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into the Traditions supplement.
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College Station, Texas
Monday, August 29, 1983
terry hits Mexico,
:auses little damage
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Untied Press International
MATAMOROS, Mexico— Hurri-
me Barry, which set off a frenzy of
mie buying, finally made landfall at
desolate spot on the Mexican coast
id caused almost no damage or in-
ries.
The worst of Hurricane Barry hit
lore early Sunday afternoon along
ic desolate Mexican coast 30 miles
Kith of the Texas border and lost
rength almost immediately.
Around the central plaza in Mata-
interrupt
moros, a border city of 300,000,
stores and shops early Sunday re
ported panic buying by residents who
feared the storm would
food supplies.
Luis Felipe Rojas, a Tamaulipas
statejudicial policeman, said he drove
through the area where the eye of the
hurricane reportedly came ashore —
30 miles south of the Texas border —
but saw no damage.
Rojas and his partner, Mario Hur
tado, said several cars skidded off the
narrow highway onto the muddy
shoulder at the height of the storm.
After threatening to hit Texas all
day Saturday, Barry changed direc
tion during the night and headed for
the Mexican coast Sunday.
Judicial police in the state of
Tamaulipas reported a group of
fishermen at the coastal village of La
Pesca had asked for help, but there
were no reports of injuries as the
storm blew inland.
Information for first
week of school released
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Filling station
staff photo by Eric Evan Lee
Wayne Grabein, a
refills his bucket
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junior marketing major from Houston,
in a Davis-Gary Hall bathroom. Residents
of Davis-Gary Hall and Moses Hall had a water fight on the
lawn in front of Davis-Gary Hall Sunday night.
Important dates, events and information students
should know for the fall are listed below:
— All sports and football ticket books can be picked up
this week at the north end ticket booth behind DeWare
Field House. Non-student tickets are also on sale there.
— Football tickets w ill be issued this week according to
student classification. Seniors can pick up tickets on Mon
day, juniors on T uesday, sophomores on Wednesday and
freshmen on Thursday. Ticket pick-up begins each
morning at 8.
— Parking stickers can be picked up this week at the
University Police Station from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
— Shuttle passes can be picked up this week in the
Rudder Tower lobby from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
— A student book exchange, sponsored by Student
Government, will be held in the Memorial Student Center
this week. Students can bring in any books they wish to sell
as long as the books are still being used by the University.
Students set their own sale prices for their books and
Student Government catalogues those prices. Anyone
interested in buying books can look through the lists of
books and prices and decide from who they want to buy
books. Student Government is charging a 25 cent hand
ling fee for each book.
— Sign-ups for placement interview's begin today in the
Placement Center on the 10th floor of Rudder Tower.
— The Class of ’84 is sponsoring a Welcome Back
dance tonight following All-U night. The dance will be at
the Texas Hall of Fame located on F.M. 2818.
— The first day to order graduation announcements is
Sept. 1. Orders are taken on the second floor of the MSC.
— The last day to add classes is September 2. The last
day to drop courses with no record is September 13.
— The first Midnight Yell Practice of the year is Friday
in Kyle Field.
— The first home football game of the year is at 6 p.m.
Saturday. Texas A&M will play University of California.
— Senior rings are expected to arrive around Septem
ber 12.
— To receive senior rings in December, seniors need to
order them by September 9 and leave their names in the
ring office in Heaton Hall one week in advance. The ring
office uses this week to check transcripts to verify if stu
dents have enough hours to order rings.
— The deadline for applying for a degree this semester
is September 9. Seniors need to pay a $15 diploma fee at
the fiscal office. Undergraduate students need to take the
receipt to Heaton Hall and graduate students need to
take receipts to the Graduate College in the Teague Re
search Center.
— The last day to order graduation announcements
for December is September 30.
— Yearbooks are tentatively scheduled to arrive by the
end of September.
— Silver Taps is Tuesday, September 6 at 10:30 p.m.
by the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue.
First yell
happens
tonight
by Christine Mallon
Battalion Staff
The first yell practice of the year
will be held at All-University Night
tonight at 7:30 in G. Rollie White Col
iseum.
Head Football Coach and Athletic
Director Jackie Sherrill, his coaching
staff and the Texas Aggie football
team will join the yell leaders, Univer
sity officials and student leaders in
officially welcoming all new and old
students to Texas A&M.
Head yell leader Jeff Crofton says
tonight will be an informal gathering
where students — especially fresh
men — can meet old and new friends
and at the same time learn the yells in
time for the first midnight yell prac
tice on Friday.
Sherrill will make some opening
remarks and introduce members of
the football team. Crofton will intro
duce the other four yell leaders.
Dr. John J. Koldus, vice president
for student services, and Student
Body President, Joe Jordan also will
address the audience.
Most students will attend with
members of their dormitories. Corps
outfits or off-campus organizations.
Today would be a good time for
freshmen to learn their dorm yells
and traditions, since All-U Night
usually turns into a yelling contest be
tween dorms, Crofton said.
The program probably will last ab
out an hour, Crofton said. He said he
would strongly encourage all new and
returning students to go to G. Rollie
White tonight to get back into the
swing of Aggie spirit.
Enrollment figures up
esidence halls overbooked
YARD
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by Michelle Powe
Battalion Staff
The residence halls are overbooked
lagain this semester and 326 people
[are living in study carrels in Aston
[and Mosher Halls or have been tri-
Ipled in dormitory rooms. But Tom
IMurray, supervisor for housing ser-
[vices, says the housing office over-
[books the residence halls purposely to
[compensate for ‘no-shows.’
The housing office knows that
home people who have reserved a
[room will not show up, Murray says,
ho it overassigns students to residence
jhalls to fill those empty spaces. Stu-
Idents who have not checked into their
Irooms by 5 p.m. today will lose their
room and forfeit their room deposit.
Murray says the housing office will
reassign students without rooms on
Wednesday, and will try to inform the
students of their room assignments by
that evening. The housing office also
will approve hall changes on
Wednesday.
After the students living in study
carrels and three-to-a-room are
accommodated, Murray says, the
housing office will take walk-ons. Stu
dents who are not living in a residence
hall but would like to may sign a wait
ing list and may be assigned to a dor
mitory room if there are any open-
ings.
Priority will be given to freshmen,
Murray says. Eighty percent of the
room assignments will be given to
freshmen, 10 percent will be given to
returning students and 10 percent
will be given to transfer students.
The demand for on-campus hous
ing exceeds the supply. According to
the Division of Student Services, only
2,800 new freshmen out of 5,800 re
ceived a space on campus in the fall of
1982.
While there may be a shortage of
on-campus housing, temporary or
otherwise, there is no such shortage
off campus. According to the Off
Campus Center, there are 120 apart
ment complexes listed with the office
this fall compared to 85 apartment
complexes in the fall of 1980. The in
crease in building has resulted in an 8
percent drop in apartment prices in
the last year.
Louann Schulze, coordinator for
the Off Campus Center, says students
are benefiting from that surplus*
inside
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Local 3
Opinions 2
Sports 13
State 5
forecast
Today will be partly cloudy with
a 20 percent chance of thunder
showers. The high will be in the
lower 90s with southerly winds
from 5 to 10 miles per hour.
Tonight will be fair with lows in the
mid 70s. Tuesday will be sunny and
hot with highs in the mid 90s with
southerly winds from 5 to 10 mph.
Home-educated teenager
begins classes at Harvard
United Press International
BOONVILLE, Calif. — A teenager
who was educated entirely by his pa
rents at home on a backwoods ranch is
among 2,200 freshmen entering Har
vard University this week.
Grant Colfax, 18, who grew up
without television or telephone, was
educated by his father, David Colfax,
a Ph.D. in sociology and former pro
fessor, and his mother, Mickey Col
fax, a former high school English
teacher.
Colfax, who scored in the top 5
percent of high school seniors on col
lege entrance exams, says Harvard
“didn’t take me because I may or may
not be intelligent. They took me be
cause I’m unique.”
Grant also won admission to Yale
but said he chose the Cambridge,
Mass., university because of its pre
medical program.
The Colfaxes chucked the acade
mic life 11 years ago and moved to the
mountains of Mendocino County.
They established Mountain School
with state approval so their four boys,
the only pupils, could be legally
taught at home.
by Christine Mallon
Battalion Staff
About 36,500 Texas A&M stu
dents are expected to begin classes
this week — a slight increase over
the number of students enrolled at
this time last year, a University
official says.
Associate Registrar Donald P.
Carter estimated that 36,000 stu
dents had registered as of last Fri
day. Late registration begins today
and Carter estimated that about
500 more students will complete
registration this week.
Official enrollment for the
1982 fall semester was 36,127.
Carter said the reason the amount
hasn’t risen much since last year
probably is because of tougher en
trance requirements for incom-
imng freshmen.
Incoming freshmen w r ho gra
duated in the top 10 percent of
their senior class are not required
to have a minimum Scholastic
Aptitude Test score. Those in the
top quarter of their class must have
a minimum score of 800 on the
test, second quarter must have a
950 minimum, third quarter must
have a 1,100 minimum and bottom
quarter must have scored at least a
1,200.
Carter said he is expecting ab
out 5,500 to 6,000 freshmen to be
enrolled this fall, which is approxi
mately the same as last fall.
Harvey Striegler, head of trans
C0/VTENT5
3C,000 STOPE-i
fer admissions, said he expects ab
out 2,500 transfer students to en
roll. Striegler said transfer admis
sions policies have become stricter
here over the last two years. Not as
many transfers have been
accepted this year as last year be
cause of the stricter policies, he
said.
“Since last fall was our first
semester to use the new standards,
we made a lot more exceptions
then than we made this year,”
Striegler said. Most transfer stu
dents who come to Texas A&M
have spent at least one or two years
at a Texas junior college, he
added.
Jean Ringer, assistant director
of admissions and head of interna
tional admissions, said there will be
about 300 new international stu
dents here this fall — about the
same as last year.