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The source of the quotation falsely identified himself as Berger. noise f poiumon 89 JOSH DDKUJin if we cawt ee N FAMOUS, AT LEA'ST we CAN ee INFAMOUS. 1 . owe NOTE OF "Pock youR Boov" . AND YOU Die. SOME SOT TO SHAPE -heio deepest FeaiNss ANO APPPECIA'IONS POP SOMEONE SPECIAL m I ■■■V i 8 SOME SPENT THE OAV OPE AMINS OF THE tiME WHEN THEY WLL SET TO SHAPE A TESOEP MOMENT by Will Uoy<A Alcohol Continued from page 1 and forget about the troubles of the day. However, in excessivt amounts, it can cause bad judg ment, he said. In a joint effort with ADEP, A&M officials send out birthday cards to students on their 2lsi birthday sponsored by the pai ents of Michael Wagener, win died of alcohol poisoning on li 21st birthday. The card contains information about safe drinking and Wagener’s story. It also includes the symptoms of alco hol poisoning. Carter said if a student has been drinking and doesn’t haic a sober ride, they can call CAI- POOL at 693-9905 Thursda; through Saturday from 10 p.m, to 3 a.m. Uprising Continued from page 1 Snyder Continued from page 1 have experience with Texas A&M,” said Matt Mosier, a freshman meteorology major, “then how is she going to be able to represent it in Congress?” Sophomore political science major Philip Shackelford said Snyder’s politics may not belong on the national arena but rather, may be better suit ed for a position as a school board president. Snyder has reiterated how important A&M is to this district and said that she loved what she has seen of campus. "A&M is the largest employer in this district, which makes it very, very important," Snyder said. "I hate to see tuition going up becaus^ col lege is a ticket to success." To provide the opportunity for underprivileged youth to attend college, Snyder established the Mac Grant program, which sends deserving stu dents to a two-year technical school after high school. The scholarship can be extended to allow the students to get an undergraduate degree after they complete technical school. The Mac Grant program has helped students from the Waco area attend A&M, Snyder said. During Snyder's time on the Waco ISD school board, she championed an initiative to end social promotion in public schools. Social promotion is defined as allowing a student to proceed to the next grade based on behavior and not on knowledge of the curriculum assigned to that grade level. "My kids get on grade level and often stay on grade level," Snyder said. This initiative forces students to have the abili ty to perform basic skills at each level. President George W. Bush has now integrated the social pro motion policy into his “No Child Left Behind” Act, Snyder said. "Education and hard work is the answer to everything, so I want to help kids go for it. If you work hard, you can get the American dream," Snyder said. Court Continued from page 1 in the dark ever since. “Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos,” said Steve Hall, director of StandDown Texas, which opposes the death penalty. Dianne Clements, president of the victims rights group Justice For All, said it’s difficult not having a clear state defini tion of mental retardation. “These defendants are taking every opportunity they can to remove themselves from death row. If a defendant raises the claim, we provide them with super due process because of the law,” Clements said. Texas has about 450 prison ers on death row. The Texas Defender Service, which represents capital murder defendants on appeal, has tracked the number of post-con- viction mental retardation claims by death row inmates since the Supreme Court’s 2002 ruling. The state Court of Criminal Appeals has sent 37 cases back to trial courts for hearings. Four cases were remanded by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. The first was the case of Jose Briseno, convicted of killing Dimmit County Sheriff Ben “Doc” Murray in 1991. Briseno was spared just hours before his July 10, 2002, scheduled execu tion. This past week, the Court of Criminal Appeals upheld a trial judge’s rejection of his mental retardation claims. squads in 1987 and a militis known as the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti, or FRAPH, which killed and maimed hundreds of people between 1991 and 1994, was seen in Gonaives by several witnesses. Chamblain fled to the Dominican Republic after U.S. troops were sent to restore Aristide to power and end a bloody dictatorship in 1994. Also spotted was Guy Philippe, a former police chief who fled to the Dominican Republic after being accused by the Haitian government of trying to organize a coup in 2002, Witnesses reached by tele phone said the men were work ing with rebels in Gonaivesbut were massing in Saint-Michel de 1’Atalaye, about 28 miles to the east. Dominican Gen. Fernando Cruz Mendez said Philippf would be arrested if he tried tore- enter the Dominican Republic. In May, Haiti’s foreign minis ter visited the Dominican Republic requesting that author- ties turn over Philippe. Dominican officials had detained him earlier that month but released him after finding no evidence to suppon claims he was plotting againsi Haiti's government. No extradi tion treaty exists between the neighboring countries. 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