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Suicide bomber kills 17 Israelis
MEGIDDO, Israel (AP) — A
Palestinian suicide bomber
pulled a car packed with explo
sives alongside a moving bus and
blew it up Wednesday in a huge
fireball that killed 17 passengers
— 13 of them Israeli soldiers.
The military warned Palestinians
were shifting tactics to kill more
Israelis each time they strike.
The Islamic Jihad group
claimed responsibility for the
bombing and said it was timed to
mark the 35th anniversary of the
1967 Mideast War, when Israel
captured the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. The terror group said
the bomber, Hamza Samudi, was
from the West Bank town of
Jenin, and Israel responded by
sending tanks there.
A relative said the attacker
was 16, making him one of the
youngest bombers to strike Israel.
Palestinians braced for a more
massive reprisal. In Israel, there
were growing calls for the army
to reoccupy the West Bank and to
move against Islamic Jihad head
quarters in the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Authority
condemned the bombing in a
statement that for the first time
underscored it had no advance
knowledge of the attack.
Palestinian officials said they
were under orders to arrest
members of the group.
The army spokesman said
Palestinians had planned to release
lethal cyanide gas as part of a sui
cide bombing in March that killed
29 Israelis. Brig. Gen. Ron Kitrey
said the gas was not used because
of technical difficulties.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Board of Regents calls
special meeting Thursday
The Texas A&M Board of Regents announced
a special board meeting would occur through a
telephone conference scheduled for 8:15 a.m.
Thursday to consider and possibly approve Dr.
Robert M. Gates as Texas A&M's next president
and Dr. Willie Tempton as Prairie View Universi
ty's interim president.
"We needed to call an emergency meeting to
name an interim president (at Prairie View
A&M), so we decided to take care of the final de
cision on Gates also," said Erie Nye, chairman of
the Board of Regents.
On May 11, the Board named Gates the sole
presidential finalist but, in accordance with the
law, had to wait 21 days to officially appoint him
as president.
Gates served as the interim dean of Texas
A&M's George Bush School of Government and
Public Service from August 1999 to June 2001.
He spent 27 years with the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) serving as director from November
1991 to January 1993.
A&M System spokeswoman Ann Kellett said
Gates will not be involved in the meeting by tele
phone or by person.
The interim president of Prairie View will
serve while a search advisory committee con
ducts a national search, a process expected to
take up to 12 months.
Charles A. Hines, president of Prairie View
A&M for the past eight years, retired this May, ef
fective September 1,2002.
Tempton is now currently serving as active
president of Prairie View A&M until the new
president assumes office in the summer of
2003.
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Tuition
Continued from page I
undergraduate students.
In a study completed
Texas Comptroller of P t |
Accounts Carole Ke^
Rylander early last year,!*
ranked eighth out of the lOi
populous states in funding
full-time student attending;
lie colleges and universities
Texas also has the hif
percentage of higher educi
students of any of those
nearly 90 percent, attend
public colleges and univen;
as opposed to private or
gious institutions, saidRyli
"Despite the economicp
lems, the state of Texas hn
decreased funding to A&M
several other state legislat
have done to their public ed
tion institutions,” Krumm
"However, there was a
passed that called for a
percent increase in the salar
the faculty here that wasen
the state controller becausn
lack of funds. Lack of fund
not just a Texas issue, but
really something schools
dealing with nationwide."
Nationwide, increasingtiii
has combined with a sto
economy to increase the eventfu
on families trying to extend j n Colh
opportunity of higher eduu* i n a
to their children, said Knnn. attern pt
According to a study ena | em pi 0 y
"Losing Ground” that 1 .. n
David | e ver ha
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Attendi
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was cor
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become
“I w<
beach,”
with no
having i
college
money,
money,
classes
Brad
summei
chaired by Dr.
Breneman, an education ect |
mist at the University
Virginia, poor families s
spending 25 percent of s |r
annual income on public e4
tion tuition in 2000, comp:
with only 13 percent in 19^
Breneman criticized
direction of the educational
tern in the 1990s,which offi
tax credits and other form
incentives for middle and up
class families without hel:
the poor in the country.
“Obviously this increase
approved based on the need
more money for acade
progress here at A&M," |
A&M Director of Stud
Financial Services t*
Piwonka. “There are progn.
such as the Pell Grunt, vm
allowance will be raiseds\ij
to help with the increasingi
of education for students.'
The Federal Pell Gn
designed for students most
ing financial assistance,
capped at $3,125 for the
2000 school year, covering
over 38 percent of the estfa
cost of attending A&M
same school year.
Senate
Continued from page
termination of faculty meiri
involved in academic mrii
duct. The committee’s rel
also outlined modified gri
lines for the start of an investj
tion in suspected cases.
The amendments <
University rules to be more
Tied on the procedures
responsibilities for those invo
in academic misconduct case
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