THE LORD’S RANCH IS COMING!!!
The Lord’s Ranch, a long-term residential facility for emotionally and be-
haviorally disturbed children, Is looking for career-oriented individuals who
desire to work with kids. We are the largest Christian facility in the mid-
South. If you desire to work in a fast paced, high growth Christian envi
ronment, we have several positions open.
We are looking for dedicated, sincere and hardworking individuals who
truly want to make a difference in peoples lives. If you would like to see
children truly change their behavior, maybe you need to visit with us. We
will be coming to your campus on April 24 & 25,1997. Please sign up with
the Career Development Office for an interview.
We have the following positions open:
Social Workers Special Education Teachers
Direct Care Staff
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April 26, 1997
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• Wear a black leotard and black tights with hair
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• Current A&M students must bring a transcript
• Incoming Freshmen or transfer students must bring a
letter stating their intent to attend Texas A&M
• Candidates will learn a dance in the morning and
try out in the afternoon
• A new team meeting will immediately follow tryouts
Questions? Call Susie @ 696-2904
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Wednesday • April2],]
Weather keeps search on hold
► Campus
EAGLE, Colo. (AP) — Fresh snow
on a steep mountainside had Air
Force teams on hold Tuesday, and
officials said it may be several days
before they can get close enough to
learn if metal debris is the wreckage
of a missing warplane.
And even though the sun shone
through breaks in the clouds this
morning over the jagged mountain,
a new storm was moving in from
neighboring Utah, where a winter
storm watch was posted.
Weather favorable for lowering
a recovery team to the site from a
helicopter may not come until the
weekend, the National Weather
Service said.
Lower elevations had gotten
► This day in history
more than a foot of snow in 24
hours, and no one knew how much
had fallen on the 13,000-foot cliff
near Gold Dust Peak, where the
wreckage of the A-10 Thunderbolt
is believed to lie.
The snow poses an avalanche
risk and also could conceal haz
ardous footing, probably making it
too risky for the recovery team,
said Maj. Gen. Niles Running, the
search commander.
Monday’s blowing snow ground
ed the powerful helicopter needed to
lower the recovery team. There was
no sign of Capt. Craig Button, who
was at the controls of the $9 million
plane that left a formation with two
other planes over southern Arizona
on April 2 and veered off to the
northeast.
The possible site in the central
Rockies, 15 miles southwest ofVail,
is some 800 miles off the course that
Button wds supposed to follow.
It was located Sunday when a
helicopter spotted shards of gray
metal near New York Mountain and
Gold Dust Peak.
“This is not an easy mission,”
said Col. Dale Kissinger, comman
der of the 58th Special Operations
Wing at Kirtland.
“Since we aren’t looking for
survivors at this time, we aren’t
rushing it,” he said. “We are basi
cally hoping it won’t take longer
than a week.”
Today is Wednesday, April 23, the 113th day of
1997. There are 252 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1348, King Edward III of England established the
Order of the Garter.
In 1616, the Spanish poet Cervantes died in Madrid.
The same day, William Shakespeare died in Stratford-
on-Avon, England.
In 1789, President-elect Washington and his wife
moved into the first executive mansion, the Franklin
House, in New York.
In 1791, the 15th president of the United States,
James Buchanan, was born in Franklin County, Pa.
In 1896, the Vitascope system for projecting movies
onto a screen was demonstrated in New York City.
In 1940, about 200 people died in a dance-hall fire
in Natchez, Miss.
In 1954, Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit
the first of his record 755 major-league home runs
against the St. Louis Cardinals. The Braves won, 7-5.
In 1968, the Methodist Church and the Evangelical
United Brethren Church merged to form the United
Methodist Church.
In 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for
assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The
sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment.
In 1985, the Coca-Cola Co. announced it was chang
ing the secret formula for Coke. Negative public reaction
forced the company to resume selling the original version.
► Today's birthdays
Actress Janet Blair is 76. Actress-turned-diplomat
Shirley Temple Black is 69. Actor David Birney is 58.
Actor Lee Majors is 57. Actress Sandra Dee is 55. Irish
nationalist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey is 50. Actress
Joyce DeWitt is 48. Actress Judy Davis is 42. Actress
Jan Hooks is 40. Actress Valerie Bertinelli is 37. Rock
musician Gen (Jesus Jones) is 33.
Weather
Today
Tonight
Tomorrow
Partly cloudy.
Partly cloudy.
Partly to mostly cloudy
with a chance of show
ers or thunderstorms.
Highs & Lows
Today’s Expected High
84°F
Tonight’s Expected Low
59°F
Tomorrow’s Expected
High
85°F
Tomorrow Night’s
Expected Low
61°F
Hopgood issues
hazing stateme^
The Commandant of tlie
A&M Corps of Cadets will
statement to the Corps todaj
fort to "rid the Corps of hair;
"Simply put, I am against
and will not tolerate it,’
M.T. "Ted” Hopgood Jr„
press release.
His statement stresses
gality of hazing and saysthat«
of the long-standing hazing
not be tolerated.
His statement also sayste
has serious moral conseouer: |
damages the Corps' publicgo;
Hopgood has disbanded ; I
suspended individual cadets': E
Corps in the past for hazing. He: I
plans to tell cadets that ate: E
will not be allowed to staying |
"Certainly, Americans I® I
enough of leaders who settlr i
above the law,” Hopgood se: |
statement. "We must not alts |
sort of leader to exist in ourte |
He will remind cadetsteif 0
is illegal and may cost the!
futures of students.
“It (hazing) is morethano;
can afford — more than I,a
mandant, am willing to pa)'
“Those cadets who choose
those who willingly particej
those who look the otherwa
place in our Corps.”
State
B-CS employmei
rate is Texas'
AUSTIN (AP) — The states. I
ployment rate fell slight!yto5Ji |
in March, two-tenths of a per|
than the rate in February,;
the Texas Workforce Comnwl
The commission onTuesci
nonagricultural emplopertssf
about 19,000 jobs, with the?
sector accounting for about"
cent of those jobs.
The 5.7 percent ratefoht
equaled the rate in MarctilSt|
Bryan-College Station hacif
est unemployment rateofJli
cent. That was down fromfc|
percent rate in February,
inbury-Mission recorded"sT.
rate of 19.1 percent, neaAji' 111 i
centage points lower thanIf!?]
percent rate ih February.
ATTENTION:
TEXAS A&M Class of 1997
join us at
Senior Bash
SHADOW CANYON
THURSDAY, APRIL 24
Doors open at 8 p.m.
Have a Boot scootn^ good time!
Attention Student Organizatk
FREE PUBLICITY «!
The information that will be used in the 19971
Student Organization Guide will be compiled[f; ^
the information each group provided ontfe ii
purple recognition card, filed in the Departmtf
of Student Activities for the 1996-97 acadeiK L
year. Ive
Go to: http://stuact.tamu.edu/external
contact_info.html to check out yo{
organization's information for accuracy.
Changes can be made by filling out a changed
in Student Activities (Dorothy's desk). Chan$
submitted by April 30 will be reflected in ^
year's Student Organization Guide.
Student Activities
\ / At Texas A&M University
AGGIE RING ORDERS
THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS
CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER
DEADLINE: April 24, 1997
Undergraduate Student Requirements:
1. You must be a degree seeking student and have a total of 95 credit hours reflected on the
Texas A&M University Student Information Management System. (A passed course, which • is
repeated and passed, cannot count as additional credit hours.)
2. 30 credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University, providing that
prior to January 1,1994, you were registered at Texas A&M University and successfully com
pleted a fall/spring semester or summer term (I and II or 10 weeks) as a full-time student in good
standing (as defined in the University catalog).
60 credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University if your first
semester at Texas A&M University was January 1994 or thereafter, or if you do not qualify under
the successful semester requirement. Should your degree be conferred with less than 60 res
ident credits, this requirement will be waived after your degree is posted on the Student
Information Management System.
3. You must have a 2T) cumulative GPR at Texas A&M University.
4. You must be in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks
for past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc.
Graduate Student Requirements
If you are a May 1997 degree candidate and you do not have an Aggie ring from a prior
degree, you may place an order after you meet the following requirements:
1. Your degree is conferred and posted on the Texas A&M University Student Information
Management System; and
2. You are in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for
past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc.
If you have completed aM of your degree requirements and can obtain a “Letter of Completion”
from the Office of Graduate Studies, the original letter of completion, with the seal, may be
presented to the Ring Office in lieu of your degree being posted.
Procedure To Order A Ring:
1. If you meet all of the above requirements, you must visit the Ring Office no later than
Thursday, April 24, 1997 to complete the application for eligibility verification.
2. If your application is approved and you wish to receive your ring on June 12, 1997, you
must return and pay in full by cash, check, money order, or your personal Visa or
Mastercard (with your name imprinted) no later than April 25, 1997.
Add $8.00 for Class of ‘96 or before.
The ring delivery date is June 12, 1997.
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