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Assembly of Qod
‘Episcopal
Bethel Temple Assembly of God
2608 Villa Maria,
Bryan
776-4835
Sunday Worship 10:15, 6:00 pm
Sunday School 9:00
www.startel.net/bethel
St. Thomas Episcopal
906 George Bush Dr. • College Station, IX
696--\726
Services - 8:00 (Rite I), 9:00 (Family Service-Rite II)
and 11:15 am. (Rite ll-for late sleeping Ags)
7:30 p.m. Evensong
Next door to Canterbury House,
the Episopal Student Center
CBaptist
Lutheran
Fellowship Free Will
Baptist Church
College & Career Class
You are invited to a Bible
study especially for students.
Sunday mornings at 9:45
1228 W. Villa Maria
779-2297
For more information contact
Marcus Brewer: 731-1890
m-brewer@tamu.edu
htlpyAAWw.fellowshiDtwb.ora
Beautiful Savior Ev. Lutheran Church
1007 Krenek Tap Rd. • College Station
693-4514
Sunday School & Conversational English 9:00 a.m.
Worship 10:15 a.m.
Learning what the Bible says 2 p.m. Sundays
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Catholic
St. Mary’s
Catholic Center
603 Church Avenue in Northgate
(979)846-5717
www.aaaiecatholic.ora
Pastoral Team
Rev. Michael J. Sis, Pastor
Rev. Keith Koehl, Associate Pastor
Campus Ministers - Deacon Bill
Scott, Deacon David Reed, Martha
Tonn, Maureen Murray, Dawn Rouen
Daily Masses
Mon.-Fri.: 5:30 p.m. in the Church
Tues. & Thurs.: 12:05 noon
in the All Faiths’ Chapel
Sat.: 2:00 p.m. (Korean)
Weekend Masses
Sat.: 5:30 p.m. (English), 7:00 p.m. (Spanish)
Sun.: 9:00, 11:00 a.m., 5:30 p.m., and 7:00 p.m.
Confessions
Wed. 8:30-9:30 p.m., Sat. 4:00-5:15 p.m.
or by appointment.
Community
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EresSyterian
Church of Christ
A&M Church of Christ
1901 Harvey Mitchell Pkwy.
(979)693-0400
Sunday Assemblies:
8 a.m., 10:30 a.m., Sunday Night: 6 p.m.
College Bible Class 9:30 a.m.
Mid-Week “Oasis” 7:30 p.m.
Aggies for Christ
Call for on-campus pick-up info
www.aggiesforchrist.org
Covenant Presbyterian
Church
“A welcoming comrriunily of teith who reaches out,
cares tor one another
& proclaims the love of Jesus Christ to all”
220 Rock Prarie Road
(979) 694-7700
G. Thomas Huser
- Minister
Sunday Service: 8:30 & 11 a.m.
Sunday School: 9:45 a m.
Aggie Classes: 9:45
Prayer & Praise on Tuesdays: 7:30 p.m.
fax: (979) 696-4334
www.covenantpresbyterian.org
‘United Methodist
Independent ‘Baptist
A&M United Methodist
417 University Dr. (on Northgate) • 846-8731
Church at 8:30, 9:45, 10:50
College Sunday School 9:30 & 10:45
Sr. Pastor Dr. Jerry Neff
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Texas Avenue
Baptist Church
3400 Hwy. 6 South, C.S.
(979)696-5972
Sunday:
College Bible Study 9:30 a.m.,
Worship Service 10:30 a.m.,
Family Worship Service 6:00 p.i
Shuttle van service from campus: leave from
Mosher Circle 9 a.m., All Faiths Chapel 9:15 a.m.,
returns to campus after worship service ~ noon
Call Mike for more information
693-5972
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Friday, January 25, 2002
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
Government officials say the
Salt Lake City Winter Olympics
next month will be the safest
sporting event ever. Yet a third
of the public in an Associated
Press poll still thinks a terrorist
attack is likely.
The number concerned about
terrorism at the Games was
about half the total in recent
polls who feared an attack is
likely somewhere in the United
States in the near future.
Women were twice as likely
as men to think terrorist attacks
on the Games were likely,
according to the poll, conducted
for The AP by ICR of Media,
Pa. Only one in 20 people over
all thought a terrorist attack on
the Olympics was very likely.
“My heart is broken, but l
think it can happen,” said
Dorothy Moser, a 73-year-old
retiree from Mt. Pleasant, S.C.
“I know they want to hurt our
country. I’m not really shocked
at anything they want to go for."
U.S. officials are spending
more than $300 million on secu
rity for the Olympics and say
there will be no safer place in the
world than Salt Lake City during
the Games, which start Feb. 8
and run just over two weeks.
“I personally don’t think
there will be a terrorist attack,”
said Jon Mann, a 34-year-old
employee at a Wal-Mart distri
bution center in Peoria, Ariz.
“It’s a little too obvious; there’s
a little too much security.”
On a separate Olympics
topic, the Games will cost about
$2 billion — with a fifth of that
paid by tax money. Much of the
cost will be underwritten by
commercial interests.
The federal government is
spending almost $400 million,
including security costs.
Two-thirds in the poll said
they thought the advertising and
commercial presence at the
Olympics were necessary to
pay the bills.
Almost that many — 63 per
cent — thought tax money
should not be used. Older
Americans and blacks were more
likely to oppose using tax money.
“I’d like to see no tax money
used,” said Christine Tedesco, a
71-year-old retiree from
Rutland, Vt. “Our taxes should
go for other things, support the
system of helping people who
need help.”
She mentioned the high cost
of prescription drugs.
Six in 10 said they were inter
ested in the Winter Olympics,
with 19 percent saying they were
very interested. The number who
said they were very interested in
the Summer Games in 1996 was
slightly higher — a fourth of
those polled.
Whites were more interested
than blacks in the Winter
Games by 63 percent to 46 per
cent. Those with more educa
tion were more interested in the
Olympics. Seven in 10 with at
least a college education said
they were interested, compared
with half of those with only a
high school education.
The interest level in the
Winter Games was about the
same in every region of the
country.
American cities are already
positioning themselves to com
pete for the summer games in
2012. Six in 10 in the poll
thought the advantages out
weigh the problems in playing
host to an Olympics.
“It’s something that gives a
city a high profile, tends to lift a
city,” said Bob Mickish. a 67-
year-old retiree from Rockwall,
Texas, just northeast of Dallas.
Like many people, Mickish
said he felt the efforts to protect
the Olympics from terrorism
would be effective.
“I feel fairly comfortable and
fairly confident with the home
security that’s been set up at the
Olympics and in the country'
generally,” Mickish said.
Both Director of Homeland
Security Tom Ridge and
Attorney General John Ashcroft
have pronounced the Winter
Games a model of security.
“Obviously, there are no
guarantees, but I believe Salt
Lake City will be a very safe
place to visit in February.”
Ridge told mayors who were
visiting Washington Wednesday.
Still, some have a nagging
fear the Olympics will be an
attractive target.
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DALLAS (AP) — The deluge of credit card
offers on campuses nationwide, with pitches in
person, by phone and e-mail, has some college
students and their schools looking for ways to
stop the flood.
University regents in Nevada on Thursday were
considering a demand that they stop selling stu
dent names and addresses to credit card vendors.
The proposal followed complaints from
Denise Wilcox, a part-time community college
student from Henderson, Nev., who says one mail
pitch suggested she “show your school pride” by
getting a credit card.
The student government at the University of
California, Berkeley is among those that now
require vendors on campus to hand out informa
tion about the financial risks involved with credit
cards. Lawmakers in California and several other
states also have voted to ban companies from lur
ing students to apply for credit with gifts such as
T-shirts and calculators.
Greg Combs, a senior at the University of
Texas at Dallas, is so fed up he’s taken matters
into his own hands. He’s unlisted his phone num
ber, added his name to “black lists” aimed at
stopping credit card vendors from calling and
added filters to his email.
His university also has banned vendors fr
setting up booths on campus. Yet Combs say
still gets credit card applications in his to
mailbox every week and sees advertisements'
campus bulletin boards “everywhere!”
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to ban anyone younger than 25 from hav
them. But bankers and credit card compar
scoff at this idea.
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manage their credit cards well.
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issue than how they handle it ” says Joe Belt
president of the Virginia-based Consult
Bankers Association, a national trade associate
of banks that specializes in retail and consul!
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