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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
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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
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Schuyler Houser
STUDENT BOOT PRESIDENT
Brandon Hepburn
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tor in the 12th Legislature, ul n a written
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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
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COMMITTEE CHAIR
A&M.
Prior also said, “more
dents should realize that
African-American men kl
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Barry Hammond
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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
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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.
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he said.
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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
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in 1997 that require states and local governments to
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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®'
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The long legal fight shows “how industry c
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Lung Association in the litigation.
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