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The Battalion
Friday, April 23,1993
DEC to sponsor rally against KKK
By JENNIFER SMITH
The Battalion
The Diversity and Equality Coalition will sponsor
a political rally Saturday in an effort to keep curious
spectators away from the Ku Klux Klan rally.
The DEC rally will be held from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
on the steps of the Administration Building.
Jeffrey Brown, an English and history major, said
the KKK is encouraged when the public is silent and
apathetic. But going to their rally to protest will just
encourage them further.
"A lot of people go the the KKK rally because of
the novelty of it," Brown said. "But going to the
KKK rally out of curiosity is no reason to go at all."
Another rally offering an alternative to the KKK
rally, Whoopstock, also will be held Saturday at the
A&M Polo Fields.
Ron Going, a freshman political science major and
member of DEC, said he expects an overflow of at
tendants from Whoopstock to attend the DEC rally.
"I would encourage them to attend both," Going
said. "We wanted people to be able to go out and
have a way to vent their frustrations and anger. I'm
looking forward to attending both rallies."
DEC decided not to combine its rally with the
Whoopstock rally because the focus of the rallies is
different. Going said.
"We didn't see the necessity of having an enter
tainment festival," he said. "The KKK is not a social
organization. It's a political group, and there needs
to be a political rally to go against it."
Brown said the two rallies complement each oth
er, but DEC'S will attempt to explore the problems
and solutions of minority concerns on campus.
"Whoopstock is just kind of like a party," Brown
said. "We're offering a political alternative."
Brown said regardless of which event people de
cide to attend, they should not attend the KKK rally.
"We don't want people to go to the KKK rally,"
Brown said. "History has shown that the KKK stays
away from places where they are ignored.
Going said DEC sent invitations to faculty and ad
ministration members and all A&M student organi
zations.
Members of the faculty and staff will speak at the
DEC rally about minority issues at A&M. Wendy
Stock, assistant professor of psychology, will discuss
women's issues and hate groups. Marco Portales, a
professor of English, will speak about various minor
ity issues at A&M.
Going said he is especially looking forward to
hearing Portales speak at the rally.
"He (Portales) takes a different standpoint to this
issues," Going said. "He takes a very non-activist
standpoint to minority issues."
Basking in the sun
NICOLE ROHRMAN/The Battalion
Sara Dark,a freshman Environmental Design Academic Building yesterday afternoon. The
major enjoys the weather while sketching the high Thursday was 78.
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Campus News Briefs
Friends of Sterling C. Evans
to host White House author
Humorist Liz Carpenter, who served as Lady
Bird Johnson's White House press secretary during
Lyndon B. Johnson's administration, will be the fea
tured speaker Saturday at this year's meeting of the
Friends of the Sterling C. Evans Library.
The Friends will meet at 1 p.m. in Duncan Din
ing Hall, and the public is invited to hear Carpenter
speak at 1:30 p.m.
Admission is $10.
Afterward there will be a reception, and Carpen
ter will sign copies of her book, "Ruffles and Flour
ishes", which account her years in the White House.
For advanced reservations for the Friends meet
ing call 845-8111.
Basketball tournament to
raise scholarship money
The Omega Psi Phi fraternity is sponsoring a
single elimination basketball tournament on April
24 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The grand prize is $150, and the final two teams
will receive a trophy.
All participants will receive a T-shirt.
The proceeds benefit the fraternity's biannual
Ronald McNair scholarship.
For more information, call Brian James at 847-
1189 or Tony Taft at 823-7877.
Graduate students receive
honors in toxicology studies
Two graduate students from the Department of
Veterinary Physiology & Pharmacology received
prestigious awards at the Society of Toxicology an
nual meeting in New Orleans.
Craig Rowlands received first place for meritori
ous research from the Mechanisms Section of the
Society for his paper entitled "Interactive Effects of
fos with the Ah Receptor in Wild-Type Mouse He
patoma Cells.
Nyla Harper received first prize from the Im-
munotoxicology section for the graduate student
presentation for her abstract titled "An ELISA Spe
cific for Antibodies to TNP-LPS Detects Aryl Hy
drocarbon Receptor-Mediated Alterations in Serum
Immunoglobulins and Isotype Switching."
Tom Weber and Hong Liu, graduate students in
the Department of Veterinary Physiology and Phar
macology, received travel awards.
Participants share views at
human resource conference
The National Research Conference on Human
Resource Development will focus on issues, such as
media presentations and networking opportunities,
through Saturday at the College Station Hilton.
Texas A&M University's Department of Educa
tional Human Development is sponsoring the con
ference which will provide an opportunity for par
ticipants to share ideas and expand viewpoints be
tween different working environments.
Conference topics include: systematic monitor
ing for leadership development, total quality man
agement in higher education, the application of
quality improvement in training, and the develop
ment of foreign language programs for a global
work force.
For more information, contact Ann Yakmoviczat
862-2638.
Experts
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gotiators, giving excuses and ram
bling on about religion, he said.
Negotiators were given no indica
tion that Koresh ever had any in
tention of keeping any of his
promises. ■
"I've said from the beginning
that time is your ally and patience
is a virtue, but this went on for 51
days," Wiatt said. "They were
dealing with a totally irrational
megalomaniac who wanted to
fulfill his prophesy, and he did
so."
However, Stadelmann said he
believes the FBI's action on Mon
day came because neither the
public nor the media would have
supported a prolonged standoff.
"I doubt if the press or the
public at large would have been
willing to wait a year and a half,
or even one year, of dealing with
Koresh in a very low-key way,"
he said.
When the FBI decided to use
tear gas and armored vehicles
against Koresh on Monday, it had
no way of knowing that Koresh
would respond by igniting the
compound, Wiatt said.
"The bureau took the appro
priate steps," he said. "They did
not anticipate, based on all of
their information, that Koresh
would commit suicide. It was a
catastrophe the way it turned out,
but it was not foreseen."
Stadelmann said the armored
vehicles and the tear gas forced
Koresh to take action or see his
prophesies proven wrong in front
of the Branch Davidians.
"It would be very hard for him
to back down with his followers
there," he said. "It's very hard to
admit defeat with all of your fam
ily around you."
He said the cult's fiery ending
does not surprise him because the
book of Revelations in the Bible,
which Koresh often referred to in
his teachings, frequently men
tions the appearance of lakes ol
fire in visions.
Stadelmann said his biggest
fear as a result of the entire stand
off is that a nqw threat to religious
rights may -emerge, i State and na
tional agencies may begin incor
rectly classifying many legitimate
religious groups as cults and plac
ing them under heavy scrutiny,
he said.
"There are people out there
who are going to call every un
usual group a cult," he said.
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Understanding Relationships
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discussion is "Letting Go and
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Friends of Sterling C. Evans Li
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Contest" Awards Ceremony.
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Muslim Students' Association:
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