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Diversity
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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.”
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where graduate busines,
dents can network wii
Aggies in business.
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campus and wait for jo;
come to you,” Scherei
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business community ani
work with the businessal;
Scherer said she is i!
that the business schools
quickly from being ranked’
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said. "It was such a tram
effort put forth by the sial
dean, staff and faculty, ®
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pay off in a relatively shonj
Jim Brune, presidenti
MBA Association, said
decided to attend the k
school because it ofc
excellent, shortened pus;
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another ranked school tao
ed to come to the Mays Et,
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asm of the dean and theta:
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what the goals were for k
gram," Brune said."Isa«pi
tial in the program, and 1 Is
would be ranked higheri
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knew the program had p«
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such a great jump in thers
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better, and I never quest
my decision,” Brune said
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doctorate students and telp
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tain the ranking.
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Memo
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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
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