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Forum will address
race relations at A&M
By Joey Jeanette Schlueter
Staff writer
A diversity forum tonight will
give Texas A&M students the op
portunity to voice their opinions on
how to improve
race relations
on campus.
Student Body
President Curtis
Childers will host
the forum at 8:30 p.m. in 206 MSC.
The forum follows the presenta
tion of the documentary film The
Color of Fear last Thursday. The film
focuses on eight men of different so
cial and ethnic backgrounds dis
cussing race issues in society.
ChUders, a senior agr icultural de
velopment major, said the forum will
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allow students a chance to offer so
lutions to racial problems at A&M.
“There’s a racial problem on
campus,” he said. “We want to
leave (the meeting) with a lot of
ideas on what we can do about it.”
Childers said more than 100
students from different A&M orga
nizations are expected to attend
the discussion.
The goal of the forum is to iden
tify problems related to race rela
tions and how individuals and or
ganizations can address the
problem, he said.
Ideas from the forum will be
presented at the University of
Texas Diversity Summit Nov. 18-19
in Austin. At the summit, student
governments from different uni
versities will offer solutions to the
problem of racism and a lack of di
versity in higher education.
Childers said the forum will
provide A&M a foundation of ideas
to build on for the future.
“The forum will offer a broad-
based commitment to carry ideas
out and make sure those ideas hap
pen,” he said.
Martin Hodges, director of mi
nority affairs for Student Govern
ment and a senior journalism ma
jor, planned the event.
At the forum, students will form
groups to voice ideas and brain
storm solutions.
Childers said the need to ad
dress racial diversity has prompt
ed Student Government to take
action and fix the problem of
racism on campus.
Graduate work presented
at Chemistry Symposium
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By Rachel Dawley
Staff writer
The 1997 Graduate Research in
Chemistry Symposium gives more
than 40 graduate and post-doctoral
chemistry students the opportunity
to present their research.
The symposium, which began
yesterday and ends today in the
Chemistiy Building, features the re
search of A&M chemistry students
through oral presentations and a
poster contest.
Dr. Tim Hughbanks, an A&M
chemistry professor, said the depart
ment is trying to maintain and ex
pand its relationships with industry.
“A number of industry leaders
are alumni who come back as li
aisons,” he said. “The symposium
allows industry to find out about
the chemistry program and its
students, and it allows students to
meet industry leaders.”
Representatives from Industry-
University Chemistiy Cooperative
Program (IUCCP) member compa-
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“I learned how much
competition there is for
jobs and how important
speaking and presenting
your ideas and research is
to getting a job.”
STEVE MERRIGAN
CHEMISTRY GRADUATE STUDENT
nies gave presentations yesterday
morning on industiy settings. Indus
try representatives meet with gradu
ate students and learn more about
the program, Hughbanks said.
Steve Merrigan, a chemistiy grad
uate student who is training to be a
physical organic chemist, presented
his research and poster yesterday. He
said the symposium showed the dif
ferences between industries and uni
versities.
“An interesting part of the sympo
sium is to see how life in industry is
different from academia,” Merrigan
said. “Industrial research is money-
driven, while academic research is
idea-driven.”
Merrigan said industry leaders re
cruit employees at the symposium.
“I listened to all the presenta
tions,” Merrigan said. “I learned how
much competition there is for jobs
and how important speaking and
presenting your ideas and research is
to getting a job.”
Please see Chemistry on Page 10.
George Bush Library opens its doors on the Web
By Joey Jeanette Schlueter
Staff writer
The George Bush Presidential Library
id Museum can be found on the World
ideWeb atwww.csdl.tamu.edu/bushlib.
The Bush Library Foundation said the
Hie George Bush Digital Library” has
fen under construction since winter of
595.The Foundation has gathered infor-
lation and photographs of artifacts and
Is that will be housed in the library.
The Web site contains five pages fea-
iring a biography of former President
George Bush, public papers, photographs,
museum collections and a biography of
Barbara Bush.
Access to public papers from the Bush
administration is available on the site.
Papers from his two terms as vice pres
ident are available only at the Bush Li
brary.
The museum collections page features
photographs and information on dona
tions from Bush and other heads of state
and domestic gifts.
Gifts from leaders of 17 countries are
featured on the site.
Photos of a gold model of the Fortress
of Musmak in Saudi Arabia are on the site.
The model was a gift to Bush from the
King of Saudi Arabia Fahd bin Abd All-Aziz
AlSa’ud in 1993.
A porcelain lattice bowl from Queen
Elizabeth II of England also is featured, as
well as a solid bronze “dancing bear” giv
en to Bush by former Prime Minister of
Canada Brian Mulroney.
Bush also donated the baseball glove
he used during his college career at Yale
University.
Domestic gifts to Bush from friends
and relatives also are featured, as well as a
life-sized sculpture of Bush’s presidential
pet, Millie.
Photographs on the site include pic
tures of Bush in office during the Gulf War
and attending economic summits.
The site contains numerous shots of
the former president and his family.
The Foundation said the Web site will
be updated frequently with news of the li
brary and museum. The Center for the
Study of Digital Libraries maintains the
site in coordination with the Bush Library.
The site also contains links to the Bush
School of Government and Public Service
and the Bush Library staff.
The Library will be opened to the pub
lic November 7, 1997.
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EMS on the search for
student volunteers
By Amanda Smith
Staff writer
The Emergency Medical Ser
vice (EMS) is sending out a call for
help to Texas A&M students certi
fied as emergency medical tech
nicians and students interested in
joining the on-campus team.
About 40 student volunteer
crew members run the division of
EMS servicing the campus.
Jennifer McGuire, an emer
gency medical technician (EMT)
and a geophysics doctorate stu
dent, said EMS needs more stu
dent technicians to help with on-
carripus operations.
“We have had a lot of calls this
semester,” she said. “We are look
ing for EMTs and paramedics. We
definitely need more than we
have right now. A lot of people are
pulling a lot of extra hours. We
work between classes during the
day. We are in service 24 hours a
day for 365 days during the year.”
Students work night shifts
from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m Monday
through Friday. On weekends,
students work from 7 a.m. to 5
p.m. or 5 p.m. to 7 a.m.
Alan Flanigan, a senior para
medic and a nautical archaeology
graduate student, said EMS mem
bers work 10 to 70 hours per
week.
“We are free to students,” he
said. “We are the 24-hour care on
this campus.”
Flanigan said the on-campus
EMS crew members are volunteers
and receive a monthly stipend of
one dollar, the University’s insur
ance for liability purposes.
Students may receive certifica
tion as an EMT dispatcher by ob
taining CPR and first-aid certifi
cation. Also, the Texas A&M
Department of Kinesiology offers
a course enabling students to re
ceive certification as an EMT.
Julie Harris, an EMT medic and
a junior biomedical science ma
jor, said she became an EMT be
cause of her interest in medicine.
“I did it to decide whether or
not I wanted to go to medical
school,” she said. “It’s a good ex
perience. It teaches you patient
relations and introduces you to
medicine.”
Harris also received training to
drive the ambulance.
Please see EMS on Page 10.
Leslie promotes ethical campaigns
By Brandyi Brown
Staffwriter
While campaign scandals may
flourish in politics, Brooke Leslie,
the first woman student body
president of Texas A&M, has writ
ten a chapter in a book explaining
how campus campaigns can be
both ethical and successful.
Brooke Leslie, Class of’95 and a
University of Texas law student,
was the 1994-95 A&M student
body president. She said it sur
prised her when she was asked to
write a chapter in the book So You
Want to be President... How to Get
Elected on Your Campus.
Leslie, who is studying in London,
said she enjoyed the opportunity and
hopes her experience will benefit
other students.
“I feel that ethics and integrity
should play a large part in any stu
dent election,” she said. “It is up to
the candidate to make sure the cen
tral theme of the campaign is ethics.
It can be easy for a candidate and
campaign workers to lose sight of the
more important concepts of integri
ty and character when you really
want to win.”
Leslie said someone always will
try to bend or break the rules.
“Elections on campus bring out
the fighter in everybody,” she said.
“If you are a candidate, it is your
job to make sure everyone that
works on your campaign carries
out their job ethically.”
Leslie said she used experience
from her involvement in previous
student campaigns and innovative
campaign efforts to help her win
the election.
“It was the creativity and the new
ideas of my staff that were the focal
point of my campaign strategy,”
Leslie said. “I had a staff of about 100
students — that includes everyone
that put shoe polish on their car
windows, dorm windows, changed
their answering machine messages
and carried signs around campus.
These were new ways to campaign
at that time.”
W. H. “Butch” Oxendine, Jr., editor
of the book, said he saw a need for
students to know it is possible to win
campus elections ethically.
“The main reason I published this
book was to show that elections can
be won without being unethical,” he
said. “The student leaders (quoted in
the book) are people students can
emulate. In hindsight, I see that these
ethical leaders are the future.”
Oxendine said the accounts in
the book of 25 student leaders,
men, women and minorities
Former A&IVI Student Body President
Brooke Leslie wrote a chapter in the
book So You Want to be President.
from schools of different sizes,
should inspire students.
“These are 25 students who had
issues that mattered to them and
to the student body, and they cared
about these issues,” he said. “It is
n’t about popularity in their cases,
but about a well thought-out cam
paign strategy.”
Please see Leslie on Page 10.