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Tuesday, March 3, IS
Students to thank B-CS with Big Event
Organizers set goal of 5,000 participants for this year's citywide service projects
By Julie Polston
The Battalion
Thousands of Aggies are gearing up for the
10th annual Big Event on April 4, planning
various community service projects in the
cities of Bryan and College Station.
Mark Rollins, general committee member,
said the event is a way to thank the community
for supporting the University over the years.
"It's our way of expressing our apprecia
tion to Bryan and College Station and return to
the community a little of the hospitality and
care they extend to us throughout our years as
students at this great university," Rollins said.
Most projects include highway cleanup,
yard work for local residents, visiting nursing
homes and minor repair work such as painting
for local non-profit organizations, chairperson
Kelly Russell said.
"We're working with the cities of Bryan
and College Station to target specific areas that
aren't meeting city building codes anymore,"
she said.
This year's target area is the Lincoln Center
off Holleman Drive, Russell said. Last year the
Big Event completed 105 projects, 25 of which
were city projects.
Other project ideas are called in by local
residents. The committee will try to provide
supplies if the residents are unable, Russell
said.
"For the most part, we ask that they (resi
dents) donate their own supplies," she said.
This year's goal is 5,000 students, Russell
said. Last year, about 3,000 students partici
pated in the Big Event. Dorms, campus organi
zations, fraternities, sororities and individuals
are encouraged to participate, she said.
"The Big Event needs tons and tons of mo
tivated Ags to come out and help, otherwise
these projects will not get done," Russell said.
The Big Event has several sponsors, such as
a local radio station that is helping out with ad
vertisements.
Cellular One is donating mobile phones for
committee members to use the day of the
event, she said.
Russell said the Dixie Chicken and Saturn
Car Company also donated money for promo
tions and supplies.
Interested students need to complete a par
ticipation application form available in room
127 of the Student Services Building by March
9.
Individuals or organizations with questions
should contact the Student Government office
at 845-3051.
Texaco plant reopens after accident
CONROE (AP) — A Texaco Chemical Co. plant
racked by a weekend pipeline explosion reopened
Monday, officials said.
The explosion occurred when a bulldozer that
was paving an employee parking lot struck a 10-inch
pipeline carrying ethane and propane liquid gas, said
Dolores Matzat, the plant's supervisor of human re
sources.
Texaco shut down the pipeline after the Saturday
morning accident, which sent flames shooting 150
feet into the air.
Officials had to let the trapped fuel in the 16-mile
pipeline burn off throughout the day and into the
night.
Power was restored to the plant Sunday night,
Matzat said. The facility is in Conroe, a town 35 miles
north of Houston.
A contract security guard who was located "quite
close" to the lot suffered blisters to his right forearm
and his ear, Matzat said.
He was treated at the scene and released. No oth
er injuries were reported.
800,000 revelers deluge
Texans favor
wait for gun
purchases
FORT WORTH (AP) - More
than 80 percent of Texans in a re
cent poll said they support a one-
to two-week waiting period for
handgun purchases, and 72 per
cent said they favored a ban on
semiautomatic weapons.
The poll, published Monday
in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
also found that 73 percent of
Texas voters believe the public
has a right to own handguns.
The telephone survey was
conducted Feb. 21-24 had a mar
gin of error of 3.2 percent.
A March 1991 Gallup Poll
found that 93 percent of Ameri
cans support a waiting period for
buying handguns and nearly half
want a ban on handguns altogeth
er.
GALVESTON (AP) - An esti
mated 800,000 revelers turned out
for the two-weekend Mardi Gras
celebration, island city officials
said.
A record 543,603 people at
tended Saturday night's raucous
Momus Grand Night Parade, the
celebration's main draw.
The massive party also
pumped as much as $41 million
into the local economy, up from
$32 million last year, Galveston
City Manager Doug Matthews
said.
Mardi Gras was extremely
successful," he said. "And it was a
well-behaved crowd for the most
coastal city
part. We did not have a lot of
problems."
More than 200 people were ar
rested, the vast majority of them
for public intoxication. There were
several stabbings and shootings,
and one person was killed in an
auto-pedestrian accident,
Matthews said.
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FBI agents try to put
JFK theories to rest
DALLAS (AP) — FBI agents recently questioned two men ar
rested in a Dallas railroad yard the day President Kennedy was as
sassinated, but only to put lingering conspiracy theories to rest, the
head of the Dallas office said Monday.
The interviews produced no new information, said Special
Agent in Charge Oliver B. Re veil.
Some conspiracy theorists have raised questions about the
identities of three hobos who were arrested shortly after the assas
sination. They pointed to the trio's attire and grooming and the
disappearance of their arrest records as evidence of a conspiracy.
Their arrest records were recently released by Dallas police.
"We're not reopening the Kennedy investigation per se," Rev-
ell said.
"The broad-based freewheeling investigation has been closed,
but, as always, any new information has been checked out," he
said.
In addition, Revell said the agency wants to take another look
at an 8 millimeter film made in Dealey Plaza the day Kennedy was
killed.
The film was made before Kennedy was killed, but the agency
wants to submit it to enhanced photo analysis techniques that were
not available 28 years ago.
"There are a couple of other things that we're looking into,"
Revell said, but he would not elaborate.
The official Warren Commission investigation concluded that
Kennedy was shot on Nov. 22,1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting
alone.
But various theories have circulated since that day that
Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy.
Some of those theories were recently rekindled by the movie
"JFK," which suggests the president was killed by renegade GA
elements who perceived Kennedy was soft on communism.
The film has led to calls that still-secret government documents
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cultural, political and economical aspects of France wilt be
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