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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.
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Television ads may promote teen alcoholism
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Those fun-
filled beer commercials at half
time may be influencing children
to drink, according to research
that found fifth-graders reciting
slogans, reeling off brand names
and saying they intended to drink
frequently later in life.
And they get plenty of chances
to absorb those commercials
whenever they watch sports on
TV. Researchers counted 685 alco
hol ads during 122 televised
sporting events, only three of
which cautioned moderation in
drinking.
"Their beliefs are being influ
enced, their beliefs about the posi
tive consequences of drinking,"
said Joel Grube of the National In
stitute of Alcohol Abuse and Al
coholism's Prevention Research
Center. 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.
Grube's is the first study
look at children's awareness a?
retention of alcohol advertisi'i
instead of mere exposure to ads
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