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DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY m in 505 University Dr. East, Suite 101 College Station, TX 77840 -i On University Drive ^ between Randall’s & Black Eyed Pea SALE • SALE • SALE • SALE • LU SALE • SALE • SALE It happens when you advertise in The Battalion Call 845-2696 Page 2 • The Battalion • Thursday, June 13, 1996 Greenwire educates about environment The Internet newsletter provides colleges with up-to-date environmental facts By Amy Protas The Battalion Texas A&M now has access to up-to-date information about the environment through an environ mental daily called Greenwire. The University’s subscription, along with those of 50 other col leges and universities, was pro vided by Compaq Computer Corp. Dale Curtis, publisher of Greenwire, said the daily has been published by the American Political Network since 1991. “Greenwire is a non-partisan environmental news daily,” Cur tis said. “It covers the full range of environmental issues with an emphasis on government and the economy. It is delivered via the Internet. It concerns legisla tion, regulations, political cam paigns and business practices. It covers issues at all three levels of government — local, national and international.” Compaq has been underwrit ing the costs of subscriptions for universities. The yearly sub scription rate is $7.95. Nora Hahn, spokesperson for Compaq, said the company wanted to pay for the subscrip tions because the business world will benefit from an environmen tally-educated work force. “The reason we did it is be cause we have a very strong en vironmental program of environ mental management at Com paq,” Hahn said. “The total con sideration of the environment is in everything we do, from the manufacturing process to recy cling waste to the preservation of wildlife and trees on our cam pus. We want to conduct busi ness in a manner that’s compati ble with the environment and protects the communities we work with.” Compaq said A&M was cho sen as a school to receive Green wire based on its positive envi ronmental history. “We work with Greenwire and figure out what are some of the top schools in the nation that have top environmental pro grams,” Hahn said. “This is ac cording to environmentalism, de partments, etc. Schools that have been identified in this man ner. We both selected a number Housing Continued from Page 1 process for tax credit. “Low-income housing is sup posed to assist working people who don’t make enough to afford decent housing,” Mueller said. Residents must meet qualifi cations to live there. For exam ple, in a household of three peo ple, the income can not exceed $19,470 a year. Most full-time students do not qualify to live in tax-credit apartments. The exceptions are married students and parents with dependent children. Shelley Capps, leasing agent for Windsor Pointe, said this kind of housing in College Sta tion helps out low-income fami lies. “We can offer a nicer place to live for families in need,” Capps said. Carrol said people’s percep tion is that low-income housing could lower the property value of existing property, but this is not necessarily true. “[Windsor Pointe] is not a HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development) devel opment. It’s two- and three- bed room apartments for less-than- normal rent,” Carroll said. Diversity Continued from Page 1 The video discusses diversity from the students’ perspective and the benefits of learning from these differences. The lighthearted program uses humor to address diversity, but it shifts into a more serious tone with the issues of racism, sexism and homophobia. Presenters help the audience to understand that these prejudices have no place at Texas A&M and are contradictory to the Aggie Spirit. Sheri Schmidt, coordinator of diversity education, said the many differences existing at the University enhance campus life. “It is important for new students to realize that there are many things they can do at Texas A&M University to learn about diver sity,” Schmidt said. “We want them to take advantage of those op portunities by attending programs, choosing elective classes and joining various clubs that focuses on an ethnic or religious group other than their own.” Chidi James, a senior sociology major and orientation leader who also appears in the video, said the program is important because it helps teach students about the differences existing at Texas A&M and how these differences enhance the University. “The differences here (Texas A&M University) allows us to claim that we are a world- class University,” James said. Receive an extra I S 5 on your next donation | I ifyou haven’t donated in I 2 or more months. D1AMONDBJVCK SORRENTO DX LIFETIME FREE SERVICE CROMOLY/STEEL Frame & Fork ALIVIO & Gripshift eqpd. AVENIR BARENDS 817 Texas Ave. College Station, Tx. 696-6551 of schools. Greenwire worked with us to determine what it would cost to sponsor those schools, and we underwrote the cost for a year.” Greenwire can be accessed by both students and professors in terested in environmental issues. Curtis said students can ob tain information utilized by the business world. “Greenwire’s subscribers are leaders in business, govern ment, the news media and envi ronmental groups,” Curtis said. “Now students and professors at these schools will have ac cess to the same information tool relied upon by environmen tal policy insiders. Greenwire also spurs readers to make greater use of the Internet and electronic communication.” Curtis also said professors can use the daily in their class rooms as part of educating stu dents about the environment. “It’s helpful in stimulating classroom discussion and helpful for research by students and fac ulty,” Curtis said. “There’s no bet ter way for students to learn about environmental issues than to read about the daily tug-of-wa over government policy and busi ness practices. What we presen is the real world. It’s up to th minute as opposed to the theories the dated sort of examples.” Nicole Patschke, assistan chair of the Environmental Issue Committee and a senior agricul tural business major, said th committee will use Greenwire. “I know that the committe has a subcommittee called Leg islative Outreach that focuses oi the political aspect of environ mental issues,” Patschke said “This would be an excellent op portunity for them to get infor mation about the political issue in relation to the environment.” Patschke said she hope everyone will read Greenwire not just those in the environ mental field. “I think it’s very positive, Patschke said. “I’m glad to hea about it. I hope people will use i and take advantage of it. This i information that’s sometime difficult to find. The Interne provides up-to-date informatioi that’s easily accessible.” TH june ] Con Am and ai Kre rare a “Yo A&M one ca Rej crease as onh Dispute erupts over ‘Black Panther’ name DALLAS (AP) — Five former members of the Black Panther Party, the radical 1960s group founded to fight police brutality, demanded Wednesday that a Dallas group quit calling itself the “New Black Panther Party.” “People have died and gone to jail for this cause,” said Charles Hillman, 42, who heads the non profit Afro-American Artists’ Al liance in South Dallas. “For these guys to walk around in their little berets and guns smacks us right in the face.” The New Black Panther Par ty is an organization that has drawn media attention in re cent weeks for protesting the Dallas school board’s lack of a black president or vice presi dent despite the district having a majority of black students. Three weeks ago, protests at one board meeting ended in the arrests of three New Black Pan ther Party members, including beret-sporting co-founder Aaron Michaels. Party leaders soon announced plans to show up with shotguns and rifles at the next meeting. When that meeting, sched uled for Tuesday night, was canceled, New Black Panther Party members turned their at tention to two black congrega tions’ churches that burned Monday in Greenville about 20 miles northeast of Dallas. Ac companied by former Nation ol Islam spokesman Khalid Muhammad, they vowed armed defense against further attacks. Michaels, 34, did not return calls seeking comment Wednesday. At a Wednesday news con ference, the Black Panther Par ty Inc. asked the New Black Panther Party to change its name within 15 days or face court action. “We have historical as well as statutory rights to our name,” the Black Panther Party stated in a news release. “There is much confusion and embarrass ment now for the history and true legacy of the Black Panther Party, its members, former members, board members and in the community due to your con tinued misuse of the name Black Panther Party or so-called ‘New Black Panther Party.’” Dallas County and state records show that the Black Panther Party registered its name with the county on Aug. 12, 1991, and incorporated in Texas on July 10, 1992. The New Black Panther Party registered its name in Dallas County about two weeks after the first group, on Aug. 28, 1991. It is not in corporated in Texas, the Sec retary of State’s office said. 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