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Out-of-state students find home away from home at Texas A&M
By Erica York
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I Erin Schwertner had visited many universi
ties before she decided to step outside Iowa’s
State line. An Iowa native, Schwertner found
her match when she attended Texas A&M’s
three-day honors program.
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soon as I stepped foot on the A&M campus I
knew this was a special place,” Schwertner
Ihd. “The one thing that really made A&M
land out was the program about traditions.
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“I did want to be an engineer and 1 was
accepted to Purdue and A&M,” Lee said. “
didn’t like cold weather so I thought Texas
would be a better choice.”
Lee, who moved to North Carolina from
Korea when he was 14, said he thinks he
made the right decision in coming to A&M.
“A&M definitely turned out to be the
better choice,” Lee said. “I really like it
here.”
While many students instantly find a
home away from home at A&M, others
need more convincing. Joey Wood, a jun
ior economics major from South Carolina,
was not expecting a change of culture when
he moved to Texas to attend A&M.
“I was caught off guard at first,” Wood
said. “Texas culture was strange at first,
but now I like it.”
Although some out-of-state stu
dents are instantly enticed by hot
weather and a friendly campus,
others discover A&M’s appeal
after experiencing college life at
another university. Billy
Huckaby, a junior agronomy
major from Arkansas, was
attracted to A&M after
attending a semester at the
University of Central
Arkansas.
“I wasn’t happy (at the
University of Arkansas),”
Huckaby said. “I had a lot of
friends down here. I had visited
and enjoyed myself, so that’s why
I moved.”
Huckaby said A&M’s size and
atmosphere was a major drive
behind his transfer.
“It seemed like high school at
UCA. A&M is bjg, but at the same
time, most everybody here is friendly,”
Huckaby said. “There’s no chance of
any rumors being spread about you.”
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rub their heads, stand there through
all their pain," O'Neal said. "But
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Ex-heavyweight champion
turns himself into police
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Former
heavyweight champion Trevor Berbick
turned himself in to police and was
arrested for breaking into a neighbor's
home and stealing several items.
Berbick, charged with breaking and
entering and theft, surrendered in
eastern Port Antonio on Saturday, offi
cer Glenford Miller said Sunday.
Police issued an arrest warrant for
Berbick last week, after a search of his
home turned up items that were
reported stolen by a neighbor —
including an electric drill, a pickax and
some clothes.
Berbick, who won the WBC heavy-
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
weight title in 1985 and lost it to Mike
Tyson a year later, was scheduled to
appear before a judge Tuesday.
Berbick was deported from the
United States to his native Jamaica in
December after the U.S. Immigration
and Naturalization Service deter
mined he illegally re-entered the
country after being deported to
Canada in 1997.
Berbick, 48, was deported after
breaking the conditions of his 1994
parole and serving 15 months of a
four-year sentence for rape, theft and
misdemeanor assault in Florida.
Berbick, who beat Muhammad Ali in
1981 and won the heavyweight
crown in 1985 on a decision over
Pinklon Thomas, was convicted of
assault in 1991 for holding a gun to
his former business manager's head
and accusing her of stealing $40,000.
A year later, he was convicted of
raping a family baby sitter.
The same year, he was convicted of
second-degree grand theft for forging
his ex-wife's signature to get a
$95,000 mortgage on a house in
Miramar, Fla.
Lee: 'Barbershop' gives
negative impression of
civil rights movement
LAUDERHILL, Fla. (AP) - Filmmaker
Spike Lee says he's
concerned that
young moviegoers
will form their first
impressions of civil
rights Jcons Rosa
Parks and Martin
Luther King Jr. from
a bitter character in
last year's comedy
"Barbershop."
The keynote speaker at two events
Saturday honoring King's birthday,
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Lee told hundreds of teenagers at the
Lauderhill Boys & Girls Club that he
didn't laugh when he heard a charac
ter played by Cedric the Entertainer
belittle Parks' refusal to move to the
back of the bus.
Lee, the maker of films such as
"Malcolm X," "Do the Right Thing" and
the recently released "25th Hour,"
also didn't find it funny when the
character accused King of being sexu
ally promiscuous.
But Lee said too many adults do
laugh at those scenes. Instead, he
said they should be teaching young
children about the accomplishments,
challenges and sacrifices of the lead
ers of the civil rights movement.
"To me, some things aren't funny,"
said Lee, 46, a native of Atlanta who
grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. "If our
young children grow up thinking this,
and that's all they know about (Parks
and King), then we're in trouble."
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