APICS
APICS - The Educational Society for Resource Management is a not-for-
profit international educational organization respected throughout the
world for its education and professional certification programs.
Joining APICS is an easy way to insure “Lifelong Learning for Lifetime
Success”. Membership benefits include a resume book each semester,
certification training, plant tours, socials, guest speakers, and sub
scriptions to society publications such as APICS - The Performance
Advantage - just to name a few.
If you’ve missed out so far this semester, it’s not too late to get
involved! We will be having our 4 lh Business Meeting on March 27'"
and our 2 nd Plant Tour on April 5 th . Fliers will be posted soon adver
tising exact times and places for these events.
If you are interested in becoming an officer, there will be many open
ings this semester, so be sure to attend our social/officer elections on
April 10 th at Gattiland! For more information visit apics.tamu.edu or
contact jdillard@neo.tamu.edu.
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The Department Of Student
Activities is accepting
applications for the
Margaret Rudder
Service Award!
Visit http://vsc.tqmu.edu for
more information.
Applications are due Friday,
March 29th!
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BOSTON (AP) — As Catholics gathered Sunday for the begin
ning of Holy Week, the most solemn observation of the Christian
calendar, priests across the country addressed a sexual abuse scan
dal that has shaken the church and tainted some of its top leaders.
“Not much can shock us in today’s world, but in the past
weeks we’ve seen things, heard things, and read things that we
never would have dreamed of,” Father Raymond Mann told
parishioners at St. Anthony Shrine in Boston, the city where the
scandal erupted earlier this year.
In Denver, priests read aloud messages of apology and compas
sion from their archbishop. In Chicago and Palm Beach, Fla.,
parishioners were given leaflets discussing the allegations.
In many churches, the Palm Sunday sermons asked
Catholics to take solace from the Easter story of faith’s victory
over suffering and evil.
“There’s always trouble in the world, there’s always evil,” said
the Rev. Fergus Healey, also speaking at St. Anthony Shrine. “But
we should face our current situation with a sense of hope, because
evil’s not supposed to have the last say.”
This year the six-week celebration of Lent, which retraces the
story of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection, has been over
shadowed by a story of another kind: clergy’s
sexual abuse of children and minors.
Revelations that the Archdiocese of
Boston failed to banish priests accused of
child molestation have been repeated in
parishes across the country.
There have been growing calls for the res
ignation of Cardinal Bernard Law, the leader
of the Boston archdiocese, and each day
seems to bring new reports of children
betrayed by their church.
Law, who has addressed the crisis numer
ous times and repeatedly rebuffed calls for
his resignation, did not directly speak to the
scandal during services on Sunday.
Around the country, however, many
priests used the themes of suffering, frayed
trust and redemption contained in the tradi
tional Palm Sunday readings, to address the
church’s current crisis.
“For American Catholics, this Lent has
surely been an emptying and humbling experience,” Denver
Archbishop Charles Caput wrote in a letter read in the archdiocese’s
nearly 150 parishes Sunday. “The cross this Holy Week will have a
deeper meaning for all of us.”
During his homily at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York,
Cardinal Edward Egan called for a “purification of our church.”
Egan, while serving as bishop of the Bridgeport, Conn., diocese,
failed to notify authorities of abusive priests and allowed them to
continue working within the church for years, according to
It is a time of great
suffering for the church, the
cry that comes from
all of our hearts is that we
never want to even think
that such a horror may be
visited upon any of our
young people, their parents
or their loved ones...
recently released documents.
“It is a time of great suffering for the church.” Egan said,
cry that comes from all of our hearts is that we never want tow
think that such a horror may be visited upon any of our young pe
pie, their parents or their loved ones...”
In Hartford, Conn., Archbishop Daniel Cronin said a sma!
number of priests throughout the United States had cause;
“immense harm and scandal.”
“Let it be said frankly that this action is immoral and reprehe:
sible and can never be excused,” he told several hundred peop;
gathered at St. Joseph’s Cathedral. “T hese priests have hurt to
they abused and caused scandal to the faithful of the church.
In Salt Lake City, the Rev. Joseph M. Mayo reminded parisl
ioners that Jesus Christ “stood against abuse of all kinds, especii
the abuse of children who suffered as we live through this term*
crisis in our church.”
The priests’ words come three days after Pope John Paul II brot
his silence on the scandal, saying it cast a “dark shadow of suspicif
over all the other fine priests who perform their ministry with honest)
The clergy sex scandal exploded in Boston in January at
newly released documents revealed that former priest John
Geoghan had been moved from parish
parish following accusations of sexual abuse
Since then, the archdiocese has proviw
prosecutors with the names of approximate;
80 priests accused of sexually abusing child®
over the past 40 years.
Dozens of priests — out of more
47,000 nationwide — have been suspended'
forced to resign.
— Edward Egan
Cardinal
Although many Catholics were chagrin^
to hear sexual abuse discussed during the no.
services, they acknowledged that someto-
needed to be said. .
“It’s important to let people know that
world is not coming to an end,” said Mic ^
Kaminski, 25, who attended a service
Jackson, Miss., where Bishop William Hoi
spoke of a need for prayer and solidarity.
“Easter is coming, a time when no\'C
bloom and everything is renewed,” Kamto
— said. “We’re going to get through this.
Others said their leaders didn t go
enough in addressing the scandal. . . ^
“I was hoping it would be a little more contrition than j ust ^ ’’
‘We’re doing everything we can,”’ said Mona Contreras, 50, °f De "''
who attended services at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Concep
For some Catholics, silence on the issue was welcome 3 ^
nearly weeks of news coverage of sexual abuse by Catholic pF
“I don’t want to hear about it on Palm Sunday,” sa ./T
Mattel, 50, of Everett. “People can read the newspapers i
want to, but this is Palm Sunday.”
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A man who
had holed up in his remote house for 2
1/2 years after a bank foreclosed on it,
NEWS IN BRIEF
defying authorities who worried about a
possible violent confrontation, was
arrested early Sunday on one of his rare
excursions off the property.
Aaron Powell, 45, of Lunenburg, was
arrested after his release from a hospital
in Lancaster, N.H., where he went for
treatment of bites from one of the °8 S
he allegedly trained to attack law
cers, said Essex County State's Attorney
Vincent llluzzi. _ r , of
Powell was being held in lieU ,..
$2,000 bail in Colebrook, N.H., p en
an extradition hearing.
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