^-•V'V-V-V-V>-V'V-W>-V'V'V'V'V'VW>>>%'W‘V'VVW‘W'W'V'V-V>-V-W'W-V>-V>> - V>>'W'V‘V'V-W-VW>-V-V>-V-V The Event of the Week And How to Plan It!!! Friday, October 25, 2002 ll-pl Monday, October 28, 2002 5:00-6:30pm or 7:00-8:30pm Rudder 501 v An opportunity to expand your knowledge about planning a successful ' k student organization event and iearn about resources that will help in ' v planning, hosting and promoting your events. A high-energy, interactive ^ v program that promises to be worthwhile. * £ Hosted by Risk Management Services, Student Activities. £ ^ If you have any questions, call Monica at 458-4371. £ A. + mmunityCH URCH SUNDAYS: Prayer Service @ ID a.m. Worship @ 11 a.m. Meeting in Oak wood Intermediate School 106 HOLIK STREET JUST OFF GEORGE BUSH Behind the College Station Conference Center FOLLOW THE SIGNS! Small Groups Meet Weekly wwwXX>mCHLJRC!F Lcom 260-1163 (Pentecostal Cornerstone Church 1 Mid Week Small Group Meetings 1 Sunday Service at 3:00pm on George Bush, just across from campus at the College Station Conference Center. 485-8744 (PresByterian Covenant Presbyterian Church 220 Rock Prairie Road (979) 694-7700 Rev. Sam W. Steele - Pastor Sunday Service: 8:30 & 11 a.m. Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. UCM Prayer and Praise: Wednesday 7:00 p.m. www.covenantpresbyterian.org Presbyterian C li u rc h Hours NX^orship 8:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship 11:00 a.m. Helping Aggies grow in Faith! 1 100 Carter Creek Parkway 979.823.8073 • www.fpehryan.org ‘United Methodist A&M United Methodist 417 University Dr. (in Northgate) • 846-8731 Sunday Worship: 8:30, 9:45, 10:50 College Sunday School: 9:30, 10:45 Sr. Pastor Dr. Jerry Neff www.am-umc.org “I need it real. I need it relevant. I need it within community.” CELEBRATION WORSHIP at First United Methodist Church • Powerful Praise • Solid Scripture • and Real Families Come see what's worth celebrating 1 1:00 a.m. in the Christian Life Center On 27 rh Street, 2 blocks east of Texas Avenue in Bryan 779-1324 To advertise on this page call The Battalion today! 845-2696 Smiles for everyone Three-year-old Billy Hirschy decorates a t-shirt with class of 2001 Wildlife and Fishery Sciences major Nicole Wade at the Brazos ALISSA HOLI.IMON • THE BATTALION Valley Children's Museum Thursday after noon. The Golden Key Honor society spon sored the event. Texas students, parents paying] higher percentage of college cost! AUSTIN (AP) — Texas students and parents have paid a greater share of higher education costs than the state over the past decade and the trend will continue unless the state changes how it funds its colleges. Higher Education Commissioner Don Brown said Thursday. Since 1989, students have increasingly carried more of the load because Texas has dropped the percentage of money spent per stu dent in higher education. Brown said. Brown presented information on spending trends to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board as part of the agency’s Closing the Gaps initiative. The goal of the cam paign is to increase enrollment of minority and poor students. The rising costs hurts the very students the campaign is trying to reach, said deputy commissioner Teri Flack. “The dramatic increase in tuition and fees is stripping families’ ability to pay,” Flack said. In 1989, it cost an average of $7,809 for a student to attend a state college. Of that, the state paid $6,375 with the student picking up $1,434. or about 18 percent, through tuition and fees. But when the oil industry collapsed in Texas in a The dramatic increase in tuition and fees is stripping families’ ability to pay- ’ — Teri Flack Deputy Commisioner the 1980s, the state fell on tough economic and its higher education share dropped. Iti pick up when the economy improved. By 2001. the average cost per full-time a went up to $9,766 with the state paying M Students paid an average of53’: in tuition and fees, about}! cent. While Texas is sending! money overall to higher edri — $13.6 billion of thecunenii 1 billion budget — the peratt covering student costs is dour fit 59 percent to 43 percent as w ment and expenses rise, Flack Peter Orszag, a Institution economist who served an economic adviser in the Cli r White House, said other sir have seen similar trends, The institution, a nonpartisan Washington's think tank, was hired by business leaders to il how states Finance higher education. Texas' goals of increasing minority enroll and improving research at state universities cot difficult if funding doesn’t increase, Orszag said Brown suggested that lawmakers should sider a sliding tuition scale for each colleu university. The Tex; keep the off vious four g this weeken Nebrask: looking for The Husker and Oklaho “The gat major chal lot of v Nebraska 1 Frank Sol bottom line you are home or o you have t quarters of ball.’’ Senior s; are a dange coming inti “Their p: concerned ■ They are gc The Hus stop the ne offense. “A mont we were so Taylor Whi we are so g Wmm Vol Court rejects odor-based drug bit AUSTIN (AP) — The smell of marijuana did not give Abilene police officers probable cause to enter a home, the Court of Criminal Appeals has ruled, upholding a Taylor County trial judge’s suppression of marijuana seized at a house. “The odor of marijuana, standing alone, does not author ize a warrantless search and seizure in a home,” wrote Judge Charles Holcomb in a 6-3 opin ion released Wednesday. “This case is about the right of citizens to be left alone in the privacy of their homes,” wrote Judge Cathy Cochran in a con curring opinion. Police, acting on an anony mous tip, arrived at the home of Leo and Ian Steelman, a father and son who work as electricians, on April 21, 1998, and seized marijuana. The officers peered into the house through a crack in a window blind and saw four men sitting in a living room but observed no illegal activity. According to the court’s opin ion, the officers then knocked on the front door, which was opened by lan Steelman, who stepped outside and closed the door behind him. The officers smelled the odor of burnt marijuana and proceeded to burst through the doorway, handcuff the men and place them under arrest. When police executed a search warrant about two hours later they found the The Steelmans were with misdemeanor r possession. 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