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THURSDAY • OCTOBER 30 • 1997
Panel supports Bonfire autonomy
C^i I I H B U 1 I Vr
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By Robert Smith
Senior staff writer
Two junior Bonfire redpots were relieved
of their duties last night after a student said
they knowingly allowed a stripper to perform
at cut site last Sunday.
John Gallemore, Head Stack, said the two
bonfire leaders were dismissed for “not tak
ing action and remedying the situation.”
Gallemore also said two Dunn Hall Bon
fire leaders have been banned from partic
ipating in Bonfire this year and Dunn Hall will
no longer be allowed to participate as an en
tity with the 1997-98 Bonfire.
Travis Bendele, a senior bioengineering
major, told a panel of student leaders last
night several Bonfire leaders hired a female
stripper to perform at Bonfire cut last Sunday.
Earlier last night, a student leader panel
agreed Texas A&M should not make regulations
for Bonfire cut and stack, unless Bonfire student
leaders cannot eliminate profanity on pots.
MSC Great Issues sponsored the panel of
Gallemore; Adam Collett, educational ad
ministration graduate student; Helen Clancy,
Battalion editor in chief; Alex Cabanas, a se
nior red pot; and Bill Youngkin, Class of ’69
and former yell leader.
Collett said students must change the im
age of Bonfire to maintain its status as a rec
ognized University tradition.
“Tve listened to numerous students who
are deeply involved in Bonfire; many of them
believe without doubt that Bonfire could nev
er be eliminated,” Collett said. “But the truth
is there isn’t anyone or anything that the Uni
versity wouldn’t eliminate ... if it sufficiently
interfered with or distracted from its educa
tional mission.”
Youngkin said students should be trusted
to improve the environment at Bonfire with
out A&M making regulations.
“The thing I want to promote is that stu
dents can be in charge of this (Bonfire) and be
responsible,” he said. “I don’t want the Uni
versity to come in and be setting guidelines.
They don’t have the appreciation and back
ground we have for Bonfire.”
Dr. J. Malon Southerland, vice president of
student affairs, said Monday that the Univer
sity will not make regulations about the pro
fane phrases on pots, because Bonfire lead
ers have corrected the situation.
Bonfire workers were photographed earli
er this month at stack site wearing pots with
profane phrases.
Clancy, a senior English major, said Bon
fire participants must be aware that they rep
resent the University.
“Students should reevaluate their purpose
for participating in Bonfire,” Clancy said. “I
can’t imagine that the atmosphere my pho
tographer happened upon captured the spir
it of Bonfire.”
Clancy also said the University should not
step in and set standards for Bonfire.
“Aggies are independent and intelligent
enough to solve their own problems, and Bon
fire is clearly a student tradition,” she said.
“We’ve had a good feeling from
students about changing the pots.
Everyone has been supportive of it
and they have taken off their pots.”
JOHN GALLEMORE
HEAD STACK
Bonfire student leaders were given last week
to voluntarily remove profane phrases on the
pots with out the University intervening.
Please see Bonfire on Page 6
A&M prepares for
Community Day
B-CS area gets ready for Bush Library opening
By Joey Jeanette Schlueter
Staff writer
Texas A&M organizations and Bryan-
College Station residents are gearing up
for Community Day at the George Bush
Presidential Library and Museum Nov. 7.
Mary Helen Bowers, deputy director
for University Relations, said Communi
ty Day is a time for fun and celebration.
“The whole idea of the event is to have
fun,” she said. “Bringing the world to the
Brazos Valley — that’s what we want the
library to do.”
Former President George Bush and
his wife, Barbara, will stay in College Sta
tion to attend Community Day following
the dedication of the library Nov. 6.
Community Day will kick off at 9:30
a.m. at the library and museum and is
free to the public.
The Bush Library, which will be open
until 7 p.m. on Community Day, will host
different nationalities, music, literacy pro
grams and school children. Tents will fea
ture organizations with special exhibits.
Among the crowd will be a number of
guests including international students
ge
Complex
and international school children dressed
in costumes from different cultures.
Sports such as baseball, tennis, golf and
horseshoes will be played at the event.
Please see Bonfire on Page 6.
Financial aid center
to host open house
AMY DUNLAP/The Battalion
Lindsay Capelle, a sophomore horticulture major, picks mustard seeds in her Horticulture 324
class on West Campus Wednesday.
By Karie Fehler
Staff writer
The Financial Aid
Scholarship Resource
Center is hosting an open
house today from 5 p.m. to
8 p.m. in the Pavilion.
Kelly Reynolds, a senior
financial aid counselor
and chair of the Informa
tion to Students Commit
tee, said the focus of the
open house is to help stu
dents with the financial
aid process and provide a
forum for questions.
“Our computer data
base for scholarships will
be available and we en
courage current and in
coming students to come
see us,” she said.
Reynolds said the
open house is for stu
dents who would like to
find out more about stu
dent financial aid or
scholarships, and stu
dents do not have to at
tend Texas A&M.
“We welcome anyone
to show up and sign up for
our scholarship drawing,
and you don’t have to be
present to win or a student
or even attend Texas
A&M,” she said.
The resource center
will host a drawing for
scholarship money donat
ed by area lenders, and the
money can be used at any
college or university.
Reynolds said infor
mation tables from vari
ous parts of the financial
aid department will be
set set up.
“This is basically an ex
tension of office hours
and we will be available
for students’ questions
and concerns — and there
will be refreshments avail
able,” she said.
Reynolds said it is im
portant for incoming
freshmen and students to
look for scholarships and
apply early for them.
Please see Center on Page 10.
University leaders continue
to focus on multiculturalism
By Rachel Dawley
Staff writer
Some Texas A&M leaders have
been promoting diversity, and is
sues such as the Hopwood decision
and the backlash against affirma
tive action have brought attention
to diversifying the campus.
Student Body President Curtis
Childers, a senior agricultural devel
opment major, defines diversity as
different types of individuals work
ing together to accomplish goals.
“Society has begun to examine
diversity because our focus has
gone from individuals to a team-
oriented perspective,” he said.
“People have found that when you
bring a group of people together to
make a decision, it is generally bet
ter than if one person made the de
cision. The value of bringing a
group of people together is in
creased if they are not all alike.”
The term diversity includes ge
ographic origins, political views,
thought processes, ethnic back
grounds, socioeconomic back
grounds, genders and religious
ideas, Childers said.
For those who define diversity in
terms of numbers and demograph
ics, the enrollment figures at Texas
“I think the reason the
University is here is to
expose students to a variety
of thoughts and ideas.”
WILL HURD
MSC EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT
A&M reflect a lack of ethnic diversity.
Ofthis year’s freshman class, 178 stu
dents are African-American and 607
are Hispanic, a drop of 23 percent
and 15 percent respectively from last
year (203 and 713). Minorities make
up 16 percent of A&M’s student body.
Student leaders said diversity is
not a number and cannot be mea
sured. Diversity is a mental and
psychological process that occurs
when a group fills itself with vari
ous cultural, religious and person
al views.
Will Hurd, MSC executive vice
president for administration and a
junior computer science and in
ternational studies major, said
some people at A&M are defining
diversity with racial lines because
there is a lack of ethnic diversity at
the University. Hurd said the Uni
versity should focus on all types of
diversity including differences of
background, religion, sexual pref
erence and gender.
“I think the reason the Universi
ty is here is to expose students to a
variety of thoughts and ideas,”
Hurd said. “Having a culturally di
verse campus helps to fulfill that
because it teaches students to in
teract with other people.”
Please see Leaders on Page 10.
New sorority aims to
bring diversity to A&M
By Sarah Goldston
Staff writer
The officers of Delta Xi Nu, a
sorority that promotes cultural di
versity, are working to make the
organization a tradition at A&M.
Jetje Brewton, president of Delta
Xi Nu and a junior civil engineering
major, and some of her friends be
gan the organization this month in
hopes of educating Texas A&M
about cultural differences.
“There is racism and preju
dice on campus,” she said. “We
felt that we needed to make more
than an individual effort to con
quer racism; that’s why we start
ed this organization.”
Rena Kharbat, historian of
Delta Xi Nu and a sophomore bio
medical science major, said many
people complain about some
A&M students being racist.
“I love A&M and I want others
to love A&M too,” she said. “I’ve
seen the Confederate flag dis
played by some of the students,
and I’ve seen how it offends some
people. Being here should be a
great experience for everyone.”
Each of the six founding officers
is from a different cultural heritage,
including African-American, His
panic, Dutch and Arabian.
To pursue the goal of diversity,
the Delta Xi Nu Sorority is looking
for applicants from different cul
tural backgrounds. In order to re
cruit members, the officers of the
sorority will give presentations at
different organizations and will
have a booth at the MSC Open
House next semester.
“We are looking for a diverse,
open-minded mixture of women
to promote a positive image,”
Brewton said.
Delta Xi Nu will begin accepting
applications in Febmary. The orga
nization plans to accept 25 women.
Please see Sorority on Page 6.