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NATION THE BATTALI01 isure ilicies Lara Croft returns • Page 3A Sports: Aggies hope to limit errors in OU rematch • Page 1B Aqcj ig Lite« ^ BATTALION tage points, he Supreme critical casethatdit he University s use of race as at*, issions, 58 perceniii ts to the Chroiiji ffirmative action p:;. efit society, percent of those sit they thought t should not be chool if their tores didn’t meetl icr applicants. Vard, president of| Council expects those cct titudes to contim the Supreme Cot' Volume 109 • Issue 140 *16 pages Texas A&M University Deregulation bill up By Rolando Garcia THE BATTALION A tuition deregulation bill up for debate today in the Texas House of Representatives could send students’ tuition bills through the roof and give the boards of regents of public universities unlimited power to raise tuition. The measure, approved last week by the ouse higher education committee, would w universities to raise tuition by $23 per Hi alkv credit hour for the 2003-2004 academic year, and by $46 the following year. In 2005, tuition caps would be removed and universities would be able to raise tuition without legislative approval. The bill is in marked contrast to the one passed by the Senate education committee, setting the stage for a showdown in a con ference committee where legislators will hammer out a compromise. The Texas Senate rejected deregulation and passed an amended bill sponsored by state Sen. www.thebatt.com Tuesday, April 29, 2003 for debate Florence Shapiro, R-Plano, that would allow universities to raise tuition by $ 12 per cred it hour. State Rep. Fred Brown, R-College Station and a member of the higher education com mittee, supports the House bill, but is open to other options for helping universities cope with the looming cuts in state funding, said Kris Reyes. Brown’s legislative director. Because of House Speaker Tom See Tuition on page 2A House Bill 3015 $23 per credit hour tuition increase $46 per credit hour tuition increase Tuition caps removed-rates set by Board of Regents Source: Texas House Higher Educaiion Committee TRAVIS SWENSON • THE BATTALION I Americans havei rained sense offe dividual rights-i affirmative aciic “in fair. "If you is n deprived of sot process, it is feltw ic said. “Andthai; here universities r e as NRA give speed e his last appearaiw in Saturday, shuffe lembers but tools eimer's disease, mi le over his head an: d hands." Dke three motet at for all the yeas going to miss you five years, wasdiaf s, a neurological ft . Heston is suffeij ) was NRA preside >ected, when heist' ore! ichton Look into the light RANDAL FORD • THE BATTALION Junior biology major Jorge Vargas examines nega- project for journalism professor Howard Eiler's pho- tives through a 50 mm magnifying viewer over a tojournalism class. Eiler's class is in the process of lightbox. The negatives are a part of an existing light finishing up its final projects for the semester. Dairy Science Center fights to stay open By Janet McLaren THE BATTALION Employees at the the Dairy Science Center will present a petition signed by more than 6,000 students to University officials today to persuade administration to keep the dairy from closing. Employees will present the petition to University President Robert M. Gates, John McNeill, head of department of the Animal Science Center, and Edward Hiler, vice chancellor of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The dairy has been collecting signa tures since the Animal Science Center announced in February that the dairy would close. “Most of the signatures are from stu dents,” said dairy employee Chad Martindale. “People have sent in signa ture sheets from all over the state.” Martindale, a senior agricultural development major, said he hoped the petition would show the administration that the dairy is important to students and other people in Texas. “We just want to keep the pressure on them,” Martindale said. “We want them to see that it‘s been three months, and we’re still fighting to save the dairy.” Martindale said that dairy employees did not plan to make an appointment to present the petition to Gates. “We’re just going to go up there and give it to him,” Martindale said. Current plans for the dairy include selling all cows, according to Dairy Center employees. “We do get to keep the heifers for hopefully another year,” Martindale said. The dairy has placed advertisements in papers and newsletters this month to sell the cows, but they will reside at the See Dairy on page 2A Last missing soldier found dead in Iraq LOS FRESNOS, Texas (AP) — Army Spc. Edward John Anguiano, the last U.S. soldier miss ing in Iraq, was found dead, family members and the Pentagon said Monday. Anguiano, 24, disap peared after his convoy was attacked March 23 near Nasiriyah in southern Iraq. Anguiano’s grandfa ther and an aunt said mili tary officials notified the family late Sunday. “What we heard is that he was ambushed,” Vicente Anguiano Sr., 72, told The Associated Press. “They found his truck, the one he drove, and it had been stripped — tires and every thing. They found a body near the truck.” Officials used DNA tests to confirm that the remains were Anguiano, the grandfather said. He said he believed Anguiano was killed during the ini tial ambush.. The Defense Department said the body was found Thursday. The remains were identified Sunday. Anguiano’s family members gathered in this South Texas town over the Easter weekend and held out hope he would return soon. The soldier’s moth er, San Juanita Anguiano, “is very sad. She was not expecting him to be found dead,” said the soldier’s aunt, Maria Anguiano. “Before, I felt real hopeful for them. Now, I don’t feel so good,” Basilio Soto, 73, said in a story in Tuesday’s edition of The Brownsville Herald. “That’s a good family there, and now he’s gone,” he said as he sat on See MIA on page 2A louse Speaker supports Bush’s tax cut By Esther Robards-Forbes THE BATTALION With the war in Iraq won, the United States must now focus attention on domestic concerns, said House Speaker Dennis Hasten Monday during a lecture at Texas A&M, touting President George W. Bush’s tax cut proposal as a necessary stimulus to jump-start the nation’s slug gish economy. Hasten spoke Monday at the George Bush Presidential Conference Center to a crowd of 600 as part of the William Waldo Cameron Forum on Public Affairs. Hasten said he supported Bush’s $550 billion tax cut, which is designed to encour age investment and create new jobs, saying it will stimulate the economy so that tax payers can keep the money they earn. Former President George Bush intro duced Hasten, calling the speaker “a leader who can bring people together and get things done.” Hasten said Medicare and education are still high on the government’s list of priorities. Federal Pell grant funding, used to fund higher education, has also dramati cally increased since he became speaker, Hasten said. “One of the best resources we have is our kids. We’ve spent more money in edu cation in the five years that I’ve been speaker than ever before, and we’ve dou bled the amount of federal dollars in edu cation,” Hasten said. Hasten, known for his ability to work on a bipartisan level within the House of Representatives, described his humble beginnings as teacher, coach and bus driver for Yorkville High in Illinois. “I always thought a (bus driver) was pretty good training to be speaker of the House,” he said. See Speaker on page 2A JOHN C. LIVAS • THE BATTALION Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert addresses an audience at the Bush Presidential Conference Center, speaking about his sen timent of the Sept. 11 tragedy and economic policy. He praised the "men of uniform" serving in current and past wars. * i 3A> 3 land. 'First-tim 6 buye« Members of the Sensitive Site Team of Defense Threat Reduction Agency prepare to analyze a suspected Iraqi weapons of mass destruction muni tions area featuring barrels of apparent chemical agents and numerous missiles. A team detected the presence of cylosarin and mustard gas. ERIK CAMPOS • KRT CAMPUS Metal drum may contain rocket fuel By Louis Meixler THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAIJI, Iraq — A metal drum found in northern Iraq that initially tested positive for nerve and blister agents might instead contain rocket fuel, according to new tests, a U.S. chemical weapons expert said Monday. More tests were planned in the coming days on the 55-gallon drum, said Lt. Col. Valentin Novikov, the chief chemical weapons officer of the 4th Infantry Division, the unit that found the site. Novikov’s comments raised the prospect that the discovery was the latest in a series of false alarms as U.S. troops try to find the remains of Saddam Hussein’s suspected pro grams for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. The suspicious barrel was among 14 barrels found in an open field near the Tigris River town of Baiji, among mounds of earth that hid missiles and missile parts. U.S. troops performed an initial test and found indications the barrel may contain the nerve agent cyclosarin and a blister agent that could be a precursor of mustard gas. By design, initial test procedures favor positive readings, erring on the side of caution to protect soldiers. Two teams of experts were brought See Drum on page 2A
