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Project Recovery, a first-time program started this semester at Aldine ISO's Lane Center in far north Harris County, uses a struc tured, highly disciplined ap proach to trying to build self-es teem in problem students like Acevedo. Some of the program's rules border on boot camp-style disci pline: strict hair-length code, and )oys must wear dress shirts and ties. No jewelry is allowed. All teachers and staff members must be addressed as either ma'am or sir. Students will stand at their desks at the beginning of class until told to sit by their instruc tors, and they will move to the side in hallways as they pass adults. All students perform commu nity service, such as picking up trash along highway medians and at parks, repairing vandalism, working at a food bank and mow ing yards and performing simple maintenance for the elderly, and local churches. Students going to the school are picked up by a special bus at their doorstep, and taken home the same way. But most of all, say the director of the program and several in structors, Project Recovery tries to treat the students — whom some teachers might find intimidating - with respect. So far, students and instructors say, the pnrogram appears to be working. Acevedo, 14, who says "bunches" of fellow students take guns to school daily, says he's staying out of trouble thanks to Project Recovery. "If 1 was back in the other school I'd be skipping class, get- By Boomer Cardinale ’4 Q r O THE AGGIE -LlpO AVENGER Fritch (You ujqMgd-h Sgg , WlAV? (VeU, yds 4W i Frisch, as'the <?c{(W excessive. nudrVy \tn tWm.Thcvre nab IF* V By Critch Fri-Vcb i as"the <?di-W of-Vhis pcipe^X catdt prioj- Some of ydur Bo+ SeveMy-perce/rt of my Comics have Audify.'Those art my besf ones! If J caA\ priM -Vhe/n, IVn doomed H! Relax, I'm Sore s/oo'rz Smarb ^enough be Funny uJiVViocA using modify. > 1 guess yoo'ne right. VWe, Ary an -Vln'ts haF & GO FAR IN THE AIR FORCE. Learn how far the Air Force can take you. 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Richard Ruhman, project coor dinator, said the program grew out of a commitment by Aldine administrators to work with problem students instead of "just putting them out on the street," or in an already established alter native education program that deals with students with less se vere discipline problems. Students encouraged to enter the voluntary program are those expelled for using or selling drugs, assaulting another student or teacher, or for being caught with a weapon on campus. When the student is expelled, parents are given a brochure ex plaining the program and encour aged to enroll the student. So far, the parents of 13 of the 15 stu dents expelled so far this school semester have taken up the offer. JUST THE BEGINNING Well, It's oinvost Applications for 1994 Cotton Bowl Representatives Requirements: -One Male and One Female Student (Must apply as a couple) -2.25 Minimum GPR -Completion of One Semester at TAMU -Involvement in Campus Activities Information Meeting Thursday, October 7, 6:00 p.m. Room 111 Student Services Building Applications Available October 4-15 163 Student Services Building Student Activities By Jason Brown 'Dittoheads' can dine with Rush Limbaugh The Associated Press s editor editor rts editor icnilik, Carri® Tibia/ j and loe t el ohn Scrogfi* ada and nng serne^ m period^' .M Universe ,e Division e d MnDol 1 ' WASHINGTON — Lunch is served two ways at Blackie's House of Beef — with Rush Limbaugh or without. The meat-and-potatoes restaurant about a mile from the White House is one of a growing number nationwide to feature a "Rush Room," where the faithful can dine without missing the blustery conservative talk show host's midday radio show. They're listening to Rush over ribs at Barbe cue Shack in Florence, Ky., and over bratwurst atBernkastel Festhaus in Daytona Beach, Fla. At Taste of Texas, a Houston steak joint, he's piped in to diners on individual speakers at each table. At Blackie's, as Limbaugh rails loudly over the sound system, customers sit in a room dec orated with red-white-and-blue bunting and listen quietly, munching on burgers and steak. There are fax machines set up for them to send their views to the show, although on this day the machines sat dormant. Limbaugh isn't for everyone. Many find his remarks about "environmen talist wackos,” "feminazis" and "commie libs" more than a little offensive. That's why Black ie's only seats people in the Rush Room if they request it. Those who do are diehard fans — or, in Limbaugh lingo, dittoheads. Most find it a heady experience to be around others who talk the Rush talk. Bill Bates of Olney, Md., loves the guy. So when his friends threw him a 60th birthday party recently, they knew just where to hold it. "I think it's wonderful, because I am a great Rush admirer," said Bates. "It's so comforting to think that somebody in the public eye like Rush believes in what we do." Rush Rooms started springing up sponta neously in 1990. Since then. Rush has plugged some on the radio and on his TV show. "The Rush Room in Washington, we're very proud of it," said Kit Carson, Limbaugh's chief of staff. "We get faxes and letters from it all the time." Fitness Open House October 4th - 16th Free Workout Classes For You! Free Workouts ■ 50% Off Registration Fee ■Information and Descriptions of Programs ■ Door Prizes and more! T T* •TV/T F' 1 t 1 i I 1 "I Descriptions of Programs ■ Door Prizes and more! Virgin Mary found on South Texas bumper Jazzercise Fitness Center J T Wellborn ert Grove, C.S. (1 block south of George Bush Dr.) The Associated Press ELSA — The latest sighting of the Virgin Mary in South Texas, this time on the rear fender of a 1981 Camaro, is no less than a miracle for believers in a humble neighborhood of gravel streets. "We are very proud that the Virgin visited us," said Aurora Quintero. Miracle seekers came to her home for weeks after her brother told neighbors that the image, less than a foot tall, ap peared on a piece of galvanized steel he was riveting to his rusty fender. "Everyone who comes is friendly. All of them believe in the Virgin," said Quintero, 50. "We are not charging or selling anything. We are letting people see the Virgin." The maroon Camaro has be come an attraction for the devout and the curious, as had a Brownsville boarding house where believers saw the Virgin Mary in a cottonwood tree this summer. A few years ago, a simi lar sighting drew attention to the floor of an auto-parts store in the border town of Progreso. Many people in the Rio Grande Valley believe such images are signals from God. Many others say they are natural events, made spiritual only through the fervor of the believers. Although the crowds at the Virgin Mary sightings in this low- income, predominantly Roman Catholic area usually taper off af ter a few weeks — as they already have at Quintero's small but well- kept place — experts say the de votion of believers is very real. "This is called faith and belief, and it is serious stuff," said an thropology professor Tony Zavaleta, dean of liberal arts at the University of Texas-Brownsville. Apparitions of the Virgin play an important role in the Mexican culture, including the well-known story of peasant Juan Diego. His vision of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531 convinced the Catholic Church to build a shrine in her honor on an old Aztec holy site. Wellborn ert Grove, C.S. 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