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Round table
Continued from Page 1
Simpson: Back to what Rasheda was saying, when
you come here and A&M people think that you’re a vis
itor, they ‘Howdy’ you down, hut if you’re a regular stu
dent, you’re not ‘howdyed’ down and that’s been my ex
perience. If they think you are a visitor, white people
will help you with your luggage, they’ll help you with a
cooler and all kinds of stuff, that’s when you’re visiting.
But once you’re here, it’s like ‘Howdy’ every once in a
while, it’s a totally dilferent story, and that’s why he’s
saying he would rather go to UT, because it’s a friendly
environment when you're visiting, but when you’re
here, it changes.
Might: What can we do to change this?
Brown: When I was looking for a school, 1 wasn’t
looking for a place where there were a whole bunch of
black people. 1 am looking for a school that has good
education. Up until four months before 1 decided to go
to college, I was not coming to A&M. I’m a legacy at
this school, both of my parents went to this school and
I was not coming here. I didn’t feel like | A&M] want
ed me to be here. The only reason why I’m here is be
cause they gave me money and my parents went here.
Young: So what can you suggest that they can do dif
ferently?
Brown: Try to improve on that, because up until then,
it didn't seem like A&M wanted black people to be here,
in my opinion.
Figaro: Basically, I made the choice to be here and
I like it here. I like the people that I've met, black and
white. We first, as a group, both black and white, we
have to change how we mentally think about our school
because we represent A&M whether or not we want to
be here. So we have to leam in our own way to love
some aspect about the school enough to tell a young per
son I like this school, maybe it doesn't have enough
black people in there, but here are other aspects. Re
cruitment’s going to be hard enough because we are like
1.5 percent, which I think we are way less by the num
bers I saw — so think about it, you have to do a mar
keting strategy, you have to sell the school. You have so
many other good things, you have a great education, one
that goes above and beyond what I expected. You have
a ring that... I’ve worn my ring lots of places and peo
ple that don’t even like me are like, ‘That’s a nice ring,
if you need a job come and talk to me later.' You meet
great people so you leam a lot of people skills. So you
have to leam how to sell that and it’s going to be hard to
a lot of young students who are like, ‘There’s so few
black people.’ Of course it’s going to be hard, but that’s
just something that you have to leam how to deal with
and leam how to speak to people in a way that they can
understand what they’re saying while talking on their
level.
Jenkins: I think, overall we would all agree that
A&M has been a good experience for most of us, even
if it’s no more than just academic because otherwise you
would have been a transfer by now. So because of that,
we’ve made it through here so let’s go back and pull
somebody else aside and say 1 made [it] and you can do
that too and bring them in.
Johnson: I think the administration needs to take
more of a role in addressing some of these issues with
the people who are already here, because right now a lot
of people are unhappy about the way things are for
Alf ican-American students on campus, so when they go
talk to other people who could possible come here, then
they’re like ‘Don’t come.’ Part of the problem here is
that we have no place to go, we have no entertainment.
If you go to a bar, or you go a club, or you go to any
restaurant in the town, all you see is this image of white
ness and what makes white people happy and there’s
nothing to draw black people in. 1 personally haven’t
had a problem with the people on campus. 1 can go to
the MSC and sit down at a table and talk to white peo
ple or 1 can stand outside the MSC and chat with them
and they’ll come up to me and it’s line. It’s just the at
mosphere and the whole town. The University has a lot
of pull in this town. Texas A&M owns Bryan-College
Station, there’s no doubt about that, so the University ad
ministration needs to make more of an effort to change
it so it isn’t.
Might: How do they do that though? How do you
get the University to make changes like that?
Figaro: I know there have been presidents from the
student body that have tried. I don’t think the adminis
tration is listening. Either [they] are not listening or they
don’t want to. There’s some higher power who’s telling
them if you do this or that then we're not going to give
you any money. They have enough black people here
to satisfy the status quo or quota. There is something
about the administration that is not ready to hear us be
cause they hear us cry but they don't want to do anything
to help clear up our tears. They make it hard for Afriean-
"They brought me down
on a black-event week
end ... When I came
down to my freshmen
orientation it was,
what, eight of us."
— Rasheda James
President of the African American
Business Society
American organizations to do things on campus. I know
because I work in the MSC.
Might: How do they make it hard?
Figaro: They do a lot of restrictions. I’ve seen so
many restrictions. Like for Greeks, as well as other or
ganizations. I hear people talking and they're like “We
don’t want them in certain places, because they’re either
too loud or too destructive.”
Might: Like if you wanted to rent a room in the
MSC?
Johnson: Since I’ve been here, they’ve changed the
party policy because, for most of the black organizations
that tty to make money here, it has always been that
MSC parties or parties on campus have been the vast
majority of our revenue because we don’t get student fee
allocations or anything like that. They have changed the
rules year by year to make it more and more expend
to make it more and more difficult to do.
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more of a hindrance to throw something that is goinglt Tuesday. Fehrua
benefit the community than a benefit. It seems theyj
just making these rules for us because it only affects,
generally speaking, the minority population.
Figaro: As many times as I’ve sat back and obsend
things, a lot of the minority associations don’thaves
much money as a lot of the ‘other’ associations. Butt
far as these other ugly restrictions, I am like ‘What’s^
ally going on?’ We have more security at cure vents ika
any other and I’ve seen that and I know other people
have noticed that. Why do we have to have all these'
curity? Isn't there another w'ay we can avoid thisordi
this another way where we don’t have to have all tits
restrictions?
Ogungbemi: If there are restrictions that we strong
ly feel were put in place just to restrict minority
zations, let people get together that will representtheiii-
nority organizations and take it to the appropriitc
authority, they will listen.
Young: Is that easier said than done?
Figaro: Yes, there have been many tries toad
try and do stuff like that, but like I said, they’re notit
ally willing to listen. It’s like they have some bigot
mented earmuffs and they’re not hearing you becain
it’s all about the money.
James: The Association of Former Students has
big hold on this University. They are the ones who do
nate most of the money for these Corps of Cadets schoi
arships, for majority of scholarships, funding for Ik
ZONE. They Association of Former Studentsnmi
University. Dr. Ray Bowen may think he runs this Uni'
versity. but I really do honestly feel that the Association
of Former Students has a strong hold on this Universi
ty. And if they feel like, ‘No, we want to restrict that
they can get w hatev er they w ant,' because they can sai
I’ll draw all my money back.
O Bryant: Do you guys think that if there wasnovi-
olence that occurred at these functions that these re
strictions would be happening?
Figaro: The thing is, there is violence in every
er organization. The thing is, since we hold all
things on campus, that’s one thing, but there are more
good things w e do than there are bad. We hold re
good meetings and events to help student leam things,
but why is it just focused on the bad things what yon
have all these other organizations that drink so much il's
ridiculous and that they’re falling on campus andfainl-
ing. They get all the focus of all the good stuff and we
get all the focus of all the bad. And it’s not thatfinaif
gry or upset, its just things I’ve seen and observed anil
things I’ve heard.
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ply to everybody, but because of the structure of the way
we run things, ifsomehody else did the exact same ffl|
they would have to go undei the same rules, but the wj
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Sarah Olsen, community manager for
Sterling University Village, said their
prices are about average because the indi
vidual leases break everything down.
“For our properties the individual lease
by the bed is real important.” Olsen said.
Michael said individual leases have be
come popular among residents of Univer
sity Commons.
Although it is still early in the spring se
mester, apartments are in the process of
leasing for next fall. Some places like Ster
ling and University Commons are nearing
capacity.
International
Deal i of Architecture Tomas Regan
gives a speech at the opening cer
emonies for International Week.
“It is important to recognize our
heritage,” adding that she spoke on be
half of Bryan Mayor Lonnie Stabler.
Toni Ruttimann, a Swiss who
founded a non-profit business to help
third world countries with disaster re
lief, spoke later in the day. He is
known in Ecuador as Toni El Suezo
(Toni the Swiss) and has been aided by
American, Ecuadorian and European
air forces in carrying out his work.
The rest of the week features a
variety of different events including
a talent show, international buffet
and a traditional dress parade held
by the ISA.
SGA
Continued from Pagel
“Our image is not bad, but there isi
ways room for improvement,” she said
“Spring is a good time for SGAIi
raise awareness because with the elec
tions coming up, and people are goingt(
start deciding what they want to dona
year and how they want to get involved,’
Baggett said.
Baggett described the program as
very informal and that their presenta
tions will be fun and relaxed.
“This is our attempt to be moti
proactive in the campus community,’
she said.
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