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TAMU - Math This Srnmner
Consider taking a math course this summer. Advantages are:
• Smaller classes
• Greater personal attention
• Expanded help session
New course offerings this summer include:
• Histoiy of Math (Math 689-101)
• Mathematics of Recreational Games (Math 689-103)
• Mathematical Comm. &Tech. (Math 689-201)
Prerequisites for these courses will he kept to a minimum.
Contact the Math Dept, at 845-3261
for further information.
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Monday • April 22,1)
A&M celebrates Earth Week with
clothing drive, campus recycling bin:
By Pamela Benson
The Battalion
Texas A&M students and fac
ulty will have the opportunity to
renew their hope for the future
of the Earth by participating in
A&M’s Earth Week.
Earth Day is celebrated na
tionwide today, but the Student
Government Environmental Is
sues Committee decided the
event merited an entire week of
campus acknowledgment.
EIC has designed the week’s
events to celebrate the Earth
and to make students aware of
the importance of recycling.
Katie Kam, EIC Earth Day
subchair and senior biology major,
said students often do not partic
ipate in Earth-conscious activities
because of time. Therefore, EIC
attempts to make such activities
more accessible to students.
“We can’t make students recy
cle,” Kam said. “It is our job to make
it easier for students to recycle.”
Today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
by Rudder Fountain, students can
visit more than 20
booths, a trash
art exhibit, an
earth-friendly
vehicle show
and a book
swap.
Environ
mental compa
nies and academ
ic departments are
stationed at several
booths, providing infor
mation about pursuing a
career in environmental fields.
In addition, students can par
ticipate in the Clothes Mountain
project, which is an area by Rud
der Fountain where unwanted
clothes can be deposited.
Jessica Porrazzo, Clothes
Mountain coordinator and
sophomore international studies
major, said she hopes students
will take seriously this opportu
nity to get rid of
extra clothes.
“I’m hop
ing that
students
will go
through
their closets
and do some
spring cleaning
and bring us their
unwanted clothes,”
Porrazzo said.
All donations to Clothes
Mountain will go to Twin City
Mission.
Students will have an oppor
tunity this week to turn in items
for which recycling bins are not
normally available on campus.
Bins for glass, plastic, alumit;
and paper will be provided.
Katy Morrow, a senior eit;
tion major, said students sk
get involved with Earthy
because environmentalism isi
issue that affects everyone.
“The more people that get;
volved, the better the outc«
Morrow said.
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Prayer
Continued from Page 1
other coaches of bringing their religion
into the school’s athletic programs.
Among the allegations are that Baca
and Osborn led team prayers, played
Christian music in locker rooms and post
ed biblical passages on athletes’ lockers.
Osborn’s contract tentatively wasn’t
renewed earlier this month. A final de
cision is scheduled for Monday night.
He didn’t immediately return a tele
phone call from The Associated Press
seeking comment.
Baca, who has coached in Houston-
area schools and in another community
outside Austin, admits playing Christ
ian music and leading team prayers.
But he said he’s never been challenged.
“If someone told us, ‘Coach, watch
what you’re doing’ or ‘That’s against
the law,’ we wouldn’t have done it,” he
said. “I understand (the separation of)
church and state, but with the team
it’s not so clear.”
Baca said he posted only one biblical
passage in the Wildcats locker room and
never tried to coerce players into at
tending church.
“I’m a Christian,” he said, adding
that part of being a Christian is follow
ing the law. “I know you can’t go into a
classroom and open a Bible and say,
‘We’re going to learn.’ But as far as
praying v/ith the team, I’ve been in
volved with that in every team I’ve
been involved with down to the time I
played football.”
Baca said he uses prayer and Christ
ian music as a way to provide “an envi
ronment conducive to positive living.”
“What is the main theme in rock and
roll music and country western music,”
he asked? “Sex, drugs, suicide, gangs.
We’re not going to have that here. Not
because I am a Christian, but because I
don’t think moral, young people should
be exposed to that.”
Texas ACLU executive director Jay
Jacobson said the law is clear that
teachers can’t bring religion into schools
for any reason.
“All of our plaintiffs are God-fearing
Christians. They are not irreligious peo
ple,” Jacobson said.
“What that shows me is the degree to
which the religious right has pushed peo
ple’s buttons. It is not just minority reli
gions being effected.”
Jacobson said a settlement agree
ment is pending between the coaches
and students in which the coaches
would agree to refrain from religious ac
tivities in school and admit to having
acted improperly.
Baca said he would sign the agree
ment if it did not say he coerced and in
timated students. “I want this to be a
good testimony,” he said.
Biology teacher Melinda Vague said
she believes her students who say Baca
exerted religious pressures. But she
said the issue needs to be resolved so
the focus can return to teaching.
“They wouldn’t lie to me,” Ms. Vague
said of her 9th- and lOth-graders at the
600-plus student school. “Talking with
teachers on our faculty, we wish the
school board would have settled this (by
now). It just keeps going and going.”
Band director Van Henry said he’s
unhappy with the attention the lawsuit
has brought to the school, about 20
miles east of Austin.
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