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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
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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. ^â– Student
For more information, call Rabbi PeterIim^Beting at
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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.
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Post Gold War U.S. focus of Wiley lecture
By Eloise Flint
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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.”
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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
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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.
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will help a nursing home with its
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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.
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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.
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the classroom.” she said. “Ihtsti
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