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The Department is implementing cost cutting initiatives,
beginning in May, in an effort to preserve our financial integrity
until we have the opportunity to present another referendum in
the Spring of 2004. The initiative that will affect students
directly is the reduction in operating hours of the Student Rec
Center and other recreational facilities. For a full list of all our
new facility hours or if you have any questions relating to
Department of Rec Sports budget issues, please refer to the
New Facility Hours FAQ available at http://recsports.tamu.edu.
Student Rec Center Hours
Effective May 9
SUMMER
Monday-Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
6:00am-10:00pm
10:00am-9:00pm
Noon-10:00pm
FALL/SPRING
Monday-Friday: 6:00am-11:00pm
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Tuesday, April 29, 2003
NATIOI
THE BATTALIfll
Bush promotes Iraqi democraq
WASHINGTON (AP) —
President George W. Bush is tout
ing his administration’s efforts to
plant the seeds of democracy in
the rubble of Saddam Hussein’s
toppled dictatorship, courting
Michigan’s Arab community
with an eye on his re-election.
Bush traveled Monday to
Dearborn, Mich., a Detroit sub
urb where about 30 percent of
residents claimed Arab ancestry
in the latest census.
He was not ready to declare
combat in Iraq over yet, aides
said Sunday. That is likely to
come later this week.
But Bush was offering an
“optimistic vision of a liberated
Iraq, and how Iraq can live in
peace with its neighbors and
become representative of an
Islamic democracy,” White
House spokesman Ari Fleischer
said in previewing the trip.
Helping craft an “Islamic
democracy” is dicey business,
however. The United States has
promised democracy for Iraq,
but has ruled out the kind of
Islamic government that democ
racy could yield.
With Shiite Muslims forming
more than 60 percent of Iraq’s
population, a free vote could
produce an Islamic-oriented
government with close ties to
the historically anti-American
Shiite clerics who have gov
erned Iran since the 1979
Islamic revolution.
In an interview with The
Associated Press, Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
said the United States will not
allow a religious government
like Iran’s to take hold in Iraq.
Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla.,
said Rumsfeld’s position
“demonstrates the kind of quag
mire that we are potentially
going to be in Iraq.”
“If you talk about a democ
racy, which means that people
vote and select the political
leadership that they desire, then
you can’t say, ‘But there are cer-
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Iraqi-American supporters dance and sing Monday in Dearborn, M
where President George W. Bush delivered a speech on the rebuilding
Iraq.
tain segments of the population
that are off-limits,’” the 2004
presidential hopeful said Sunday
on ABC’s “This Week.”
A group of Iraqis in
Michigan wrote a communique
outlining their hopes for their
native country, and planned to
deliver it to Bush on Monday.
The communique asks that
“Iraqis be allowed to be the
masters of their own destiny,”
said Jafar al-Musawi, a
Dearborn-based Iraqi writer.
The administration has been
trying to build bridges to Arab-
Americans in Michigan.
Two months ago, during the
run-up to war, Deputy Defense
Secretary Paul Wolfowitz con
vened a town hall meeting of
Iraqi-Americans in Dearborn,
asking his audience to help the
U.S. government oust Saddam.
Wolfowitz says about 150
Iraqis who have been living in
the United States or Europe
have volunteered to go back to
help establish a democratic
government, and some already
have gone.
Among the exiles is Emad
Dhia, who left Friday. Heisis
engineer who has been living
Michigan and heads the Iraj
Forum for Democracy, a pol
cal action group formed in I
United States in 1998. Dhiarf
be the top Iraqi adviser to retitd
U.S. Lt. Gen. Jay Gamer, whois
overseeing reconstructios
efforts.
Others declined the offei,
among them al-Musawi, win
said the Pentagon hskedhimi
accompany Dhia.
“What was I supposedtotel
the people in Iraq: ‘Listentot
I've lived in America, I know?'"
he asked. “No one wouldlistei
to me, or to the others, becaust
we don’t have the kind of clou
the clergy do.”
More than 18 months beta
the next presidential election,
Bush is unabashedly makinj
battleground states the focus of
his travels.
Bush planned to meet withifc
chiefs of the Big Three 111
automakers while near Detroit
The White House said the tta
would endorse his push foratst
cut of $550 billion over 10years
NEWS IN BRIEF
Kerry and Dean spar for votes
WASHINGTON (AP) - Divisions between rival
Democratic presidential candidates John Kerry
and Howard Dean over the strength of the
nation's military broke out in the open Monday,
signaling escalating tensions between the two
campaigns in the party's race for the White House.
The debate began over Dean's comments in an
article posted Monday on Time.com. “We have to
take a different approach” to diplomacy, the for
mer Vermont governor was quoted as saying dur
ing a campaign stop in New Hampshire. “We
won't always have the strongest military.”
Kerry spokesman Chris Lehane issued a state
ment expressing incredulity over Dean's remais
and saying that Kerry, a decorated Vietnam ft
veteran, would “guarantee that America has tin
strongest, best trained, most well-equipped ml
tary in history.”
“Howard Dean's stated belief that the Uniteii
States won't always have the strongest militaif
raises serious questions about his capacity to
serve as commander in chief,” Lehane said. “No
serious candidate for the presidency has ewi
before suggested that he would compromiseoi
tolerate an erosion of America's militaif
supremacy.”
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