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Williams, Jr. Alumni Center Reception Desk Office of the President, 8th Floor Rudder Vice President for Student Affairs Office, 10th Floor Rudder Office of the Dean of each College Office of Graduate Studies Department of Student Activities, Suite 125 Koldus Department of Multicultural Services, Suite 137 MSC Office of the Commandant, 102 Military Sciences MSC Student Programs Office, 216 8d 223 MSC Application Workshops: Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2003 5:30-6:30pm Clayton W Williams, Jr. Alumni Center Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2003 6:30-7:30pm Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center Monday, Jan. 27, 2003 7:30-8:30pm Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center Applications due at 5:00 p.m. on January 31, 2003 to the Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center Reception Desk At Texas A&M University in Ipe^spci^ion Questions? Please e-mail: SpiritAivard@Aggienetwork.com Leave it to Seaver JP Beato III • THE BATTALION More than 200 students gathered around actor and former teen idol Kirk Cameron as he spoke about his Christian faith on campus at the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue in front of the Academic Building on Friday. Cameron, best known for his role in the 1980s sitcom "Growing Pains," also stars in the movies based on the Christian-genre "Left Behind" series. Daughters of Confederacy fights for battle flag TYLER (AP) — A local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) and the Smith County Historical Society are wrapped up in legal battle over the rights to an 1863 Confederate battle flag. Both groups claim the rights to the 17th Texas Cavalry flag, one of two Confederate banners restored by Tyler historian Mike Sabota. The flag was donated in Smith County by Col. C.E. Parker to the UDC. But Historical Society members claim Parker’s donation came with a caveat: that the UDC place the flag in an Austin museum. “That never happened, so he reclaimed it and gave it to the Historical Society in 1963 or ’62,” Historical Society president Randy Gilbert said in Sunday editions of the Tyler Morning Telegraph. But Charles Herbst, husband of local UDC president Maxine Herbst, calls the lawsuit “ridiculous” and said it’s recorded that the Colonel donated the “Parker Flag” in 1923 to the local UDC chapter. “It’s in the meeting minutes so there is no reason for it to be sued about,” said Charles Herbst, also named as a defendant in the suit, pending in county court at law. “This is an absolute waste of time.” The Parker Flag and the other Civil War Hag were displayed at the Historical Socip museum near downtown Tyler November 20(X), when Sabota reclaimedili flags for the UDC to restore them. The two flags are at Sabota’s antebelliE style home south of Tyler. He also is nw as a defendant in the lawsuit. “I’m a historian and collector, and hi 1 them deteriorating a long time ago,” Sate said. “They were in horrible shape.” He said Maxine Herbst, who * unavailable for comment, contacted himf* years ago and he retrieved the flags fronuii museum, then took them to New Orleans^ restoration. ,1 W U /» «i V 28 7-El even Albertson’s Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, Inc. Blockbuster Inc. Bridgestone/Firestone The Container Store JCPenney Kohl’s Department Stores Kroger Food Stores Mervyn’s Neiman Marcus Office Depot PETsMART Crate & Barrel Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foley’s Garden Ridge H-E-B Helzberg Diamonds IKEA Sam’s Club Sears, Roebuck & Co. Target Stores Walgreen Co. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Zale Corporation ALL MAJORS Welcome For more information: www.crstamu.org CHNTl’R RI .TAII INK i STUD IPS C RETAILING SOCIETY*) TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY Swastikas appear at Austin synagogue AUSTIN (AP) — Vandalism at a Jewish synagogue has mem bers worrying about anti- Semitism. Kol Halev, a nondenomina- tional Jewish congregation in Northwest Austin, became the first Austin synagogue in recent memory to have its front doors spray-painted with swastikas. The symbols were removed but the fears and emotions they aroused among the synagogue’s 180 families will take longer to expunge. “The greatest fear of Jewish leaders is that what people claim is anti-Israel sentiment is really anti-Semitism,” said Mark Lit, chief executive officer of the Jewish Community Association of Austin. “There’s certainly been more anti-Semitism world wide since 9/1 1.” The vandalism occurred on the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday. It was the second such inci dent in a few months since a Jewish family’s home near the Dell Jewish Community Center in Northwest Austin was daubed with the Nazi emblem. Austin police are investigat- u The greatest fear of Jewish leaders is that what people claim is anti-Israel sentiment is really > Volume T Of By Despite ef Robert Gates ment by pron - pus environm suggest that Gates’ plan black and His Gates, wh< nic diversity c ity, has said tl tile to minori dents admitte school. Althoi his plan to Cloi A& lira ami By THI Despite o to have prod clone, Texas will be limitt to moral anc Mark Westh of the veterin “Texas A<! (in human cf Clonaid, ; ny founded anti-Semitism. — Mark Lit CEO, jewish Community Association of Austin ing but have made no arrests in either incident. Lit said he didn’t think it was coincidental that Kol Halev was defaced on the King holiday, because King’s statue on the University of Texas campus was splattered with eggs the same day. “If it was not the sa® group, (they) shared the sa® philosophy,” Lit said. Greg McDonell, past pres dent of the Austin Are Interreligious Ministries at pastor of Central Presbyteri! Church, agreed. “Certainly it’s disturbing. McDonell said. “You wondf what kind of folks are in on community who would do a thing.” Swastikas have been pro® nently used in anti-Americi and anti-Israel cartoons recenil in the Arab news media ontlfl Internet and by some radio groups organizing Amend protests against a grab ban social issues, including a pos ble war with Iraq. The Nazi symbols we splashed across photographs President Bush and Israi Prime Minister Ariel Sharon anti-war rallies this month Washington and at a simil rally last October outside tl federal building in Austin. 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