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what students today want,
she said.
Miller said there was no site
for a future Bonfire on the plan
because at the time the committee
made its decision, it understood
there was no guarantee it would
return to campus.
Dean of the College of Liberal
Arts Charles Johnson also
answered senator’s questions
during the meeting. The College
of Liberal Arts is working to
improve its class ratios and to
raise the overall ranking of A&M
in the annual U.S. News and
World Report ranking, Johnson
said. The college produces the
most graduates of all colleges
each year, he said.
He also addressed the issue of
the possible closing of the
Department of Journalism.
“We cannot afford to invest in
the department of journalism...
but we can provide other oppor
tunities,” he said.
The committee currently
looking at alternative pathways
for students interested in journal
ism is looking at bringing profes
sional journalists to campus to
talk to students and to provide
more internship opportunities for
student journalists. Johnson said
there has also been some discus
sion about an interdisciplinary
major in journalism.
Sen. Dustin Teems sponsored
a diversity resolution supporting
the SGA Diversity Team that the
Senate passed.
“We need to move beyond tol
erance into acceptance and inte
gration,” Teems said.
Co-Sponsor Corey Nichols
said he thought some people
might have received the wrong
idea about the tone of the
Senate’s earlier debate about
SGA Diversity’s $8,500 budget.
“It was for fiscal and not per
sonal reasons,” he said. “We want
to show we do support (diversi
ty).”
The democratic governance
bill, which ensures that the stu
dent body president and his exec
utive council enact all active leg
islation passed by the Senate, and
the second constituency day bill,
which temporarily suspends con
stitutional guidelines for conduct
ing the next constituency day on
Nov. 12, both passed unanimous
ly on their second readings.
Sen. Jason Hughes introduced
an Academic Honor Council
Representation Bill that would
ensure permanent spots on the
council for members of the Corps
of Cadets, four interfraternity
councils, the Student Senate, the
Judicial Court and the Residence
Hall Association.
Student tragedy provokes responst
By Bart Shirley
THE BATTALION
The recent deaths of Levi Garrett Windle and
Chiang Cheng-Hsien have drawn attention to the
actions of Texas A&M when a student dies or is
severely injured.
The Department of Student Life often sets up
accommodations in Bryan-College Station for
family members and coordinates Silver Taps to
commemorate those who have died.
In terms of the two international graduate stu
dents, Prithviraj Chavan and Prashant Jadhav,
who have been in intensive care since the Oct. 25
car accident in which Cheng-Hsien died. Student
Life would be the primary agent to the family,
assuming the family members were able to get to
College Station.
Windle died Oct. 19 from injuries resulting
from an accidental fall.
The Department of Student Life set up
accommodations for Windle’s family while they
were here, said Carol Binzer, associate director
of Student Life. Windle’s grandmother, Floris
Krueger
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“I get great joy from seeing how far I can take
(students),” Krueger said. “Once you can show a
student how to succeed, it takes off with them.
Success breeds success.”
Edward A. Hiler, vice chancellor and dean of the
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has wit
nessed Krueger’s passion for teaching and the effort
he puts into his work.
“Dr. Krueger is recognized as an outstanding
teacher and adviser. His compassion and dedication
are remarkable; it is obvious that he gets great joy
from working with students,” Hiler said.
Krueger’s journey to A&M was a spectacular
one.
After graduating high school at the age of 15, he
enrolled at A&M and worked to put himself through
college. Running out of money just a few hours
short of graduating, Krueger took a principal posi
tion at an elementary and junior high school at the
age of 19. He later finished his degree and then
served in the U.S. Army during World War II as a
drill instructor.
He returned to school, earning his master’s
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Carrying a notebook with her at all times
since college. Dove said she wants to be prepared
when something stops her in her tracks that
would be good for a piece.
When Dove was asked if her poetry would
have been different if her race would have been
different, she said she considers it an advantage
to be African American or any race that is not
white.
“Any distinguishing feature — race, age, gen
der — helps you achieve a different way to look
at mainstream society,” Dove said. “You know
how to function in mainstream society, but you
also get to sit on the sideline and watch it.”
One of the collections of poetry Dove read
from was “On the Bus with Rosa Parks” (1999),
an award-winning book on the New York Public
Library’s list of 25 books to remember for 1999.
“It is a meditation on what it is to be an indi
vidual at a moment in history, a meditation on
what each of us would do in that situation,” Dove
said. It looks at a symbol, like Rosa Parks, turn
ing into a monument.
Hampton, voiced her gratitude for I
University’s efforts.
"A&M students are family,” Hamptonsai
“We have never experienced the kind of love*
that from A&M and St. Jo’s (Joseph’s).”
Student Counseling Services provides aidfj
students who are grieving the loss of a frier;
said SCS Director Maggie.
“Each situation is unique,” she said.'‘Wetji
ically do something when a student has died,k
what that is depends on what the surviv®
want.”
Olona said that, in some cases, studentst
not have dealt with these sorts of events befe
particularly if they are younger students, Sk
said that SCS counsels the students through!
grieving process and helps them to underst#!
what they are feeling.
"We try to be there for those around the (vic
tim),” Olona said. “Sometimes, it’s just beir;
there.”
Windle was remembered at this momli'
Silver Taps ceremony, held Nov. 4. Chiar;
Cheng-Hsien will be honored in the Dec.!
Silver Taps.
degree in poultry science and a doctorate in anil
breeding and genetics at the University of Missouri
After being recruited by A&M, he returned in!
fall of 1953. Since then. Krueger has taught an air.
of poultry science courses, served in many leade
ship positions and published volumes of research
Krueger served as head of the poultry scienc;
department from 1972 to 1982 and was instmne
tal in planning the Kleberg Center dunng his tent
He maintains an open-door policy at his office
and his home. He said any of his students are wel
come lo come to his home and enjoy a cup of cof
fee with him.
Krueger said A&M has changed tremendousl)
since he began attending in 1938. When heenrolki
A&M had 5,6(X) students who were all malesintk
Corps of Cadets.
The three biggest changes Krueger has seen it
his 50 years of teaching are the enormous expansicn
of A&M, integrating A&M and allowing womenic
attend the University.
Krueger has survived six major medical open-
tions during his lifetime and said he hasnotlem
slow him down.
“I plan to stay as long as I can,” Krueger said, If
the University wants me to stay, and I am mental
sharp and physically able, I will be here,”
Dove said there were a few women whows
arrested before Rosa Parks for doing the sa:;
thing, and she writes about how authoritieswt
ed for the right woman to make a benctaii
case of Parks in one of the poems in the collec
tion.
From writing about the community of senic
citizens who go on early walks through malls la
the magic of ballroom dancing and slave tiatra
lives, Dove has covered an array of topics in hat
poems, short stories, plays and novels.
Charles Rowell, an A&M professor of Englist
and former colleague of Dove’s at the Universil)
of Virginia, said Dove’s poetry “has a lyrical
voice that extends and revises the American 111-
erary cannon because in it she becomes an
American who can write about any subject,any
group of people.”
“Nothing human beings can do is foreignic
her,” Rowell said.
Dove is currently Commonwealth Profess®
of English at the University of Virginia it
Charlottesville. She said she was so happy sk
could come to A&M to be part of the lectf
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