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' , / UJHATEVER ^ eTS Party Continued from page Cube of Xoe By C.J •No Papov/ AAAAHHH//* •BL&ARROH/// ROWWR//* Graves Continued from page 1 scheduled Chancellor Graves into it.” In January 2001, Graves was diagnosed with a rare form of soft-tissue sarcoma in his abdomen. In September of the same year, doctors discovered the cancer had spread to his lungs. Since then. Graves has received chemotheraphy, radia tion and a new experimental drug, thrombopoientin, to battle the disease. In December 2002 Graves said that the cancerous nodules on his lungs were still growing at a slow rate, while the tumor in his abdomen that had caused the original problem was under con trol. Graves will spend a week at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston recovering from the surgery and will return to College Station for an addi tional two to three weeks before returning to work, Wright said. After recovering from this sur gery. Graves will have the same procedure performed on the other lung. “The chemo( therapy) has basically stopped the growth of the tumor in his lungs. However, the nodules are still there,” Wright said. “Chancellor Graves has been waiting for this opportunity. This (surgery) is a good thing.” As chancellor. Graves over sees nine universities, eight state agencies and a health science center. Parking Continued from page 1 With a new resident hall parking lot opening in February and some shuffling of student and faculty lots, Texas A&M’s Transportation Services hopes to ease the campus parking fren zy by providing more spaces for residents and commuters. A major complaint from Northside residents is the lack of student parking on that side, said Debbie Hoffmann, assis tant director for Transportation Services. A new resident parking lot next to Clements Hall, located off Wellborn Road on Northside, is projected to open Feb. 17 with 353 spaces avail able to students with red park ing permits, Hoffmann said. A small portion of the new lot will overlap Parking Area (PA) 30, another resident lot. A new road is also being built that will connect the lot to Wellborn Road, Hoffmann said. “Constructing it as part of the new lot allowed us to maximize the number of parking spaces we can offer and to provide another access point from Wellborn Road to ease traffic congestion near Albritton Tower,” she said. Construction of the new lot cost $823,000, said Kenny Kimball, associate director for Transportation Services. Inclement weather pushed back the original completion date of December 2002, Hoffmann said. In addition to PA 33, Transportation Services plans to change the permit designations of two other parking areas to provide more space for yellow and blue permit users. PA 39, located behind Cain Hall, will change from a red to a yellow permit lot when the Clements project is complete. The change makes 160 spaces available on Main Campus for faculty and staff, Hoffmann said. Parking Area 97, located on West Campus, will shift from a NEWS IN BRIEF With Gov. Rick Perry and others vowing not to raise taxes, law makers may not even want to take a peek at a new report that says the state is losing out on $22.4 billion a year because of sales tax exemptions. The Senate Finance Committee report details exemptions on items such as manufacturing materials, medicine and fuel. The report says Texas could generate about $2.4 billion a year in -revenue by repealing some exemptions. Not taxing some services such as construction labor will cost the state about $9.9 billion over the next bienni um, the report said. The report could be tempting to lawmakers. Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn said that the current $114 billion budget is expected to be $1.8 billion short. red and blue permit lot to a strictly blue lot, she said. Hoffmann said the changes will not displace student parking. “It is actually a winning situ ation for all customers ” she said. The new resident lot and the shifting of pennit designations adds 81 spaces for resident parking, Hoffmann said. There are no plans to build more resident lots on campus, said Doug Williams, assistant director for Transportation Services. In addition, parking in the Reed Arena lot, which is a blue permit lot during the day, is now prohibited from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. Transportation Services wants to avoid forcing students to move their vehicles because of campus events at the arena, Hoffmann said. “When the West Campus Garage is completed, parking for most arena events will be accom modated within the new facility” she said. “Then, there may be more flexibility in assigning the surface lots in the area.” raderie, he said. The orgai ers said they are sincerely so il came across the wayj University said it did. “The way it came across^ not the way any of us meani Mclnnis said. Walton Hall Direc: Shannon Ensom said she i the Walton residential advisj had “no idea” the event v planned. “We didn’t plan it. we do condone it, and our staff I denounced the event,” shesi Ensom also said the Walt staff has delivered letter apology to all Walton reside: and that organizers havealre; publicly apologized and a celled the event. The entire staff and sev Walton residents will be par paling in the freedom march Jan. 20, the day the Univer has set aside to mark thebr day of Dr. Martin Luther K: Jr, she said. “We know this is serious, we feel like we’ve nipped:: the bud.” she said. Residents of the hall said party was a regular WaltonH get-together off campus “I didn't realize it wasa- deal. I had never heard of (problem) before,” said Br. Cassidy, a sophomore indu: distribution major and Wak hall resident. Cassidy said the party is annual event he attended year. Everyone dressed up at party. including Afria Americans, he said. "People were wearing a! and even dressed up as KK members,” he said, referring the Ku Klux Klan. “I did assume there was a prol with it (the party).” Former student and ; leader Arouna “Boo bo Davies was a Walton resii until his graduation December 2002. “Something must have bd misconstrued,” Davies sa; “They treated me 1'tVe | brother.” Celebration Continued from pagel involved.” Fleming said. The City of College Statt will also hold events to hi MLK Jr. Day with the theme Dream Deferred Revisited,” Kelley Cole, College Stall communication and market: manager. The festivities will be the Lincoln Center on Jan. Cole said. Dr. Felecia Scott, directoi Multicultural Services atAL will be the featured guestspei er and A&M’s Voices ofFrc and the St. Paul Bapi Marshall, Texas will pro'.. music. Cole said. She said the events are free the public. 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