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Monday, February 14,1994 The Battalion Page 3 Tubularmcm on fterX By Boomer Cardinale Bartholomew by Kalvin Hdppy Valentines l)cly, ^<ir+V»o\o»new| T Eisenhower By Alex Ver&TT^mTTJf 1 LfjlfXA. Qsl*- nuroA- Urxn>ta mst~\ -/^z AASjl urazlcj . '•/■ " Rose& A Re Rev x/iouers. Afts" TlAHT^ l£» ND TUAm THB Prayer Continued from Page 1 "They can pass legislation, but I Christ still lives in my heart, and I ' can still pray." Brett Lemoine, a senior comput- I er science major and president of I the Agnostic and Atheist student I group, said the amendments really I won't change anything because the right to pray already was protected in the Constitution. The amend ments simply clarify a right that | has already been provided for. "The First Amendment and the , separation of church and state pro- I tects individuals from religion and protects religion from the govern ment," he said. "It is important that a school system does not spon sor or organize prayer for students, but the amendment the way it is stated is fantastic. "If the amendment said it would withdraw funds from a school if it did not sponsor a prayer session, then that would be way out of line. But the amendments are just saying that you can't stop students from praying." But members of other groups feel that religion has no place in schools in any form. Weiner said time for silent thought is fine in schools, but it needs strict control and should not be preempted by religious thought. "Religious prayer just can't be tolerated in public schools," Wein er said. Heather Anderson, a junior bio medical sciences major and presi dent of Aggie Lutherans, said she agrees with the amendments, but feels that withdrawing funds is too harsh. She said that it is important to allow a student to voluntarily pray, but Amendment 75-22 would be better if another form of punish ment were, used. "There is a lot of diversity and we have to recognize this diversity and think of others' feelings in prayer situations," she said. "We must be sensitive to everyone's needs." Minority Continued from Page 1 i more of them will feel even more I comfortable at the University," he I said. He suggests going to black high p schools and churches and offering ;; more scholarship money to black jl students. "We lose a lot of students be ll cause they are not able to afford II Texas A&M and they get better of- j| fers," Carreathers said. *11 Tony Jackson, senior academic | advisor for the College of Business ■ and a member of the recently creat ed University Committee for Un dergraduate Minority Recruitment • Coordination, said Texas A&M . needs a strong commitment from I the top level of the University. "If you can get people who have ■ the vision, you can carve out a I niche and get some good students," | Jackson said. Natasha Hudspeth, a black | sophomore psychology major, said | Texas A&M is doing an excellent job of motivating students to come here. "A&M was one of the few uni versities I visited that looked at mi nority students as students they would like to come here," she said. "UT basically was very cold and had sort of a disconnected feeling." Although Hudspeth said she does not think there are enough mi nority students at Texas A&M, she said skin color should not affect re cruitment. Hudspeth said she is concerned because black students are often stereotyped as only being at Texas A&M on scholarship. "It's presumptuous to think black students are here as athletes or on scholarship," she said. "I'm not here to make a statement or to prove something to someone. I'm here to get an education." James Courtney, Class of '67 and one the first black students admit ted to the University, said A&M should not use any type of a quota system or try to increase its minori ty enrollment. "I think our school is doing all it needs to do," Courtney said. "We need to only take the best stu dents." Wash Jones, area coordinator for student activities, said Texas A&M needs to make changes in the fu ture in order to help black students feel more comfortable at the Uni versity. "Texas A&M has been talking about wanting to diversify," Jones said. "If they want to diversify, they have to go out and recruit blacks a little harder to convince the black students that they fit in. "We need to make the environ ment more appetizing to minorities with programs geared toward their success and sensitive to their needs. We also need to make sure staff and faculty are sensitive to black students." Jones said the University has come a long way in making black students adjust to life at Texas A&M, but much still has to be done. "If we continue to make small strides in the direction we're going, things will get better," Jones said. "It's not going to happen overnight." 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Last month, a New York group called Stonewall 25 voted to bar the controversial North American Man-Boy Love Association from its international march on the United Nations on June 26. The demon stration will commemorate the 25th anniversary of an uprising at the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Vil lage gay bar. "Those who advocate or engage in sexual abuse of young people are not welcome in the family of gay men and lesbians who live up standing and honorable lives," said Pat Norman, a co-chair of the march. The gay community has histori cally been inconsistent in its re sponse to pedophiles, leaving itself open to attack. In January, the Senate unani mously passed an amendment, in troduced by Sen. Jesse Helms, R- N.C., to sharply reduce funds to the United Nations unless it severs ties with the International Lesbian and Gay Association. Helms ob jected to the association's relation ship to NAMBLA, one of about 350 groups that belong to ILGA. Helms said the United States was "fast asleep at the switch" when it joined other nations in vot ing last year to give consultative status to ILGA in the U.N. Eco nomic and Social Council. The council is a 54-nation body that studies economic and social is sues and makes non-binding rec ommendations to the U.N. General Assembly on such topics as human rights, the status of women, popu lation, social welfare, crime and other issues. FAST TAX REFUNDS ELECTRONIC FILING AAA EXPRESS TAX SERVICE 3815 OLD COLLEGE RD. BRVAN (Across from Triant’lc Bowl) 846-7727 CDs WMllHOUSE 7TraF?-Tmu?n-:4LD WE BUY USED CD'S FOR $4.00 or trade 2 for 1 USED CD'S $8.99 or LESS 268-0154 (Now located downstairs at Northgate) Blood cholesterol levels sweet on chocolate lovers The Associated Press DALLAS — Bring on those bon bons. Pour on that chocolate syrup and go ahead and buy that box of Valentine's candies because choco late, even when consumed daily, does not raise blood cholesterol levels, a new study says. Not that the study affects the eating habits of a true chocolate lover. "We just love chocolate," said Susan Pingleton of Dallas, a hos pice nurse, as she sipped a cup of steaming cappuccino. "It doesn't make a difference to us about stud ies." Fellow chocaholic Ruby Mar rero, also a nurse, agreed. "I corne here whenever I'm in the area — and that's a lot," Ms. Marrero said while downing a piece of chocolate-covered cheese cake at Neuhaus Chocolate Shop. Dr. Penny Kris-Etherton of Pennsylvania State University and principal researcher of the study, says it sheds new light on an un usual fatty acid. "This finding is exciting, be cause it confirms past studies that stearic acid, the predominant satu rated fat in milk chocolate, is a unique fatty acid," Kris-Etherton said. Cocoa butter, which makes up 55 percent to 60 percent of choco late, is rich in stearic acid. 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