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Faculty Friends offers help
on questions about religion
By LIBBY SCHIMMER
Reporter
Advertisements today supposedly
can sell anything. In some cases ad
vertisements may not sell anything,
but only provide exposure.
“Faculty Friends is a group of fac
ulty who are united by their com
mon experience that Jesus Christ
provides intellectually and spiritu
ally satisfying answers to life’s most
important questions,” a Battalion ad
vertisement reads. “We wish to make
ourselves available to students who
might like to discuss such questions
with us.”
The advertisement is followed by
a list of Texas A&M faculty, their de
partments and phone numbers.
Faculty friends began a few years
ago at a workshop for Christian fac
ulty, Dr. W.J. Lane, professor of eco
nomics, says. Initially four men de
cided to run an ad in The Battalion
expressing their common beliefs in
Christianity and making themselves
available to talk to students, he says.
The name Faculty Friends was
chosen to identify them as faculty
members and to tell students that
the faculty members wanted to be
their friends, Lane says.
The Evangelical Orthodox group
now has grown to 58 members and
represents a wide variety of denomi
nations and churches.
“People we have include promi
nent people in the University in
terms of background and educatio
nal attainment,” Lane says.
The purpose of Faculty Friends,
as stated in the membership applica
tion, is fourfold. First, it serves as a
testimony to both students and fac
ulty that well-respected, highly edu
cated faculty members, who are not
afraid to claim Jesus as the Son of
God and as their personal Savior, ex
ist at this University.
Second, it helps students to know
that Christianity is an intellectually
viable worldview and not just a reli
gion for the ignorant. Third, it will
let others know that the members
care enough to volunteer their time
to listen to students’ problems and
help them to find answers. Finally,
for those who seek counseling, mem
bers can share their testimony in a
personal way and use God’s Word to
help answer their questions.
The membership application
states five basic doctrinal beliefs,
which the applicant must profess to
hold.
• The unique divine inspiration,
entire trustworthiness and authority
of the Bible.
• The Deity of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
• The necessity and efficacy of
the substitutionary death of Jesus
Christ for the redemption of the
world, and the historic fact of His
bodily resurrection.
• The presence and power of the
Holy Spirit in the work of regenera
tion .
of the per-
Lord Jesus
• The expectation
sonal return of the
Christ.
Along with this application, each
member is asked to donate $10 a
year to cover the cost of running the
advertisement in The Battalion.
“We are concerned that often
times in classes if Christian ideas are
ever considered they are considered
in a belittling or ridiculing way, and
it’s easy for the student to get the im
pression that all faculty are ex
tremely skeptical of Christian ideas
and values,” Dr. Walter Bradley,
professor of mechanical engi
neering, says.
“By placing that advertisement,
we are making the clear statement
that there are many faculty at A&M
who feel there is no fundamental
conflict between education at its
highest level and traditional Chris
tian values,” he says. “If Faculty
Friends does nothing else than say
that it’s OK to hold traditional Chris
tian beliefs in a vigorous academic
environment, which we believe
A&M is, we have accomplished our
purpose.”
The idea has caught on and simi
lar advertisements are being run at
the University of Texas, the Univer
sity of Oklahoma, the University of
Alabama, Southern Methodist Uni
versity and Auburn University,
Bradley says.
Men restoring old Alaskan town;
loneliness prompts ad for women
Associated Press
PAYSTREKE, Alaska — Out in
the boondocks where the dirt road
shrinks to a rock-strewn path, Tom
Williams and some of his crew are
willing to put up with no telephones,
electricity or running water. But
they’re tired of doing without
women.
“We were all sitting around the
cookhouse talking,” Williams, a bear
of a man with a hand-made Bowie
knife strapped to his hip, said.
"They were kidding me, ‘Where are
the girls?’ and I told them I’m not
about to be a pimp, but I’d see what I
could do.”
About half the men on his 10-man
crew, who are trying to turn this old
gold claim into a tourist attraction,
are unmarried. The nearest civiliza-
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tion is Hope, a tiny community of the weekend in a cabin at the site,
150 people some 80 road miles south vyhe/e tree stuyrp.s serve as stools at
e taole.
of Anchorage. It is not Las Vegas
North. There are no bars, no dance-
halls and few single women.
“Most of the people in the area
are older and retired,” John Lued-
ers, an unmarried carpenter work
ing for Williams, said. “It’s kind of
an out-of-the-way place.”
Williams, himself unmarried,
seized upon the idea of advertising
last week for “mail-order” brides in
an Anchorage newspaper. Within a
day of publication, there were four
responses, and two of the women
said they wanted to visit the 1800s
replica gold mining camp that Wil
liams and his men started building
last year on 15 acres.
One woman showed up and spent
UT regents to hear students'pleas
for divesture of funds from S. Africa
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The University of
Texas System Board of Regents
has granted a student group 30
minutes next month to urge di
vestiture of university funds from
South Africa.
The Steve Biko Committee
originally was given 15 minutes to
make its case at the regents’ Oct.
10 meeting in Arlington. An ad
ditional 15 minutes has been
granted, Arthur Dilly, secretary
for the board, said.
The committee will argue that
the UT system should divest itself
of $716.4 million in shares in U.S.
companies that are operating in
South Africa because of that na
tion’s racial segregation policies.
At the board’s December meet
ing in El Paso last year, the re
gents voted unanimously to re
tain holdings in those companies.
But Chairman Jess Hay on
Tuesday said the Biko committee
should be allowed to present its
views again.
“I want to accommodate
them,” Hay said. “It’s not a ges
ture. It’s a continuing public dis
cussion.”
the cookhouse
“It was mutually agreed between
her and the guys that there was no
spark there,” Williams said. “We still
have outhouses, no running water.
She said she thought it would be a
little more complete. None of the
men were interested in her and she
wasn’t interested in them.”
— Williams says he found his way to
Alaska in 1969 after tossing a dime
onto a map in an Illinois bar. He
once mined the area where Pays-
treke now stands, five miles from the
nearest hard road and surrounded
by federal land.
Williams lives in a one-room
cabin. He carries the Bowie knife be
cause a scrape with the law as a teen
ager left him legally unable to own
firearms, and in this neck of the
woods there sometimes are bad-tem
pered critters in the bushes.
Paystreke’s nam,e comes from the
original patent granted by President
Calvin Coolidge. The land patent
was supposed to be for the Paystreak
Placer Mine, but somehow on the
documents it came out Paystreke.
Nowadays, Williams, 40, is financ
ing its development by selling gold
jewelry and cans of dirt and rocks
containing ore in Alaska stores.
When finished in a few years, the fa
cility will have cabins, a non-alco
holic 1800s saloon, can-can girls,
gifts shops and other facilities.
His laborers, some of them re
cruited from the ranks of the home
less in Anchorage, put in 10- to 14-
hour days for no pay. He takes care
of their food, housing and other ex
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