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NEWS
THE BATTALION
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COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP)
Like his hero Adolf Hitler,
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percent to! Mexicans are staying home to enjoy
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the 2,100-mile border,
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63 The results of Target 2000 were
significant, but not as visible as
Rose of the Aspirations Study,
ffi/endler said.
j “(Target 2000) set a tone and a gen-
Ral goal for the University,” he said.
I International and study abroad
irograms were also a central part of
larget 2000.
I “One reason Moeser was interest-
► ed [in Vision 2020] was because of
/ fV S 16 (wo previous 20-year plans,”
wendler said. “We were able to do it
liccessfully twice.”
| At this point, A&M, like UNL,
legan looking at the plans of other
universities before drafting Vision
arvey 2020. Cornell, the University of
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orth Carolina and North Carolina
tate were among the schools
&M studied in its planning
rocess, Wendler said.
However, even though Vision
020 was influenced by other
schools, A&M had to make its own
plan, Wendler said.
“We didn’t want to lose our
niqueness, like the emphasis on stu-
ent leadership,” he said. “We didn’t
want to give that- away. I think we
ere reasonably successful.”
A&M has changed a lot since he
rst arrived, Wendler said, but the
iverall spirit remains the same.
“I’m enamored by the Universi-
,” Wendler said.
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resent him. Someone threw a rock
through the stained-glass swastikas
of his abandoned chapel. Butler
could not even rent a motel room to
hold services of his white suprema
cist religion.
The evangelist of hate now finds
himself in the position of complain
ing about discrimination.
“If Muslims or Black Panthers
or a Jew rabbi rented the room, they
would have allowed accommoda
tions,” he said on his Website after
[being denied space at the Silver
'Lake Motel.
Supporters of Aryan Nations once
regarded northern Idaho as a minor
ity-free homeland supposedly filled
with kindred spirits. Now they dis
miss the state as “Idawhore,” its res
idents as “cracker spuds,” and its hu
man rights activists as “hue man
rights task forces.”
Instead of moving away, as many
Idaho civic leaders had hoped, the
82-year-old Butler is digging in.
He has announced an unprece
dented series of public events this
year, including marches in Coeur
d’Alene, Sandpoint and Rathdrum.
His annual Aryan World Congress,
which used to draw more than 100
skinheads and the like to Butler’s
compound, will be held instead at a
park nearby.
“Pastor Butler has been here for
30 years,” said Shaun Winkler, staff-
director for Butler. “The Aryan Na-!
tions is not going to leave now.” ;
The prospect of blue-shirted!
neo-Nazis marching through the
streets of these tourist-dependent
towns is not what human rights
groups expected after Butler was
bankrupted last year.
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