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Kerry leads Democratic presidential primaries
Edwards, Clark take one state each,
Lieberman drops out of race
By Ron Fournier
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Democratic presidential front-runner John
Kerry rolled up big victories and a pile of del
egates in five states Tuesday night, while rivals
John Edwards and Wesley Clark kept their
candidacies alive with singular triumphs in a
dramatic cross-country contest.
Edwards easily won his native South
Carolina and Clark, a retired Army general
from Arkansas, eked out victory in neighbor
ing Oklahoma. Howard Dean earned no wins
and perhaps no delegates, his candidacy in
peril. Joe Lieberman was shut out, too, and
dropped out of the race.
“It’s a huge night,” Kerry told The
Associated Press, even as rivals denied him a
coveted sweep.
Racking up victories in Missouri, Arizona.
North Dakota, New Mexico and Delaware,
Kerry suggested that his rivals were regional
candidates.
"I compliment John Edwards, but 1 think
you have to run a national campaign, and I
think that’s what we’ve shown tonight,” the
four-tenn Massachusetts senator said. “You
can’t cherry-pick the presidency.”
With Iowa and New Hampshire already in
his pocket, Kerry boasts a record of 7-2 in pri-
mary season contests, the undisputed front-
runner who had a chance to put two major
rivals away but barely failed.
An AP analysis showed Kerry winning 65
pledged delegates, Edwards 43. Clark five and
A1 Sharpton one, with 155 yet to be allocated.
Kerry ’s wins in Missouri and Arizona were
the night’s biggest prizes, w ith 129 delegates
— nearly half of the 269 at stake.
Tuesday’s results pushed Kerry close to
2(X) delegates out of 2,162 needed for the
nomination, including the superdelegates of
lawmakers and party traditionalists. Dean
trailed by nearly 70, Edwards by nearly 100.
Democrats award delegates based on a can
didates’ showing in congressional districts,
giving Kerry’s rivals a chance to grab a few
delegates even in contests they lost.
In nearly every region of the nation, the
most diverse group of Democrats yet to cast
votes this primary season said they had a sin
gular priority: Defeat President Bush this fall.
“1 don’t care who wins the Democratic pri
mary,” said Judy Donovan of Tucson, Ariz. "I’d
get my dog to am. I’m not kidding. I would get •
Mickey Mouse in there. Anybody but Bush.”
In state after state, exit polls showed Kerry
dominated among voters who want a candi
date with experience or who could beat Bush.
Edwards had said he must win South
Carolina, and he did by dominating among
voters who said they most value a candidate
who cares about people like them.
“It’s very easy to lay out the map to get us
to the nomination,” Edwards told the AP.
drawing a line from Michigan on Saturday to
Virginia and Tennessee next Tuesday.
To the roar of his supporters, Edwards
declared. “The politics of lifting people up
beats the politics of tearing people down.”
As the votes were being counted in
Oklahoma, Clark mused about the future of
his candidacy. "This could be over,” he told
reporters. Hours later, he had won Oklahoma
See Democrats on page 2
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen
Columbia, S. C, Tuesday evening.
ROBERT LASHER • KRT CAMPUS
John Edwards, D-N.C, celebrates his victory in the South Carolina primary in
tForum reveals hazards of smoking
r oniII Tobacco lawsuit whistleblower Dr. Victor DeNoble displays a
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nicotine affected brain to attendees at his "What the Tobacco
ggi(j| Industry Doesn't Want You to Know" presentation in Rudder
Theater Tuesday evening. DeNoble worked in a secret lab for
Tobacco giant Philip Morris, where he led experiments on
rodents to explore the effects of nicotine on the brain.
By Michael Player
THE BATTALION
We don’t kill people; nicotine
kills people, said Victor J.
DeNoble, an experimental psy
chologist, when he spoke
Tuesday night at Rudder Theater
as part of “What the Tobacco
Industry Doesn’t Want You to
Know.”
That slogan was the credo of
the Philip Morris Company 24
years ago, DeNoble said.
DeNoble ran a secret labo
ratory for Philip Morris from
1980 to 1984 and was a key
witness for the U.S. attorney
general’s office case against
major tobacco companies.
In 1984, DeNoble was ter
minated when Philip Morris
executives discovered his
ground-breaking research on
how tobacco affects the brain.
“It takes five to 10 years for
the effects of nicotine to totally
leave the central nervous sys
tem,” DeNoble said.
Health Education
Coordinator Rhonda Rahn
expressed gratitude for
DeNoble’s presentation.
“We feel that Dr. DeNoble
is one of the nation’s leading
experts on nicotine, and we
are very proud to have him
here,” Rahn said.
DeNoble’s job at Philip
Morris was to design a drug
that was like nicotine, but
would not have the effects on
the human heart that nicotine does.
During his research he realized
that it was the brain that was
most affected by the drug.
“One thing that I learned
during my research is that the
human is the only animal that
will voluntarily inhale smoke
See Smoking on page 2
GSC votes to support
student fee increase
By Anthony Woolstrum
THE BATTALION
Texas A&M’s Graduate Student
Council (GSC) passed a resolution
Tuesday that supported the student
service fee increase for next fall.
The Student Service Fees Advisory
Board’s (SSFAB) proposed fee increase
of 65 cents is 12 cents above the state
cap of $150. Because the proposal is
above the cap, state law requires that the
issue be sent to a referendum for the
students to vote whether to accept the
recommendation.
The SSFAB also has to present the
recommendation to the Student
Senate and GSC. The Student Senate
did not support the proposal, but did
decide to host the referendum.
"I think that what graduate stu
dents showed today by approving the
Student Service Fees Advisory
Board's recommendation is that they
recognize the value that the student
fees provide," said Josh Peschel, pres
ident of the GSC.
With very little debate, the council
passed the proposal, 19 to 11. Some
commented that the debate that did
take place was superfluous because
they already knew what their con
stituents desired.
Robin Cappel, chair of the
SSFAB, came prepared with a presen
tation that resolved the majority of
concerns for those present.
Cappel said it is not just a fee
increase benefittirig the undergraduate
students. Multiple line items directly
See GSC on page 2
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Holt to perform ‘Black Boy’ play
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By Christina Teichman
THE BATTALION
In the interest of pursuing diversity on
the Texas A&M campus, the College of
Liberal Arts is co-sponsoring Richard
Wright’s “Black Boy” at Rudder Theatre
tonight at 7:30. Admission is free.
“Black Boy” is being produced by The
Black Boy
Charles Holt stars in an
autobiographical story that
depicts acclaimed author
Richard Wright from age A
to 28.
^ Rudder Theater
► Wednesday,
7:30 p.m.
^ Admission is free
GRACIE ARENAS • THE BATTALI
SOURCE : COLLEGE OF LIBERAL A
American Place of Theaters and Literature
to Life Arts Education Program.
“Black Boy,” published in 1945, is an
autobiographical book that depicts the
hardships and discriminations Wright
was forced to deal with as a black boy
growing up in the South.
Charles Holt will be the sole performer
in the play, and different voices and body
movements will be used with a minimum
number of props. Holt will portray the life
of Wright from age four to 28.
“A faculty member saw Holt in per
formance before and was impressed,”
said Larry Oliver, assistant dean of the
College of Liberal Arts.
Holt said he never felt like he belonged
anywhere, but after reading “Black Boy,”
he identified with the characters.
“I was instantly moved by Wright’s
words,” Holt said.
Wright loved to read and write, but
never had many opportunities because
school was a rare luxury, and he spent
most of his time taking care of himself,
according to the book.
He said he wanted to give back to
readers in the form of his own words.
“(Those growing up in the South) are
hungry to find out what is was like in
another era and are captivated by
Wright’s words,” Holt said.
“Black Boy” will cover not only the
aspects of physical hunger caused by lack
See Holt on page 2
Sommers: Boys deserve equality in school
By Jason Hanselka
THE BATTALION
Christina Hoff Sommers said Tuesday night that boys
should be allowed to express themselves in school instead
of being punished for behavior that conies naturally to them.
Sommers, a feminist and resident scholar at the
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
in Washington, D.C., spoke to a group of about 100 as
part of the University Distinguished Lecture Series at the
Annenberg Presidential Conference Center Auditorium.
Sommers said administrators and teachers use ineffec
tive tactics in schools to curb boys of their natural bois
terous tendencies and are ineffective because they deprive
boys of the ability to express their masculinity.
“In a great number of American schools, there are
gender reformers that are trying very hard to expunge, to
take away activities that boys enjoy but that they feel are
leading them to outrageous behavior,” Sommers said.
Many people, she said, feel that girls suffer from a lack of
self-esteem, which boys seemingly possess a lot of, and this
has led to a lack of emphasis on the development of boys in
areas that they suffer, such as reading and writing skills.
“Our feminist goals don’t have to be at the expense of
little boys learning to read,” Sommers said. “Large num
bers of young men are being left behind.”
In schools, she said, there are noticeable and tradition
al differences in boys and girls.
“Boys outnumber girls in sports,” Sommers said. “But
girls outnumber boys in everything else: student govern
ments, honors societies, working on the school newspaper
and drama societies.”
Sommers said all children participate in bullying. Boys
perform the physical kind of bullying while girls take part
in the psychological bullying, she said.
Sommers said a drastic characteristic of men is that
Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers delivers her speech, "Where the
Boys Are," as part of the Texas A&M Distinguished Lecture Series
Tuesday evening at the George Bush Presidential Library.
Sommers is the W.H. Brady Fellow Washington, D.C.
they exhibit extremes of success and failure.
“You will find more male CEOs and you will find
more men in maximum security prisons,” she said.
Sommers said she wanted to show that she was not on
the extreme left end of the feminist movement. Instead,
she said, she supports feminine equality.
“I associate with a school of feminism I call equity
See Sommers on page 2