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2 Tuesday, July 2, 2002 BeemutS by Rob Appling ffeilwt Wuss Cookie ^.Adrian Future Continued from page 1 to go off campus.” Huang said she wanted to build a health center to tit the student population’s needs. Sean Huntsman, Class of 2000, also designed a model and found the task difficult but equally rewarding. “Given the chance to help bring improvement in the A&M health care system will be very bene ficial to both (this) class, student body and the fac ulty of Texas A&M,” he said. ■.‘it -jW \ ii > V ... o ■ i “The Student Health Services staff has enjoyed working with these enthusiastic architecture stu dents this summer,” said Dr. Linda Lekawski, D.O., director of Student Health Services. “They have been all over the Health Services Building seeking and receiving suggestions and input from the student health service’s staff members. “They are proposing some wonderful ideas that would greatly impact our ability to serve patients.” There will be no winner chosen tomorrow at the MSC, rather just a display of the student projects. 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Bush said. “We’re interested in aiming toward excellence for every child, and the voucher system is a part of the strategy. While campaigning for presi dent, Bush proposed stripping federal funds from the worst performing schools and making them available to parents for pri vate education vouchers. Congress wouldn't go along, and Bush instead signed an edu cation overhaul that increases federal aid to public schools where scores have failed to improve two years in a row. If scores were to remain too low, low-income students could receive tutoring or transporta tion to other public schools. Bush said the program could help the 4.5 million students now in schools identitied as underperforming. He also spoke in favor of his new try at a federal voucher pro gram, part of his “compassion ate conservative” domestic agenda. It would offer a $2,500- per-child education tax credit for families whose children attend private schools instead of failing neighborhood public schools. The five-year, $3.5 bil lion proposal also would cover books, computers, transporta tion and supplies. Critics say voucher systems drain money from public schools and too often end up supporting religious education as opposed to alternative secular institutions. “There’s nothing compas sionate about forcing Americans to support religion,” said the Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. “There’s nothing conservative about requiring people to pay for religious indoctrination they don’t believe in. Religious schools and other ministries should rely on voluntary contri butions from believers, not involuntary donations extracted HHRfl from American taxpayers' Bush suggested the Sr- Court’s decision on Cleve voucher system could k transforming effect sin* that of the unanimous de. in Brown v. Board of Edit of Topeka, Kan., that im K the nation’s schools. “The Supreme CoJ 1954, declared that our 53 could not have two edd systems, ... one for Afn Americans and one foruf Bush said. “Last week.;] notable and imponant, is the court declared tha; nation will not accept one cation system for thosewt afford to send their childre school of their choice air those who can’t.” m KRTOif! President Bush speaks about educational standards in Cb Ohio, on Monday. Lemmon Continued from page 1 1997 and the 1999 Mars Polar Lander science team. Lemmon hopes to facilitate scheduling of images such as nighttime pictures of Mars’ moons, Phobos and Deimos, including photos of forma tion of morning fogs on Mars and shots of Phobos eclipsing the sun. When looking at Mars, most people see a dusty atmosphere, Lemmon said. Knowing where the dust is helps scientists understand Mars’ weather and climate, since atmospheric dust plays an important role in heating the planet's atmosphere. “It’s a practical thing to study the dust,” Lemmon said. “Most people use a red lamp to study it and we know it has a rusty colored sky. It is important to study the minerals which may have created a different climate.” Forecasting Continued from page 1 the transport and transformation of those chemicals as they move inland from the gulf coast and Houston.” North also said the findings will help in researching vege tation. This information can be used as input for air quality models run at UH to simulate conditions impacting pollution in Houston. The project is concerned with how well it represents the atmospheric conditions with which they are studying. The same computer pro grams are widely used to model weather and climate. North said. Arsenic Continued from page 1 Nationally, Loeppert and researchers will work with the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural University and Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture. NASA officials said, the mission has sine title objectives. Scientists will study rocks and soilsforck past water activity, investigate landing site have a high probability of containing evfe the action of liquid water, determine thefe tion and composition of minerals, rocks am! surrounding the investigation sites, deter* nature of local surface geologic processes^; ibrate and validate data from orbiting mi" each landing site. “We are looking forward to some fabuk. tures and looking at other things not no: before on Mars.” Lemmon said. Lemmon’s work was one of 28 new"- chosen for the rover mission from a listi A: - posals submitted to NASA. All will wolfed rover project at NASA’s Jet Propulsion L' in Pasadena, Calif. 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