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The Battalion
1. 92 No. 45 (8 pages)
‘Serving Texas ASM Since 1893
Friday, October 30, 1992
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RICHARD S. /AMES/The Battalion
â– lobby Benavides of U-ACT speaks to a group of people outside
IRudder Tower at a racism rally Thursday afternoon.
By TANYA WILLIAMS
and kills the soul. This disease is
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Reporter of THE BATTALION
eaders from various stu
dent organizations voiced
their opinions about
acism and what can be done to
ight it in a rally at Rudder Foun
tain Thursday afternoon.
The rally, which has been in the
blaming stages for the past week,
/as organized by Sala Senkayi,
riginally from Uganda. Senkayi
lotified organizations about the
laming of the event and invited
rganizational leaders to voice
heir opinions and their solutions
£bouf die racial problems faced in
iocieties.
Thirteen organizational leaders
joined together, including leaders
from the University Awareness
or Cultural Togetherness (U~
CT), the Texas A&M Chapter of
lational Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
WAACP), and Gay and Lesbian
btudent Services (GLSS) to speak
to the mid-day crowd.
I Joseph Gourrier, president of
NAACP, began the rally by talk-
ting about the disease called
Jjacism and the possible causes
Ind cures for it.
I "Today I'd like to talk to you
||bout a disease," said Gourrier.
[A disease more contagious than
pe AIDS virus, because it spreads
ly word of mouth. More virulent
pan the AIDS virus, cause it poi-
pns the heart, destroys +he mind.
Gourrier went on to say that
one of the causes of racism is ig
norance which is often displayed
in three ways, the printed word,
the spoken word, and actions
such as the recent Sigma Alpha
Epsilon "jungle" party. He said
that Texas A&M's closed environ
ment is the opportune place for
racial education to occur.
"As an institution of higher
learning, the contained environ
ment of Texas A&M\presents an
excellent opportunity to inoculate
its students against the disease of
racism," Gourrier said. "The vac
cine for this disease, people, is ed
ucation.^
Clay Kilpatrick, representing
GLSS, asked the crowd to begin
accepting people for who they are,
instead of judging people for their
colors or nationalities.
"What we need to do is judge
people for what they have done to
you or for you," Kilpatrick said.
"As opposed to where they are
from."
Hobby Benevides, with U-ACT,
presented the idea that people
should realize that everyone is an
individual and to know who you
are.
"You have to know who you
are," Benevides said. "Everyone
here has an identity. Once we
know who we are, we can go and
See Racism/Page 4
ROBERT ]. REED/The Battalion
Jamie Anderson, Todd
Singleton and the rest of the
Junior Red Pots push the center
pole into its hole. The center
pole is lifted by a cherry-picker
and the juniors push it into the
hole.
Derek Wood, a freshman in Company K-
1 greases a perimeter pole so center pole
can be tied down. The perimeter poles
are greased so the ropes that hold center
pole straight can be made as tight as
possible.
ROBERT ]. REED/The Battalion
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In Advance
Rer
Sorority to sponsor Halloween festival
By CHERYL HELLER
Reporter of THE BATTALION
Zeta Tau Alpha will sponsor the sec
ond annual Halloween on Sorority
Row on Friday, Oct. 30 from 6-9 p.m.
The purpose of the activity is to
have a safe and happy holiday for the
children of Bryan and College Station,
said ZTA service chairman Bridget
Hennessey.
The Girls and Boys Clubs of Bryan-
College Station will attend the event,
arriving on buses provided by the
Texas A&M transportation service.
“We’re working with the A&M trans
portation service, so the kids from the
Clubs have a chance to come,” Hen
nessey said. “Anyone else in the com
munity is also welcome.”
Olympia Way and Athens Street will
be blocked off from traffic, and the
sorority houses along those streets will
host free activities including a haunted
house, fortune tellers, trick-or-treating,
bobbing for apples and games. Pi Beta
Phi, which is located on Munson
Street, will donate candy. Hennessey
said she hopes that her sorority will
continue to sponsor the activity in the
future.
“We’re trying to make this a yearly
event, and I think its a really good op
portunity to give the children a safe
Halloween,” she said.
DARRIN HILL/The Battalion
Pumpkin judge Jennifer Jakubik judges the
entries in the horticulture pumpkin carving
contest in the Horticulture building Thursday.
The pumpkin in the photo was carved by
horticulture major T. Henry Flowers. The winner
will be announced Friday.
DPS to use social security
cards to thwart illegal IDs
By GARY P. CARROLL
City Editor of THE BATTALION
In an effort to reduce the num
ber of driver's licenses obtained
fraudulently, the Texas Depart
ment of Public Safety will require
all Texans applying for or renew
ing a license to show a Social Se
curity card beginning November
1,1992.
Only cards issued by the United
States Social Security Administra
tion will be accepted. If an appli
cant does not have the govern
ment-issued card, income tax doc
uments, W-2 forms or other pay
roll or employer records will be
accepted.
Texas A&M University student
identification cards and 'flea mar
ket' type cards, such as the en
graved metal cards, will not be ac
cepted.
The Social Security numbers
will not be printed on the licenses,
but would act as a deterrent to
those seeking to falsify informa
tion in an effort to obtain a fake
ID.
"What we're trying to do is
make our document a more secure
one," said Sergeant Bruce Fallis of
the local DFS driver's license of
fice in Bryan.
DPS officials hope this new
measure will reduce crimes in
volving fake identification such as
hot check cases and minors pur
chasing alcohol.
Fallis said that A&M is the
source of many of the problems
regarding the obtaining of false
identification.
"I can't tell you exactly what
the percentage of incidences in
volving fake IDs is, but the prob
lem exists," Fallis said.
Many students who aren't 21-
years-old often use their brother's
or sister's license to go to the DPS
office and have a duplicate made
to get into bars, he said.
Fallis said that it is very difficult
for the DPS to catch people trying
to obtain fake IDs, but hopes the
new format will greatly reduce the
problem.
Misrepresenting oneself on a
driver's license is a class C misde
meanor and, if convicted, the per
son may face up to $500 in fines
and a mandatory suspension of
his or her license for no less than
three months and no longer than
one year.
Fallis said in most cases people
are caught when they are pulled
over or involved in an accident.
He said that the person involved
will inadvertently show the officer
a fake ID with the person's picture
and false information.
Applicants for a DPS identifica
tion card are not required to show
a Social Security card.
Signs will be posted in DPS dri-
ver's license offices and if you
have any further questions call the
DPS Public Information Office at
(512) 465-2080.
ANAS BEN-MUSA/TJie Battalion