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New residence hall will provide Christian enviroment
By Sherri Roberts
STAFF WRITER
A Christian residence hall will
provide Texas A&M students a spe-
dalized housing option in Fall 1989
and join the list of new residence
halls that includes an honors co-edu-
cational hall and University Tower.
Sponsored by ACTION — Amer
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studies throughout the week and will
provide students the opportunity to
participate in summer mission pro
jects.
ACTION officials are in the proc
ess of securing a building within
three miles of the A&M campus as
the hall site, ACTION Director Dan
Cummins said. A shuttle bus service
will be available to transport stu
dents to campus.
The cost to live in the hall, which
will house between 100 to 200 stu
dents in the fall, will be comparable
to that paid by students living on-
campus.
Although residents in the hall will
be required to attend hall Bible stud
ies, which will take place an average
of two nights a week, the hall’s pro
gramming will be secondary and
supplemental to students’ education.
“We are teaching these students
another area of learning,” Cummins
said. “They can learn more about
the Bible and interact with people
who have similar interests. They Can
go to a secular college and get the Bi
ble program.”
Two to four permanent advisers
and various guest advisers will live in
the hall, conducting Bible studies
and providing counseling to stu
dents.
The optional summer mission
projects will allow students to apply
their degrees in a mission field situa
tion, he said. Students who partici
pate in the projects will teach farm
ing, ranching, business and other
skills to people in various countries.
In the hall’s first mission project,
“Aggies for Africa,” students will
teach members of the South African
Zulu tribe various skills, Cummins
said.
Cummins said, to his knowledge,
the hall is the first Christian resi
dence hall servicing a secular cam
pus.
The concept for the hall was con
ceived by ACTION officials about
three years ago. Since that time, vol
unteers, including lawyers and real
estate agents, have researched the
economic feasibility of the hall.
“We’ve done our homework and
we know it will work from a business (
aspect,” he said. “It’s time to put our
vision into reality.”
Senate addresses AIDS,
commends ‘care givers’
Oilman tries to sway House
from shareholders rights law
AUSTIN (AP) — The Senate approved a resolution
Monday commending people who care for AIDS suf
ferers.
Sen. Craig Washington, D-Houston, sponsored a res
olution commending “educators and care givers on the
front lines of the battle against AIDS,” or acquired im
mune deficiency syndrome.
AIDS results from a virus that destroys the body’s
ability to fight infection.
Washington said AIDS “knows no ability to discrimi
nate ... it will attack anyone.
“All of us realize that in this session we have to ad
dress the question of AIDS,” said Washington, a mem
ber of the legislative task force on AIDS.
Sen. Chet Brooks, D-Pasadena, said 30,000 Texans
had gathered in Austin over the weekend “primarily to
raise public awareness about the AIDS initiative, to ad
dress and call public attention to what is obviously the
most critical human health crisis facing our state, the
United States of America and the world at large.
“There is no nation on earth that is immune or has
any wall up that will protect it from the AIDS virus,”
Brooks said.
He said his Senate Health and Human Services Com
mittee should have an AIDS bill ready for debate by no
later than early next week.
“I hope, and I believe, we will emerge from this ses
sion of the Legislature with some initiatives that will be
worthwhile, that will be desirable and will be effective,”
Brooks said. “And it’s going to take all of us working to
gether.
“We must put aside a lot of our personal biases, or
the buzz words of the past — lay all that aside” — and
recognize that AIDS “is a human health issue, that it
must be dealt with as a human health issue.
“We have to treat it just as we would any other fatal
disease that would enter our borders or manifest itself
in this world,” he added.
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Station sponsors A&M radio show
Students who want to find out
what’s going on in Aggieland can
tune in to the Star 92 Aggie Bulletin
Board, a program broadcasted at
12:50 a.m. Sunday through Thurs
day during the Star 92 Aggie Hour.
Bruce Gilbert, the new program
director at radio station KTSR, said
he thinks the program will be ap
pealing to A&M students.
“I think the Aggie Hour is a good
idea because this is a college town
and students are usually up studying -
late.” Gilbert said.
Gilbert said during the Aggie
Hour students can participate in
games and student discussions.
“During this hour, disc jockey
Dan Rush asks an Aggie trivia ques
tion and the winner is awarded a piz
za,” Gilbert said. “The main focus is
student discussions. We encourage
students to call in with problems or
events that are happening at A&M.”
Gilbert encourages students to
send information to be publicized
during the Aggie Hour.
“We usually get our information
from The Battalion’s ‘What’s Up’
column and from information that
Rush gets from people calling in,”
Gilbert said. “We want students to
participate more by sending infor
mation on upcoming events.”
AUSTIN (AP) — Corporate take
over specialist T. Boone Pickens tes
tified Monday against proposed leg
islation aimed at making hostile
takeovers of companies more diffi
cult.
Pickens, an Amarillo oilman, said
the proposed Texas Shareholders
Rights Law is “clearly a pro-manage
ment” bill that would protect com
pany executives at the expense of
stockholders.
“I’d junk this stuff and start all
over again,” Pickens told the House
Business and Commerce Commit
tee.
In a news conference later, Pick
ens, who is considering a bid for the
Republican gubernatorial nomi
nation, said, “The last thing Texas
needs with its economy the way it is
is to entrench management.”
But Bryan F. Egan said the law
will protect stockholders from cor
porate raiders — restricted by simi
lar laws in other states — who will
“see Texas corporations as one of
the unprotected species that can be
taken over on the cheap.”
Egan is a member of the Texas
Business Law Foundation, a nonpro
fit corporation specializing in busi
ness law and economic development.
In hostile takeovers, corporate
raiders buy enough stock to gain vot
ing control of the company then of
ten “bust up” the company, selling
the assets for their own profit, while
the remaining stockholders suffer,
Egan said.
Under the bill by state Rep. David
Cain, D-Dallas, shareholders could
limit the voting power of a person
who purchases a huge block of stock.
Should a change in control occur,
the bill would place a 5-year mora
torium on certain business combina
tions between the person who ac
quires control and the corporation.
“If Texas does not act this session,
you will see Texas corporations with
publicly traded securities as a rapidly
vanishing breed,” Egan said.
A&M student injured
in motorcycle collision
An A&M student injured in a
Friday motorcycle accident is in
Intensive Care at Scott and White
Hospital in Temple.
John Edward Powell, a sopho
more history major, was severely
injured when his motorcycle col
lided with another vehicle on
Texas Avenue.
Powell, 19, was going north on
Texas Avenue near Southwest
Parkway about 1:30 a.m. when his
Honda collided with a Cadillac.
The driver of the Cadillac, who
police identified as Michael A.
Cunningham of College Station,
was turning his car left onto Texas
Avenue from a private driveway.
College Station police said Pow
ell was not wearing a helmet at the
time of the accident. He was
treated at Humana Hospital for a
concussion, a broken arm and a
broken knee and transferred Fri
day to Scott and White, where he
was listed in serious condition,
hospital officials said.
Cunningham, 35, was arrested
and charged with driving while in
toxicated in connection with the
accident. He was released from
the Brazos County Jail Friday
morning after posting a $500
bond.
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