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Texas A+M Victory Party Saturday Nite • Jan. 1st, 1994 Students, Teachers and Alumni PITCHERS ALL NIGHT The closest thing to The Dixie Chicken north of the Trinity River For more information, call: Across the Street Bar 5625 Yale Blvd. • Dallas, Texas 214/363-0660 Page 10 The Battalion Thursday, December9, President Continued from Page 5 ing with high school students about developing their leadership and personal skills. "Tin looking forward to conducting leadership conferences and speaking at state conventions across the country," Childers said. "This is the best time to help students out, meet people and serve as a positive role model." Childers' success, however, did not come overnight. A member of the Glen Rose FFA chapter, he joined the organization as a freshman in high schqpl. Childers participated in such leadership con tests as parliamentary procedure, farm skills demon stration and state creed speaking competition. In 1991, he was elected president of the Texas FFA, and in 1992, he won the national FFA extemporaneous speak ing contest. Naturally, these leadership accomplishments led Childers toward the path of becoming a nation al FFA officer. But getting elected to a national office was no easy task. A nominating committee of nine state officers in terviewed the 50 potential candidates for office. Each candidate went through six rounds of personal and group interviews and took a written test. Childers said the nominating committee asked about the key issues affecting agriculture, agricultural education and assessed his personal skills to deter mine if he would make a good officer. "I began studying for the interview process in Sep tember by gathering all the material I could about FFA and agriculture," he said. "My goal was to be as knowledgeable about these subjects as I could when November arrived." Brooke Leslie, judicial board chairman and past speaker pro-tempore at Texas A&M, grew up in Glen Rose and went to high school with Childers. She said she knew when Childers was a freshman in agricultur al education classes, he had the ability to someday! | come national president if he wanted it. Five years later, when it came time to run,!* said, "Curtis went in knowing what would beexy* ed of him. Me knew getting elected meant morelr having the right talents, he had to be prepared." Childers spent many hours studying! preparing for the interview process. In the end hard work paid off. Joe Townsend, associate dean of the Collegt Agriculture and Life Sciences, said having a FFA president will be positive exposure for In A&M University. He said, "Curtis will travel worldwide sellingli selling leadership and also selling the TexasAi University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences As a student at Texas A&M, Childers earned! prestigious Terry Foundation Scholarship basedoj: academic and leadership experiences. Upon grad] tion, Childers plans a career in internationalagir tural relations. Childers is the first president from Texas?.; \ elected since the 1970s, but he follows a long It former and current students that have served as tional officers. Other past officers from Texas A&M Univets;! include: 1991-92 national vice president, Lesaai King, agricultural journalism major and Class '94 graduate; 1985-86 national secretary,Ci: Shorter III, now director for agribusiness deveic ment at the Texas Department of Agriculturer Tmrsday, JULI PHILLI DAVE THOJ BELINDA Bl MACK HAR 1971-72 national secretary, Fred McClure,® managing director for First Southwest Corpo: tion, and former legislative affairs assistant toh ident George Bush. Townsend said the Texas A&M College ture and Life Sciences is proud of the accompli: ments of these current and former officers. He said, "The college is excited that these you people are in a position where they can gaps between many interest groups. Learning tow with people and exercising positive influence*! others is the key to success in the future." iT/teGeSt (fie Defi< 24’/. Tribe Continued from Page 5 Ebert of hip hop and let it flow." In "Oh My God," Phife says, "When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?" But Phife said his having diabetes, a disease that af fects a person's blood sugar level, isn't a laughing matter. "Everybody's gonna die one day, so I ain't f-ckin jokin' around with it," he said. Phife said in the past, he didn't take the disease seriously. "I was like 'Yo, f-ck that sh-t, I ain't sick/" he said. But the rough touring life caused things to worsen for Phife. "I had to chill for a bit and get my sh-t back together," he stud. The emergence of the group also played a part in Phife's acceptance of tlie disease. He said Q-Tip and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muham mad said, "Yo man, you gotta take care of your sh-t 'cause we can't lose you now." But things have improved. "You've gotta accept it," Phife said. "So everybody's lookin' out nice and good and I'm doing cool." Phife said the new Quest album, "Midnight Marauders," was a back-to-basics experience. "It's basically a freestyle al bum," he said. "We wanted to get back, I mean really get back, to what hip hop was. It's all about the freestylin' and the battlin'." Quest has become one of the top sellers in rap, as shown by "Midnight Marauders," which recently debuted at number eight on the Billboard album charts. However, hard core rap usually dominates record sales and gets much more attention. But Phife said he won't go that route. "I could never talk about shootin' nobody or smackin' a 'bitch' in her face," he said. "That sh-t is dead to me." One characteristic of the hard I Professor students at r ly take mon tune. Many fiialms abo core style that Quest does use is the word nigga." Phife said it is un fair for wnite people to criticize rappers for saying "nigga /} How the f-ck can a white man tell me I can't say nigga?" he said. "He gave me the word. De La Soul Continued from Page 5 dissed me with it and whip| my ass with it." Phife said the meaning of ga" has changed dramatically fr the racist definition. "Black people, we've taken:j word as love," he said. Phife said he has found hii| in the position of a role model, that he accepts. "We have no choice'cause tie kids listen to hip hop,’ - said. "We have to represent P^P 61 "/ ora * them — they lookin'uplo week or le and everything." exam in that Rap's popularity withtotol With five youth has Phife concernedi- can add u some of the hard core lyricsi too m their effects on the children, things to st "I refuse to come outandt f or fogforg about bustin', a cap (shoo*^ Ifg m somebody), he said, lie . st de eration of today is f-ckedupr , V /. the generation of tomorroi ^ ? a , U 11 gonna be even worse, so wee u ta look out for them." i fcie neces: As for future quests of the v i io do a g Phife said, "We just gonna". j°b ° n ex make album after album : t | project, grow old and grow outo: Students don't think we're gonna gro**, ten end up a of it no time soon." a low grad a class t "You hear a lot of news reports downing a Sm* could h Dogg or a 2Pac, but the don't come behind theme done well 'We're saying we're not making a song to go Top It destruct," he said. 40, so anything we make won't self destruct,' "Because it wasn't made for that particular reason, if it goes that route, then it goes that route." Much of De La's music is on the positive tip. But Posdnuos said there is another side to the story. "Rap is an entity like anything else — there can't be a positive side without a negative side," he said. "There's a lot of stuff said within rap that I don't agree with, but I don't think it's right to censor them." Posdnuos said the negative can easily outshine the positive rap. say, 'Here are some rappers that are doing somet. given more positive/" he said. "They don't talk about that a! a. The admi The enormous success of rap has scared so institute a "1 people, Posdnuos said. "Once something likei?th an j us t a which people thought would never be in thepu'bat this sen eye, gains as much power as it has, I guess the|f]) ead Week ers that be get upset about that," he said. "He r el : f essors Snoop Dogg could be on trial and he just debuieitp^ ^ Better yi number one. Trugoy said rap can do more than entertain ; can educate "In essence, rap is like a newsletter, like anewsd ter for the youth," he said. "It's just lettingefflj body know what's going on, and what's happen^ Connick Continued from Page 7 "Come-on-baby-take-a-sleigh-ride- with-me," Connick adds extra spice to an already spirited classic. He even improves the timeless "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Rein deer." Jazz horns, drums and bass drive the song along, and Connick adds something extra — a chil dren's choir. Amazingly enough, it works pretty well. Still, Connick doesn't keep him self confined to the jazz genre. On the album, he branches out and ex periments with a slew of musical techniques. On "(It Must've Been Ol') Santa Claus," he jumps into an old rock- n-roll beat. And on "1 Pray on Christmas," he tries his hand at gospel with the support of a full- force choir. But Connick's experiment' tion does turn back and bitekj at times. On "The Little Drummer Be) he adds a syncopated druml* and a lot of violin flourishes. Ol ously he tries to add color to 1 song, but he all he does is de* its simple beauty. Still, mistakes like those aref and worth enduring. Connickl ; for the most part, delivered ad sic Christmas album. No ex in Sil SPEAKERS’ SEMINAR The Student Activities office will offer a one hour credited seminar for students who would like to speak about Texas A&M to various groups which are members of the TAMU Family. This includes Mothers’ Clubs, Former Students and other interested organizations. Students may complete an application at the Student Activities Dept. Room 125 in the John J. Koldus Building between Dec. 1 and Dec. 15. Applicants should be of junior or senior classification with at least one more year at Texas A&M after Spring ’94. Students should be at a mid level of involvement in activities and should have a fair knowledge of Texas A&M programs. Students must also be willing to become a member of the Speakers’ Bureau which speaks on behalf of the university to various audiences. The Seminar will meet on Monday from 3:00 to 4:30 RM. Application Deadline is 5:00 P.M., December 15,1993. There is found in th talion on T ing wasn't ors six"? t Taps Cere Found inco ny will hoi Aggie Musi This dee with what I important i and Silver 1 My siste the Septerr Year ago. I ping from t mony, ever fhe time. It woulc be one of tl honored in they may t ibe staff mi does not re ing a lovec v er Taps ce A year aj s tatue of Lj ^e, 1 felt tl darkness tr ttiy sister ai Passed awa I'd like i daose hono ibat Aggjej ^nd that m their Battal: *ot lead the