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Campus Page 2 The Battalion Friday, January 22,1993 Friday, Ja A&M students participate in HOSTS Local kids 1 earn to read By JENNIFER SMITH The Battalion JOHN BAR TRAM/The Battalion Nine year-old Amy Carter, a third-grade student at Kemp Elementary is assisted with reading by senior economics major Kimberly O'Brien. Kimberly volunteers twice a week to work with Amy and one other child. Two Bryan elementary schools are once again inviting Texas A&M students to participate in a na tional program that teaches students reading, writ ing and vocabulary. Help One Student to Succeed (HOSTS) helps children in the third and fourth grades who are be hind by at least one reading level. A&M students have been participating in the program since last fall. Lab coordinator Judy Sweat, who introduced HOSTS at Kemp Elementary School, said she has seen the program evolve from a reading program to a mentor program. "The volunteers develop a relationship with their students," Sweat said. "They are the ones be ing looked up to by these children." There are 80 or 90 Texas A&M students volun teering for the HOSTS program, and Sweat said she hopes to attract more Aggies to the program. "It's really a neat way for people to volunteer in the public schools," Sweat said. "This is one of the few programs where volunteers are directly in volved with the students." Volunteers can see the results of their work with the children, A&M students said. When Rebecca Hall, a senior English major, first volunteered for the HOSTS program, the student she worked with rarely smiled. "But after I got through working with her, she smiled all the time," Sweat said. "I've also been told she has improved and is starting to speak up in the classroom." Sweat said she has noticed a change in the atti tude of students since the program started at Kemp last fall. "After about two or three weeks, the child gets more confident," Sweat said. "They start to feel better about themselves simply because they can • read." Another volunteer in the program, Don Stephens, a senior economics and political science major, said he and his student have benefited from the experience. "I've made a lot of little friends," Stephens said. The HOSTS program will be implemented in two more Bryan elementary schools next fall be cause of its success in the Kemp and Fannin schools. "Since the beginning of the year, each child has gained one reading level," Sweat said. "These kids are now doing things they've never done before." The students in the HOSTS program may receive most of their individual attention during the time they spend with their volunteers. "A lot of the children we work with don't re ceive individual attention elsewhere," Sweat said. "This gives them two or three hours of complete at tention a day." Anyone interested in volunteering as a HOSTS volunteer can call Judy Sweat at 361-5365. Fo: on THE ^ FORT federal a mandates staring at bills that lion over That r tries to r toughest One o lures wil million t hundred: pipe anc ments to system. The se graded t Protec tio Add t water qu proveme a variety the city much as environ: 1991 to 2i Residence halls provide accessibility for campus recycling effort, R.A. says By HEATHER HENDERSON The Battalion As students settle in for a new semester, a variety of local recycling efforts offer several alternatives to throwing trash in the dumpster. Residence halls have made aluminum recy cling available on a hall by hall basis. This ef fort is organized by each Hall Council, and the cans are taken to local recycling centers. "Krueger (Hall) started recycling because a lot of people use cans, and it's an easy way to recycle," said Suzanne Gresham, resident ad viser and hall council member of Krueger Hall. The hall is limited to aluminum recycling because Gresham said newspapers are consid ered a fire hazard. She suggests students recy cle newspapers on their own. The University offers aluminum can recy cling around campus. People with questions can call the University's Recycling Hotline at 845-7777. Local Kroger stores and Valley Recyclers in Bryan also offer aluminum recycling. Kroger takes plastic bags and paper sacks. "We didn't start recycling to make money, ,but to provide a convenient environment to re cycle," said Larry Medearis, manager of the College Station Kroger. "The biggest reason to recycle is we're running out of landfill space." Randall's Food and Drug in College Station also provides customers with plastic and pa per bag recycling. cardboard boxes, newspapers, clothes, furni ture and other usable items. "We didn't start recycling to make mq^ey, but to provide a convenient environment to re cycle." - Larry Medearis Kroger manager Twin City has two drop-off points: across from Northgate at 301 College Main in College Station and in Bryan at 1208 San Jacinto Street. The missions will also pick up donations. To request the pickup service call 846-6536 Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Still, Mission Director Doug Weedon said * one should only use the pickup service if assis tance is needed to move donations. "Do not to request (pickup) if it's something like a bag of clothing, because a truck and two men will be sent out," he said. It keeps costs down and saves the environ ment, which is good for the community," said store director Mack McBride. The Salvation Army offers a pickup service for furniture and clothing, and the Twin City Missions in Bryan and College Station takes "It's wasting one resource to save another." In addition to recycling aluminum and do nating old clothes, some students recycle wire clothes hangers at local dry cleaners. "They're a renewable resource as is," said Bernie Gessner, owner of Aggie Cleaners. Recycling establishments are listed in the phone book under Recycling Centers or Com munity Services. Final items from D.C. reach storage in C.S. Items await Bush library completion B y GINA HOWARD The Battalion The last shipment of documents from Washington, D.C. to be housed in the George Bush Presidential Library arrived in College Station Thursday. The shipments, which began arriving last Friday, are being kept in temporary storage in the old Chimney Hill Bowling Alley. "This is only temporary storage, so we can work, arrange and be sure that we can find everything," said David Alsobrook, archivist for the Bush Presidential Library Archives. "It will take four or five years to get it all done and won't be ready for the pub lic until it is housed in the new building." The archival collection includes presidential and vice presiden tial documents as well as all records of the White House staff dur ing the Bush Administration. In addition, all foreign and domes tic presidential gifts are included. Alsobrook said they are having to get started with the project four years earlier than was first thought because of Bush's defeat in the November presidential elections. Alsobrook, along with two other archivists, is part of the Na tional Archives. Ui O H> V CL. CL. O L 1 ^ OK, so we got excited! -o <3L^ CD dC -c 8.$ S o g 3 3 0)59 _ <r .o Z? c, U cb O £ P O _ w o c-o g <9 tr> o ^ O O- -e.o _ 0 , o $r <D •pe i eqiaoTj-rqaeo T5T3 01$ ® q©3 •euiTqajTX v aoj uxop sjqq quesajca Q- -Sen c 5 cd “O cn ^T3:r - ^ DQ KEEP THE SPIRIT, AGGIES! Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church A.R. “Sam” Koenning, pastor idej Debra Grant, ELGA Student Ministry Sue Beall, intern Worship: 8:30 A.M., 10:45 A.M. Sunday Bible Class: 9:30 A.M. Welcome dinner, 12 N, January 31 Come and meet Lutheran faculty & staff from A&M Phone: 846-5011 (2 blocks North of campus, Cross & Tauber Sts.) 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