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Tuesday, April 1, 2003
NEWS
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PANEL. SO I BETTER STOP
N2is£ PSIlHtiSn by R.DeLuna by
Profiling
Baghdad. Day by day we a
moving closer to victory,” Bu
said during a trip to Philadelphi-
Officials said the civilians wet
killed when Army guards openc
fire at a checkpoint near Naja
the same general area where fot
soldiers from the same unit we;
killed in a weekend car bombin;
This time, officials said Ant
guards fired warning shots atth
vehicle carrying 13 people, the
fired into its engine, but neitk
action stopped the van. Twooth;
civilians were injured and
unharmed in the incident, whii
the military is investigating
“In light of recent tem
attacks by the Iraqi regime,
soldiers exercised consideral
restraint to avoid the unnece
loss of life,” said a statemi
from U.S. Central Command
The official casualty couni
Americans stood at 44
seven captured and 16 mi:
The British death toll rose to
with the death of a soli
Monday in southern Iraq.
Iraqi officials have given
estimate of military casualti
hut have said at least 425
ians have been killed and i
sands wounded.
Some Iraqis described ham>
ing conditions, and not only fm
American air bombardments.
One. who agreed to talkir
condition his name not be use
said agents of the ruling Ba;
party attempted to shoot de
ers. “But we decided it
either die from an Amend
bomb or be killed by our
people,” he said in the Kurd:
town of Kalak in northern Iraq
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“take it to court.”
The CSPD reported two
complaints in 2002 of officers
violating the department’s pro
filing policy, but neither com
plaint was found to be valid.
“If black people are driving
around with guns and crack, I
want you to pull them over,”
Lecky said. “But if not, don’t
pull me over just because I’m
black.”
Carla Kwarteng, a junior
accounting major and president
of the A&M chapter of the
NAACP, said she knows people
who feel they have been dis
criminated against because of
their ethnicity.
“If it has affected even one
person, then it is definitely a
problem,” she said.
Kwarteng said the problem
with racial profiling reports was
that they can give a false sense
of racial equity.
“It gives a sense of compla
cency, a sense of nothing going
on,” she said. “But we know it’s
a problem because we hear sto
ries about it every day.”
Article 2, section 132 of the
Texas Code of Criminal
Procedures requires all Texas
police forces, including UPD, to
submit a racial profiling report
annually to the Department of
Public Safety.
NEWS IN BRIEF
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poems, songs
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first genocide
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genocide, wh
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Gillom’s fate was not determined prior to last
season’s end.
“There was no decision made until after the
completion of the basketball season, just as
every coach on campus is evaluated at the end of
their season,” Miller said.
Gillom, who did not post a winning season
with the Aggies, has since been named an assis
tant coach at the University of Mississippi.
Blair has never posted a losing season and has
had 14 seasons of 20 wins or more.
Byrne said that finding a proven winner was
one of his primary goals in the search for a new
women’s coach.
“He’s had a lot of experience in building pro
grams, and we’re awfully glad he’s coming back
to the state of Texas to rejuvenate our women’s
basketball program to the level of success that
we expect,” he said.
Former student to
spend month in jai history books
I Kouyomjii
A former Texas A&M stude that Armenia,
found guilty of videotaping se the most anci
al relations with a female si “Making t
dent without her knowledf of us who ha 1
and then showing the tape t memories of
his fraternity brothers was sen ^The f,f m jt s{
tenced in early March to fw
years of probation and of
month in jail, according to Tt>
Bryan-College Station Eagle.
Brennan Bice, 21, pleade
guilty to a fourth-degree feloii
charge punishable by up to tw
years in jail and a $10,000 fins
according to The Eagle.
As part of his punishmeF
Bice took out an advertisemefl
in the March 17 edition of Th
Battalion apologizing to tti
woman and her family.
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