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By Jenara Kocks
The Battalion
Reveilles I through IV will not be
ible to see the Aggies’ score at the first
i&M home football game Sept. 6.
Thegraves of Reveilles I through IV
fere moved to Cain Park Aug. 13 to
bake room for expansion of Kyle
field. The expansion will begin after
le Texas A&M-University of Texas
jjotball game Nov. 28.
"We were disappointed that
they had to be moved, but
we set our sights toward
the new site.”
JEFF KING
COMMANDING OFFICER,
COMPANY E-2
m
Jeff King, commanding officer of
mpany E-2 and a senior political
ience major, said he and about 30
idets excavated the remains of the
tid buried them at a temporary
Cain Park.
Curtis Russell, a landscape archi-
lectfor Physical Plant, said a backhoe
[operator from the Physical Plant as-
ted in the digging up of the remains,
_jtthe cadets did most of the digging.
.1m He said the Reveille gravestones
few milne/the BA™* t re in storage until last week, when
■ey were placed over the temporary
lave site in Cain Park.
Residence Life bans halogen lamps in A&M dorm rooms
area engineer fot,
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low and tedious
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workers are sched-
existing pavement Texas A&M students are no longer
mnitted to use lamps with halogen
re cleared this criti-jbs j n residence halls beginning
val of pavement),. s f a ||
t will move more officials in the Department of
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, * ' Residence Life announced the ban
he $4.8 million pro-
ished in late spring s ' ummer -
1993 I Ron Sasse, director of Residence
Life, said safety was the reason for
the ban.
‘We consider the halogen lamps
ssenous fire hazard and believe nei
ther our students nor our facilities
should be exposed to that risk,”
Russell said the temporary site
resembles the original grave in
front of the north entrance of the
stadium. The brick base under the
grave stones is surrounded by con
crete. Posts and a chain around the
grave were installed when the con
crete was laid. The bronze plaque
explaining the tradition of Reveille
will be placed at the site at the end
of the week.
King said that he did not object
to the temporary site. He saici he
and the cadets in E-2 were more
concerned with the site after con
struction is completed.
“We were disappointed that they
had to be moved,” King said. “But
when we realized they had to be
moved, we set our sights toward the
new site. It’s something we’re going to
be proud of.”
King said the whole area in front of
the north entrance of the expansion
will be a plaza, and the Reveille grave
stones will be the focus of the plaza.
He said a scoreboard, visible from
the grave site, will be placed outside
the north stadium entrance. King said
he hopes a statue of Reveille I will be
placed inside the stadium.
King said some former A&M stu
dents complained about the reloca
tion of the graves throughout the sum
mer. However, he said their
complaints subsided when they heard
the reasons for the relocation.
The Kyle Field expansion is a $30
million project that will add 10,000
seats to the stadium. It is scheduled to
be completed in May 1999.
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Feuding over Reveille graves
detracts from true tradition
TIM MOOG/The Battalion
Tradition is one of the founda
tions upon which Texas A&M is built.
For students, alumni and faculty
alike, traditions are what set this uni
versity apart from the rest. But, Aggie
traditions have a propensity for in
curring something other than spirit
and pride, as the recent fiasco over
the Reveille grave site has shown.
Plans were announced this sum
mer for the excavation of the graves
of Reveilles I through IV to accom
modate the expansion of Kyle Field
scheduled to begin after the Texas
football game this fall.
Repercussions of this announce
ment came with full force. Students
and alumni whipped themselves
into hysterical frenzy, claiming that
this decision dashed the honor and
spirit of Reveilles. The movement of
the graves was considered by many
interested parties to be a dishonor
and a sign of deteriorating traditions
at Texas A&M.
The hubbub garnered the Uni
versity a great deal of less than at
tractive attention in both the media
and private circles. This sort of in
ternal feuding and boisterous op
position between Aggies only re
flects negatively on the University
and the importance of Reveille.
Let’s face it, there are already
enough Aggie jokes out there.
The very fact that the Reveille
graves were given so much consider
ation in the expansion plans should
make it clear that the tradition is still
dear to the University. Plans are al
ready in the works for a permanent
resting place for the Reveilles, a tree-
lined plaza outside the north side of
Kyle Field.
In response to the criticism, Ag
gies must remember that it is not
the location of the Reveilles’ re
mains that is important, but what
her symbol represents. Spirit is a
feeling, not a place.
Sasse said in a press release.
According to a press release from
the U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission, halogen bulbs can
reach temperatures of 970 F to
1,200 F. The CPSC conducted tests
during which 250-watt, 300-watt and
500-watt bulbs in torchiere-style
lamps started fires in nearby com
bustible materials.
University officials said in a press
release that although all halogen
lamps are banned from the halls,
torchiere-style lamps are the No. 1
target of the ban.
In the press release, University of
ficials suggest that students use a
compact fluorescent light (CFL) fix
ture, which is available in a torchiere-
style lamp, as an alternative to the
halogen torchiere.
Jason Brooks, operations manag
er of Texas A&M Bookstore in the
MSC, said torchiere-style lamps us
ing compact fluorescent lights are on
order and should be available in the
bookstore by the third or fourth week
of September.
7 America
Bank has wha
students
tec Center temporarily discontinues summer pass sales
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Texas A&M students enrolled for
11997 but not the summer ses-
n were not allowed to use the
Student Recreation Center for two
eeks this summer because of a
lisagreement over the interpreta-
ion of the “non-student" cap agree-
fient made between the Rec Cen-
erand local gyms.
Dennis Corrington, director of
lie Department of Recreational
Sports, decided to discontinue the
ale of continuing passes to stu-
Student Government to test new election run-off process
ritas
sday
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dents between semesters.
In the past, the Department of
Recreational Sports offered $70 sum
mer passes to students enrolled in the
upcoming fall term, but not the sum
mer term, but gym owners
in the Bryan-College Station area
questioned the eligibility of these stu
dents for the passes.
The gym owners said people not en
rolled in school during the semester in
question should not be considered stu
dents. Therefore, Texas A&M would be
violating the “good neighbor” agree
ment it made with the gyms when the
Rec Center opened if the University al
lowed students between semesters to
buy continuing passes. The agreement
capped the number of non-students
who could buy passes to the Rec Cen
ter at 1,150.
Dr. J. Malon Southerland, vice pres
ident of student affairs, later reversed
Corrington’s decision due to student
protest and a reevaluation of the cap
agreement.
(you want
it? you grot it. '
The Texas A&M Student Govern-
nentwill test a new election "ranking
iystem” during fall freshman elec
ts. The process will be included in
lection revisions submitted to the Stu-
ient Senate this fall.
The ranking system would include
un-off elections in the student body
ieneral elections.
the general elections, students
tould choose a first-choice candidate,
then rank the remaining candidates by
preference. After votes have been tal
lied, the candidate with the least num
ber of first-choice votes would be
dropped from the election.
The students who voted for the
dropped candidate would have
their votes given to their second-
choice candidates.
Votes would be redistributed ac
cording to rank until one candidate
won the election.
Student Body President Curtis
Childers, Speaker of the Student Sen
ate Alice Gonzalez and other Student
Government members made the deci
sion to use the different system in the
fall freshmen elections after meeting
with student leaders, such as yell lead
ers, other Student Government mem
bers and Residence Hall Association
representatives.
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