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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.
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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
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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.
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