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es too highR es tdence Life staff mem-
8 Ws Saturday to kick off the two-day
Sidence Hall Association’s Fall
^'™*"*||P^Jdership Seminar.
^^^®lobley first spoke about the con-
||®ction on campus, near the resi-
11 ■ lce * la ^ s ar, d otherwise. He said
he impainnerJI 1 although parking is a serious
rtunities” a!t®^ ern now ^ OT f ^ e rt * s tdcnts of the
’ ^■thside halls, the new parking ga-
o seeks nun ls e near the Commons will be com-
up costs Sj J e 1 '* in July of 1990 and that the
tailoring the P ai kin g con gestion on that side of
fine under »P u * w ‘ 1 ' bei 1 eso, '; t ‘ d -
million The>^^ r ' Mobley also addressed the nn-
poiiance of the leaders in residence
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■ Campus hie is in no small way a
d "arroirant tbe ( l ua fity of the resi-
t ,u , deuce living experience in student
Oj " j n jLSjsing-’ Mobley said. “And those
Tra ' ' n f ea dership roles in this area
p w in a position to a great deal to set
B tone, to provide the altitudinal
,VWVWiTCj«derghip, anc i to provide the coun-
■ing and support students need to
Bd their way through this complex
university.”
Blie also discussed the growth of
^ AkM and the importance of having
atlobal perspective anci leadership
■11s, which A&M offers its students.
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wampus life is in
no small way a function of
the quality of the residence
living experience in student
housing,..
— William Mobley
Among the other speakers for the
seminar were Associate Vice-Presi
dent for Student Services Dr. Malon
Southerland, Interfraternity Coun
cil adviser Charles Goodman, Direc
tor of Student Affairs Ron Sasse and
Associate Director of Student Af
fairs for Residence Life Tom Mur
ray.
Among the topics of the seminar
were responsibilities of the hall
council members, fundraising,
freshman programs, intramurals,
leadership training, and the RHA.
Trey Jacobson, chairman of the
Fall Leadership Seminar, said the fo
cus of the First seminar was the de
velopment of more informed and ef
fective hall council leaders.
“The program was a success in
several aspects,” Jacobson said. “The
hall council officers became more in
formed about their positions, they
became more informed about RHA,
and they learned more about lead
ership and motivation. All those will
benefit the hall councils and conse
quently the on-campus residents.”
itudent leaders practice
adership skills at camp
Timm Doolen
lid Michael Kelley
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Cl The Battalion Staff
■ Many of Texas A&M’s student
fetders gathered for three days of
jlffidership training at the Fall Lead-
■ship Conference in Trinidad,
Bxas, on August 22-24.
■ “Fall Leadership is an introduc-
By leadership workshop where stu-
|deni leaders around campus gather
N get acquainted in an informal set-
to develop leadership skills,”
l- 1 lid Brenda Holland, chairman of
St.
Brenda Holland, chairman of
the FLC committee.
■ The conference, first held in
1953, is sponsored by the Memorial
Rudent Center Fall Leadership
1 Committee and is held on camp
Dtmds of a Texas Utilities electric
ant in Trinidad, a small, rural,
[ast Texas town.
According to Fall Leadership lit-
ature, the conference was origi-
lly designed by John Samuels, a
Student who wanted to instill lead-
hip qualities and unity into the
nun under him, while working to
Ive problems of the MSC.
Paul Henry, co-adviser for FLC
ad MSC Assistant Director, esti-
ated that 100 students, 15 special
guests and 15 faculty and staff at-
! tended the conference. “We had stu
dents from the Residence Hall Asso
ciation, Student Government, vocal
music groups, class council, bonfire,
Corps Staff, and, of course, the
MSC,” Henry said. “We had mi
nority students as well, including
students from the National Associa
tion of Black Journalists, the South
west Black Student Leadership Con
ference, the Committee for the
Awareness of Mexican-American
Culture, and the Chinese Student
Associaion.”
Kristi Jackson, director of visual
resources for the conference, said
that the conference was successful
overall.
“The Fall Leadership delegates
started on their trip to Trinidad on
three buses,” Jackson said. “Along
the way, not only did one bus break
down, but two of the three experi
enced mechanical failure. All of the
approximately 100 delegates were
then squeezed onto the only remain
ing working bus. This could be seen
as a negative factor, but the dele
gates ironically turned this into a
positive opportunity to get to know
each other.”
Henry said the students got along
well together.
See Leadership/Page 15
Freshmen Orientation Week ends
with unexpected ‘air out’ on quad
Fish wakened for Corps’ traditional late-night run, yell practice
By Michael Kelley
and Timm Doolen
Of The Battalion Staff
Thursday night on the Quad
rangle, an old Corps of Cadets
tradition known as “air out”
marked the end of the 1989
Freshmen Orientation Week.
Corps Chaplain Brett Bowers,
a senior secondary education ma
jor and Corps Staff member, said
that during the event, the fresh
men literally get “aired out” of
their rooms.
“They’re tossed out by their
own means or other means
Thursday night, at the end of a
very long, grueling orientation to
the Corps,” Bowers said.
“At about 11:00 at night they
find themselves being screamed
at by everybody but their mo
ther,” he said. “They’re hauled
off like cattle down the middle of
the Quad. They don’t know
what’s going on — they probably
think they’re in the middle of a
war. They form outside of Dun
can where tonight they will [hear
from] R.C. Slocum, the head
football coach at Texas A&M.”
At 10:30 p.m. the Corps bugler
began playing “Charge,” which
was followed by the awakening of
the Corps freshmen by the Fresh
men Orientation Week cadre, the
upperclassmen who had in
structed the incoming freshmen
cadets during the orientation.
Immediately after the bugle
sounded, the FOW cadre began
entering the freshmen’s rooms,
banging on their doors and yel
ling.
“Get out! Get out! The com
mies are coming!” yelled one of
the cadre to some freshmen dur
ing the hysteria.
The freshmen, who were in
bed, were suddenly awakened
and then instructed by the FOW
cadre to get into uniform and run
outside. After quickly dressing,
the freshmen were led onto the
Quad. “Let’s go running, fish,”
said one of the upperclassmen to
the freshmen who were wildcat-
ting on the Quad. Screaming and
yelling, the cadets ertded up near
the entrance of Duncan Dining
Hall.
During the activities, Major
General Thomas G. Darling esti
mated that there were 750 fresh
men in the Corps as well as 50
students who were transfer ca
dets. All the freshmen and the
FOW cadre appeared to be par
ticipating in the tradition.
After several minutes, the
Corps settled down as Head Foot
ball Coach R.C. Slocum began to
speak. He explained how well
head yell leader Waylan Cain had
done while practicing with the
football team, especially with the
Twelth Man kickoff team. Slo
cum referred to Cain’s partici-
Freshman cadets at yell practice in front of
pation in the tradition of the head
yell leader training with the foot
ball team during pre-season prac
tice.
Slocum then spoke about the
upcoming football game against
Louisiana State University.
“When they walk out there and
we kick that ball off, we want to
go out there and get ready for a
15-round, knockdown, dragout
dog fight,” Slocum said.
Slocum’s speech was received
well by the approximately 900 ca
dets, who seemed motivated by
Slocum’s words. Also listening to
Slocum’s speech were dozens of
civilians who were kept away
from the area near Duncan Din
ing Hall by Corps Staff members.
Next, the five yell leaders led a
yell practice.
The final speaker was Corps
Adjutant Robert Magee, the
Corps Staff member in command
of the Corps during FOW. “Wel
come to the best kept secret of the
Corps,” Magee stated, addressing
the new cadets as a final note on
the evening’s excitement.
Photo by Jay Janner
Duncan Dining Hall during “air out.”
Photo by Jay Janner
Rudy Vacek photographs freshmen cadets Phillip J. Go
dova (standing) and Scott Baston awakening for “air out.”
New Aggie Watch program designed Students need only
current LD. cards
to get game tickets
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■ The Department of Student Af-
Ipirs, the University Police Depart-
|lient and the Residence Hall Asso-
ciation are determined to make the
■exas A&M campus a safer place
[ through the Aggie Watch Safety/Se-
f curity Program.
Operation Identification, one of
e program’s three parts, encour-
ges students to label their belong-
|igs by engraving their belongings
ith electric engravers given to the
sident directors by Student Af-
jfeirs.
■ Tom Murray, assistant director of
e Department of Student Affairs,
id when 80 percent of the resi-
lents in a hall have engraved their
dongings with their drivers license
|umbers, they can post stickers and
"osters saying “Warning — Opera-
ion I.D. All items of value on these
piemises have been marked for re-
Jdy identification by Law Enforce-
sient Agencies.”
“Statistics have proven that some
thing like eight out of 10 thieves say
tha: if they see that sign, they’ll go
Somewhere else,” Murray said.
Another part of the program, Ag
gie Community Watch, is similar to
Neighborhood Watch, a crime pre
vention program in the community,
Murray said. Students are urged to
look out for suspicious activities,
emergencies and other concerns,
and report them to the residence
hall staff or UPD,
Aggie Watch will include between
10 and 15 program presentations to
the resident hall students. As the
third part of the project, these pro
grams will be presented by UPD,
Student Counseling Service and the
Department of Parking, Transit and
Traffic Services covering topics such
as theft protection, personal safety,
sexual assault, bike registration and
self defense.
RHA will present an award to the
hall with the most outstanding secu
rity program, Murray said.
“It’s just one more little thing that
we can put into this big bag to have a
positive impact,” he said.
Murray said the idea of Aggie
Watch was conceived to supplement
other actions being taken to increase
security on campus such as keeping
the exterior doors of residence halls
locked 24 hours a day.
“We arrived at the philosophy
that students should have the oppor
tunity to decide who comes into their
home, with the residence hall being
their home,” he said.
Two years ago, the doors were
locked at the close of visitation and
opened when the custodial staff
came in.
“We had our heads in the sand,”
he said. “Two summers ago, we had
three serious assaults on campus.
That began some discussions on
what we needed to do to increase se
curity.”
Locking the doors may be incon
venient but the positive impact will
be felt immediately, he said.
“With the doors being locked,
they’re going to have to carry their
key,” Murray said. “Then there will
be some motivation to carry all their
keys. Would you go to the grocery
“With the doors being
locked, they’re going to
have to carry their key.
Would you go to the
grocery store and leave
your apartment unlocked?
People go off all the time
and leave their rooms
unlocked”
— Tom Murray,
Dept, of Student Affairs
store and leave your apartment un
locked? People go off all the time
and leave their rooms unlocked.”
Murray said new lights have been
installed in various locations, and
students can have a further impact
on the security of the campus by re
porting any burned out lights to
UPD who, in turn, will contact main
tenance personel.
Other measures to make the cam
pus safer include “Dial-A-Ride,” a
night shuttle bus service that can be
used by calling 847-RIDE, and a
UPD foot patrol to monitor resi
dential and academic areas more
thoroughly.
Remember when it was manda
tory to bring an all-sports pass and a
student I.D. card to pick up tickets
for games? Long lines, sweltering
heat and grumpy people.
Well, no more.
Or at least that’s what the Athletic
Department is hoping.
For those who purchased either
pass, the option will be placed into
the coding on their LD. cards, and
the cards will be read through scan
ners like they are for meal plans in
dining halls.
Penny King, business manager for
the Athletic Department, said the
LD. card will be better protected un
der the new system.
If a student reports a lost LD.
card it will be entered into the com
puter, and if someone tries to use
the I.D. they’ll be caught.
The name of who is drawing tick
ets for themselves or anyone else will
remain in the computer.
Whenever a student adds the op
tion when registering, the Athletic
Department will immediately have
that record, King said.
Records will be updated through
out the first week of school.
An all-sports pass is $70, while a
football pass is $55.
Tickets for home football games
are distributed on a classification ba
sis as follows:
• Graduates and seniors — Mon
day prior to game
• Juniors — Tuesday
• Sophomores — Wednesday
• Freshman — Thursday
• Non-season & all classes (if
available) — Friday
Students are allowed to pick up a
maximum of 10 tickets in a group
(LD. card required for each student
ticket).
Half of the group must be of that
day’s classification or higher., and
the other half may be of lower classi
fication or full price non-student
guests.
Student tickets for the November
24 Arkansas game will be distributed
to graduate students and seniors
Thursday Nov. 16, juniors on Fri
day, sophomores on Monday and
freshman on Tuesday.
Questions are to be directed to the
ticket office at 845-2311.