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Don't miss it! • Graduation Announcements • Graduation Remembrance Displays • Thank You Notes • Personalized Graduate Notepads 1902 Texas Ave. South • College Station (Texas Avenue and Park Place, in front of the new HEB) 693-8621 M-F 8:30-5:30 OYZ by Will Uoy<A Pageant Minority Continued from page 1 Continued from page 1 peted in Sunday’s pageant and the winner, Stephanie Guerrero, will advance to the Miss USA Pageant. “I have been an advocate of pageants for years,” said Ellynn Ogilvie, the mother of Miss Texas USA 2000. “More than ever before there is a distinct place for pageants in our society. Women are expected to wear many hats and keep all the balls in the air at the same time. (Pageants) allow women to be confident and self-assured.” Contestants in the Miss Texas USA Pageant are judged on three criteria: interviews, swim suit and evening gown competi tions. Prior to the pageant, the women spend time with the judges to complete the interview portion. “Elizabeth is a good represen tative for A&M,” Sorrell said. “She is in it for the right reasons.” environment,” Rice said. “If these projections hold up, the implications will be far-reaching. The state will need more social services than are being provided now. Cutting back on various programs may have a devastating impact on how well the state will fare in taking care of its residents and in how it competes in the global market.” The state will need many more bilingual workers. Rice said. Ads and stores aimed at Hispanic customers will be more numerous, and Hispanic politicians will play a much larger role in state government. “I think that if you have a growing population that speaks a different language, for example, Spanish, that should be an indication that the state will be more bilingual as time goes by ” Rice said. The report also predicts that Texas will have 36 million res idents in 2040, increasing 62 percent from today’s 22 million. The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area is expected to grow to more than 10 million by 2040, from today’s 5.6 million. The Austin metropolitan area is expected to be the state’s third largest city by 2040, behind Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston. “These numbers aren’t brand new. The projections today are based on trends that have been coming for two or three decades,” Murdock said. ToplO Continued from page 1 students report 20 top-10 kids.” Ashley said the rule needs to be amended before it can reach its full potential. “One thing that kept coming up in committees was to have only a certain percentage of the class come in through the rule, about 50 percent,” Ashley said. Johnson disagrees. “With a cap, that’s like telling students ‘we’ll admit you for sure - maybe.’ A promise of ‘maybe’ is not a promise,” he said. Marta Tienda, professor of sociology and pub lic affairs at Princeton University, is the principal investigator for the Texas Top 10 Percent project. The Texas Top 10 Percent project is a study that tracks students through high school and col lege in Texas. Tienda says the students admitted through the plan are doing quite well. She said the rule has proven to be effective by broadening geographical access, but is far from perfect. “Before, enrollment was dominated by a hand ful of feeder schools,” Tienda said. “This stands as a testament to the rest of the nation as to what can be accomplished if we’re serious about broad ening access.” Tienda says the provision that allows top 10 percent students to choose where they want to go can be counterproductive to the goal of a diverse class. “Admissions officers allow ‘wiggle room’ for diversifying the class - by making sure there are enough art majors or getting the football team they want, all the aspects that go into selecting a bal anced and healthy class are stymied,” Tienda said. A unified system would be difficult to imple ment due to differences in curriculum and grading scale, Tienda said. “It should be up to the schools to decide who they want to send,” Tienda said. Johnson says there may not be a way to make everybody happy. “No matter what rule is constructed by a legis lature or institution, there will always be people dissatisfied because they couldn’t get in. That’s the nature of competitive admissions.” THE BATTA NEWS IN Two A&M to leave the ►ft After 14 years Texas/ track and field coaclij Nelson announced tiisi ment Monday. Thisnewst; coupled with the anm resignation of men’s! coach Mel Nash. Nash had been the I tenured head coach at/ and took A&M to 11 national finishes. Texas A&M Athletic Or;: Bill Byrne and Nash car; mutually agreed upon - for Nash’s resignation, assistant, Jay Holmes serve as the interims! coach and will be consi for the permanent positio'f Nelson led the and field team to one! championship and 171 top-25 men’s and won! team finishes. Associate head coat; Marcinkiewicz will serves {tadel interim track and fieldck Uekin Byrne will begin a nation J Star search for the replaceir nation: "I want to thank Coacht* ]j lst j tu t and Coach Nash for then years of dedicated sew- Texas A&M University,” ■ said in a statement on age letics.com. ‘‘They have reps ed our department and Ik with class and integrity." er ago, an n’t con- on rein ‘ scare 1 t icir re ideas e Stacl Capacit I ions si Man stopped foi tie y le; speeding diesc a i te r i e cocaine overdosj j “ Se ' MARSHALL Texas (AF- Tyler man who ingested kc kpj. died Monday after beingstc for speeding on Interstate: Marshall, the Departir . Public Safety said. . U) ( An autopsy of Chris*:: lrle ' est Brian Conley, 27, oil,I j. ^ lat showed he overdosed l ,ous s cocaine and had a ts sa 'd tal ' attack, the DPS reports about h The amount of cocaine ire “It's ed was not known. l| now e Trooper Robert Paul i head," 1 had stopped Conley sh believe after 6:30 a.m. and« mined he was driving r suspended license. Conle)i arrested, handcuffed and; to stand at the rearthfe: while his car was searches The DPS said Bryant Conley fall back andsitoni bumper. Bryan checked Conley, who then fell ink ditch and went intoconvulsf as if having a seizure.! administered CPR until p medics arrived. Conlep pronounced dead at Ma Regional Medical Center. [gainst I Wils more li University food processing centr names Moreira as new directoi By Pammy Ramji THE BATTALION Rosana Moreira has been named director of the Center for Food Processing and Engineering at Texas A&M, replacing Associate Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering Elena Castell-Perez. Castell-Perez said she is excited for Moreira and is looking forward to working with her. “She is a person who will bring focus in making this center excellent,” Castell- Perez said. This position involves many responsibilities such as engaging the faculty, working with the faculty to obtain better grants and funding and organizing seminars to answer questions peo ple have about food processing, Moreira said. Director of the Institute of Food Science and Engineering Mark McLellan said he thinks Moreira is the best for the job. “Moreira has the background and perform ance skills to do it,” McLellan said. Moreira holds a master’s degree and a doc torate in food engineering and came to A&M in 1998. Moreira also teaches a class in food engineering and is the associate professor in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at A&M. “I am very excited about this new posi tion,” Moreira said. The goal for the Food Safety program is to educate graduate and undergraduate stu dents on the new aspects and applications of food irradiation. “Moreira has a lot of interest and to make this center better,” Castell-Perei She also has much experience in IlK of deep-fat frying and has become intei in food safety. Biosensor technology aid irradiation are two topics she is interesj studying, Moreira said. “Moreira has many strategies, and*: all very excited about where thisceif go,” McLellan said. She has developed control strategy continuous fryers, continuous flow grain ers and food extrusion, Moreira said. “We are super excited about Moreic ting this position, and it is going to lx interesting,” McLellan said. The Best in Adult Entertainment — Happy Hour Daily until 7pm *2.00 Well / s 2.00 Drafts Sun.: $ 2.00 Wells Mon.: $ 2.00 16oz. Drafts lues.: $ 2.00 Domestic Longnecks Wed.: s 2.00 Wells Thurs.: $ 2.00 16oz. 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