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6A Thursday, March 28, 2002 NEWS the battalion Compass College Ministries would like to invite all engaged couples and those just thinking about getting engaged to join us for a 6-week seminar on how to build a lasting marriage. Panel Continued from page 1A BATTALION RACE ISSUES PANEL Lyndon Pryor 4*l5 > X? rX?. X < X . X Tuesday evenings beginning April 2nd Rudder Tower Room 301, 8:30 pm Sign up by March 29th $75 per couple For registration information please call 779-2434 Registration Includes: Seminar Notebook • PREPARE Evaluation & Reading • Marriage Enrichment Material Q) Srhu&M fet'AMmU k)M,k What is Terrorism? When: TODAY, THURSDAY 7 pm Where: Bush School, Room 109^ Dr. Chuck Hermann, Associate Dean of International Programs Colonel Joe Cerami C.S. 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Come to the workshop on Internship Search Strategies and get an edge on the competition.. => Search Tools => Resumes Interviewing ...because you’re playing to win. Thursday, March 28 ♦ 2:30 PM ♦ 111 Koldus Last chance to attend this semester! Experiential Education Career Center i http://careercenter.tamu.edu 209 Koldus ♦ 845-7725 I Your future starts here! in minority and non-minority student activities. “I don’t need the adminis tration to tell me they support my being here, but (it should) get more involved in some of my activities,” she said. “Not just minority programs, but come to a (Student) Senate meeting.” Bloomfield also suggested some University money be spent to create a quality minority public relations cam paign. Castillo suggested the cam paign have recruitment pam phlets featuring minority and other student leaders in posi tions other than with cultural organizations to show that A&M minorities are active and the campus welcomes the leadership of all students. AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENT COALITION PRESIDENT Samecia Bloomfield EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CULTURAL PROCRAMS COORDINATION Acknowledge A&M's historical minority figu^ Lyndon Prior, Africa;. American Student Coalition; president, said the Cnivers should take nation the BATTi Bus Mariano Castillo EDITOR IN CHIEF OF THE BAJTAUOH Adrienne Aguirre responsibility where blacks COMMITTEE FOR THE AWARENESS OF MEXICAN AMERICAN CULTURE CHAIR eventsl^HB yia major roles in A&M history,^ said more students shouldkifc about Matthew Gaines. for : '| I ' ^ * "* Schuyler Houser STUDENT BOOT PRESIDENT Brandon Hepburn slave and Republican stateset| he current fi tor in the 12th Legislature, ul n a written established free public ediicJ |l0neci bil1 S| MSC BLACK AWARENESS COMMITTEE CHAIR tion in the State of Texas Tyler Dunman YOUNG CONSERVATIVES Of TEXAS Pablo Rodriguez DIRECTOR OF DIVERSITY ISSUES Jarry Ho *vAaj ,1m enabled the founding ofleijouth Carol in MSC ASIAN CULTURES EDUCATION COMMITTEE CHAIR A&M. Prior also said, “more dents should realize that African-American men kl Kyle Field from the groundJ ■ me Eberhard Laepple INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION Rf PRC SENTATIVf Integrate programs ir Republica , Jow-key enacti "lent on his an 'I wouldn’t i it,” Bush [ency and reso He said he Mliirtin OMuirgheasa CORPS OF CADETS REPRESENTATIVE Barry Hammond Panelists said they werecJ^ 00 a ° : EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT FOR DEVELOPMENT Individual effort, student leaders step up Rodriguez said while the top-down technique is impor tant to challenge administra tion to get involved, the bot tom-up approach of students taking responsibility for their own sensitivity is also crucial. “The most productive [pub lic relations] campaign we could all do is talk about the environment that exists and stress that we are working to improve those issues.” he said. International Students Association representative Eberhard Laepple agreed. “We need to show the value of having knowledge of differ ent cultures,” Laepple said. “We need to show our leader ship perspective to students in our organizations and make it typical of the Aggie culture.” Corps of Cadets representa tive Mairtin Omuirgheasa said, “Our job as leaders is to start that tradition and keep every body working toward the same things.” Barry Hammond, MSC vice president for development, said student leaders can do that by creating the Fish Camp concept of an “unconditionally accepting environment” on campus and within student organizations. Adrienne Aguirre, Chair of Sourca: Tho Battalion the Committee for the Awareness of Mexican- American Culture, said motives for diversity must be considered. “Don’t encourage diversity because it is politically cor rect, but because it makes us better people with better rela tionships with people different than us,” Aguirre said. Lessons from the Uncartoonist Panelists discussed how they can shape the future of diversity based on what they learned through the campus uproar over the Battalion car toon deemed racist by some. Aguirre was upset by the amount of people who had no reaction to the issue. “We need to look at the people who continue after this to still be ignorant and indif ferent, and create dialogue with them,” she said. Castillo framed future steps in the aftermath of the cartoon. “First, we need to make sure that never happens again,” he said. Next. Castillo said he hopes people will become educated through the situation so the next time they see the same stereotypes, they notice the wrongdoing immediately. milted to integrating s programs in order to embr* diversity. For instance, of allowing the ExCel divert weekend become coined “Fish Camp for Minorities, two programs should i together. Rodriguez said. “We need our fish to gettvj experiences, and they need collaborate." Rodriguez said Tyler Dunman of the y<.|t Conservatives of Texas agree; “We are trying to unite, we are dividing by setting programs for only ceri groups,” he said. Dunman said Aim Southern Heritage Societ; working with other stuixj groups to include black cul:^ in the history of the South ,1) lay down n: rules of thi Embrace change Rodriguez said it is impoitj not to get discouraged efforts at diversity. “We need to have a vision sight to see where we need to but we have to be realistic In provided b’ realizing it is not going change overnight,” he said. Jarry Ho, MSC Asian Cultmture,” he saic Education Committee ctiJliool for a v, GREEN VI iigned landm; ipened an a; j^ithin hours, “This legi: Here, on th< After the sp ^adlined a $ 1 and then laxby Chambl |on for Texas i Graham tok You paid fo 'erry BROWNSV ard and don’t That was th ive on Tuesdt; luting his fiv< |e Texas educe In Brownsvi lower high sc “I’m here tc jidents and th< insider to be v the state of r :hool,” Perry s no longer a g< Last school y of Texas scf “(The studer school, they offered an optimistic glimpseii^ork and famiT the future of diversity issues, t said in his six years at A&M.I campus diversity environmf has shown signs of hope. “This type of dialogue’ not happening six years agej he said. Mil EPA requiring tougher air pollution standard WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says it now has “a clear path” to requiring tougher air pollution health standards after winning a five-year legal fight over one of the most controversial Cl inton-era environmental regulations. A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected the final industry challenges to regulations first issued in 1997 that require states and local governments to meet more stringent air quality standards. The standards will require tougher controls on smog-causing chemicals and microscopic soot that the EPA considers harmful to small children, the elderly and people with respiratory problems. “EPA now has a clear path to move forward to ensure that all Americans can breathe cleaner air,” EPA Administrator Christie Whitman said after the ruling Tuesday by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals. The tougher health standards have been limbo for years after they were issued by theEr during the Clinton administration. The regulati®' were quickly challenged by a wide range oft®' ness groups, utilities and the trucking industry' well as three states. Fhe legal fight made its way to the Suprc®* Court, which a year ago upheld the new EPAs® dards. But opponents raised yet another chalto 1 : 1 ' arguing the EPA had acted arbitrarily in seK the new standards — an argument the apP court rejected on Tuesday. The long legal fight shows “how industry c throw everything it has against a public hea standard and in the course of doing so they 11,1 aged to delay this process for many years, ^ Howard Fox, an attorney for Earthjustice Defense Fund, who represented the Aniem- Lung Association in the litigation. 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