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April 28 MSCCAMAC will host FIESTA 505, a Cinco de Mayo Celebration, at Rudder Fountain from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Festivities will include live music, games, food and a dunking booth. Mon. April 29 Project Sunshine will be having an exec utive meeting at 8:30pm in Koldus. Senate Continued from page 1 “(There isj always a second road.” she said. Daniel Pearson, a junior political science major, won the election for student services chair. Pearson, who served as the 54th session’s student services chair, said in his campaign that he would maintain his strong foundation of investigation of issues. He cited his “irreplaceable” knowledge as a reason to re-elect him. Kyle Carlton, a sophomore business adminis tration major, won the election for external affairs committee chair. Carlton said that he hopes to work with legislators in Austin to Tues. April 30 The Aggie Texas Trophy Hunters will have their end of school meeting at Fuddrucker's (Texas Ave.) at 6:30p.m. There will be a raffle and guest lecture. For more information call Brent Muehr at 680-8899. Wed. May 1 Project Sunshine will have a closing meeting at 8:30pm in MSC 226. increase funding for Texas A&M and to increase the amount of scholarships students receive. Additionally. Carlton said he will restore the tra dition of political involvement that had tapered off in recent years. “I want to see that revived,” Carlton said. Eubanks, Pearson and Carlton will join Speaker Brooks Landgraf. Speaker Pro Temp Logan Renfrew and Rules and Regulations Chair Kevin Capps as officers. Landgraf. Renfrow and Capps were elected two weeks ago at the the first meeting of the 55th session. In other business, the members of Student Body President Zac Coventry's executive council were sworn in last night. Bond Continued from page 1 and used a translator, lingered in their meetings and a drive in Bush’s pickup truck through the woods of his Prairie Chapel Ranch. “One of the really positive things out of this meeting is the fact the crown prince and I established a strong personal bond,” Bush said. “We’ve spent a lot of time alone dis cussing our respective visions, talking about our families.” The Israeli-Palestinian crisis dominated Bush’s first face-to- face meeting with Abdullah. “There is a shared vision,” the president said, adding that they discussed possible next steps in implementing a Saudi peace plan championed by Abdullah and endorsed by the 22-member Arab League. The crown prince, who rarely comments to the media, left without public comment. Bush said his demand that Israel withdraw from Palestinian areas still stands: “I made it clear to him that I expected Israel to withdraw, just like I've made it clear to Israel. And we expect them to be finished.” He also said Israel must resolve standoffs in Ramallah and Bethlehem “in a nonviolent way.” Bush said he was grateful for Abdullah’s assurance that Saudi Arabia would not support any other angry Arab states joining Iraq’s oil embargo. The two leaders met inside Bush’s ranch home, talked over lunch and then set out in his truck to explore the 1,600 acres’ wooded canyons dotted with Texas bluebonnets and wild pink poppies. Given rising U.S.-Saudi ten sions, White House officials had made contingency plans for the visit to be cut short. Instead, the crown prince lingered more than two hours over schedule. In a business suit and cowboy boots. Bush opened the visit with the kind of formality he normal ly leaves at the Texas state line. He welcomed Abdullah, who wore a flowing brown robe, with a long handshake and quiet exchange.of pleasantries. The crown prince, whom Bush addressed all day as “Your Royal Highness,” bore a warning that Bush’s apparent tolerance of Israeli military offensives against Palestinians had damaged prospects for Mideast peace. “We believe the administra tion could have been stronger on Sharon, made it clearer to him that negotiations cannot be done under the barrel of a gun,” Nail Al-Jubeir, a spokesman for the Saudi Embassy, told reporters here. Sharon has kept Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat under virtu al house arrest in the West Bank while Israeli forces, in defiance of Bush’s own April 4 demands, press forward in a bloody hunt for Palestinian terrorists. The crown prince brought a message, his spokesman said: “Sharon has been acting up, and the U.S. government needs to rein him in. We cannot main tain the peace process with this stuff going on.” Some oil prices surged Thursday on fears tlmt Abdullah would threaten to choke off Saudi oil to the United States. Al-Jubeir denied that. ”We’ve always been a reliable source of oil. and we’ll continue to be,” he said. Further straining the U.S.- Saudi relationship — at a time when Bush is trying to stick to a zero-tolerance policy against ter rorists — are recent displays of Saudi support for Palestinian sui cide bombings of Israeli civilians. A senior administration offi cial briefing reporters after Thursday's talks said Bush raised general concerns about inciting anti-Israel terror. Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Britain published a poem prais ing Palestinian suicide bombers as “martyrs” and the Saudi gov ernment sponsored a telethon that collected $100 million to help the bombers’ families. Secretary of State Colin Powell testified to the Senate this week that some of that money may have gone to elements of the militant Hamas organization. The leaders reached no deci sion on a Mideast peace confer ence. On expanding the anti terror war into Iraq, which Arab nations are resisting. Bush spoke of Saddam Hussein as a serious menace, the official said, and they discussed ideas of what to do about him. With Abdullah remaining in the United States a couple more days. White House officials said they would continue to tend to the relationship. On Friday, Abdullah was taking a train with Bush’s father, the first President Bush, from Houston to College Station, Texas, for lunch. I foe ssv z'/Vz tio n of Former' Students con^mtulutes tire 2002 (arntfjnyrJrt dciortr'd toinners for their outstanding academic frerformance at Texas dcFAl University. Agricultural & Life Sciences Beth Kira Chaffee Brandon Marcus Hill Tyann Blessington Architecture Daniel Keith Byrom Michael Beaumont Crockett Elizabeth Anne Bryson Business Joseph Arthur Medina Michelle Ann Moreau Sara Ellen Peeples Education Caroline Lindsay Lewis Kathryn Leigh Manship Amanda Beth Van Hooser Engineering Reshma Anantha Krishnan Christopher James Tysor Benjamin Ragan Waters Geosciences Morgan Elizabeth Gallagher Stacie Rene Dennis Candice Ann Koski 1 Liberal Arts Andrea Dawn Holman Stephen Robert Tumminelh Amber Lynn Argo Science Jennifer Sue Novak lla Leigh Cobbs Nicholas Gerard Neumann Veterinary Medicine Rachel Therese Stinson Jennifer Ruth Chenault Josh Charles Kilpatrick The Association OF FORIN/IER ST U DEINIT S‘ /y/ethocecA^/ Bo kne le is Bo I hat In Director ( ontinued from help organize i, Women’s Health n will be located on floor of Beutel. Afta sive remodeling stall' members" should be open to the fall. Lekawskisaiji a need for more sen women’s annual exa® “As many attend this Universiti expansion is longoi have their needs addressed,” Lekawski. Women's health £ her only concern. Hit!; age for men to devek ular cancer is durins and health care vvi A&M's campuswaniij st '" . all students to better nucl ' 111 them on personal hr: )t * iei mus Lekawski said. “We want to try ;flii it a pleasurable, edi experience that sets for good health care nance habits in the it she said. Another goal at Bat working towardbetteti for students whenitcai health care, withstrai appointment and eis As many women thatatta this University,* expansion i$b\ overdue to ki their needsspe^ addressed. — Linda Lekae student health dine sit! ■ tion services, Lekawski! The health center provide better custoniet! ice by altering hows® get in to see Beutel’sfo and nurses. “We will be able tort more efficient service 1 work on an appoi! schedule,” she said. The main a ' scheduling 44,0 to have as many - rr „ as possible scheduled toL open spots for eniey appointments, LekawsM Lekawski is alsoapj ing physician at Beutf said she will work c with the staff of the wo® health care unit. Lekawski said she » hear what the students say by increasing the J of student represent^ the Student Health Coff “If we hear the » voice and get more we will be able to better,” she said. Lekawski has backed; posal that would brnv care to the areas on where students need E oss J ib if CLSTd Student would place pists in Recreation physical weight- 1 ' 1 the Sto aids.** , the machines and correctly. . [0 , : . “It is impossible ® I every part of Beutel * with the parts we to attempt it, dealer for Tag-Heuer and Breitling. THE BATTALIC Mariano Uditor in Chio editor@tnet> atwom The Battalion (ISSN lished daily. 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