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Page 2 • The Battalion • Monday, August 5, 1996
ExCEL celebrates 10th anniversar
By Amy Protas
The Battalion
This year will mark the tenth
anniversary of the ExCEL confer
ence. The two-day conference,
which stands for Excellence in unit
ing Culture, Education and Leader
ship, serves as an additional orien
tation for minority students.
Anita Snell, an ExCEL team
leader and senior education ma
jor, said ExCELL gives minority
students at the conference a
“comfort zone” for their fresh
man year.
“ExCEL is a freshman orienta
tion program geared for and not
necessarily limited to ethnic mi
nority students,” Snell said. “It
gets them into A&M and acquaint
ed with the University. They are
able to form a foundation.”
During the conference, students
meet with campus leaders who an
swer questions and offer advice.
“We have professors from the
different colleges come in,”
Snell said. “The yell leaders
come in to talk about tradi
tions. We also have a student
panel that answers questions
about student life.”
Brad Angell, director of regis
tration at ExCEL and a junior
agricultural development major,
said he got involved to encourage
students to embrace Texas
A&M’s traditions.
“I felt like there’s a need for
more minority involvement in
traditions,” Angell said. “There’s
a big need for minorities to feel
welcome at this school and ad
just as freshmen.”
Angell said unfortunately, mi
nority students can easily avoid
involvement in traditions.
“A lot of times, minority stu
dents get discouraged because
there are so few minorities in
volved in the traditions,” Angell
said. “If we get more numbers
out there, it will encourage them
to get involved.”
One of the functions of ExCEL
is to show minority students they
are not alone at A&M. Snell said
she wished she would have gone
through the conference when she
was a freshman.
“I guess coming through this
conference, you realize you’re not
the only one,” Snell said. “There
are people here who’ve been
through it and can tell their sto
ries. Here we are and we’re about
to graduate and we did it.”
Angell said the friendships
that develop are the most impor
tant thing about ExCEL.
“The most beneficial thing is,
they get some time to met:;
other and get camaraderifl
others like them,” Angeii
“It’s people that feel the!
way about coming to A&M
Although minority skfa
also go through the regulal
student conferences, ExCE.
fers a little more.
“With this conferee
opens so many doors,” Sne
"Students get familiarize^;
the Department of J
Services. They also realiJ
not just our minorities.
a very diverse staff.”
At the conference, stu:J
are offered the option oft
class their freshman years
ExCEL Plus. The one-hoc .
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Management.
CPA educates citizens of local law enforcemei
By Erica Roy
The Battalion
For the past nine years, the College Sta
tion Police Department has conducted a
Citizen Police Academy (CPA), designed to
educate citizens of College Station on local
law enforcement operations.
Lt. Scott Simpson said through the pro
gram, citizens can become familiar with the
functions of the Police Department.
“It’s a crash course, basically information
on all the things we do to make the system
work,” Simpson said. “People think all we do
is sit out in the bushes and wait for people
speeding to come by; then we head out to the
doughnut shop. This gives them a better un
derstanding of what we really do.”
The Citizen Police Academy runs 12
weeks. Classes are held on Tuesday nights
from 7 to 10 p.m.
The dispatch system, traffic stops, do
mestic and gang violence, narcotics, gang
violence, criminal investigation and crim
inal law are among the various subjects
covered in the classes.
The majority of the 12-week period is
spent in the classroom, but students also
participate in some hands-on activities.
During the traffic stops class, students
participate in role-playing games. CPA
alumni or off-duty police officers pose as
speeding drivers while students pretend
to be officers stopping the driver. Stu
dents actually wear a gun belt, holster,
unloaded gun and ticket book.
Crime Prevention Officer Darrell Lued-
ke, who teaches the class on traffic stops,
said role-playing games give the students
an understanding of how the police officer
feels approaching a vehicle.
“It lets them understand from the officer’s
point of view what it is like,” Luedke said.
“It lets them know exactly what it’s like to
be on the other side.”
"It's a crash course, basically infor
mation on all the things we do to
make the system work."
— SCOTT SIMPSON
College Station police officer
Russell Howerton, vice president of
the CPA Alumni Association, said role-
playing was the highlight of the class for
him. He said there were different scenar
ios for each student, so no one knew what
to expect. The driver might cooperate, or
he might “shoot” the pretend officer.
Students also ride in a patrol cars with an
on-duty officer.
Two classes are held each year. The fall
class starts on Sept. 3. A class is also held
in the spring.
The class usually consists of 30 students.
Simpson said they never have room for all
the people who want to join the class. They
try to get a cross-section of citizens from Col
lege Station. Usually three to four A&M stu-
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dents are included in each class.
Simpson said the Police Departmen:
efits from offering the Citizen Police
my because it helps foster good relation
with the citizens of College Station.
“Our goal is to educate our custoim
to say,” Simpson said. "If they have
ter understanding of what we do, the;
tell others in the community. It’sri
against everybody.”
Luedke said the CPA gives him a
ter understanding of how the average
izen feels.
“It helps me understand the misco
tions and fears the public has aboutfcl
forcement and the role we play,” Lui
said. “It creates better communication
tween us and the community.”
Howerton said his experience asastn
of the CPA has taught him not to hesita:
use the Police Department. He nowhasa
ter understanding of what police workeni
“I am much more confident about
them if I feel the need to,” Howerton8a!:|
Howerton was stopped by a police ol
year ago for an expired inspection sticke:
said he knew how to act toward the offc
make him feel at ease.
Howerton said everyone should attaii
CPA to become better acquainted will
Police Department.
“If it were up to me, I would requiri
Everyone should know their police de;
ment,” Howerton said. “The better
know them, the better they are to safegi
themselves.”
A&M researchers helping to reduce salmonella threap
By James Fowler
The Battalion
Texans love homemade ice
cream during the summer, but
researchers say ice cream made
with raw eggs can be hazardous
to your health. Raw eggs can
carry salmonella bacteria.
Recent breakthroughs by
Texas A&M researchers are
helping egg producers reduce
the public health threat from
salmonella.
Dr. Steven Ricke, Dr. John
Carey and graduate students
Young Min Kwon and F.L. Kuo of
the poultry science department
have discovered an environmental
ly safe and effective method of
fighting salmonella bacteria.
Many bacteria reside on
the surface of eggs or enter
them through pores or cracks
in the shells.
Dr. Ricke has worked on the
salmonella problem with eggs
since arriving at A&M in 1992.
“I immediately focused on
salmonella, one of the most im
portant problems in poultry pro
cessing,” he said. “The industry
was looking at prevention in
carcasses, but new sanitizing
washes were not very effective
due to the organic loads. Since
these washes had killed organ
isms on hard surfaces, we
thought it might work on eggs.”
Researchers linked about 2
percent of the outbreaks of food-
borne disease between 1973 and
1987 to eggs contaminated by
salmonella. Nationally, salmo
nella costs billions of dollars
each year in direct health costs
and productivity losses.
Ricke, in cooperation with
Biomedical Development Corpo
ration in San Antonio, received
a grant from the National Insti
tute of Health to research his
theory. Ricke, Kwon and Kuo
tested the effectiveness of an
enzyme-derived compound for
washing eggs.
Kuo has returned home to
Taiwan. But Kwon, a Ph.D. can
didate in poultry science, will
extend their research commer
cially in Phase II of the grant.
Kwon arrived at A&M almost
two years ago from Seoul Na
tional University.
“I came to A&M upon the ad
vice of a former student of Dr.
Ricke, who knew I was interest
ed in microbiology,” Kwon said.
“I hope to graduate in three
years and then return to Korea
to accept a research position at
the university.”
Dr. Ricke and his associates’
research proved a commercially
produced compound, Enzodine,
is as effective as other, less en
vironmentally friendly sub
stances in reducing salmonella.
Unfortunately, the proce
dures developed by the A&M re
searchers may be years from be
ing implemented nationwide.
Until then, the United States
Department of Agriculture
(USDA) recommends thorough
ly cooking eggs. USDA guide
lines suggest boiling eggs for
seven minutes, poaching them
for five minutes or frying them
for three minutes on each side.
The USDA also advised con
sumers should avoid eating raw
eggs and store them below 45
degrees Fahrenheit.
Food safety experts also ad
vocate using egg separators to
extract the yolks from the
shells. They also recommend
discarding cracked eggs.
Gwendolyn Struve, TheBatMU
Young Min Kwon, Ph.D. candid*
in poultry science, counts salmond
la colonies in a Kleberg laboratory.
“Food safety is vital, especia!
ly for college students whom!;
be away from home for the firs
time,” Ricke said. “You mns
cook food thoroughly and ]
tice good sanitation in
kitchen. It’s got to be like
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