THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1978
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akke decision
iolds ‘threat’
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By DIANE BLAKE
Battalion Stall
The greatest threat to affirmative
Lion programs posed by the Bakke
Ljsjon may come from national
U state legislatures and adminis-
lative agencies, a consultant in Su-
■eme Court civil rights cases said
jdnesday.
Herbert O. Reid, a special direc-
„• for the NAACP, spoke to about
people in the Rudder Au-
litorium. The forum was co-
nonsored by Great Issues and the
(lack Awareness committees of the
emorial Student Center.
The Supreme Court held last
tine in a 5-4 decision that Allan P.
lakke was the victim of “reverse
imination.” The court ordered
p iat the 38-year-old engineer be
[dmitted to the California Medical
chool, which had rejected Bakke
jue to a fixed cpiota of minority ap-
llicants.
The court ruled that race can be a
actor in university admissions
[rovided that rigid quotas are not
ised.
The lawyer said that his main
mcem was that "we stave off legis-
itures which will use the Bakke de-
ision as another guise to return to
'nor hiswisi he dark days before affirmative ae-
ngtheplaij ion.”
He said he feared the decision
11 encourage those who oppose af-
irmative action to resist it even
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more. Several cases are pending
that would undermine the goals of
affirmative action, he said.
“It is not sufficient for the state to
remain neutral in civil rights,” Reid
said. It must act in an affirmative
way to increase black and Chicano
presence in society.”
Affirmative action is necessary if
blacks and other minorities are to
ever rise from being second-class
citizens, Reid said.
Affirmative action removes the
scabs from old wounds brought by
discrimination,” he said. “It uses
law as a tool for social progress.”
Reid said the Bakke decision has
world-wide effects.
“This case deals with more than
the blacks role in medical school,” 1
he said. “Its implications go beyond
the borders of this nation.”
America plays a central role as a
world leader in civil rights, Reidj
said, adding that African blacks
will never be free. American blacks
are struggling for pure legal exis
tence, which Reid defined as “an
existence barren of racial discrimi
nation.”
Reid said that students at Texas
A&M University participate in an af
firmative action program just by at
tending the school.
The Morrill Act of 1865, which
created land-grant institutions like
Texas A&M, was amended in 1890
Kids to learn safety by doing
New "city 5 opens in CS
Battalion photo by Ed Cunnius
Shannon Keeley, left, cuts the ceremonial ribbon officially
dedicating Safety City, a facility for th instruction of traffic
safety. Her mother. Sue Keeley, president of Safety City and
the prime motivator of the project, looks on.
By STEVE LEE
Battalion Reporter
There is a new city in College
Station, complete with city hall,
several businesses and even a lit
tle red schoolhouse. There are
residential and park areas, major
thoroughfares and railroad
tracks.
And it is all enclosed within a
fence situated behind the A&M
Consolidated Middle School.
It is called Safety City, a mini
ature city constructed to serve as
a permanent safety training facil
ity for grade school children.
It will become part of the cur
riculum of Consolidated students
in grades kindergarten through
eight.
The children will be bussed to
and from the facility, where they
will be insructed on rules for safe
motoring, walking and bicycling.
The Consolidated school dis
trict dedicated the city Thursday
in a ceremony which included an
appearance by Texas Attorney
General John Hill. Hill spoke
briefly, commending the com
munity for its support of the
project, and cited an urgent need
for programs such as Safety City.
“Even with the 55 mph speed
limit, we (the state) are not doing
well,” Hill said. “Figures on traf
fic accidents and violations con
tinue to increase. We have a re
sponsibility to teach safety to our
children. ”
The project is, in fact, a prod
uct of community action. The
Neighborhood Advisory Council
Safety Committee of the A&M
Consolidated Community Edu
cation staff laid the groundwork
for the project. The staff serves
as a liaison between the school
district and the community.
Sue Keeley, vice president of
the Community Educational
staff, formulated an idea for a
bicycle safety program a year
ago. She presented her ideas be
fore the City Safety Committee
of College Station. Councilman
Ann Hazen, in turn, presented
the ideas to the College Station
Police Department.
Keeley was assigned to chair
the Neighborhood Advisory
Council Safety Committee to re
view ideas for a comprehensive
safety program.
The A&M Consolidated Board
of Trustees agreed to donate land
for such a program in February
and promised to provide trans
portation to and from the site.
Trustees also agreed to build a
“little red schoolhouse” on the
property.
The city council voted to allo
cate $15,000 for the initial de
velopment of the project, includ
ing operating utility costs, fund
ing a part-time safety officer, and
authorizing the construction of a
“city hall” building in the minia
ture city.
The office of Traffic Safety do
nated $1,778.90 for the 56 regu
latory and safety signs. Also,
numerous businesses and or
ganizations in the area have do
nated miniature buildings
simulating their establishments.
to prevent racial discrimination in
admissions. Discrimination could be
justified if “separate but equal”
facilities were provided.
There is a place for the predomi
nantly black institution,” Reid said.
Universities like Prairie View A&M
should be encouraged and de
veloped to ensure black educational
opportunities, he said.
Reid said qualifications must not
be used to achieve the same results
as when race was the limiting factor.
"We must not use measuring rods
that exclude minority groups.”
He said that some groups may be
hurt by affirmative action programs.
“But there is always some hard
ship in righting a wrong,” the
lawyer said.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country Singer Tammy Wynette was kid
napped Wednesday from a shopping center by a masked man who
choked her with piece of panty hose and drove her to a rural area 80
miles away where he slapped her and kicked her out of her car.
"They tried to kill me. I don’t know why, but they tried to kill me,”
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moment there are no suspects.”
Mildred Lee, Miss Wynette’s mother, said the singer had gone to
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Mrs. Lee said her daughter never got a good look at her abductor.
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just northeast of Pulaski, slapped her in the face, kicked her out of the
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two white males possibly driving a late-model black and blue station
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