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The Texas A&M Center for Con
struction Education is hosting its an
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gram, which started jan. 21 and will
end Feb. 1 6.
Participants from as far as New
Zealand and Indonesia are on cam
pus to study construction issues
ranging from human relations to
contract-labor laws.
□ The city kicks off a
year-long "Celebration
of Diversity" focusing
on schools, churches
and the military.
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IRVING (AP) — School board
members are scheduled to vote
Monday on whether to adopt a poli
cy that strongly encourages teachers
to have their classes recite the
Pledge of Allegiance daily.
Teachers and students cannot
be required to say the pledge.
That would violate the right of
free speech, according to a U.S.
Supreme Court decision dating
from World War II.
First National Issues
Convention adjourns
AUSTIN (AP) — A group of
Americans randomly picked to
participate in the first National Is
sues Convention adjourned Sun
day, swayed not by what politi
cians told them but by what they
told each other.
The 459 people from across
the country posed questions about
foreign policy, the economy and
family issues to Vice President Al
Core on Sunday, one day after
doing the same with four Republi
can presidential candidates.
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Rudder Theater 7:00 p.m.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Leo Sayavedra,
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Topic: “Importance of Student Involvement.”
Presented by Hispanic Presidents Council:
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Committee for the Awareness of Mexican American Culture (CAMAC)
Hispanic Business Student Association (HBSA)
Hispanic Graduate Student Association (HGSA)
Hispanic Journalists Association (HJA)
Kappa Delta Chi Sorority
Mexican American Engineers and Scientists (MAES)
National Hispanic Scholarship Fund (NHSF)
Omega Delta Phi Fraternity
Puerto Rican Student Association (PRSA)
Rio Grande Valley Hometown Club (RGVHC)
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
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The city of Bryan, home to
more than 14,000 Texas A&M
students and faculty members,
is celebrating its 125th birthday
this year.
The year-long celebration, ti
tled “Bryan: Celebrate Diversi
ty,” will highlight a different
theme each month of 1996.
Monthly themes will focus
on the city’s schools, youth or
ganizations, churches and mili
tary organizations.
Joe Brown, Bryan public rela
tions officer, said city officials will
honor the diverse groups repre
sented in Bryan because the city
“grew into what it is today by the
people who live here.”
“When we discussed why we
have grown and prospered from
a railroad yard with a few sa
loons to what we are today,”
Brown said, “the one thing we
kept coming back to was the di
verse citizens we have that all
work together.”
Last weekend’s two-day
birthday kickoff included a dis
play of Bryan artifacts, high
school band performances and a
puppet show.
Brown said the highlight was
an 80-foot cake replica of down
town Bryan.
The cakes, which were com
pletely edibje, three-dimensional
models, were encircled by a mov
ing miniature locomotive train.
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The mayor of Bryan, Lonnie Stabler, cut the Bryan birthday cakewit:]
the help of some local children. t
Brown said he hopes students
will learn Bryan history by at
tending the celebrations sched
uled throughout the year.
“Being that A&M has a di
verse ethnic population, it af
fords students an excellent op
portunity to come and learn
about different cultures right
here,” he said. “Bryan might not
be their permanent home, but it
can only help them as individu
als to take advantage of things
like this.”
As part of the celebration,
city officials and members of
Bryan High School’s Media Text
class compiled a video of inter
views with the oldest and most
involved Bryan citizens.
“We wanted to get their mem
ories of how Bryan used to be,”
Brown said.
Julius Skrivanik, one of the citi
zens featured in the video, has
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into 1 he city it is now.
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said, “and everyone came (totowi)|
in their wagons on Saturdays.”
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