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iVright: Black History Month is for everyone
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jGeorgeC Wright, president-of Prairie View
IM University, will speak to students, faculty and
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ANDREW BURLESON • THE BATTALION
SOURCE : STERLING C. EVANS LIBRARY
By Rhiannon Meyers
THE BATTALION
George C. Wright, president of Prairie
View A&M University, will speak to Texas
A&M students and faculty Tuesday after
noon at the Sterling C. Evans Library
about the importance of Black History
Month.
"I hope this will make the point very
strongly that Black History Month is for
everyone, not just for black people," Wright
said. "1 hope to give (A&M students) a real
dose of our history."
Wright's speech will mark the 50th
anniversary of the Brown v. Board of
Education U.S. Supreme Court decision,
which ended mandatory segregation.
"I will look at what the Brown decision
did," Wright said. "People are simply not
aware of the significance of the decision."
Charlene Clark, public relations officer
for University Libraries, said the library
invited Wright because he is a noted black
scholar and historian. Clark said Wright
will address topics such as desegregation
and the civil rights movement.
Wright said he would like to engage the
students and faculty in his discussion, chal
lenge them and then allow them to offer him
their opinions.
"Race relations has been one of the most
vexing things in American history," Wright
said. "I can speak personally to how much
progress we have made, but the bottom line
is we still don't know much about each
other."
Wright said he will answer any ques
tions regarding the topic of Prairie View
student voting rights and the recently filed
lawsuit in the question/answer period after
the speech.
Wright will speak at 1:30 p.m. in Evans
Library, room 204E, immediately followed
by a reception.
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culty Senate addresses
aster plan, enrollment
By Carrie Pierce
THE BATTALION
ie Campus Master Plan, which
isses Texas A&M’s physical envi-
km lo meet Vision 2020 needs, is
ay, said Bill Perry at the Faculty
lie meeting Monday afternoon,
bty.chair of the Built Environment
Hil and executive associate
F TOtsaid the council is focusing on
I to of an academic corridor that
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to1 ten said the council is looking at
'P* usunent plans to estimate building
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liiibe Financial council." he said.
ism we’ve got to find out how to
Ktanew construction."
Menate also discussed A&M’s
isions policy and minority
lent.
ik speaker Frank Ashley, acting
nt provost for enrollment, dis-
plcredentials for A&M enrollment
I plained the statistics of the fall
Ifchman class.
fewant to make sure that every stu-
i»eadmit to A&M is ready for aca-
)r," Ashley said.
stressed the importance of
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having a campus that is racially, eco
nomically and geographically diverse.
"We are not racially diverse," he said.
"Our numbers were negative for African
American enrollment last year.”
Of the 6,500 freshmen enrolled in fall
2003. only 161 were black. Ashley said.
"We have something we have to work
on here at Texas A&M." he said.
Ashley said the recruitment commit
tee is sending people out to all regions
of Texas to attract students, blanketing
the whole state.
The recruitment committee and
financial aid department are also coming
together for the first time to discuss
options. Ashley said.
Robert Strawser. former speaker of
the Faculty Senate and accounting pro
fessor. discussed the continuing search
for a new vice president of student
affairs to replace J. Malon Southerland,
who retired last year.
Strawser said there are 40 files being
considered right now, including four
internal files within the University, but
the search committee may want to
reopen the search.
The committee is still open to any
nominations, Strawser said, and it will
meet with A&M President Robert M.
Gates on Friday to discuss more options
for the search.
Gates will speak at the next Faculty
Senate meeting scheduled for March 1.
By Mariam Fam
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A man wear-
explosives belt blew himself up
ly outside the home of two trib-
lers who have cooperated with
Incan forces. Two U.S. soldiers
iickilled while disposing of explo-
tes in northern Iraq.
Ike Iraqi guards were seriously
Winded in the blast outside the
Ipound of brothers Majid and
merAli Suleiman in Ramadi, north-
tst of Baghdad.
Witnesses said the brothers were
living callers when a man
iproached the compound but was
Id to leave. He returned moments
let and triggered the explosives, the
ilnesses said. The brothers are two
the city’s most prominent tribal
aders who have worked with coali-
wi forces.
Insurgents have repeatedly
tned Iraqis not to cooperate with
■ Americans. The most recent
eats were contained in pamphlets
itculated in Ramadi and nearby
iilujah by a purported coalition of
(insurgent groups.
Ramadi and Fallujah are located in
■ Sunni Triangle, a major center of
istanceto the U.S.-led occupation.
The two American soldiers were
led in an explosion outside Sinjar
1 ear the northern city of Mosul during
ration to dispose of ordnance,
deputy operations chief Brig. Gen.
dark Kimmitt said.
Five soldiers were hurt in the
last, according to a statement issued
; the;U.S. military’s Task Force
ia. The statement said the sol-
fes were moving mortar shells and
rocket propelled grenades from a
storage area to a demolition point
when the explosion occurred.
One of the soldiers was killed
instantly. The second soldier died later
of his injuries. Three of the injured
were hospitalized in stable condition
and two others were treated for minor
injuries and returned to duty.
The names of the two victims
were withheld pending notification
of their families.
Elsewhere, U.S. and Iraqi forces
deactivated several rockets that were
primed for launch along a road toward
the city of Baqouba, about 35 miles
northeast of Baghdad.
Also Monday, defense officials in
Washington said American forces in
Iraq have detained one of the remain
ing most-wanted members of Saddam
Hussein’s government.
Muhsin Khadr al-Khafaji, No. 48
on the 55 most-wanted list, was
turned over last weekend to U.S.
troops in the Baghdad area, the offi
cials said, speaking on the condition
of anonymity. The officials did not
say who turned him over.
In Baghdad, the U.N. experts met
with several Iraqi politicians in a sec
ond round of meetings Sunday to dis
cuss the chances of holding early
elections, a source of conflict between
the United States and the influential
Shiite clergy.
Team leader Lakhdar Brahimi met
individually with several members of
the U.S.-installed Governing Council
to ‘‘gather facts,” said Ahmad Fawzi,
the team’s spokesman.
The transfer of power is becoming a
major headache for the U.S.-led coali
tion and the Governing Council.
The current U.S. plan is to choose
See Bomber on page 2
SHARON AESCHBACH • THE BATTALION
Kinesiology & sports management major Danita Gallegos reads
plaques from the life-size wooden figures representing victims of
domestic abuse, Monday afternoon in the MSC Flag Room. The
1 7 wooden statues are a part of Texas A&M's "Silent Witness"
program, sponsored by the Department of Student Life's Gender
Issues Education service. The program was introduced to A&M
in response to the violent death of a female A&M student in
2002. Each victim stands in silence wearing a plaque contain
ing her name, age and a brief story on how her husband,
boyfriend, partner or acquaintance ended her life.
Silent Witnesses share stories
New program sheds light on domestic violence
By Pammy Ramji
THE BATTALION
On Dec. 28, 2002, Texas A&M
freshman Jacqueline Roquemore, 18,
was visited by her ex-boyfriend
Christopher Taylor Young, who wait
ed for her overnight outside of her
apartment complex. After arguing
with her in the parking lot for two
hours. Young fatally shot Roquemore
in the chest and then killed himself.
This was one of many domestic
violence stories shared at the A&M
Silent Witness program, which was
held Monday in the Memorial Student
Center Flag Room.
Sixteen life-sized red figures
stood as silent wit
nesses to domestic
violence, each rep
resenting individu
als who have been
affected by domestic violence.
Rep. Fred Brown said the topic of
domestic violence needs to reach
women, especially at an early age.
‘‘We are here to put an end to
domestic violence,” Brown said.
The goal of the A&M Silent
Witness program as well as the
Silent Witness National Initiative is
to have zero domestic murders by
the year 2010.
“Last year, two states had zero
domestic murders,” said Brian
Tenclinger, assis
tant director of stu
dent life.
Havilah Tower-
Perk ins, media rela
tions coordinator for Texas Council
on Family Violence, said every nine
seconds a women has been beaten and
every week two women die from
domestic violence in Texas.
“Abuse is not only physical,” said
Perkins, who was horrified when she
heard that a women was left on the
side of the road after being stabbed by
her husband. “Knowledge is empow-
See Witnesses on page 2
University releases student rule additions
By Elizabeth Knapp
THE BATTALION
Texas A&M University released
additions and changes to student rules
last week, including a switch from
using Social Security numbers to
University Identification Numbers, for
malizing the usage of e-mail accounts
for official communication and
announcing the role of the Honor
System Office, all of which will affect
students, faculty and staff.
The University is reverting from the
old system of using Social Security
numbers to a random number given
specifically to each student due to pri
vacy concerns.
“I think it is a positive (move)' for
students in the long-run,” said Matt
Josefy, student body president and a
senior accounting major. “For incom
ing freshmen, they won’t even know
the difference.”
The rule requires all students to
remember a new 9-digit number that
they will use upon registration and for
taking tests on scantrons.
“I think that it is a good idea,” said
sophomore sociology major Kelly
Dodd. “It helps prevent identity theft.”
Student e-mail accounts are also in
the process of being changed, said
Pierce Cantrell, associate provost for
information technology.
“This rule establishes e-mail as an
official means for the University to
communicate with students and places
the responsibility to check e-mail on
the students,” Cantrell said. “The rule
formalizes on policy on when we for
ward e-mail off-campus versus when
we do not forward.”
The new provisions to e-mail rules
also note that e-mail addresses are part
of directory information and describes
how students can withhold the informa-
See Rules on page 2
New and revised
student rules for
2004
These student rules are to
govern student conduct
and student activities at
Texas A&M
Aggie Code of Honor
Revised
Student ID cards
New rule
Student e-mail
New rule
For a complete list of
new rules, log on to:
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RUBEN DELUNA • THE BATTALION
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