Wednesday, January 21, 1987/The Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
Love should be spelled G-l-V-E,
Christian speaker tells students
By Frank Smith
Senior Staff Writer
After being introduced, he
strode across the floor of G.
Rollie White Coliseum, escorted
by five members of the Ross Vol
unteers. He stopped just past the
midcourt line, and everyone ap
plauded.
Though many had seen him
before, surely more than one per
son in the crowd must have been
thinking, “So, that’s Josh.” And
Josh it was.
Josh McDowell, the Christian
speaker and author who draws
large crowds of college students
with his reputation and catchy ad
vertising blitzes, brought his
unique style to Texas A&M Tues
day night.
It was the second of a two-
night stand in College Station for
McDowell, a traveling lecturer
with the Campus Crusade for
Christ. On the preceding night in
Rudder Auditorium, he had spo
ken on “The Great Resurrection
— Hoax?”
But Tuesday, the topic was
“Maximum Sex,” and students
filled roughly two-thirds of G.
Rollie to hear what he had to say.
And what he had to say, among
other things, was that “The main
purpose of sex is for a unity fac
tor. Procreation comes secondly.”
And, “A fulfilled sex life is
more the result of a good
relationship, not the cause of it.”
And, “The most important sex
organ is the mind.”
And, “True love always ini
tiates protection and provision.”
And, “We have not been
through a sexual revolution. We
have been through a revolution
in the search for intimacy.”
Through it all, McDowell em
phasized the importance he at
taches to a relationship with Jesus
Christ.
McDowell outlined three dif
ferent attitudes to the audience
— “I love you if,” “I love you be
cause,” and “I love you. Period.”
He emphasized the importance
of having the latter — an uncon
ditional type of love that he said is
spelled “G-I-V-E.”
He said those with that giving
type of love are more likely than
not to be “Christ-centered.”
McDowell punctuated his com
ments with flailing arms and a
sometimes-soft, sometimes-
shrieking voice. He laced his pre
sentation with jokes, but assumed
a more serious tone plenty of
times during the course of his 90-
minute presentation — especially
when talking about Christ.
And that, basically, was Josh.
Photo by Tracy Staton
Christian speaker Josh speaks to A&M students Tuesday night in G.
Rollie White Coliseum on the subject of “Maximum Sex.”
Officials hopeful
prisons will remain
open another day
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Texas
prison officials said Tuesday the sys
tem would continue to remain open
after the number of prisoner re
leases stayed close with admissions,
holding the population barely under
a court-mandated limit.
“We will be open for business as
usual tomorrow,” Department of
Corrections spokesman Charles
Brown said Tuesday.
At least 120 releases were ex
pected Tuesday while officials ad
mitted 132 inmates, Brown said.
On Monday, traditionally a slow
day for admissions, 55 inmates ar
rived, less than the 80 officials were
projecting.
Twenty-one were released.
The result was a population of
38,238, or 94.68 percent.
On Sunday, it was 94.58 percent.
Brown cautioned, however, that it
would be difficult to predict the day-
to-day fluctuations for releases and
admissions.
The capacity was set in 1983 after
a federal judge ordered officials to
take steps to reduce crowding in
Texas prisons.
Inmate population in the 26-unit
system, the nation’s second largest
behind California, exceeded the 95-
percent capacity Friday, forcing offi
cials to refuse new inmates.
Paroles issued over the weekend
Vietnam memorial brings memories to veteran
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — When Roy Bena
videz first saw the new Vietnam Memorial in
San Antonio he heard echoes of a distant war
mixed with memories of his buddies who
stood by him in moments of mortal danger.
The memorial statue is of a kneeling sol
dier looking toward the sky while holding a
fallen friend. For Benavidez, a Green Beret
B who earned the Medal of Honor, the sculpted
B figures recall a time of struggle and pain.
“It was an eerie feeling,” he said. “I could
B hear the rotors of helicopters behind me. It
B just brings back a lot of memories.”
It’s been nearly 20 years since Benavidez
H knew combat in Vietnam, but there is a lin
gering ache from wounds he suffered there.
And there’s a powerful feeling of kinship for
others who also fought in America’s longest
war and returned to an uncaring nation.
“What keeps me going is wanting to help
my buddies, those Vietnam veterans who
think society completely neglected them,” he
said. “I keep getting letters from veterans
thanking me for standing up and helping
them. I haven’t done anything that my bud
dies would not have done for me.”
It was what Benavidez did for his buddies
in combat that earned him the nation’s high
est honor for valor.
On May 2, 1968, near Loc Ninh, Vietnam,
enemy fire downed U.S. helicopters and
trapped eight soliders in the wreckage.
With mortar and bullets crackling about
him, and enemy closing for hand-to-hand
combat, Benavidez pulled the eight from the
disabled craft and helped them into a rescue
chopper. He was shot in the abdomen, back,
thigh, head and arms. But he managed to res
cue his buddies.
“The real heroes are the ones who gave
their lives for their country,” he said. “I don’t
like to be called a hero. I just did what I was
trained to do.”
Roy Benavidez’ battles were not over.
Not long after receiving praise and a medal
from President Reagan, the government
tightened up on Social Security benefits. Disa
bility payments for Benavidez and for some
350,000 other Americans were cut off.
The retired staff sergeant once more bat
tled government bureaucracy and, once
more, he won for himself and his buddies.
His disability benefit was restored in 1983.
The retired soldier spends hours now talk
ing to students of patriotism, hoping to reach
all of the new generation and to encourage
them “to help perpetuate Americanism.”
dropped the inmate count below the
limit, allowing the system to reopen
Monday.
As part of a prison reform order,
U.S. District Judge William Wayne
Justice ordered the prison system to
reduce crowding.
The Legislature passed a law set
ting the 95 percent capacity limit in
1983.
Justice already has issued a con
tempt order against the corrections
department, saying the agency failed
to live up to agreements made in
1980 to improve inmates’ living con
ditions and staffing in the prisons.
The judge gave the prison system
until March 31 to meet the standards
or risk fines of up to $800,500 a day.
Price of oil
unlikely to foil
much in 1987
AUSTIN (AP) — Oil prices will
probably not decline in 1987 and
drilling activity likely will increase,
an Exxon Co. spokesman said Tues
day.
Gregory Davis of Houston was
one of six industry representatives
who appeared before the Railroad
Commission at its monthly statewide
allowable hearing.
The commission routinely set the
oil production factor at 100 percent,
a pattern that started over 14 years
ago. As usual, the large East Texas
Field was restricted to 86 percent
production to avoid possible waste.
Davis submitted Exxon’s February
nomination for Texas crude oil at
235,000 barrels a day, which is 5,400
barrels a day less than January.
Nominations for Texas crude in
February totaled 2,016,389 barrels a
day, a decrease of 27,801 barrels a
day from this month.
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