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Disk golf catches popularity at Texas A&M
By Artie Alvarado and
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Disk golfers may not walk
around in plaid pants and wear hats
with fuzzy balls on top, but students
who play disk golf at A&M say it is
their game of choice.
Since it began in the late ’60s,
disk golf has gained popularity
across college campuses and across
the nation. Disk golf is played just
like regular golf, except special fris-
bees replace the balls, and a basket
substitutes for the hole.
The average disk golfer’s arse
nal consists of seven to eight disks,
because different disks serve dif
ferent purposes.
Russ Gardner, a political science
graduate student, said there are
three primary types of disks golfers
use. The driver disks, made of a hard
plastic, and are used when golfers
“tee off.”
“They usually travel 250 to 450
feet, but the really good players
can make them go 600-plus feet,”
Gardner said.
The other two types, the “ap
proach” and the “putter,” are made
of softer plastics and are designed
to “float” more, Gardner said. The
designs of the disks make them less
likely to bounce off the basket.
The 5-foot baskets have chains
surrounding a metal pole. The
chains can be used to slow down or
catch the disks, but some golfers
have enough skill to place the disks
perfectly in the basket.
Some baskets have a ring of
metal at the top that sometimes
frustrate the players as the disks
bounce off it.
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Jim Colquitt, a junior business analysis and management information systems major, attempts a putt on the
disk golf course Saturday afternoon at Research Park.
“I like to call it the chastity belt,”
Gardner said. “It keeps you out.”
Dane Rodgers, a senior civil en
gineering major, has been playing
disk golf since he was 14 years old,
when his uncle introduced him to
the sport.
“I liked how my uncle could
throw the disks 450 feet,” Rodgers
said. “The distances they could get
the disks to travel amazed me.”
Rodgers played in mini-tour
naments throughout high school
and has competed in several na
tional tournaments. In 1993,
Rodgers competed in the Round
Robin National Doubles Amateur
Championship. He won the tour
nament and has since competed
in several professional contests,
where he' has collected over
$2,500 in prize money.
However, when Rodgers first
arrived at A&M, there was no
disk golf course. With the help of
the Department of Recreational
Sports, Rodgers designed the
disk golf course at A&M’s Re
search Park.
The course has piqued several
students’ interests in disk golf.
Royce Rosenhauch, a senior psy
chology major, said he has been
playing disk golf since the course
opened in January 1996.
“When the sport finally explod
ed on the campus, I figured I had to
try it and I have been hooked ever
since,” Rosenhauch said.
Gardner has played the sport
since August, and enjoys the laid
back atmosphere. i
“It’s a very easygoing sport,”
Gardner said. “I haven’t seen a sin
gle fight on a disk golf course like I
have on regular courses.”
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Palm Reading: Predicting life, fate and fortune
By Karen Janes
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Stephanie said she can tell
tilings about a person’s future
byZiavihgaconversation with them.
“I can judge someone s charac
ter within a few minutes,” she said.
Stephanie, who is based in
Bryan, is willing to answer any
ijuestion people have regarding
lives using one or more of
tiree different methods. She reads
palms, cards and vibrations
hrough the body to find answers
ieraquestion is asked.
“People think
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nethod is the most
easonable one,”
lephanie said.
When she
tads cards, the
lumber of cards
preadout on the
is the same
lumber as the
ustomer’s age.
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cards can
liow anything.
"They put the cards down,” she
id, “I just read them.”
When she reads palms,
tephanie studies the nine distinct
les of the palm.
The scientific name for
iephanie’s palm reading abilities is
lalmistry, or cheirosophy.
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preting someone’s character and na
ture from the outward formations
and aspects of their palms and hands.
“I see (in the palm) different
things for different people,”
Stephanie said. “The different life
lines are determined by how you
are born and molded.”
Associated with palmistry is the
science of hand analysis. Angela
Mattey, author of the TAM Enter
prises Hand Analysis and Palmistry
Newsletter, said the two methods
used together tell about a person’s
identity, his or her talents and future.
“Hand analysis makes me aware
of the person’s personality, potential,
and talents,” Mattey
said. “Palmistry allows
me to use my intuition
to predict from these
potentials.”
Palmists and hand
analysts say both
hands should be read
to achieve an accu
rate reading. The
dominant hand is de
termined by whether
the customer is right-
or left-handed and is
guided by the conscious mind. The
non-dominant hand is guided by
the unconscious mind and serves
as a record of past lives.
“When there are differences in
how these hands look,” Mattey said,
“it means the soul set up a pathway
before this life and the conscious
mind had to adapt or restructure
that blueprint after birth.”
According to Dr. Roderick Vick
ers, everyone has the psychic abili
ty palmists and hand analysts use.
“All will enter the world with the
psychic gift, but many will never re
alize it fully,” Vickers said. “Some are
born psychics and know from
childhood what they are.”
Stephanie said she began seeing
things before they happened when
she was 12 or 13 years old. Her
mother and father at first had trou
ble dealing with it.
“In the beginning, my parents
couldn’t understand my abilities,”
Stephanie said. “They thought 1 had
a problem, but later came to accept
it as a gift from God.”
Stephanie is a strongly reli
gious, Catholic woman. She be
lieves God gave her psychic abili
ties to help people.
Vickers agreed that religion can
be associated with psychic powers.
“Some of the most famous
prophets, seers, and psychics
have been religious,” he said.
“Psychic gifts should be part of
your faith, as it has been with oth
ers, including Jesus.”
Both Vickers and Stephanie have
encountered non-believers and
skeptics of their psychic abilities.
“I have worked on many nega
tive people who had no belief in my
ability whatsoever,” Vickers said.
Stephanie said she has
changed many of her customer’s
reluctant attitudes.
“A lot of people come in because
of curiosity, then they believe it and
come in again,” she said. “You don’t
have to believe something to try it.”
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WHAT’S IT LIKE AT THE PLASMA CENTER?
To the staff of the Plasma Center,
I would like to start by saying thank you
to each and every employee for making the past
three years enjoyable in a professional, efficient
and courteous environment. As a donor since
1993, I have been more than satisfied with every
aspect of your operation, which allows myself and
others to contribute what we can to community
service, all the while being serviced by diligent,
but relaxed, workers. Everyone at the Plasma
Center, from those behind the front counter to
the phlebotomists to the supervisors, have made
great efforts to insure that each donor feels hy-
gienically safe, as well as keeping the atmosphere
light.
Like most, I started coming to the Plas
ma Center for monetary reasons, but I soon de
veloped acquaintances that appealed to me al
most as much as the original need for money,
enabling me to look forward to each donation,
not only for my wallet’s sake but also to see my
friends. Like I commented to someone recently,
talking to people at the Plasma Center was like
getting mail from a far-off friend that you don’t
get to do much with, but who you can talk to as
often as you write. For those acquaintances and
for your continual services. I would like to thank
all of those I’ve come to know and appreciate over
the past three years - Emily, and Tracy, Heath, and
Marty, Ada and Josie, etc... more I can’t remem
ber or those who have gone on to better things.
So, as I graduate from this great Univer
sity, I bid you all a fond farewell and strong com
mendations on such a successful blend of quali
ty medical practice and friendly service. Thank
you all and have a great summer. Thanks, C.E
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