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16-year-old College Station resident Andre Jones prepares a pina colada snowcone Monday afternoon
at the Chill Out Snowcones stand. The snowcone stand makes an average of 100 snowcones a day
during the summer.
Diversity
Continued from Page 1
Schaffer said A&M needs to recognize the
progress made and the need to continue to
make progress. She said in comparison to
other major Texas universities, A&M is not
far behind.
“U.T. [University of Texas] is doing better,
but not much better,” she said. “As the
Houston Chronicle points out, the Universi
ty of Houston is ahead of every school in the
state. ”
Schaffer said urban universities have
higher-percentages of minorities than A&M.
The report said, “The general counsel of
Texas A&M University has advised us that
funds cannot be designated for the specific
purpose of minority faculty recruitment.”
The report says this “challenges the Uni
versity to renew and strengthen our com
mitment to recruitment and retention of a di
verse university community. ”
Donors
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The Birdwells’ Sul Ross
Scholarship will be matched
by part of a $10 million do
nation to the Corps made by
H.R. “Bum” Bright of Dallas,
Research
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“People often see science as
something distant from their
communities,” James said.
“Connecting school programs
with research facilities will
help the communities realize
that the USDA adds a lot to our
lives.”
Teachers will spend three
weeks with the researchers at
Class of ’43. The donation
will be made in the Birdwells’
name.
Birdwell said in a press re
lease, “ [By making this do
nation] I’m simply trying to
pay for what I received at-
Texas A&M.”
their labs and attend a two-
week conference at A&M to
learn how to put the scientists’
ideas into effect. The two-
week conference at A&M will
take place at the USDA/Agri
cultural Research Service Food
Animal Protection Research
Laboratory.
During the upcoming
school year, the scientists will
visit the schools to help the
teacher implement the mini-re
search program.
Hometown hero
Supporters say Bush held up under campaign
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MIDLAND (AP) — After getting
over the initial shock of hearing Gov.
George W. Bush declare his presi
dential ambitions in Iowa, not Texas,
Bush’s hometown supporters say
they are pleased
with his first day
on the campaign
trail.
Their favorite
son did not change
his tune on issues
like bilingual edu
cation and affirma
tive action under
pressure from the
national media, and many Bush fans
said they could not have been
prouder.
“You should have seen him up
there,” said Marvin Ellis, a window
washer who listened to Bush’s first
campaign speech and press confer-
BUSH
ence Monday morning while dan
gling 11 stories from the ground.
"It was like the reporters were a
firing squad. They were trying to trip
him up and get him to say some
thing that they could jump on, but
he kept his cool. Instead of playing
tit-for-tat with what other people
think about things, he just stated
what he felt. It was great.”
Bush took stances on several is
sues as he traveled through Iowa
and New Hampshire, telling re
porters he is opposed to racial quo
tas and is concerned about the im
plementation of a peace plan in
Kosovo.
Drake Robertson, a waiter at a
downtown lunch club, said he is
glad that presidential candidate
Bush sounds just like Governor
Bush.
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have to change the way he]
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big boys," Robertson said j
that all students need tole
lish, and he said racial qio
got to go — all things I’ve
say for years now. There
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summer enrollment figure
Summer enrollment totals
for Summer Session I and 10-
week terms have decreased
from last summer.
Texas A&M Registrar Donald
Carter said that enrollment
numbers were down this
summer because of the large
number of undergraduates who
have graduated from the
University in the past few years.
Freshmen enrollment numbers
for the first summer session and
10-week terms were not
available.
Overall enrollment for Summer
Session I and 10-week terms:
1999
1998
16,036
16,368
Undergraduate enrollment for
Summer Session I and 10-week
terms:
1999 — 11,544
1998 — 11,788
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