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BBQ COOKOFF hook DOWNTOWN BRYAN FEB 12 ~ NOON TO MIDNIGHT The Presses will be hot on Monday, February 14th! Page 10 Social Continued from Page 1 pie with similar interests, back grounds and values. It provides a social outlet." But Reese said there still is no location off campus for black stu dents to socialize. "They have the Dixie Chicken for a lot of A&M students," she said. "That's a known and recog nized place where they can go. For black students, there is not a locale. There's nothing here that we can say 'That's where we go to hang out.'" Tanya Williams, president of the Black Awareness Committee, said black students are an ignored audience. "If you don't like country, alter native or top 40, you're pretty much left out, other than the frater nity and sorority parties on cam pus," she said. "Until people real ize there is an audience tnat will pay money, things will stay the same." James said he never considers frequenting predominantly white establishments, because it could lead to trouble. "I avoid places like that. The Chicken - I've never been there," he said. "I wouldn't put myself in that situation. I'd be too busy look ing over my shoulder to nave a good time." James said although it is unlike ly any racial incidents would oc cur, he would feel uncomfortable in those types of establishments. Williams said some black stu dents don't feel a sense of belong ing at A&M, which can cause some students to transfer to another school. "African-Americans don't feel comfortable on this campus," she said. "They get in as freshmen or sophomores and end up being the only (black) person in class, having connection with hardly anyone. And they transfer because they don't feel comfortable." One such student is Brian A. Battle, a freshman chemical engi neering major from St. Louis, Mo., who is planning to transfer to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., after this semester. Battle said he feels there is a bet ter social environment at More house. "I want to go to a place where I feel like I belong; where I can take some ownership in," he said. "And I don't get that here." Battle said a major reason for some black students' dissatisfac tion is the Aggie traditions. "The traditions aren't geared toward us," he said. "We don't participate in the traditions. We just kind of push them to the side." Woman to attend church as part of parole for drugs, judge orders The Associated Press FORT WORTH — A federal judge is giving a drug defendant a second chance — as long as she takes her four children to church every Sunday. "I just thought it would do the woman good to get her and her family in church and do what the good Lord says," U.S. District Judge David Belew Jr. said Wednesday. Emma Jean Oliver, 29, who was facing a maxi mum $250,000 fine and three-year federal prison sen tence for a drug-related felony, said the judge was an answer to her prayers. "I think it was a blessing. And as for the judge, I think he's a wonderful, loving, kind man," the Wi chita Falls woman said. Belew, co-founder of a nondenominational church in Fort Worth, said he didn't believe he violated con stitutional guarantees separating church and state. "I think we've gone too far on this separation of church and state. This country was founded on reli gious freedom, and it's getting to where we have less and less of it," he said. "I believe the whole trouble with this country is the moral breakdown of the family and that people aren't going to church and worsniping God," the judge said. Oliver said she mixed with the wrong crowd and became involved in a drug ring stretching from Amarillo to Wichita Falls. In May, she and 22 other people were arrested, all on drug charges. Oliver pleaded guilty to having knowledge of drug activity and not alerting authorities. She appeared before the judge Monday, accoi?: nied by her three young daughters and a 14-yea.'-; son, who doctors say is mildly retarded. After being told that Oliver is the daughte; Baptist preacher and the sole provider for her: dren, Belew said that he decided to stray fromfo al recommendations for a prison term. HegaveC er five years' probation. She and her children, however, mustatld church and Sunday school services each week, less illness or other major problems keep them aw? A probation officer will make sure that she lives, to the bargain, Belew said. Oliver said that she and the judge hugged; the sentencing and that he told her, "Dontgob ing any more kids without a husband." She said she was not upset by the comment "I understood what he was saying. A lot me; people need to be told that," Oliver said. "For the rest of my life. I'm going to serve!: Lord, take care of my children and liveadea straight life," she said. Belew said he made the comment because "Fi just tired of those unwed mothers having childrst and being on welfare." Oliver already faces one setback. After pleadki guilty to the felony charge, she returned to IVidiit! Falls on Tuesday to find that she had been fired /for the coin-operated laundry where she had worked fr eight years. Belew was appointed to the federal bench 1 ears ago by President Jimmy Carter, and he not as a reduced caseload as a senior judge. £ That’s when The Battalion is publishing its annual loveline pages. 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The institute is an arm of the government's National Insti tutes of Health. The issue of alcohol advertis ing's impact on children has long been controversial. Teen-agers consume 1.1 billion cans or bottles of beer every year, and some re searchers have linked such drink ing to exposure to ads. The industry insists that it doesn't target underage con sumers and that even if minors are exposed to the ads, it doesn't influence their behavior. But Grube, in two studies to be published Friday in the American Journal of Public Health, found that not only are children bom barded with alcohol advertising, they link drinking with "romance. sociability and relaxation." His work debunks the industry contention that Spuds McKenzie, the "Bud Bowl" and other popu lar advertising symbols are harm less, said James Mosher, executive director of the Marin Institute, an alcohol-prevention foundation in California. "This research underlines the urgency for action," he said, call ing for legislation to govern alco hol advertising. The Beer Institute responded that no one has proved advertis ing contributes to underage drink ing, which has been dropping since the 1970s thanks to intensive education programs. "This is an obvious campaign against the beer industry waged by a small anti-alcohol faction within the American Public Health Association," whichpii:j lished the Journal, said instill] President Raymond McGrath. Grube found thatfifth-ar sixth-graders recited slogs? reeled off brand names and et? identified commercials by ap l tograph in which the brandna? was marked out. Those mf aware of the ads were mostlik to say they intended to drinks quently as adults. Yet they weren't aware oft- negative impacts of alcohol,fe drunk driving to alcoholism,if of public service announceme? on drinking. They didn't even?' member one featuring basket* star Michael Jordan. 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