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The game, traditionally held on Thanksgiving Day, was rescheduled after the NCAA handed out sanctions barring A&M football from television coverage during the 1994 season. At this summer’s Fish Camp orientations, “cut classes” were offered as one of several special interest programs freshmen could — 1 attend. Members of the Aggie ^ 1 Bonfire Committee taught c 1 the classes at Fish Camp LL | for the first time in an at a . 1 tempt to get freshmen in U : 1 volved in Bonfire. In cut class, Bonfire co ordinators demonstrate how to cut a tree down safely with an ax and give other information on how to help build bonfire. Michael Owens, a senior redpot who taught cut classes at the first session of Fish Camp, said the classes were very popular with the freshmen. Owens estimated that 100 people attended each class. Three classes were held at each of the five ses sions this summer. “We gave some history of Bonfire and explained cut, load and stack,” Owens said. He said they also ex plained the Bonfire chain of command, in which eight senior and eight junior red- pots are responsible for all students working on Bon fire. Six climbers and five brownpots also have specif ic duties at the cutting and stacking areas. Buttpots coordinate vol unteers from each Corps of Cadets unit, and yellowpots are in charge of students from the residence halls and Off-Campus Aggies. All are identified by the color of their hard hat, or “pot.” (Climbers wear gray and buttpots wear maroon.) Owens said he thinks the early start will help pull more people out to work on Bonfire this year. Cut classes for the rest of the student body will be held Sept. 6 and 7. The Corps will have a cut class on Aug. 31. All students who attend cut must have cut class stickers on their student I.D. cards. Cutting will start Sun day, Sept. 11 and continue until Oct. 16. Students have been preparing the cut site, about 12 miles east of cam pus, for several weeks. Owens said they have cleared roads and tractor paths, made a clearing for load site and established which trees will be cut down. The Bonfire field on cam pus is also being prepared. Brownpot Ian Hastings said Bonfire Committee members are wiring up gen erators to supply electricity for lights and speakers. The shacks and trailer that house tools and equip ment are already on the field. “We’re ready to go,” Hast ings said. The centerpole of bonfire will arrive Sept. 29, and when it is raised on Oct. 6, the process of stacking logs will begin. Push, the period when stack workers begin continu ous 24-hour-a-day shifts, will begin Oct. 19, two weeks before bonfire is lit. Owens said although there is one less weekend for cutting, stack and push are the same length as they were last year. “It’s the same amount of time, it’s just all moved up,” he said. Lisa Messer [Battalion Sorority Rush ‘94 e lay with a record 5 dging one of the orities. Panhellenic Presid yer said this yea nout of rushees ai eeded most sororit ons. We have 681 worn year,” Beyer sai re rushees than 1 in the,past.” ,ush bhairwomai ivez said she credi the increased i: sororities, e notified people his year about th rush week,” Chavi [n the past, notice Photo by stewK^nen once they sig orientation confer I r, however, inforr omatically sent tc The famous Texas Aggie Bonfire truck sits at the stack site in the Polo field ( Northside of campus. A&M students have already begun to attend cutctes "freshmen and tr since the Bonfire date has been moved up several weeks to November 3. its s h e ga^ We sent informat hale that had bee Student leaders meet with delegates from other Texas universities at Roundtable discussion By Melissa Jacobs The Battalion The first Student Body President Roundtable discussion was held earlier this month to make plans for the upcom ing Big 12 Student Body President Con ference and to discuss issues of impor tance at Texas universities. Brooke Leslie, student body president of Texas A&M University; Zach Brady, stu dent association’s president of Texas Tech; and John Black, student association’s pres ident of the University of Texas, met along with their appointed delegates at the Uni versity of Texas in Austin. The Big 12 Conference will be held March 2 to 5 at Kansas State University and four students from each of the Big 12 universities will be attending. “This will give us a chance to come to gether and share ideas,” Leslie said. “It will give us the opporttmity to get to know students from the other universi ties so we can work together.” Leslie said she plans to work with the other students on things such as campus security at football games and organizing welcoming committees and functions. “We will also discuss varying issues,” she said. „“It will give us the chance to build bridges with students from other schools.” Krista Kirkland, vice president of pub lic relations and marketing, accompanied Leslie to the roundtable discussion. Kirkland said she hopes to create friendships at the Big 12 Conference. “It will be a bonding thing, and we’ll discuss things that happen on campus,” she said. “We thought it was a good idea to invite the Big Eight schools because they let four new schools into their conference, and we want them to know we appreciate it.” Leslie said the roundtable discussion gave her a chance to get to know the oth er student body presidents which will have future advantages. “A&M is very much lacking in Aggies who sit on the legislature in Austin,” she said. “Now, if A&M needs help from a legis lator, I can call Zach and ask him to call one of his contacts in Austin.” Kirkland also said the roundtable dis cussion was very advantageous. “We strengthened ties and now we ^ian go into the Big 12 with ties of our own/’ she said. The roundtable group also discussed the multicultural course curriculum issue. “That was a very heated discussion,” Leslie said. “I pretty much just told the other schools what we thought about the issue. We are the leaders of this issue and we told them where we came from and gave them our views.” Administrative relations was a major topic of discussion and Leslie said the relations A&M students have with their administrators are far beyond those of other schools. “We’ve always boasted of our relation ships with administrators,” she said. The roundtable discussion resulted in a few changes concerning the Student Regent Bill, which began when A&M and the University of Texas got together to discuss the possibility of putting a stu dent on each of the Board of Regents. Efforts by the two schools to create a student regent position are still in the works. “We are no longer going to support it through Austin,” Leslie said. “We are go ing to do it locally.” Kirkland said the University of Texas, Texas Tech and A&M have different opinions about the bill. “We discussed what would happen if we made a coalition with the Texas Stu dent’s Association,” she said. “All the piresident’s had different opin ions and some were very strong for it and some were very strong against it.” Kirkland said the structure of stu dent government at each campus was also discussed. Each student association is very dif ferent and we just compared and con trasted them,” she said. ‘We are very interested in the way the different governments run their elections since we are thinking of changing ours.” ATTENTION AGS!!!! Tamyra Dominquez formerly of The Other Eclips has relocated to the salon Hair Extraordinaire 707 S. 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Cocanougher said that when he took the position last August, it was with the under standing that he would only serve for a year. “This is what I planned to do when I took the job,” he said. “I am looking forward to get ting back to the College of Busi ness. There are a lot of exciting things happening in the college.” Cocanougher said he thinks the year has been successful for him. “When the University asked me to do this, I felt like it was important,” he said. “It was certainly a busy year.” Cocanougher will be taking the place of Dr. Gary Tren- nepohl who has served as in- terim dean of the College| Business Administrations Cocanougher left that pofiti last year. Trennephol said he is ] Cocanougher is returning.! “We (the College of 1 ness Administration) ate that he was able to s the University,” Trennept said. “But from a selfish vievi we’re looking forward to 1 him back in our college.” Trennepohl will retijrfi his former position as ate dean of the Colle; Business Administration. “It was a very good ei ence for me because I was® to spend a year sitting i dean's chair and to get ail for the trials of tribulatiocsl the job,” he said. “We had a good year/ will be nice to have himjjj canougher) back.” Bowen said he was' pointed Cocanougher de to leave his position. “I talked with him the possibility of stayinjJ the position, but he wand return to his college,” Boi said. “When he took the he only committed to stay'} til the end of August. “Dr. Cocanougher his position during a cfitif time for the University. 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