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looking for college graduates who are Christians and desire to be
challenged by working with kids from around the country. These kids
are struggling with life issues and are currently
living with us in our residential counseling
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These young people come and
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struggle with them, and commit to helping
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We have twenty-four kids here at a time, counsel from a Biblical
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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.
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exciting and new director’s positions.
CLD is the newest MSC Committee and is committed to
experiential learning through creative and
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CLD plans activities for its 30 committee members to
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