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Alvin Williams, deputy director of
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night that the Republican Party
should be working to integrate mi
norities into the party.
Williams was chosen to Fill his two
positions on the national committee
in January by committee chairman
Lee Atwater. He is presently on a
tour of Texas college campuses to
promote the Republican youth of
the state to interact with minorities.
“Through interaction, you will
find that people aren’t really as dif
ferent as they appear,” Williams
said. “In America, people always
think of a TV image of a black per
son, a woman, or a Hispanic, and it’s
just not the case.”
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minorities because of the political
opportunities he has given them. He
said that there is tremendous sup
port for Bush from minorities in
America, citing Bush’s 60 percent
approval rating from the black com
munity in only 10 months of his ad
ministration.
“Blacks are seeing that they have a
man that is genuine about the inclu
sion of all Americans,” he said.
“George Bush to this day has ap
pointed more minorities and women
to his cabinet than any other presi
dent before him.
“One that stands out is the ap
pointment of Colin Powell as head of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff. We’re not
talking about a ‘traditional token ap
pointment’ here, but a substantive
position.”
Williams said he is promoting At
water’s goal of political outreach by
aggressively seeking minorities to
join the Republican Party.
“The Republican National Com
mittee has an aggressive candidate
recruitment for minorities,” Wil
liams said. “We realize that we have
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National Committee has an
aggressive candidate
recruitment for minorities..
.. Blacks should be able to
look into Congress and be
able to see a couple of
black Republican
congressmen or senators.”
—Alvin Williams
to start creating role models for our
groups. Blacks should be able to look
into Congress and be able to see a
couple of black Republican con
gressmen or senators.
“Right now the chairman (Atwa
ter) definitely has an aggressive can
didate recruitment program
whereby he brings potential candi
dates to Washington and gives them
a day with the president, the vice
president, members of the cabinet
and various senators as encourage
ment to become a Republican candi
date in their respective state or local
ity,” Williams said. “That’s part of
my job — to seek out qualified black
Republican candidates.”
Williams said he believes all
Americans, especially minorities,
should be included in both parties.
“Minorities have an emotional at
tachment to the Democratic Party,”
Williams said. “I want to see us melt
this attachment and bring them
home. We are convinced that we (the
Repubicans) are the majority party
and that mainstream America is con
servative.”
In order to get minorities to vote
Republican, Williams said that the
party as a whole needs to purport
the American dream through com
munity service to such places as
ghettos and inner cities.
Ellerbee cancels speech;
fears anti-abortion link
FROM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS
AUSTIN (AP) — Linda Eller-
bee, a former Bryan resident
whose syndicated column is
printed in the Bryan-College Sta
tion Press has withdrawn as a
speaker for next month’s annual
meeting of the Women’s Cham
ber of Commerce of Texas saying
she is concerned that she would
be linked with anti-abortion
forces.
Ellerbee said her decision was
based on an incident in Austin
last month in which the leader of
the Texas pro-choice movement
was removed from a list of
women to be honored by the Aus
tin Women’s Chamber of Com-
Phyllis Dunham, executive di
rector of the Texas Abortion
Rights Action League, had been
invited to the awards luncheon.
But the invitation was withdrawn
after some chamber leaders de
termined that such a stand was
tantamount to taking a stand on
the abortion issue, Sondra Apelt,
president of the Austin women’s
chamber, said.
Ellerbee said the chamber
made a statement on abortion
when it withdrew that invitation.
“Their attitude was they didn’t
want to get involved, but by unin
viting Phyllis Dunham they did
get involved,” she told the Austin
American-Sta tesman.
Panel discussion kicks off
World Food Week at A&M
By Cindy McMillian
Of The Battalion Staff
National council offers minority fellowships
By Steven Patrick
Of The Battalion Staff
National fellowships designed to increase the
presence of underrepresented minorities on uni
versity faculties are being offered through the
National Research Council.
The goal of the minority fellowships is to in
crease minority representation at the college fac
ulty level and provide students the opportunity
to engage in advanced study.
The fellowships, sponsored by The Ford
Foundation, are aimed at the six most severely
underrepresented minority groups in the na
tion’s Ph.D. programs, including Native Ameri
can Indians, Alaskan Natives, African Ameri
cans, Mexican Americans, Native Pacific
Islanders and Puerto Ricans.
Both predoctoral and dissertation fellowships
are available to those minorities currently pursu
ing or planning to pursue doctorate degrees in
such areas as the humanities, the behavioral and
social sciences and engineering.
The National Research Council will conduct
the national competition to award 55 predoctoral
and 20 dissertation fellowships.
The awards will be presented to those individ
uals who have shown superior scholarship and
future promise of achievement, as determined by
a panel selected by the NRC. The panel will
weigh academic records, letters of recommenda
tion and a written application during the selec
tion process.
Those eligible for the predoctoral fellowships
are students planning to earn a Doctor of Philos
ophy or Doctor of Science degree and are cur
rently at or near the beginning of their graduate
study. The predoctoral fellowships include an
nual stipends of $11,000 for a maximum of three
years.
The dissertation fellowships will be awarded to
students who have completed all work for their
graduate degrees except their dissertations.
Dissertation fellows will receive a one-year sti
pend off 18,000.
The application deadline for the fellowships is
Nov. 9.
For applications and more information con
cerning The Ford Foundation Fellowships, call
the National Research Council at (202) 334-2872.
MSC Student Conference on Na
tional Affairs and MSC Great Issues
will present the 1989 World Food
Day Teleconference Monday from
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in 301 Rudder.
The panel discussion, “Food, En
vironment and Development — A
Sustainable Agenda for the 21st
Century,” will be broadcast by satel
lite from Washington for the first
hour of the program. Panelists in
clude Dr. Verghese Kurien, director
of an Indian dairy cooperative and
winner of the 1989 World Food
Prize; Ambassador Stephen Lewis,
Special Advisor for Africa to the
United Nations Secretary-General
Perez de Cuellar; Dr. Roberta
Balstaad Miller, Director of the Divi
sion of Social and Economic Science
of the National Science Foundation;
and Senator Albert Gore Jr. of Ten
nessee.
The panel will be moderated by
Judy Woodruff, chief Washington
correspondent for the MacNeil-
/Lehrer NewsHour and anchor of
her own PBS documentary series.
After the televised panel dis
cussion, the audience will hear local
viewpoints. Dr. George Bates, a bio
chemist and biophysicist specializing
in nutrition; Nancy Hardeman,
president of the Brazos Food Bank;
and Dr. Ron Knutson, professor and
extension economist in agricultural
policy will speak.
The public is invited to attend the
teleconference, which kicks off
World Food Week at Texas A&M. A
canned food drive competition be
tween the Corps of Cadets, the Resi
dence Hall Association and A&M
fraternities and sororities will last
Monday through Friday, with collec
tion barrels set up at major points
around campus. The food will go to
local families.
World Food Week ends Friday
with the REACH organization’s
“Dance Against Hunger” at 8 p.m. in
the Pavilion. Admission to the dance
is two cans of food or $ 1.
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