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I Friday, May 1, 1987AThe Battalion/Page 7 What’s up Dm: Friday LATTER DAY SAINT STUDENT ASSOCIATION: John Horowitz will speak on “Tithing and Taxation” at noon at the LDS Institute at 100 E. Dexter. UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: will meet for a peanut-but ter fellowship at 11:30 a.m. at Rudder Fountain and Bible study at 6:30 p.m. at A&M Presbyterian Church. CHI ALPHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will meet at 7 p.m. in 156 Blocker. INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will meet at 7 p.m. in the All Faiths Chapel. BLACK AWARENESS COMMITTEE: will conduct their spring formal at 8 p.m. in the Ramada Inn Ballroom. HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION: will meet for a banquet at 7 p.m. at the Green Branch Center. TAMU BADMINTON CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 351 G. Rollie White. TAMU HANDBALL CLUB: will host the Aggie Spring Clas sic today through Sunday at the Read Building. Saturday INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will meet at 1 p.m. at 904 Ashburn St. ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA: will meet at 8 p.m. at the Cain Hall pool. TAMU SAILING CLUB: will hold a Regatta race for Dol phins only all day at Bryan Utilities Lake, followed by a Banquet at 8 p.m. at K-Bob’s. RSVP at 268-2745. STUDENT Y: will meet for a retreat at 8:30 a.m. at the Stu dent Y office. TAMU RODEO CLUB: will attend the last college rodeo of the spring at 7:30 p.m. at the Sam Houston State College Arena through Monday. Sunday TAMU RODEO CLUB: will meet at the dome area of Hensel Park at noon. Monday CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: Olga Chaffee will speak on “It Takes a Lamb to Slay a Wolf” at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder. INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will meet for a picnic at 11 a.m. at Haswell Park. PHI ETA SIGMA: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 410 Rudder. LIBERAL ARTS SOCIETY: will meet for a picnic at 2 p.m. at Central Park. SOCIOLOGY CLUB: will meet for a picnic at 1 p.m. at Hen sel Park. ATHIESTS, AGNOSTICS AND FREETHINKERS SO CIETY: will meet at 7 pm. in 507 A-B Rudder. BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION CHAMBER OF COM MERCE: Applications for Outstanding Woman of the Year are available at the Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center through Tuesday. STUDENT GOVERNMENT: Applications for committee chairmen are available through Tuesday in 221 Pavilion. Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days be fore desired publication date. Texan donors say PAC aid to Contras OK DALLAS (AP) — Texans who do nated to an endowment fund and two political action committees led by fund-raiser Carl Channell said they are not upset that money from the fund provided military help to the Nicaraguan Contras. “I just believed and had confi dence in that man (Channell), and still do, and knew he would use it to help those people,” said Mary Jo Pentecost, a rancher in the West Texas town of Robert Lee. She contributed $3,500 to the PACs and an undisclosed sum to the endowment fund. Channell pleaded guilty Wednes day in Washington to one count of conspiracy to defraud the federal government by using money from his tax-exempt National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty to provide military help to the Nicara guan rebels. The money was supposed to be used to promote conservative for eign policy goals through public ed ucation. The fund was also an umbrella for two political action committees: the American Conservative Trust and the Anti-Terrorism American Com mittee. The charge against Channell did not mention either committee. “I didn’t know if anything I ever gave went for arms or not,” Pente cost said. Some contributors to the endow ment fund said they support the Contras and they didn’t ask how their donations were spent. John Ramsey Jr., a Wichita Falls geologist who said he gave more than $100,000 to the endowment fund and another unrelated fund said, “You know, it didn’t matter.” “They needed the money,” said Ramsey, who says he knows Chan nell and has gone to the White House for a briefing on Central America. “There were a lot of things to use it for, and I didn’t care. ... If I could have done it legally, I would have given military weapons. That doesn’t bother me.” Maxwell Clampitt, president of Dallas-based Clampitt Paper Co., said he contributed to several con servative organizations. Federal Election Commission reports as of January show Clampitt gave $200 to the American Conservative Trust in 1985 and $ 1,000 to the PAC in 1986. “I’ve got so many people coming in here for donations I don’t remem ber them all,” Clampitt said. “At the time I know I was convinced it was a good cause.” NEED MONEY??? 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The Board of Trustees also dropped a Feb. 18 requirement that teachers in the Tornillo Indepen dent School District speak to stu dents in English only, school super intendent Francis Brooks said. Brooks said two representatives from the Texas Education Agency were in Tornillo Wednesday and spoke to him before the board held a special session Wednesday night. He also received a telephone call from the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. “The Justice Department just said there was a chance it could violate civil rights, but they recommended we withdraw that action,” said Brooks, who presented the recom mendations to the board. The TEA’s guidelines prescribe that the agency look into similar ac tions by school districts, TEA spokesman Terri Anderson said. The agency also is charged with po licing a 19/1 federal court desegre gation order and investigating possi ble civil rights violations. “If they refused (to accept TEA recommendations to drop the plan), it could come down to an order,” Anderson said. Mexican-American children once were paddled in Texas for speaking Spanish in school. On approval from the board, Brooks had sent 370 letters April 22, one for each child in the school dis trict, asking parents to discipline children caught speaking Spanish at school. The letter, which parents were asked to sign, also said the agreement was voluntary. § kl || i! iRTMENTS i „b After graduation, this will be your first smart move. At Lincoln Property Company, all you need is this ad and a copy of your diploma and we’ll forget about the credit check and the security deposit when you move into your LPC apartment home.* Now that’s a smart move. You’ve finally made it, and we at LPC believe you deserve this great graduation present! 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