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• Second and last meeting will be lues.
Sept 9 at the same time and place.
Last day to register a team is Sept 9.
Last day to register a player is Nov 12.
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Education should
academic lifestyles be Aggie priority
campus scapegoat
In response to Mandy Cater's Sep
tember 2, "impersonal campus"
column:
I have always been of the opin
ion that our world is what we make
of it. Sure, you can always find
someone or something to blame
your troubles on, but it most likely
will not resolve the problem.
In her September 2 column,
Cater states that "many students
don't even know their advisor's
In the Hopwood story on Mon
day, we read the usual moaning
over how horrible Hopwood is, and
how it is just going to take all of the
minority students away from A&M
— or at least that is the impression
the stories have left me with.
But there are two things that
need to be pointed out.
The first is about the A&M em
ployees, who are quoted as saying
that Hopwood is to blame for the
fall off in minority enrollment at
this school.
They might be right, but how
do they know?
Unless they actually asked
every person who turned down
the offered admission (and those
who didn't apply, for that matter)
why they did not come here, they
are only speculating as to why
those students did not choose to
come here.
They have already decided that
Hopwood will take all of our mi
nority students away, so that is the
only possible explanation to them.
The second is in regard to an AP
story that was run in the Battalion
over the summer.
According to the story, incom
ing students of all races have fallen
off from last year. That includes
the white students.
It could be that minority stu
dents are leaving the state in
droves, but if the Battalion wants
me to care, it needs to print infor
mation in a usable form such as
ratio of minority students to white
students in recent years.
To date, I have not seen enough
information to be concerned.
John Brooks
Class of'97
name.
Whose fault is that? As she clear
ly stated, the advisor is responsible
for the whole undergraduate popu
lation of their department/college.
As young adults, it is high time
college students took responsibility
for their own futures. It may be dif
ficult to get an appointment, but I
dare say that any student makes a
concerted effort to schedule an ap
pointment with an advisor can do
so with a little effort.
As for the student-to-faculty ra
tio, it is probably better now than
when I was a student more than a
few years ago.
The Class of ’91 was over 8,000
students, the largest freshman class
in the nation that year (Fall ’87). The
class of'01 is slightly more than
6,000. I would say the administra
tion is doing their best to bring the
faculty/student ratio back down to a
manageable size.
College is an adjustment, yes.
But each student has the power (and
responsibility) to maintain personal
control of their academic future.
There are plenty of faculty and
staff who are on this campus for the
express purpose of advising stu
dents — the problem is that the stu
dents are waiting for them to call
them up and invite them to a per
sonal meeting—that won't happen.
If you want help, go and ask for it
— be a big girl.
And speaking of impersonal,
when was the last time anyone but
the cadets said Howdy on this cam
pus? Don't they teach that at Fish
Camp any more??? I must be get
ting old.
Karen Seago
Class of'91
This is in regards to the Sep
tember 1st Mail Call letter from
the Panhellenic President (Jen
nifer Burns and Vice President
(Robin Morgan).
I would like to take this oppor
tunity to thank these ladies for
clearing something up for me. In
their letter they stated "We have all
come to Texas A&M for one rea
son: to be an Aggie."
For the past two years I have
been under the naive impression
that we all came here to get an ed
ucation. Thanks ladies for correct
ing my ill-conceived notion.
Adolfo Lopez
Class of'99
Fall’s return marked
by traffic violations
It is only the second day of the
new fall semester at Texas A&M
University, and already I find my
self looking both ways in the same
lane when I cross a street.
The manner in which stu
dents disobey traffic laws in Col
lege Station is alarming. Not
only is it dangerous, but rude
and inconsiderate.
I am a careful person, and I (a
pedestrian) have nearly been hit
five times in one day. In every in
stance, it involved an Aggie and in
every instance that Aggie was do
ing something illegal.
Perhaps instead of “Aggies
Lead by Example” (If driving is any
indication, I sure hope not) the
department responsible for print
ing these tags should have includ
ed helpful reminders to drivers on
the backs of parking tags. Things
that most of us would take for
common sense ...With this idea in
mind, I brought my suggestion to
other people.
I found that almost everyone in
this town has a gripe or two (and
more jokes than I can remember)
about Aggie driving. I have ranked
them in order of popularity.
Turn on your thinker; use your
blinker. Warn before you turn. This
is a major cause of accidents in
College Station. If people do not
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know you are intending to turn,
they will not know to slow down
behind you or (in some cases) to
yield or get out of your way.
When driving in this town at
night, turn ON your smarts and
turn off your bl ights. Make sure
your headlights are tilted down...
toward the road ... and not into the
eyes of oncoming traffic.
When you use hi-beams in a
populated area, certain people
who only have a mild visual im
pairment in the daytime are as
good as legally blind because of
the glare you are shining onto
their glasses. It does not take very
long for a person in that situation
to swerve into your lane. It’s your
life too.
There is no reason ever to use
hi-beams or other powerful lights
in a city. Besides unsafe, it is an
noying and inconsiderate, so
switch them off.
Don’t tailgate. When the light
changes to red, stop. Don’t think
because the guy ahead of you
managed to sneak through that
you can too.
Know where it is legal to turn
and where it is not legal.
Likewise, know the direction of
traffic on a one-way road. Just be
cause there is not a sign, does not
mean it is legal.
Please consider the above all-
time gripes of College Station resi
dents and workers.
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