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The Ridge Manager’s Gone Ape Swing on over for a wet and wild pool party 2:00 - 5:00 Every Tuesday throughout July w/ food provided by New York Sub DJ and music: Reef, SOHO Lounge,The Library Check out our 2 bedrooms and the NO security deposit special! Register for a chance to win a FREE trip to Jamaica 2250 Dartmouth, C.S. www.collegepark.org 694-4100 HOWDY AGS! Volunteer NOW for Freshmen Welcome Day! Wednesday, August 28, 2002 Volunteers are needed in all campus residence hall areas to help unload cars, carry things to rooms, and assist parents. Get a free t- shirt to wear on Welcome Day, and help welcome the Class of ’06! For information and an application (due Friday Aug. 9), visit reslife.tamu.edu contact Residence Life at 862-3158 or email housing@tamu.edu. Freshmen Welcome Day is a part of Gig’em Week. All Tickets On Sale Now! Great Shows! Great Seats! Great Prices! RENT October 29 - 30 For Adult Audiences All tickets to all shows on the landmark 30th anniversary season of MSC OPAS are on sale now! Order yours today and get great seats at great prices.To purchase, logon to OPAS On-Line at www.MSCOPAS.org - or call the MSC Box Office at 845-1234 for a ticket order form. Student discounted tickets available for all shows! Buy tickets now at www.MSCOPAS.org! Three Decades of Performing Arts v ' •' fpl GREATER TUNA Starring Joe Sears and Jaston Williams September 5-7 mMm ^ LA BOHEME Stanislavsky Opera Company October 1 and 2 Family'HofKSw' i SING ALONG SANTA Perfect for the Family, Tickets $10-$20 December 14 SOUTH PACIFIC January 24 and 25 Sponsored by: ill! GIRLS CHOIR OF HARLEM February 7 % Itrefose IT** tmiA. TMK W0« 0 GREASE February 11 and 12 For Mature Audiences Michael Flatley's LORD OF THE DANCE hE March 18 and 19 fW MOSCOW SOLOISTS with YURI BASHMET k2B April 3 THE MUSIC MAN April 22 and 23 OPAS JR Tickets Only $7.50! • Student Intimate Gatherings Tickets Only $10! Monday. July 22, 2002 N ^ly' EVVS THE BATTa|]Mj.jj£ bat Bush withholds millionfMA for family planning effoi WASHINGTON (AP) — In a policy reversal, the Bush administration will not pay $34 million it earmarked for U.N. family planning programs overseas, an initiative that con servative groups charge toler ates abortions and forced steril izations in China. Officials in the administra tion, on Capitol Hill and from interest groups who monitor the issue said Sunday they have been told the decision is final. One administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said an announce ment is likely from the State Department on Tuesday, but added the timing could change. White House officials said privately that conservative activists have for months quietly pressured the administration to prove Bush’s anti-abortion cre dentials by permanently denying money to the United Nations Population Fund. The fund helps countries deal with reproductive and sexual health, family plan ning and population strategy. Such conservative activists strongly supported Bush in his run for the presidency, and White House political advisers have carefully tended them with an eye to his re-election. But the decision could also damage Bush’s standing with moderates and women. The White House has kept the politically delicate decision a closely guarded secret. It has refused to divulge it even to allies in Congress, such as the Pro-life Caucus. More than a dozen adminis tration officials, inside the White House and out, declined to com ment Sunday or did not return phone calls on the matter, so the reasoning behind the decision was not clear. Last year Secretary of State Colin Powell testified to the Senate that the agency does “invaluable work” and “pro vides critical population assis tance to developing countries.” Bush proposed $25 million for the organization, anir from the $21.5 million the got during the last yearofi Clinton presidency. Key makers later agreed on $3. lion for the agency. The president has air; signed into law the foreigr bill that contains the lion. But when he did s January, he made a pointot ing in an accompanying ment that it gives him tional discretion to deterr the appropriate level of fun, for the United Nat Population Fund.” One administration off; said Bush is now likely toci nel the $34 million to fair planning organizations mr the State Department’s Ae for International Develops A study from a U.S. gov ment fact-finding mission China in early May repone| found no evidence that U.N.’s program directly oriri rectly facilitates forced stenli lions and abortions in China Homeland security chief promise government will protect American WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans should be assured that the White House plan to fight terror ism at home means the government will do all it can to safeguard them. President Bush's homeland security chief said Sunday. Tom Ridge promoted Bush's proposed Homeland Security Department, which a House panel approved by a 5-4 vote last week. A Senate committee plans to consider its version of the bill Wednesday. “I think there’s great reason to be reassured that this country ... will do everything conceivable, everything humanly and technologically possi ble to preserve our way of life and our citizens,” Ridge said. “But there’s also that continu ing sense of anxiety and concern and a recognition, a realization that the new threat of the 21st century is an enduring vulnerability. And I think America is to be commended for understanding that,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.” The measure approved by he House Select Committee on Homeland Security would give I think there’s great reason to be reassured that this country will do everything conceivable, everything humanly and technologically possible to preserve our way of life and . • >9 our citizens. — Tom Ridge homeland security chief Senior hands o April VU College Fire in I club kill LIMA, Pen Bush most of the power and agencies hesougiit the Cabinet agency. The department vv 170,000 or more employees $38 billion annual budget. It will be the new home of the Coiv Guard, Border Patrol, Service, Secret Service. Federal Emergency Management Ageita and the just-created Transportatiof Security Administration. The bill goes to the Houseilooi this week and then to the Democratic-led Senate. In the Senate, a veraon of tk measure released by GovenvwewvA Affairs Committee Cw®*® Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., closely with Bush's pten. lt would augment the agency’s abtt; to gather and analyze intellig® 1 from the FBI. CIA and others. That bill is to be consideredt the Senate committee Wednesday “There will be a lot of discus sion and a lot of neg when Congress takes its A vacation. Ridge said. “So I think theres lot of things on the table to be resolved. people die injured Satu ed by bar doing trick upscale nigl was not li Customers 1 ing to put i their drinks. A lion an show that ii in cages — \ The fire, < after a far consumed a 1 me Prosecutors review whether to seek death penalty STANTON, Calif. (AP) - The district attorney said Sunday he is reviewing whether to seek the death penalty against the man arrested in the kidnap and murder of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion. Alejandro Avila, 27, was expected to be charged Monday with abducting, sexu ally assaulting and strangling the girl. He was to appear at an NEWS IN BRIEF arraignment in Santa Ana, sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said. Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackackaus said he would meet with Samantha's family as well as Avila's attor neys as part of the decision. House leader says pay raises are fair WASHINGTON (AP) - House Majority Leader Dick Armey on Sunday defended new pay rais es for Congress, saying law makers work hard and deserve more money. . House members cleared way last week for a 3.3 pe^ cost-of-living increase. 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