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Page 4/The Battalion/Tuesday, April 22, 1986 By TERESA MONTZ Reporter Kyle Field: ‘Hottest spot on campus for a date’ Now that spring is in {'nil swing, football season is long gone. But there's still some passing and play ing going on at Kvle Field. "It’s one of the hottest spots on campus to take a date,” says Scott Lewis, a sophomore business major. He says he took his date to Kvle f ield for pizza and champagne on the 20-yard line. Lewis savs he thought Kvle Field would l^e a great place to go — somewhere private and different — but it turned out to be a more pop ular spot than he had imagined. “There were so many people around, I thought I would have to buy tickets to get in," he says. Bob YViatt, A&M’s director of se- curitv and traffic, agrees that Kvle Field has become a popular spot for hanging out. "We've seen a lot of different things going on out there at all hours," he savs. YViatt savs the gates to the field are often lef t open for joggers, but people do all kinds of things out there. YY iatt says there are locked gates that prevent people f rom going up into the second and third decks, but a few have managed to get around them. "YYe've caught a few breaking into the dressing rooms and the press boxes on the home side,” he says. "Thev usuallv have been tearing up things or stealing, but we haven't found this an increasing problem." YViatt says the lower deck and the f ield are open to anyone as long as the main gates aren't locked. Jon Karp, a freshman psychol ogy major, took advantage of this opportunity and created some spe cial memories on Kyle Field. And he's not talking about the Aggies’ winning season in football. Karp says lie took his out-of- town girlfriend to the 50-yard line and presented her with a ring. “Mv girlfriend flew down from New York late one night,” Karp savs. "Just off the airplane, she and I drove to Kvle Field. She couldn't f igure out what the hell I was doing." Karp says the ceremony has made a lasting impression on his girlfriend. Now whenever she hears of Texas A&M, she thinks of Kvle Field and the special moment thev shared. But Kvle Field is more than just a place to take a date. It's an unusual outdoor recre ation center. Lewis says he and his roommate used to go jogging late at night around the track at Kvle Field and it wasn't unusual to see some strange things going on. Quite often, Lewis says, high jumper's mats are left on the field overnight. "Mv roommate and I would al- see couples mugging on ' he savs. wavs them. “And if thev weren't making out on the field, you'd see them in the bleachers. "I guess some people just have no shame." Katie Mat/inger. a sophomore journalism student, savs she and a friend used to go out to Kvle Field and lie on the track to watch the slat s. "One time when we went out there, we saw a dark figure out in the midtile of the field moving around," she says. “Fin; tllv we realized it was a per son wearing a YYalkman doing a dance routine.'' But Kvle Field isn't just a place for individuals to go to burn off a little steam. It's become almost a traditional meeting place lot Fish Camp. Julie Houser, a subchairman for Fish ( amp ‘85. savs that last spring the guvs in her fish camp split up into groups anti kidnapped the girls in the fish camp earlv one morning. 1 hen the guvs all met at the 50- yniil line with tlteit kidnapped vic tims. most of them only wearing gowns, robes anti houseshoes, Houser sav s. Charges against rooi in death ofj NOI MON iAh <lrl ' 1 *• *tgt“s huv, , ,1 "7 | SIX . 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