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January 19, 1982
&M students ski without snow on Mount Aggie
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by Eddie Elms
Battalion Reporter
If Aggies can indeed move
xmtains, Mount Aggie will
ve a new location by next
nesten
Dr. Leonard Ponder, head of
: health and physical educa-
'n department, said he would
etosee the artificial mountain
wed because changes are
:eded on it for ski classes to
ntinue at Texas A&M Univer-
Mount Aggie, built in 1976,
as intended for temporary use
ily. Now, after five years of
se, it must be redone, moved
id reconstructed or done away
ithcompletely, Ponder said.
The final decision to move
iount Aggie will be made by the
aster Planning Committee
laired by Dr. Charles H. Sam-
n,vice president for planning.
One of the main considera-
is in moving Mount Aggie is
t. However, Ponder said the
t of the project will not be
brained until plans have
tn drawn.
If the Department of Health
d Physical Education cannot
3rd to finance the project
with its reserve fund, the money
will come from the maintenance
modification program, the pres
ident’s office, the chancellor’s
of fice or the Texas A&M System
Board of Regents.
1 f the slope is moved, it will be
rebuilt as a permanent struc
ture, Ponder said. The base of
the new slope probably would be
concrete poured over a mound
of dirt . A building would be con
structed at the new slope to store
.
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by Eddie Elms
Battalion Reporter
Aggieland in winter doesn’t
usually resemble the Colorado
ski slopes, but with Mount
Aggie, Texas A&M students still
have the opportunity to learn
how to ski.
Mount Aggie, a man-made,
ractice ski slope, has been used
y University physical education
classes since 1976 to teach stu
dents how to snow ski, even
though snow rarely graces its
slopes.
“We are quite unique in that
area,” Rick Beelby, coordinator
of the ski program, said. The
only other university with a
man-made ski slope is Wichita
State University in Wichita, Kan.
“The tremendous benefit of
this kind of thing is to allow the
student to learn how to ski be
fore he goes skiing,” Beelby said.
People can save a great amount
of money by learning on Mount
Aggie instead of at the ski slopes,
he said.
Some students enrolled in the
classes have no skiing ex
perience; others take the course
to improve their skills, Beelby
said.
Gas flow
to plants
frozen
United Press International
DALLAS — Lone Star Gas
Co. officials cut off gas to 150
industrial and electric generat
ing plants over the weekend be
cause of excessive demand
brought on by cold weather.
Lone Star spakesman Breck
Harris said the cuts affected an
area bordered by the Red River
on the north, Abilene on the
west, Georgetown on the south
and Greenville on the east. He
said no residential customers
were affected, and the company
did not see any serious problems
since most of the plants were
closed down for the weekend.
About 450 students were en
rolled in the 16 sections of ski
classes offered in the fall semes
ter. Each section had fewer than
30 people, with beginning and
experienced skiers combined in
the classes.
This year, 15 sections of ski
classes will be offered and each
section will be limited to 30 stu
dents. Registration for physical
education classes started Tues
day and all sections of the ski
classes are still open. Students in
this class must pay a $25 fee for
ski rental.
Conditioning classes for ex
perienced skiers started at
Texas A&M in 1973. The only
skiing done by the first class was
on a class trip to Colorado dur
ing Christmas break because
there was no skiing surface here.
Dr. George Jessup, former
head of the ski program, said
beginning classes were started
because students who didn’t
know how to ski were interested
in the program.
The first beginners’ classes
were taught on the grassy slope
near where Mount Aggie stands.
Students learned to put on and
adjust their skis and the diffe
rent ski positions.
The third year a small slope
was built with artificial snow and
“interest went sky high,” Jessup
said.
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Moving Mount Aggie to the
grassy area north of the Penber-
thy Intramural Complex is one
possibility, Ponder said. This
move would put Mount Aggie in
a lighted area, making night ski
classes possible, he said.
If a new mountain is to be
built, Ponder said, Mount Aggie
will not he dismantled until the
new one is finished.
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