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February 29 1980
Abilene Christian University
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Gayle Yelman freshman psychology major skies and warm
from La Mesa Calif. celebrates the spring relief from the
sunshine with a game of Frisbee. The clear storms.
Students favor Reagan military draft in presidential poll
By STEVEN DELANEY
Optimist SUtt
The majority of ACU students
who participated in a presidential
opinion poll last Thursday
favored former California Gov.
Ronald Reagan for president and
showed their preference for
military draft.
The poll was part of a voter
registration drive sponsored by
the Young Americans for
Freedom organization in which
350 ACU students took part and
Frisbee Toss
156 were registered to vote in
Taylor County.
Sixty percent of the students
favored the draft for men while
only 23 percent favored the draft
for women.
Opposing the! draft for men
were 38 percent and 74 percent
opposed it for women.
Among the top candidates in
the race for the presidency were
Reagan who received 107 votes
for 31 percent; President Carter
who received 86 votes for 25
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percent; and former Texas Gov.
John Connally who received 58
votes for 17 percent.
Other candidates receiving
votes were George Bush with 44;
Sen. Howard Baker R-Tenn.
with 20; Sen. Ted Kennedy D-
Mass. with 12; California Gov.
Jerry Brown with 11 and Rep.
John Anderson Rill. with four.
Sixty-eight percent of the
participants voted for
Republicans compared to 31
percent voting for Democrats.
Basketball
to finance
An all-night basketball game to
benefit the Spring Break Cam-
paign starts immediately after
chapel today and runs through 10
a.m. Saturday.
The campaign this year is
March 14-22 and groups will go to
St. Louis Mo. and Boston Mass.
Members of the senior class
and freshman class will play
against members of the
sophomore and junior classes in
the basketball game.Participants
have been seeking sponsors to
pledge a certain amount of
money for each hour of the game.
In past years all-night
basketball games raising money
for the campaign have been
played by men's social clubs.
John Tyson junior Bible major
from Hurst and coordinator of the
campaign said classes are
playing this year to increase
participation and also to increase
the money received.
"We had some people express
interest in playing who aren't
members of a social club" he
said "and this will give them an
opportunity to participate. We're
hoping to have more than 100
play."
Tim Willis junior Bible major
from Abilene is coordinating the
game and student volunteers
will referee the game.
Tyson said the total cost of the
campaign is roughly $30000 and
most of that is for travel ex-
penses. Campaigners are to raise half
their money themselves through
appeals to their home
congregation. Also appeals have
been made to social clubs and
local congregations for
donations and $2500 from Sing
Song proceeds were donated to
the campaign.
About 35 students will go to St.
Louis and about 80 will go to
Boston. Tyson will -head the
Boston group and' Jack
Rosenquist junior Bible major
from Dallas will head the St.
Louis group.
Members of the congregations
in the two cities McKnight Road
Church of Christ in St. Louis and
Burlington Road in Boston will
Of the voters who identified
themselves as Democrats 26
percent supported the
Republican party while five
percent of the Republicans
crossed over to vote Democratic.
"Although Reagan appears to
be the most popular on campus"
said Ed Reed YAF -president
"the strong finish by the
President shows a popularity
increase which could be at-
tributed to his handling of the
Iranian crisis."
marathon
campaign
house the campaigners. Cost of
the trip to Boston is $300 for each
student and the cost of the trip to
St. Louis is $80 per student.
The St. Louis group will leave
March 13 by bus and the Boston
group will leave March 14 by
plane.
Campaigners will attend Bible
classes in the morning and knock
doors irt the afternoon to invite
residents to'seminars which arc
sponsored by the local
congregations.
Stanley Shipp director of the
internship at the McKnight Road
church will speak at the meeting
in St. Louis.
Randy Bccton a member of the
Highland Church of Christ in
Abilene will speak in Boston.
A retreat is planned for next
weekend to help students prepare
for the campaign Tyson said.
Bill Luttrell minister of
evangelism at Hillcrest Church of
Christ will give some
suggestions on personal
evangelism.
"It won't be a canned ap-
proach" Tyson said. "He will
teach some important points and
there will be some role-play ing."
Tyson said there will be time
for students to get acquainted at
the retreat but it mostly will be
instructional.
The campaign has three
purposes he said. These pur-
poses are to evangelize to train
students to evangelize and to
expose students to geographic
areas of the country where the
church is not strong.
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