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Tuesday, March 1,
International Week allows taste of world cultures
David Birch/The Battalion
Students from area schools perform a Panamanian for International Week in the MSC Flagroom. This
dance Monday as part of the opening ceremonies year's theme is "Discover the World at A&M."
By Joseph Greenslade
The Battalion
Students at Texas A&M will have a chance to sample other cultures
this week during the International Student Association's International
Week, which will offer displays of art, food and talent from many stu
dent international groups on campus.
Cristian Siebold, ISA president, said ISA tries to internationalize the
A&M student body and attempts to represent the interests of A&M's
international students.
Siebold, a senior industrial engineering major from Guatemala, said
International Week is the manifestation of ISA's goals.
"International Week is a big eye opener for international and Ameri
can students," Siebold said. "Both groups see how many international
students there are here."
Moinul Ahsan, a junior electrical engineering major from
Bangladesh and ISA vice president of programs, said international
week brings cultures from all over the world to A&M.
According to International Student Services, about 2,500 of the more
than 47,000 students enrolled at A&M are from another country.
Siebold said about 600 of those international students will take an ac
tive part in International Week, and he said he expects thousands of
A&M students and people from the community to attend the programs.
Approximately 2,000 students from local elementary schools are ex
pected to attend the cultural displays in the MSC, Siebold said.
"We all face quite a few problems throughout the year," Siebold said
"There's discrimination and a lot of other little things we have to try to
overcome."
But he said he wants to educate American students about interna
tional students instead of focusing on discrimination.
"People are different, but so what —that's the beauty of it,"
Siebold said.
Stalker
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She was living in a different
place and had a different phone
number which was supposed to
be unlisted.
Julie was home alone one
evening and had the blinds and
windows in her apartment open.
"The phone rang," she said.
"It was a guy and he told me he
missed me and red was definitely
my color."
Julie said she looked down
and realized she was wearing a
red shirt.
"I had a gut feeling it was
him," she said. "Thirty minutes
later, the phone rang again and I
hung up when he said hello. It
rang again after another thirty
minutes." Julie threatened to
have the call traced and to press
charges.
Julie stayed with a friend that
night, but she went home early
the next morning.
It was about 6:30 a.m. and she
heard a knock at the door. Julie
looked out the peephole and no
one was there.
Julie figured it was her room
mate bringing her stuff up the
stairs, so she opened the door.
She found a note outside the door
with the name "Princess" on it.
The note read: "Missed you —
What's it been, a year?"
Julie turned to go back in her
apartment, but Kevin was stand
ing in her doorway.
"He said, 'Do you remember
everything I told you?'" she said.
"He said he could take me inside
right then and take care of me,
but he wasn't going to because he
wanted me to think about it."
When Kevin left, Julie said she
went into her apartment, closed
the door, and fell on the floor cry
ing. Julie decided to go see Mike
Balog, an undergraduate coun
selor for the College of Liberal
Arts.
Balog took Julie to the Center
for Conflict Resolution where she
spoke to Gene Zdziarski, coordi
nator for the center. Julie then
went to the University Police De
partment and later to the College
Station Police Department.
Nothing else happened until
the Tuesday before Thanksgiv
ing.
Julie was working in the front
booth of The Globe, a local night
club, when the phone rang and it
was Kevin. He told her to turn
around so he could see her bet
ter.
"He said, 'You have such a
pretty face, it will be a shame to
have to cut you up,'" Julie said.
Several of the other workers at
The Globe ran out to look for
him, but Kevin was nowhere to
be found. Julie said she thinks he
must have been calling from a car
phone and drove away when
everyone ran outside.
During Christmas break, Julie
received several hang-up phone
calls at her home in Houston. Af
ter the break, she received anoth
er call while she was at work one
night.
On Jan. 26, 1994, when Julie
was driving out of the parking lot
at her home, she realized there
was a note on her windshield.
She pulled over to read it.
The note said: "It's almost
time."
"I just turned around and
went home," Julie said.
Julie's parents came to College
Station and tried to convince her
to go back to Houston with them,
but Julie said she did not want to
leave A&M.
Julie decided to stay at A&M,
but she dropped half of her class
es.
On Feb. 15, 1994, Julie's situa
tion with Kevin reached a peak.
Julie was driving to a friend's
house and stopped at a grocery
store to buy a magazine. Before
getting out of her car, Julie made
sure she was parked in a well-lit
area so she would not be in dan
ger when she came out.
When Julie did come out of the
store, someone grabbed her from
behind and stuck a sharp object
in her back. It was Kevin, and he
pulled her into the alley behind
the store.
Julie realized she had pepper-
spray in her hand with her keys,
but she was scared to use it.
When Kevin realized she had the
spray, he called her a bitch and
threw the spray in the street.
He became very angry and be
gan threatening Julie.
Julie knew she had to do
something and remembered the
gun her father had bought her in
November. She usually carried
the gun in her car, but she real
ized it was in her purse.
Julie's purse was open and she
pulled the gun out.
"I grabbed the gun, pointed it
at him, and said I was going to
kill him," she said. "I told him,
'Don't ever come around me
again.'"
She said Kevin did not take
her seriously and told her she
could not do it.
"I said, 'If I ever see you again,
I'm not going to point it at you.
I'm going to shoot you,"' she
said.
Kevin took her seriously then
and ran away. Julie ran in the
opposite direction.
"I'm not sure I would be alive
now if I didn't have one (a gun)
in my purse," Julie said.
After this incident, Julie went
home to Houston. She is not able
to stay at her own home but in
stead is staying with friends as a
safety precaution.
The College Station Police De
partment is working on the case.
A sketch of Kevin has been
drawn and put together with a
bulletin. The fliers have been dis
tributed on campus and a Crime
Stoppers re-enactment is also be
ing put together.
"We're waiting to see if this is
going to make him bury himself
or flush him out," Julie said.
The 20-year-old college stu
dent said she wants to come back
to A&M, but she is glad to be
home.
"It's very frightening being
there," she said.
Julie has not slept through the
night since November because of
the nightmares she continues to
have.
"The biggest thing for me right
now is to get myself together and
to get some peace," Julie said.
"He's taken everything away
from me and I can't let him win
this.
"I need to figure out what is
best for me. I want to come back
to prove to me that I can do this."
Officer followed
procedure, says
DPS commander
The Associated Press
AUSTIN - The Texas De
partment of Public Safety
commander in charge of offi
cer training spoke out on
Monday for the state trooper
who shot a Dallas man in a
incident captured on a dra
matic videotape.
"Considering all of the el
ements, you would have
feared for your life" instate
trooper Bryan Barnhart's
place, DPS Training Com
mander Albert Rodriguez
told reporters at a news con
ference in the wake of the
shooting of Lorenzo Colston.
Colston's law'yer, John
Heath of Nacogdoches, said,
"It would have been Mr. Col
ston that would have! feared for
his life, and not the trooper.”
Rodriguez — using the
vicieotape filmed by a camera
mounted on the trooper's ve-
hicle — said Barnhart and
Henderson County sheriff's
deputy Jim Langford followed
all the proper steps in the
state's use-of-force policy in
order to control the situation.
DPS spokesman Mike Cox
said the news conference was
in response to media inquiries.
Rodriguez earlier testified
in the Athens, Texas trial in
which Colston, 28, was sen
tenced to two years' proba
tion after being convicted of
assaulting Barnhart and
Langford.
Colston was a piassenger
in a car stopped by Barnhart
near the East Texas town on
Sept. 29 because a headlight
was out. Langford later
showed up as a backup, Ro
driguez said.
Barnhart arrested driver
Marcos Fields on outstand
ing traffic warrants.
Colston, according to the
videotape, gave Barnhart his
wrong name and age. Ro
driguez, stopping the video
tape at various points, also
showed what he said were
suspicious moves by Colston
before Barnhart first tried to
arrest him.
Heath said the videotape
also shows Barnhart "turning
his back repeatedly on Mr.
Colston" early on, behavior
that doesn't comport with
the trooper being suspicious
of him.
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