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Deadline for applications is Monday, February 3, 2003 Tuesday, January 21, 2003 Fish by R.DeLuna LET /Me GET This STRAIGHT ALL these CUoa'ie aj Tr/i/U<c This Guts a amluoaja ire But HEs RE/n-uv Pc MAa) t>o Vou Kajo Houu /M/AAiy Ti/^es I'VE Tried That* c°/Me it U)oRvcS Fo(Z Thi*> Dut>6 , Bur ~~~—— —, AJoT FoR TK /me >? y m ' You're ajoT Lookiaig. Too g°aj't Have a Butler. You t>o/o'r Have A castle Too 5/MELL- LiKE A WET Do6. Weah, Bur 1 lCaaJ Fake /v ' That stuff /OEEb A CASTLE You ajeeo Quit Ljo/AEaj You're P D'D&V'S CooSW Cube of Xoe By C.J. Party Continued from page 1 event,” and also involved former members of Walton Hall. University officials are inves tigating both the Walton Hall Council and Walton Residential Advisers (RAs). While flyers advertising the party were appar ently distributed in Walton Hall, Walton RAs say they had no for mer knowledge of the event. A&M President Dr. Robert M. Gates said the event does not reflect a climate of racism on campus. “I think it was a case of poor judgment on the part of a few stu dents,” he said. “It is illustrative of the kind of problem we have to deal with at A&M where minori ties do not feel welcome here.” Former yell leader and recent graduate Arouna “Boo Boo” Davies said that he was one of the many students who attended the same party last year. “I did go to the party. I thought it was wrong from the beginning but it wasn’t meant to be a racist event,” he said. “The way people dressed, it might have looked racist, but it was just a theme. The whole thing has been blown way out of proportion.” Briggs Hall Council President Veronica Garza said she attended the party in 2002 and did not find it racially offensive. “There were a lot of minori ties at the party” said Garza, a Hispanic and sophomore French major. “That’s why 1 don't understand what the big deal is. We are bombarded by these ‘negative images’ by MTV and BET all the time. Yet when there is a ‘thug’ party, we are called racist. It doesn't make sense.” University officials are con cerned that the “ghetto” party fosters the unwelcoming envi ronment that Gates’ Vision 2020 diversity plan is aimed at elimi nating. Ron Sasse, director of Residence Life, said in an A&M news release that such an event could only serve to “disgrace, divide and deteriorate the cam pus environment that Texas A&M is working diligently to build.” Residence Life officials delivered “strongly worded let ters condemning such actions” to students at Walton hall and will “provide training sessions to make them more aware of the adverse affects of their actions,” according to a University news release. Arrest Continued from page 1 console. Henderson asked Slocum if there was anything that he should know about inside the car and Slocum replied, “No,” then gave the officer permission to search his vehicle. Police then found more drugs and syringes, includ ing a pink pill and one vial that read “Anabolic St.” on a label. Police also found a papier with a schedule for taking steroids. The pink pill found in Slocum’s Tahoe later tested positive for methamphetamine, commonly known as “ecstasy.” When asked by police about the steroids and other drugs in the car, Slocum told police that he didn’t know about any steroids or syringes in his truck and not everything in the truck was his. Police then told him that because the truck belonged to him anything inside belonged to him as well. Slocum refused to tell police what did and did not belong to him inside the truck. Morris said that he had never met Slocum before and that he had told Slocum “the beer isn’t doing it for me.” Slocum then told Morris that he had some thing in his truck that might work better for him. Morris said he assumed Slocum meant liquor and followed him to the truck. When Slocum appeared to offer Morris ecstasy, Morris refused but did not elaborate to police what happened after that and denied that any cash was exchanged between him and Slocum. Morris was arrested last fall for speeding and driv ing while intoxicated which resulted in a brief sus pension by then football coach R.C. Slocum. The DWI charge was dropped by Brazos County Attorney Jim Kuboviak a few days later due to a lack of evidence. Watkins said that he was shocked when he heard the news because he had no knowledge of Slocum ever failing a drug test. “That kind of information I only usually get if someone doesn’t pass the test,” Watkins said. “But 1 haven’t gotten anything on Andy and that’s why it’s kind of a surprise for me. “He had no past history of anything like this so hopefully its just something that's a misunderstand ing somewhere out there,” he said. A&M senior guard Bernard King, who has been teammates with Slocum for four years, said that everyone makes mistakes. “I know it’s tough for (Andy),” King said. “It’s tough on all of us as a team. We’re there for him. Everyone makes mistakes, we just didn’t need this distraction right now.” Possession of steroids is a third-degree felony, pun ishable by two to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. Memo Continued from page 1 the best way to bring it to bear,” Prior said. Prior recommends students who want their ideas heard by the APC or one of the advisory councils to go through the stu dent government representa tives for the APC. Academic Affairs Chair for the Student Senate Natasha Eubanks, a junior political sci ence major, said students want ing to express views should con tact their student senator. A list of student senators can be found on the student senate Web site at http://senate.tamu.edu. Along with the APC, the office of the provost has also been given an expanded role in the decision-making process. The executive vice president and provost is now responsible for preparing the annual evalu ations of the vice presidents. The third-ranking administra tive official at A&M is no longer one of the vice presi dents but the newly created position of vice provost being filled by Executive Associate Provost Dr. William Perry. “This is a more than symbol ic change but mostly it is for malizing what is already being done,” said William Krumm, vice president for finance. The one vice president who has direct access to President Gates is the yet-to-be appointed vice president for institutional diversity. The new vice president will not report through the provost, unlike all current vice presidents are required to do. Prior said the change will help Gates build a relationship with the new position by hav ing the most direct relationship possible. 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There is i charge or time limit to listatxf onhalt.com. |L0SANGELE5 Textbook-trader.com, a 'Wperstar guat established by two Aggie s®ers, missed dents, functions as a place for ® n d for the t dents to communicate al toasons: His w available books. All transact® labor with take place between indivKifirst child, buyers and sellers, who sei 1 Natalia Dia their own meeting times andp Bryant was boi ment options. IStinday. She w Still, online shoppers cat 6 pounds, 14 c always find lower prices wh, and was 19 1/ comes to textbooks. as long, said Sophomore computer scie; spokesman major Caleb Bell has purch®ack. textbooks online in the pastuxi Lakers train, Web sites such as half.com called him a, amazon.com, but this year op ^iss practice 1 to buy his books at a localboJ Teammate S store. a father with “I checked prices (online Way, offered ; they were not that different °ld Bryant, those of bookstores, and it h; more convenient to pick them i here,” Bell said. 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