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Page 2 • Monday, July 12, 1999 News r% Making faces BRADLEY ATCHISON/The Battalion Six-year-old Hallie Morrison of College Station and her mother Theresa put together a mask Sunday at the J. Wayne Stark Gallery in the MSC. The two were making the mask as part of a workshop running in conjunction with the gallery’s exhibit of Mexican masks. LULAC set for conventii te 1 CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — Education, civil rights, im migration and issues related to the 2000 census will take center stage this week when the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) holds its 70th annual Na tional Convention and Exposition. More than 6,000 members of the coun- try’s oldest and largest Hispanic organiza tion are expected to attend the convention, which runs through Saturday. LULAC was founded in Corpus Christi in 1929. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, president of the National Rainbow Coalition, will speak at this year’s event. Also on the agenda are Secretary of Education Richard Riley, Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson and Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera. Friday’s national policy summit is ex pected to be the highlight of the convention. In that forum, panelists will explore issues considered vital to the Hispanic communi ty at the turn of the 21st century. “We have to educate people as to why it is important to be counted/' ones important to the founders of theorgai but the focus is changing. For instance, he said Hispanics are no ing for the right to be educated, but are inste;: to confront educational problems like highd and teen pregnancy. “1 see education still asa cus, for different reasons,' said. "Somewhere along the educational system lost itsfo LULAC officials said they concerned with the countr ' gration problems, civil rimP/ . and the lack of Hispanic reyfic - t non in todrrul governmentnB nt ‘ the 2000 census is especially* ^ ^ tant to this year’s convenc:B|| plaining that it is critical forhB ot - to make sure they are represefl^^ “We have to educatethepew ^ ^ to why it is importanttobect-B p on - Mary Helen Salazar Corpus Christi LULAC LULAC spokesperson Ruben Canales told the Cor pus Christi Caller-Times for a story in Sunday’s edi tions that the discussion topics are similar to the FBI seeks militias’ help Payroll DEW, Texas (AP) — Born out of the destruction of the Alfred P. Mur- rah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, a little-noticed program has made strange bedfellows of FBI agents and militia members. On the orders of FBI Director Louis Freeh and Attorney General Janet Reno, agents in the 56 FBI field offices around the country have been finding ways to reach out to members of militia groups in their local areas. The program, established after the April 19, 1995 bombing that killed 168 people, has been an open secret with positive results for the nation’s top police agency and the militia movement. “I think you’re seeing it through out the communities, law enforce ment trying to reach out and say, ‘We’re human beings, too,’" FBI spokesperson Bill Crowley said. ‘‘The idea we’re pushing is that it’s not a crime to be a member of the militia, or to be an FBI agent, for that matter. ” The FBI has been pleased that many members of the nation’s mili tias are in agreement. “They are our FBI. We needed to get a face on them,” Raymond Smith, a commander with the Texas Freedom Fighters and a member of the National Militia Advisory Board, said. “Our government can’t be our enemy. If it is, we’re in trouble.” Mary Helen Salazar, president of Corpus Chris! * soc Council No. 1, told the Caller-Times. “ 1 ' (, ouha«B^ ett( counted in the census in order to qualify forpB^ money coming into the city.” B g 0 I Pan Be tw Bnilai Continued from Page] large f Baird said some studcB 1 ^ ployees expressed conceriB 6 ^ 1 computer glitches, butAgB . ^ Credit Union has neverBJ U p ro b 1 e rn get t i ng UniveisfiB 1 ^ Kile ployees their money. Pam Phillips, managerc*. , operations at First AeB 01 ’ 1 Bank, said sometimes err cur when information! entered into the systemr rectly, but because the! just receiving the infond the bank cannot correcttk] lem. Robertson said lOOpem] people’s reluctance to sms direct deposit is basedoc| conceptions. Gala ?: Diversity £ «£*■* •v - g. 5:- Continued from Page 1 Becky Pettit, coordinator for di versity education at Texas A&M, cit ed the game of “Red Rover” as a metaphor for racial problems at A&M. The game involves two lines of children who hold hands. One line calls for a child from the other line to try to break through their line. If the child does not make it through, they must join that line, but if they do, they return to their original line. “They invite someone over, but when they get here, there is resent ment and hatred that leaves them wondering if they are accepted as an Aggie,” she said. “If you invite some one over, your actions should match your invitation. ” Rick TUrnbough, area coordinator for the Department of Residence Life, said he learned valuable lessons con cerning the role of white males in di versity, which are often not dis cussed. Bill Proudman, keynote speaker for the conference and founder of the Inclusivity Consulting Group Inc., said many white males do not con sider diversity to be an important is sue and are often opposed to diversi ty because of what they see as the backlash of minority rights laws. “White males need to realize that their own ethnicity is as important a contribution to diversity as anyone else’s,” he said. Latasha Wilson, activities ad viser at the University of Houston, said conferences such as the Texas Higher Education Diversity Confer ence are needed to aid in the un derstanding that diversity is not just about ethnicity. “Diversity is not something that can be written down on a sheet of pa per and handed out in classrooms,” she said. “It is something that takes effort and experience to understand.” Maine Continued from Page 1 She said his experiences in Kennebunkport cultivated his in terests in the environment and his love of fishing, boating and family. Bush visited his “Summer White House” on Walker’s Point 26 times during his presidency. There are 200 action pictures dis played of Bush’s family and friends at his summer home. The Brick Store Museum in Maine provided the George Bush Presidential Library with all of the 270 artifacts, paintings, pictures and manuscripts on the history of Maine. The exhibit will be on dis play until Aug. 9. Continued from Page 1 “Chet has a lot of himself invested in what we’re talking about tonight,” Noren said. “If we look at each other in this room, probably every one of us can say we have benefitted in a very personal way from car diovascular research.” Noren also spoke of the impact former Rep. Olin “Tiger” Teague made on Edwards. Teague created an official relationship between A&M and the Veterans Administration continued by the CVR1. “The institute can engage in research at a very ba sic level — at the molecular genetic level — and trans late it to a patients’ bedside,” Nore said. After a video presentation on the life of Edwards, Michael Friedland, dean of the College of Medicine presented the “A Star for Texas” award to Edwards. “I am not here to accept but to givecredi! wards said and thanked the physidans aii| searchers in the audience. Eh wards extended a special thanks tok who he said had helped develop the idei CVRI through the partnership hehadcreSj tween A&M and the Veterans Administratii tern. “But the ultimate dream of his was tru/nwii ate a world-class research institute here at Tern; Edwards said. Friedland said supporting the instituterain tant because of the potential impact reseatchmav on the deadly disease. “Heart disease is the No. 1 killer in Texas, land said. “We need a facility to accommodate ing research and clinical efforts. 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