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Opened^ by_ Pope John Paul 1
Holy Week activities begin
United Press International
VATICAN CITY — Pope
John Paul II opened Vatican
Holy Week activities with a tra
ditional Palm Sunday mass in
St. Peter’s Square and a strong
plea to young people to vanqu
ish selfishness and lust.
“Jesus Christ does not cease
to be the ideal, the most perfect
model of humanity. Young peo
ple look to him because youth
means a particular need for a
model of humanity,” the pontiff
said in his homily.
“Learn from Christ the Re
deemer to conquer sin, to con
quer selfishness and the concu
piscence hidden within it: that
of the eyes, of the flesh and the
pride of life,” John Paul told
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about 150,000 people, most of
them youngsters, gathered in
St. Peter’s Square under sunny
skies.
The pope, dressed in white
vestments and a white skullcap,
blessed palm fronds and olive
branches to commemorate the
palms strewn before Christ
when he entered Jerusalem on
a donkey five days before he
was crucified.
“Let us unite ourselves to
those young people on the
roads leading to Jerusalem,”
John Paul said, speaking in Ital
ian, in a reference to pilgrims in
the Holy Land who observed
Palm Sunday by retracing the
path of Christ.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta,
the Roman Catholic nun re
nowned for her work with In
dia’s poor, stood near the pope
during the mass.
The open-air service marked
the start of the sixth Easter sea
son celebrated by the Polish-
born pontiff since his election to
St. Peter’s Throne in 1978 and
concluded the Vatican’s Jubilee
of Youth for Holy Year.
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“Palm Sunday has become
the summit of the extraordi
nary Jubilee of Youth,” said
John Paul. Several members of
the crowd walked up to a cano
pied altar erected in front of St.
Peter’s Cathedral and gave the
pope gifts.
One of the offerings was a
history of Alaska written in the
pope’s native Polish and signed
by citizens of Fairbanks, Alaska.
John Paul plans to make a stop
over in the city during a journey
to the Far East next month. He
is expected to meet President
Reagan during the same trip.
On Holy Thursday, the pope
will celebrate a mass at the Ba
silica of St. John’s in Lateran
and wash the feet of 12 of the
faithful to commemorate the
last supper of Christ and his 12
apostles.
On Good Friday he will lead
the “Way of the Cross” proc
ession around the ruins of the
Colosseum.
The Holy Week ceremonies
will culminate at noon Easter
Sunday, when the pope will im
parl his “Urbi et Orbi” (to the
city and the world) blessing and
message from the central bal
cony of St. Peter’s Basilica.
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All Faiths Chapel gets
new air conditioning
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By CAMI BROWN
Reporter
Construction workers have
replaced brides and grooms
in the All Faiths Chapel this
spring but the replacement of
the chapel’s air conditioning
system won’t be complete un-*
til at least the first of May.
Installment of the new sys
tem has been planned for
some time, but since the work
started in March the flowers-
and frills of about six wed
dings have been replaced by
scaffolds, saws and hammers.
A renovation of the chapel
will begin next fall.
“The air conditioning sys
tem was causing problems,”
said Kevin Carreathers, who
is in charge of scheduling
events at the Chapel. “It
wasn’t cooling very well.”
He said the air condition
ing system, which was built
into the floor, caused conden
sation inside the building.
This caused mold on the walls
and other problems. The new
system is being installed in
the ceiling.
The meetings and wed
dings Carreathers schedules
in the Chapel must be held
somewhere else until the be
ginning of May.
“The sanctuary is off lim
its,” he said. “But the Student
Affairs office and study areas
are still open and accessible
through the east door of the
Chapel.”
According to the contract,
the construction must be fin
ished by June 1, but the me
chanical contractors say
they’ll be finished by the end
of April. They’d better be, be
cause Carreathers said he has
weddings scheduled in May.
So if the materials continue
to arrive on time and the con
struction continues problem-
free, things should be back to
The All Faiths Chapel is getting new air condi
tioning — and the scaffolding needed to install
it is shown here. Weddings and meetings must
be moved until the work is completed.
normal — belter than normal
— by the beginning of May.
If problems arise in the
construction process, the
brides and grooms might be
wearing hard hats and
marching through the saw
dust that covers the sanct
uary. But at least they wonil
be sweating.
Texas A&M is spendi
$t)K,500 to replace the
conditioning, and next Ml
the University plans to reno-l
vale the chapel at acostofl
$103,000.
Corrigan: Teacher pay raise
key to scholastic excellence
University News Service
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Texas A&rM’s dean of educa
tion says that if Texas fails again
to raise teacher salaries “it will
be the worst thing that has ever
happened in this state.”
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Dr. Dean Corrigan, a mem
ber of the Select Committee of
Public Education, said that the
committee’s recommendations
to raise teachers’ base salary to
$1,520 a month “has to be the
key ingredient” in improving
the educational system.
Corrigan is optimistic that a
recommendation to reduce
class size to 15 students in the
first three grades will be imple
mented in at least the schools
where children need individual
attention the most. Implement
ing the recommendation
statewide would cost $1 billion,
he said.
perience, expertise, tr:
role definition and differ
terms of service in placingii
chers on the career ladder!
providing incentives, he said !
However, Corrigan says the
select committee’s proposed
“career incentive plan” needs a
lot of work.
The current plan “treatsI
teachers as beginners and'
not help keep outstandingp
pie in the profession of I
thing.”
Corrigan was speaking to
public shool teachers and ad
ministrators at the University’s
second Inquiry in Education
Conference.
“You can’t keep raising peo
ple’s hopes and dashing them,”
Corrigan said in reference to
unfilled promises to give teach
ers a substantial raise. The pay
hike would cost the state $638
million, he said.
“I am not satisfied with what
the committee came up with for
the rest of the career incentive
plan,” he said. “It is a hoax to
call it a career incentive plan.”
Corrigan said the plan is a
merit pay performance ap
praisal system which operates
on the false assumption that a//
teachers do the same thing. It
also makes no provision for ex-
Corngan is alsoconcen
the apparent “tough” and
nitive” attitude of (heedui
committee.
More homework, tougherl
quirements and a longers
year are just a few of the{
tough measures recommend!
he said.
“More is not necessarilyI)
ter, it’s quality,” said Corrifi
“Homework without timet
feedback and teacher prep:
lion won’t do a thing.”
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