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Special to The Battalion North versus South. It seems like that phrase can be used to describe many rivalries throughout history like the Civil War and the Korean War. But there is one more rivalry that can be described in this phrase, and that is the constant dispute between sides of Texas A&M’s campus. “I love living on Northside just because of the community and the area and how once you get involved in certain things, you can get to know everybody. You can go from Neely to Walton to McInnis to Crocker and it’s like a small town. You can go and talk to everybody, and it’s like a community, where we
all know each other, and I like it a lot,” said Christina Renfroe, a sophomore environmental studies major. One distinct tradition is the slight “playful” rivalry that occurs within Northside’s dorms and between Northside and Southside. “There’s a lot of rivalry on Northside between the dorms, but it’s all good-natured rivalry, and there’s a slightly less good-natured rivalry between Northside and Southside,” said Nolan Eberly, a sophomore psychology major. Northside is a bit older, but with that age comes a distinct respect for Aggie traditions. “I feel as though Southside does not See Battle on page 6
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Special to The Battalion Students living on Southside find they gravitate toward the convenient location of the Commons. With several different eating spots and a lounge area with plenty of couches, the Commons is ideal for a large range of students who come here to study or eat. “I hang out in either this lounge or the one at Aston, you know, the one on the floor, with a bunch of couches,” said Rachel Herrod, a freshman general studies major who lives in Aston Hall. This week she has been studying for exams,
but otherwise she goes to the lounges to talk with friends and play cards. “I don’t even know what’s over there besides Sbisa,” she said, referring to Northside. Freshman Sophia Lee, who lives in Mosher, likes the Commons because “it’s pretty convenient, since the cafeteria is right here, and the library is like five minutes away.” The table tennis room at the Commons is another popular hangout spot on Southside. Junior civil engineering major Rachel Poulin, who now lives on Northside, said one thing she liked about living on Southside was having many study spots and places to eat. “I studied in the Commons a lot and ate. Now I have to go off campus to eat.” Tim Isaac— THE BATTALION
See ‘of Mud’ at Cushing Library Amber Jaura The Battalion The Sea of Mud exhibit at the Cushing Library tells the story of Mexican forces after the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21,1836. The Texans charged while the Mexican army was sleeping. Around 910 Texans in Houston’s army got away, with less than 10 casualties while, almost all of the 1300 soldiers in the Mexican army were captured or killed. Mexican Gen. Vicente Filisola, left in charge by Santa Anna, decided to pull back to Colorado to rebuild his army. The terrain they encountered on the way described by Filisola as “un Mar de Lodo,” or sea of mud. The troops with their families, camp followers and animals got stuck in the disaster with no place to sleep and mud
up to their hips. The rainstorm prevented further military action against the Texan army as it took the troops 12 days to travel 20 miles. The sea of mud influenced the events that ultimately led to the growth of the Republic of Texas. Dr. Gregg Dimmick, a graduate of Texas A&M is a pediatrician and archaeologist in Warton, Texas. He began working on this research years ago. Where history left gaps, Dimmick sought to fill them. To pinpoint the locations of the Mexican army while pulling back to Colorado and coming back to San Jacinto, he talked to many people, often translating documents to get leads. He then worked with the Houston Archeological Society, leading them to the tracks for digging. Dimmick was able to get exact locations from an extensive
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Artifacts from the retreat of Mexican forces, including coins, keys, letters, manuscripts and books, are on display in Cushing Library. array of artifacts. From horseshoes “One of my favorite artifacts to musket balls, these pieces of the in the exhibition is the cannon past tell the story untold and allow which was found with gunpowder us to map out the path taken. still in. Dr. Dimmick had to have Todd Samuelson, assistant the bomb squad called in to make professor of library science, has sure that it got removed safely and worked at Cushing for three years was made stable,” Samuelson said. and has since been working with “They ended up having to destroy the exhibition. He said the ex- the cannon but Dr. Dimmick rehibit uncovers what was a huge ally wanted to keep it so he pieced part missing of the Battle of San See Mud on page 8 Jacinto.
Student Affairs dispels movies’ fallacies month’s title was “Smashed and Trashed.” “The media tells our college students it’s The Battalion OK to consume large amounts of alcohol; it’s October is National Collegiate Alcohol what they are bombarded with in the movAwareness month and to help stuies,” said Alicia Guevara, accommodadents, staff members have to edtions counselor. ucate themselves on the latest “The media Afterward, the audience lisdrug and alcohol abuse trends tells our college tened to music related to partying and prevention methods. students it’s and alcohol. Division of Student Affairs is OK to consume “We want you to feel comfortthe center for students’ well large amounts of able discussing these issues,” Guebeing, encompassing such alcohol.” vara said, addressing the staff memdepartments as Health Serbers in the Division of Student Affairs. vices, Department of Disability Besides the usual cigarettes, hookah and Services and Student Life. Division of marijuana, the presenters mentioned abused Student Affairs presented one of the monthly prescription drugs and K2. About 8 percent of programs Wednesday in Rudder Tower; this
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computer engineering teaching assistant Le Zhang The Battalion Bjarne Stroustrup was said while he does not recognized as a Distin- teach C++, Stroustrup’s guished Professor for his implementation of basic contributions to computer programming has paved science and software devel- the way for technological advances and signifiopment at Texas A&M. Stroustrup is the inven- cantly changed computer tor of C++, a program- programming. “The course I teach uses ming language originally Pascal, a fundamental of designed for electrical C++, and I can tell you and computer engineerthat Stroustrup’s work of ing and is used widely in making the more technical fields. advanced and con“I’m sure my venient language promotion had a of C++ allows lot to do with the students can get use of C++ in ena deeper insight gineering. C++ is on computer landesigned to make guage,” Zhang said. multiple systems and “His contribution is from it a lot of good one immeasurable.” Stroustrup systems have been Since its release built,” Stroustrup in 1985, C++ has spread said. “If you use Google, extensively. Stroustrup has Photoshop, cell phones, it’s published numerous books all C++.” on programming, all transStroustrup is the college lated in different languages of engineering chairman in computer science at A&M and read around the world. and has been teaching at the He now teaches graduate classes regarding his reUniversity for eight years. Senior computer science search related to analysis on major Larry Schultz said he programs and library and used C++ all four years in language design. “I’ve had lots of people college, and he prefers this help me all these years and language as it allows him to one reason my work is approgram more freely. preciated here is that it “C++ is a highly flexbrings current knowledge ible language. You are not constrained on your coding of industry to students. I’m style as you may be with keen on fundamentals. It using Java or C program- was fundamentals 25 years ming languages,” Schultz ago and it’ll be fundamentals 25 years from now,” said. Computer science and Stroustrup said.
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bine animal science studies with art history. The students were asked to select from a group of 30 artworks that I selected as representative images across history that included livestock animals. The students had to study the art, decide what the artist was trying to say about the animals or the times they were made in and then create their own piece of artwork as a modern interpretation of the original artist’s work,” Hastedt said. The aim of the exhibit is to illuminate the varied responses to livestock art and fabricate a new paradigm for those who see domesticated animals solely as links in the human consumption system, she said. “Cattle, especially the bull, are portrayed as powerful, strong and in the case of Western art, romantic. The horse is often displayed in warfare, and to Americans, is quite romantic as well. Sheep tend to portray innocence and spirituality, while pigs are depicted much less than the other species,” said Jodi A. Sterle, associate professor of animal science and state extension swine specialist. The exhibit began as a learning experience for the students enrolled in an animal science course, “The Art and Heritage of Livestock,” to allow students the opportunity to see first-hand the importance and validity of livestock in culture. “The purpose of the exhibit is two-fold: first, to allow agricultural students a venue to be creative and be exposed to classic art, and second, to emphasize the importance of livestock to our society, both past and present,” Sterle said. Today livestock is taken for granted and not many people are exposed to the effect they have
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The exhibit “Reframing the Farm” features student artwork capturing the important relationship between mankind and animals. on both the economy and culture. “With the general population now three generations removed from the farm, it is even more important to tell the story of ‘feeding the world.’ Many people appreciate the art depicting past eras, of slower, simpler times,” Sterle said. The importance of contemporary farm values is present in current art and that of the students
participating in the exhibit. “I decided to take the picture at face value and portray an up-to-date version of it. When I looked at the piece of art, I saw an old town and old community, so I took pictures of our community and things I see today as well as things that were around before [H.O. Kelly, the artist] had completed his work,” said Ashton Ulch, a sophomore animal science major.
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Special to The Battalion Livestock have been represented in art as early as prehistoric cave paintings and continue to be represented in modern times. An upcoming on-campus art exhibit, “Re-Framing the Farm: Student Interpretations of Classic Livestock Art,” will help uncover the interaction between livestock and humanity through student artwork, allowing individuals to chart the development of this relationship through time. “The livestock image may reflect religious or cultural beliefs, used as symbols of wealth or status, serve as transportation or work purposes or they may reflect the yearning of urban society for a country life,” said Catherine The exhibit Hastedt, director of the J. reception is Wayne Stark Galleries. “The fact that livestock at 6:30 p.m. art has continued to be today in the produced from preBenz Gallery, historic times to today which is in the is a reflection of how Horticulture deeply connected we and Forest are to these animals and Science the importance they play Building. in our lives.” Livestock art has been present in society for centuries and might provide contemporary insight into the importance of domesticated animals and the impact they have had on our growth as a human race. The exhibit highlights this importance through student art based on interpretations from past work of other artists. “The idea behind the exhibition is to com-
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Aggies look to regroup after two consecutive losses Austin Meek The Battalion Despite a stout defensive effort, the Texas A&M Aggies (32, 0-1 Big 12) fell to the No. 11 Arkansas Razorbacks (4-1, 1-1 SEC) 24-17 Saturday at Cowboys Stadium. The Razorbacks came out firing as Heisman hopeful Ryan Mallett threw for three touchdown passes in the first half. The 6 foot 6 inch quarterback eluded defenders all throughout the first half, connecting with his receivers on touchdown strikes from nine, 71 and six yards out. Defensive coordinator Tim DeRuyter said he thinks that the defense has played very well in spurts, but not with
enough consistency. “We’ve got to outplay the opponent’s defense, and the last two weeks we haven’t done that,” he said. “The opponent’s defense has played better than our defense. They forced more takeaways than ours did. We’ve got to look at it that way — that if we play better than the opponent’s defense, we’ll win.” It would be difficult for any squad to equalize the A&M offense’s turnover margin. Through five games, the Aggies have committed 17 turnovers — worst in the Football Bowl Subdivision. The A&M skill players fumbled three times inside the Aggies’ 40-yard line. DeRuyter, however, looks at every turnover as an opportunity for his defense.
“A turnover can be an opportunity for an offense to have great momentum, but we talk about it in the reverse,” DeRuyter said. “We stop them, make them kick, now we’ve demoralized them.” The defense stepped up to DeRuyter’s challenge in the second half. After heading into the break with a 21-14 deficit following touchdowns from sophomore running back Christine Michael and Jeff Fuller, the Aggies held the Razorbacks to three points the entire second half, including zero points in the fourth quarter. “We played more sound, technique football,” senior safety Trent Hunter said. “We just kind of came out and did what we said we were going to do in practice. We communicated a little bit
better even though we still had one or two busts, but for the most part we came out and we communicated and got lined up and played with good effort.” Junior receiver Jeff Fuller had another solid day out wide for the Aggies, totaling eight catches for 154 yards and a touchdown. “He imposes problems for defenses,” Johnson said. “If anybody decides to try to match him up man to man, you know one on one against him, I like my chances with Jeff.” The Aggies will return to Kyle Field for the first time in nearly a month when they take on the No. 19 Missouri Tigers (5-0, 1-0 Big 12) at 11:10 a.m. Saturday.
Above: The Aggie defensive line lines up in A&M’s 24-17 loss to No. 11 Arkansas Saturday at Cowboys Stadium. Left: Sophomore running back Christine Michael looks for some room to run.
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dent Bonfire. “Bonfire is actually what holds all the dorms together these days. It used to be ResLife back in Old Army, but right now it’s the only thing that’s actually keeping these dorms alive with their traditions and their unity. It’s because of the fact that there are Bonfire crews in their dorms. Crew chiefs serve like a hall president almost more than the actual hall president does,” Eberly said. There are many spots where Northside residents can go to and hang out, whether they are University supplied or not.
“Nine times out of 10, I can come down to these tables I’m sitting at right here [outside of McInnis] and there will just be a ton of people here playing dominos or anything like that,” Eberly said. Whether Northside residents are having fun at Bernie’s or Sbisa Dining Center for dorm dinners, there is a physical sense of tradition that cannot be ignored. “I love Northside, and everyone is friendly. I want to live off campus next year, but I am glad I was here for my first year,” said Emilie Valles, freshman psychology major.
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texas FEMA denies aid to Texas for storm recovery Gov. Rick Perry said Monday that he may appeal a decision by the federal government to deny his request for emergency aid to help Texas recover from damage caused by Tropical Storm Hermine. President Barack Obama’s administration rejected Perry’s Sept. 20 request for a major disaster declaration and about $6.8 million in aid for 13 counties. The storm killed eight people, including seven in Texas, and destroyed nearly 200 homes, according to the governor’s request letter. But Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, wrote in a letter to the governor Friday that the storm’s “severity and magnitude� did not exceed state capabilities.
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UK opens inquiry into bombing deaths An inquiry into the 2005 London suicide bombings opened Monday, with victims’ family members reliving their nightmares as details poured out about the slow response to the attacks, confusion on the ground and how the bombers were seen laughing as they traveled to the city to commit mass murder. Some relatives of the 52 commuters slain on July 7, 2005 wept in court as they heard conversations recorded just after the explosions.
Israel PM offers conditional building freeze Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said for the ďŹ rst time that he would extend the settlement restrictions in the West Bank — if the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish national homeland. The idea, while innocuous to Israel’s supporters, is widely seen as undermining the rights of Arab Israelis, and was immediately rejected by the Palestinians. The expiration of Israel’s 10-month moratorium on new settlement building two weeks ago thrust the month-old U.S.led peace negotiations into crisis. The Palestinians are refusing to continue negotiating with Israel as long as settlement building continues. Associated Press
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comes a distinct respect for Aggie traditions. “I feel as though Southside does not participate in a lot of traditions. I go over to Southside because I have friends down there and they’ve never even heard of some of the traditions I try and tell them about, and I believe that most of the traditions on campus stay strong on Northside,” Renfroe said. One of the more prominent traditions students see passing through Northside is Student Bonfire. “Bonfire is actually what holds all the dorms together these days. It used to be ResLife back in Old Army, but right now it’s the only thing that’s actually keeping these dorms alive with their traditions and their unity. It’s because of the fact that
there are Bonfire crews in their dorms. Crew chiefs serve like a hall president almost more than the actual hall president does,” Eberly said. There are many spots where Northside residents can go to and hang out, whether they are University supplied or not. “Nine times out of 10, I can come down to these tables I’m sitting at right here [outside of McKinnis] and there will just be a ton of people here playing dominos or anything like that,” Eberly said. Whether Northside residents are having fun at Bernie’s, the Underground, at Sbisa Dining Center for dorm dinners, or just wandering the north side of campus, there is a physical sense of tradition that cannot be ignored. “I love Northside, and everyone is super friendly. I want to live off-campus next year, but I am glad I was here for my first year,” said Emilie Valles, a freshman psychology major.
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Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The state announced Monday it is selling 24 government office buildings — including the Ronald Reagan State Building in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Civic Center — to a group of private investors for $2.3 billion. Ron Diedrich, acting director of the California Department of General Services, announced it selected the offer from California First LLC, a partnership led by a Texas real estate firm and an Orange County private equity firm. About $1 billion of the sale will be used to pay off bonds on the buildings, leaving more than $1.2 billion to go into the state’s general fund. “After an extensive review of more than 300 bids that were received, I have determined that this offer presents the best value for the state,” Diedrich said in a statement. “This sale will allow us to bring in desperately needed revenues and free the state from the ongoing costs and risks of owning real estate.” Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers included the sale as part of the state budget last week. The Republican
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governor said California had received solid offers to sell the 24 buildings on 11 parcels and then rent that space back for 20 years at market rates. It’s unclear how the current deal will work out for taxpayers over the long run, but there have been concerns. The Associated Press reported earlier this year that the deal would end up costing the state $5.2 billion in rent over 20 years, perhaps saddling taxpayers with costs beyond whatever the state would net from the sale. Three of the properties already are paid off, while four others were expected to be paid off in the next five years. The nonpartisan legislative analyst’s office also warned that selling the properties then renting back the space could cost the state an additional $1.5 billion, based on a 35-year projection. And a study by Beacon Economics reached a similar conclusion by looking at a 30year period. That study was commissioned by the Service Employees International Union Local 1000, the largest state employee union. The Legislature will have 30 days to review the sale but cannot make any changes because
of a provision in the budget package passed last year that authorized the sale. Legislation introduced this year that would have given oversight of the matter to lawmakers was killed in committee. The state said it received more than 300 offers to purchase the buildings back in April. A second round of offers came in May, 11 of which exceeded the state’s $2 billion estimate. Some of those buildings being sold include the attorney general’s office and the California Emergency Management Agency in Sacramento, the Elihu M. Harris building in Oakland, and the Judge Joseph A. Rattigan building in Santa Rosa. The portfolio includes 7.3 million square feet of office space, which amounts to about 2½ times the Empire State Building’s floor space. Diedrich said the department recommended California First LLC based on the buyer’s financial capabilities and the terms of its offer. The consortium is led by Hines, a privately owned real estate firm headquartered in Houston, and Antarctic Capital Real Estate LLC an international private equity firm.
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n old proverb states “no one lives in a golden age.” While most treasure the four or five years spent in college for the rest of their lives, the arduous trials and tests everyone experiences are often overlooked by revisionist history. When the icy cold hand of graduation claims your college life, remember these struggles as you reminiscence. It may seem depressing to drudge up the most depressing experiences of your college career, but it is just as important to take the bad with the good. To hear parents and former students talk, Aggieland sounds more like Alcohol Land, where no one ever gets bored, frustrated or hung over. In the time between partying and prolonged visits to Northgate, at some point every student will have to study something. In high school, undoubtedly some gung-ho advisor stretched the truth, implying everyone is allowed to choose all your own courses and schedule during college. Those moving on were promised classes only on Tuesday/Thursday and only bowling and the cushiest courses relevant to your major would be required. After the first meeting with your grown-up, college academic advisor, the lies that lured you into college became apparent. Not only did you have to learn in college, but you had learn things seemingly no one has
an interest in. Liberal arts major? Enjoy taking 8 hours of G.P.A. sabotaging science courses. Trying to start a career in nuclear physics? Have fun deciphering Proust to fulfill your EngIan McPhail lish requirements. Studying for tests loaded up on senior history major, voices editor Red Bull and caffeinate beverages still awaiting approval from the FDA is hard enough in subjects that prepare you for your career. After college, you won’t want to remember those nights when you set the alarm for 3:45 A.M to wake up and continue studying for an archaeology class that was less like Indiana Jones than you thought, but those were the moments that built (or irreparably damaged) your academic career. Of course studying would be easier if that’s all you had to focus on. When we aren’t in school, most of us have jobs; menial, low-paying, soul-sucking jobs that remind us why we need to earn a degree. Minimum wage really feels too minimal to survive on when school only allows you to work 20 hours a week. It’s doubtful after you leave slave-wages behind and earn a salary, you’ll want to the remember the
times your steady diet of Ramen Noodles and When you can afford to either live on your whatever you can steal from Sibsa leaves you as own or with someone you actually know, malnourished as Kate Moss. all grown up you’ll wonder how exactly you Poverty determines not only where you’ll managed to live a semester with an exchange live, but who you’ll live with. Living in the student whose pungent cooking seemed dorms, students are already accustomed to being designed to draw every roach in the zip code randomly assigned roommates of dubious deto your kitchen. Your own peculiar domestic meanors and dispositions. When sleeping partnership might be ruined by a more across from a roomie who doesn’t amorous relationship, which is seem familiar with where the almost as awkward as the same showers are located no longer situation in the dorms, unless seems tenable, an actual wall the walls in your house were Too many graduates between you two will seem meant to withstand a megaonly remember the like the solution to all your ton blast and the screams good aspects of domestic disputes. that ensue. If this becomes college. The bad “I had a roommate who a regular occurrence, the moments make A&M regularly would leave the only memories you have an experience. bathroom in every kind of with this roomie might be a unmentionable mess,” said repressed ones. Joel Hillin, sophomore general This is not to say every exstudies major. “I don’t know when perience you have at college will he managed to make the bathroom a be a negative, or even most of them. bio hazard, as I never saw him in 3 months.” Everyone prefer to remember the good times, But even off-campus, roommate options even if it means shoving the miserable moaren’t always forthcoming. Finding somewhere ments to the back of your memory. But bad and someone within your price range can retimes are often the experiences that profoundly quire spinning the Craigslist roulette wheel and shape your character, teaching us the things hoping the spinner doesn’t land on completely we needed to know but would have preferred sucks. never to learn.
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at school. few weekends ago I “I come from a Latin made my first trip American heritage so the Mexican food back home this semester home is a hundred to stereotypical-smalltimes better than anything you’re going po-dunk town, also Caleb Wilson to find in College Staknown as Fairfield. tion,” Barrera said. junior history What is she trying Don’t worry, it was major to say about Rosa’s? during the football Anyway, part of the team’s bye week so I’m free food deal is that you have to actuspend time with your family. That still a 98 percenter. I love ally wouldn’t be a problem if awkward going back to see family relatives didn’t exist, but everyone’s got them. They never fail to ask those because it always proves annoying questions that can’t posto be an experience like sibly be known like “Why don’t you have a girlfriend,” “What’s no other. Though, what first comes to mind about going home is free food. Those are a college kid’s two favorite words. Mac ‘n’ cheese and Spaghetti-Os are great, but it’s tough to top home cooked meals made with only a mama’s love. I also enjoy taking the liberty of raiding everything in sight in the pantry. It’s an excellent time to stock up for the winter months, or any season for that matter. Kaylan Barrera, a senior communications and sociology double major, said she much prefers the cuisine in her hometown of Edinburg than
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conducted at the University of Michigan and Middlebury College found that the average first year student communicated with their parents over 13 times a week. Chas Holder, a freshman wildlife and fisheries sciences major, had the chance to go home to Lubbock on Labor Day weekend. “I liked having my family and all my friends back home that I could go back to while I’m making the transition into college,” Holder said. Staying in touch with old friends becomes increasingly difficult in college because everyone goes off in a differthe meaning of life,” and ent direction. It’s nice to Take even more important, catch up when you’re advantage of “What are you goboth in town. Just be ing to do with that wary of those who still your parents major?” My extended wear their high school and go visit family still think I’m letterman jacket. them. joking when I say that For students who live in I’m scoping out bridges to dorms, going home for the live under after college. weekend reconnects them with one But even with peculiar relatives, of their most missed comforts, their visiting the fam isn’t so bad. Especially bed. My freshman year I looked for for those in the class of 2014 (don’t any reason not to sleep on the poor feel obligated to stand up and do the excuse I had for a bed, which I affecwildcat wave), being without Mom tionately called the crater. and Dad can be tough. A 2006 study A good way to gauge when you
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should go back home is when you have exhausted all of your clean clothes. Moms are always trying to broker deals for you to come see them, so they’re often thrilled to do your laundry. But for some students just getting home is a challenge because they live across or outside of the state. Sometimes financial issues make it impossible for them to go home
during the semester. Students who are fortunate enough to live within driving distance to home though shouldn’t pass on visiting their parents. That doesn’t mean you have to go home every weekend, but don’t wait until Thanksgiving or Christmas to see your family, even if they hound you with those awkward questions.
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Water Ski Club qualifies for Nationals Megan Ryan The Battalion The students from the Texas A&M Water Ski Club were the underdogs going into the regional tournament Oct. 2, but the team took their Aggie spirit into the lake and onto the skis and managed to beat the University of Texas at Austin, which qualified them to participate in Division I Nationals Oct. 14. “We got focused and trained hard in the events we needed to see some improvement,” said Will Stevenson, president of the team and sophomore nuclear engineering major. “Everyone on the team did a great job of making time in their schedule to get to the lake and practice, and the results are obvious.” The Aggies beat the Longhorns for the first time in seven years, and for some of the club members, it was a huge relief. “Some people on our team have been working hard for four years for this moment,” said Kaitlin Dunlap, promotional director for the team and junior English major. “We deserved this victory and we are going to represent A&M in Division I with the most [Aggie] spirit collegiate water skiing has ever seen.” Division I Nationals is comprised of the top three teams from each of the four regions of the National Collegiate Water Ski Association. “It’s a big tournament, and anything can happen,” Stevenson said. “We aren’t expected to find a place on the podium, but we’ll work hard the next
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◗ For more information on the club, Visit http://waterskiclub.tamu.edu. week and lay it all on the line come tournament time.” World-class skiers will be competing at Nationals, and Dunlap said that will be the team’s biggest challenge. “Division I is filled with nationally ranked skiers, some of which are professionals, who we won’t stand a chance against,” she said. “It will be fun to watch all of them ski though.” Dunlap said the team is prepared and excited for Nationals, but doing their best means making a team effort. “We have grown and developed our skills so much over the past couple of years,” she said. “Everyone knows the events that they are good at, and we work at becoming better at them. Being a team means not just depending on one person, and that is exactly how we operate. Everyone worked hard for this and played a key role in making it to Division I.” The club accepts Aggies yearround, and encourages skiers of all levels to join. “We love to have people come out Stephanie Leichtle — THE BATTALION to the lake,” said Laura Zimmerman, secretary for the club and sophomore Landen Ehlers, a freshman construction science applied exercise physiology major. major, shows his Aggie spirit while skiing barefoot. “Whether you want to learn how to ski, watch the team practice, or just come and tan, we love to see people on the shore, or behind the boat.”
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