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Parents of the Year 2004-2005 Applications are currently available online http://parentsweekend.tamu.edu. They are due Friday Feb 20, 2004 by 5:00 pm in the SGA cube at 127 Koldus Building. Questions? Contact Libby Whitehead at 324-5377 Parents’ Weekend Committee WHERE THERE'S HURT THERE'S HOPE POST ABORTION PEER COUNSELING ♦ Peer Grief Counseling ♦ Help for Symptoms of Abortion Trauma ♦ 10-week Recovery Program ♦ Emotional & Spiritual Support ♦ Free & Confidential Jtofie PneynaMcy Gente/iA, Call and ask for the PACE (Post Abortion Counseling & Education) Director. 695-9193 205 Brentwood • College Station www.hopepregnancy.org We fcent Fun.' Uyijtz ouis A Tradition of Excellence. Valentines Dinner Reserve Your Romantic Dinner At The Kyle House Now! Friday, February 13, or Saturday, February 14, 2004 The Kyle House has a selection of great entrees to choose from: Tenderloin of Beefor Pork, Gourmet Chicken Breast with Orange Glaze or Swiss Cheese Sauce, Crab Stuffed Salmon Filet, Shrimp Scampi or Red Snapper Pontchartrain Complete four course dinners, not including wine, range from $28 to $38 per person Call, e-mail or fax Julie for list of accompaniments & reservations Entree selections must be made by 5p.m. the Monday bfrre the Valentine Dinner Table Seating at 6:00p.nu and 8:00p.nu 800 South Avenue ♦ Bryan, Texas 77803 ♦ (979) 775-8375 ♦ Fax: 775-8376 www.kylehouse.com ♦ email: julie@kylehouse.com 2 ^ _ Tuesday, February 3, 2004 FISH w wtmh noise f poumion 89 JOStl DARU11A 50 GitAt) >rou Got a RCcofeo peAu- DAfOVEN. ^ 'spcakimg, of WHICH , I <&OT fOU A PR^SeNT. Nou) THAT UJCRE GjoNNA Be R\CH ANt> FAlAOU^ / THAT'S o*>nna ee Pfttceeess' An AuroaRAPHex) fcCNNrS PlAceiMAT? I'N\ TOOCHep. — OYZ v>y Will Uoy<A Bush Continued from page 1 Democrats derided Bush for shortchanging social programs, pursuing tax cuts largely help ing the rich and producing an unyielding stream of huge budg et shortfalls. ‘The president clearly does not understand the economic, social and security challenges that our nation faces today,” said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., a leading presidential contender. “Today the President released a budget that deepens the deficits that his policies have helped to create,” said Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., of the House Budget Committee. If Bush’s deficit and spending projections come true, the gov ernment will borrow 22 percent of what it spends this year and 15 percent next year. His plan sets aside $178 billion next year just for paying interest on its debt. Bush provided few details on how he would halve deficits, other than broad references to economic growth and spending restraint. His budget assumes the one- third of the budget Congress writes every year — the rest is automatically paid benefits like Social Security — will grow by a total of 3.7 percent over the next five years. That figure is so low lawmakers are unlikely to heed it. Bush also proposed $1.1 tril lion in tax cuts over the next decade, mostly to renew expiring reductions for individuals and businesses but also reworked plans to encourage saving. Bolten, the budget chief, said Bush wants to eliminate 65 pro grams for a savings of $4.9 billion and cut 63 others. Congress has ignored such proposals before. Though Bush proposed an overall 3 percent education increase — a figure Democrats say is too skimpy — 38 programs slated for extinction were in the Education Department. They included a $35 million arts in edu cation program, school counsel ing and Even Start for improving poor children's reading skills. Programs Bush would cut include water projects, rural con servation. aid to state and local law enforcement agencies. iIk* Amtrak passenger railroad, and federal prisons, which would drop from $4.76 billion to $4.71 billion. The president’s budget is a proposal that triggers work on spending legislation by Congress, which is controlled by Republicans. The year is likely to be frac tious because of divisions between conservative GOP law makers who want even deeper cuts in spending and deficits, and moderates wary of slashing too deeply, especially while seeking re-election. Conservative unease intensi fied by the budget’s upward re- estimate — by one-third — of the 10-year cost of the newly enacted Medicare overhaul to $534 billion. “This budget is a step in the right direction and I am hopeful that working with other mem bers of Congress we can do even more,” said conservative Rep. Jeb Hensarling. R-Texas. soldiers killed in Iraq Fort Hood FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - Three soldiers stationed at Fort Hood were killed over the week end when their vehicle struck a homemade explosive device near the northern Iraq city of Kirkuk, the Defense Department reported Monday. The soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division were identi fied as Sgt. Eliu Miersandoval. 27, of San Clemente, Calif.; Cpl. Juan Cabral Banuelos, 25, of Emporia, Kan.; and Pfc. Holly McGeogh, 19, of Taylor, Mich. All three were light-truck mechanics assigned to the Company A, 4th Forward Support Battalion, officials at Fort Hood said. Their vehicle hit the improvised mine while trav eling as part of a convoy about 27 miles south of Kirkuk. Dan Hassett, a Fort Hood spokesman, said Monday that another soldier from the post near Killeen was killed Sunday in a separate incident, but that person’s identity has not been released. About 20,000 troops from Fort Hood are scheduled to return home from Iraq this spring, while some 20,000 other soldiers from the post are preparing to be deployed. Counting the yet-unnamed casualty, 54 soldiers from Fort Hood have been killed in Iraq since the war started nearly a year ago, Hassett said. Miersandoval, born in Mexico, joined the Army in 1998 and spent nearly all of his military career at Fort Hood. Cabral’s cousin, Marisol Gomez, said her cousin was a native of Geres, Mexico. She said her cousin spent most of his childhood in Riverdale, Utah, and moved to Emporia with his family as a teenager. She said her cousin was a popular student in high school who dreamed of enlisting in the Army after graduation. He became an Army mechanic and was stationed in Fort Hood before he was deployed to Iraq. “When he was in high school that was one of his goals to fin ish high school and graduate and go to the Army when he gradu ated,” Gomez said. “He said he liked it there (in the Army). It was difficult hut he liked it. He liked what he was doing.” Gomez said he will be buried in Utah, where most of his fam ily lives. She said the soldier's death is extremely painful because in just a few weeks he would have been reunited with his wife and two small children. Cabral’s wife, Anita Cabral, 24, told the Standard-Examiner of Ogden, Utah, that she met her husband-to-be when she was a young child. The pair married in September 1998, a few months after Cabral enlisted. “He was proud of his boys, proud of his family ... I’m going to go back to Utah and raise my boys like he wanted me to,” Anita Cabral said. The boys 7 years and 18 months old. Anita Cabral said her hus band loved to tinker, especially on his 1963 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport. That love of cars helped make him a light-truck mechanic in the military. McGeogh became a soldier in 2002 and was assigned to Fort Hood last March. THE BATTAll I Fire Continued from page neath the wall into the store “In the middle of thes there was about an inch oh | and all the boxes on theflooi wet,” she said. Love said the mall opent time for the kid’s fair Sait; morning, and things went “without a hitch.” Love said in the future carpets will need to berepL and there may be some issues, but everything isba; normal. “In the grand schem; things everything is in shape,” Love said. Program Continued from page he s hey y al Ryan Adams, a sophor ) 0 ,m kinesiology major, reads national new^ because it gives him ah understanding of whaf$c on outside of Bryan-fo Station. “I think this free prog^ good idea” Adams “Money is probably $oi that holds people bad; • tiadt A 2001 >esu reading the paper.” The 270 school did this trial run nou permanently institute Diem said. According to th e Today Web site, manyj. universities are involve^ program, including University, Texas University, Texas University and The of North Texas. If students at A&M^. program and it is pj C L. SGA will figure out |p find funding for the p r J- Josefy said. Candidates Continued from page) Dot Snyder said she address the educational, that plague the UniiedS^ president of foe Independent School school board, Snyder imi ed a plan that ended the promotions policy in Waco Snyder said President W. Bush used her social tion policy. Snyder said she best candidate to beat because she has run _ Edwards previously in thi Congressional District 11, red )lact less on ( H ppi s th vith >veel II Truii or it I Vust mill ion aid ivhei rate H land cai o at he s h Decc den I think of longterm issues ai how to bring then to bear in the forefront i — Dave Md District 17 candid Justices Felipe Reyna Lynnan Kendrick are against each other for j the l()th Court of Appeals. Reyna appealed to his hood, where he rose from3< who didn’t speak Engli 1 ’ being a janitor in the lOthf and now running forjusti preside in the same roomil once swept. Kendrick said she had experience to fulfill the sei justice. She has spent Ik five years as a justice, wl* Reyna has not tried a ci' more than 21 years. The Brazos Cfl Republican Club will meet next month. FREE LOCATOR 260-1200 PRELEASING NOW for May & August 2004! Across from campus, next to Taco Bell. www.united-rico.com The Battalioi Elizabeth N. 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