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included adding RLEM 314.
principles of rangeland manage
ment, to the core curriculum;
deleting MUSC 102 and MUSC
202 from the core curriculum;
and resolving issues regarding
489 courses. All proposals were
approved.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Woman sentenced
for Anthrax hoax
SCRANTON, Pa. — A woman
who participated in mailing 17
anthrax hoax letters - including
two to President Bush — has
been sentenced to 30 months in
prison, officials said.
The letters containing a white,
powdery substance were mailed
to local, state and federal officials
at the height of the anthrax scare
in fall 2001, authorities said,
Rosemary Zavrel, 59, and Emily
Forman, 27, mailed the letters
and used two juveniles' names as
the senders, seeking revenge for
threats against Zavrel's son, U.S.
Attorney Thomas A. Marino said.
A motion was also passed to
add 11 new courses to the core
curriculum for the B.S. degree in
biomedical engineering.
The prefix SCOM will also
be changed to COMM to acco
modate both speech communi
cation and telecommunication
media studies.
Curriculum changes will take
effect in the B.A. degree for
Funding
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knowledgeable of the issues;
we will prepare you with the
issues and teach you how to
communicate that message
effectively to the legislator.”
Gonzales said reactions
about this statement were
upsetting, and that it was
intended to invite and ease the
fears of alumni who may not
have any experience talking
with legislators. She said the
Texas Exes have encouraged
alumni to share their personal
stories.
Tatge said the Association of
Former Students has not
attempted to instruct volunteers
on what they should say in
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speech communication, as well as
the B.A. and B.S. degree for
telecommunication media studies.
The College of Liberal Arts
will also create a minor in
Africana Studies, which will
include a minimum of 18 hours of
specified courses. Courses are cur
rently offered in English, history,
speech communication, anthro
pology and sociology.
Austin.
“We are all Aggies and we
all know the value of our edu
cation and diplomas, and we
want to share our stories with
the legislators so they know the
value of our education and
diplomas,” she said.
“We all value our degrees
and we want to see that the
institutions that provided that
degree is are successful,”
Gonzales said.
Former and current students
from A&M and UT will meet
with staff members and legisla
tors in their capitol offices as
part of the Orange & Maroon
Legislative Day.
More information about this
initiative is available at
www.orange-maroon.org.
Democrats
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released on bail, rather than
have the prosecution prove why
they should be held; and allow
the deportation of U.S. citizens
who become members of or
help terrorist groups.
Ashcroft said no decisions
have been made on a final pro
posal for an expansion of the
USA Patriot Act. Officials were
working with “a full range of
ideas” while keeping one thing
paramount: “The most impor
tant guideline is the
Constitution of the United
States,” he said.
Several Democrats called on
Ashcroft to come to the Capitol
and explain the department’s
thinking.
“There have been no con
sultations with the committee
on this bill,” said Michigan
Rep. John Conyers, senior
Democrat on the House
Judiciary Committee, and
Reps. Robert Scott, D-Va., and
Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas,
in a letter to the Justice
Department.
“The department's handling
of this matter has only lent cre
dence to suggestions that this
administration is intent on
using the war on terrorism as a
partisan political tool and the
Justice Department is waiting to
spring this hill on the Congress
when the nation once again has
endured a terrorist attack or is
in the midst of war,” the three
Democrats wrote.
They asked the Justice
Department to respond to their
letter by Saturday.
“We will review it as we do
all congressional requests,”
said Justice Department
spokesman Mark Corallo.
The original law was passed
by Congress after the Sept. 11,
2001, terror attacks. It gave the
government broad new powers
to use wiretaps, electronic and
computer eavesdropping,
searches and a wide range of
other information-gathering
techniques. It also broke doira
the traditional wall betweffl
FBI investigators and irf
gence agents.
Democrats say they have
asked Justice officials for
months about what they wanted
for a new anti-terror law.
“If there is going to be a
sequel to the USA Patriot Act,
the process of writing it should
be open and accountable,” said
Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont,
the ranking Democrat on the
Senate Judiciary Committee,
“It should not be shrouded in
secrecy, steeped in unilateral
ism or tinged with partisanship,
“The early signals from the
administration about its inten
tions for this bill are ominous,”
Leahy said, “and I hope Justice
Department officials will
change the way they are han
dling this.”
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