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Thursday, March 12,
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Baptist group
travels to Padre
Local church sponsors mission
to save lives in vacation spot
By Reagon Clamon
The Battalion
When the wave of party-crazed college students
hits the beach at South Padre Island next week, one
group of Texas A&M students will be there to try
and pick up the pieces.
Central Baptist Church of College Station and
First Baptist of Bryan are sponsoring a group of 55
students going to South Padre on a mission to save
lives and save souls.
Jerry Dingmore of Central Baptist, who will lead
the group, said although some popular spring break
haunts are adopting a less cavalier attitude towards
drinking. South Padre Island has held on to its
"anything goes" policy of alcohol on the beach.
"It's pretty wild," Dingmore said. "It's a
bio win' off steam kind of place - a place where a lot'
of stuff goes on that doesn't need to go on. It can be
a dangerous place."
Dingmore said his group will be providing rides
for spring breakers around the island.
"All during the day, our group will be giving
out cards that have a phone number on them,"
Dingmore said. "If someone is drunk, or needs a
ride anywhere, all you need to do is call the number
and the van will pick you up."
Dingmore said the van program is for more than
just drunk people who can't drive.
"Part of this program is to present the gospel,
and part of it is to hopefully bring some safety to
the situation there," he said. "The year before last,
in the four weeks of spring break, there were eight
reported rapes in South Padre. So it's kind of a scary
place."
In addition to the van program, Dingmore's
group will be working on several projects during
the day, including giving away thirty thousand
tubes of suntan lotion, holding a volleyball tourna
ment, and making a sand sculpture exhibit.
One of the more popular activities is the sand
sculpture, he said.
"We have a guy who has won some awards that
will be building sculptures of Christ and Christian
history," Dingmore. "Other organizations that
have done this have seen fraternities and sororities
put their kegs around the sculptures so nobody will
mess it up."
Although this will be the first time Dingmore's
group will participate in the van program, other
groups in the past have gotten some negative reac
tions.
"You do sometimes get a negative response, but
we try not to push anything down anybody's
throat," he said. "Some people are scared we're go
ing to brainwash them and drag them off to some
island somewhere."
Dingmore said, although reactions are mixed,
most people appreciate the effort.
"They see us out there helping them, and they
see we're not pushing anything down their throat,"
Dingmore said. "Generally', from what I under
stand, the reception has been real positive."
Corps spends time assisting children
By Gina Howard
The Battalion
DARRIN HILL/ The Battalion
Paul Dixon, Corps chaplain, uses a model
clock to teach eighth-grader Charlie Piwonka.
Members of the Texas A&M
Corps of Cadets working with
handicapped children say the
children are not the only people
the program rewards.
"This is an opportunity for us
to interact with people less fortu
nate and for both parties to bene
fit," Corps Chaplain Paul Dixon
said.
The Bronco Buddy program
involves approximately twenty-
five Corps chaplains spending
free time with students in
Stephen F. Austin Middle
School's LIFE (Learning In a
Functional Environment) pro
gram for the severely handi
capped, as well as children with
discipline problems or learning
disabilities in other classes.
The program is the idea of
LIFE teacher Marlene Albers, who
first brought the concept of hav
ing Corps members work with
handicapped students to the
school principal last fall.
"He loved the idea and had
me write up a proposal right
away," said Albers. "I felt these
students needed some good role
models from non-authority fig
ures. My son graduated from the
Corps of Cadets in '90, and I
thought the Corps would be a
good place to start."
Albers then took the proposal
to the Corps, which accepted the
offer. After initial planning at the
end of last semester. Corps chap
lains started the program at the
beginning of the spring semester.
Cadets are only obligated to
spend about thirty minutes a
week with their individual bud
dy, but Dixon said most of the
volunteers stay much longer than
that.
"It's really been important to
them," he said. "I think it's given
a new direction and motivation to
them and it's lots of fun."
Some children other than
mentally handicapped students
are involved in the Bronco Buddy
program, said Elizabeth Shaana,
who teaches students with learn
ing disabilities and behavior
problems.
"My kids are higher academi
cally," Shaana said. "Many have
learning disabilities or behavior
problems and tend to not accept
female authority figures, so this
program is good."
The kids respond really
to the volunteers, Albers said.
They look at the teachers as au
thority figures, she said, but the
cadets become friends and the
children open up to them.
Shaana also said it is worth it
for the children to give up regulai
class time for this program.
"If they are getting something
positive then it is worth modify
ing our other time," she said
"Some of these kids are in a
downward cycle and several are
at a high risk for dropping out
There is really a need for this be
cause many come from home;
where the kids don't have role
models, at least not positive
ones."
Craig Bryant, a sophomore
political science major, works
with two different children. One
is totally dysfunctional and the
other has behavior problems.
"Working with the children
with behavior problems can be
difficult," Bryant said. "You can't
really preach, you have to gain
their trust. You don't always
know how you are doing. It can
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Programs focus on women's issues
In Advance
By Robin Roach
The Battalion
This month has been designated na
tional Wpmen's History Month, and
Texas A&M and Bryan-College Station
have planned numerous activities to
showcase women's issues.
Karen Severn, a financial aid coun
selor at A&M and a member of Student
Services' Women's Issues Committee,
said Women's History Month serves as a
vehicle to heighten awareness of women
in the community.
'iThe Women's Issues Committee
, tries to find out what services are pro
vided for women and what programs
are deficient to women," Severn said.
Women's History Month provides
additional programs and seminars in
which everyone can participate, and al
lows people to become familiar with
various organizations currently address
ing women's issues.
This year marks the first year that or
ganizations on the A&M campus and in
the community have provided a full cal
endar of events, Severn said.
Dr. Sue Lucas, chairman of the com
mittee, said the events help to inform
people of women's issues.
"One of our main goals is to increase
people's awareness that Women's Histo
ry Month actually exists and help people
become aware of women's contribu
tions," Lucas said.
Most, if not all, sponsors of events
also encourage men to participate in the
17 scheduled programs this month.
Some of the events include an infor
mal lecture series by Prpfesspr Sara
Alpern on writing biographies of wom
en, the brown bag lunch series on wom
en and nutrition, a panel on women and
print culture, and a dinner meeting
highlighting recent findings in cancer re
search.
Sponsors of the various events in
clude the Women's Issues Committee,
various professors, the Women's Studies
Program Review Committee,
Bryan-College Station Business and Pro
fessional Women's Club, the A&M Inter
disciplinary Group for Historical Liter
ary Study, the Department of English,
the National Organization for Women,
and the League of Women Voters.
Debbie Griffith, co-president of the
League of Women Voters, said the goal
of her organization is also to increase
public awareness of women's organiza
tions.
"This is the first time for us to do
anything with Women's History
Month," Griffith said.
"We basically want to show people
how we fought for our rights and our
right to vote, she said.
Women's History Month began with
a brown-bag lunch in Blocker on March
3 and will end with a film series in the
Sterling C. Evans Library on March 31.
Displays pertaining to Women's His
tory Month can be observed at the Texas
A&M Bookstore in the Memorial Stu
dent Center and in the Evans Library.
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