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“We don’t really have the opportunity to get to know
everyone like we used to, and it is hurting us.”
After the proposal was written, Soderberg met
with Athletic Director Bill Byrne, who agreed to
support the proposal if it gained Hildebrand’s ap
proval. Soderberg suggested that Greek block seat
ing would include 3,000 reserved seats and an of
fer to allocate specific areas for tailgating reserved
solely for the Greek community. King said.
“The Athletic Department isn’t going to let a pro
posal pass through that doesn’t have support besides
that of Greek life,” Hildebrand said. “And that’s the
unique part of my position: I’m not just speaking for
me personally, but on behalf of the students.”
Following the promising bid, a few members
of IFC turned to Hildebrand to complete this ap
proval process.
“When we met with (Hildebrand) at the end of the
semester, he pledged his support,” King said. “He said
he needed to confirm the decision, but we thought we
had a shoe in the door because he was such a propo
nent of this proposal. We didn’t hear from him and
then, come to find out, he didn’t sign it.”
John Huffman, Corps Commander, supports Hil
debrand’s decision because he feels that solely having
the Corps block is a tradition that Aggies look for.
“I’m not going to make any assertion that IFC is any
less important than the Corps,” Huffman said. “Ev
ery organization has its place, (but) I cannot say that
A&M’s fraternities (and sororities) have contributed to
the history of the school (as much as the Corps has).”
Hildebrand consulted with his executive com
mittee, which did not approve of the proposal, be
fore making the decision not to sign the proposal.
Without Hildebrand’s signature, the proposal was
declared invalid and unable to gain approval. The
A&M student rules give the student bod> presi
dent considerable authority and power to make
decisions as a student leader, which overturned the
proposition, Soderburg said.
“Jack came to our IFC meeting to campaign,
and said he really wanted to fight for Greek op
portunities,” said Kyle Cramer, a member of
Delta Tau Delta and a member of IFC. “The first
chance he gets to help us out, he didn’t. There
is no way one person should have that kind of
authority.”
Greek tailgating and block seating is common at
universities with older and more powerful Greek
systems such as Ole Miss. The A&M Greek sys
tem is not so fortunate, because it is a fairly new
organization, Cramer said.
“1 have visited in length with members of the
Greek community, and 1 have heard nothing but
understanding,” Hildebrand said. “I have not
gotten any phone calls, e-mails or visits in the
SGA office regarding this issue. 1 would encour
age anyone who would like to discuss it to stop
by and see me.”
Hildebrand said that if this becomes more of a
pressing issue, he will look into sending it for fur
ther discussion with the Student Senate.
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whether A&M has a journalis
minor, the closing of the journal
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ative effect on the University.
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other schools with journalisml
degrees,” Wielgus said.
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ism major, said this meeting shoulfll
have been held earlier, but thathel
appreciates the concern from thel
College of Liberal Arts.
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would have made it a point to keep!
us informed at all times, but there’sl
not much we can do now,” Nail
said. “(The journalism department!
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the Garden itself.
Bush, locked in a tight re-election race, cam
paigned across three battleground states and
worked to extinguish a convention-week contro
versy of his own making. “In this different kind
of war, we may never sit down at a peace table.
But make no mistake about it, we are winning, and
we will win” the war on terror, he told an Ameri
can Legion convention in Tennessee, one day after
saying he didn’t think victory would be possible.
“I probably needed to be more articulate” in ear
lier comments, he conceded in a radio interview
with conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Bush’s Democratic challenger. Sen. John Kerry,
spent the day at home in Nantucket, Mass., as his
campaign settled on plans to place $45 million in
television advertising in 20 battleground states
through Election Day. The commercials will run
on broadcast stations and cable, and include ap
peals to minority voters whom Democrats need to
turn out in large numbers on Nov. 2 if they are to
deny Bush a second term.
A poll by The Washington Post showed the race
to be a dead heat, 48 percent apiece, but found that
the president moving ahead of his rival on national
security issues and pulling into a virtual tie on han
dling of the economy.
is) already gone.'
Neu said the journalism minot
seems like a good start to replacel
the major, and that he likes the
idea that students will be able to
network with professionals.
“We need those connections,
Neu said. “A journalism minorisa
good thing - not as good as having
a bona fide journalism major—but
there is no money for that. They ate
doing the best with what they have,
and 1 can appreciate that.”
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