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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
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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
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Meet with other women from the TAMU campus to identify and discuss issues of
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THE BATTALION
Thursday, March 23,1
Police shooting case examined for racist motivesi
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mistress gets land
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A judge
Wednesday awarded the Montana
fishing retreat of the late CBS cor
respondent Charles Kuralt to his
longtime secret mistress.
A letter Kuralt wrote to Patricia
Shannon two weeks before he died
in 1997 clearly expressed his wish
that she have the 90 acres along
the Big Hole River after his death,
state District Judge John Chris
tensen said.
Kuralt’s two children had argued
that the letter merely expressed Ku
ralt’s intention to someday draft a
will giving Shannon the property,
which includes a former one-room
schoolhouse and was valued at
$600,000.
Four months earlier, he had giv
en Shannon 20 acres and the fish
ing cabin the two of them had built
on the banks of the fishing stream.
Shannon still lives there.
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
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