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Monday • August 29
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Students prepare for Bonfire to burn ahead of schedult^ecoi
By Susan Owen
The Battalion
Bonfire workers are get
ting a head start on building
this year's stack as they pre
pare for a Bonfire date sever
al weeks earlier than usual.
Bonfire ‘94 will burn on
Nov. 3, two days before the
Texas A&M-University of
Texas football game.
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
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Bonfire Committee taught
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the classes at Fish Camp
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for the first time in an at
a . 1
tempt to get freshmen in
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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.
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year,” Beyer sai
re rushees than 1
in the,past.”
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ivez said she credi
the increased i:
sororities,
e notified people
his year about th
rush week,” Chavi
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Photo by stewK^nen once they sig
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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
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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.”
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By Jan Higginbotham
The Battalion
Texas A&M University offi
cials are busy trying to fill an
other vacant spot within the
school’s administration after
Dr. A. Benton Cocanougher
resigned from his position as
interim senior vice president
and provost in August.
President Ray Bowen said he
expects to fill the vacant position
this week. He has received rec
ommendations for replacements
from a selection committee made
up of four faculty members and
four college deans.
Cocanougher is returning to
his former position as dean of
the College of Business Ad
ministration.
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.
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time for the University. F|
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