TEXAS A&M
TRAP & SKEET CLUB
The TYap & Skeet Club will be
having a fun shoot in Snook,
TX - Saturday, April 26.
Participants of all skill levels
welcome. The events will
include Trap, Skeet, and
Sporting Clays.
Prizes will be awarded.
Directions and further
details availableat
http://recsports.ta m u.edu/skeet/
Cost: * 10 per event
*25 for all three
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Colleges choose famous faces
to speak at commencements
By Bryna Zumer
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As president of the senior class at Mount
Holyoke College in Massachusetts, Jessica
Zerges will get to have dinner with this year's
commencement speaker, popular children's
book author Judy Blume.
“Because it's a women’s college and so
many of us read her works growing up, it's
going to be interesting to hear her voice now
that we're grown up,” said Zerges, a history
and politics major.
Blume has written 22 novels, including
classics such as “Are You There God? It's
Me, Margaret” and “Tales of a Fourth
Grade Nothing.”
Zerges was on the committee that polls the
senior class for their choice of speaker and
decides who to invite.
“This year we were very lucky,” she said.
A good commencement speaker should be
someone who “not only has national recogni
tion but someone who also feels like they
have something important to say to the grad
uates," Zerges said.
Mount Holyoke's choice of Blume reflects
the diversity of this year's batch of com
mencement speakers, which features fewer
politicians than last year. Graduation speakers
in 2002 included President George W. Bush,
Vice President Dick Cheney, Attorney
General John Ashcroft and Homeland
Security Secretary Tom Ridge.
However, some universities said their
choices do reflect a global sensibility.
Former President Bill Clinton will speak at
two commencements, at Tougaloo College in
Mississippi and at a joint commencement
between Syracuse University and State
University of New York College of
Environmental Science and Forestry.
“I'd assume with the world the way it is
today, the topic of war will come up,” said
Tougaloo communications specialist Chip
Washington. “It will be very interesting to
hear his take on international relations.”
At Maine College of Art, the students
who chose artist Yoko Ono as their speaker
this year “were most interested in her
because she's a pioneering artist, but also
because of her role as a global citizen,” said
Kathy Mills, the school's
director of public relations.
“I think that did play in their
decision.”
Some colleges, on the
other hand, wanted to
avoid speakers who would
address the tension and
uncertainty of the current
international climate.
Framingham State College
in Massachusetts, for exam
ple, has chosen children's
writer Jack Prelutsky, known
for poetry books such as “The
New Kid on the Block.”
“You have so many downs
with the war and economy
and everything, it's important
to have someone with kind of
an upbeat personality,” said
commencement committee
chairwoman Martha Flinter.
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schedule,” Washington said. “This will be
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Many universities do not know yet exactly
what their speakers will talk about, however.
“You sort of get all the nuts and bolts
together in the last two or three weeks,”
explained Patrick Dilger, director of public
affairs at Southern Connecticut State
University, whose senior class will hear
actress Sigourney Weaver speak this year.
Zerges said she does not know what Blume
will speak about, but thinks “a lot of people are
just sort of hoping to hear advice on how to
take the next step into the real world.”
Many colleges say chance and having the
right connections play the biggest part in
booking famous speakers.
At Tougaloo College, President Beverly
Wade Hogan is a friend of Clinton and was
in terms of commencement.”
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in North Carolina km
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will speak at Stanford University, persord
called Stanford president John Henne«
thank him for the invitation.
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call,” said Jeff Wachtel, senior assistantSU
president. “It would be fair to say to
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