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Gates said. “We’re changing the gover nance structure to bring the deans and faculty into the budgeting process,” Gates said. “Instead of the administration making all the decisions, our budget options will be devel oped by the academic side of the University.” Improving campus facilities carries a steep price tag, and despite the pressing need for a new life sciences building and other projects. Gates said, there is no money right now to expand classroom space. “I haven’t got a clue how we’re going to solve that problem,” Gates said. Additional Vision 2020 pri orities will not only require additional funds, but may clash with state legislators’ priorities. Gates acknowledged efforts to attract better graduate students, including giving in-state tuition rates to out of state graduate students, may not sit well with legislators. State Sen. Steve Ogden, R- Bryan, said he would like for A&M and other state schools to give preference to graduate school applicants from Texas. “Texas schools should be serving Texas students,” Ogden said. To secure state funding. Gates said, he will urge the leg islature to change the way money is distributed among the state’s public colleges. Texas schools should be serving Texas students. — Steve Ogden Texas senator Currently, most of the money is distributed through a complex set of formulas which takes into account factors, such as how many credit hours a school teaches. However, other funds are distributed only to select schools, partly to serve as a bal ance to the Permanent University Fund, of which A&M and UT are the primary benefi ciaries. By distributing all high er education money through the formulas, A&M would receive additional funding because of its enrollment growth. Gates said. Although UT officials have made deregulating tuition their top priority for this legislative session. Gates said removing tuition caps should only be a last resort. “It would be a mistake to have as your first option raising costs for students,” Gates said. “We’d prefer to see the legisla ture fully fund the budget.” Gates said A&M’s efficiency and lean budget will help make the case to legislators that every dollar given to the University will be used wisely. A&M has the lowest p>er capita administra tive costs of any university in Texas, Gates said, and A&M devotes 52 percent of its budget to instruction, compared to 35 percent for UT. A&M will continue to tight en its belt and prioritize funds during the next two years as the state grapples with a budget deficit. Gates said. However, he said, if these conditions per sist. the quality of education at the University will begin to seriously erode. “You can’t deny an institution funds for growth for a prolonged period without there being con sequences,” Gates said. NEWS IN BRIEF Commons Dining Hall closed for repairs until Jan. 21 The Commons Dining Hall will be closed until Jan. 21 to repair a rotten watei pipe under the building. "The plumbing started over Christmas and is goinj longer than we thought' said Food Services Associate Director Cynthi- Zawieja. Zawieja said both Stone Willy's Pizza and the Common Denominate! located above the dininj hall, will accommodate stu dents living in the Commons residence halls. "We want to make sure we have something oper for breakfast, lunch anc dinner," she said. RTFS changes name, plans for increased efficiency The Department o‘ Parking, Transportation and Traffic Services (PITS announced this past weee that it will now be known as simply Transportation Services. The department plans to make efficient use of all park ing spaces and provide dos er, more reliable access to a! customers. Transportation Services director Rodne) Weis said plans have begur toward this effort. "This will also help us accommodate more student customers, because a lot oi the spaces are currently wasted and spaces not in use during the evenings will be available for other con stituents to use," Weis said. Weis said the department is working to make the cam pus safer for pedesfriar.'j and cyclists. The $21,000 make-ovei will include an evaluation oi the current bus system to make the necessary changes for more efficient routes, Weis said. Crisis Continued from page 1 nuclear non-proliferation treaty and said in a sec ond statement Tuesday that there was a limit to its “self control” in the face of what it calls U.S. aggression. If the United States responds to the withdrawal from the treaty “with new sanctions, blockade and pressure offensives, (North Korea) will exercise the second and third corresponding options,” a commentary in Rodong Sinmun, North Korea’s most prominent state newspaper, said. Possible further next steps for the North would include suspending its moratorium on missile tests — as it has threatened — or go ahead with a test. A more extreme option would be to begin devel oping weapons-grade plutonium at a reprocessing plant that they say is ready for operation. The commentary, carried by the North’s news agency, said the withdrawal from the non-prolifer ation treaty had been a “legitimate option” and was “guaranteed by its powerful military capacity.” Meanwhile, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer denied a report by Japan’s Kyodo News agency that the United States has proposed providing North Korea with a written security guarantee signed by Bush. “There is no truth to it,” Fleischer said. In a push for diplomacy, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said it would be willing to negotiate talks in Beijing between the United States and China’s communist ally. Beijing’s dual position — as a powerful mem ber of the U.N. Security Council and one of North Korea’s few allies — would give it a unique per spective on the issue. Secretary of State Colin Powell said that if North Korea agrees to abandon its nuclear ambi tions, the United States would want to enter “a new arrangement” — stronger than a 1994 deal — to better constrain Pyongyang’s ability to produce nuclear weapons. Under the 1994 agreement, the North agreed to abandon all weapons activities in return for U.S. and international aid to build two light-water nuclear reactors for energy production. The 1994 agreement “left intact the capacity for production. I think, therefore, that we need a new arrangement and not just go back to the exist ing framework,” Powell told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published in its Tuesday editions. Ogden Continued from page 1 court gives a green light toaffn mative action. He declined to discuss to many minority students k would like to see at A&M orfi I set any goals or timetables fj measure the University E progress. “If you start setting nun bers, it gives credence to tM notion that its about quotas, j Gates said. Gates recently announce, the creation of a new vice pres I ident for institutional diversiiy | who would help coordinatetl*| University’s diversity efforts; The position will have litlH staff or authority, and will serve only an advisory fund tion, Gates said. THE BATTALION Brandie Liffick, Editor in Chief Sommer Bunce, Managing Editor Elizabeth Webb, Copy/Design Director Melissa Sullivan, Asst. News Editor Sarah Walch, Asst. News Editor Kendra Kingsley, Aggielife Editor Sarah Darr, Asst. Aggielife Editor Marianne Ftudson, Asst. Aggielife Editor Chris Jackson, Sci/Tech Editor George Deutsch, Opinion Editor Matthew Maddox, Asst. Opinion Editor Michael Crow, Sports Editor Kevin Espenlaub, Asst. 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