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Conference
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The effect on freshman admis
sions, strategies to promote di
versity and implications and rec
ommendations for practice on
the decision were discussed by di
rectors, professors, and students
at A&M.
Eduardo Urbina, professor of
Spanish at A&M, presented a mod
el to minimize the Hopwood effect
on Hispanic students.
Urbina said programs geared to
wards Hispanic studies would ben
efit the University. He also recom
mended that A&M implement a
center for Hispanic studies and cre
ate major and minor degrees on
these studies.
“The number of Hispanic stu
dents choosing schools other
than A&M continues to increase
because we do not have an envi
ronment here for these students,”
Urbina said.
Parker C. Johnson, research as
sistant for the Center for Higher
Education Policy Analysis at the
University of Southern California,
presented the movie “Shattering
the Silences.”
The movie represents the cul
tures of African-Americans, Lati
nos, Native-Americans and
Asian-Americans and how these
cultures contribute to a more in
clusive campus environment. It
also presented the pressures mi
nority faculty face in white-ma
jority institutions.
The film showed the benefits of
having a diverse faculty and re
vealed the challenges predomi
nately white institutions face
such as recruiting and retaining
minority students, developing di
verse programs and interracial
communications.
Changes
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David Rickerson, a resi
dent of Hart Hall and a
sophomore computer engi
neering major, said Resi
dence Life needs to give stu
dents a chance to provide
feedback on changes that will
impact their lives.
“Hart Hall is our home,”
Rickerson said. “We are a
family and somebody
knocked on our door the
other day and said that we
are going to shatter that
family. We are not going to
be given consideration sim
ply because we are stu
dents. As students, we need
to stand up and demand
that we be given respect.”
Ron Sass, the director of
Residence Life, said the
most significant reason for
the proposed changes is to
accommodate a greater
number of students who
want to live on campus.
“We lose a lot of people be
cause we can’t accommodate
more in an air-conditioned
space,” Sass said. “But we do
not need more than one non-
air conditioned residence
hall. We could make the air-
conditioned hall more attrac
tive to residents.”
Rudely said that both
Hart and Walton, the only
remaining non-air condi
tioned halls on campus,
currently have vacancies.
Less than 80 incoming resi
dent applicants have re
quested non-air-condi
tioned halls, Rudely said.
“Meeting the consumer
demand to provide air condi-
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tioning could make a positive
impact on the residence hall
community,” Rudely said.
“We are trying to please re
turning and incoming stu
dents. We have more housing
applicants than space at the
beginning of the semester,
but the demand for non-air
conditioned residence halls is
much less.”
Jason Taylor, an RHA
member and a junior civil
engineering major, said the
installation of window
units needs to be given
technical consideration by
Residence Life.
“Window units are noisy,”
Taylor said. “That is inherent
to their design. People are liv
ing in these dorms seven days
a week. That would be an in
creased noise factor and a
near doubling in rent for Wal
ton residents.”
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