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    Page 2 • Monday, July 12, 1999
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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
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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
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- 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^
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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. It’s thrillingtotf
of the medical community in Texas at a time!
promising.”
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