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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1995)
<end a 24-hour i dents can Film Soci- times, anges are iciety, stu- another scheduled King said stival will t year’s, led a film 'anada to rs for the m booked in Smith, f Clerks, j Jones are h list of mediate find new ’ is com- includ- , who se- lization lembers general lembers g to do,' an that, Friday* September 1, 1995 Page 5 • The Battalion Season's first yell practice based on history, tradition By Jan Higginbotham The Battalion Mi idnight yell practice is one tradition that almost every Aggie knows about. The yell leaders lead a few yells and tell a fable, the War Hymn is played and then the lights go out so every one can kiss their dates. This practice is nec essary because of the tradition that says when the team scores on the field, Aggies score in the stands. But there is more history behind the tra dition than most people realize. As early as 1913, companies in the Corps of Cadets learned and practiced yells. The first midnight yell practice was held 1931 before the A&M — University of Texas game. A group of cadets suggested to senior yell leaders Horsefly Berryhill and Two-Gun Herman that all the freshmen meet on the steps of the YMCA Building the night before the game to practice yells. The yell leaders said they could not au thorize the meeting, but that they might show up if all the cadets were there. Rumors soon spread about the yell practice, and a new tradition was born. Midnight yell practice is held in the horseshoe of Kyle Field the night before a home football game. The yell leaders lead the Aggie Band and Company E-2, the com pany responsible for Reveille Vi’s care, into the stadium. Yell practices for away football games are held at the Grove, near the intersection of Old Main Drive and Wellborn Road. Yell Practice is also held in the town of the op posing team the night before the game. Senior Yell Leader Henry Hewes said yell practice is all about showing support for the A&M football team. “Yell has been called the largest orga nized riot allowed by law,” Hewes said. “We cram about 40,000 Aggies into Kyle Field to show support for the football team. We want to show them that the Twelfth Man is there lot them.” Hewes said the tradition started when A&M did not have a successful football team. ‘It was a good-bull time for all the Ag- Battalion File Photo The yell leaders will lead tonight's yell practice in the horseshoe of Kyle Field. gies,” he said. "Whether we were going to win or lose, yell practice gave everyone a chance to come together to share in the Ag gie Spirit.” Laurie Hearn, a senior agricultural jour nalism major, said yell practice has always been one of her favorite traditions. “It is a great feeling,” Hearn said. “It’s more than just a chance to practice yells and mug with your date, it’s a time to really feel the Aggie Spirit.” Hewes said midnight yell practice is one way to keep all Aggies close as a group. “What’s friendlier than to bring 40,000 people together for a celebration of the Aggie Spirit?” he said. Texas Instruments TI-82 Graphing Calculator Ideal For Algebra Through Calculus $89.00 University Bookstores 3 Off-Campus Stores For You Northgate-Culpepper-Village Now Accepting Aggie Bucks! "Your Source for Texas Instruments Calculators" Intellectual Property Workshop Come and learn the basics about the four types of intellectual property— Copyrights, Trade Secrets, Trademarks and Patents. 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Our WEB address is: http://www.ipt.com •NO PASSES OR SUPERSAVER ACCEPTED ON THIS FEATURE Simon and Taylor re unite for benefit show WEST TIS- BURY, Mass. (AP) — Fans of Carly Si mon and James Taylor lay nobody Joes it better. The two lingers — who »ere divorced in 1981 — ap peared onstage together Wednesday night for the first time in 16 years. Their benefit concert on Martha’s Vineyard raised 5200,000 for the local Agricultur al Society’s new bam. Simon let Taylor know there fere no hard feelings about their breakup, according to Sara Ed- Simon wards, a reporter for Boston tele vision station WHDH who at tended the concert. Cameras and working media were kept outside. “This is how I feel about James Taylor,” Simon report edly said, breaking into a ver sion of her hit song “Nobody Does it Better.” Fans gave the show a thumbs- up. Simon and Taylor are long time residents of the island, a favorite retreat of the rich and famous. Struggle with addiction marked Garcia's death NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Garcia died smiling. “It’s strange to say, but he looked so peaceful,” Deborah Koons Garcia wrote in the Sept. 21 issue of Rolling Stone. “I said to the guy at the fu neral home, ‘Look, he’s smiling. Did you do that to him?’ And he said, ‘No, that’s exactly the way I found him.’ His face was so at peace.” The magazine invited Koons to write a column after Garcia died of a heart attack Aug. 9 at a drug rehabilitation clinic at age 53. The Grateful Dead leader decided last summer to con front his heroin addiction, his widow wrote. “It’s a pain in the butt. ... I don’t want to do it for the rest of my life,” she quoted him as saying. Garcia checked into the Bet ty Ford Clinic in late July, spent two weeks there and checked himself out, she wrote. He then checked into Serenity Knolls near San Francisco when “he found himself drawn back, wanting to do drugs again because his body hurt so much.” He died at that clinic. 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