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By LORRAINE
I CHRISTIAN
Reporter
:nts going home for the
weekend are urged to at-
eir hometown musters,
iarner III, field director
Association of Former
,said Wednesday,
er is the annual gather
ing of Aggies throughout the
world to honor the students and
former students who have died
in the past year.
To encourage students to at
tend muster in their hometown
area, a map of Texas and a
book listing the location of 400
hometown musters are placed
by the main entrance of the Me
morial Student Center.
Garner said students may
find hometown musters to be
more of a social gathering than
the Texas A&M Muster.
“Hometown musters reflect
the attitude of the town,” Gar
ner said.
Garner explained that a mus
ter in Laredo will most likely be
held at a ranch and be informal
while a muster in Houston will
be a coat and tie affair with a
speaker. Some towns serve alco
hol, he said, while other towns
don’t.
“The common factor in all
musters is at one point there
will be a solemn ceremony.”
Nancy York, chairman of the
Texas A&M Muster Commit
tee, agreed that musters held
away from the University are
more festive.
The Texas A&M Muster,
honoring 13 students, will be
held Saturday at 10 a.m. at G.
Rollie White Coliseum so that
students can attend Muster and
still go home for Easter, York
said.
o Aggies to bike from here to Canada
(AYE PAHMEIER
Reporter
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died from heart attacks, he de
cided to ride his bike to Canada
for the Heart Association.
“My mom was a little worried
about John and I traveling
across country on our bikes,”
Riley said, “so she bought me a
six-foot flag with a light on the
top. I told her I might as well
put playing cards in my wheels
to make noise to.”
The trip will take about 50
days, Riley said.
“That’s traveling about 60
miles per day at 12 miles per
hour,” he said, “give or take a
few miles and hours.”
The agenda for the tour be
gins in College Station and
takes them into Arkansas, Ten-
nesse, Kentucky, around the
Ohio River Basin, around the
Great Lakes and ending in On
tario, Canada.
Riley and Allen researched
their route from maps and in
formation sent to them from
the various states and decided it
was best to avoid mountain re
gions and the lingering cold
weather in some states. That’s
why they chose an eastern
route.
Allen said they also wanted to
spend a few days sight-seeing
throughout the countryside and
camping in national parks along
the way.
“There’s a lot to see right
here in the States,” Allen said.
Riley and Allen are traveling
with as little as possible, carry
ing only the bare necessities —a
pup tent, personals and food in
packs connected to the sides of
their bikes.
“We have to keep the total
bike weight down to about 27
pounds,” Allen said, “ not in
cluding us, of course.”
And of course, plenty of
money is needed to take the trip
— about $2,000 of their own
money.
Riley said they began training
last November by riding two
hours daily and taking weekend
bike trips. They don’t lift
weights or run 10 miles every
day; they just ride their bikes
everywhere, he said.
“About the only thing that
really gets sore is our backs,” Al
len said, “and sometimes our
seats.”
Neither bike rider has expe
rience traveling cross-country,
though, Riley said, he rode his
bike in high school and has
been on one tour to Kansas
which began in Frogsville,
Texas and ended in Coffeeville,
Kansas.
“Some towns have wild
names,” Riley said.
To avoid hassles with the po
lice, Riley and Allen said they’ll
wear identical clothing to look
like a team.
“That way, if we do get into
trouble, someone might be
more willing to help us out,” Al
len said.
“We’re taking every saftey
precaution to protect oursel
ves,” Allen said. “Some people
wonder if we’re going to make
it,” he said. “At least we know
we will.”
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7 p.m Thursday, the
Blood Drive had col-
1,797 units of blood and
rid of 150 quarts of
juice, 9,792 chocolate
ookies, 160 packages of
n crackers and 48 boxes
crackers. Thursday was
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asked to eat crackers and pea
nut butter, said Holly Armor,
Wadley’s head nurse. This was
to prevent vomiting while giv
ing blood. The donor was also
asked to eat a cookie and drink
orange juice afterward to put
glucose, a sugar, and fluid back
into his system.
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ing salts were used to keep peo
ple from fainting. However,
only about six people fainted
during the blood drive. She says
it was not a big problem this
year.
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jected from giving blood for
four reasons:
• If a person has been tat
tooed within the last six months,
then he or she cannot give
blood because of the chances of
being a carrier of hepatitis. The
possibility of being a carrier of
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liness of the needles used, Ar
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• If a person’s ears have
been pierced within the last six
months.
• If a person is on medica
tion at the time of donating.
• No one under 110 pounds
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dard amount, one pint, can
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The nurses enjoy their work
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hour day, she said. Their busi
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