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Thursday • September^,
Spirit goes to student’s head
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he Battalion
L ast fall, fashionable hair styles made popular
by television stars appeared all over campus.
Jennifer Aniston’s hairdo from the comedy
Friends and George Clooney’s Caesar cut from the
drama ER became extremely popular. This year,
an increasing number of campus residents sport a
cut uniquely Aggie in origin — a letter shaved into
the head.
Letterheads appeared on campus less than 15
years ago, making it a relatively new tradition, but its
prolific nature makes it one of the most noticeable.
Campus residents, typically freshmen, sign up to
become letterheads and use their hair to spell out
different phrases to motivate the dorms for Bonfire.
The letterheads voluntarily shave most of their
hair off leaving the remaining locks in the shape of a
letter, that, when put together with other newly-
shorn dorm mates, spell out phrases demonstrating
their devotion to building Bonfire.
Residents of Aston Hall plan to spell one of the
longest letterhead messages on campus with 69 skulls
required to complete the undertaking.
Dan Finnell, letterhead for Aston Hall and a fresh
man environmental design major, said lie knew he
wanted to be a letterhead before he stepped foot on
campus. A former student told him about the tradi
tion, and Finnell said it sounded like something he
wanted to do.
Finned's hair
forms the letter “O,”
and he said the
bald spot in the
terheads. An increasing number of female stui
have become heroines of hairlessness.
Danielle Pinson, a freshman bioengineering®
became one of the growing number of women
were willing to lose hair in the name of schoolspii
Pinson became a fish head. Her hair is shaved
the back of the head, and instead of a letter,
remaining hair is sculpted into the shape of al
indicating her status as a freshman.
The fish is inconspicuous because the rest o
hair covers it, making it barely noticeable.
Pinson said that when everyone had theirl
shaved, the residence hall made a party ol
experience.
Pinson said after she became a fish head, an
sive effort was established to get other peopl
shave marine animals into their scalps.
“There was a group of people standing by
sign- up poster, and as people would walk in
door, they would basically attack them." said Pins
For those worried about potential hazing iss
Finnell said the entire experience remains voluma
“I tried to convince my roommate to doit,
wasn’t interested, so I backed off,” Finnell said.
Pinson said that when some people saw I
much the other fish heads enjoyed themselvei
others became more than w illing to join it
bonding experience.
"It was like they got caught up in the moma
Pinson said.
center with the
fringe surrounding
it earned him the
nickname, “Friar.”
Blake Jackson,
an Aston Hall letter
head and a sopho
more general stud
ies major, also decorated his scalp with an “O.”
Jackson said his formerly long, curly, brown hair
now resembles a bird’s nest.
He said Finnell convinced him to become a let
terhead, and in the excitement of the moment, the
Aston “Os” earned another nickname.
“I told Dan that we could be ‘O Bros’ or even ‘Fro
Os,”’ Jackson said.
Jackson’s and Finnell’s parents have not seen their
sons’ explorations into cranial phonetics, but both
have promised to send pictures home.
Jackson said that before he finally shears off the
rest of his hair, he plans to explore the Dennis
Rodman path of hairstyles.
“I plan on dying it a bunch of different colors then
shaving it off,” Jackson said.
Male students have lost their exclusive status as let-
The letterbi
and fish hi
seem unaffec
socially, and
some cases, n
have beet
more sociable,
Jackson !
women love to
his head.
“The chics m
all day
Jackson said.
Finnell said his letter forced him to becomem;
extroverted, because it brought him out of his si
and made him more sociable.
Pinson, whose Aggie tribal marking remainsli
den by her longer hair, said that whenever she see
letterhead, site likes to walk up to them and:
them about it.
Traveling with the unusual buzz is alsoanexpe
ence. Finnell said he braved into the outsideworldai
took his revolutionary hair style to Houston forll
Texas Academic Skills Program test.
He said he tried to wear his hat during the end
test, but in the middle of the test, he removed his a
briefly, and the gasps behind him forced a sniife I
make its way across his face.
Jackson said he worries that his bird’s nest haiMi
might become a new trend inlli^ hometown of 3afe
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