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Tuesday, February 21, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7 igtott Affirmative action officer sets goals By CAROL WOLTMAN Reporter | Texas A&M’s new affirma tive action officer, Dr. Annette M. Lopez, says one of her main joals is to help people see prej udice in a different way. Affirmative action is a fed eral program created to elimi- ate the present effects of past discrimination, Lopez says. “I think discrimination can affect students and the entire H,R. Levii gamut of employment,” she says. Increasing the number of minorities and women at Texas A&M will not benefit just them, she says, since the University ill benefit from their skills and lenls as well. mual tripn lidi include onandsevti lents, facub more inldr ;rams able lolarshipin gical scienci of financial nimumji i science mr “Getting people to acknowl- 'lable milf gdgg that they even have preju- ^‘vilionMi dices is the hardest thing,” Lo- pplitation ;|p ez says. Many people tlo not alize they are prejudiced, she says, but it often shows in their Dr. Annette Lopez language. Correcting sexist and racist language is a starting point, Lopez says. “I think if we change behav iors, we can change attitudes,” she says. And one of the best ways to change behaviors is by setting examples, she says. “I think it will take the effort of a lot of people in a lot of dif ferent places,” Lopez says, but President Frank E. Vandiver al ready has set the pace. He is fully committed to affirmative action, she says, and she hopes others will adopt this attitude. Lopez says another way to decrease prejudice is to change things, like pictures in text books that reinforce stereotypes and discrimination. She says, for instance, that doctors and other professionals are usually represented as white males. Textbooks need to show women and people of different races and ethnic background in these positions, she says. Lopez says her job involves constant listening. She works with faculty, staff and students who feel they are being discrim inated against, she says. “People come here if they feel any form of discrimination is affecting them,” she says. This includes lack of promotion or salary increase, sexual ha rassment or anything that sin gles them out from others, she says. Lopez says she investigates these claims and if there is a problem, she tries to solve it. Lopez is also responsible for recruiting more women and mi norities. If a department has few women or minorities, Lo pez says, she finds out why and how they can recruit more. Texas A&M must open the doors for women and minori ties, she says. “Modify the bro chures, modify the campaign, modify our actions or any other thing,” she says. Anything that insults or frightens, people needs to be changed, she says. Margaret A. Smith, the for mer affirmative action officer, says Lopez has “very good peo ple skills.” Smith, who was pro moted to assistant for manage ment analysis to the vice president for fiscal affairs, be lieves Lopez will do a good job. “She’s able to talk to any level of employee or student,” Smith says. “And one of the largest parts of being an affirmative ac tion officer,” she says, “is coun seling employees who have problems and seeing what their alternatives are.” Lopez, who came from Presque Isle, Maine, also has a new perspective and new ideas, Smith says. LA BARE Ladies Only 7“8pm"4for1 drinks 8-1 Opm-Showtime FREE CHAMPAGNE AT 10:00 men get in at 10:00 for more info: 693-2818 mze orgamatol Mudentwel'l ial stress, i I md spiriimll cM student E Lucas’ attorneys seek change in proposed murder trial setting United Press International AUSTIN — Attorneys for nfessed mass killer Henry e Lucas will try to have the e-eyed drifter’s capital mur- Bar Associi der trial moved from George- arded wn during a pretrial hearing set for Tuesday. i Lucas, a former mental pa tient convicted in 1960 of mur- his mother, has been jiij charged with capital murder in lad the death of an unidentified fe at male hitchhiker who was found Halloween 1979 near Interstate 35. d three Pj 1984.1 npleledmoit| line is Marc ested in Ian. graduate it- s for the Tit ecipientswi first year of years as Ion; erage in g senior arch l.Df The victim had been sexually abused and was clad only in orange socks. Lucas, 47, faces the death penalty or life inpri- sonment on the charge. Already Lucas has been sen tenced to life in prison for the murder of his 15-year-old com mon law wife and to 75 years in prison for the slaying of an el derly Ringgold woman who had befriended him. In all, he and Ottis Elwood Toole, the Florida inmate who was Lucas’s homosexual lover and frequent traveling compan- ould contati Police beat iation$ The following incidents were reported to the University Po lice Department through Mon day. MISDEMEANOR THEFT: A backpack containing of dark stolen T, : “ffil«T;:ar'pams Pa wa S war , S ■ from the first floor men’s room /' v in the Memorial Student Cen- ^ student’s wallet con- ‘ ue ue mining her driver’s license, stu dent ID and several credit cards he Battalia was stolen from 302 Nagle Hall. • A gold wedding band and ^ a Bullova wrist watch were sto len from an unlocked locker in the women’s dressing room of wU G. Rollie White Coliseum. | • The hubcaps on a 1980 A PC Chevrolet Monza in Parking * Annex 24 were stolen. ■ i. • Two wire spoke wheelcov- itfOlS ers were stolen from a 1981 ^ontiac in Parking Annex 40. • A wallet containing 50 cents, driver’s license, staff ID and other personal property was stolen from 629 Blocker. • A student’s wallet con taining credit cards, $8.60 in postage stamps and other prso- nal property was stolen from 404 Plant Sciences. BURGLARY: • A Pentax 35mm camera and a Western Electric Walk man radio were stolen from a student’s dorm room in Law Hall. • Someone entered the snack bar in Zachry Engi neering Center and ate a quart of tuna fish salad. OTHER: • A student reported that while he was in the MSG Brows ing Library, a man sat down next to him and began fondling himself. The man left the area before University Police officers arrived. New book traces politics of Texas won'i sol'j Bob BeiJ ration sect 5 "That's' with ^ nd Egyp 1 nation’s isitive j University News Service hinkin^ V Texans always think big, even if it’s bigger than they are —especially in poli tics. A new boook published by the Texas A&M University press traces the political battle ground that in the 1921-1928 period brought Texas “an im portance ... out of proportion to the size of its votes or the state’s ographical and industrial sig- iftcance,” to quote the New York Times. “Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug: Texas Politics 1921- S 1928,” * is due to be released |arch 12 from the Texas A&M ctured a' 1 Universtiy Press, mist eSl! f h was researched and written s subside by Dr. Norman Brown, a his- jry professor at the University f Texas. The title of the book is drawn three symbols of the tem- stuous times — the Ku Klux an’s hood; the sun bonnet of ice-elected, anti-Klan and >eace pfllj i for the ^ really Moventf 1115 tic legislate icross-the ils. tie ho"' Is or g2ll {i ; and IV e Cryts, j^ 1 of Mf jailed a goveri 1 dicy. , national;' pro-liquor governor Miram “Ma” Ferguson (the state’s only woman governor); and the brown jug of “wets” versus Pro hibitionists seeking control of the Democratic Party. Brown has clearly recreated the days of Fergusonism, the Petticoat Lobby and the role Texas played in the transitional struggle between the Demo crats’ native-born rural South ern “drys” and the Eastern, im migrant, urban, “wets.” Brown’s work is expected to become a definitive work on pre-Depression Texas politics as well as a vignette on the shift ing fortunes of the Democrats and Republicans. At the time Ma Ferguson was elected twice to lead the govern ment (after her husband James had been impeached from the same office), the KKK had a membership probably exceed ing 100,000, making the secret organization a chief force in the backroom politics. Brown notes. f yw* 1 ^Q-J .o-— ■ffoxe Kone RESTAURANT 4- : 4 FINE CHINESE CUISINE LOVELY RELAXED ATMOSPHERE QUALITY DINING AFFORDABLE PRICES OR SMALL PARTIES AND BANQUETS WELCOMED Serving wine and beer 846-8345 Mon. - Sun. Mon. - Sat. 11 am - 2 pm 5 pm - 10 pm 3805 TEXAS AV. - BRYAN ion, have claimed responsibility for more than 200 killings. Lucas’ defense attorneys, Georgetown lawyers Don Hig ginbotham and Parker McCul lough, say their client cannot get a fair trial in Georgetown because extensive media public ity has predjudiced potential ju rors. 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