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Pageant
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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.
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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.”
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resignation of men’s!
coach Mel Nash.
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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.
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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.
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