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May Graduates 0 < 73 n The Official Texas A&M Graduation Announcements MSC Box Office M-F llam-8pm 979-845-1234 http://graduation.tamu.edu Payment for priority orders must be received by March 4! Hot isn't the word. You’d better hurry. CALL 694-4100 COLLEGE PARK-THE RIDGE 2250 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE STATION CALL 694-3700 COLLEGE PARK-THE ENCLAVE 1800 HOLLEMAN COLLEGE STATION FREE : 1 Application fee per lease signed w/coupon. i Exp. 05-31-02 Baseball Meeting Come hear Coach Johnson and members of the baseball team talk about the 2002 season! When: Wednesday, February 27 @ 7:00 Where: Rudder 601 Don’t forget! There will be a pizza social with the team on Thursday, February 28 @ 5:30 at Olsen Pavilion! 6B Wednesday, February 27, 2002 N- THE BAT! Fund-raising high after Sent. 11 attad <AP>The post-Sept. 11 drop-off in donations to chari ties not serving the victims of the terrorist attacks apparently did not last long. Many nonprofit organiza tions are reporting to their sur prise that 2001 contributions were equal to or even higher than the previous year’s. “Frankly, we’re not seeing a crisis in fund-raising.” said Michael Nilsen, spokesperson for the Association of Fundraising Professionals in Alexandria, Va. In Hagerstown, Md., for example. Salvation Army Capt. Butch Mallard was deciding where to put the Christmas ket tles last September when the terrorists struck. He assumed that people who gave to Sept. Frankly, we're not seeing a crisis in fund-raising. — Michael Nilsen AFP spokesperson 11 victim relief funds would contribute less to the charities they usually support. “We were looking at, if we could come up to anywhere close to last year, it would be a good year,” Mallard said. Instead, donations to organi zation’s Hagerstown-area unit in 2001 came in 4 percent above the previous year, includ ing a 21 percent jump in kettle receipts. Mallard said. Many charities around the country were similarly sur prised to find that they were not seriously undercut by the fund raising for the Sept. 11 victims. Preliminary results from a survey by the Association of Fundraising Professionals of its 25,000 North American mem bers indicate 60 percent raised as much as or more than last year, Nilsen said. Most of the others reported drops of 10 per cent or less, he said. The Chronicle of Philanthropy reported Feb. 7 that for many charities, strong returns in November and December helped offset a drop in contributions immediately after the attacks. The newspa per interviewed more than 60 charity officials and consultants and found that while gains over 2000 were generally modest, few organizations reported sig nificant declines. World Neighbors, an interna tional development group in Oklahoma City, saw a 77 percent drop in donations in the first two weeks after the attacks but ended up receiving more money in the fourth quarter of 2001 than in the same period a year earlier, spokeswoman Kendra Fox said. The total for the period was $253,000, compared with $243,000 a year earlier. “In the context of the slow ing economy, that’s really encouraging,” Fox said. When donations to Freedom from Hunger, an international organization in Davis, Calif., stalled in early autumn, leaders made a special appeal to their most loyal donors. The group Acts of ch the volume ol 1 Desprt to Sept. 11 victim rein? early evidence shows people are still giving t they usually support ; survey measured pe: response to the terron or tlie people survey percent donatedIniM t : one way. Including? ^^ : 200 : •■'--acli >S6\ ■“uni** K)'' n0, ,H o to 10 19.8% ten F ■he he sV ' ( Ot those who ( SI33.72 was thei \Ck S40. to 8( finish ti VK calendar 1.8 milliont i from Si.5 s id Claire president I ment and public i The goal began in mid-\o S668.200. “We that if we didn’t i we would have cuts," Thomas because everything; we’re thinking about is tot 116 charges against Mas LaFAYETTE, Ga. (AP) — Authorities filed 100 more criminal charges Tuesday against the operator of a crematory where hundreds of corpses have been discovered. Ray Brent Marsh already faced 16 counts of theft by deception for allegedly taking money for cremations he never performed at Tri-State Crematory. The 100 additional theft by deception charges were filed by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and issued in a warrant by Walker County Magistrate Judge Shelia Thompson. The new counts were connected to 50 of the corpses found at Tri-State. For each body, one count was filed for taking money from the fami lies and another for failing to give the ashes to the families, officials said. So far, 331 corpses have been found on the crematory grounds. Only 70 of the bodies have been identified. The latest charges were filed just hours after a separate judge ruled Marsh could leave jail on $100,000 bond on the original 16 theft charges. Marsh was still in jail Tuesday afternoon and could be arrested again if he makes bail. Meanwhile, recovery workers began another day of clear-cutting the 16-acre crematory grounds. 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