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If you would be interested in finding out more about Heartlight and the possibility of you joining our staff, please give us a call at (903) 668-2173 and we’ll send you information including a video explaining the ministry and a job description defining the position. Heartlight .Ministries P.O. Box 286 Hallsvillc, Texas 75660 FAX Number (903) 668-3453 Page 2 • The Battalion Tuesday • April 30,19% news BRIEFS Former students to honor faculty, staff Texas A&M's Association of Former Students is sponsoring a University-wide ceremony Thurs day to recognize 22 A&M faculty and staff. The Distinguished Achieve ment Awards will be presented during the spring faculty meeting at 1:30 p.m. in Rudder Theatre. Each winner will receive $4,000, a plaque and a watch for their outstanding work in one of six categories. The teaching awards will be given to John R. Giardino, Daniel T. Hanson, Melanie Hawthorne, James K. Hennigan, John W. Neilsen-Gammon, David Owens, Linda Perry, Roger Smith III, and James Benton Storey. For research, Leonard L. Berry, Harold P. Boas, W. Lee Dees, Kenneth R. Hall, Robert L. Lytton and Leonard M. Pike will be recognized. Suzanne M. Droleskey and A. Paul Henry will be awarded for their excellence in individual stu dent relationships. Continuing Education, exten sion and professional development winners include Bastiaan M. Drees and Judith L. Warren. Thomas L. Baxter and Sheran Riley will be recognized as out standing staff members, and Sallie V. Sheppard will receive the award for her work in ad ministration. Road construction nears completion State Highway 47, which will link the Texas A&M main cam pus to the A&M Riverside cam pus, should be completed by the end of the summer, a spokes women for the Texas Depart ment of Transportation said. Remaining work on the high way includes paving areas of the roadway and placing road signs on the highway. The project to connect FM 60 near Easterwood Airport to Highway 21 near A&M's River side campus began in October 1993 and is dedicated in memo ry of Raymond Stotzer, a former director of TxDOT. Que Jam Session raises money for Ronald McNair Memorial Scholarship By Courtney Walker The Battalion The Texas A&M chapter of Omega Psi Phi host ed a three-on-three basketball and slam dunk con test, complete with door prizes and a barbecue, Saturday at its annual Que Jam Session. The Omega Psi Phi chapter, an African-Ameri can organization with 8 members, raised $1,000 for the fraternity’s national Ronald McNair Memo rial Scholarship Fund. The fund was established in 1993 in honor of Omega Psi Phi brother, Ronald McNair, who died in the 1986 Challenger 7 space shuttle explosion. Tony Espritt, Omega Psi Phi president and a senior industrial engineering major, said the small number of members does not affect the Que Jam Session’s success. “We don’t believe in numbers,” Espritt said. “Eight men thoroughly immersed in the true Omega spirit are worth more than 80 men with lukewarm enthusiasm.” The McNair Scholarship targets African-Ameri can males as an incentive for them to attend college. "There is a serious absence of African-American males in higher education,” Espritt said. "When historically black universities, such as Dillard, Grambling and Southern have a female-to-male ratio of at least 6-to-l, it is obvious why we focus on African-American males.” Lisa Carter, a junior business major, attended the tournament held on the Recreation Center out door court and patio and said her favorite part was the slam dunk contest. “People would watch the tournament off and oj all day,” Carter said, “but during the slam dun! contest, people stopped what they were doing to come and watch.” Marcus Johnson, Omega Psi Phi vice president and a senior electrical engineering major, saidfe fraternity members wanted to have a basketball tournament because the community is devoid ol basketball events. "Anyone could come out and participate^ and it didn't matter who you were or what you did." — TONY ESPRITT Omega Psi Phi presidal “People really enjoy watching basketball games,' Johnson said, "and there just aren’t a lotoftouma ments on campus besides the (A&M) teams.’’ Espritt said the tournament was also a way to break through some barriers between campus social groups. “Anyone could come out and participate, auJ it didn’t matter who you were or what you did,' Espritt said. “It was just a basketball tourna ment to give everyone a chance to get out there and have some fun.” Johnson said Omega Psi Phi has had great sue cess with the event during the past three years and next year, the fraternity might try a five or five tournament. Former CIA Chief presumed dead in accident Boating accident claims life of William Colby ROCK POINT, Md. (AP) — Former CIA Director William Colby was missing and pre sumed drowned Monday after what the sheriff said was an ap parent boating accident near Colby’s vacation home. Colby’s canoe was found on a sandbar Sunday a quarter- mile from his home on the Wicomico River, and divers searched the rough and murky water for the 76-year- old former spymaster. “Right now, we are viewing it as an accident,” Sheriff Fred Davis said. “We’re not ruling out foul play, but we never rule out foul play.” Colby, who headed the CIA from 1973 to 1976 under Presi dents Nixon and Ford, apparent ly went canoeing late Saturday, but his absence wasn’t noticed until Sunday night, when neigh bors became suspicious because his car was still in the driveway. Colby usually has returned to Washington by then. A neighbor who checked his home found his radio and comput er still on. Investigators found dinner dishes on a table and clam shells in the kitchen sink. Davis said Colby’s wife, Sally Shelton-Colby, was out of town but had spoken to him during the weekend. He told her he didn’t feel well but was going canoeing anyway. Neighbors said the water was rough Saturday and not good for canoeing. “I don’t see why a man his age would be out there,” said neigh bor Joseph Hervey. “If I went out there it would be in a 16- to 20-foot boat — not canoe.” The sheriff ruled out the pos sibility of suicide. Coast Guard crews searched the river for more than five hours late Sunday and resumed the search Monday morning. Au thorities didn’t know if Colby was wearing a life-preserver. Colby, who began his intelli gence career parachuting into France to fight the Nazis, later headed the CIA’s Saigon office during the Vietnam War. In Vietnam, he was associ ated with Operation Phoenix, an infiltration effort to root out rural support for commii nist guerrillas. It led to sweeping arrests, torture and execution of suspects. Critics said most of those killed were innocent peasants. He was dismissed by Ford as CIA director because of a grow ing feeling in the White House that he was cooperating too freely with congressional invest! gators looking into allegations of wrongdoing within the agency The agency had been accused of plotting assassinations overseas and of spying on civilians in the United States. Let's Talk For information call or visit 1:00 to 5:00 Monday-Friday 707 Texas Ave. Suite 303 Bldg. C f Are You Tired of Studying? E n9 i i s sh aS econd ir 9uage 696-6583 Conversational _ 3 03 - English Classes u^m For student, staff, family • Beginning, inter mediate, advanced Small group lessons Come to the Life Savers "Study Break" Fellowship Wednesday, May 1,1996 7:00 p.m. All Faiths Chapel Student Counselim Volunteers Heeded ALL MAJORS WELCOHE! INTERVIEWING NOW to train & begin service in EITHER the Summer or Fall. We won't be recruiting again at the beginning of the Fall semester. Applications for summer training are DUE MAY 10. For more information call: Susan Vavra at 845-4427 ext. 133. Creative Leadership Development Committee Is looking for motivated people to fill four exciting and new director’s positions. CLD is the newest MSC Committee and is committed to experiential learning through creative and non-traditional programs. CLD plans activities for its 30 committee members to develop leadership skills. The new directors well work on programs such as • disability awareness • diversity issues • organizing a trip to Prairie View A&M • coordinating a ropes course • and any other activity we can think of which will challenge personal views and perceived limits Positions available are directors of Program Development, Programming, Fundraising and Finance and Public Relations Applications can be picked up 216 of the MSC. 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