San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 25, 1999 Page: 1 of 14
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John Peace Library
University of Texas at San Antonio
6900 N Loop 1604 West
San Antonio TX 7X249
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Non ember 25, 1999
Standing for Ki”ht, Justice and Equality Since 1931
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bow it served no real purpose other
than to excite students before the
rival Texas-Texas A&M football
game. Maybe, our Heavenly Father
thought it was time for a change-
and sent a warning.
There is plenty of discussion and
investigation intotheaeddent. There
are many questions that are being
asked. One is, will the bon fire tra-
dition continue at Texas A&M,
which began in 1909. Those from
Texas A&M say the tradition should
continue, while others think it is too
dangerous. I'm sure the earlier bon
fires were not as technical as the
ones we have seen in the past few
ytan.
The news showed these large logs
being pulled from the bon fire site.
Out of this tragedy could be an ever
tailing memorial to these students.
Those logs which caused such pain
and suffering to those students and
Ibdr families, can now be used to
build homes for those less fortunate
than those who attend Texas A&M.
canununlty where houses are
|nill by students and given away or
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i have a "rush"
i up the night
•Mateo*. Why was
unes Justsowe can ha
white thehpn fire lights i
March against police abuse, Dec. 1
of
Good things can come
nut of a traeedv
A lasting memorial can be made in
memory of the twelve students who
died building a bon fire and the more
than 25 others who where injured at
Texas A&M University.
A few years ago, the logs (the frame
for the bon fire) fell to the ground
and no one was injured. The ground
was wet and muddy. Authorities
thought is was just an accident. But
maybe the authorities should have
taken a closer look at the hnn fire and
Six year old Deveon Clark and Lucia Cox (right) assist Spurs center David Robinson in reciting a pledge during a
Reading Rally at San Antonio's Cameron Elementary School. The Spurs* all star center made a surprise visit to the
school to help announce a Spurs Foundation/Scholastic Inc. initiative which will put a book in the hands of every
Bexar County first grader-*
Broadcasters create $175 million fund to
help minorities buy broadcast properties
Fund could reach $1 billion in aggregate purchasing power
Rev. S. Clifton Byrd, chairman of
the Texas Emancipation Day Com-
mission, announced today that the
group's Human Rights Committee
will stage a demonstration at the
Bexar County Justice Center at 8:30
a. m. December 1 to call attention to
the continued violation of human
rights of citizens by the San Antonio
Police Officers and other law en-
forcement officers in Bexar County.
This action is percipitated by the
recent gross mistreatment of an East
Side woman, Debra Frost, by San
Antonio police officers, resulting in
the woman being injured and humili-
ated in front of several onlookers on
Clear Channel Communications
CEO Lowry Mays says that the newly
announced Prism Fund is “just one of
the initiatives that the broadcast in-
dustry will introduce to expand own-
ership of broadcast licenses by mi-
norities and women.”
Mayes made the statement on Nov.
3 when he joined Mel Karmazin,
President and CEO of CBS Corpora-
tion in announcing the formation of a
major investment fund designed to
increase ownership of over the air
television and radio stations by mi-
norities and women. The fund, which
is called the Prism Fund, is chaired
by Karmazin and Mays, whose com-
pany owns San Antonio’s KSJL.
So far, the fund has cash equity
commitments of $175 million. The
commitments were made by Chase
Capital Partners, the private equity
unit of of the Chase Manhattan Cor-
poration. Also investing in the fund
are Belo, which owns KENS-TV in
San Antonio; Bonneville Interna-
tional Corporation, CBS Corpora-
tion, Clear Channel Communications
-which is headquartered in San An-
tonio and, in addition to KSJL, also
owns WOAI, KJ97, KQXT, KTKR,
and KMIX, Cox Enterprises, Disney/
ABC, Emmis Broadcasting, Fox
Broadcasting Company, Granite
Broadcasting, Infinity Broadcasting,
NBC, Radio One, Susquehanna Ra-
dio Corporation, Tribune Broadcast-
ing Company, and Viacom.
Mays and Karmazin say the Prism
Fund could reach $ I billion in aggre-
gate purchasing power with addi-
tional equity contributions from other
broadcasters, pension funds, and
other investors, when combined with
corresponding leverage.
Mays stated, also, that the forma-
tion of the fund was a follow-through
on a promise that came out of a meet-
ing with FCC Chairman William
Kennard just over a year ago when
broadcasters met with the Chairman,
who is African-American, to explore
what could be done to foster in-
creased ownership of television and
radio stations by minorities and
women for whom access to capital
was identified as a crucial problem.”
Mays said that the group is also
working on educational and
mentoring programs, as well, to help
further its objective of increasing
minority ownership of broadcast
properties.
a busy Saturday afternoon.
On October, 23, in the parking lot
of an East Side grocery store - and
in front of several witnesses, San
Antonio police officers manhandled
and brutalized the 10G pound black
woman in a way that no person, es-
pecially a woman, should be treated.
The Human Rights Committee of
the Texas Emancipation Day Com-
mission has taken on this latest case
of police abuse of citizens - particu-
larly minority citizens — on the East
Side and the Northeast areas of San
Antonio and Bexar County.
Rev. S. Clifton Byrd, founder and
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chairman of the Commission issued
the following statement:
“Forty-four years ago on this same
day - December 1, 1955, the viola-
tion of a Black woman’s human right
to be treated with dignity and respect
caused the Black people of Mont-
gomery, Alabama to rise up after de-
cades of abuse by authorities and
speak out in a unified and Christian
voice against those abuses.
That woman was Rosa Parks, and
the abuse of her human rights by law
enforcement officers and unjust laws
lead to the civil rights movement
which was supposed to end, among
other things, the practice of legal
abuse of the human rights of blacks
by law enforcement officials.
As we prepare to enter a new mil-
lennium. it is a shame that the same
kind of abuse that Ms. Parks suffered
at the hands of those who have been
entrusted to protect our civil and hu-
man rights is escalating. It is time
for the community to rise up and it s
time for the Christian community to
take a stand, just as they did in 1955.”
An important annoucement regard-
ing the Commission’s next step to
aggressively deal with police abuse
against Blacks and Hispanics and
poor people will be made.
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It it a tradition, you say. But that
traditioo has claimed the lives of 12
people, who will never reach their
went wrong.
The time and money spent on the
bon Are can be better served else
where. I don't want to put a damper
oa tradition, but a lasting memorial
can be built in the way of homes or
something positive to. remember
those students.
AquitaMcGrew(r) chats whk State Rep. Rath Jones MoCksMten at the open
house at her office which it in Ctettino Real Bank on S. W. W. Whtae ltd.
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