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Changes for the students would
be essential as well.
“Everything 1 have done for
the last 10 years has been
focused on undergraduate edu
cation,” Hurtado said. “To inter
act in a diverse democracy, stu
dents have to have complex
thinking skills, they have to
have social skills and they’ll
have to have democratic skills to
really participate.”
In research that Hurtado has
conducted, she found that few
students take a class in diversi
ty if it is outside of any core
classes.
She said this would need to
change.
Hurtado received a degree in
sociology from Princeton, a
Masters of education in admin
istration from Harvard, and a
Ph.D. in education from UCLA.
The last of the three candi
dates, Dr. Ronald Rochon, will
visit A&M from June 11 to
June 13.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush
insisted Monday that Iraq had a weapons program,
and the White House asked for patience during a
search for evidence to prove it.
As lawmakers considered an investigation into
the handling of intelligence that led to war, the
White House said it would not resist such an inquiry.
Two months after mobs toppled a statue of
President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, military
experts have not validated the administration’s por
trayal of Iraq’s cache of weapons of mass destruc
tion. Alleged stockpiles of chemical and biological
weapons have not been discovered, nor has signifi
cant evidence of a nuclear weapons program.
The senior Democrat on the Senate Armed
Services committee warned that American credibil
ity is on the line, but Bush said: “History and time
will prove that the United States made the absolute
right decision in freeing the people of Iraq from the
clutches of Saddam Hussein.”
“Iraq had a weapons program,” Bush said.
“Intelligence throughout the decade (of the 1990s)
showed they had a weapons program. I am absolute
ly convinced with time we’ll find out they did have
a weapons program.”
Bush did not use the phrase “weapons of mass
destruction.” Nor did he promise any remnants of
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6/8/03 9 a.m. Warrant arrest,
2611A Texas Avenue. Also: failure
to stop and give information.
6/8/03 l:35 p.m. Recovered
runaway, 100 block of Luther
Street.
6/8/03 l :40 p.m. Burglary of a
habitation, 1807 Treehouse.
Nothing taken.
6/8/03 l:49 p.m. Warrant
arrest, 1609 Winfield.
6/8/03 l :49 p.m. Burglary of
a vehicle, 2101 Harvey Mitchell
Pkwy. Taken: Kenwood CD
player.
6/8/03 6:01 p.m. Traffic
arrest (no driver's license),
Harvey Mitchell Pkwy/George
Bush Dr W.
6/8/03 11:45 p.m. Driving
while license suspended,
Puryear/Walton. One arrest.
6/9/03 l :49 a.m. Traffic arrest
(no driver's license),
Texas/Cooner.
6/9/03 3:42 a.m. Traffic arrest
(no driver's license), 1045 Texas.
Tuition
Continued from page 1
“Much of this involves costs
associated with salary increas
es and fringe benefits, higher
utility costs, fire safety
upgrades, the need for selective
merit pay increases for both
faculty and staff,” Gates said.
Before A&M can move for
ward and start hiking up the
tuition rates to pay for those
requirements, the University
must first look into cutting
expenditures within the
University.
While protecting the $10
million designated by the
Legislature for faculty recruit
ment and retention, the
University will cut all other
University expenditures of the
state revenue for fiscal year
2004 by approximately $20
million, or 10 percent.
any “weapons program” will be found.
Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, top Democrat on
the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he
wants a full congressional investigation into prewar
intelligence. “I think that the nation’s credibility is
on the line, as well as (Bush’s),” he said.
Even Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke of a
possible credibility gap but agreed with Bush that it
should not exist. Speaking during the weekend on
“Fox News Sunday,” Powell spoke of the care with
which his pre-invasion justification to the U.N.
Security Council was drafted and said:
“We spent four days and nights out dt the CIA,
making sure that whatever I said was supported by
our intelligence holdings. Because it wasn’t the
president’s credibility and my credibility on the line;
it was the credibility of the United States of
America.”
Bush sidestepped a reporter’s question Monday
on a link between American credibility and weapons
he said Iraq had.
“The credibility of this country is based upon our
strong desire to make the world more peaceful, and
the world is now more peaceful after our decision,”
Bush said.
Also Monday, the Pentagon’s intelligence
agency declassified and released a section of a
September 2002 paper in response to news media
reports that it said it had found no evidence that Iraq
had prohibited chemical weapons.
“This will affect every part
of our campus community,”
Gates said.
Deans of all the colleges
have been working to review
and evaluate each program and
activity on campus to identify
areas where adjustments can be
made, Gates said.
Gates said that in the com
ing weeks, the University will
make decisions on how to allo
cate the $20 million budget cut.
“We will not make across-
the-board cuts,” he said.
Gates said he hopes to
announce the amount tuition
will increase next month.
“When these decisions are
announced, we will be signal
ing to Texas and the entire
country, that even in difficult
times, A&M today looks opti
mistically and confidentally to
the future,” he said.
NEWS
THE BATTAL10I
NEWS IN BRIEF
A&M, area conducts
emergency drill
The cities of Bryan and Collejf
Station, Brazos County and Tea!
A&M will conduct an emerges
response drill today to testtheii
capabilities in responding to cafr
strophic incidents.
The two-and-a-half dayexeidsf
will simulate a terrorist attad
involving weapons of mas
destruction.
Participants will not knowwtiat
to expect during the scenario.
"The need for a weapons of
mass destruction drill liki
one has unfortunately becomt
a necessity," said DeMerlf
Giordano, Brazos Countyemei
gency manager. "We are well
prepared to handle emergent)
situations, but with the contin
uing threats of terrorism
against domestic targets, we
need to be ready to respondto
any situation."
The exercise is designed to
challenge the local governmentio
evaluating its response to a ter
rorist incident. Real businesses
locations and events will be fea
tured to maximize the valued
the exercise.
Corps
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She said students ask tin
usual questions about whati
is like and if it is hard tob
academics with the Corps,
“I enjoyed it and i
encouraged them to accept tk
challenge of the Corps,” sk
said. “Not all of them may join,
but they are exposed to A&M
and they just love it.”
Monge said the JCAPiswon
derful because it exposes in-slatt
and out-of-state students to tlii
Corps at A&M.
“The good thing about beiii!
in the Corps is that once you®
in a military institution, thereis
no race or gender,” she said/Ik
only distinction is the colorof
the rim on your bider and lit
color of your belt. You»
judged based on your perfe
ance.”
There are two other in®-
lives to make the Corps mori
diverse beginning in the fall
One is a new equal-opportwi
officer position. The other is aa
initiative to increase the Corps
retention rate of
female cadets.
Bush
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Drive East will be positive foi
drivers and bikers.
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paths,” Shenuan said. “In
past I noticed many times
automobiles and bikes nearly
had collisions.”
The project has forced Bus
Operations to redirect the Excel
route through the summer, aui
may continue its modified rouie
in the fall, said Gary Jackson
assistant director of Bus
Operations.
Excel follows George Bust
Drive across Texas Avenue and
twists behind Culpepper Plazi
before turning left onte
University Oaks Boulevard
returning to campus Road.
Jackson said construction
doesn’t present any problems for
the Excel route right now,
traffic slowdowns may pop up
when the project isn’t finisher
by mid-August when many col
lege students return to Collegi
Station.
“It could cause problems ir
the fall, but we’re not worried
yet,” he said.
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