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A lone junior stood from the win dow in his dorm and acted as though he was killing the seniors (dying el ephants) with a gun. This action by one Corps of Ca dets member started a hysteria that grew for 12 years. Seniors still traipsed aimlessly around the campus, but a different meaning was added to the walk as many students from the junior class would “stalk” the elephants. The ju niors would wrestle in mud with the seniors, spray shaving cream and pull one another into fountains. Ax handles, squirt guns, eggs and other weapons also were used to speed the zips (seniors) to their death. The elephants would fight back, chasing the juniors down. In Fall ’87, councils for the Classes of ’88 and ’89 strongly discouraged juniors from wrestling with the dy ing zips “for the preservation of El ephant Walk.” The warning came after some students claimed El ephant Walk was harmful. In the past, students have broken and twisted ankles, arms and legs during the walk. Dillard Stone, a former editor of The Battalion, wrote in an 1980 edi torial that there is a time where tra dition must yield to prudence and common sense. “It’s all fun and games until some one gets hurt,” Stone said. “Injury in the middle of a carnival atmosphere produces one of the most somber at mospheres imaginable, because no one is supposed to get hurt. “But there’s a point where dress ing up and playing army for a day goes too far. That’s when someone gets hurt. “The injury of one shouldn’t sound the death knell for tradition. It should, however, serve as warning for future participants.” Seven years later the same issue was tossed around on the editorial pages, but this time the warning given years before was taken into consideration. What transpired was the warning from the class council — a warning that didn’t sit well with the entire student body. Doug Hall, Class of ’87, said in a guest column in a November 1987 issue of The Battalion, “The Class of ’89 is a bunch of wimps for not want ing to participate in this year’s El ephant Walk. Come on! This is Texas A&M where men are men and ladies are ladies, not a patsy uni versity like we’re always calling those Austinites.” Hall said people got hurt during the “wild and wooly procession, but people are always getting hurt. And without knowing for sure, I dare say Photo by Phelan M. Ebt Nancy Newberry, a junior marketing major comes to the aid of a friend who was about to be thrown by a senior into the fountain in front of the old .Chemistry Building during Elephant Walk 1988. During the walk, in which juniors traditionally ‘stalk’ the dying ‘elephants,’ se niors trudge through water fountains and at tempt to dodge shaving cream attacks. that anyone who wasn’t looking for trouble was someone that eventually got hurt.” The possibility of an individual getting hurt is not the only reason many people don’t want juniors par ticipating. Paul Tisch, a senior industrial dis tribution major, said he thinks it should be a time for seniors. “It’s our last chance for our class as a whole to reflect and think about the last four years,” Tisch said. “It is a solemn time — by this I don’t mean sad. I just think in the past the mean ing of elephant walk was diverted with the junior involvment, but it’s getting back on track.” The path of the walk varies from year to year, but it traditionally be gins at the statue of Gen. Lawrence Sullivan Ross in front of the Aca demic Building and ends at the site of bonfire. Stops are usually made at the Chemistry Building fountain, Fish Pond and Kyle Field. The path is decided each year by “Redpots,” members of the Corps of Cadets in charge of building bonfire. in I gram c | who h lenges Sma jpartici] Ichallen “Un uate se | structo Jthroug | learn in The I dents, 1 honors |36-hou I honors [during Knol fall. The walk traditionally begins at the statue of Gen. Lawrercsi Sullivan Ross and ends at the bonfire site. l Seniors bid farewell to ‘Aggielantf a By She )f The E A cov jjust a fe or repr sidelines (football tian’s b< nascot s The group oi Fan ove Sei in iByMicl Of The B In 192i Antonio, i Aggie I »n 1931 w The walk is led by the Redpots the yell leaders. Dress for Elephant Walk is * nitely casual; participants cano on getting rather messy. through two fountains, dodging 1 ter hoses and shaving cream. J plunging into one of many f holes at the bonfire site wouldn' 1 actly fit the traditional definitiot “good, clean fun.” But the smiles that shine the mud give the definite impn that the whole, filthy ordeal is i" than worth it.