Friday, February 6, 1987/The Battalion/Page 5
'A&M must work to accept all people'
Official: Minorities can be isolated
By Angela Cobb
Reporter
Y (AP)MMinorides at Texas A&M often
?neF; ; mav experience a feeling of being in-
randSole or isolated, and few non-mi-
land; nority students seem to notice, Dr.
i man Grace Chisolm, assistant to President
u., i> Frank E. Vandiver, says,
left to B
KonditV 0 Chisolm, this issue is one of
great importance. The increasing
n thijiBiority population of both the na-
i 0 q. don and Texas A&M makes it nec-
^■try for everyone to be aware of
minorities, she says.
I HefeM
Alien r |,As assistant to the president,
^Bsolm consults with individuals on
esand F 3111 ? 115 anf l i* 1 l h e community about
ses i ams dealing with minorities
reased'W advises Vantliver on these pro-
She also is an associate pro-
;or of educational administration,
culpr B'hisohn also is responsible for im-
ns c , plementing the Youth Opportuni-
arc ) 1 ties Unlimited program at A&M, a
federally funded program begin- says. “It should cultivate the interest
ning this summer, which will pro- and raise the awareness necessary to
vide campus experience for high achieve a more diverse student pop-
school sophomores and juniors who ulation.”
“This program will have long-term effects in increas
ing the number of minorities at A&M. It should culti
vate the interest and raise the awareness necessary to
achieve a more diverse student population.”
— Dr. Grace Chisolm, assistant to President Frank E.
Vandiver
may not have an opportunity to fur
ther their educations. Through the
program, students will have the
chance to take high school courses,
earn money and participate in extra
curricular activities.
“This program will have long
term effects in increasing the num
ber of minorities at A&M,” Chisolm
Chisolm also monitors the Texas
Plan for Equal Education Opportu
nities, a plan which spells out what
programs and measures the state
will adopt to meet University goals
for minority recruitment.
“A&M, like all other universities,
has specific goals to meet,” she says.
Although significant progress has
been made, she says, much remains
to be done. Chisolm says A&M must
work doubly hard to achieve these
goals.
“We started so far behind,” she
says, “we have to run almost twice as
fast as some institutions.”
Chisolm stresses that the minority
problem is one that everyone must
work together to solve.
“It takes a comprehensive com
mitment on the parts of all of us,”
she says. “It is important for each
person to ask, ‘What can I do?’ If ev
eryone seriously considered the
problem and made a commitment to
act, we could be more effective.”
She issues a challenge to the Uni
versity community to work together
toward greater acceptance of mi
norities on campus.
“It is not such an unsolvable prob
lem,” she says. “It can be overcome
by each of us contributing.”
auro wants
dumping law
to include Gulf
■VASHINGTON (AP) —
Texas Land Commissioner Garry
Mauro appealed to Congress on
Thursday for help in stopping
offshore garbage dumping in the
''!!" Gulf of Mexico.
jUpBlhe shameful condition of
our Texas beaches is not a ques
tion of litter: it is a question of
garbage,” Mauro said at a news
Bference. “The amount of off
shore garbage on Texas beaches
is so great it rivals the output of
rafli sonir c ‘ t * es •”
IvU pMauro wants congressional
help in getting ratification of an
Brnational treaty to regulate
fbage dumping in the ocean,
including an addition that would
;erm a ban any garbage disposal in the
were , Gull of Mexico.
ks stiecHThe treaty specifically says no
s ^ecarpl astKS in the ocean, no garbage
dumped within 25 miles of the
Istline and no garbage dump-
d about
lexico
m for
bi$
year,
: funds ■'
_ garbage dump-
lem.'sh ing within any of the five specially
d than Bgnated areas, those areas be-
budgtt * n g die Black Sea, the Red Sea,
thatma IP Mediterranean, the Persian
^ s [, e Gull and the Baltic,” he said.
treaty, called the Interna-
mdin?! tiopal Convention for the Preven-
jjglu don of Pollution from Ships,
; t vs a „;ioul.i not include enforcement,
||lich Mauro says will be up to
Bigress.
MSC Black Awareness Committee
to celebrate Black History Month
By Ronda Tapp
Reporter
A black heritage exposition com
memorating Black History Month
will be presented Saturday at 10 a.m.
in 701 Rudder by MSC Black Aware
ness Committee and First United
Methodist Church in Bryan.
Kevin Johnson, the committee’s
chairman, said the exposition is de
signed as a career fair to make high
school students aware of professions
with which blacks normally aren’t as
sociated.
The African American Drama Co.
will present two one-man shows Sat
urday at 7 p.m. in Rudder Theater.
Each show lasts about 45 minutes
and depicts black leaders first from a
woman’s perspective, and then from
a man’s view.
Tickets are $4 for non-students,
$3 for students and $1 for children
under 17.
Recreational activities such as
bowling and horseback riding also
will be offered at the exposition.
Other events the committee is
sponsoring include an art-and-book
exhibit Feb. 15 at 5:30 p.m. in 206
Memorial Student Center, in which
Suttons Black Heritage Art Gallery
and Amistad Book Place of Houston
will participate.
Also in conjunction with Black
History Month, the MSC Opera and
Performing Arts Society will present
the symphony “Lincoln Portrait”
Feb. 19 in Rudder Auditorium. It
will be narrated by former baseball
player Willie Stargell.
The Black Awareness Committee
also will show “An Amazing Grace,”
a documentary about the life of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., Feb. 25 in
Rudder Theater at 7 p.m.
Another film, “Cooly High,”
which is about a group of high
school students in Harlem, will be
shown Feb. 26 in Rudder Theater at
7 p.m.
On Feb. 28, the gospel choir
Voices of Praise will present a tribute
to Black History Month with songs,
poems and dramatic interpretation
at 7:30 p.m. in United Baptist
Church.
The committee’s celebration will
end with a speech March 1 at 7:30
p.m. by Rev. Ralph Abernathy, pres
ident emeritus of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference.
Lewis: Vocational education needs funding
AUSTIN (AP) — House Speaker
Gib Lewis said Thursday he opposes
Gov. Bill Clements’ proposal to re
duce the amount of money the state
spends on vocational education, but
is not as concerned about Clements’
suggestion to reduce the no-pass,
no-play suspension period.
In his budget proposal for 1988-
89, Clements said vocational educa
tion is “vital to the development of a
diverse and skilled work force.” But
he said studies have shown vocatio
nal education is not as streamlined
or focused as it should be.
His proposed budget would re
duce the vocational education allot
ment by $125 million over the next
two years. Lewis said he could not go
along with such cuts.
“I think the vocational program is
a very important program for Texas
and particularly rural Texas — that’s
where I think vocational programs
really have the greatest impact,” he
said. “And I think if we make that
degree of cuts in our vocational pro
gram, we’d be doing a great deal of
harm.”
He said he doesn’t want the mes
sage sent that Texas is backing off a
commitment to quality education.
Clements on Wednesday sug
gested that the suspension period
from extracurricular activities for
students failing a class be reduced
from six weeks to three weeks.
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