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Friday, October 6,2(1 Friday, October 6, 2000 venue petition among promoi- ■> has made it morcdiffi- for performers and au-! ihers to receive good | m some of them, irties are doing really! lid. “But some promoi- j in mg real fat eats and j icir priorities. 1 played | )rlando, where I was put f m: the booth was small i ack-room party. Watch j of these promoters; the l could have a real good | one or two promoters | orate. But it seems the j nore contrived [thanin f -fe sfrf f Under 4Y CAMPUS THE BATTALION Page 5A Couple charged with Culpepper burglaries By Marium Mohiuddin T/je Battalion A Plano woman was charged with possession of stolen property two days after her husband was charged with breaking into businesses in Culpepper Plaza on Texas Avenue. * Jonell Rachelle Smith was ^Charged with possession of stolen property connected to a Plano rob- !bery, said Sgt. Dan Jones, public in formation officer for the College Sta tion Police Department (CSPD). Kenneth Clayton Smith, her hus band, was charged on Sunday with one count of burglary of six Culpep per Plaza businesses and is being held at the Brazos County Jail on $50,000 bail. “We went to the Days Inn to ask her some questions about her hus band and the officers saw that there was a lot of property in her car that was out of place,” Jones said. “Her arrest was a result of her hus band’s arrest.” The stolen property, 10 Nokia cellular phones and four Ericsson cellular phones, is estimated to be worth $615. The couple has been linked to other robberies in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Jones said, adding that CSPD is working with Dallas-Fort Worth police. “It looks like these two were in volved with the [Culpepper] bur glaries,” Jones said. “[Kenneth] Smith was the one that went through the vents, and his wife was probably in the car.” Jones said it is unclear why the six Culpepper stores were chosen. After a five-hour search, Smith was found hiding behind a piano in Holze Music with $500 cash.The police are trying to determine whether the money was taken from the cash registers of the businesses. Jones said investigation of the burglaries of the six Culpepper busi nesses is still ongoing. — News in Brief — Bryan Frito Lay delivery van stolen A Frito Lay delivery van was stolen at 4:48 a.m. Thursday with about $3,000 worth of potato chips, a computer and a printer inside. The van was parked in the 4300 block of Boonville Road in Bryan packed and ready for the morning deliveries. “When the driver came out side to make his deliveries, the van was gone and there was broken glass where it should have been parked,” said Sgt. Ernie Montoya, public relations officer with the Bryan Police De partment. “[The perpetrators] must have busted through the glass and hot wired [the van].” “Rold Gold Pretzels” is written . on the stolen van, and the van is [ one of the only two vans of its ‘ kind, said the Frito Lay office. David Haddock, district man ager of Frito Lay in Bryan-Col- lege Station, said that the van distributes to the B-CS and campus areas. “Not too many [stops were interrupted],” Haddock said. “A lot of the stuff [stolen] was from campus stops, but we moved some stuff around to different routes, and some dri vers added on a couple of stops to their routes.” Haddock said that business was able to progress as usual. Symposium addresses Hispanic issues By Sommer Bunce The Battalion The Hispanic population is part of a culture that predates English settlement in the colonies — and, as such, should be recognized as a vi able way of life, said Michelle Hall Kells, program chair of the Texas A&M Fall 2000 Literacy Sympo sium, which focuses on language and Hispanic identities. The symposium, which began Thursday night with a poetry reading by a respected Hispanic scholar, will continue today until 5:30 p.m. at the Memorial Student Center (MSC). The symposium will address lan guage, literacy and educational ac cess issues of Hispanic students. “On a very grass-roots level, we have to respond to this and look at TtxasItSSMisiMaic . Fell 2% from Falll 999 r to Fall 2000 ► Composes 8.4% of the total Fall 2000 enrollment 666 incoming freshman ^ Hispanic students for Fall 2000 Fnmmmm of llspiiiio PtPiflSHOi in T61iS I960 lit 21% BRANDON HENDERSON/Thk Battalion the issues,” Kells said, adding that the Hispanic enrollment at A&M is far less than it could be considering the strength of the Hispanic culture within Texas. “It’s an issue of justice — we’re talking social justice for Mexican- American students and Hispanic stu dents to be under-represented in our institution. If our student population doesn't reflect the emerging majori ty of our state, then we have a serious problem,” she said. Kells, a graduate student in the Department of English, calls Hispan ic origin “our heritage.” Kells, along with fellow symposium organizer Va lerie Balester, co-edited a book last year that anticipated the growing di versity within classrooms. While a teacher at Texas A&M University- Kingsville, Kells encountered her own limitations and the school’s eth nocentric position, which made it dif ficult to truly teach her students. “Teachers, as a largely monolin gual group, are not prepared to ad dress the particular interests and needs and educational concerns of the emerging student population,” Kells said. “By and large, in the process of training, [teachers] haven’t had either the exposure or the experience or the preparation for the classroom. We’re responding to a gap in our training.” In an effort to make the sympo sium not only an academic, schol arly enterprise, but a celebration of culture “linguistically, poetically and interpersonally,” Kells began contacting speakers in January for the event. Nine months of effort with the Discourse Studies Group in the Department of English and the Hispanic Graduate Student Associ ation led to the symposium’s com bination of music, poetry and in formed discussion. Today’s workshop will open with a small concert by Estudiana Corpus Christi, under the direction of Dr. Leonardo Carrillo of Texas A&M Uni versity-Corpus Christi. Panelists will discuss educational issues, key-note speaker Juan Guerra of the University of Washington will present informa tion on multiple literacies and demo graphics, and speaker Jamie Mejia of Southwest Texas State University will lecture on critical teaching methods in Mexican-American studies. Jan Swearingen, a panelist for the symposium and an English professor at A&M, will discuss how far schol ars have come since the '60s on issues of bilingualism and encouraging His panic communities to become part of the larger community of Texas. Swearingen said educational pat terns for Hispanics have not improved as much as early Hispanic workers had hoped after bilingual programs and other support programs came in. “There’s concern about the low percentage of Hispanic students in Texas who complete high school, and the even lower percentage who com plete college,” Swearingen said. “We are nearing a majority of Hispanics in the state now, and the high school graduation rate is much lower than it should be, and than it is for whites. The question is, why is that happen ing, and what can we do to improve the situation. There are a lot of dis cussions that need to be had.” r Panel answers questions about sexual responsibility Bv.Sommer Bunce The Battalion Parodying MTV’s sex advice show “Loveline,” Kappa Alpha Psi members and A.P. Beutel Health Center education coordinator Mar garet Griffith discussed sexual re sponsibility at Texas A&M’s Ru- niours Coffee House last night. The panel answered audience questions ranging from the truth about combining alcohol and sex to the reasons women are emotional during menstruation. Sexual responsibility among col lege students varies widely, Griffith said, saying that some students are responsible, while others have prob lems with sex. Griffith drew silence when she quoted a statistic to the crowded coffeehouse. “One in five people over the age of 12 has genital herpes,” she said. “And half of them will never know it.” Griffith said she hopes to see more college students educated about what can happen when they engage in intercourse. “It’s almost like if you’re going to be sexually active — and most peo ple will at some point in their lives — it’s a really important thing to be ed ucated about,” she said, listing the sexually transmitted infections (STIs) that can be contracted through oral, anal or vaginal sex. “A lot of people don’t realize that these things are out there. We are comparable to most college campus es — which means we have a higher incidence of STIs than in the general population for sure,” she said. October is National AIDS Aware ness Month. According to AIDS Ser vices of Brazos Valley, there are 52,292 known AIDS cases in Texas,, including 3,754 new cases reported from January 1999 to March 2000. Although rates of HIV — the virus that causes AIDS — are stabilizing in Texas, the number of cases in Brazos Valley are cause for concern. In the Brazos Valley, there are 148 known AIDS cases, and of the people See Sex on Page 6A. 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