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By Kristina Buffin
The Battalion
L ast April, the newly selected Memor
ial Student Center executives gath
ered to travel to Houston to meet
with the Reveille Club, but they were miss
ing the most important person, MSC Presi
dent Patrick “Cone” Conway.
Patrick Conway
Stew Milne, The Battalion
Patrick Conway, a senior genetics major, is president of the MSC.
Executive vice president for public rela
tions and senior political science major
Jonathan Neerman was a little scared.
“We were supposed to meet at the MSC
at 5 a.m. to go to the Houston Reveille
Club, and he wasn’t there, so we had to go
pick him up at his house,” Neerman said.
“He came running out of his house half-
dressed. His pants were undone; his tie
was around his neck, and his jacket was in
his mouth. He had to finish getting dressed
in the car. I thought I would have to dress
him for the remainder of the year.”
Although Conway may have scared
Neerman, he has gained nothing but sup
port and respect since then.
“He (Conway) is different because he
comes across as outgoing and fun, and
some people think that he doesn’t work
hard, but he is a hard worker,” executive
vice president for programming and senior
economics major Heather Huntley said.
Conway, a senior genetics major, attrib
utes his ability to carry a huge work load
and still do well in school to the people he
works with.
“It has been pretty much what I expect
ed,” he said. “It is hard to balance school
with 40 hours a week of work, but I knew
that going in. I’ve enjoyed it, and every
thing has gone smoothly. All the other peo
ple around me have made it smooth.”
Part of his academic success included a
nomination as a finalist for the Rhodes
Scholar Award. Conway was one of two
A&M students nominated to have the op
portunity to study abroad in England at
Oxford University.
“It was great to be a finalist,” Conway
said. “It was a tremendous experience to
meet all those other people.
“It was also good to see that students
from state schools can compete with the
Ivy Leagues in a competition like this.”
Conway first got involved with MSC pro
grams his freshman year
when he joined nine commit
tees. He became the chair of
MSC Town Hall his junior
year. He said this early in
volvement in several commit
tees and his leadership skills
helped propel him into the po-
sition of MSC president, which
he will hold until April.
“It has helped me out so far — having
such a wide variety of involvement,” Con
way said. “It gives you a base of knowledge
to work from. I did a lot of leadership stuff
in high school, and I kind of wanted to be
student body president or MSC president.
“The reason I chose the MSC was that, al
though it is bureaucratic, I feel that I have a
lot of control. As student body president, you
represent the students, but stuff with the ad
ministration, you are just an influence.”
One of Conway’s goals has been to bring
the MSC committees together with more co
programming. Instead of having just one orga
nization sponsor an event, he wanted to see
organizations sponsor programs together.
“Co-programming allows us to pool our
resources, and that equals more effective
programming,” he said. “In the past, we
got caught up in whose name was on the
program, but that is not important.”
Conway has reached out to other organi
zations such as the Resident Hall Associa
tion and the Graduate Student Council,
and Neerman attributes this to Conway’s
character and leadership.
“His organizational method is different
from the past in the MSC,” Neerman said.
“He has proved that you can have a differ
ent style and it can still be a benefit. He
challenged us to do it in a different way be
cause the campus is changing.
“As long as they are not scared to try
something new, I hope his changes stay
with the MSC because the MSC can’t con
tinue to be stagnant. But I think he has
had an impact on the younger leaders.”
"He (Conway) has proved that you can have
a different style and it can still be a benefit."
—Jonathan Neerman
executive vice president for public relations
Though the new president will be select
ed on Monday, Conway hopes that people
won’t neglect their current jobs, and he
said that his main focus is to keep every
one on task. However, Conway admits
there are a couple of things he wishes he
could have accomplished.
“I wish I could have added more new
programs like an executive lecture series
that would bring in people like Bill Gates
for only 25 cents per student,” he said. “I
also wish we did a better job of tying orga
nizations together in a cooperative effort.”
Cdnway said being MSC president is a
great experience that will help him when
he graduates and faces the real world.
“We have the largest student union in
the world,” he said. “It is very unique at
A&M that we let the students run every
thing. It is tremendous that students get
that opportunity.
“I feel that I learned a ton because of
this experience, and I may have a consult
ing opportunity after I graduate just be
cause I’ve had this experience in a corpo
rate environment.”
Lyons works to improve dorm life by keeping up with technology
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The Battalion
T lhe sky looks a little different in Suzanne
Lyons’ world. Instead of looking into the
night skies in ignorant bliss, the Residence
Hall Association president and senior geophysics
major looks to the stars to her future career as an
astronaut and planetary science researcher.
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As RHA president, Lyons aims to make resi
dence halls a home away from home.
“I get teased that it just looks good on a re
sume because this has nothing to do with my
major,” Lyons said. “The time I’m here, though,
Iwant to make a difference.”
As Lyons enters her ninth month as presi
dent, she has already helped to extend visitation
hours to 2 a.m. during the week and to create a
memorial park for Law and Puryear Halls. She
has also worked to ensure the 400 overassign
ments adjust comfortably.
Some dorms also gained access to the Internet
and e-mail last semester, and four other dorms
will have access this semester. Lack of money has
kept RHA from putting the systems in every dorm.
“We don’t have it in Hughes right now,”
Lyons said. “My suitemate has it on her system
and always has her calls forwarded to our room.
It’s a pain.”
Plans for new dorms and cable television for
every resident are also in the works.
“Cable has an educational value,” Lyons said.
‘With teleconferencing, someone can take a ma
rine biology class from A&M at Galveston.”
She also said the University wants to have a
cable channel that would post the times and
places different organizatiohs meet during the
week, similar to the monitors found in the
Memorial Student Center.
Her plans are far from complete as she looks
into her residence hall crystal ball, preparing
the campus for physical and technological
growth that could happen in the next 20 years.
“We want to get the ball rolling so we won’t
have to catch up with technology,” she said.
"I get teased that it just looks good on
a resume because this has nothing to
do with my major."
— Suzanne Lyons
RHA president
Lyons said RHA’s main mission is to make
hall residents feel comfortable with their envi
ronments. The organization set up a system in
which each hall elects representatives to voice
their constituents’ needs to elected RHA officers.
The officers serve as the official link between
the students and university officials.
Lyons got involved in RHA as a freshman af
ter a hall president made her feel welcome.
“The hall president treated me like a human
being, and I looked up to her,” Lyons said.
Now, people look up to Lyons and expect her
to make the campus a better place to live.
Wendy Lyons, RHA external affairs director
and a senior wildlife and fisheries science major,
said the president keeps people well-informed
with happenings around campus.
“She does a good job keeping every
one informed,” Wendy Lyons said.
“She’s like a big two-way street.”
Chareny Rydl, assistant director
of Student Affairs and Student
Life, said Lyons’ high energy has
made her a good president, espe
cially during the fall semester
when there were hundreds of
overassignments.
“She handled that as she does
with a lot of other things that fall
into her lap as RHA president,”
Rydl said. “She assessed the situa
tion and made the best of it.”
Though RHA was not responsible
for the overassignments, the organi
zation sponsored a dinner for stu
dents with no permanent place to
live and stayed in contact with them.
“It was a huge predicament,” she
said. “We didn’t want the overas
signments to think we forgot them
or didn’t care.”
Lyons not only deals with unexpect
ed events with the housing situation,
but also deals with being a student.
“I had to pull it out during fi
nals,” she said. “I learned halfway
through the semester where priori
ties should lie.”
Lyons takes a full load of classes
and is an avid water polo player. She said she
has learned how to give time to her activities
and maintain a social life by planning things
down to the hour.
“It frustrates the heck out of my roommate and
sister,” she said. “I even plan going to the Chicken.”
Cory Willis, The Battalion
Suzanne Lyons, a senior geophysics major, is president of the
Residence Hall Association.
This will be Lyons’ final term as RHA president.
She lifts off from A&M in December and heads
into the unknown world of space exploration, leav
ing her imprint for future RHA presidents.
Like the movie that inspired Lyons’ passion
for space travel, the RHA president seems to
have the “right stuff” to get the job done.
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