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Freedom Rider to speak at MLK breakfast
Diane Nash
Diane Nash to discuss
experience as a civil
rights activist
By Kylee Reid
Civil rights activist Di
ane Judith Nash, found
ing member of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee and member of
the Freedom Riders, will
speak at Texas A&M Thurs
day morning at the 8th An
nual Martin Luther King Jr.
Breakfast.
Kristan Poirot, assistant
professor of communication,
said Nash is a strong and im
portant figure in civil rights
movement history.
“She is credited for saving
the Freedom Rides, she is one
of the few women featured
in Selma for her work in the
voting rights campaign, she
was heavily involved in the
Nashville sit-in movement
and she is actually one of the
few women highlighted in
the Birmingham Civil Rights
Institute, which is a museum
in Birmingham,” said Poirot,
who teaches a course on the
rhetoric of the civil rights
movement.
Kalli Mcwhinney, bio
medical sciences senior and
Woodson Black Awareness
Committee Chair, said the
goal of the Freedom Riders
was to challenge legislation
by riding a bus through the
South.
Mcwhinney said Nash
was the same age as many
college students when she
began her involvement in
the movement.
“Just thinking about who
Diane Nash is and how she
got involved with the civil
rights movement and how
she took an active role in
what she was passionate
about at such an early age,
it’s inspiring.” Mcwhinney
said. “She was a college stu
dent when she joined SNCC
and the Freedom Riders —
she was our age when she
was doing all these things.”
The event will have an
interview portion moderated
by John Singer, assistant pro
fessor of health and kinesiol-
°gy-
Singer, who teaches a class
on diversity in sports, said
he will hold his class at the
breakfast Thursday morning
as it overlaps with the class’s
meeting time.
“I think it’s important for
students at A&M because
Ms. Nash was actually a co
founder of SNCC during
the civil rights movement.”
Singer said. ’’What better op
portunity for these students
to hear from a student who
sat in their seats, albeit dur
ing a different time period, as
a student who organized for
the right of all.”
Singer will question Nash
about her involvement as a
civil rights activist as well as
her friendship with Martin
Luther King Jr.
Faculty and students hope
the event will provide Bry-
an-College Station insight on
the civil rights history' of the
United States.
“A&M has a bad reputa
tion when it comes to race
and diversity,” Poirot said.
“And I think it’s good that
not only that we have a
breakfast every year, but
that we bring in high profile
people to show that we are
making an effort to invite the
community to think about
black freedom now and then
and what it means.”
The event will begin at
9:30 a.m. Thursday in MSC
2300 and is open to the pub
lic. Tickets will be sold at the
door for $8 for students and
$10 for non-students.
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per game, but has more than
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“They’re better defensive
ly,” Kennedy said. “They may
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ent that they had the last year
or two with skilled guards or
guys that could score, but as
a team they’re better defen
sively. [Johnathan Williams
III] hurt us last year and he is
having a good year again this
year.”
The Tigers fell to the Ten
nessee Volunteers 59-51 in
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the team in scoring with 13
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Missouri brought in the
No. 3 recruiting class in the
SEC and No. 13 nationally,
according to 247spoits.com,
with highly touted guards
Montaque Gill-Caesar and
Namon Wright and forward
JaKeenan Gant. Gill-Caesar
has played in 14 games and
averages 11 points per game.
Wright has played all 17
games and Gant has played in
eight — both are averaging
around six points per game.
“They’ve got a really good
freshman class coming in,”
Kennedy said. “Our older
guys remember that we lost
to Missouri twice last year.
We know what they’re ca
pable of and we should war
rant that even more, because
one of those games we felt like
we gave it to them. So Alex
Caruso, Jordan Green and
Kourtney Roberson know
how important this game is.”
Tipoff is at 6 p.m. Wednes
day.
Next, the Aggies will head
to Knoxville for a matchup
with the Tennessee Volun
teers (11-5, 3-1 SEC) at noon
Saturday inside Thompson
Boling Arena.
feet of classroom space for
engineering undergraduate
programs. The greenhouse-
inspired designs are a nod to
the agricultural greenhouses
that used to stand at the facil
ity’s location.
The two office buildings
will also house the new lo
cation of the Engineering
Academic and Student Affairs
office.
The site was under con
struction for the fall semes
ter and engineering facilities
director Tell Buder said the
timing of the project saw
work coming down to the
wire to ensure the classrooms
were ready for the spring se
mester.
“Construction [was] com
pleted enough for sufficient
occupancy on Monday, Janu
ary 19, and we began hold
ing classes in the buildings on
Tuesday, January 20,” Buder
said. “All of the final touches
were put into the classrooms
the weekend prior, and were
ready to go for Tuesday.”
Butler said he believes stu
dents will be impressed when
they see the completed proj
ect, which will include many
efforts to make the area more
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Along with encouraging the idea of a free and open internet for all
communities, Obama addressed the issue of cyber security. "We
are making sure our government integrates intelligence to combat
cyber threats, just as we have done to combat terrorism. And to
night, I urge this Congress to finally pass the legislation we need to
better meet the evolving threat of cyber-attacks, combat identity
theft and protect our children's information," Obama said.
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Middle-class economies
"The idea that this country does best when everyone gets their
fair shot, everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the
same set of rules," Obama said. During his speech, he encouraged
Congress to focus on finding ways for working class families to feel
more secure. He supported the idea of an economy that creates
"chances for everyone that makes the effort."
Economy
Obama reported that America's economy is growing and creating
jobs at the fastest pace since 1999. The unemployment rate is lower
than it was before the financial crisis, and more people are insured
than ever before. Obama spent a good portion of the speech dis
cussing how America can continue to improve the economy by
creating more American-based jobs and addressing tax reform.
Broad speech
In an effort to cover as many issues as possible in his hour-long
speech, Obama broadly spoke on issues. While he did give some
concrete examples for military issues and economy, other issues
like civil rights and tax reform were addressed in more general
terms. While he covered a wide number of topics, depth into each
of them was lacking.
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aesthetically pleasing.
“There’s a really cool land
scaping project that will en
compass the whole site that
will kick off some time in the
next two weeks,” Butler said.
“It is set to be completed in
April, and will include a lot of
really cool areas for students,
much like some of the other
outdoor areas on campus.”
The space will provide a
relaxing area for students to
unwind or study, and include
two water features, artificial
turf berms, new vegetation
and shaded seating areas.
General engineering fresh
man Joseph Rotello said the
new facilities will bring a
much-appreciated improve
ment.
“The new location is closer
to the center of campus, so it
should be more convenient
for everyone,” Rotello said.
“When everything else is
done, we should have some
of the best engineering areas
around, so it’s really excit
ing.”
General engineering fresh
man Robert Heilman also
feels that while mass construc
tion can cause pains, the long
term gains for the college are
something to look forward to.
“Obviously it’ll be a pain
right now with the construc
tion, but in the long run the
new projects will provide
great new educational op
portunities,” Heilman said.
“Down the line in a few
years when people come see
the nice new facilities, they’ll
think they’re really cool.”
While it’s easy to look to
the future, Butler hopes stu
dents will begin to be inspired
by the new facilities as early as
this spring.
“The overall look of both
the brick buildings and class
room areas are kind of a high-
tech, industrial look,” Butler
said. “Hopefully that will
make it fun and interesting
for the students to sit there
and visualize how the differ
ent mechanisms of buildings
like these function.”
Expansion of Look Col
lege facilities will continue
with the transformation of the
Zachry Engineering Center
to the Engineering Education
Complex and the completion
of the Engineering Research
Building in Research Park,
which is already under con
struction.
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