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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, APRILS. 1978
Kyle Field will serve as the site Summer school Cruise is
of world’s largest volleyball game
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By DOUG GRAHAM
Battlaion Staff
The silly season is upon us. The
calm scholarly pursuit of nuclear
knowledge in the Cyclotron is stop
ping, and the endless scurrying of
professors trying to get published is
ceasing.
More important things are being
wafted in the soft spring breeze.
Things like establishing a
stupendous new world record for
Texas A&M University. A record in
the Guinness Book of World Rec
ords.
A Texas A&M student is planning
to set a new record by holding the
biggest volleyball game ever in Kyle
Field.
Paul Jackson, the originator of the
idea, said that on April 22, at 11
a.m., 4,000 Aggies will gather to do
battle with almost 6,000 spectators
in the stands.
The entire happening will be a
festival of Spring fever. “This is the
time Spring fever hits us most,”
Jackson said, “and the best cure is
this giant volleyball game.”
Yell leaders will give the rules to
the crowd. Students will take sides
according to whether they live on or
off campus. The Corps of Cadets
will play for the off-campus students
if the sides are too uneven.
Line judges will be present, and
the rules will be modified for the
game. However, the rules will be
basically the same, Jackson said.
The realization may finally dawn
on the smiling crowd in Kyle Field
that the volleyball game was but a
ruse, a ruse to get all 4,000 of them
into the unrelenting grip of the silly
season.
Texas A&M University offers its
entering freshmen a unique
academic opportunity. For two
months in the summer, students can
earn six credit hours in the Summer
School at Sea program aboard the
T/S Texas Clipper, a 15,000-ton
training ship of the Texas Maritime
Academy.
The program is a cooperative ef
fort between the Moody College
and the College of Liberal Arts at
Texas A&M. The nine-week cruise
begins June 10 in Galveston.
Summer school students are
enrolled in the Corps of Cadets of
the Texas Maritime Academy.
Known aboard ship as prep cadets,
these students are required to clean
their rooms, assist in shipboard
maintenance and operation, and
help with food services. Besides a
work-study program for prep
cadets, the nine week cruise is part
of required training for Maritime
Academy cadets pursuing U.S.
Coast Guard licensing in the Mer
chant Marines.
“The cadets really like it. It is a
unique experience, said David
Schob, associate professor of history
at Texas A&M. Schob teaches a his
tory course on the cruise which he
has attended seven times in the past
14 years.
Entering freshmen can earn six
credit hours in English 103, History
105, or Math 104. The fee for Texas
residents in $944, while it is $1,134
for out-of-state residents.
“All the classes were held at sea,
usually Monday through Thursday,
while on the remaining days in dif
ferent foreign ports we went sight
seeing,” said Scott Thompson, a
junior mechanical engineering
major from Houston. Thompson
went on the cruise in the summer of
1975, before he entered A&M the
following fall as a freshman.
Thompson said his favorite stop
was Aruba Island off the coast of
Venezuela.
“There were some really great
beaches there,” he said.
However, from Santo Domingo to
Caracas it was a rough voyage.
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“Our class was dismissed whem
guy got sick,” Thompson said.
Schob recalled the same type in J
cident, but he said that mostoftlr
voyage was very pleasant.
“Sleeping on the ship is lit*
sleeping in a cradle. No onehasam
sleeping problems. I love it,"U If ye
said. jL&M l
This summer the ship will leavtuot vol
Galveston June 10 and travel in adviser
ports at Dry Tortugas (an islanjtion pr:
halfway between Florida and Cuba The
Norfolk, Va.; Fort de France, Mar.studen
tinique; Balboa, Panama Canalwelcon
Zone; Calloa, Peru; Cristobaltheir o
Panama Canal Zone; Vera Cruu The ;
Mexico; Tampa, Fla.; Beaumontineomi
Texas. The cruise returns to Galveieontact
ton on Aug. 6. Broxim
Only 40 to 50 prep cadets art The
permitted on the cruise, so theretyears a
a great deal of competition betweerdent at
the many applicants, Schob said.ftganizeJ
those, only 14 girls are accepted, student
Four years ago, only four or fivj| Thii
girls applied. Last year quite a fes^e prc
girls applied and about 12 were arrears tl
cepted, he said. Ke aft
“Teaching on a ship is a uniqinPis ye
experience,” Schob said. to try I
He recalled a time when all tlJhe ort
students tried to make him sickliRshmi
rocking their desks back and foriffls k
They wanted him to dismiss clas About
but he didn’t. Then one day whjMfch p
he was pointing at a map the sb; Hilti
rocked rather violently, and hesu sr s W >H
denly found himself on the otbPeriod
side of the room. Events like tbe& rst n >
don’t occur in classrooms on ^
Texas A&M campus.
Prep cadets on the ship haul
many of the luxuries they haveij
home.
"The meals are fantastic,” Sd
said. They also have a ship rai
operator on board who can pafcg j
calls home to the students’ famifol A
“The Summer School at SeaprJ
gram is the most unique and vaki ^ rt
able program A&M has to offers!; q ’j
dents,” Schob said. 1 ,
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from high school are eligible topi|
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