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NEWS
THE BATTALION
Wednesday, March 1,1
Wednesday, M,
Baptists
separate
DALLAS (AP) — “Moderate Bap
tist group not worried about members
joining can think very few churches
will choose to affiliate with a different
body,” said Phil Strickland, director of
the Christian life commission for the
moderate-controlled Baptist General
Convention of Texas, based in Dallas.
Tension between conservative and
moderate church members has been
growing. Many conservatives believe
the convention have adopted policies
too different from the national organi
zation, the 15.7 million-member
Southern Baptist Convention.
For example, conservatives
claim the Baptist General Conven
tion of Texas has not taken strong-
enough stands against abortion and
homosexuality.
Jack Graham, pastor of Preston-
wood Baptist Church in Plano, told the
Southern Baptist Convention's Baptist
Press that more than 40 percent of the
churches in the Baptist General Con
vention of Texas are unhappy w ith its
International shadows
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Round Table
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Might: So is it more cultural than race'?
Ogungbemi: Yeah. It is up to you to go and talk to
them, go and ask them questions, then they will start to so
cialize and come over to your house. The point is that they
are scared to come up [to you). It is up to you.
Simpson: There is a definite lack of minority in facul
ty on campus. We don't have enough minority faculty on
campus, there is no way. They were saying that we should
voice our problems to the administration. Maybe if there
were more people in the administration aspects, then they
could help out the people that are having problems on this
campus. I am a [resident adviser]; I hear about a lot of
racists things that happen in the dorms, and a lot of the mi
nority students don’t want to make it a big deal and they
don’t tell anybody. Or if they do tell their RA, the hall di
rector might not take the correct steps in solving that prob
lem. 1 have had numerous people come to me and say ‘My
roommate said she does not want a black roommate and
she moved.’ My sophomore year, being an RA, 1 saw my
roommate one time and when I came back she had moved
out. I was like ‘What happened?’ But I never saw her
again. Incidents like that need minorities in positions to
solve problems like that. Yeah, so if we had more minori
ty faculty, more of our issues and problems would be
solved. The administration needs to take some steps into
getting more of them here because they are not doing that.
They say it is 1.5 [percent African-American), but it is
falling down each year.
Ballare: I just want to say about the discrimination part,
does anyone have any problems with discrimination? Be
cause I know just one time I had a problem with the post
office and 1 felt I was discriminated against. It was my
time to go, but then they told me to get in the back of the
line, and they let all of the rest of the people go.
Might: So what did you do?
Ballare: As soon as it happened I went straight to Dr.
Southerland and he handled it right there. I got a free mail
box for a year and everything.
Might: What about that employee at the post office?
Ballare: He is still there. He owns the post office.
James: (She begins to cry) When I got back to my car
[freshman year] somebody wrote “typical nigger.” This is
the reason I have hard feelings at Texas A&M University,
because someone did this to me. Okay, so all of this stuff
about, there are too many unspoken instances that happen
at this University that shape the mind of the young people
here, and you wonder why people leave and why they
would rather go to some other school. This is not the first
time you have Asian students getting beat up because of
their skin color and 1 just feel that the majority, the white
“What is it? Is it my skin
color that intimidates
you?... It is ridiculous and
it is stupid."
— Suzette Figaro
president of Texas A&M
chapter of NAACP
people, sit back and complain. They don’t realize how it
is to be a black person on this campus, and not just being
black, but just being a minority. Even ifyou arejiot a Chris
tian, Asian or whatever, they just don’t understand. And
they are quick to sit up there and say that you are just com
plaining too much and that this really doesn’t happen, and
it does happen.
Might: We wanted to hear a little about personal expe
riences of racism here at A&M? Maybe you don’t have a
personal experience with racism — then we want to hear
that too. Maybe your experience here has been comfort
able — that is ol'note, too.
Figaro: Personally, I have plenty of stories. I am sick
and tired of white people coming up to Greeks and saying
why don’t you do that stepping thing that you do so well,
when all nine of us have a great history, and we have so
much to ofter, we just don't step. When I was in San An
tonio, I remember there were five buses, it was with South-
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em Greek Leadership Conference. It was for all Greek
When we were going to the bus, minorities hangtoeei
er. There were like two \sians. one Ilispanicandthere i
where black, and we were going to our bus, andallfti
white people and there were like 50 of them and they utn
trying to squish onto one bus, and we were like ‘Youca
come sit with us and chill w ith us' mid I knew halfotik
were from A&M, and we were like ‘Come sit with im
ride back to the hotel', and when they realized that th!) basketball t
had to sit with us, I saw some ugly faces. I was like'Win 'Melvin Wa
about us do you not like?’At the Rec Center they are sir could pick onl
posed to play radio stations for 30 minutes. And theyri week for the A
only play 103.1 for about 15 minutes. I heard this on T he at peak
guy say, ‘Why don’t they turn this nigger music off...
is ridiculous that w e have to deal with this on aconstil seas on, it v
basis, and that people are afraid of us for no reason. \\\ have to be nov
is it? Is it my skin color that intimidates you? Orisitl Aggies close
sound of my voice? What? What about me? Itisridifi
lous and it is stupid. It also goes to how you wereras: apair ofhorm
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many other things. But a lot of these parents do nottt
their children the same thing. They teach them things'*, On Saturday,
you can't date a black person.
Ballare'. I feel like that i f you have self confident
then you will not care what other people think about yo
when you go into a classroom, you should not won
about whether that person is going to get up and moi
because I know that 1 do that if someone smells!
smoke I can't stand the smell of smoke, I am goingi
get up and move. 1 have never noticed if someone li
gotten up and moved, again I know that white peop
talk to you in class and they try to befriend me alii
time, but I am saying that you have to have selfconf
deuce. That is what my mom taught me. ‘Theyareit
better than you, Adrienne, you do not hold yourk)
down. You hold your head up high, because you are)
the same level as them’ and that is the type ofmenti
you have to have. Reality speaking, the worldconsii
of a lot of racism and discrimination but you can noil
that hold you back and you have to hold yourheaiif
and let them that you are the same as them.
Brazos Valiev Symphony Orchestra
Dr. Marcelo Bussikt, Music Director
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Honoring . • ' A
Gilbert and Thyra PI ass
Additional concert funding provided by
Office of die President, Texas A&M University
On the program:
Revelation (world premiere) Bill Klemm
Coriolan Overture Beethoven
Symphony N. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 “Ode to Jo/’Beethoven
Melanie Helton, soprano; Rose Taylor, mezzo-soprano;
Joseph Evans, tenor; Indcio de Nonno, bass-baritone.
Brazos Valley Chorale
Maestro Jess Wade III
Artistic Director/ Conductor
Sunday, March 5, 2000
4:00 RM., Rudder Auditorium
Tickets may be purchased at the MSC Box Office, 845-1234
Tickets cost: $20.00 adults, $5.00 students
Additional support provided by Texas A&M University Department of Performance Studies,
the Arts Council ef Brows Valley Brows Business Arts Alliance, Texas Commission on the Arts, the r a s
Astin Charitable Trusts, and the Doth Foundation. m »in
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