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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.
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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.
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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
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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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