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The Texas A&M College of Edu-
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The open house will feature rep-
sentatives from the college’s five
apartments — educational admin-
itration, curriculum and instruction,
ducational human resources devel-
ipment, educational psychology
md health and kinesiology.
Admission is free.
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BURLESON (AP) — There’s too
arned much cussing in books like
he Adventures of Tom Sawyer for it to
i assigned for eighth-grade student
i ;ading, Burleson public schools offi-
ials have decided.
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1 ew school year last week, teachers
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1 rofanib/" on reading lists for elemen-
| tiyand middle-school students.
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1 ords as “damn” and “hell,” school
I fficials said. Curriculum director
:l idy Hajek said she will meet this
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* auschuber to define profanity.
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AUSTIN (AP) — A fund-raising
(Xpert brought in to lead a $1 bil-
on drive has been ousted over
hilosophical differences with Pe-
rFlawn, interim president of the
Diversity of Texas.
Larry Lollar, who served as the
Diversity’s vice president for devel
opment since coming to Austin from
itanford University three years ago,
aid he was stunned when Flawn
sked him to step down.
Lollar has been reassigned as
special assistant to Flawn. He
ill be replaced by Johnnie Ray,
ho had been associate vice pres
ent for development.
Brick by Brick:
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manity builds
two homes for
sisters in “Blitz
Build.”
See Page 5
sports
prad Crowley wants to leave
ootball program as successful
ithe one he entered.
See Page 7
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Jllows students to catch a
plimpse of symbolic history.
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THURSDAY* SEPTEMBER 25 • 1997
Regents set to vote on new additions
By Jenara Kocks
Stajf writer
The Texas A&M Board of Regents will accept
or decline construction bids for an Easterwood
Airport Rescue and Firefighting Facility and
two grass football practice fields at the MSC
Thursday and Friday.
A bid on Easterwood Airport Rescue and
Firefighting Facility will be voted on at the
meeting.
H.E. Raisor, director of aviation at East
erwood Airport, said the firefighting facility
will be used for community and aircraft-res
cue firefighting.
Raisor said the facility, including a fire truck,
will cost about $2 million. Raisor said $1.4 mil
lion will come from the federal government
and the rest will come from other sources that
have not been decided yet.
The regents also will vote on a bid for the
construction of two grass football practice
fields behind Kyle Field.
Alan Cannon, sports information direc
tor, said if the football team practiced on
Kyle Field six days a week, the grass would
die. He said practice fields will keep Kyle
Field in “playing shape,” and that most
schools with a grass playing surface have
two to six grass practice fields.
The Board of Regents also will approve or
deny preliminary plans for a 10,000-square foot
child-care center to be built by University
Apartments.
Mary Miller, chair of the child-care cen
ter advisory committee and associate vice
president for administration, said the con
struction of the building should be com
pleted in July. The center should open for
business in Fall 1998.
“I’m really excited about the design and so
is tlie committee, who has been working on the
design for two years,” she said.
Miller said the center will be able to serve
Construction Bids
□ Easterwood Airport Rescue.
□ Firefighting Facility.
□ Two football practice fields.
118 full-time and 40 part-time students ofTexas
A&M and employees.
Miller said the committee believes pro
gramming is the most important part of pro
viding good care for children.
“The center will focus on state-of-the-art
concepts of early child development,” she said.
“It will have a favorable staff-to-student ratio. It
(the ratio) will be lower than the average child
care center.
Terri Parker, director of communications for
the Texas A&M University System, said the re
gents will present a “Regents Professor Service
Award” to nine System faculty members in
recognition of their “exemplary” service to the
System at Friday’s meeting.
Award recipients will be given the title of
“Regents Professor”, a monetary reward of
$3,000 for three years and a silver medallion
that has the System’s seal on it. Two Texas
A&M professors and two professors in the
Texas Agicultural Experiment Station and
Texas Engineering Experiment Station will
receive the award.
The Boar d also will be asked to authorize the
name change of the College of Geosciences
and Maritime Studies to the College of Geo
sciences.
P.J. Vanpool, a graduate student in construction management, reaches for dessert at Sbisa Dining Hall
Wednesday evening. See related story, Page 4.
Film to confront
ethnic relations
By Robert Smith
Senior stajf writer
A documentary film, The Color of
Fear, that focuses on social and eth
nic relations, will be presented
tonight at 6 in Rudder Theater.
Lee Mun Wah, the documen
tary’s director, was scheduled to
speak, but
was forced
to cancel.
Aliah
Majone will speak in his place after
ward and explain the film.
LaSondra Carroll, chair of the
MSC Black Awareness Committee
and a sophomore journalism ma
jor, said the program will promote
cultural awareness at A&M.
“It blew me away the first time I
saw it (fire film),” she said. “I thought
‘We need to bring this to A&M.’”
Carroll said the program will
bring students from different eth
nic groups together.
Curtis Childers, student body
president and a senior agricultur
al development major, said he
wants to attend the program.
“As student leaders, we have to
stretch our concerns of cultural
awareness,” he said.
Childers said he encourages A&M
students to attend the program.
“It will be a heartening, eye
opening experience,” he said.
In the documentary, eight men
of different social and ethnic back
grounds discuss race relation is
sues facing society.
The Color of Fear was awarded
“The Golden Apple Award” in 1995
by the National Education Media
Network.
Lee also started Stir Fry Semi
nars & Consulting, an organiza
tion that helps corporations deal
with racism through education,
communication and training in
conflict facilitation.
Dessiree Ewing, vice chair of
BAG, said the program is designed
to help student relations between
ethnic groups.
Please see Fear on Page 6.
□ Please see related
letter. Page 6.
► Winter Spirit ofAggieland
Committee prepares
for campus decoration
By Bran dye Brown
Stajf writer
Texas A&M will be decorated with
lights this December, ushering in a
tradition called the Winter Spirit of
Aggieland.
Campus decorations have been
planned through the effort of the Stu
dent Senate’s Winter Spirit of Ag
gieland committee.
Suzanne Smith, Winter Spirit ofAg
gieland chair and a senior agricultural
development major, said enthusiasm
among students is often low in De
cember because of final exams, brown
foliage and 80-degree weather.
“The spirits of students fall after
Bonfire falls,” Smith said. “Hopefully
this will give students more comfort
in the winter season and give Texas
A&M the feel of home. We hope it will
raise students’ spirits for the actual
winter season and motivate them
throughout finals.”
Smith said 72 trees on New Main
Drive, from Texas Avenue to the Ad
ministration Building, will be wrapped
with lights. This drive will lead to the
main tree decorated on the lawn of the
Administration Building, which will be
visible from Texas Avenue.
Two smaller trees, wreaths and
other lights also will decorate the
campus, Smith said.
She said donations will fund the
campus decorations, and student
fees will not be used.
Jeremiah Williams, Student Gov
ernment vice president of student re
lations and a senior agricultural eco
nomics major, said student
organizations can sponsor one of file
72 trees on Main Drive for $100, and
the student organization will have a
symbol on file tree.
Please see Spirit on Page 6.
Bush Library readies for opening in November
By Joey Jeanette Schlueter
Stajf writer
The George Bush Presidential Library and
Museum is almost complete and ready for the
dedication ceremony in November.
The dedication will be Thursday, Nov. 6,
and the facilities will be open to the public
Friday, Nov. 7.
Former President George Bush and Bar
bara Bush will be joined at the ceremony by
President Bill Clinton and former Presidents
Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.
Gov. George W. Bush and wife, Laura, for
mer Vice President Dan Quayle and Gen. Col
in Powell also are expected to attend.
Some former Bush administrators will at
tend along with former British Prime Minis
ter John Major and other world leaders dur
ing the Bush administration.
Jeb Bush, president of the George Bush
Presidential Library Foundation and Presi
dent Bush’s son, will be master of ceremonies.
Moving artifacts into the library is one of
the last tasks for the Bush Materials Project
team, who handles archives and artifacts for
the library.
The team is unpacking and positioning
more than 38 million pages of documents,
one million photographs, thousands of
sound and video recordings and other vol
umes of information documenting the life
and career of President Bush.
The library and museum, which is a 69,000
square foot facility on 92 acres at Texas A&M,
is a part of the George Bush Presidential Li
brary Center.
The Library Center includes the Bush
School of Government and Public Service, the
Presidential Conference Center, the Presi
dential Library Foundation and office and liv
ing quarters for President and Mrs. Bush.
The museum will house historical items, in
cluding a restored replica of the fighter bomber
that President Bush flew during World War II
and a re-creation of Camp David.
Don Wilson, executive director for the
Bush complex, said all artifacts should have
been completely housed in the museum in
August.
A TBM Avenger aircraft resembling the
one President Bush flew in World War II is in
the museum.
“The complex is coming along as
planned,” Wilson said. “Visitors will have a lot
of interesting things to look at.”
Wilson said papers and memorabilia from
Bush’s career also will be kept on the 90-acre
complex for public viewing. Scholars will be
able to access more than 38 million pages of
documents from the Bush administration.
David Alsobrook, director of Bush Presi
dential material projects at A&M, said high-val
ue gifts will highlight the exhibits.
Russian president Boris Yeltsin presented
Bush with a solid silver and gold urn as a gift
during his administration. The urn will be dis
played with a plaque explaining the signifi
cance Bush had in foreign affairs.
Another gift that will be displayed is a
model of a Saudi desert fortress made of sol
id gold. The 3-by-5 foot model was given to
Bush by nation leaders.
A 13-foot model of the Boeing 747 Air
Force One allows viewers a closer look at the
presidential plane.
Portraits will dominate the walls along
with a section of the Berlin Wall, which was
torn down during the Bush administration.
Also, memorabilia from the Persian Gulf
War will be displayed. A Patriot missile will
symbolize United States’ involvement in the
victory along with a replica of a SCUD missile,
if space allows.
For animal lovers, Bush’s 1,500-piece
menagerie of elephant figurines made of dif
ferent things ranging from crystals to coconut
will be displayed.
These gifts and artifacts are a part of the
complex which includes three main sections:
the Bush School, the Presidential Conference
Center and the Bush Library an Museum and
Archives.
Please see Bush on Page 6.
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