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FRoM MCA Korea Continued from page 1 Institute, said North Korea has made many aggressive military efforts since June 1950, when it invaded South Korea to begin the Korean War. “There has been a sequence of hostilities,” he said. “The threat from North Korea is real ly nothing new.” Cerami said the United States should do everything it can to keep North Korea from developing nuclear technology. Dr. Jae Moon, an assistant professor with the Bush School, said differences in culture have increased tensions between the United States and North Korea. “Mistrust and miscommuni- cation have caused the tension to escalate,” Moon said. “America must understand that the nature of the North Korean regime is very different from the American democratic system.” Dawson said a group of ana lysts and historians believe the United States is to blame for the current crisis in North Korea. Neither the United States nor North Korea fulfilled their obligations regarding an agree ment that required North Korea to cease nuclear weapons developments in return for the United States building nuclear power sources in North Korea, Dawson said. Moon, originally from South Korea, said that because of the military threat to South Korea, South Koreans living in the United States thought their country should become directly involved in the negoti ations. “Native South Koreans are frustrated with South Korea playing the mediator,” he said. “They think South Korea should be in a central position in this conflict. There is a strong con sensus that North Korea should not have nuclear weapons.” Gates Continued from page 1 stringencies elsewhere all of our deans report that they are getting resumes from faculty around the country that they wouldn’t have seen at A&M before the budget crisis,” Gates said. Gates said hiring faculty is essential because, according to U.S. News and World Report, of the top 100 American colleges, A&M has the lowest percent of classes with fewer than 20 stu dents and the highest percent of classes with fewer than 50. Gates said he plans to hire 100 new faculty a year for several years starting in the 2004 fiscal year, to offer fewer students per class. Gates said presently the faculty to student ratio at A&M is 22-1, while at the University of Texas it is 19-1 and 13-1 at peer institutions. “If we don’t increase the size of the faculty more than it has been increased in the past, our ability to provide the kind of programming which makes you nationally competitive with students from other universities will be impaired,” he said. Gates said greater flexibility with tuition is need ed to hire 100 faculty per year due to state funding dropping 13 percent during the past 12 years. Gates answered questions on other issues including; University funded condom distribu tion on campus, which he said he was unaware of; expansion of the fine arts program, which he said will continue at a slow pace. A question about diversity spurred a lengthy explanation by Gates of an issue which he sees as an area A&M needs improvement. “My view is that you are going out into a diverse world and you have not been prepared for that by Texas A&M,” he said. Gates said that recently publicized incidents such as the “Ghetto Party” and a racially insen sitive comic in The Battalion last spring have caused a statewide attitude that minorities are unwelcome at A&M, and caused many minority students who were admitted not to attend. After Gates’ speech the Student Senate approved two resolutions; encouraging faculty to use WebCT to post grades and showing sup port for a course in Mandarin Chinese being offered. organization worked cl with Student Life in planning the event. Faniel, a senior speech munications major, said the fra ternity would cooperate full) with the investigation anj implement the task force’s safe ty recommendations. "There will be a 15th annual Greek Olympiad,” Faniel said “It's become a tradition at A&M.” Faniel criticized news covet- age of the incident and said he was confident that the bad behavior of a few would nottaim the black community at A&M, “I think people will take the time to find out what really hap pened,” Faniel said. Protest Continued from page 1 blue in support of the troops, said Kristin Foulk. A&M’sYCl vice chairman of fonner student affairs. “Our troops are fighting for freedom, which is the same free dom that allows them to stand out there and say their opin ions,” Foulk said. YCT will only be wearing patriotic colors to protest the professors’ antiwar activities, Foulk said. The group did not have time to organize a struc tured. effective protest, she said, However, YCT will conduct a statewide “Rally for America" on March 22. The A&M chap ter will also send care packages to Aggies that have already been sent overseas. Links Continued from page 1 land of 15 of the 19 Sept, hijackers. An official with Rights Watch in New York, Virginia Sherry, said Tuesday she was unaware of 2,500 Saudis being arrested since Sept. 11, 2001. But she said the group’s figures are based only on government announcements, Among those detained, al- Khamis said, were Saudis who fought Soviet invaders in Afghanistan in the 1980s but said they had long since ended links with militant groups. Bin Laden, whose Saudi citi zenship was revoked in 1994, opposes the Saudi royal family, He demands that American troops there leave, objecting to the presence of foreign troops in the land where Islam was found- CLARIFICATION In the Feb. 27 page 5A article "Whale behaviors unaffected by oil drilling.” Richard Charter, a marine conservation advocate with the Oceans Program of the Environmental Defense Organization, said whales found beached near oil exploration sites were tied to military sonar testing, and no evidence of whale beachings from sonar use in oil exploration has been observed. *fl<<;it(0N 3‘i Masquerade Ball Costume Contest Wile E, Coyote Mask: $25 Entering tne costume contest: free' Dancing with the fairy afterward: Frice| Some people are normal... for the rest, there is AggieCon Vietnamese American Student Association COME ONE...COME AT Thursday 3/6/03 8:30pm Rudder 404 FUN FREE FOOD FRIENDS Officers nominations this meeting! 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