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Texas Ave (in Kroger Shopping Center) State & Local Page 2 The Battalion Friday, February 11,| Bryan to host Mardi Gras celebratioi By Juli Rhoden The Battalion This year, instead of traveling to New Orleans or Galveston, area residents can celebrate Mardi Gras in downtown Bryan. The Off-Campus Aggies and the Bryan Main Street Project are sponsoring Mardi Gras Brazos Style Feb. 12 from noon to mid night on Main Street. Jennifer Woung, OCA public relations director, said this year's celebration is different from the Mardi Gras held for the past six years on Northgate because area residents from all age groups can get involved. "Our main purpose for bring ing Mardi Gras to downtown Bryan is to get the whole commu nity together," Woung said. "In stead of concentrating on Texas A&M students, there's something for everyone." Live music, a barbecue cook off and a children's costume pa rade are just a few of the activi ties planned for the afternoon, Woung said. Shannon Lee, the Main Street Project director, said she is happy to be a part of the cel ebration this year because of what it could do for the down town area. "Since the Main Street Project pro motes down town Bryan, Mardi Gras Brazos Style is a great way for people to see what the area has to offer," she said. Lee said she expects more peo ple to attend Mardi Gras Brazos Style this year than in the past. Some of the Main Street restau rants are giving away free dinners during Mardi Gras. KTSR-FM will broad cast the event and will give away T- shirts, cassettes and tickets to some of the live music being per formed at the festival. T i m Stewart, KTSR promo tions director, said having Mar di Gras in down town Bryan is a good idea because it will bring people into the area. "College Station has it all,” Stewart said. "Bryan needs some thing like Mardi Gras to brii dents into downtown bet;, there's always something; on there." Mardi Gras Brazos Stylet originally designed asafiml er for OCA. Brent Heady, OCA sod; fairs director, said theyb profited much in past Marc celebrations. "We really just break; Heady said. "And the pury this is not for the money bring people togetherani students a safe alternativet; Orleans or Galveston." Heady said the project; has expanded since OCAst in 1987. "This year we're geariiy toward total family enter; ment," he said. ''And ski: year's event is an all-day a people will have more time; joy themselves." Aggies discuss race relations, unification at NAACP meetin By Angela Neaves The Battalion Race relations and methods to unify the Texas A&M student body were discussed at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People meeting Wednesday night. Members of the Muslim Student Association, the College Republicans, Alpha Phi Alpha fra ternity, the Committee for the Awareness of Mexican-American Culture and Zeta Phi Beta sorority discussed the proposed multicultural- ism classes and other issues affecting A&M stu dents at the meeting. Zack Jones, a senior economics major, said the proposed multiculturalism classes are not the solution to racial problems on campus. "The required classes won't solve anything," he said. "They'll divide us even more. Instead of creating new classes, we should upgrade those we already have. History 105 should cov er all history, including African-American, Na tive-American and all other cultures." Ferleshare Starks, president of A&M's NAACP chapter, said every history class should explore different cultures because this is a multi cultural society and every major needs to in clude cultural awareness. "African-Americans and Asians have dogs; they get sick. Vets and doctors would benefit from knowledge of other cultures," she said. "Americans of all races have contributed to make the land what it is today and students need to know about it." The group also discussed how to get more students involved in different organizations. Amy Bluntzer, a senior nutrition major and representative of Alpha Phi Omega, said her organization has 224 pledges this semester and very few of them are minorities. She asked what Alpha Phi Omega could do to make the organization more open to minorities. Kenneth Robinson, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, said his fraternity would be happy to work on a service project with Alpha Phi Omega, but African-American students would probably not be interested in joining the organization over a Greek letter organiza tion. "It's not that African-Americans don't want to join organizations, but we tend to cling to what we know," Robinson said. "When you arrive here, there's a culture shock, and a ten dency to group up with your likeness." Tiffany Farna, a junior sports managp and marketing major and a represental the National Organization for Women,s is hard for students who are not minoritu get into minority organizations. "It's hard, but you have to doit," said. "You have to have a black friendtc- ly understand the culture. You can'll from a book." Ryan Flynn, a junior history majorair resentative of the College Republican; minority students are not the only peopk are culture shocked when they arriveatAtj "I came from New England and«; enced as much culture shock as anvon; did," he said. "There is no place like! and everyone has to adjust in". The Battalion's coverage ofQuanelL speech also was discussed at the meeting Sean Williams, a member of Alpha Plt| pha fraternity, said the Battalion only repc the bad things Quanell said. "Quanell gave a very eloquent speech,; he didn't come to to upset every on; Williams said. "I don't condone some what he said, but there were some posii points in the speech." WHO WILL WIN? Wendy Carter Tobey Cordasco Hilary Ekblad Jolynn Meyer Kendra Smith Tanya Williams Tracee Castillo Wendy Deidrich Meghan Leftwich Susan Sandford Karol Ann Taylor Dyanna Wilson Alternates: Donna Prewitt Valerie Porter Amy K. Smith 1994 Miss Texas A&M University Tickets On Sale Rudder Box Office $5 students $10 Non-students MSC Miss Texas A&M Scholarship Pageant Committee Mel Brooks s^oojia PJA D©OflUlb)BtHiL®Edl F©EirAtmTtiUa}R@ElF 7:30 Spaceballs 9:45 Young Frankenstein Thursday & Friday February 10th & 11th At Rudder Theater Tickets available on the night of the show on the 2nd floor of Rudder Tower in the Lobby Admission per film: $2.50 students $3.00 non-students *>itb drsa&tftfosphase caff 345-7515 ta fxfarm as ofipoar specialteer/s. k/c npatst Kot/fr'cat/o* tirte fd) teart/ty clays prior Co tie treat Co eaalh as Co ass/sCyea Co tie lest ofioar ai/f/Cy. 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