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Tuition
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expansion is due to tuitioni;
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rule, he said.
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tuition as well, he said.
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Research
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discovered that electron beams
could be used on beef to kill bac
teria such as E. Coli without
banning the meat.
“Irradiation just means ‘rays
of energy’ and is actually quite
safe,” Vestal said, hoping to dis
pel the negative connotation of
irradiation. “Everyone just asso
ciates it with nuclear energy.”
Currently, irradiation is
used on beef, pork, poultry,
cereal grains, spices and pota
toes. Irradiation use on fish,
shellfish and ready-to-eat deli
foods has not yet been
approved.
The use of this technology
on meat adds 10 to 25 cents to
the price of a pound of meat,
but Vestal said the added cost
is worth it if it can save even
one life.
Electron beam research is
also being tested to kill insects
on fruits and vegetables to pre
vent the spread of harmful pests
around the world. It was used to
help kill anthrax being sent
through the mail in 2001.
Vestal explained that
research will be done on mak
ing oysters safer, as well as try
ing to extend the shelf-life of
fish, strawberries, mushrooms
and even cut flowers.
“This is an extremely unique
technology with many, many
useful purposes,” Vestal said.
“We will be able to do many
great things with it in the
future.”
Bush
Continued from page 1A
when he stood on the deck of the
aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln
and declared an end to major com
bat operations. Since then, more
Americans have died in Iraq than
were killed during the war. The
overall death count is 287 149
since May 1.
Bush described Iraq as the cen
tral front in the war against terror
and said that “enemies of freedom
are making a desperate stand there,
and there they must be defeated.
“This will take time and require
sacrifice,” he said. “Yet we will do
what is necessary, we will spend
what is necessary, to achieve this
essential victory in the war on terror,
to promote freedom and to make our
own nation more secure. ”
percent from the adniinistj
budget and a total of 5.4
cent from the colleger
libraries. This totals a ci
nearly $20.5 million fn*
school’s budget.
To balance the budget fer
2004 fiscal year, which;
from now through Aiii
tuition increases werereqn
The way state law prevtii
controlled tuition incteasHi
that a school could only nt
tuition by the same amoe
the state increased it.
For this semester, the
approved a $2 per studeffi
hour increase in tuition,
schools across the stale.
match, but could go nofe
A&M matched this iac
resulting in a $4 per crefe
rise in tuition.
But with schools nolo
required to stay within ax
fied cap. A&M plans toire
tuition another S9 per a
hour in the spring.
Some schools arc toE
their rates up higher that
such as the Universir
Houston, w hich plans ton.'
tuition Si9 per credit hour
< iates said the $9 tnct
would have been higher if
Student Governs
Association had not intenr
“Matt Josefy and ihere
the student govern men! R
stepped up and encourage turning onlo I
to keep it low, which o “She got ii
more budget cuts were n ally oncoming
he said.
As for the numerous fee:
students pay along with 3
tuition, it is likely they wil
increasing again in the tunr
well. Gates said.
Also, to keep up wiihGi
plan to hire 100 new fas
members each year for the
four years, he says there
need to be more help fro r
state, more cuts internal^
“modest tuition increases.’
Tom Taylor, vice pitsii
of finance, said three no' -
forces have been forme:
seek out funding to invee
the hiring of those newfae-
m embers.
"I hope the students«
supportive of all of this,"!;
said, “and understand itui 1
are doing this to better thef*
ity of education they receive
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