing. Vithin hours, multiple lawsuits challenged the new law. “This legislation, although far from perfect, will improve he current financing system for federal campaigns,” Bush said Legislature S n a written statement released after White House aides tele- honed bill sponsors with news of the signing. Here, on the first stop of his quick swing through iouth Carolina and Georgia gathering $3 million Republican candidates. Bush denied that his low-key enactment of the bill was any kind of state- enton his ambivalence toward it. an men “I wouldn’t have signed it if 1 was really unhappy it,” Bush told reporters as he met with emer- ency and rescue workers at a Greenville fire station. He said he saw no contradiction in signing the ill on a day of heavy fund raising. “I’m not going laydown my arms. I’m going to participate in ie rules of the system.” After the speech to emergency workers, Bush Vm not going to lay down my arms. Vm going to participate in the rules of the system. — President Bush eadlined a $1.1 million fund-raiser for Rep. Lindsey Graham, R- C., and then flew to Georgia to help collect $ 1.5 million for Rep. Jaxby Chambliss. Thursday, he hopes to raise more than $1 mil- Mmonties, J on f or Texas Attorney General John Cornyn’s bid for the Senate. should u* Graham told donors at his fund-raiser: “Enjoy every minute of ;uez said. | y ou paid f or j t .” The bill will “make American politics more r fish to gets d they neeof driguez said, in of the Y( f Texas agree.] ng to unite, by settings only cenN palatable,” said Graham, who voted in favor of the bill and was a vocal supporter of Bush’s 2000 GOP rival. Sen. John McCain — the most visible sponsor of campaign-finance legislation. Back in Washington, the National Rifle Association was first in line to file its legal challenge at the federal courthouse a few blocks from the White House. The legislation “eviscerates the core protections of the First Amendment by prohibiting, on pain on criminal punishment, political speech,” said a legal com plaint filed on behalf of the NR A and its political victory fund. Bush had already said he would stay out of the inevitable litigation. “This legislation is the culmination of more than six years of debate among a vast array of legisla tors, citizens and groups. ... It does represent progress in this often-contentious area of public policy debate,” Bush said in his written statement. “Taken as a whole, this bill improves the cur- rent system of financing for federal campaigns and therefore I have signed it into law.” That’s not how the NR A saw it. “We are proud to be one of the first plaintiffs to formally ask the federal court to invalidate these new limits on the political speech of ordinary citizens because we believe that this law cannot be allowed to stand, not even for a moment,” NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said in a statement on the association’s lawsuit. ’erry outlines plan to improve Texas education said A&I age Societ; other stiK .ie black cull the South. ce change id it is impoiti icouraged wi ty. BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Study d and don’t drop out of school. That was the message Gov. Rick Perry ive on Tuesday as he toured South Texas niting his five-point plan for improving |eTexas education system. In Brownsville, Perry outlined his plan lower high school dropout rates. “I’m here today to talk to you and the lidents and the people about something I insider to be very important to every child the state of Texas. And that is finishing Itool,’ - Perry said. “A high school degree longer a goal, but a necessity.’ ■e we need to be realistic not going t,” he said. C Asian Cull nmittee cl Stic glimpse rsity issues ars at A&M. ty environmi of hope, f dialogue # six years icr rds have a vision | Last school year, 23,457 students dropped of Texas schools, according to infonna- >n provided by the governor’s office. “(The students) are not just dropping out school, they’re dropping out on their (ture," he said, adding that students leave for a variety of reasons, including irk and family obligations. Perry said his program will cost an esti mated $200 million a year, with the bulk of the funds coming from the federal govern ment, including the Leaving No Child Behind Education program, he said. The governor was accompanied by Felipe Alanis, a native of the Rio Grande Valfey who is the new commissioner of the Texas Education Agency. Perry said he wants to establish new mentoring, summer school and after-school programs that “specialize in helping young men and women who are more prone to be A high school degree is no longer a goal, but a necessity. — Rick Perry Texas governor drop-out oriented, more at risk.” The governor lauded a ninth-grade ini tiative program that tries to raise graduation rates by lowering retention and dropout rates. But he said he wants to expand it to “fund early intervention programs for stu dents in other grades so that we’re not fight ing this important battle too late.” He said flexible methods for allowing students to earn credits will motivate stu dents who would otherwise be inclined to stop their education early to drop out. 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