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DEFENSIVE DRIVING CLASS 6 HOUR COURSE $17 or $15 with A&M I.D. Saturday, April 23 (8:30-11:30 am & 12:30-3:30 om) Monday, May 2 (6-9 pm) Tuesday, May 3(6-9 pm) TICKET DISMISSAL - INSURANCE DISCOUNT MSC UNIVERSITY PLUS 845-1631 in JAPAN The EAGLE JAPAN Program is providing fellowships to Engineering (and Engineering Related) majors for Japanese language study in the summer of1995. Candidates need to have completed at least 2 semesters of Japanese. Informational Meeting.: Tuesday, April 19 from 5:30-6:30 Zachry, room 104 A Study Abroad Programs; 161 Bizzell West; 845-0544 ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS V5 Discover a challenging future with opportunities to advance. Serve your country while you serve your career with: • great pay and benefits • normal working hours • complete medical and dental care • 30 days vacation with pay per year Find out how to qualify as an Air Force professional. Call USAF HEALTH PROFESSIONS TOLL FREE 1-800-423-USAF CONTACT LENSES ONLY QUALITY NAME BRANDS (Bausch & Lomb, Ciba, Barnes-Hind-Hydrocurve) $ 118 00 TOTAL COST. includes EYE EXAM, FREE CARE KIT, AND TWO PAIR OF STANDARD FLEXIBLE WEAR SOFT CONTACT LENSES. SAME DAY DELIVERY ON MOST LENSES. Call 846-0377 for Appointment CHARLES C. SCHROEPPEL, O.D., PC. DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY 505 University Dr. East, Suite 101 College Station, TX 77840 4 Blocks East of Texas Ave. & University Dr. Intersection Liberal Arts Awareness Fair Wednesday, April 20, 1994 MSC Flag Room 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. (5) $100 Scholarships will be given away. All Liberal Arts majors are eligible, but you must fill out a registration/evaluation form at the Fair. State & Local Page 2 The Battalion Monday, April 18,1 iday, 4 r'l u>o< A man and his dog 1 HwHii Jennie Mayer/7'Ae linttnlinn Ben Holmes, a senior business analysis major, nears the finish line with his clog Moon in Kappa Alpha Theta's 5K fun run on Saturday. Money raised by the run was donated to CASA and Scotty's House. Volunteers clean Texas beaches in annual Trash-Off The Associated Press PORT ARANSAS — Volunteers picked!® beaches clean as part of the annualGm Texas Beach Trash-Off. Since the event’s beginning eight years®. 1 19,000 volunteers have collected aim 2,400 tons of trash, said Land Commissii Garry Mauro at a Saturday news confereit on Padre Island. Saturday’s cleanup brought in all kindsi debris, including a discarded mattress. “You can find anything in the world on beach,” Nina Haynes of Bee County ” she sifted through her trash sack fill rope, newspaper, beer cans and a pro[ canister. People who litter “don’t care what world looks like. They don’t care what kids are going to have to look at. They care about the environment,’’ Hanyessait “But some people are taking up theslackft the ones who don’t care.” Roxanne Rouse, Adopt-a-Beach coordim- tor for the land office, said volunteers asked to fill out data cards indicating thetype of trash collected. Site coordinators mailtk cards to the Center for Marine Conservatio: for analysis and, by Monday morning,tv! call in trash collection totals to the landoflict The Center for Marine Conservationwl issue a report next year on beach trashed lected throughout the nation Saturday at! during the fall cleanup scheduledforSept.il dot: San Antonio woman following father’s footsteps dies in U.S. helicopter crash jim Wi as part day at \r^ U i 'he Assn The Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — Laura Ashley Piper was pursuing a childhood interest and following a family tradition when she was killed aboard one of two U.S. Army helicopters shot down over Iraq. Laura Piper, who grew up in a military fami ly, had a childhood interest in the Middle East that never stopped, said her father, retired Col. Danny Piper. She was flying over Iraq when she was one of 26 killed in what the military called friendly fire by U.S. Air Force jets. “She was excited about her mission to Iraq,” said Col. Piper, an Air Force Academy graduate in 1967 who was proud of her daughter’s mili tary career. “She graduated in June of 1992. My oldest son will graduate in June of 1994,” Piper told the San Antonio Express-News. ”1 guess you could say we’re an Air Force family.” Laura Piper, a 2 5-year-old second lieutenant, became intrigued with the Middle East during her father’s four-year tour of duty in Europe. her father often visited Turkey during the Iranian hostage crisis of the late 1970s. Laura Piper became familiar with Turkey and learned to speak German as a Fifth-grader, he said. Laura Piper, an intelligence officer, also was fluent in Russian. She was awaiting pilot train ing at the time of her death, her father said. Military officials say the fighters apparen:; mistook the two Black Hawk helicoptersf« Iraqi aircraft before Thursday’s deaths. Alllk copters’ occupants, including 15 American: died. Piper said his daughter was especially dos to her 10-year-old brother, Sean, who spe frequently to his sister by telephone and ch ished the postcards she sent him. Laura Piper attended Windcrest Elementa and Ed White Middle School in San AntonioJ|j a 16-year-old high school student in Fairfar Va., she won election to the Fairfax SchoolDis-Lp ^ trict Board of Trustees. 1 '"q le this om Serial killer on death row recants confession^ The Associated Press HOUSTON — A former prose cutor who took John Wayne Gacy’s confession says he is furious that the convicted serial murderer now is contending that he never admit ted to the killings. Gacy, 52, is scheduled to die in Illinois on May 10 for killing 3 3 young men and boys and hiding most of them in the crawl space under his home outside Chicago. However, Gacy told The New Yorker recently that he has com piled a scrapbook of information about the victims that may help clear his name. Gacy was convicted in 1980. According to The New Yorker, Gacy claims he was framed by two men who dug the crawl space in whicli most of the bod ies were buried. But I.awrence Finder, a former assistant district attorney in Chicago who is now a Flouston attorney, said he took Gacy’s grisly confession. “He (Gacy) is the most evil man I ever met and I want to see him executed,” Finder told The Houston Post in Sunday’s editions. Finder said he first interviewed Gacy on Dec. 22, 1978. Finder, then 27, said he and Bill Kunkle, who headed the prosecution team, liad no idea of the magnitude of Gacy’s crime when they began talking that day. During that session, Finder said, Gacy confessed to killing the missing boy he was arrested for — and eight other young men. Police later would uncover the remains of 2 9 young men on Gacy’s property. Four other bodies, Gacy said, he tossed into the river. Finder shakes with anger when he talks about Gacy’s contention that he killed just one of the young men. During the 197 8 interview, Finder said he handed Gacy a piece of pink notebook paper and a pen, asking him to show where the boy’s body was located. Finder said he watched, quietl) aghast, as Gacy drew a mapoftk crawl space showing that 26 W- ies were buried along the ouitt walls and near the furnace in tk basement. Three other bodieswett buried under his driveway. ”1 honestly didn’t think would find anything,” Finder says. “What he was telling mew: totally disgusting but it was job to keep him talking and 1W to keep doing it.” Finder, also a former U.S. Attor ney in the Southern District said he had nightmares about tk encounter for three years. to i on nnual Su ontin FOUND ATION ATTENTION GRADUATING SENIORS As a May Graduate, you are entitled to a complimentary years membership in the 12th Man Foundation. All the benefits of being a Foundation donor, including priority seating at Aggie football games, donor card, game program recognition, the Sports Hotline newsletter, decal and label pin, can be yours by simply signing up. This week you will be receiving a brochure in the mail. Please take this opportunity to join the 12th Man Foundation. All that is needed is for you to fill out the reply card and drop it in the mail. As a New Graduate member, you are entitled to a free gift when you join. 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