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Bush Tony Award Winner Head of Design, Yale University “Art, Artists, and A Liberal Arts Education” Ming Cho Lee, “the single most influential force in American stage design," heads the design program at Yale School of Drama and has trained a number of successful cfesianoreriwutiia 25 ipHI'g't^dhe drag^ sqhpol. Lee has also won numdfflfM'awaws for hisveBer, danp, ajp (%era^siflp»; including Broadway’sWghe® honor,■ny Aww j^WWwort^MRma Desk Award and New Yorfiand SkhAMpes WWfffntHW Awar<^| asMell as Guggenheim and National tndowment of the Arts Distinguished Artisnellowships. In 2002 he was presented the National Medal of Arts by President Bush. Lee has been a leading spokesman for Arts Education in America. FREE PUBLIC LECTURE MONDAY: APRIL 12 4:00 PM RUDDER THEATRE Additional Support from The Academy for The Visual and Performing Arts .The Melbem G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research N| THE BATri FISH il K.PEUINA Hey \ That's /my LAUMDRY Mo/YEY T VJAS AV/DinG I in Those leftover PLASTIC EASTER EGG5» ARE You SAYimg You D'EinT Take Those £66 S FRom my LAuNbRY BASKET noise * poumion bo josh darum Diversity Continued from page 1A likes and dislikes, and the way we look or the height we are,” she said. “But, people focus on the people that may be their perception of being diverse.” The Keeping the Dream Alive Diversity Awards have been held since 1991 to acknowledge and honor the efforts of members of the A&M commu nity who strive during the year to promote under standing and appreciation of diversity at A&M. Lacombe received the Gary Gray Memorial Student Recognition Award, which was named after a student who was quadriplegic and died while attending A&M. “I was astounded and astonished and shocked, but very, very honored and humbled by it,” Lacombe said. “Gary sounded like a really great person too, so it was really an honor.” Among other awards given out, John Scroggs, a graduate student in science and technology jour nalism from Corpus Christi, received the ALLIES Rainbow Award for his work in the gay and les bian community. “Diversity is all about accepting, advocating for and learning from the plurality of voices that exist,” Scroggs said. Scroggs is 33 years old and a full-time com munication specialist for the A&M Institute for Scientific Computation. Scroggs is president of the Rainbow Graduate Student Association and a member of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Aggies Professional Network. Scroggs said he is also on the Graduate Student Council and the College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Council. The Residence Hall Association won a group award for diversity, called the Champion of Diversity award Lauren Chrismer, RHA vice president of opera tions and a senior geology major, said the group pro moted diversity this semester through the Diversi-tee Project, where it made and distributed T-shirts. “(The shirt) said ‘It doesn’t matter’ on the front, and then on the back, it said We’re all Aggies.’ and it had many different descriptive words about diversity on the hack, like, male, female, black, white, homosexual, heterosexu al ” Chrismer said. “All different sorts of diver sity words that have either caused controversy or those some people might have a problem with at A&M.” MBA Continued from job search methods and at; live MBA alumni p, where graduate busines, dents can network wii Aggies in business. “No longer can yoiiii campus and wait for jo; come to you,” Scherei “You have to reach oiitt business community ani work with the businessal; Scherer said she is i! that the business schools quickly from being ranked’ ber 51 to 23 . “I'm just ecstatic,” Sij said. "It was such a tram effort put forth by the sial dean, staff and faculty, ® just thrilling to see those j pay off in a relatively shonj Jim Brune, presidenti MBA Association, said decided to attend the k school because it ofc excellent, shortened pus; He said he was accepted another ranked school tao ed to come to the Mays Et, School because of the e- asm of the dean and theta: "I was so encouraged! what the goals were for k gram," Brune said."Isa«pi tial in the program, and 1 Is would be ranked higheri Brune said that alter knew the program had p« he was still surprised it i such a great jump in thers “It makes my decision! better, and I never quest my decision,” Brune said James Leigh, astodt fessor of marketing and ii ate adviser, said that alter S A sopf year Texr thou else Con' Insti was surprised also, he fe ranking is long overdue. “As long as I’ve beetii and that's over 20 years.-: always been a sleeper.'u said. “Were the best kept i around, and I think we've ih got some recognition one Leigh said this recoct w ill allow him to beoei doctorate students and telp dents get higher paying u Scherer said the ranking nil n efit the program became ii» continue to attract quali ty st udents and employ Leigh said, that to.dc the business school mol tain the ranking. “It's incumbent on ustoi er." Leigh said. “Butlthinb headed in the rightdirecw w'e have been for years.” Memo Continued from page 1A Sept. 11, Rice declared, was that any terrorist attack “was likely to take place overseas.” Most of the CIA reporting during the summer of 2001 did focus on possible over seas targets. But the memo specifically told Bush that al-Qaida had reached American shores, had a support system in place and was engaging in “patterns of suspicious activity ... consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks.” In May 2002, Rice said “there was spe cific threat reporting about al-Qaida attacks against U.S. targets.” She did not mention that it was in the report sent to the president. To accentuate the potential domestic threat, the memo told Bush the FBI had 70 investigations related to bin Laden under way. The president’s memo mentioned two current threats: suspected al-Qaida opera tives might have cased federal buildings in New York and that, according to a phone call to an American embassy in the Middle East, a group of bin Laden supporters was in the United States to plan attacks with explo sives. The FBI later concluded the two Yemeni men photographing buildings in New York were tourists. Slade Gorton, a member of the commis sion investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, said the memo “did talk about potential attacks in the United States,” but “itdidr’ipt slightest clue as to what they wouldk where they would be.” “The FBI has more questions to® than Condoleezza Rice or (formerpiesi tial anti-terrorism adviser) DickClrii anyone we’ve had testify before us sol said Gorton, a former Republican sa from Washington state. Gorton said the reference in tlie is sent to the president about70FBIirt tions “would be sort of comforting person who read it the first timearow Commissioner Richard Ben-Venis Democrat, saw as significant the w references to May 2001 intelligence ih possible al-Qaida explosives plot insij United States. Off Campus Aggies 13’* Annual parent s Weekend Golf Toarnament 5t. Jdcle CMldrefl’S fteSearcfi flospital April 17"' at TAMU Golf Coarse slotgan Start at 8 AM o reg] lades ;r««,n ation fee per team that fees. cart, and meals 0,000 cin-one competition foundsjof R°lf *1 rea and otfier golf m for iijore itffo and registratioil •visit oca.tailja.eda THE BATTALIO! A Elizabeth N. 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