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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)
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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
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Liberal Arts
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Wednesday, April 20, 1994
MSC Flag Room
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
(5) $100 Scholarships
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State & Local
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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
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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
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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.
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