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Monday, September 25,1989
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APO members work Saturdays
Museum benefits from service fraternity’s service
By Cindy McMillian
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APO workers Roland Deike and Kathy Foster lay 2X4s
across a walkway a nature trail behind the Brazos Center.
Saturday morning for many col
lege students holds nothing more
stressful than an episode of the Roa-
drunner, but Saturday for Alpha Phi
Omega pledges often begins early
with hard work.
About 30 members of the service
fraternity showed up at 9 a.m. Satur
day to help clean up a nature trail
for the Brazos Valley Museum in
Bryan. Kay Reiter, an APO pledge
who participated in the project, said
she enjoyed the work.
“You’d think work like that
wouldn’t be fun, but it’s a challenge,”
she said. “We have a good time.”
The group picked up trash,
cleared a fallen tree from a picnic
area and defined the lines of the trail
with logs, Reiter said. They also dug
a trench to drain water from a
swampy area and made a makeshift
bridge.
Mike Bradley, APO’s pledgemas-
ter, said the museum contacted APO
and requested the cleanup because
up with, we’ll do it if it’s service-
oriented,” he said.
The co-educational national orga
nization is based on leadership,
friendship and service, Bradley said,
and members are responsible for
finding, planning and preparing all
When you walk away from a project, you’re tired,
but you feel really good about having done it.”
— Mike Bradley,
APO Pledgemaster
projects. All pledges must serve 55
hours during their first semester in
the fraternity, and then they are ac
tive members serving 20 hours a se
mester.
The Texas A&M chapter is one of
the nation’s largest, Bradley said,
and put in 15,000 service hours last
children who visit the museum often
walk through the trail. The frater
nity does similar work at community
centers, graveyards, highways and
other places in the area, Bradley
said.
“Basically whatever people come
year. Chapter projects include work
ing campus blood drives, raising
money for the Muscular Dystrophy
Association at a Super Dance, baby
sitting for a “Parents’ Night Out,”
visiting Boys and Girls Clubs every
week and driving the Fish Lot Night
Shuttle.
Bradley said the organization can
be time-consuming but also “very re
warding.” Talking at meetings in
front of 180 pledges or 230 actives
helps members develop speaking
skills and leadership, he said.
Bradley said he enjoyed APO be
cause they “cut through all the ste
reotypical barriers and go out and
help people.”
Getting up on Saturday mornings
is hard, he said, but worth it.
“When you walk away from a pro
ject, you’re tired, but you feel really
good about having done it.”
Oceanography council Adopts-a-Beach
By Holly Becka
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Members of the Oceanography Graduate
Council traveled to North Padre Island this
weekend to assist in a statewide cleanup of
beaches sponsored by the General Land Of
fice and the Center for Marine Conservation.
Mike Cook, treasurer of the graduate coun
cil, said 25 people traveled in two vans to
North Padre. Most of the group were grad
uate students, and the rest were friends and
family members. They helped pick up and
classify garbage found on a 17-mile stretch of
beach.
“Everything went well,” Cook said. “We
picked up trash and recorded information on
the data sheets from about 9 a.m. to noon, and
afterward we met at a central spot and we had
a little party. We picked up about 40 bags of
trash. When we were done, the beach looked
really good.”
Martin Ebel, vice president of the council,
was interested in the cleanup project and took
the initiative to get A&M students involved for
the first time. The annual cleanup started in
1986.
He said the group decided to go to Nortn
Padre because he thought they could do the
most good there.
“I thought if we could get a fair number of
people together to do this, which we did, we
should go where we’re needed,” Ebel said. “I
didn’t want to go someplace easy like Galves
ton because it’s so close to Houston that there
probably would be a lot of people there.
“When I called the (Texas Adopt-A-Beach
Program of the General Land Office) ‘800’
number, I asked them where they needed
people and they said North Padre and Mus
tang Island, so we decided to go to North Pa
dre.”
Cook said other volunteers also helped with
the cleanup in the North Padre and Mustang
Island areas. About 2,200 people helped in
the area this year, compared with 1,500 last
year, he said.
The group was provided with garbage bags,
data sheets and pencils so they could classify
the trash collected. He said the Adopt-A-
Beach program was conducting research on
the trash to determine where it comes from.
Group members classified the trash in
rough categories, such as plastic, metal and
wood to determine the percentages of each
kind of garbage.
“The cleanup is part of research and we’re
providing raw data for some researcher to say
something significant, hopefully, about trash
on Texas beaches,” he said.
Ebel and Cook said the cleanup was impor
tant to them as oceanographers.
“One of my chief concerns about the ma
rine environment is all the plastics and the
damaging effects on the animals,” Ebel said.
Cook said he wants the general public to re
alize there is a problem.
“I think it’s important that you get ordinary
people, the public as a whole, involved in un
derstanding there’s a problem with trash on
our beaches and to get people involved in
cleaning it up because maybe next time —
even though a lot of this trash isn’t caused by
people actually throwing it on the beach -—
they may think twice about littering the
beach.” Cook said.
Ebel said the beach cleanup project started
in Texas and has since expanded throughout
the Gulf Coast region and Costa Rica.
Study: Houston mission
plagued by bad leaders
HOUSTON (AP) — The city’s
largest mission for the homeless
lacks a clear sense of purpose and is
managed in slipshod manner by an
unqualified administrator, according
to a professional management study.
The recently completed study says
Star of, Hope treats and pays its em
ployees unfairly, practices nepotism
and fails to properly plan its spend^
ing or monitor grant requirements,
the Houston Chronicle reported in a
copyright story Sunday.
The report, prepared by The Hay
Group and Peterson & Co., recom
mends that Don Johnson, the orga
nization’s president, be replaced be
cause his “skills and experience do
not match the requirements” of his
position.
“Star of Hope’s operations require
a chief executive officer who is a
strong leader to provide direction.
This individual must also be a sound
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