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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.
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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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