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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
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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.
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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
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RANDAL FORD • THE BATTALION
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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.
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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