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Former A&M president and keynote speaker Elsa Murano
speaks on the application of A&M core values and ethnicity.
Summit emphasizes A&M
values as they apply to
Hispanic community
By Lenae Allen
Hispanic figures from around
the world gathered in the
Clayton Williams Alumni Center
this weekend for the Texas A&M
annual Hispanic Network Sum
mit.
Keynote speaker Elsa Murano,
director of the Borlaug Institute
and former president of Texas
A&M, stressed the importance of
the Aggie values and how they
applied to ethnicity.
“We are to live and work to
gether in harmony with each
other,” Murano said. “At Texas
A&M, we have a saying: ‘For we
are the Aggies, the Aggies are we,’
and that is meant to depict how
we are all for one and one for
all. When we say this, we should
mean every Aggie. Not just those
who look like us or have the same
background as us.”
Other speakers, including
Brig. Gen. Joe E. Ramirez Jr.,
commandant of the Corps of Ca
dets and National Hispanic Insti
tute President and Founder Er
nesto Nieto, also addressed issues
in the Flispanic community in the
United States, such as differences
in household income, the desire
to see more Hispanic students
graduate from four-year institu
tions and how to help Flispanic
students dream big.
Nieto said a key in Hispanics
moving forward is to change how
Americans views minorities.
“It seems to me like we some
times look at Hispanic issues or
issues within the Latino commu
nity as something that the com
munity needs to address by itself,
rather than address the systems
that create the problem,” Nieto
said.
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MEMBERS OF STUDENT SENATE IMPEACH DOUGLAS
The impeachment of Student
Government Association
election commissioner Emma
Douglas will go before the
Student Senate at its regular
biweekly meeting Wednesday. >
The article of impeachment
that garnered the necessary
signatures to be brought to
the Student Senate floor was
written by student senator
Lauren Felder. In it, Felder
alleges that the election
commissioner "openly
defied" Student Government
Association rules by incorrectly
handling Yell Leader elections
and fining SBP candidate Isaiah
Tsau but not fining SBP-elect
Joseph Bemgno for campaign
violations.
"Never before have Yell
Leaders been forced to
practically secede from SGA in
order to maintain that students
have a voice," reads the
statement.
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Film shows inner workings of Haredi culture
By Caleb Vierkant
The Texas A&M Hillel will
evaluate the strict rules placed
on women in the Haredi community,
a branch of Orthodox J udaism char
acterized by its rejection of modem
secular culture, with a showing of the
documentary “Black Bus.”
The Monday showing will be fol
lowed by a discussion with the film
maker, Anat Zuria.
“Black Bus” is about two women
attempting to escape oppression and
gender segregation from the Haredi
community. Zuria said she made
the documentary at the request of a
friend, who was a part of the Haredi
community.
“I was living in Jerusalem — I have
so many friends in those communities
and I heard from her and more or less
she asked me — told me — ‘Please,
Anat, go and make a film about it,’”
Zuria said.
The Haredi are very traditional,
closed-off to the outside world and
have strict views of their teachings,
said Ashley Passmore, international
studies professor.
“It’s amazing and unique that
Anat, who is sort of an outsider from
that community, got a lot of access
through her work and through her
connections and research and so on,”
Passmore said.
Zuria said it took four years to get
enough people to trust her and her
crew enough to let them into the
Haredi community. Even then, her
crew had to be cautious when shoot
ing the documentary in secret.
“We had to do many, many tricks,”
Zuria said. “We had all types of hid
den cameras. In the film we show
the segregated buses. If you go into a
bus and try to film what is happening
there, immediately someone, some
man, will jump on you. And you can
be harmed and there can be violence
and we had to face these kinds of con
ditions.”
Passmore said if they had found the
camera on Zuria, physical violence
may have been used against her and
her crew.
“So in many ways what she was
exposing was a taboo thing that was
very difficult to film, and because
what happens is if they had found her
camera on these buses, they would
have destroyed the camera or prob
ably physically assaulted her or any
body else working on the project,”
Passmore said. “That was what Anat
was talking about in this discussion
about if you confront a taboo you’ll
often face some blowback.”
“Black Bus” does much more than
just show problems within a religious
community — it brings up questions
about religious fundamentalism and
cultural taboos, which are part of the
reason this documentary was so dif
ficult to make, Zuria said.
“Because it’s a taboo, you know?”
Zuria said. “You could maybe do an
article after being there, maybe, two
years. But you can’t really make a
film. Women — they’re more or less
not allowed to be shown or be seen
in public.”
Passmore said this oppression is
present, but many people are simply
ignorant of it.
“The issue about this ‘Black Bus’
thing is that these gender segregated
buses exist in Israel, but basically sec
ular people don’t really know about
them,” Passmore said. “They read
about them, but they don’t ride on
these buses, so nobody really talks
about it.”
Brent Olian, international studies
senior, said Texas A&M is becoming
more aware of other religions.
“It obviously is a very conserva
tive, predominantly more right-wing
leaning kind of Christian university,”
Olian said. “So certain things, such
as religion and maybe even politics,
aren't discussed tod openly. Or, even
if they are, one side is heavily outnum
bered by the other. But it is growing
more and more open, I would say.”
The “Black Bus” showing will be
6:30 p.m. Monday in the Hillel Cen
ter.
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