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NEWS
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THE BATTALION
luesday, February 8,2#
Bush ready to ‘take it to’ McCain EPA drawi
Fruesday, Febn
"J want to remind
people that in this
DOVER, Del. (AP) — George W. Bush struck at the heart
of John McCain’s candidacy Monday, accusing his presi
dential rival of “saying one thing
and doing another” on political re
form. Bush said he, not McCain,
was the “reformer with results,’”
changing the style and substance
of his campaign to counter his
foe’s momentum.
McCain reacted with a sarcastic
dig: “I guess Governor Bush is now
a reformer. If so, it’s his first day on
the job.” And the Arizona senator’s
new TV ad accuses Bush of break
ing his promise to run a positive
campaign and ends with a zinger:
“Do we really want another politi
race there is one
person who can
stand up and say,
'I'm a reformer
with results.'"
with a format that borrows from McCain’s successful New
I lampshire run. The Texan’s stump speech was cut in half and his
question-and-answer sessions
were two or three times longer
than normal.
And he tried to co-opt the Ari
zona senator’s reform agenda.
“1 want to remind people
that in this race there is one per
son who can stand up and say.
Tin a reformer with results,”’
Bush said.
The Texas governor stood in
front of a freshly minted sign that
read “Reformer with Results.”
He used the word “reform” a
half-dozen times in a 10-minute
opposition
BUSH
cian in the White House America can’t trust?”
Bush is scrambling to regain his footing after McCain’s
rout in New Hampshire shocked the GOP establishment and
raised calls for a harder-hitting, more freewheeling national
front-runner.
Bush took the weekend otf to retool his campaign, emerging
speech, after rarely letting the term slip from his lips before
New Hampshire.
Bush said as governor he fought the status quo to improve
schools, pass lawsuit reform and cut taxes. By contrast, he said
McCain champions campaign finance reform while using his
influence in the Senate to leverage political donations.
History
Continued from Page 1
Hubert's five-year goal was to have 525
more minority students at A&M each year.
There were skeptics, who still be
lieved there was more to do for the ad
vancement of African-Americans, like
comedian Dick Gregory, who visited
A&M in 1983.
“It used to be Negro History Week,
now it’s Black Month. You would know
they’d give us that short old month —
February,” Gregory said.
The 1970s and early 1980s were also
a time of sports achievements for
African-American students at A&M.
Mario Brown, the first African-
American A&M basketball player, was
averaging 14.6 points a game during his
first season in 1971.
Brown, from Chicago, Ill., and a
transfer from King Junior College, played
for A&M and averaged 15.8 points a
game in the Southwest Conference
(SWC) after playing for two seasons.
At the same time, Mike Frazier from
Houston, was drafted by the Los Ange
les Dodgers, but played baseball for
A&M instead.
Frazier, a management major, played
all four years at A&M.
While Frazier ran the bases. Curtis
Mills was running laps around his fellow
track and field teammates.
Mills was the first African-American
student on the A&M team and placed first
in SWC competitions for the 440-yard re
lay six times between 1970 and 1971.
Mills was a member of two world-
record-setting relays in 1970, and he was
inducted into the Texas A&M Athletic
Hall of Fame in 1979.
In 1975, A&M had the number one
football defense in the nation, with 11
African-American starters and an entire
backfield consisting of African-Ameri
can freshmen, soon tagged the “Aggie
Blacktield.”
The racially diverse team “stayed a
team and overlooked skin color,” Jackie
Williams, an A&M safety from Plano, told
The Bn an-Callege Station Eagle in 1974.
“My first night here we went to
Northgate and one person remarked she
didn't know there were so many black
people at A&M,” Williams said. “1 just
said to myself, ‘Boy, what have I gotten
into now.’ On the team, though, everyone
is a player, whether he is black or white.”
Activist
Continued from Page 1
In a press release, Bowen said that
ranking A&M as the third least gay-
friendly campus was undeserved.
“The lifestyles led by GLBTs is
wrong and not allowed by God, but they
should have equal rights,” said John 1 lull,
a freshman mathematics major.
Hall said does he not have gay
friends, but said that if he met someone
who was gay, he would try to talk to them
about God and why their actions are
“wrong.”
“I would respect them as a person, but
I wouldn't respect their lifesty le.”
Wright said there is no exact figure
for the number of gays, lesbians and bi
sexuals at A&M, but studies show that in
any community GLBTs make up about
10 percent of the population.
Patton said there are some gay-friend
ly places in College Station but not
enough.
Queer Aggies is hoping to make
A&M a friendly place to the GLUT
community.
”At A&M there is always a feeling
of family, but our organization feels as
if they are the forgotten in laws,” Pat
ton said.
THXARKANA, Texas (AP)-f
federal proposal to require timber-ci
permits for land near a polluted wai
way drew opposition from Texaslai
makers at a hearing Monday night.
More than 3,000 people attended
meeting to discuss an Envirom
Protection Agency (EPA) plamhatcuii
limit the amount of pollution genere 1
through normal forestry practicessud |
site preparation, harvesting, thinning
reforestation.
Timber is the top agricultural ercc
l ast Texas, employing about 91,00
people statewide.
“This proposal would signifies
impact private forest landowners and;
forest products industry in Texas,
am prepared to work w ith you inev
way to prevent EPA from implement)
an ill-conceived and unnecessaiy,
said U.S. Rep. Max Sandlin. D-Mar&
Sandlin said he has writtentol
EPA, President Clinton and Vicefa
dent A! Gore in opposition tother
posed rule.
I PA spokesman Richard Hoppers J
the plan is not as stringent as it may id
“It appears there is significantimf
derstanding,” Hoppers said.
To require a permit. Hopperssm
EPA would have to demonstrateikf
forestry operation pollutes signifies
and that the state environmental ae
ry has failed to remedy the situatk I
“This would be limited to vensl
row circumstances and only as a las"
sort,” he said.
Forestry operations continue tool
pollution problems in some isolatei!
eas of the country, and the rule w
give the FPA authority to remaiyi
problem if all else fails. Hopperssa-:|
Correction
In the Feb. 7 article “Bonfe |
Benefit Concert raises thousands!i|
victims,” the name ofsinger/socH
writer Kyle Hutton was misspelled
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