The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, December 09, 1993, Image 10

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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."
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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.
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SPEAKERS’ SEMINAR
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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.
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