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Agricultural Lea: the Battalion
An ice creams
for teamswi didn’t juice you up,
at the Ag Cc'- vou should probably
615* force' ;heck your pulse,” Donnis
, publisher of the
Student Coun: ; 0 |i e g 0 station Eagle, said
Children!SCEC 3hiloh Area Youth Choir
I its performance at the
( L ited Methodist Church in
Ci’,10568b pop riday night _
all crowd gathered to cel-
Bonfire Reload, ] ie i aunc h of Building on
a general mee ^ sponsored by the Bryan-
<i' . 00 p.m. r .. station chapter of Habitat
will he sptM- aanity
,it ! service featured several
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Building the Faith y 98
kicks off
with groundbreaking
1
for two
families' homes
This will be Habitat’s third church-
supported build in the area.
In addition. Habitat is observ
ing an International Day of Prayer
and Action during the third week
in September.
The Day of Prayer was first held
in 1983 to raise community aware
ness of substandard housing.
The Bryan-College Station
Habitat was formed in 1989.
Since that time, the organiza
tion has worked over 6,500 hours
building new homes and has col
lected nearly $500,000 in cash
and land to support its mission.
As a rule, Habitat for Humani
ty does not accept government
money for the construction of its
homes or its normal operations.
However, it does accept land (as
in the case of Building on Faith
’98) or other gifts, as long as no
provisions are attached that
would compromise Habitat’s
principles or work.
Habitat families are chosen
based on their economic need,
current housing conditions, will
ingness to work with the pro
gram and ability to pay monthly
utility and mortgage payments.
. ^ ’5 such as Reba Ragsdale,
Life Savers Bilk nt ^ t | ie Bryan-College
praise,.worshi:. Habitat for Humanity
6 fun. inthe-^f Directors, and Patricia
<K ’ Donna an: 2xecu d V e director of the B-
C.A.D.E.T.S.. j c was p rov ided by the
mational ir y of Praise Worship Team
F (on the (Wg X&jyi united Methodist
Shawana attyti-- is we jj ^ Area
lihoir.
ptruction of the program’s
o houses began Saturday
g the introduction of the
1 Place subdivision,
en more homes will eventu-
built on the same street, on
nated by the City of Bryan,
ill Lynch is underwriting
3,000 infrastructure costs.
Greg McReynolds/Tiii: Battalion
Sanctuary of Praise Worship Team members, (from left to right)
Richard Sema, Marcus Ocon and Timothy Alonso, perform at the
Habitat for Humanity Service Saturday.
The committee then decides
whether or not to recommend the
family to Habitat’s Board of Directors.
In addition, neither race nor re
ligion are considered factors for
selection.
A family selection committee
comprised of volunteers screens
applicant families, conducts cred
it checks and makes home visits.
Habitat for Humanity operates
by allowing its selected families to
purchase their homes at cost
through no-interest mortgages.
The principal is then used to
purchase materials needed to con
struct more homes.
Habitat also works to educate
the public about the housing sit
uation in their area.
For instance, over 3,000 sub
standard homes exist in Bryan-
College Station.
Habitat points out that al
though construction of new
homes has risen in recent years,
most low-income families cannot
afford them.
In addition, the families cho
sen help the volunteers with the
construction of their new homes.
The Foley and Martinez fami
lies, the 25th and 26th to be select
ed in the Bryan/College Station
area, will be the first to receive Mir
acle Place homes in October.
see Habitat on Page 5.
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Serving All Aggies!
ACCOUNTING GRADUATES - FIRST STEP!! IWPM
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Regular cuts start at ij
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We offer:
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* Comprehensive Training
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We will be recruiting at Texas A&M University on October 5, 1998. Contact
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Aggie Bucks Expansion:
Spending
without consequences
A
GRAY
WHITTEN
high-school friend of mine
once took his student ID
and ran
around campus
looting all the
snack machines
he could find
with his
parentally-pur
chased Aggie
Bucks.
At the time,
that was about
all the damage
that could be done by someone
on a caffeine-fueled, snack-cake
binge.
Today, that same friend has
chosen a path of computer
games and actual work for mon
ey over academics.
If not, he might have had the
chance to fill in the holes
in his Gloria Gaynor CD
collection, assemble
enough fast food to
send a Richard Sim
mons refugee
running for his
Deal-A-Meal
cards, and finally
get that copy of
Madonna’s SEX
he’d been eying
(Surely Vanilla Ice
would be willing to
provide an auto
graph on his visit
to College Sta
tion.)
All this could
be done with that
same student ID
under the guise of
“school supplies” as
Mom and Dad happily
foot the bill with visions of No.
2 pencils and college-ruled spi
rals dancing in their heads.
.Why the sudden huge accep
tance of Aggie Bucks by local
merchants? A smart guess would
be “the kids like ‘em”.
New students who are more
and more likely to have spent
time with credit cards in hand,
either their ‘parents’ or their
own, take to the system like
Roger Ebert to fresh candy.
Usings Aggie Bucks for any
thing and everything is simply
the default answer to money
problems for many.
Occasional trips to Northgate
cash machines for ice cream
money are certainly considered
a necessity of life by some, but
that just shows the unfortunate
nature of our little Aggie world.
Why anyone would choose
barley Kool-Aid over free Cherry
Coke I don’t understand, but I’m
just a writer.
Books, CDs, food and drinks
are all available to students with
no apparent consequence, except
for those paying their own way
through the college experience.
This may not be a good thing.
Can young adults who don’t
understand the idea of balancing
a checkbook make it on their own
when bills have to be paid
on time and accounts are
not limitless?
Questions abound,
and few are likely to
give them a second
thought until after
graduation.
Some doubt the ac
curacy of the ever-di-
^0 minishing Aggie
Bucks balance, so
0 thoughtfully an-
'' { nounced by every
cashier on cam
pus after every
purchase.
The theory is
interesting. Tax
sometimes in
volves a half
cent. Balances
are never an-
nounced as such,
but the fractions obvi
ously exist.
Call me paranoid, but
maybe the subtle message of
Superman III wasn’t that far
off-base.
Any sightings of Richard Pryor or
suspicious-looking supercomputers
on campus should be reported im
mediately, and we’ll all keep an eye
out for any mysterious new funds
with unexplained origins.
see Aggie Bucks on Page 5.
Graduate Assistant Position
Cooperative Education Program
• Coordinate on-campus recruiting for Co-op Program
• Conduct Co-op orientation programs
• Prepare PowerPoint presentations
• Create databases in Access & Excel
Requirements:
First-year Graduate Student preferred. Must be able to work 20
hours per week: be proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, & Access. Need excellent oral & written communi
cation skills, organizational skills, & professional demeanor.
Submit Resume & Cover Letter by September 2J, 1998
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