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Sports Wednesday • Aprillj Aggie Sports Briefs Clinton discusses race at town hall from staff and wire reports Bearkats lose two games to Aggies The Texas A&M Softball Team took both games of a doubleheader at Sam Houston State. The Aggies won game one 9-1 as two freshmen led the way. Outfielder Tiffany Esters slugged two home runs and two RBI and pitcher Amy Vining got her 10th win of the season. The Aggies took game two 7-4. Senior pitcher Trina Solesbee hit a solo home run in the sixth inning to break a 4-4 tie. Davis, Jack among season honorees The Texas A&M Men’s Basketball program announced the recipients of the team’s annual awards on Tuesday. Calvin Davis received the Breazeale Free Throw Efficiency Award after shooting 80.7 percent from the line. Shanne Jones received the Long- brake Leading Scorer Award after aver aging 18 points per game and 19.1 points in Big 12 Conference play. Fresh man Aaron Jack received the Scoates Garner Academic Achievement Award. Theater Arts Program presents HOUSTON (AP) — Narrowing the focus of his national dialogue on race, President Clinton gathered with an all-star lineup of sports fig ures Tuesday to discuss stereotyping and other race issues in athletics. As an avid fan of college basketball and major professional sports, Clin- , ton is well versed in such sensitive is sues as white dominance in coaching and sports team ownership. The Houston meeting, scheduled for 90 minutes and broadcast live on ESPN, was the second of Clinton’s three planned nationally televised town hall meetings on race. The first was in Akron in December. Why sports? “Race in sports offers an analogy that really can be translated into the larger society,” Judith Winston, exec utive director of Clinton’s race initia tive, said before the session at the downtown Wortham Theater Center. “We think this is a great oppor tunity to illustrate some substantial points using sports as an example of the way we dealt with race relations — both our successes and our con tinuing challenges,” she added. The Houston program featured such sports luminaries as Jim Brown, the former Cleveland Browns running back; Keyshawn Johnson, a wide receiver for the New York Jets and five-time Olympic medalist Jackie Joyner- Kersee. Also on the program were John Thompson, head basketball Dancing At Lughnasa by Brian Friel J A * I A r* A r\ f-s. 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Clinton’s first town hall meeting on race, at Akron, covered a wide “We are really on the verge of throw ing tokenism out the window.” Carmen Policy 49ers President range of topics. His hope in Hous ton was to narrow the focus to sports in a way that would engage Americans who might not other wise want to discuss race issues. “We’re trying to broaden the au dience of the people, to get more people involved,” White House deputy press secretary Joe Lockhart said. “We think it can make a very interesting conversation, a very good way to start a conversation if you use sports as the vehicle.” Policy, owner of the 49ers, said the NFL, which has only three black head coaches among its 30 teams, is more aggressively addressing race issues as a result of Clinton’s call for a national dialogue. “We are really on the verge of throwing tokenism out the win dow,” Policy said before the town hall meeting. At the Akron session, Clinton struggled to draw out the opinions of panelists, who were mainly univer sity students and community lead ers. Save for an exchange on affir mative action between Clinton and a conservative author, the panelists agreed with each other for nearly the entire session. Clinton conceded that deeper sentiments would have to be expressed outside of his forum. “This is the beginning, not the end,” Clinton said then. In Houston, the forum’s makeup angered Latino activists who com plained that too few Hispanics were represented. Felipe Lopez, a basket ball star at St. John’s University, was the only Hispanic on the 11 -member panel. ESPN added Lopez after a Lati no group wrote to Clinton to protest. Lockhart said ESPN had invited numerous Hispanic sports figures, who declined for various reasons. He said the White House was satisfied with the final group. “It is a good pan el bringing a wide variety of opinions and experiences,” Lockhart said. 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