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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 2, 2003)
Friday, May 2, 2003 Corps vs. IFC Baseball Game This year’s annual Corps/Fraternity baseball game which took place on Friday April ir was a huge success. More than 2,500 students and parents attended the exciting game and over $6,000 was raised for a local charity. The “Frat-Daddies” had an early lead, but were overtaken by the Corps of Cadets toward the end of the game in an 11-6 Corps victory. v'' LaV LaV Suitcase explodes a Jordan airpo By Jamal Halaby THE ASSOCIATED PRES! AMMAN, Jordan device in a suitcase the hands of a security ® who was inspecting Jordan’s international Thursday, killing the « instantly, authorities said Police detained the suspea owner of the suitcase, Japanese journalist, who authorities he did not had knowledge that he hadanexplt dents for votin sive device in his possess! said officials involved in investigation. The explosion wound three other people, Information H Mohammad Affash Adwan.li of the wounded were one in critical condition, said. He told authority he didn’t know thatit was an explosive device which had detonated. Mohammad Affash Adwas Information k The journalist, identified Hiroki Gomi of the Mainii newspaper, told authorities Is picked up the metal deviceasi “souvenir from the remnanisol war on Iraq,” Adwan said, Adwan later told the 01 Petra news agency that then said he bought the metal dew from an Iraqi citizen in B and that he crossed Ji eastern desert border overtf from Iraq on Monday. “He told authorities hedc/ know that it was an device which hadn’t detonald’ Adwan told The Associtri Press. He said the joumi would stand trial in Amman, Security officials saidthet port guard saw the metal dei during the X-ray screeningiti asked the man to open h case for a manual search. The device exploded in hands, killing him Adwan said. Adwan said the bag « checked on an EgyptAir flijf to Cairo, Egypt, where the job nalist was heading after: assignment to Iraq. The Japanese journalist at had some other souvenirs ft® Iraq, such as antiques, rugs RecS t: I d he Depa failed to dum in 1 is taking its 1 Rec Sports ig some of tf Recreation Cer According i Education Coc on its bot debts are off tl years, it can n< student. Of the straight to deb building and e: According ti Dennis Corriga that Rec Sports years without a So in Febru continue for tw the busiest hou Center will clo mornings duri Another part student wages. Sports workers. Library for thre Evans was $5.6 outweighed not Unnecessan ire streamline Despite Rec erendum, it for surplus it refusi mal levels. If it )uld considei Now througl recsports.tamu.' who wisely vol change in hours ta$5 million iec Sports s. and building rer Hei Propo A mencan O’Rourf “If you t care is ex wait until you s< costs when it’s 1 O’Rourke was r kills efficiei paintings, a security officials^ the public that e on condition of anonymity. Robin Hooi plan to be replaced By Kelley Shannon THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN — Though Texas Senate is moving for fast with a school finance pi* 1 led by Lt. Gov. David Dewhur- House leaders said they want to take a ci approach that could take 1 than the current legislatl' 1 session. The Senate is meeting Fritb) to consider its school fu proposal. All 31 senators signed on to the plan thatwoui replace the existing share# wealth system with one would cut property taxes in and expand and increase # sales tax. House Speaker Tof Craddick, a fellow Republic^ 1 ' questioned whether Dewhurst proposal takesacoH' plete view of funding schools. “The Senate plan just looks at the tax aspect of il That’s what we call a piece the puzzle. We’re going tolo at the puzzle,” Craddick ti newspaper writers from arou the state. the price. Despi the fact that the multi-billion do hers of the Texa make Texas stat illegal immigrar Bills sponson Rep. Rick Norie care are c toward passage i Bill 525 and Ser current law forbi hill the state for vided to non-citi I, a municipal i I ay use money alth care servi their immigratioi Rlented, the qual crash as the cost; In July 2001, lohn Cornyn too that state law by offering t {rants. Federal 1; cover the costs o immigrants in en eminent then reii §ency services p of non-emei has jurisdiction t care for non-citk current Texa horiega’s bills w Proponents of cost Texas anythi Board re] fiscal implicatior wever, during jjtorney general’ irris County he fiftO million in f w a three-ye ftose costs cover