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Grant Money
Continued from page 1
the Recommended High School
Program.
The program, which all
Texas students will be required
to complete beginning in the
2004 school year, calls for the
completion of several courses
designed to help students suc
ceed in college. The courses
include biology, physics and
chemistry.
Last year, the bill was
expanded and offered nearly
$120 million to state colleges
and universities to provide for
the TEXAS Grant.
Records show that of the
$120 million, both public and
private schools in Texas
returned over $27 million
because they failed to find
enough qualified applicants.
Critics have claimed the bill
is too specific about what
requirements must be met
before a student becomes eligi
ble, causing the $850,000 to not
be distrusted
Examples include students
who chose to take an Advanced
Placement course in another
subject in place of a regular
level course in a required area
and were denied eligibility to
the grant even after establishing
financial need.
“This bill was designed to be
a bill in the works,” Brown said.
“We will continue to change it
around until it is 100 percent
effective. This could obviously
include loosening the require
ments because each case is
unique and trying to fit every
student into a specific criteria
might not be the most effective
way to improve education here
in the state.”
Problems were also cited in
regards to the publicity of the
grant. Educators from around
the state have noted that few stu
dents and high school coun
selors understand the new provi
sions that no longer require a
specific family income as long
as students can show a financial
need.
The Legislature will include
the money that was returned
from schools this year in the
Higher Education General Fund
for the next fiscal year.
“This money was designed to
go to furthering higher education
in our state,” Brown said. “It will
not be sent off for other pro
grams when it is returned to us.
It will be spent improving higher
education in some other way.”
With the support of Texas
Governor Rick Perry, the state
will increase spending once
again on the TEXAS Grant pro
gram for the school year begin
ning in the fall by offering $162
million statewide.
“I think Governor Perry
understands how important
higher education is to our state,”
Brown said. “Despite the fact
we had some money returned to
us this year, we’re going to con
tinue to offer this money
because the students of Texas
are our greatest asset.”
Developing countries demand
more access to world markets
ROME (AP) — Led by Cuba, developing
countries on Tuesday demanded greater access to
international markets and an end to export subsi
dies, saying fairer free trade was the only way to
end world hunger.
On the second day of the U.N. World Food
Summit, leaders of the world’s poorest countries
called on the United States, European Union and
other exporting nations to give poor farmers a
competing chance to sell their wares.
“We are poor. You are rich. Level the playing
field!” Teofisto Guingona, foreign minister of the
Philippines, said. “Do not in the name of free trade
deny us time to integrate our resources, and hav
ing integrated them deny us access to your rich
markets.”
Many poor countries say the current interna
tional trade framework leaves farmers in the
developing world unable to compete with subsi
dized crops from richer countries.
The issue of freer markets has dominated the
four-day summit, designed to accelerate efforts to
meet U.N. targets of reducing the number of the
world’s hungry from 800 million to 400 million by
2015.
Leaders adopted a resolution Monday promis
ing to work harder to meet the goal — and to
develop in two years a voluntary set of guidelines
recognizing the right to food for the world’s 6 bil
lion people.
The United States, which opposed recognition
of that right in the past, may register a reservation
to the final document or may not sign, human
rights groups say.
The European Union pushed for the summit to
consider food a human right. Several EU leaders
also acknowledged that high export subsidies —
among them in the EU — were part of the world's
hunger problem.
Italy’s agriculture minister, Gianni Alemanno,
said the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization,
which is hosting the summit, should play a bal
ancing role to the World Trade Organization.
“FAO must be strong and credible ... to avoid
that the processes of globalization be dominated
only by a purely commercial logic devoid of an
ethic of solidarity,” he said.
Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque
went further, saying hunger would never end as
long as wealthy countries controlled an economic
system that he alleged deprives 800 million people
of their daily bread.
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downstairs,” Zawieja said/Tli
way, they can see it on then
to the bookstore and accotnir
date everyone’s needs.”
Other dining options ava
able include the Ag Cafe J
West Campus, Pie Are Sqm
and Azimuth Espresso
which are open until 3 p r i
Monday through Friday, and
Bus Stop, which is open unt
p.m. Monday through Frida\
Hosford said not havr
Sbisa is frustrating, but studr
response was similar to wtie
Sbisa closed for renovations.
“I think most students wet
into a kickback to when Sfe
was closed and don’t mind fin:
ing a different place to ea; I
Hosford said.
As a resident hall advise
Hosford listens to student fee:
back and campus issues, sii
said. Students seem nottomr
the situation but feel theycoi
still open Sbisa and only op;
the Commons on certain day
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think Sbisa should be opened:
the students having to liven
Northside,” Hosford said. 1
they are going to have ti
Commons open all summerfi
the new students conferent;
there, but open Sbisa for ik
on some Tuesdays i:
Thursdays, w'hy not keepSb:
open and only open ti
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present and asked that the pr
posal be reconsidered. It u
sent back to the executive cor
mittee and reappeared for cot
sideration at the meeti:
Monday, where it passed
unanimously.
Greenwald said senaio:
were polled throughout May
identify what issues the Seiu
should focus its energy o.
Topping the list was acaden
integrity, he said.
University president DrJ
M. Bowen was out of town
week and could not commeni
the future of Zey or the
decision.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Dow, Nasdaq, S&f
have worst finish
NEW YORK (AP) - A spate
of disappointing news in the
pharmaceutical and biotech
industries triggered a broai
selloff Tuesday on Wall
Street, sending the D<n''
Jones industrials, Nasdac
and Standard & Poor's 50c
indexes to their lowest dos
es of the year. •;
The drop wiped out a ran
early in the session, the sec
ond such pullback in as man
days, and left financial inoe*
es near the lows that follower
the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
Analysts said the detea
showed again how ns
averse investors na«
become. Although the cotpor^
news Tuesday wasn't partioila'
bad, investors decided they wee
better off selling.
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