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1893 - A Century of Service to Texas A&M — 1993
Wednesday, September 8,1993
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ollege Republicans blast multiculturalism at first meeting
By Jennifer Smith
The Battalion
Voices are continuing to rise in opposi
te this summer's decision by the Lib-
iil Arts Council of Texas A&M to re-
f e liberal arts students to complete six
irs of coursework in classes emphasiz-
cultural diversity.
Reed Irvine, founder and chairman of
board of Accuracy in Media and Ac-
acy in Academia, spoke out against
mlticulturalism at the first fall meeting
the College Republicans Tuesday in
idder Theater.
Irvine, who has appeared on Night-
line, Donahue, Crossfire and Mac-
NeilLehrer and is a media critic, called
the people who support
multiculturalism “air
heads," and said multi
culturalism teaches ha
tred and “things of no
value."
"The multiculturalists
think they are doing us a
favor by creating a better
society," Irvine said.
"Western civilization is
the greatest culture ever
known."
"Diversity is something we can afford
as long as we have unity," he said.
Dr. Richard Street, professor of speech
communication and theater arts, said this
"The multiculturalists think they are doing us a
favor by creating a better society. Western civi
lization is the greatest culture ever known."
- Reed Irvine, founder and chairman of the board of
Accuracy in Media and Accuracy in Academia
issue has become muddied.
"People are reacting to the word mul
ticulturalism," he said. "Understanding
our differences is a good way to come to a
common ground."
Street said the College
of Liberal Arts tried to
be as flexible as possible
when they made their
proposal. He said the
curriculum committee is
currently looking over a
list of courses that will
meet the requirement.
The College Republi
cans and Young Conser-
vatives are "throwing"
derrogatory labels at the Liberal Arts
Council, he said.
"But most members of the Liberal Arts
Council are married white males," he
said.
Street said the Faculty Senate is cur
rently considering a resolution similar to
that of the Liberal Arts Council's.
"They're using the same approach and
are trying to come up with an entire list
of classes," Street said. "This would be a
University-wide requirement."
Irvine urged the College Republicans
to voice their disapproval of this require
ment and praised their efforts to fight it.
Marcel Satsky, vice president of public
relations for the College Republicans and
See Multiculturalism/Page 10
AMU-TV raises
[ore than $20,000
By Cheryl Heller
The Battalion
Texas A&M University's public
pvision station, KAMU-TV,
Included its first fund drive of
isfiscal year Sunday after rais-
?• $20,335 in pledges from 374
■ntributors.
iProgram Director Rodger
pis said the goal for the drive,
l«hstarted Aug. 27 and ran for
■ days, was
aired in August were added to the
total pledges for the fund drive.
"We received about $5,000 in
pledges during the Civil War spe
cial,'^Zant said. "I was hoping we
could raise $20,000 during this
last fund drive, then add the
pledges together and reach the
goal, but ooviously that didn't
happen."
Lewis said KAMU-TV spends
about $210,000 a year on pro
gramming ex-
'This
“”“l
0/2 |
"We depend on our
viewers for our liveli
hood."
was
ar first
sndraiser of
Is fiscal year,
we're not
worried
I*, jut not
Ijpching our
i|al this
* Tie,” he said.
I We'll have two more
*Tfldraisers and an auction that
- Rodger Lewis,
program director
| >Dul<ihelp us with our program-
I at expenses this year.
■ KAMU-TV Development Di-
Milady) I F 0r Penny Zant said although
■jistation didn't reach its goal,
11-year's August fund drive was
Jpmost successful the station has
11® seen.
. j "We are encouraged by the re-
I Ipse from our viewers, and I
1 I j-inkthe drive really got this fis-
■JTvear off to a good start," she
ledken
aid.
i Lewis and Zant said the\
ey
Sought the station would reach
peoal because pledges generat-
by a Civil War special that
bOffeu
rs FOR
AX
penses, with
the proceeds
from the fund
drive ear
marked for
purchasing
program
rights from
PBS, National
Geographic,
the BBC and
other U.S. distributors.
Because KAMU-TV doesn't re
ceive any federal, state or Univer
sity funding program sponsorship
by local businesses and proceeds
from a week-long auction in April
are also used for programming
expenses.
"We're very responsive to our
viewers," he said. "If our viewers
don't like a certain type of pro
gram, that affects our decision on
what to air, because we depend
on our viewers for our liveli
hood."
KAMU-TV also benefits from
Texas A&M faculty and staff
members who might contribute to
the University's Capturing the
Spirit campaign, Zant said.
Car show rolls in at A&M
Nathan Blasingame, a junior management major from Cranberry
and secretary of the Texas A&M Sports Car Club, shows David Yin a
Tommy Huynh/THT. Battalion
Buick Regal Grand National at a car show in front of the MSC Tues
day. Yin is a senior mechancial engineering major from Houston.
Shuttle bus route-changes frustrate students
By Jan Higginbotham
Mary MacmanusTTHE Battalion
The Rudder bus now only rides through campus clockwise and
Howdy goes in the opposite direction.
The Battalion
Texas A&M students returning to classes last Monday were sur
prised to find a number of changes in the intra-campus shuttle bus
routes-changes that not all of the students were happy about.
Although the changes went into effect in July, students said they
knew nothing of the new routes until they headed for the bus stop on
their first day of classes.
"There wasn't much publicity given to the locations of the new
bus stops," said Leighton Stovall, a junior agricultural systems man
agement major. "Now that I've found them, they seem out of the
way and inconvenient to students."
Mary Lepel, a sophomore kinesiology major, said she used to ride
the bus frequently last year but does not anymore.
"It (the bus) doesn't run counter-clockwise anymore, so the route
really isn't convenient for me."
The major changes came when Bus Operations decided to no
longer run Howdy and Rudder buses on Lamar and Lubbock Streets.
Also, the buses now only run clockwise along their routes.
The number of buses on each route has been increased to six in or
der to prevent any students from having to wait too long for a bus.
Bus Operations has received complaints about the route changes
since the start of the semester, said Doug Williams, manager of Bus
Operations.
"It is essentially impossible to run without any problems,"
Williams said. "With every solution, there are, of course, two more
problems that arise from it."
Shuttle bus drivers have also received a number of complaints re
garding the changes, but most of the drivers support the new routes.
Michael Prather, an intra-campus bus driver, said the changes
keep the bus schedule running more efficient.
"The new route will work out better in the long run, once people
get used to it," he said.
Meanwhile, passengers complain that buses are often delayed,
making it difficult to get to class on time.
Amy Miller, a shuttle bus driver, said "The major delays aren't be
cause of the changes in the route but because of the rush between
classes."
Prather and Miller said drivers have difficulty keeping on sched
ule because of pedestrian traffic caused by this rush.
Williams said the University has discussed changes in order to al
leviate major problems, but no major changes will be made in the
near future.
7 Texans die in plane crash
The Associated Press
e p<
of s
Tuesday found the bodies ot seven
Houston residents who died in the
crash of a Learjet on a mesa about
30 miles southeast of Santa Fe.
The plane apparently crashed
en route from Houston to Santa
Fe on Sunday, state police Maj.
Frank Taylor said. The plane had
been due to return to Houston on
Monday. Relatives notified au
thorities when it didn't arrive.
Taylor said state police were
told of the missing plane about
noon Tuesday, and a state police
helicopter located the wreckage at
3:19 p.m.
Taylor identified the victims as
the pilot, Morty Rich; co-pilot A1
Sumrall and his wife, Lori Siim-
rall; Gary Becker and his wife,
Mary Becker; Bucky Arrons, and a
friend of Arrons, Kim Coleman.
Police at first reported there
were four dead, then found three
more bodies, Taylor said.
Taylor said he didn't know
why the group was flying to San
ta Fe. They were expected back in
Houston at 4 p.m. Monday.
The Santa Fe airport wasn't ex
pecting the plane and the pilot
never radioed the Santa Fe tower
to announce he would land there,
Taylor said.
State police were able to deter
mine from radar tracking infor
mation obtained from Albu
querque that at 5:10 p.m. Sunday
the plane was at an altitude of ap
proximately 8,700 feet, Taylor
said. That was the last time the
plane appeared on the radar.
Inside
Sports
►Mickens accepting starting
challenge
Page 7
►Winder: Outrageous signs
over Kyle Field
Page 7
Opinion
►U.N. must stop chaos in
Somalia
Page 11
Weather
►Wednesday: partly
cloudy
•Thursday: mostly cloudy,
widely scattered
showers
•Weekend forecast partly
cloudy, no rain expected
J Tomorrow in Aggie life
Adopting greyhounds:
A&M student adopts retired
greyhounds to place them in homes
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