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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1984)
V, Wednesday, October 17, 1984AThe Battalion/Page 5 lay — cot- ind pet pit By DALLAS MORRIS Reporter “1 never heard of Texas A&M un- human aniKji about four months before I came ree-dayc» e emotioiii lectures d ;ical bonds, > do is mail “d for pets,' live directo In the as lux® iere, said Thomas Farmer, an ex- jcutive officer in the Corps of Ca- lets. “I was a freshman going to the Jniversity of Texas at El Paso, and I as in a frat and I found the life to ie too unmilitary, unwired, so I de- t they arti| ided to come to A&M.” What makes Farmer different rom most cadets here is that he is ne of the few black cadets in the he Society] f the then Is on died and pristt. home i psychotlf' ; NordiMs Center c apy) is an im the toi Bowers sai thinkiny little to notions, k jsychologiti hologycoi the ■ results udy suggi .dogs in the subjent osure, andi lack cadet is fficer in Corps orps. “I won’t say I’m treated unfairly iccause I’m black or anything like iscussedtj hat,” Farmer says, “but I definitely iave to say that race makes a differ- jnce and I’m treated differently be muse I’m black.” Farmer transferred to A&M with )f animals- |0 hours, but joined the Corps as a feshman. He is executive officer of the Fifth lattalion in the First Regiment . “My job is to support the com- overly contRianding officer and the decisions that he makes,” Farmer said. Farmer is responsible for all fi- andal transactions, social events nd the physical well being of the Filth Battalion. Since his father was in the U.S. Army for 20 years, Farmer has trav- led extensively. He has born in luttgart, Germany, and has lived in ,orea, Okinawa, Tehran and Japan. “1 went to nine high schools, five ol them in my senior year,” he said. While living overseas, Farmer said iss of psytb he did not have a language problem. 1. “The|fi [Tve found that all the foreigners ster peoplfi nat 1 had to deal with spoke very self-esteem p)d English, so I didn’t have to ; lorry about speaking any foreign nteredoml language,” he said. ?ftraining)! I At A&M, Farmer has served in if the nation ing, Inc, a ings pets iit gives the i isibility. many organizations. He has been president of the El Paso Hometown Club, and a committee member on the Traditions Council and MSC Po litical Forum. Last year, he was the supply sergeant for the Fifth Battal ion. He is a member of the Reconnais sance Company in the Corps and is platoon sergeant for the second pla toon of the Ross Volunteers. “I don’t have a single person that inspires me or that I look up to, but I look up to the ideas that several peo- ple have instilled in the ideas of the Marine Corps,” Farmer said. “I don’t look up to any one great Ma rine Corps general, but just in read ing Marine Corps history and learn ing about former Marine Corps generals, I’ve decided that they are the people that I’d like to emulate.” Farmer said the Corps has pre pared him well for a military life. “It’s a perfect learning tool be cause you can go out of here and find all kinds of people in the Corps,” he said. “There are jerks and there are sharp guys in the Corps and you have to learn to deal with these people the same way you will in the real service. Only in the real service it’s for real, and here, when you make a mistake it’s just part of the learning process.” Farmer said he likes his position as executive officer of the Fifth Bat talion. “It gives me a chance to deal with people in a strange way,” he said. “I hold the same rank as all the commanding officers in my battal ion, but I outrank them in a way that I have to enforce policies and come up with new ones and occasionally ‘ram’ (a type of demerit) them for the things that they do wrong,” he said. Farmer, who has changed his ma jor five times, said, “indecisions are W. Oren Swearingen, Jr. D.D.S. Announces the relocation of his practice of General Dentistry and the opening of his new office at 1126 Villa Maria at Briarcrest office 823-2323 Family Dentistry for 20 Years Class of '52 emergency 696-8944 EUROPEAN FUN CHARTER Brazos Transit System now has transportation available to the 10th An nual Texas Renaissance Festival. 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