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midst of its conference schedule
and in preparation for’the Big 12
Tournament in mid-March. The
Aggies have gone 3-4 since los
ing Slocum to suspension, though
injuries limited the junior’s action
to only seven games prior to the
off-court incident.
Laura Sosh-Lightsy, coordi
nator of Student Judicial and
Mediation Services, said that
decisions concerning student
athlete suspensions are dealt
with internally by the Athletics
Department.
“A student in our process is
not exempt from any activities
unless we interim-suspend
them,” she said. “Athletics has
its own process in terms of sus
pending an athlete, and then
they have their own require
ments as to whether they allow
them to resume play.”
Assistant Athletics Director
Alan Cannon said any case
involving a suspended student
athlete would be examined
according to individual circum
stances. It would take agree
ment among each of the parties
involved to allow Slocum’s
return.
“(Situations are) usually
handled on a case-by-case
basis between the student ath
lete, the respective head coach
and the athletics director,”
Cannon said.
The Aggies’ next game is
Wednesday at 7 p.m. against
Iowa State University.
Cloning
Continued from page 1
Higginbotham, professor and extension wildlife
and fisheries specialist for A&M. Hunters in
Texas spend more than $3.6 billion annually,
according to the Congressional Sportsman’s
Foundation.
“Hunting as an industry in Texas provides
31,711 jobs, salaries and wages of over $864 mil
lion, and generates $93 million in state sales tax
revenue,” Higginbotham said.
Although Texas has the largest deer herd of any
state, at an estimate of three to four million head, it
does not mean the entire range in Texas is over-pop
ulated, Higginbotham said. Some regions in Texas
have larger deer populations than others, he said.
Important reasons Texans give for going hunt
ing are family and friendship networks, obtaining
meat and escaping urban environments, he said.
“Pursuit of trophies ranked way down on the
list as a reason given by Texans to hunt,”
Higginbotham said. “Quality hunting experiences
revolve around the hunt, not the kill.”
A trophy is something that should be worked
for, involving skill and persistence, he said. If the
pursuit of the trophy is reduced because large deer
and big antlers can be cloned, the essence of pur
suing that trophy is lost in the process,
Higginbotham said.
In Feb. 2002, A&M scientists produced the
world’s first cloned cat, nicknamed “Cc” for “car
bon copy.” In November, A&M announced the
end of its “Missyplicity Project,” an unsuccessful
attempt to clone Arizona businessman John
Sperling’s pet dog.
Westhusin said that all the deer clones have
been implanted in the surrogate mothers, and the
timeline of the project will remain unknown until
the first deer clone has been born.
Panel
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their kids to come to A&M,"
Gates said.
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of the Young Conservatives ai
A&M and a panelist, voicedi
dissenting opinion.
Maddox, also a Battalion
opinion columnist, said lit
believes in a color-blind societj
and that race recruitment is
blatant discrimination.
“Saying that A&M mustlool;
more like the state of Texas is
nothing but looking at skin
color.” Maddox said.
Gates said he believes tliai
making the population of A&M
represent the actual population
of Texas is part of the solutionio
lead A&M into the future.
In defense of his opinion
columns published in Ttii
Battalion this semester, Maddos
said, “I don’t believe in multi-
eulturalism — looking at peo
ple’s differences and highliglu-
ing them."
Student Body President Zat
Conventry said it is “everyone's
responsibility” to help crealea
more welcoming environmental
A&M.
Coventry said “(doinj)
something every day that makes
you uncomfortable” would aid
diversity efforts at A&M.
Gates said he will careful)
consider future decisions about
improving diversity on campus.
“The notion that some of At
is going to pressure me to do
something that I don’t think is
right — you don’t have to worn
about that,” Gates said.
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rent $300 million, to meet tin
projected demand for the granii
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proposed cuts, the board would
get $194.8 million.
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“They must be given the time
and resources that the U.N.
Security Council believes they
need,” the declaration said.
“However, inspections cannot
continue indefinitely in the
absence of full Iraqi
cooperation.”
Erance, which has blocked
any swift move to military
action, insisted its position had
been vindicated that only the
U.N. Security Council can han
dle the issue — an implicit rejec
tion of U.S. statements that it has
the right to disarm Iraq alone if
necessary.
“We all agree the elimination
of Iraq’s weapons of mass
destruction is absolutely impera
tive (but) only the Security
Council can handle the means,”
French President Jacque
Chirac said.
That suggests significant
wrangling lies ahead if the
United States and Britain hope to
get a second resolution from the
U.N. Security Council
authorizing war.
CLARIFICATION
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titled “New top 40 radio sta
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air on the same day. KTSR
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