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Although the paparazzi have been blamed
for Princess Diana’s death, three Bryan-Col-
lege Station media professionals said yester
day in a photojournalism discussion that the
public’s obsession for celebrity news and the
driver of the limousine were responsible for
the tragedy.
The MSC Great Issues discussion, held in
292 MSC, featured Donnis Baggett, editor and
publisher of the Bryan-College Station Eagle;
Dr. Douglas Starr, a professor in the Texas A&M
Department of Journalism; and Mary Helen
Bowers, deputy director of University Relations.
Starr said several factors were involved in
Diana’s death, but the driver caused the car
accident.
“To say the paparazzi was at fault is going
too far,” he said. “They may have been a con
tributing cause, but a drunk driver is not good
under any circumstances.”
The tabloids and mainstream press are
separate businesses, Baggett said, but the line
between the two is becoming blurred.
Starr said a distinction needs to be made
between the paparazzi and the news media.
“Paparazzi photographers are not mem
bers of the news media,” he said. “They are
freelance photographers who sell pictures to
whoever will buy them. The news media have
nothing to do with that.”
Baggett said the actions of the paparazzi
are not those of responsible journalists, but
that a market exists for their photographs.
“The focus should be on the insatiable ap
petite people have for news and gossip on
celebrities,” Baggett. “It is the darker side of
humanity. If we didn’t buy it, they wouldn’t
produce it.”
Bowers said strict English libel laws en-
“It is the darker side of humanity.
If we didn’t buy it, they wouldn’t
produce it.”
DONNIS BAGGETT
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER OF THE EAGLE
courage the paparazzi.
“Journalists are not allowed to write cer
tain stories, but photographers can take pic
tures of those same stories that can be pub
lished,” she said.
She said images are strong, and people are
not as likely to read a newspaper without
photographs.
“It is hard for University Relations to pro
mote A&M without pictures of students and
faculty,” Bowers said. “Publications are not
the same without pictures because the im
ages stick with them.”
Starr said Princess Diana was a popular fig
ure worldwide who supported many charities.
Diana used the news media to publicize
her work, he said, but the paparazzi also con
centrated on the details of her personal life.
“Diana liked the paparazzi and the press
when they promoted her causes,” Starr said.
“But once she became a public figure, she lost
privacy and would always be in the public.”
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Shannon Dutschke, nursery supervisor, plants Scarlett roses by the sculpture commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall. The
sculpture is located at the George Bush Library Complex.
Clinton fights for trade authority
WASHINGTON (AP) — Plunging into
a difficult fight, President Clinton led an
aggressive lobbying effort in Congress on
Tuesday for passage of legislation de
signed to promote future trade deals. Or
ganized labor countered with a costly ad
campaign in opposition.
While senior aides provided details of
the long-delayed legislation to key law
makers of both parties, Clinton journeyed
to the Capitol for a meeting with rank-and-
file Democrats, many of them skeptical
about the proposal.
In brief remarks before departing the
White House, Clinton said that 12 million
jobs are supported by exports. The nation
“must embrace global growth and expand
American exports,” he said.
The legislation would give Clinton the
ability to negotiate international trade ac
cords subject to a “yes-or-no” vote in Con
gress, and without possibility of amend
ment — a procedure known as “fast-track.”
Clinton and other presidents have had such
authority over the years, but it has lapsed.
In a concession to majority Republi
cans, the administration’s proposal does
not contain the provisions many Democ
rats had sought to bar other countries from
exploiting their workers or sacrificing en
vironmental protection to gain advantage
over American firms.
Instead, Clinton pledged to use his
executive authority to negotiate side
agreements covering labor and the en
vironment .
A time for unity
Students gather to celebrate Hispanic heritage and culture
opinion
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By Jenara Kocks
Staff writer
The Hispanic Heritage Unity
Rally, held yesterday at Rudder
fountain, celebrated the Hispanic
community and its culture at
Texas A&M.
Students gathered to listen to
Hispanic music and guest speak
ers and to watch Hispanic
dancers.
Guest speaker Victor Morales,
1996 Democratic senatorial can
didate and a high school teacher,
said running for the office was not
easy, but that he was proud to be
the first minority U.S. senatorial
candidate in the history of Texas.
He said students need to be “true
to themselves” and their cultures,
but also must remember they are
part of the American culture.
“We should be proud of our
roots, but we’re still here,” Morales
said. “This is our country. This is
America. This is our land. We al
ways need to keep hold of that in
trying times, like this Hopwood
case, when the anger starts to well
up. Grab onto something in the
past.”
Morales said he remembers
Unlikely odds
Class shows
difficulty of
lottery contest
By Jenara Kocks
Staff writer
Need money for next semester’s tuition?
Got a dollar?
Think paying for your tuition is as easy as buying a
lottery ticket?
Texas A&M students in Dr. Ted Anthony’s BANA 303
and 305 classes know better.
The students’ first assignment this semester was to
generate 100 6-digit numbers using the EXCEL spread
sheet program.
Anthony, an associate business professor, told the
class any student who produced the winning numbers
for the Sept. 6th Texas Lotto Drawing would receive an
A’ for the course.
The winner would still have to attend classes and
take all tests for the course.
Anthony said none of the students won an A.
According to lottery results on the Texas Comptrol
ler’s homepage, no one in the state of Texas won the $8
million jackpot.
An eight-inch high stack of papers with lists of num
bers sits on Anthony’s desk.
"This stack wouldn’t have won a thing,” Anthony
said. “It (the stack) would have been worth $55,000.”
Leticia Vasquez, a spokesperson for the Texas Lot
tery Commission, said the commission does not try to
hide the odds of winning.
“We usually tell people that you have a better chance
of getting hit by lightning than to win,” Vasquez said.
She said a person has a 1-in-600,000 chance of get
ting hit by lightning, but only a 1-in-50,890,000 chance
of winning in the Texas Lotto game.
Anthony said he gave the lottery number assign-
‘ ment for the first time about a year ago to a BANA 458
class. In that class, students turned in lists of 1,000 num
bers twice a week before the Wednesday and Saturday
Texas Lotto drawings for ten weeks.
“In that (assignment) we invested $1.1 million, and
no one won,” Anthony said.
Please see Lottery on Page 6.
Jackson joins protest
against UT professor
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BRANDON BOLLOM/The Battalion
Victor Morales speaks at the Hispanic Heritage Month Unity Rally
Tuesday afternoon.
when his white second-grade
teacher used to bring him assign
ments when he was sick. He said
she was his inspiration to become
a teacher.
Morales also said students
should work together.
“Be 100-percent proud of who
you are,” he said. “You come from
a proud people who know work,
who know sacrifice and who are
contributing a lot to this nation.”
Please see Rally on Page 6.
AUSTIN (AP) — The Rev. Jesse
Jackson told University ofTexas stu
dents Tuesday to boycott classes of
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a law professor who said black and
Mexican American students are not
academically competitive.
“We’re not the problem, he is
the problem,” Jackson told the
nearly 5,000 students gathered be
low the steps of the campus’ main
tower. “You have no obligation to
be in his class.”
Lino Graglia, a 67-year-old pro
fessor of constitutional law at the
university’s law school, has become
the center of controversy since his
comments last week.
“Blacks and Mexican-Americans
are not academically competitive
with whites in selective institutions,”
Graglia said then. “It is the result pri
marily of cultural effects. They have a
culture that seems not to encourage
achievement. Lailure is not looked
upon with disgrace.”
University officials have de
nounced Graglia’s comments, and
some students and state legislators
have called for his ouster But Jack-
son said that would make only
make Graglia the victim.
“If we fire him he will sue and
that will make him a martyr,” said
Jackson. “What we must do is iso
late him as a social pariah.”
The civil rights leader said the in
cident shows why the university
needs a more ethnically diverse stu
dent body. He said Graglia and uni
versity officials also must answer for
what the law professor said.
“Those that hired him had good
grades. Those who hired him had
PhDs Those who gave him a
tenured professorship — they had
grades, but they had a blurred vi
sion of humanity,” he said.
“He has legal grounds for free
speech, but no moral ground and
no scientific ground for racist, fas
cist, inaccurate speech.”
In a written statement released
Tuesday afternoon, Graglia said his
comments “have given rise to mis
understandings and inaccurate
statements.”
“My opposition to racial prefer
ences does not, of course, constitute
opposition to equal access and op
portunity,” he said.
Graglia stood by his opposition
to affirmative action programs,
but he said he “regrets that the re
sult has been an emotional con
frontation.”