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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
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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
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