wtsii^r VOLUME 89 FEBRUARY 3,2004 ISSUE 75 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY • DALLAS, TEXAS • SMUDAILYCAMPUS.COM Bush's budget boots military spending, deficit ByRonHutcheson Protection Agency, the Agriculture "We will con­ billion deficit in half within five years. mittee, said, "This president is running alternative minimum tax, a provision Knight Ridder Newspapers Department and the Transportation tinue to provide The 2005 budget projects a deficit of us right over the fiscal cliff," Conrad in tax law that's intended to make sure Department whatever it takes $364 billion. The budget submission said. "The president says he wants to that wealthy taxpayers with extensive WASHINGTON -President Bush on Despite pressure to reduce the deficit to defend our set the stage for a bitter election-year go to Mars. He's taken the deficit to the deductions pay at least some taxes. Monday sent Cojngress a $2.4 trillion further, the proposal includes a mix of country," Bush struggle over spending priorities and moon." Programs unrelated to defense federal budget that would boost spend­ new or expanded tax cuts in the name said in his annual the direction of the country. The president wants Congress to and homeland security would get an ing for defense and homeland security, of sustaining economic recovery. But budget message Bush's pledge to rein in domestic permanently extend tax cuts that are overall spending increase of 05 percent squeeze domestic programs and reduce simply making permanent the tax to lawmakers. spending is likely to be tested by scheduled to expire at the end of 2010 in Bush's budget, but the money would the record 2004 deficit cuts already enacted, as the president , ... _ . Congressio- lawmakers eager to fund popular pro­ and expand tax breaks for various be allocated unevenly. Ceorge W. Bush ^ j£ The fiscal 2005 budget calls for a 10 requests, would reduce federal revenue mocrats grams before they too face the voters savings accounts and charitable con­ Departments that will benefit from percent increase for homeland security, by $936 billion over the next 10 years, declared the spending plan dead on in November. tributions. The budget also would offer an increase in budget are the Education, a 7 percent boost for defense and would according to White House budget arrival and ridiculed the president's Sen. Kent Conrad, D-ND, the top temporary relief in 2005 for middle- State Departments and the Department slash spending for the Environmental experts. promise to cut this year's record $521 Democrat on the Senate Budget Com­ class taxpayers who fall under the of Housing and Urban Development 'THE SLIP" IN SEQUENCE 100 feared If you ran to the bathroom during halftime, you missed the most Too hot for TV? talked about moment in this year's Super Bowl. Here's the instant dead in replay... Halftime show flap puts spotlight THE UNIFORM on sex in prime time Iraq blast By Linda Shrieves and Darryl Owens By Tom Lasseter The Orlando Sentinel Knight Ridder Newspapers IRBIL, Iraq - The death toll from a pair f all the flags thrown in Sunday^ Super Bowl, CBS faces ( of suicide bombings in the offices of two the greatest penalty. Kurdish political parties rose to at least 110 The Federal Communications Commission lashed out at the on Monday as politicians began to debate network Monday, for the half-time show in which singer Justin whether the violence would further unravel Timberlake tore off part of Janet Jackson's costume, exposing her US. plans for a unified Iraq. breast Workers washed blood and body parts "I have instructed the commission to open an immediate from the floors and ceilings of the rooms investigation into last nighfs broadcast," said FCC Chairman where the explosions occurred in the Michael Powell on Monday. He also described it as "a classless, crass middle of holiday receptions Sunday with and deplorable stunt" dozens of Kurdish political figures and their Fallout from the half-time show, produced by MTY overshadowed Janet Jackson said that her costume followers. what may have been among the most exciting Super Bowl game in was supposed to rip off to reveal a lacy Dakhil Khuder, who supervises the Irbil bra underneath. years. Around water coolers, on the Internet and on television, the talk moigue, said his workers stopped counting on Monday wasn't about the Patriots'game-winning field goal, but what the dead at 67. "We started putting bodies' Timberlake called a "wardrobe malfunction." THE PLAY on the ground outside, and families would Politicians weighed in and parents vented outrage, lighting up come by and put them in a car," he said. the network's switchboard. Meanwhile, the NFL hinted it may bar Interviews with administrators at three MTV from producing future half-time shows. of the city's five hospitals indicated that But Americans cannot escape the constant drumbeat of sexual­ 110 people were confirmed dead and more ity, even during what purports to be family entertainment than 200 were injured Standing outside the From the Super Bowl to primetime sitcoms to the toy aisle, it's regional governor's office, a spokesman said hard to escape the sexing-up of America's kid culture. there were no local senior officials to inter­ "I call it the 'adultification of kids,"' said David Walsh, view. They all died in the blasts, he said. psychologist and president of the National Institute on Media and The explosions, almost certainly the the Family, a Minneapolis-based research group with no religious deadliest in postwar Iraq, came as Iraqi and affiliation US. officials in Baghdad are trying to meet Although the flap may be over Jackson's breast, Lawrence Shapiro, a Feb. 28 deadline to hammer out a law to author of The Secret Language of Children, believes kids won't be affected guide the formation of an interim govern­ by a momentary glimpse of Jackson's breast What should outrage parents ment A key sticking point has been the were the other half-time performers. amount of autonomy to be granted to the "The dancers are half-naked, grinding their bodies, suggestive," Shapiro Kurdish territory in northern Iraq. said. "Thafs the real message children are getting. Ifs literally not seeing the But as Justin Timberlake reached for Leaders of the two parties whose of­ forest for the trees." Jackson's chest... fices were hit by the blasts, the Kurdistan No one should be surprised at the Super Bowl backlash, said Elayne Rap­ Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union ping, women's studies professor at the University of Buffalo. The nation's Beavis THE RECOVERY of Kurdistan, released statements saying and Butthead juvenile approach to sexuality is teaching children the wrong they were resolved to work together for the message about sex. "Ten-year-old boys are learning to think and act that way future of Iraq. from television," she said. But Peter Galbraith, the former US. am­ But shouldn't 10-year-old boys be allowed to watch the Super Bowl? And, bassador to Croatia who's been in the region perhaps a greater question for our society is this: Is the Super Bowl designed for consulting with Jalal Talabani, the head of family viewing? the PUK, and Massoud Baizani, of the KDP Maybe not "We can read the lips of angry players - and it's filled with beer said the blasts provided powerful incentives commercials," said Robert Thompson, director for the Center for the Study for the groups to isolate themselves from a of Popular Television at Syracuse University. "If we thought the whole family central Iraq authority. gathered around the TV set, we should be more upset about the alcohol than a Galbraith said the Kurds have expressed breast at 50 yards." fears to him since the fall of Baghdad that Others disagree. "Kids by the millions are watching that show," Walsh said the "Iraq disease" of chaos and violence . "It is probably the one television event when most families come together would follow to the Kurdish areas. "Now it all year. It is the ultimate 'family hour,' and they treated it like it was Guys has," he said. Night Out" The bombings came on the Muslim The Super Bowl adsand the half-time show demonstrate the nation's holiday Eid al Adha, the Feast of the Sac­ schizophrenic view of sexuality, Rapping said. He ripped off her costume, exposing rifice, which commemorates Abraham's "We're very juvenile about sexuality," Rapping said. her breast. Jackson quickly recovered, willingness to obey God by sacrificing his CBS quickly apologized and the FCC son Photos courtesy of KRT Campus quickly reacted. Methamphetamine fear cuts over-the-counter access for cold-pills By Molly Parker service counters. As methamphetamine use swells, Typically a person can get high on as Chicago THbune The moves are aimed at cracking particularly in rural areas, retailers face little as one-third of a gram of meth but down on thefts of such well-known die vexing question of how to strike a may use more to keep the high going for SPRINGFIELD, III. - Responding to products as Sudafed, Actifed, Dimetapp balance between preserving the easy several days. the growing use of over-the-counter Extentabs and other non-prescription availability of common products and "Ifs just getting worse and worse," medications to make illegal drugs, an decongestants, as well as at helping law acting to deter their conversion into said Craig Campbell, senior policy ad­ increasing number of stores are restrict­ enforcement in the fight against the illegal drugs. viser for Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski. ing access to commonly used cold, burgeoning meth trade Authorities said meth manufacturers "Ifs cheaper, ifs purer, and you get a sinus and allergy remedies that contain The key ingredient that the illegal send accomplices, whom police refer to better high." ingredients of powerfully addictive meth manufacturing labs have been ex­ as smurfs, into stores to steal or buy Wal-Mart was among the first of the methamphetamine.