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The Battalion Friday, December 9,1988
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Community events
bring Yuletide spirit
By Holly Beeson
Reporter
If you’rr trying to art into thr
Christmas spirit this holiday srason,
several community activities could
help put you in the mood.
The public is invited to view seve
ral lighted displays at Central Park
in College Sution for the annual
Christmas in the Park event. Lights
are on from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.
through December and admission is
free.
“We have more displays this year
with more than 50,000 lights." says
Sheila Walker, special projects coor
dinator for the City ot College Sta
tion Parks and Recreation Depart
ment.
• Another Christmas display is the
Winter Wonderland Forest, located
at the Brazos Center in Bryan.
“There will be 20 trees in a forest-
type setting decorated by various
civic groups and schools,’’ says Jody
Bates, education director for the
Brazos Valley Museum. There also
will be a village area with doll houses
and a train.
The displav beifins Dec. 10 and
grrouj
theau
will last through Dec. 18. Hours are
from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. on weekends
and from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays.
Admission is $1 per person and
groups of 10 or more receive a 50
percent discount with reservations.
Another community activity will
be the performance of
"RumpeUtiltskin” by Magination
Station.
“We are a community theater
ip dedicated to performing live
leater for young people," Jo Beth
Gonzales, artistic director for 'Mag
ination Station, says.
The play will be performed at
A&M Consolidated Junior High
School on Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. and on
Dec 10 at 12 p.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Admission is $3 for children and
$1.50 for adults if accompanied by a
child.
Members of the Texas A&M Uni
versity faculty and staff are invited
to the President’s Christmas Party on
Dec. 19 from 9:30 p.m. to 11:30
p.m. in the MSC.
Manor East Mall in Bryan will be
hosting a Christmas art display Dec.
9-11 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
What’s Up
Friday * *
AGGIE PARTNERS FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS: will have a Christmas dance
at 7 p.m. in 212 MSC r
INTERNATIONAL CELEBRANT SINGERS, will giva a free concert at 7 p.m. at
Aldersgate United Methodist Church
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: call the Center for Drug Prevention and Educa
tion at 845-0280 for details on today’s meeting.
FISH CAMP ‘89: counselor applications will be available Jan. 16 in 213 Pavilion.
Saturday
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will leave to visit a nursing home at
10:30 a.m. at St Mary s Student Center
Sunday
TAMO INTERNATIONAL FOLKDANCERS: will demonstrate and teach j
foikdanctng from 8-10 p m in 226 MSC.
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have a discussion of the Bible over
coffee and donuts at 9:30 a m. at St. Mary's Student Center
Items for What's Up should ba submitted to The Battalion. 216 Reed McDonald,
no later than three business days before the desired run date We only publish
the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so What's Up is
a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities Submissions are run
on a first-come, first-served basis There is no guarantee an entry will run If you
have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315.
Chaplains bring peace to places of war
NEW YORK (AP) — The military chaplain
walks a fine line, upholding religious principles
of trust, peace and kindness in organizations
geared for the rigors of war.
“Cooperation without compromise.” reads the
Army chaplains’ motto.
“We do ministry without compromise and
without apology," savs Gen. Stuart A. Barstad,
retiring this month after three years as Air Force
chief of chaplains.
“Peace movements should not think they have
a comer on the market,” he adds. “They are not
the only ones interested in peace.”
Barstad and three other top U.S. military
chaplains commented on their roles in recent in
terviews with The Lutheran, the monthly mag
azine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America.
Remarkably, all of them are clergyman of that
denomination, as is the nation's fifth top military
chaplain. Army Col. Herbert B. Cleveland, direc-
toi of chaplain services for the Veterans Admin
istration.
Altogether, they oversee work of about 13,000
military chaplains and assistants of various faiths
serving families of nearly 3,000,000 members of
the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and
National Guard, besides veterans.
The chaplaincy chiefs say they're carrying out
full, undiluted ministry in an environment that
keenly needs it.
"The military has never asked me to hold back
on my ministry or my preaching," says Barstad,
originally from Colfax, Wis. ,
Maj. Gen. Norris Einertson. Army chief of
chaplains, calls it a “ministry of presence.”
“My parishioners (Army personnel) are con
tributing to peace in a troubled world." he savs.
He says American churches are not teaching
Christians to think critically about war and peace,
resulting in their either approving armed conflict
indiscriminately or rejecting it as always wrong.
Rear Adm. Alvin B. Koeneman, Navy chief of
chaplains, concedes the work involves some ten
sions, but these must be seen in light of what
Christianity says about the sinful nature of socie
ties as well as about peace.
“It’s tough to talk about the peace of Jesus
while working on an ammunition ship," he says.
“But sailors live in that situation. Someone needs
to be there to live the contradiction with them
and wrestle with it.”
Col. Walter Hiskett. Marine chief of chaplains,
was a wounded combat veteran of the Korean
war before entering the ministry and then volun
teering for his first tour of duty as a chaplain in
Vietnam.
For that, he calls himself “dumb-dumb." but
adds, “These people deserve ministry. The
thought of no chaplaincy, no ministry to these
people was unconscionable."
The chiefs point out that they advrie com
mand staffs on matters of morale as wen as reli
gion and morals, thus exerting an influence on
miliurv policy.
They “make an impatt on the in-
stitution,”Bai stad says. “The military is part of
our national structure.
“We must ask, ‘Do we want to be represented
there, and how best can'we minister —as insiders
or outsiders?"
Hanukkah celebrates Jewish triumph
NEW YORK (AP) — The story is
that with only enough oil to last for
one day, the laihps miraculously
burned for eight.
That’s one of the wonders of Ha
nukkah. whose crescendo of lights
reaches its peak Saturday at sunset
when Jewish homes and synagogues
glow with the full eight tapers of the
mcnorahs.
It’s the religious calendar’s pre
lude to Christmas, which is separate
but that indirectly hinges on tne an
cient event marked by that effusion
of Jewish lights.
Starting with a customary single
candle when the holiday began Last
Saturday, an additional one was lit
on each successive night until the
full-orbed tier of eight shines this
weekend.
The holiday, a time of games and
gift-giving, is sometimes regarded as
a Jewish counterpart of Christmas
and both signify a new start, a fresh
element of faith.
Also, without the precedent of
Hanukkah, scholars point out that
there presumably could be no
Christmas.
The Jewish “festival of lights” cel
ebrates an ancient turn of history
that prevented destruction of the
“mother faith” of Judaism from
which the Christian tradition
emerged.
But the specific significance and
origins of two holidays differ, with
Christmas marking the birth of
Christ and Hanukkah recalling a
much earlier event of great Joy —Ju
daism's regained right to exist.
This happened in about 165 B.C.
when a small guerrilla army led by
Judas Maccabee, the ‘‘hammerer,”
defeated the world’s then mightiest
military force of Syria, which had
sought to stamp out every vestige ot
Jewish religion.
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The ancient victory was cele
brated by cleansing the Temple in
Jerusalem of installed pagan altars
and prostitutes and redeoicating it
with kindling of its lamps.
On a one-day oil supply, legend
says, those lamps inexplicably kept
on burning for eight.
But the phenomenon of the lamps
had a surpassing antecedant — the
amazing victory by a small, motley
mounum band of guerrillas over the
foreign conqueror, the ancient Syr
ian empire.
It had spread over the entire Mid
dle East and ordered the extermina
tion of all traces of Judaism so that
subjects would be “one people" serv
ing the state pantheon of idols.
“Whoever refuses should be put
to death,” it was decreed, and thou
sands of Jews were slain. Scripture
scrolls were ripped apart and
burned. Many Jews submitted and
bowed to the state idols.
Many Jews submitted and bowed
to the state idols.
All over Israel, pagan altars were
erected and patrols circulated to
compel allegiance to the new “gods.”
Jewish obervance of the Sabbath was
forbidden.
In the Temple, turned into a
scene of debaucheries, stood a statue
to Jupiter.
If the suppression had succeeded,
it would nave crushed Judaism,
which would have eliminated the
seedbed of Christianity.
But revolt flamed against that
threat.
An aging father of five sons, the
Maccabees, attacked and killed a
Syrian officer who was forcing Jew
ish villagers to make offerings to a
pagan altar. The Maccabees fled to
the hills.
Gathering a scanty, ill-equipped
crew of resisunce fighters, the eldest
(Gulf]
Georgia group seeks to put
‘Christ’ back into ‘Christmas’
ELLENWOOD. Gau {AV) — The
1988 * Alternatives” power shows a
sleightng Santa and reindeer flying
over the family of the newborn Jesus
in the manger. A caption asks,
"Whose Birthday Is It, Am w av ?'
‘ Alternatives ” a campaign seek
mg to recover a Chrm-centered
Christina* and to protest its com-
merciaiix?uun. th» yeai has the
backing of more ihau. 100.000 Prot
estant and Roman Catholis congre-
itions across the country
Milo Tnombcrrv, director of the
campaign founded by various Chris
tian groups in 1973, says it doesn’t
warn people to reject the whole no
tion of gift-giving and celebration or
go away on a “guilt trip” about it.
Rather, k seeks to nelp them ‘‘re
store perspective to a season that of
ten degenerates into a religion-sanc
tioned orgy of sdf-indulgem e. ’'
Sponsoring-agencies for 1988 are
Detroit’s Catholic Diocese and seven
major Protestant denominations
“Alternatives.’' which distributes
resource material, ntuals and Bible
study guide*, suggests such aitema
five activities as:
• Reducing time spent shopping
and watching television and using ti
for Bible studv and meditation.
• Replacing the Santa tradition
with tbit of St. Nicholas. p«
saint who loved and cared for
dren.
• More personal, thoughtful and
vaiues-cenfered gift-giving instead
of money-spending competitions to
give "the best.”
• Giving a fouith of
spending money to the needy,
reaching out to people who other
wise would be alone at Christmas. ^
Maccabee son, Judas, told them.
“Arm yourselves and be brave. It is
better for us to die in battle than to
witness the ruin of our nation and
our sanctuarv.”
It was a one-sided, three-vear war,
marking the first successful use of
guerrilla tactics — lighting strikes
and retreats, surprise attacks, am
bushes, night raids, harassments.
At one point, with a Jewish army
of about 3,000 gazing down from
the hills at the assembled Syrian
force of 47,000, ‘including horse
men, foot soliders and spearmen on
elephants,Jewish troops murmured-
,”How can we, few as we are, fight
such a niighlv host as this?"
Judas Maccabee told them, “In
the sight of heaven there is no dif
ference between deliverance by
many or few ... so do not be afraid
of them."
By various ruses, scattered night
attacks, diversions, covert
movements and infiltrating lines to
kill off Syrian commanders, the
Maccabees finally heat off the Syrian
repression.
Without those Hanukkah lights,
the Christmas lights might never
have come on.
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