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Page 2 • Tuesday. January l l >. 1994 N EWS Fish ie BaUalion BY R. DEL 'HU feu«, BET -(oo 1 f SA AA * A A#r»|[D DiD/o'T EVE a) £ECo(jA//2E j 'ia/d him tu dale JI Well , T*rr HE DK«P VJaJ’T Xt-j that CWE OF H/3 A/fW 'lEAK S R E S OLU T l Oa/S .Of MS WAS To AC'.*' pPwo became oin rama of Marilyr Simel & Lewis _ it was boys ag-^= nds battle the girls cl ~: • the 10 best albun^ s fcV®N A24C>w Lauryn The Mis ‘The <Z -AnA/*A u I ocrf '■' 'fHb A / Eagle Forum to focus onY2K in upcoming discussion form BY RONDA COOK The Battalion rli Eagle Forum of^Bryan/College Station will meet to discuss the fi nancial, economic and spiritual as pects of the Year 2000 issue tonight at 6:30 p.m. in the Christian Life Center at Central Baptist Church in Bryan. Bo Armstrong, a local computer and financial consultant and a for mer student of Texas A&M, will lead the discussion. Susan Lee, former Eagle Forum president and current board mem ber, said the Eagle Forum’s main function is to educate people. She said the Y2K issue is pertinent to the community. Armstrong has researched the Y2K issue and said the problems are difficult to correct. He said al though problems may be correct ed, it is easy for new problems to occur and time is quickly running out. tot Y2K o dial prob United States i a nee system is jui instil mpliant ?ms. He sai 111 nary missile not Y2K comt in Until com to be man in the year guid- iliant. :ted. mis ally targi ZOOO will sties win nave •ted so a target not respond to | _ on’t think im economy, ^ut it wii strong would tricity. said. “My bi$ tie about the li '7 don't think it will destroy our economy but it will delay it.” aid the loss®: zould 1^ to a loss oh although it may not be Texas' warm climate,r 'BERT HYNECEK/Tm Batt^ io their daily routine. Finally. Armstrong'* spiritual preparationiaj 2000. — Bo Armstrong Financial Consultant a target for the year 1900. Armstrong said the Y2K issue will affect people globally and lo cally. He said he expects econom ic repercussions in the Bryan/Col lege Station area. Ho believes many new! 2000 as the second i Christ, which causeitl rushed in fulfillingtkC res ponsibihti es. •You cannot rusVipi:- must be sincere; it mr* posed of love," he sale Armstrong believe-: impacts A&M studentsta® WVcl§Jl<il most every major wili: - “The problem reverbe: OCX w¥“l the next 10 to \5 years' and Christian Tattoo Association promote positive message through religious body There’s simply MCAT, CPA, c 60 years of pro we’re the chos Th( Clas BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Randy Mastre, a tattoo artist of Christian themes, inks Jesus into his customers. His tattooed Biblical inscriptions and portraits of Christ provide startling contrast to more typical flaming skulls and “Born to Raise Hell’’ markings adorning the leather-clad bikers he rubs elbows with at national tat too conventions. It was at one of those convention that he met the Rev. Daniel Ostrowski, a born-again Christian and Word of Faith pastor who runs a tattoo parlor in Wausau, Wis. Last year the two decided to unite other Christian tat- tooers; since then almost 100 tattoo parlors across the nation have heard the call of the Christian Tattoo Asso ciation. “Our idea is let’s take Christianity out of cloistered halls and put it right in the forum where people live, and let’s make it so real, so up-to-date, so today that it impacts peoples’ lives,’’ Ostrowski says. At tattoo conventions they put up a table and work the crowd. Some members adopt tattoos that cover their entire backs. Tattoos of St. Michael slaying the devil and the Last Supper are popular. “I’ve seen hundreds of full-back Christian tattoos,’’ Mastre says. Mastre says he has wanted to start a Christian tattoo group for years. He said Chnstiansin to encourage each other. “We don’t want everybody in the world to kW tattooing is the work of the devil becauseiiist’PI tre says. “It’s a beautiful art form.’’ Rand Johnson, a tattooer in Willmar,klfj| scribes the group as a ministry focused on peof 5 $ tattoo industry — and whoever else willli» “For the most part, the world of tattoosac;, ing and such is <i pretiv dark world, andasaOli you want to shed a little light in there,” Johns Some members of the clergy are not wild: idea. Fargo Bishop Rick Foss says that if somete have a tattoo, he would rather it have a Christia F' But, he adds, there are better ways to spre; _\ word. I’d be really surprised if anybody could ir: [ L< GF ... ,. I ; good case in the Bible or the basis of Christian - _ that this is somehow a really good thing,” s:.' ^ fXli who heads the Eastern North Dakota Synod of: * gelical Lutheran Church in America. . '^*1 Some clergy members who are againsttatto 4* 1* a Biblical passage in Leviticus, which theysa “Ye shall not make any cuttings inyourte: dead, nor print any marks upon you...” : SL'. i ■ ' ,.1 ' 105 YEARS AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY Aaron Meier, Editor in Chief Kasie Byers, Managing Editor Mike Fuentes, Photo Editor Robert Hynecek, Visual Arts Editor Riley LaGrone, Aggielife Editor Matt Weber, Sport Editor Veronica Serrano, Night NewsEditC) Jeremy Brown, Web Editor Beth Miller, City Editor Marium Mohuiddin, Aggielife Edito Manisha Parekh, Opinion Editor News: The Battalion news department is managed by students at Texas A&M University in the Division of Student Publications, a unit of tfiet of Journalism. News offices are in 013 Reed McDonald Building. Newsroom phone: 845-3313; Fax: 845-2647; E-mail: batt@unix.tamu.edu;' http://battalion.tamu.edu Advertising: Publication of advertising does not imply sponsorship or endorsement by The Battalion. 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