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lis extremely important district election, a nationally watched
race, because conservative voices need to be heard.”
Hahn said the College Republicans will be registering vot
ers Wednesday at Rudder fountain.
Tom Peterson, vice president of Y2M, a company that fo
cuses on the college and recent graduate market, and College
Publisher, a technology provider for campus newspapers,
helped sponsor the online press conference. Peterson said
youth voting is important.
“Young people have such a powerful impact on what is hap
pening now and in the future, and if they are active now they
will be in the future,” Peterson said.
Greene said the street teams, or groups from Rock the
>te that make presentations at high schools and college
campuses, are the heart and soul of this organization.
“The peer-to-peer work that they are doing across the country
is what is driving increasing engagement in this election from
this generation,” Greene said.
Greene said 70 percent of students who are registered turn out
lovote. She emphasized voter rights, such as the right to vote if
they are in line before the polls close, the right to request a provi
sional ballot if their name is not on the voter registration and the
right to request a new ballot if they make a mistake.
“We need to push the youth in the direction they need to
go.and we hope everyone will vote in the 2004 elections,”
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Golsan said students will study history,
politics and art, among other classes, giving
them a broader cultural studies program rather
than simply traditional literature.
Victor Arizpe, head of the Department of
Hispanic Studies, said this split allows his de
partment to better assess the students’ experi
ence and ensure that they are getting a chal
lenging curriculum.
“It allows us to focus, to develop specific
programs for them,” Arizpe said. “It gives us
the opportunity to develop, to enhance the un
dergraduate experience in terms of the current
course offerings (and) potential development
of new offerings.”
Although Department of Modern and
Classical Languages faculty have been dis
cussing a split for several years, the recom
mendation for the split came three years ago
from an external review team comprised of
experts from the University of Texas, Geor
gia Institute of Technology and Vanderbilt
University, Golsan said.
“It just kind of reached a point given the
evolution of the department and the evolution
of Texas and the world, that this was a much
more natural division,” Golsan said.
Arizpe said the split was the natural next
step in the creation of the department because
the Spanish section was looking to implement
a doctorate program.
“There is a need for an interdisciplinary
approach to issues that relate to the Hispanic
population,” Arizpe said.
Brannon Kroll, a graduate assistant
teaching Spanish, said the split will allow
Texas A&M to be recognized for being
more culturally adept.
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
“The split will allow for more choices in
upper level undergraduate courses, and hope
fully it will provide more funding so that you
can hire more teachers to teach the lower level
classes,” Kroll said.
Ralph Schoolcraft, associate professor
of French, said the split allows for a more
equitable division of resources, but also
places the Euro Studies Department in a
vulnerable position.
“We’re now an extremely small unit,” he
said. “And that means we’re also a small
dot on the radar in the college’s overall
scheme of things.”
Schoolcraft said the advantage is that
Euro Studies can focus all its energies on
finding solutions to the problems it faces
due to its small size.
“All in all, the split allows each depart
ment to focus more on its own areas,”
Kroll said.
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financed through a Corps
fund-raising project. The
project allowed donors to
sponsor newly constructed
columns and outfits logos.
More than 40 columns and
Tfloutfits were sponsored, said
retired Lt. Col. Buck 1 lender-
son, coordinator of external
support of the Corps.
Plaques bearing the do
nors’ names will be dis
played under the outfit signs
and on columns.
Cadets are generally
pleased about these new
changes.
“There are more food
selections, and the place
looks better,” Friedli said.
The Dining Hall will also
host many events, including
Corps formals and presen
tations. Most recently, it
hosted Military Weekend
and the 30th anniversary of
Women in the Corps of Ca
dets ceremony.
A re-opening event will
be held during lunch at
Duncan Thursday, and stu
dents are invited to take a
peek at the new facility.
“A lot of students don’t
feel like eating there,” Za-
wieja said, “Some didn’t
know they could.”
With the improved facili
ties, Food Semces workers
say they hope Duncan will
become a more attractive
place for dining.
“Come check it out for
yourself,” Zawieja said.
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department is the principal ini
tiator of the UBM program. He
said the program was created for
undergraduates because there
has been an increasing need for
research in biology undergradu
ate programs.
“(The opposing opinion)
speaks volumes for the need for
this program, because nothing
I do in my laboratory or in my
classes can be understood com
pletely without a mathematical
basis,” Cassone said. “We need
to train students to think (about)
biological questions from math
ematical perspective. And a hope
our students will go on and go to
the graduate schools and become
professional scientists, taking
advantage of what they learn in
this program.”
Newton said the National
Science Foundation is hoping
to permanently change the cur
rent biological curricula in the
U.S. universities, adding more
mathematical emphasis in bi
ology, as biology increasingly
involves mathematics.
“The potential here is very
real. We are excited about the
program from both biological
and mathematical stand points.
We expect more students will
come in down the main stream,”
said Dr. Albert Boggess, head of
the Department of Mathematics.
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seek additional ways to make our student body more reflective of the
population of the state.”
Perry said minority enrollment is higher this year because 2,300
socioeconomic-targeted scholarships have been created and that
more than 50 percent of those scholarships have been given to stu
dents in those underrepresented areas. He said more than $12 mil
lion has been reallocated to underwrite many of these scholarships,
outreach efforts, recruitment and retention efforts for first-generation
and disadvantaged groups.
“Some of it came from existing funds that already were being re
allocated,” Perry said. “Some percent of it also came from tuition
increases. It’s a combination of funds from different sources.”
Kimberly Dyess, a junior civil engineering major, said it is a good
idea if some of her tuition goes toward scholarships for disadvan
taged socioeconomic groups.
“I think if a scholarship is earned by someone, regardless of race,
then it sounds like a good thing,” Dyess said.
Wavering voters opposed
to Iraq, leery of Kerry
WASHINGTON — In an election where most
voters have already chosen sides, the presi
dency could be decided by a small slice of
America in the mushy middle — wavering vot
ers who are more likely than others to ques
tion President Bush’s honesty and think the
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war in Iraq was a mistake.
An Associated Press poll of 1,329 "persuad
able” voters, conducted by Knowledge Networks
in advance of the presidential debates, suggests
these people are deeply conflicted about change
in the White House. While they have problems
with Bush, they also have doubts about Demo
cratic Sen. John Kerry's leadership skills and be
lieve Bush is best suited to protect the nation.
One in every five voters is persuadable
— including about 5 percent who tell pollsters
they don't know who will get their vote and
about 15 percent who say they are leaning
toward one candidate but could switch to an
other. In past elections, as much as one-third
fit that description, but most of the nation was
quick to pick sides this year in the aftermath
of the disputed 2000 election.
A Tradition of
Serving Others
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provided its best and brightest Alumni to
the Peace Corps — 458 graduates.
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