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The Battalion
Wednesday, October 23,
Bn
Japanese Aggies begin
visit to A&M campus
By Tammy Bryson
The Battalion
Students from Texas A&M's
sister campus in Koriyama, Japan
had their first taste of "Aggie Spir
it" during the beginning of their
week-long visit to College Station.
This is the second group of Ko
riyama Aggies to visit College Sta
tion while enrolled at the Japanese
campus. Last year's entire student
body came to A&M, which only
consisted of 50 students. The en
rollment at the Koriyama campus
has grown to 150 students since
last year.
The Koriyama students spend
their first two years studying in
Japan and move to the United
States to complete their education
and earn their degree in College
Station.
The group, which will be stay
ing at the Comfort Inn through
Friday, arrived in College Station
late Sunday night and began their
visit with a welcoming luncheon
at the Memorial Student Center on
Monday hosted by Executive As
sociate Provost Jerry Gaston.
This was followed by a walk
ing tour of the campus and a tradi
tions presentation and slide show.
Yell leaders were present to teach
the students the fine art of "hump
ing it."
Virginia Smith, administrative
assistant in the Texas A&M Uni
versity Koriyama Support Office,
said this visit gives the students an
opportunity to experience life at
A&M.
"We try to give them a slice of
life at Texas A&M," she said. "The
Koriyama campus is a part of
A&M and they want to know
what A&M is like."
Elizabeth Mathews, a teacher
in the English Language Program
at the Koriyama campus, said that
the students have a strong desire
to broaden their education.
"It is considered bold in Japan
to enroll in an American universi
ty. There is pressure to join a
Japanese university," she said.
"These students did it because
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Producer gets 'A Few Good Men'
By Rol
17
Cadets
take part
in movie
By K. Lee Davis
The Battalion
Members of the Texas A&M
Fish Drill Team Association will
fly to Washington, D.C., today to
take part in a movie directed by
Rob Reiner, starring Tom Cruise,
Demi Moore and Jack Nicholson.
The team will be dressed in
Marine Corps uniforms represent
ing the Marine Corps Silent Drill
Team that will appear at the
opening and closing of the movie
to be titled "A Few Good Men."
The FDTA is composed of for
mer members of the Fish Drill
Team while the Fish Drill Team is
composed entirely of freshman.
The team will be in the na
tion's capital for four days with
ANDY NACE/Special to The Battalion
The Fish Drill Team warms up Monday
for their movie debut. The team has
been chosen above all other drill teams
all expenses paid, including a stay
at the Sheraton Hotel.
"This is really a privilege. We
put up our weapons as freshmen,
but are being asked to return and
do this now," said Omar Sanchez,
executive officer for the 6th Battal-
Senior Russell Parks said, "We
are excited about it. Something
to appear in the movie "A Few Good
Men." The team will travel to
Washington D.C. Wednesday,
like this is a once in a lifetime op
portunity."
The team that will be in the
movie has been relearning some
of the routines they performed as
freshmen.
The 35 members of the FTDA
that will go to Washington, D.C.,
are the best the organization has
to offer. Parks said.
"These guys are the best
drill that you can find," he said
Every year, seven members:
the previous year's Fish Dr.
Team are chosen to stay the
sophomore year as advisers.®!
those seven, two are chosenasa; j
visers during their junior ye;:
and one of those two is chose':!)
be the unit's leader during hiss! I
nior year.
The team that will be inti;
movie is made up of all thecir
rent upperclass advisers, ask;.
as some association memberswlt
were deemed to be exceptional,
adept drillers when they were:
the the team as freshmen.
"Basically, this is an all-si:
type team," said Parks, whowj
one of the two junior advisersfe
year.
The Fish Drill Team does
cut any members who would4
to be in the group, but therige
ous training and physical cht
lenges serve as a limiting facie
for the team's size. Parks said,
"At the beginning of last yea
there were 245 fish that cant
out," he said. "By the endoftk
year there were only 35 membe:
left."
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Donation to library sheds light on agrarian past, ranch life
expe
trad:
By Robin Goodpaster
The Battalion
A gift to the Sterling C. Evans Library
has given new insight into an area of pre
viously little-researched and unknown
agrarian history.
The Mariposa Ranch Papers were do
nated to Sterling C. Evans Library in
September. The historical papers include
a diary with detailed accounts of daily life
on the ranch, personal correspondences
and business reports.
The papers take up almost 25 feet of
shelf space. Also included in the exhibit
are thousands of letters relating to every
aspect of ranch operations. In addition,
there are maps, Mexican political tracts
and the original charter handwritten in
parchment.
Dr. Donald Dyle, head of special col
lections at Sterling C. Evans library, said
the unusual aspect about these records is
their completeness. A detailed, meticu
lous diary was kept from 1892-1962.
"There is a different perspective
gained because the ranchers were Anglos
living in Mexico," Dyal said.
The ranch is very large - more than
250,000 acres - and is located in Coahuila,
Mexico. The papers of the Mariposa
Ranch are an excellent resource for re
searchers, not only because the ranch was
large and influential, but because there
was detailed documentation during tur
bulent political times, such as the Mexican
Revolution, Dyal said.
The papers were donated by Mr. and
Mrs. A.S. McKellar of Manitou Springs,
Colorado. Mr. McKellar is a graduate of
A&M, and a third generation rancher.
Mr. McKellar sold the ranch in the early
1960s. His granddaughter, Carolyn Mor
ris, is an undergraduate at A&M.
"I am proud to have a piece of my
family history at the institution I love so
much," Carolyn said.
The exhibit consists largely of pictures
of family members and sites and scenes
from the ranch. There is one picture of
Charles Lyndburg, who visited the rare
in 1928. Coincidentally, a young ranck
named Sterling C. Evans visited the ran:
the same day as Lyndburg.
"These papers were sought by otk
universities," said Dyal. "These arek
torical documents of an era," Dyalsa:
"Basically, it explains how a ranchk
run for almost a century," he said.
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The Mariposa Ranch Papers are::
display on the second floor of the libra-
in the special collections department.
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