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In The Name Of God, The Beneficent, The Merciful
MIDDLE EAST DILEMMA
A Lecture By
Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
Director of the Muslim Institute, London
Sub-topics include:
• Modernization and Islamic Revival
• Russian Agression in Afganistan
• Palestine and Lebanon
• Iran-Iraq War
TIME: 7:00 p.m.-Tuesday, February 11, 1986
PLACE: Rudder Tower-Room 701
Free Admission
Everyone Is Welcome
Sponsored by:
The Society of Iranian Students
and
Muslim Students Association
Texas A&M University
College Station
Page 4/The Battalion/Monday, February 10, 1986
Fraternity aids in community cleanup
By CHRIS SIGURDSON
Reporter
It was a dirty job and nobody had
to do it.
On gxay and dismal Saturday, 50
Texas A&M students trudged along
two roads leading into Millican, a
small spot on any map of south Bra
zos County.
The students, all members of Al
pha Phi Omega, an A&M service fra
ternity, weaved back and forth
through the grass and mud, impal
ing bits of litter along the farm-to-
market roadways and dropping
them into the black plastic garbage
sacks they carried at their sides.
“It (the community) is improving
all the time,” said Tommy Lyons,
president of the “Don’t Mess with
Millican” community cleanup cam-
paign.
Dan Cox, APO vice president of
projects, said the objective of the fra
ternity was to provide a worthwhile
use of free time for its members and
help people out at the same time.
But temperatures on Saturday
didn’t respect the student’s good in
tentions.
Temperatures stayed buried in
the low 40’s and windchill from the
5-10 mph northeasterly winds
dropped them closer to 28 degrees.
The students who picked up pa
per, stovepipes, beer bottles and
cast-off car parts along FM 2154 and
FM 159 were all volunteers, Lyons
said.
According to Lyons, the students
are an indispensable part of the
small town’s effort to beautify the
area and create an interest in the
area’s appearance.
Mike Fulbright, the APO project
“We’re always looking for
projects where we can use
an unlimited number of
members. Something like
this is perfect because we
can use everybody who
shows up. ”
— Mike Fulbright, APO
project chairman
chairman for the event and a me
chanical engineering senior, said his
group welcomes a chance to per
form a worthwhile service, especially
for a town as appreciative as Millican
has been.
This is the third time the students
have worked the roads around Milli
can, Fulbright said, and the people
in the area have responded with free
lunches, beverages and lots of
thanks.
“We just casually come out and
clean up the highway,” Fulbright
said.
Millican had heard about APO
and contacted them, he said, and the
co-ed service organization jumped at
the chance.
“We’re always looking for projects
where we can use an unlimited num
ber of members,” Fulbright said.
“Something like this is perfect be
cause we can use everybody who
shows up.”
Fulbright said he was surprised
that so many people would show up
in the face of the miserable weather.
Split into about four groups num
bering from four to 15, students clad
in long underwear, bright-colored
sweatshirts, mud-streaked ski jackets
or puppydog earmuffs slowly made
their trek down three miles on FM
159 and about the same distance on
FM 2154 north towards Wellborn
and College Station.
Sustained by members running
back and forth and dropping off
snacks and drinks from a little red
car, only one shortage was be
moaned by a couple of workers.
Singer mixes Christianity and pop rock
By SAM BUCHMEYER
Reporter
Dan Peek proved Friday night
that it’s possible to mix Christianity
with a little rock’n’roll.
In a concert that lasted just over
an hour, Peek, a former member of
America, managed to intertwine his
Christian message with his popular
secular hits. Peek also breathed new
life into several old America classics
as well as presenting some of his new
material.
Peek was met with warm approval
to his opening song “Ventura High
way,” a song that dates back to 1972.
It was that year that Peek, along with
Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley,
gained his First success with Amer
ica.
Peek left the band in 1978 to pur
sue a solo career in contemporary
Christian music. During his show, he
recounted an experience that ex
plains his change to Christian music.
He said before America became fa
mous, he prayed that if the band
could see success he would someday
try to live his life for the Lord. Soon
after, America had its first giant hit
with “Horse With No Name.”
Peek’s performance was en
ergetic. Backed only by his brother
on guitar and a keyboard player,
Peek showed a vitality that his for
mer partners couldn’t recapture af
ter his departure.
So why isn’t Peek more widely
known? It may have something to do
with the definite separations of pop
music and contemporary Christian
music. In a newspaper interview,
Peek said that the lines between the
various genres of music are begin
ning to blur. This was apparent
throughout Peek’s show.
Peek performed several classics
including “I Need You” and “Lonely
People,” as well as songs from his lat
est album, “Doer of the Word.”
Peek’s performance was marked
with catchy tunes and small injec
tions of his personal religious beliefs.
Peek’s appeal comes not only
from his music but also his ability to
convey his messages without being
overbearing.
The show w&s opened by the Graf
Brothers, an acoustic duo that per
formed several humorous songs as
well as an interesting cover of the
Beatles’ “Come Together."
£/ Poso officio Is upset by survey
Associated Press
EL PASO — City officials have
criticized a survey that rates El Paso
among the worst of the nation’s cities
in terms of crowding, poverty and
water availability and quality.
The “Urban Stress Test” by the
Zero Population Growth ranked 184
U.S. cities —- 17 in Texas — with
populations of 100,000 or more by
the amount of social, economic and
environmental pressures on popula
tion.
El Paso scored an overall 3.9 on a
scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the
worst.
Survey spokeswoman Nancy De-
bevoise said she wasn’t surprised by
the reaction and noted that many
communities have complained about
the survey’s results and in some cit
ies, officials have threatened to sue.
“The idea of the survey was to
hold public officials accountable for
the results of city growth and plan
ning,” she said. “We wanted to be
able to show people in a graphic way
that there is a population problem.”
Zero Population Growth, whose
report was issued last month, advo
cates a stable population growth and
restoring a balance between people,
resources and the environment, De-
bevoise said.
Other Texas cities and their rank
ings were Houston 3.9, Pasadena
3.5, Odessa 3.3, San Antonio 3.4,
Abilene 2.6, Amarillo 2.5, Arlington
2.4, Austin 2.5, Beaumont 2.8, Cor
pus Christi 3.6, Dallas 3.2, Fort
Worth 3.4, Garland 2.8, Irving 2.7,
Lubbock 2.6 and Waco 3.2.
El Paso’s best ranking came in the
hazardous waste site category, with a
score of 1. But it registered a 5 in
crowding, poverty and water avail
ability and quality.
It scored a 4 in population
change, education, economy, birth
rate, air quality and sewage treat
ment capacity. In the violent crime
category, El Paso ranked a 3.
John Hickerson, Public Service
Board director, said when it comes
to water, El Paso is better off than
most cities in the Southwest and Cal
ifornia.
Final jury selection today in Chagra re-trial
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Final jury selection
was scheduled today in the re-trial of
Elizabeth Chagra, charged with con
spiracy in the 1979 killing of U.S.
District Judge John Wood.
Testimony was to begin late today
or Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Wil
liam Sessions has estimated the trial
will take two to four weeks. About
150 prospective jurors were inter
viewed for three days last week by
Sessions and attorneys.
One of the early witnesses is ex
pected to be Joe Chagra, a former El _
Paso lawyer now serving a 15-year
sentence for conspiracy to commit
murder. He testified for the Justice
Department in the first trial of Cha
gra on a similar conspiracy charge.
Chagra was convicted in 1982 of
conspiracy. Wood was shot in the
back with a high-powered rifle as he
left his San Antonio condominium
to go to work.
Wood was known as “Maximum
John” because of the stiff sentences
given drug dealers, had been sched
uled to preside in the government’s
drug case against Chagra’s husband,
Jimmy Chagra, a high stakes gam
bler and accused narcotics smuggler.
Elizabeth Chagra was convicted in
the 1982 trial of conspiracy but the
verdict was overturned by the 5th
Circuit Court in New Orleans on the
grounds that the San Antonio jury
had been given improper instruc
tions by Sessions.
At the San Antonio trial, testi
mony indicated Jimmy Chagra was
afraid he would be sentenced to life
in prison and he, with the aid of oth
ers, hired Charles Harrelson to kill
thejudge.
“There wasn’t any hot chocokit
they said.
Others said they would fe
dressed warmer but the wat
weather on Friday had fooledtW
The students worked untilJp,
Lyons said, despite the
radic drizzle.
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vital to “Don’t Mess with Mfc Lpionship
because the community iscompes™'
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Texas Beautiful, Inc. The mensBsodate Ai
to be used for highway landTce Wally G
projects and an existing, organ jen placed v
cleanup effort is part of thecriinjHin Hoik
K< 'i< l< in - . it MiIIk ,iii .mil pi [Aggie i
ers from the Brazos County Jail; f
worked the roadways, Lyons said Grotl expec
fed in time
According to the Millican ream Bg Footba
the total of the day was 1321; “The coach
bags of trash and four dumpti jh the ring |
loads of articles such as hoi . rof! said. “ 1
heaters, car batteries, fendtn® (Balfour
stove pipes. About 11 mfc
ditches were picked clean. I
Work hours on the project»ri
requirement for prospective
bers and the cleanup campaijm
good way for them toearnakt
hours and meet a large numbe
active members, Lyons said.
About 15 prospects or pltc;
had shown up Saturday, hesaid
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EARLY — Although a 10-ve
old boy has confessed tothtfa
shooting of another youth,
thor ities say they cannot take
criminal action against him it
cause of a state law barringpr
edition of those under the age
10.
The shooting death of Jaa:!
Perkins, 12, took place Thundf
near a gravel pit about twonuie
north of this C.entral Texasto*
The boy who admitted to i
shooting turned 10 Sunday.uj
thorities said.
Bi own County Deputy Valtol
Posey said the statements aof
other evidence will be tune;
over to the Department of Hit
man Resources, which cotifl
place the youth in juvenile ciu
tody. The hoy has been release!
to his mother.
B. J McCullough, special edi I
cation coordinator for the Eart|
school district, said school o§
cials plan to talk to the child
mother and suggest that he«|
return to school.
The shooting took place ate I
5 p.m. Thursday after Perfe
left his grandparents’ house to f
hunting with his grandfather
.22-caliber rifle. Near the
pit, he began fighting withatj
other youth — the brotherofth
10-year-old, Posey said
“Then (the 10-year-old) jus |
picked up this gun andshothii
trying to stop the fight or protM |
his brother or whatever," Pos 1
told the Dallas Times Herald.
The brothers apparently K*
their mother they had found Pc
kins on the ground, covered
blood, investigators said.
Deputies did not suspect to
shooting was deliberate uw
school officials reported Frito'
that the boy had told studec
and a teacher that he’dshotPc
kins, Posey said. The
confessed, he said.
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^ Beginning C&W Dance
Wed., Feb 12, 19,26, MarchS, 12
$15
$15
^ 6:00-7:15 p.m.
si
^ Wed., April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
si 6:00-7:15 p.m.
s
^ Ford and Sandra Taylor will instruct all classes at
^ the Texas Hall of Fame, located on the west bypass
y; The Hall invites all participants to return and dance
^ free on Thursday nights!
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Advanced C&W Dance
Wed., Feb 12,19,26, March 5, 12
7:30-8:45 p.m.
$15
Wed., April 2,9,16,23,30
7:30-8:45 p.m.
$15
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