THE BATTALION FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1980 Page 6 age 6 THE BATT7 MONDAY, MARC Almanac United Press International Today is Friday, March 7th, the 67th day of 1980 with 299 to follow. The moon is moving toward its last quarter. The morning stars are Saturn and Mercury. The evening stars are Venus, Mars and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. On this date in history: In 1932, in the depths of the Depression, an estimated 3,000 men rioted at the Detroit plant of the Ford Motor Co. Four men were killed. In 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered his Nazi troops into the Rhineland, violating the Versailles Treaty. In 1969, two of the three Apollo 9 astronauts flew their lunar module around the main spacecraft, then linked the two together again. A thought for the day: American reporter Ernie Pyle said, “War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.” Christianity’s role in society debated ■anon LANGE MUSIC CO. 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In the current issue of Christian Century magazine, Paul Abrecht, executive secretary of the World Council’s Department of Church and Society, takes issues with the Norman and Lefever attack on the Council and accuses the two of dis torting the record in an effort to make their case against the WCC. It is an increasingly important de bate, not only for the World Council of Churches and its image in the Un- Lunch C. K. Krumboltz serves of sandwiches, burgers, s super salad bar Join u 2 p.m. Mon. through Frl. Our super I spread of n and get Vi f VISA 815 Harvey Roac CS. Save WE’RE LO POWER F MONTH FC HAVE DEC YOU CAN WRITE: WE’LL* NOT INTE GINEERIf A U.S. N/ YOU AGGIELAND ■’ll* □ Due to difficulties with the mail service, it will be necessary to take several group photos again. A representative of Yearbook Associates, the 1980 AGGIELAND photographer, will be contacting your group sometime this week if he has not already done so, to arrange a second photo session. We’re very sorry about the problem, but please do everything possible to cooperate in setting a photo time as soon as possible. If you haven’t yet received your proofs, please read this: Because of a camera malfunction for a short time during the class picture-taking sessions, several proofs could not be correctly identified. Those proofs all are available in Room 216, Reed McDonald Building. They belong to the people whose names appear on the following list. If YOUR NAME is on this list, PLEASE come to Room 216 AS SOON AS POSSIBLE to identify your proofs so we can processthem for the 1980 AGGIELAND. Linda Adkisson Ronald Bailey Paul D. Bettencourt Randall Binson James Chisolm Phillip Garris Annelle Glynn Karen Gourley Steven Green Russ Kellen Michael J. Kelley James Lonergan Diane Pruett Lori Rowbotham William Schlafer Nancy Singleterry James Skehan Bruce Smith Jeffery Stiles Wendy White David Whiteside William F. Whittington Kim Horace Young ited States, but because it focuses on the central question of the political and social role of the Christian and the church in an increasingly com plex and dangerous world. “As the staff person responsible for many years for the council’s studies on ethics and social questions, I con sider that Lefever has written a sim plistic, biased, essentially confused and contradictory account of the so cial thought of the World Council of Churchs,” Abrecht writes. Abrecht says of the Norman book that “for him (Norman), an active concern for social justice seems to constitute ‘unsound teaching’ in the church,” and that Norman “dismis ses the political and social witness of all the churches as Marxist-tainted and is not at all clear on what he thinks acceptable Christian political action would be.” Lefever, too, Abecht argues, is unclear on his own position, although Lefever does claim Christ ians can and should support justice, freedom, the rule of law and respect for the human. “The question is how do we sup port these universal Christian stan dards’ without making some kind of political judgment based on the rela tive merits of the different political “No evidence is cited for these ac cusations,” Abrecht says, and adds, “Lefever seems unaware that several American businessmen who partici pated in the conference wrote eva luations of the conference that effec tively refute his charge that the meeting was dominated or manipu lated by radicals.” Finally, the issue with the World Council of Churches — and within the Council itself — involves the question of what strategies for social change are consistent with Christian principles. 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You have to get them where it hurts, get to the reasons why they smoke. “Kids get all sorts of pressures on them at this age, and three-fourths of all people who smoke began in their teen-age years. If they can get through these critical years, they’re likely to escape smoking, he said. “Kids have to be able to deal with these pressures. When someone calls them chicken for not taking a cigarette, they have to be able to say. Thanks, but no thanks. I’m proud to be a non-smoker. ”’ Cohen and groups of medical stu dents took their projects to 338 sixth and seventh graders. He said the project, conducted during school hours, was welcomed by administa- tors, teachers and students. Meeting weekly with the students for eight weeks, the research team found peer pressure, advertising and adult influences were the strongest factors faced by adolesnents entering the years where most persons begin to smoke. Cohen stressed the pri- :a te ne d. not designed to help sniole saresu ^’ ^ their habit. It was designed 0 * dep; non-smokers stay thatway I- eau - ^ as suits are encouraging, cog® 1 " °^j ec ^ ve with figures on controlgn)rfy ear ’ ,0 * u ' did not take part in thepros* orn ' c status “The percentage of mfc gets lower in both groups.’wL. 1 said, “but in the group J[^| program, it goes downatiij rate. We were dealingufiftji prevention. We didn’t dew, number of smokers, but. sened the rate at which doimJ become smokers.” Getting students to feel j; out themselves — andtoset stacles they face in reachinglkfe played a major roleintliep|f We tried to show themti crepancy between the mufef? dollar cigarette companies tl one hand and the little lad Jj other hand. These conpiEW YORK making millions of dollars, nitrics would kids are forking over 10or Ji e fit, if the U day. Ron Trade "When we started totW.®eded in est why kids start smoking, e deference r down to self-esteem. 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