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By JILL BUTLER
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PART 4 OF A 6-PART SERIES
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The service organization Alpha
Kappa Alpha was the first black so
rority to become Greek, and Texas
A&M’s chapter of the sorority was
formed five years ago to benefit the
community and provide sisterhood
for females at A&M.
Demetra Andrews, Alpha Kappa
Alpha’s A&M chapter president,
said the sorority was formed at A&M
[because in 1985 there were no cam
pus service organizations specifically
for women.
“There was a need for a service
sorority on this campus for women
who wanted to belong to a sorority
for the sisterhood but also wanted
more than a social atmosphere,” An
drews said.
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The sorority’s motto is “to be of
service to all mankind.”
Although Alpha Kappa Alpha is
mainly a service organization, the 16
| members host, parties and mixers.
AH proceeds from these events are
donated to various organizations
throughout the community.
“Alpha Kappa Alpha is all about
serving the community, and through
serving the community, lifting up
the members themselves so they can
achieve more,” Andrews said.
She said although the sorority is
historically a black organization,
membership is not limited to Afri
can-Americans.
“We do not limit membership to
blacks or minorities in general,” An
drews said. “We are working for the
good of the community, not any spe
cific racial group.”
Andrews said she hopes all races
can learn to work together.
“We should all realize history is
not specific to a single race, it’s al
ways all of our history,” Andrews
said. “The sooner we realize that, the
stronger we will become as a nation.”
The sorority participates in pro
grams such as Adopt-a-School, Big
Event, the Options program at
Bryan High School, food, paper and
clothing drives.
This year the sorority has adopted
Southwood Valley Elementary
School in College Station. Sorority
members work with children at the
school who need special attention.
Sorority members also help with
the Options program at Bryan High
School. The Options program is an
organization for hign school stu
dents who are pregnant or who have
children.
“Mainly we just talk to the girls
and provide support,” Andrews
said.
The sorority is having a food-pa
per-clothing drive in April. The pa
per will be donated to the Brazos
Valley Animal Shelter and food and
clothing will be given to various or
ganizations in Bryan-College Sta
tion.
Alpha Kappa Alpha began in
1908 at Howard University and has
more than 200 chapters around the
world. This includes city chapters
throughout the United States, Af
rica, Jamaica and West Germany for
women who are not enrolled at a
university.
Chapters for Alpha Kappa Al-
phans who have graduated from col
lege but want to remain active in the
organization also are available.
^Once you join Alpha Kappa Al
pha, you are a member for life,” An
drews said.
The sorority formed a graduate
chapter in Bryan-College Station last
summer.
Anyone interested in joining Al
pha Kappa Alpha must complete an
application interview process and at
tend formal rush, usually held once
each semester.
Signing autographs
Photo by Scott D. Weaver
Seven-year-old Jacob Appelt from Bryan waits Saturday. Jacob and his friends were attending a
for the Aggie baseball team to sign his baseball birthday party and the Aggies gave presents by
between a doubleheader against Texas Tech on signing autographs on balls, bats and gloves.
Black, Hispanic enrollment
in Texas universities increases
AUSTIN (AP) — Enrollment of black and Hispanic
students in Texas’ public universities is up, but the per
centage enrolled still lags behind the minority popula
tion as a whole, the Higher Education Coordinating
Board reported Monday.
The board said Hispanic enrollment increased by 8.6
percent in the fall 1989 semester, from 50,275 stuaents
in 1988 to 54,615. Black enrollment rose 5.5 percent,
from 31,544 in 1988 to 33,287.
Overall student enrollment increased by 3.8 percent,
from 385,422 in the fall of 1988 to 399,948. Minority
student enrollments accounted for 42 percent of the
overall increase, the board reported.
Despite those gains, however, the percentages for mi
nority enrollment “are far less than their percentages of
the population at large,” the board said in a new report.
Hispanic students made up 13.7 percent of the en
rollment in public universities, while blacks constituted
8.3 percent. Their percentages of the total Texas pop
ulation are 24.2 percent for Hispanics and 12 percent
for blacks.
Higher Education Commissioner Kenneth Ashworth
said he was pleased with the efforts of some campuses
but said many still have far to go.
“A review of the state’s demographics confirms that
there are schools within easy access of black or Hispanic
communities which can do more to attract minority stu
dents,” Ashworth said.
Police hunt
for clues
in robbery
Thieves break into,
rob C&C Creations
Thieves broke into and stole nu
merous items from C&C Creations
on Holleman Street in College Sta
tion, according to a Crime Stoppers
report.
The report says that sometime in
the early morning hours of Thurs
day, March 8, thieves smashed the
front door on the north side of C&C
Creations. After entering the build
ing, suspects tore a dummy video
camera from the wall and ripped the
phone from its connections.
They proceeded to remove two
computer terminals, a scanner, a
laser printer, a fax machine, about
40 T-shirts and golf shirts and 15
jackets of assorted colors and sizes.
1775-TIPS
The majority of the equipment
came from an office on the west side
of the building and the clothing was
taken from the showroom floor. In
vestigators have been unable to lift
any fingerprints from the scene and
all leads have been exhausted in the
investigation.
This week the College Station Po
lice Department and Crime Stoppers
need your help in identifying the
person(s) responsible for this bur
glary. If you have information that
could be helpful, call Crime Stop
pers at 775-TIPS.
When you call, Crime Stoppers
will assign you a coded number to
E rotect your identity. If your call
:ads to an arrest and grand-jury in
dictment, Crime Stoppers will pay
you up to $1,000 in cash. Crime
Stoppers also pays cash for informa
tion on any felony crime or the loca
tion of any wanted fugitive.
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will be required to li^t the Bureau of the Census. If you do, you
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