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Campus Page 2 The Battalion Friday, April Just the ‘rush’ I need ‘Schindler’s List,’ name reading-1 yTo 764-7996. highlight memorial for liolocaimt-i.,,, ^ ••■knic lea The Campus Ministerial Association and the Hillel George Bush Dr. for more ii np Jewish Student Association are sponsoring events throughout the day to commemorate Yom Ha’Shoah, or Holocaust Memorial Day. Students will be reading names of Holocaust victims from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Rudder Fountain. Also during that time, Holocaust videotapes will be shown in the MSC Flagroom. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the Hillel Jewish Student Association built a simulated boxcar to represent the boxcars used during the Holocaust to transport Jews from their homes to concentration camps. Holocaust survivor Mike Jacobs will speak at an in ter-faith memorial service at 8 p.m. at the Hillel, 800 Jacobs also will speak at 6:30 p.m. Saturda | first showing of “Schindler’s List" in RudderA.®|-lillel J< um. The movie also will be shown at 10:3(^B rn orial Tickets are $2. The special campus screeningp or sored by Amblin Entertainment, Universal7 i I 1 the Hillel Jewish Student Association, the( Ministerial Association and the MSC Film Texas A&M. P? ff P" In addition, work by photographer Gay E : s display in the J. Wayne Stark Gallery in tneWSC^B^ on ca ^ April 30. Her work portrays the ChristianswhoH their lives to help Jewish Holocaust survivors. ^■Student For more information, call Rabbi PeterIim^Beting at 696-7313. in|Colleg( ieslie at 6E Big Event hopes to expand beyond B-CU Amy Browning/Tthe Battalion Scott Wilson, a freshman civil engineering ma jor from Plano, signs a petition to bring Rush Limbaugh to Texas A&M. The table was set up in front of the Quad and staffed by College Re publican Larry Comunale, a senior mechanical engineering major from De Soto. By Stephanie Dube The Battalion ‘Without the students. hi Alj worst near Rudd Organizers of Texas A&M’s 12th annual Big Event hope to add a na tional and international accent to this Post Gold War U.S. focus of Wiley lecture By Eloise Flint The Battalion The MSC Wiley Lecture Series presentation, which starts at 8 p.m. Friday in Rudder Auditorium, will fea ture three speakers who will discuss issues the United States faces in the post Cold War era. The program, which features Dr. Jeane Kirkpatrick, ambassador to the United Nations for Ronald Reagan, and Dr. Les Aspin, former secretary of defense, will be moderated by William F. Buckley Jr. In a statement to members of the Wiley Lecture Se ries, Aspin said the speakers will surely give the subject a rigorous airing. “The MSC Wiley Lecture Series and Texas A&M have focused on the toughest national-security issue of ouiy day in asking when and how the United States should use its forces overseas short of war,” he said. Buckley, in a written statefneTit, also said the speakers will focus on mind-boggling questions. “Texas A&M has come up with first-rate forums, featuring first-rate people,” he said. “It is consistent with the college’s high ambition to enlist the aid of Mrs. Kirkpatrick and Mr. Aspin...” David Reisinger, a sophomore biomedical science major and director of marketing for the Wiley Lecture Series, said a number of current events will come up in discussion. “I imagine the Somalia and Bosnia issues will come up as well as the Gulf War, ” Reisinger said. “With Les Aspin just out of the Pentagon he 11 have a fresh ap proach to things.” Reisinger said speakers were chosen at the beginning of the semester based on the important issues at the time. “We start by figuring out who we have dealt with in the past that could help us get in touch with the speak ers we are interested in,” Reisinger said. “We try to avoid speaker agencies because they get expensive.” the year s service project. In addition to an expected 4,000 students who will participate in 300 various service projects in the Bryan- College Station community, volun teers in other areas will conduct smaller scale Big Events. Paige Atkins, co-chair of the Big Event and a senior biomedical science major, said she hopes to get national and international volunteers involved in the project. “We sent letters to Aggie Moms clubs and former student clubs so they can choose to do a project in their own city on Saturday,” Atkins said. Organizers of this year’s Big Event are also trying to go international for the first time. “We have a sister school in Mexi co, and we believe they will do a pro ject on Saturday,” Atkins said. Molly Linscott, co-chair of the Big Event and a senior biomedical science major, said A&M’s Mexican American we would be able to ru — Molly Linscott, n there would he nov Kns al 84/ the service project,Bchi Alp , . r i D r Voice ” tC] CO—chair OJ the bl£ Linear rudd at 84; Engineering Society translated the Big Event application forms into Spanish and toolc these translated forms to the community so Spanish speakers could request jobs also. This idea has been considered for years but had never been done before this year. Linscott said A&M’s Big Event gets more successful every year. “Last year we did a big student in volvement push and had more stu dents available than jobs,” Linscott said. “This year we concentrated on the jobs ana have a 40 percent in crease on jobs.” This year’s Big Event will include a variety of projects, including cleaning out fields, painting houses, garden ing, building wheelchair ramps, washing windows and hauling trash. Linscott said one group of students, will help a nursing home with its fund-raiser, which will include selling hot dogs and washing cars. “The the und' "It's fo help. W Linsc student: their co the ip Caribbt ing at 6:2 Big Event is not jii;m rprivileged,” Linscott®' f ut ' UM anyone who wool:‘Bible stud always help everyo® Chapel an >tt said she is grat;: call Rev. Tv for taking an intetc community and volunts time. "We are lucky to haveth dents and supplies and tools,' said. “Without the students,i would be no way we won: able to run the sendee project Atkins said the Big Ever, day when Aggies canpaythes munity back. "We can tell the conmt^|Slavic t thanl West.| 7037. For j Singing the MSC * Missy at 8 i you for supportingtk|« T i ie Big sarid ^ thr ° Ugh the yean; i:00 p.m Sdl The Big Event, which is|P l Peter sored by student govern® the largest community senk iect in the nation. The organization generally pays for the guest s ac commodations and- whatever charge the speaker re- ^qpifests. “We |ire ^a self-supportive organization,” Reisinger ajiaid. “W^.reTefved an endowment from the Wiley fam ily in 1983, which provides a third of our funding, and the rest comes from private donations.” This will be the last program of the series for the spring semester, and new executives will begin prepara tion for next semester in a few weeks. Tickets for students cost $9, S12 or $15, and tickets for non-students are $12, $15 or $18. Olympics Continued from Page 1 Easterly, who has been coaching Special Olympics in College Station for die past two years, said parents and other students are supportive. “We have uniforms and everyone thinks of the Special Olympics as a sport,” she said. Griffy, who has worked with Spe cial Olympics for three years, said the community and A&M have been big supporters for Special Olympics. “We couldn't have put on the games without the support of A&M students and faculty and the busi nesses and organizations of the com munity,” Griffy said. Sally McGehee, a special educa tion teacher at Jane Long Middle School in Bryan, said the boost the students get from the Special Olympics doesn’t end after they the track. “All of die excitement cams £ the classroom.” she said. “Ihtsti dents get to feel like they aitifatol something special and thiiW* LEGAL, Students) dergradu; p.m. in I nifer at 8 their level of self-esteem both on off the field.” McGehee. who has worked*^ Special Olympics for 19 years, s: is not all competition, but it's ak having fun too. 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