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Cadets
Continued from Page 1
“Damages of $800 are a Class A misde
meanor, punishable by up to a $4,000 fine and
up to one year in jail,” Baron said.
He said these two violations were “flat-out
never reported,” and if no one makes a report,
UPD cannot do anything about it.
Baron said on-campus buildings (including
Corps dorms) are controlled by proctors who
may choose not to alert police when handling
incidents occurring within the buildings.
Sue Foster, assistant director of Residence Ed
ucation, said if a student is caught in a criminal
act, such as vandalism, hall officials would most
likely report the instance to University police as
well as Student Conflict and Resolution Ser
vices.
“Some people feel this places the student in
double jeopardy, but 1 don’t believe so,” she
said. “This individual has a responsibility to the
larger society in addition to the community in
which they live.”
Lori Brock, a senior combined band recruit
ing officer and a senior animal science major,
said she had talked with the male cadet re
sponsible for the vandalism prior to the inci
dent.
“I had conversations with him before, and it
didn’t seem to me that he hated having women
in the Corps,” Brock said.
Rob Dornier, a senior information systems
major and Brandon Beardon, a senior animal
science major, and both members of 1-1 outfit,
said any harassment or vandalism taking place
in the Corps is not directed at females in partic
ular, but that a few, random instances are gain
ing all the attention.
“Outfits with female cadets don’t get much
respect from other outfits, but what are we go
ing to do?” Beardon said. “We can’t run women
out because if the Tfigon finds out they’ll get rid
of our outfit.”
Brock said there are some cadets in the
Corps who hold the opinion that women should
not be a member of the Corps but not as many
as it may seem.
“A few incidents have been blown out of pro
portion,” Brock said. “1 am not going to say that
nothing goes on, but I haven’t been prevented
from achieving in the Corps because of the opin
ions of others. ”
Mills said the retention rate for women in the
Corps is 80.5 percent. He said that last year, the
Corps was comprised of 6 percent females.
Mills said three of the six Cadet Colonel po
sitions were held by women last year.
Last year, the Aggie Band was led by the first
female commander in its 123 year history.
Women also have held the position of Air Force
ROTC wing commander and deputy Corps of
Cadets commander.
Brock said the nationwide attention this in
cident has caused generates “misinterpretations
of what it’s really like to be in the Corps.”
She said she would not be surprised if the
women who will be joining the Corps in the fall
decided not to join after hearing reports which
describe life for women in the Corps as nega
tive.
Brock said that when incidents did occur, ac
tions were taken immediately to ensure they
would not happen again.
“After the peeping Tom incident, locks were
put on all of the doors of the women’s re
strooms,” she said.
Dane Campbell, a senior wildlife and fishery
sciences major and a member of the Corp’s air
force division, said the incidents mainly account
for the bad seeds in every organization.
“There are bathroom doors marked
‘women,’ and that’s exactly who should be in
there,” Campbell said.
Officials investigat
possible hate crii
DALLAS (AP) — The death of a black man in
East Texas is being investigated as a possible hate
crime because the primary suspect is a white
teen-ager, federal authorities said yesterday.
U.S. Attorney Mike Bradford said information
provided to him by the Dallas office of the
NAACP warranted “a full investigation” into the
death of H.W. Walker, 53, of Greenville. A news
conference was scheduled to- m™^*^****
day in Emory to discuss details
of the inquiry.
Walker’s decomposed body
was found June 2 about 50
miles east of Dallas in a remote,
wooded area of Rains County.
An autopsy has not been
completed, but the man is be
lieved to have been tied to a tree
and burned.
A 16-year-old Lone Oak boy
has been in custody since June
3, Rains County District Attor
ney Frank Long said. He could
be charged as an adult with murder, but no de
cision has yet been made, Long said.
The DA declined to label the case a hate crime
and provided no further details.
Bradford, however, said his office will look
into the incident for signs that a hate crime was
committed.
“We were contacted by the NAACP, and they
gave us information that led them to believe this
was a hate crime,” he said. “We are going to in-
“The area law
enforcement...
[is] hell-bent on
not calling it a
hate crime/'
— Bill Glenn
Greenville NAACP
vestigate this to see if it involves any vie
federal law. We think there’s enoughnj
warrant a full investigation.”
Bradford also said several FBI
been assigned to the case and arecunaej
ducting interviews.
Bill Glenn, who runs the Greenvillec
of the National Association for the Advand
of Colored People, alerteej
bers in the Ballast
learned of the detailsoij
leged murder.
Dallas chapter presih
Alcorn contacted federal!
tigators and the Texaslr
on 1 late Crimes abouttl
ter. They later discuss;
case in a private meetird
23.
Among the NAACPsj
ances was the fact
Rains County Sherrif’sD
ment and Long hadnotp
further investigation of the matter since |
rest of the juvenile.
"The area law enforcement and many •
are hell-bent on not calling this a hateo
Glenn said. “But the fact is, it probablyi
the police just stopped investigating."
Glenn said he believed that morel
person committed the murder becausej
young man’s small stature in compans:
Walker’s large build.
Language
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“This program will not only
help prepare students for the
challenges that they will face
when they enter the interna
tional job market,” he said. “It
will also help expand their
mind and open them to op
portunities they would have
not seen otherwise.”
Linda Cleboski, program
development coordinator for
the International Office of
Agricultural Programming at
A&M, said student interest in
the program was revealed after
Bush
a survey was conducted in the
three respective colleges by
Tiiu Laane, associate professor
of German and director of pro
gram development in the De
partment of Modern and Clas
sical Languages.
The survey revealed 49 per
cent of the students in the Col
lege of Agriculture and Life
Sciences were interested in
participating in foreign lan
guage certification programs,
and nearly 80 percent'were in
terested in further Spanish lan
guage training.
Curry said part of this grant
will be put toward sending lan
guage professors to a week-
long proficiency trainii
gram by the the And
Council of Teachersotfi
Languages (ACTFL). I
Once trained, the pto:|
will be able to offerj|
ondary-level language
cation program at the
which, the professors*;
sign individual studentii
guage proficiency ratirij.|
upon ACTFL.
“Employers around
tion and world will be
look at this rating
what the student cani
how fluently he ors'j
speak the language,
said.
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“We understand that the purpose of the
change is to help the (Bush) School achieve its
full academic potential and that the costs of
the change will be low — consisting primarily
of some minor salary adjustments,” Brown
said in the letter.
Thomas Wehrly, speaker of the Faculty Sen
ate, said the commissioner's action was “not
a big deal” to the faculty, and the senate has
been preparing for the separation.
“What the Faculty Senate is more con
cerned with is the implementation of the in
dependence,” he said. “And how it effects fac
ulty, teaching, tenure and promotion and the
selection of the new dean.”
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where the Senate discussed a reportc
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The suggestions on how the senates!
be involved in areas ranging from the s
of the dean for the Bush School totheis'l
tenure within the School were madeinb
port, which was presented to the Ur
president and the provost.
Stout said that while faculty w
volved in the selection of the newdeanl|
School, which will begin in the fa!
will not be involved in the search foraiij
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“It is very likely that [Robert] Gates [ail
director of the CIAJ, will be named theifj
dean for the Bush School, but an,
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