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Dr. Rick Rigsby
By Amy Collier
The Battalion
E nthusiasm and dedication to
teaching have paid off for Dr.
Rick Rigsby.
Rigsby, an assistant professor
of speech communication, recently
received the Texas A&M Universi
ty Faculty Diversity Award, given
to faculty members who promote
diversity in their classes and in
their lives.
But his successes haven’t
stopped there. Rigsby has also re
ceived the Outstanding New
Teacher Award from the Southern
States Communication Association.
This is given to a new speech com
munication professor out of 13
southern states who has exhibited
outstanding teaching.
“1995 has been absolutely amaz
ing,” Rigsby said. “I’m just very
thankful. I was quite humbled and
quite pleased.
“I don’t think people teach to get
awards. I teach to really communi
cate my passion for the subject to
the students. I love to be honored
for something I love to do.”
Dr. Martin Medhurst, professor
and associate head of the Depart
ment of Speech Communication,
nominated Rigsby for both awards.
“I guess the one word that best
describes him is motivator,” Med
hurst said. “He has an amazing abil
ity to take students who are merely
filling a seat and turn them into in
volved, active, creative learners.”
Dr. Emily Santiago, assistant di
rector of the Department of Multi
cultural Services, was on the com
mittee that chose Rigsby as the
winner of the Faculty Diversity
Award, and said he was one of five
faculty members nominated.
“The committee felt that in his
case, he was the one that deserved
the award,” she said. “He is able
to develop his ideas into some of
the classes he teaches. The impact
he makes on his students is
greater.”
Rigsby came to A&M in August
1992 after being a television news
reporter and teaching at California
State University at Fresno.
new Christian fraternity. Gamma
Phi Delta. He also helps R.C.
Slocum and the football team with
their recruiting efforts.
“I’ve just been very fortunate to
be involved in a variety of campus
programs that allow me to see.what
outstanding students we have here
at Texas A&M,” Rigsby said.
“I have gained a genuine appre
ciation of how so many of our stu
dents have an opportunity to grad
uate well-rounded. There are so
many wonderful opportunities for
students to get involved.”
Rigsby is also active in the
Bryan-College Station
community and through
the state.
He is a minister who
preaches occasionally at
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Ur. riick Rigsby Methodist Church and
Assist, professor. Speech communication also travels through Texas
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sport camps.
"I fully intend to live every
aspect of my life with passion.
“I have thoroughly enjoyed
teaching here,” Rigsby said. “I
think the students are among the
best in the country. This isn’t just
school for them.”
During his career as a television
reporter, Rigsby received several
awards, including Outstanding Me
dia Person of the Year in Northern
California in 1985 and the Associ
ated Press Award for Outstanding
Reporting.
Rigsby’s involvement at A&M
does not stop at just teaching.
FYesently, Rigsby is a faculty ad
viser for the student Speech Com
munication Association and to a
Rigsby said his technique of
teaching consists of developing re
spect for all of his students, learn
ing as much about the subjects he
teaches as possible and teaching
with a passion.
“I love teaching,” Rigsby said. “I
fully intend to live every aspect of
my life with passion. I think the
people that have been so kind to
give me these awards sense from
my students and my colleagues
that I have a zest for teaching.”
Robyn Johnson, a junior speech
communication major, met Rigsby
last semester when she took one
of his classes.
“He’s wonderful,” Johnson said.
“When you take his class, it
changes not only the way you
think, but the way you live. He just
makes you take a different ap
proach to things. He really cares
and loves his students.”
Johnson said Rigsby is not only
caring, but is also a very funny
person.
“He’s always quoting movies and
doing Eddie Murphy,” she said.
Rigsby made such an impact on
Johnson and her class that they
nominated him as a namesake for
Fish Camp 1995.
When Rigsby found out that he
had been chosen as a namesake, he
said he was shocked and thrilled.
“It’s indescribable and beyond
words,” he said. “I don’t think my
faculty members have ever seen me
speechless in the nearly three
years I’ve been here. It was a very
emotional moment for me.”
Smith Dorman, a senior con
struction science major, is the co-
chairman of Camp Rigsby and
said Rigsby was chosen because of
his good working relationship
with students.
“He’s just a really exciting
teacher,” Dorman said. “I get really
excited when I’m around him. He’s
just really enthusiastic and it kind
of rubs off on people around him.”
Dorman said he is happy that
Rigsby will go to the camp and talk
to the freshmen.
“I’m just worried that he’ll get
up and talk to the freshmen and
they will expect their professors to
be as awesome as him,” he said.
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cultures, and the producers choose the more dis
tant of the two. Go figure.
The album opens with “Catholic Boy,” per
formed by Jim Carroll and Pearl Jam. The film is
based on Carroll’s personal experiences, which
apparently gives him the right to replace Eddie
Vedder’s lead vocal.
But Carroll is no Vedder. His performance is
less than enjoyable as he speaks about how he has
grown from a boy to a man. The music is not typi
cal Pearl Jam, and the song comes across to the
listener as a drippy, whining expression of
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Carroll, who has released sever
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Most of the songs are lame at
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Both sound like they belong in a
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people who died, died / These are people who
died.” So much for originality.
Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers performs
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bouncy rendition. The song has a slight Chili
Peppers feel, but for the most part it strays from
original works into the soundtrack’s pool of pseu
do alternative music.
Soundgarden’s “Blind Dogs” is the only piece
that has an alternative Seattle feel, probably be
cause the band is an original member of the Seat
tle sound. Chris Cornell’s smooth yet brash lyrics
and voice seem to belong in a film about the rough
life of a heroin addict.
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the soundtrack some credence. Not much on the
album can compare to the brooding emotion in
“Riders on the Storm.”
PJ Harvey’s newest release “Down by the Wa
ter” is the highlight of the album. Harvey’s spooky
vocals reflect the dark, underground world of
drugs and death found in the film.
One song in particular seems totally out of
place on the soundtrack. It is exciting and loud,
but The Cult’s “Star” simply doesn’t fit into the
roller coaster of alternative sound. The Cult’s
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sidering the lineup of well-known artists such as
Pearl Jam and The Cult, it seems the music could
have included more quality material.
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