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Shaping a National Agenda for Women in Higher Education Join us for an exciting national teleconference sponsored by the University of Minnesota, which seeks to actively involve women throughout the country through a network of local caucus sessions. March 27 th : Women’s Voices: Imagining Ourselves into the 21 st Century The teleconference will open with a keynote address by Johnetta Cole, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Women’s Studies, and African American Studies at Emory University. Dr. Cole’s address will be followed by a panel discussion of issues facing women in higher education. Noon - 2:00, 501 Rudder Tower Bring a Brown Bag Lunch, Refreshments Provided March 28“: Local Caucus Session Meet with other women from the TAMU campus to identify and discuss issues of importance to women at Texas A&M. Our issues and strategies will be forwarded to the national site for inclusion in the national agenda. 11:45 - 1:30, 502 Rudder Tower Bring a Brown Bag Lunch, Refreshments Provided March 29 th : “Women’s Solutions: Settine a National Agenda” A moderator and four panels of women from four sites around the nation will synthesize feedback from the local caucus sessions. 10:00 - Noon, 501 Rudder Tower, Refreshments Provided T)0 O', # For more information, contact Anne Peterson at 845-2111 or dap@tamu.edu NATION Page 8 THE BATTALION Thursday, March 23,1 Police shooting case examined for racist motivesi rsday, March ARE YOU ADY R THE AL PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Police were accus tomed to being called to Fidas Restaurant, a late-night diner where people gathered, and often brawled, when the nightclubs closed. But one night in January, a disturbance didn’t end with the usual roundup of troublemakers. An off-duty African-American officer rushed to aid two white officers, who mistook him for a suspect and shot him to death. The debate over whether prejudice or bad judgment was to blame has reached Washington, where Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., has asked the Congressional Black Caucus to examine the case. On Monday, he will introduce legislation that would create a task force to study racism in police departments and other govern ment agencies. “This is not a problem with Rhode Island. It is a national problem,” said Joseph Almeida, an African- American state representative and former Providence police officer. “Somebody should not have to have died to bring this up.” The victim, Sgt. Cornel Young Jr., 29, was the son of Maj. Cornel Young, the highest-ranking black mem ber of the Providence force. Maj. Young has said he has reached no conclusion about the case. But the slain of ficer’s mother has. “Racism exists,” said Leisa Young, a community college counselor. “Is it as blatant as the Ku Klux Klan burning their cross on your lawn? No. But people have their perceptions of things. Because of where it was, the side of town, and the fact that my son was black affect ed what those officers saw.” Young was one of 33 African-Americans on a po lice force of470, which puts their percentage in the de partment at 7 percent. In the 1990 census, they made up nearly 15 percent of Providence’s 161,000 residents. The officers’ defenders say inexperience played a “[Racism] is a national problem. Somebody should not have to have died to bring this up.” — Joseph Almeida R.I. state representative and former police officer big role in the shooting. Officer Michael Solitro had been on patrol just seven nights. His partner. Officer Carlos Saraiva, had been on the force three years. Saraiva’s attorney, Joseph Penza, said the shooting wasn’t racially motivated. But he said he couldn’t com ment further because a grand jury' is investigating. Civil rights leaders have pointed out that Saraiva graduated in the same 48-member Police Academy class as Young and have said the officer should have recognized him. Young was in street clothes when he stoppedi diner after midnight on Jan. 28. Two women si fight, and the night manager ordered every one oils When the two officers arrived, they said they sawai with a gun. Young apparently saw the confrontation unfol drew his own gun and rushed outside to confront suspect, Aldrin Diaz. The officers said Young did identify himself as a policeman and did not respond their repeated calls to drop his weapon, so they shot! When news of Young’s death spread i city, civil rights leaders and others began questii first quietly then through protests and vigils, win Rhode Island law enforcement could be trustedto vestigate two of its ow n. Adding to the critics’ suspicions, Diaz wascl with murder because prosecutors said he displayeda in the confrontation that ended in Young’s death. Di lawyers say police used their client as a scapegoat State Attorney General Sheldon Whitehoust created a commission to study police relations minorities. But Whitehouse has refused toappoinn independent investigator, angering many commi leaders. It all came at an especially sensitive time. State lice were objecting to a just-introduced bill thatw study racial profiling. Another lawmaker dress entieir] for proposing eliminating the word “plantations"ftts the official state name — State of Rhode Islands Providence Plantations. He said “plantations”conjcr: up images of slavery. I freshmc lampionshi Teamsters strike causes snack shortage MTBE found Tra< Twinkle trouble A Teamsters strike has hurt East Coast junktood junkies where they live Weekly deliveries ot about 2 million Twinkles and other baked goods, such as Yodels and Ring Dings, have dried up as bakeries have shut down. For those that can't do without, here's a recipe tor a simulation of that staple^— American snack. JlF Cooking supplies Twinkie-sized bottle Twelve pieces of aluminum foil Pastry Bag Toothpick Cake ingredients 4 egg whites One 16-oz. box golden cake mix 2/3 cup water Nonstick spray Filling ingredients 2 Tbsp. butter 1/3 cup vegetable shortening 1 cup powdered sugar 1/4 cup granulated sugar 1/3 cup evaporated milk 1 tsp. vanilla extract 2 drops lemon extract Directions O Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Make molds by folding foil around bottle, leaving the top open Arrange on a cookie sheet and apply nonstick spray. 0 Beat egg whites until stiff, then combine with cake mix and blend. Fill each mold 3/4-inch deep with batter and bake about 30 minutes, e Cream butter and shortening, then slowly add sugar, evaporated milk and extracts, mixing until fluffy. Q When cakes are done and cooled, use a toothpick to make three small holes in the bottom of each for filling. Using the pastry bag, inject each cake with filling through all three holes. 0 Enjoyl Source: Usenet newsgroup rec.food.recipes AP BOSTON (AP) — Forget the high gas prices. Folks along the East Coast are swal lowing bitter news this week: There is a short age of Twinkies and other snack-food fa vorites, courtesy of a labor dispute. Supply problems are being reported from the nation’s capital to Maine, wreaking hav oc on untold snack breaks. “I’ll have to eat healthy food,” com plained Rubens Breeden, a 28-year-old state worker longing for Ring Dings and Devil Dogs on Tuesday. Charlie Bianchi, who works at a snack bar in one of the busiest state office buildings, has faced the wrath of the hungry masses. “All day long, they’re saying, ‘Where’s my Twinkies? Where’s my coffee cake? Where’s my pound cake? Where’s my Devil Dogs? Where’s my Yodels? Where’s my Ring Dings?”’ Bianchi said. “They’re ready to kill. They look at me with doubt in their eyes. They think that I for got to place the order. It’s always the coffee slinger’s fault,” said Bianchi, 42, assistant manager of Hal’s Place. Actually, a Teamsters strike has led to shortages in a variety of well-known bakery products, including Wonder bread and Host ess brands such as Twinkies. As shelves empty across the region, the area will have to do without deliveries of about 2 million Twinkies and cupcakes per week and another 400,000 loaves of Wonder bread, a company official estimated. The strike began a week ago when 1,400 Teamsters responsible for delivery and sales of products from Interstate Bakeries Co.’s only New England bakery in Biddeford, Maine, walked oft' the job. Since then, that bakery and others have shut down as Teamsters in other states hon ored the pickets. Interstate Bakeries officials say five bakeries in four states have closed. The union has accused the company of re fusing to honor arbitration rulings. The com pany maintains it was shut out of the arbitra tion process, and it has asked a judge to clarify the process. One of the major sticking points has been the company’s requirement that dri vers deliver more than one brand of Inter state products. The Teamsters say drivers are supposed to be paid different amounts for each brand. All of this comes as the Twinkie, the yel low, spongy, cream-filled cake, approaches its 70th anniversary next month. Some people are already seeking to make a buck off of the Twinkie crisis. What was billed as “The last box ofTwinkies known to Man?” was being offered on the Internet auc tion site eBay, with the minimum bid set at $2,500. There were no takers late Tuesday. Pamela Anderson, a mother of two, picked up some of the last Twinkies at a gas station in Concord. N.H. “I say they’re for my kids, hut they’re re ally for me,” she said. Lisa Towne, a dental hygienist with Aes thetic Dental Center in Concord, saw a bright side to the strike: “The dental community might even benefit.” In downtown Boston, shelves usually oc cupied by Hostess products were bare or get ting there quickly. To Breeden, the Massachusetts state work er, eating Twinkies and other snack cakes is just part of growing up American. in water wells The Texas ng the 2000 i brmances. 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Subway murder retried NEW YORK (AP) — Revenge, not mental illness, drove a man to shove a woman to her death in front of a subway train, prosecu tors said during closing arguments during his second murder trial. The defense said he suffered a mental “earthquake.” A jury began deliberations Wednesday on the fate of Andrew Goldstein in the death of Kendra Webdale on Jan. 3, 1999, two weeks after he was released from a mental hospital. The jury in his first trial dead locked and a mistrial was declared, with two jurors maintaining that Goldstein wasn’t criminally liable for the death. Violence is not a symptom of schizophrenia, the prosecution ar gued, quoting a prosecution psy chiatrist. LOS ANGELES (AP)-Ata: one-third of drinking water wells it 3 1 states may be contaminated wi the gasoline additive MTBE, accord ing to a study released Wednesday The federal government already is acting to ban use of the chemical. Researchers with the U.S. Geo logical Survey and the Oregon Grad uate Institute’s Department of Envi ronmental Study found about 9,Odd of 26,000 wells looked at were with in a kilometer of a leaking fuel tank head researcher John Zogorski said. But Zogorski said it’s likely that not al I of the 9,000 wells are eontara- inated w ith MTBE, or methyl tertian butyl ether. “We like to say a significant but | , currently unknown number of com- K a - loam 0 munity water supply wells may be ,omore ^ risk.” he said. "The number 9,000 is so” large that the number ofwells that may be a fleeted may well he womsome.” The study omitted 19 states, in chiding Califomia and Texas, because they lacked needed information ot wel I sites. The study was posted in th( online edition ofthe journal Environ mental Science & Technology. The Clinton administration an nounced Monday that it is moving to ban MTBE from gasoline, but it will take at least a decade before the possi bly carcinogenic substance no longer poses a threat to the water supply. The study and more than 50 oth ers on MTBE and related issues will be presented this weekend in San Francisco during the national meeting of the American Chemical Society. MTBE has been used in gasoline for two decades to limit air pollution, It is hardly the only carcinogenic pollutant to be found in leaking un derground fuel tanks. But other pol lutants, like benzene, “tendtoabsorb more toward soil and degrade much faster,” Zogorski said. Many variables play a role in de termining whether MTBE will make it into a well, Zogorski said. “Pumping excessively makes the situation worse,” said Zogorski,front the Geological Survey. “It draws down contamination into the well.If the pump rate is low, typically the plume (of MTBE) passes right by.' 1 LEARN TO FLY NOW At United Flight Systems THE EXPERIENCED FLIGHT SCHOOL AVIATION CAREER TRACKS ■ While working on your college degree, accomplish your pilot’s certificates at the same time Upon finishing your college career, you can secure a job as an airline pilot. Get Your Pilot License for as little as s 50 a month!! 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