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conference committee that
could take days to reach a
compromise. The House for
mally rejected the Senate plan
Thursday and named its redis
tricting conferees.
One of the biggest sticking
points is a disagreement over
how West Texas should be
drawn. Republican House
Speaker Tom Craddick wants a
district that could allow his
hometown of Midland, with its
oil and gas economy, to anchor
a congressional seat.
Republican Sen. Robert
Duncan of Lubbock has
pushed a plan that keeps
Midland in a district with the
larger agriculture-oriented city
of Lubbock.
Neither side showed signs
of budging.
“I think we’ve got to deal
with West Texas first,’’ said
Rep. Phil King, R-
Weatherford, author of the
House map and leader of the
House contingent on the con
ference committee. He predict
ed slow negotiations.
Craddick said there are
other discrepancies between
the two versions that must be
ironed out. His spokesman,
Bob Richter, cited differences
over Central Texas, the Dallas-
Fort Worth area and Webb
County.
Craddick contends the
Senate’s last-minute decision
to split Webb County, where
Laredo is located on the Texas-
Mexico border, may not win
approval from the U.S. Justice
Department, which enforces
protection of minorities under
the federal Voting Rights Act.
pole was, and each of the 1!
archways contain a brass sil
houette of one of the students
killed Nov. 18, 1999, aswel
as a phrase written on the brass
that commemorates themindi
vidually.
Gates said the only memoi
al worthy of comparison wi|
this one would be the Vietnam
Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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memorial,” he said,
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Gates whether the risk manaet-1 series of timed r
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several departments since “Auto crossing
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improve the University’s image Atthebeginnin;
at the expense of students'fun. fee instructional
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We are a terribly litigious socie-!of his car.
ty, and it isn’t going to get any! “it taught me to
better any time soon, “Gates W car’s limits nov
said. “Forty-five thousand stu-1
dents can think of many creative
ways to have fun, and some of
them are even legal.”
Gates said he could not thin
of any traditions that matter t
the A&M community that have
been lost in the past three years,
other than Bonfire.
“Absent Bonfire, what else
is missing?” he said.
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