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The Battalion
Help return stolen
Aggie tags to owner
Imagine my dismay when I exited St.
Mary's church in College Station at 6:30pm, on
March 27, and discovered that someone had
meticulously "removed" my personalized
Texas A&M University Texas license plate ("4
AGGS") from the front of my car.
One copy of a license plate can't be used on
another person's car — plates are required on
the front and back of cars. Besides, the re
moved "4AGGS" would be too obvious to use
on a car. Therefore, I assume someone
thought it would be real "cool" to hang
"4AGGS" in a room or apartment.
I have served Texas A&M University for 25
years, and all four of my children have de
grees from A&M - that's where "4AGGS"
comes from. The money for the personalized
license plate is used for scholarships to attend
Texas A&M University.
If you know the person who "removed" my
license plate or if you see it hanging on dis
play somewhere, perhaps you will encourage
the individual to return it to me via one of the
following:
1) Campus Mail: EDCI MS4232
2) My Home Mailbox: 2201 Briar Oaks,
Bryan, TX 77802
3) The College Station Police Department
Glett Ross Johnson
Bryan, Texas
Graduates irate over
six-ticket ceremony
• I am writing in response to the article in
Battalion, "Graduation guest limit draws few
complaints". Contrary to what University Re
lations and President Mobley would like
everyone to believe, there is a very negative
attitude amongst graduating seniors about the
guest limit for graduation.
First of all, seniors were not notified about
the "six ticket system" until AFTER the dead
line to order graduation announcements.
What is the point of sending out 20 announce
ments to friends and relatives when only six
can attend? Oh, but that's why they were
called announcements, not invitations. I sup
pose us intelligent soon-to-be A&M graduates
should have^een that coming.
Secondly, the ever-so-nicely worded letter
we were sent told us when and where we
would have to stand in line and wait to pick
up our measly six tickets to our graduation. If
everyone is getting six tickets, why doesn't the
University MAIL them?
Wouldn't that save everyone concerned, es
pecially the students, some TIME? Time that
we could better use explaining to our grand
parents why they can't come to our gradua
tion - which is exactly what I and others like
me will be doing, since I have seven immedi
ate family members. "Sorry, Gramps, I never
liked you anyway..."
The letter the school sent May Degree Can
didates takes the prize, I believe, in stating,
"One of the rich traditions of Texas A&M Uni
versity is the personalized graduation ceremo
ny..."
How personalized is it when we don't get
to have a say in our own ceremony? The letter
goes on to say," ...wishing to avoid ...imposing
the burden of an additional ceremony upon
the University faculty and staff..."
They are more concerned about faculty and
staff than graduating seniors? We are a bur
den, now?
Oh, yes, I forgot one thing. The University
is being gracious enough to say that IF anyone
turns in unwanted tickets, a graduate may re
ceive up to four more!
What seniors in their right mind would
miss this money-making opportunity? Does
anyone else have visions of scalpers outside G.
Rollie White yelling, "Only $25 to see your
daughter graduate!"
There are other alternatives. There could
be an additional ceremony, earlier in the
morning on Friday, or later on Saturday. Each
ceremony could be condensed. Doesn't every
one get a little bored by long-winded speak
ers? And there is Kyle Field in the distance -
where they pack us by the thousands every
Saturday in the fall - sitting vacant while our
relatives file into G. Rollie one by one, tickets
in hand.
No mother or father should be required to
have a ticket to see their son or daughter grad
uate. I know some pretty feisty grandparents
who won't stand for it either.
Suppose no one has their tickets on May 14
and 15? Suppose we all just "forget" to bring
them? Would graduation be cancelled? This
would be a great last memory of A&M. A
memory that would surely resurface every
time the Association of Former Students called
for a donation.
Kate Ryan
Class of'93
• With a little more than two months until
graduation, seniors received notice that they
will only be allowed six tickets for family and
friends attending graduation. What a nice
send off from the University after spending
thousands of dollars and studying countless
hours in pursuit of a degree.
I can understand the need to address the
overcrowding problems at graduation, but the
way the University decided to handle the
problem is a pathetic outrage.
Starting this new tradition in the fall would
give students adequate time to deal with the
dilemma. Most people made hotel reserva
tions in anticipation of this momentous occa
sion last semester. My family waited until late
January to look for hotel rooms.
So now not only can relatives traveling long
distances stay outside of the Bryan/College
Station area, but also not all of them will be
able to attend the ceremony. And how do you
decide who is going to attend your gradua
tion? Who is less important, a nephew or a
grandparent?
Texas A&M spends thousands of dollars
making the campus look prestigious for visi
tors with a revamped MSC, new parking
garages, etc. Yet the administration appears
too cheap to hold a fourth graduation com
mencement. Since this University seems so
E roud to have over 40,000 students, it would
e nice if they would accommodate them, and
their sacrificing families, once they reached
graduation.
David R. Hill
Class of '92
Texas great for all NBA
fans, not just Houston
I agree with William Harrison's March 25
column said the Houston Rockets' Hakeem
Olajuwon is deserving of MVP honors this
season. However, I take exception to his criti
cism of San Antonio's David Robinson. Harri
son makes it sound as if "The Admiral" is hav
ing a bad season. Last time I checked, Robin
son was averaging 23.5 points, 11.8 rebounds,
and 3.44 blocked shots per game, compared to
Olajuwon's 25.5, 12.9, and 4.17 respectively.
Looks pretty even to me. As for Robinson's'
Spurs "fizzling" into second place, one game
behind the Rockets is hardly insurmountable
with 17 games to go.
Harrison sounds like a typical sour grapes
Houston sports fan, jealous of the success of
other Texas sports teams such as the Dallas
Cowboys. He needs to get over his petty jeal
ousy and support all the Texas professional
sports teams. After all, the Spurs have won
more Central Division titles in Robinson's'
three previous seasons than the Rockets have
with Olajuwon. Perhaps team success has
something to do with individual honors.
Harrison also talks about Olajuwon out-
PagelO
played Shaquille O'Neal and the fact thal
Robinson was dominated by Patrick Ewing
Well, Robinson has shown O'Neal the ropes
twice this season too as the Spurs won both
games against the Magic. Last season, the Ad
miral made Ewing look like a bush leaguer in
their two meetings.
My point is that on a given night, any of the
"Big Four" can outplay any of the others. Har
risen should just be glad that the two best cen
ters in the NBA are in Texas. Hakeem for
MVP!
Trey Neely
Class of'91
Save trees by removing
menacing mistletoe
I read that The Big Event participants were
going to plant 100 trees in 100 days, a very
laudable endeavor. But how about a little ten
der loving care for existing trees?
There are hundreds of trees slowly dying
from mistletoe infestation in the Bryan/Col
lege Station area, many of which are on the
A&M campus. These enthusiastic young peee
pie could prolong the life of well over 100 ex
isting trees in just one day by removing '
mistletoe.
Page W. Higgins
College Station, Tern
Dead and living fish
found in Quack Shack
I like fish. Do you like fish? Apparently
our friends at the emergency room in the
Quack Shack don't. While we were impatient
ly waiting on the evening of March 23 at ap
proximately 11:45pm, our attention wasdi
verted to the aquarium and its living and non
living inhabitants.
Among these inhabitants were three living
fish, and six floating objects that vaguely re
sembled fish.
As we in our boredom examined these ob
jects closer, we concluded that these objecte
were at one time fish, but now were either
mummified or so hairy that they nearly don
bled their original size. From our vast exper
tise in tropical fish care, we estimated thsl
most of these objects had been in this state for
at least a week. We sincerely hope that none
of our money as a students and a taxpayers
was spent on the aquarium and its inhabitants,
else it would have been a severe waste of re
sources, just as a former Arkansas governor's
emergency economic revival program with its
invisible pork programs will be.
Mack Bean '95
Stephen White'%
Jerome Park '95
New commander a
good pick for Corps
The Heartbeat of Texas A&M University is
the Corps of Cadets.
The recent selection of Will Harawayto
lead the Corps efforts to infiltrate university
organizations is a grandiose idea. I look for
ward to its implementation.
Robert Wayne Crouch
Class of'91
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