1 uesday • June 2 9 1998
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GGIELIFE
but where have all the Aggies gone?
ByMarium Mohiuddin
Staff writer
follege Station, the city
where travelers stop on
-their way to Houston, San
Rfitonio, Austin, and Dallas-Fort
Worth is not known for its summer
Hie activities. Some students have
wlmdered on their return to Ag-
gieland in the fall "did anything
Hppen here?" For those unfortu
nate students who have to remain
inhollege Station and study in the
It sun, the negatives may seem to
Itweigh the positives. However,
the re are a few people who would
vouch for the advantages of re-
m.iining in College Station in the
|mmer.
Mandy Walton, a senior bio-
bdical science major, said this
Hll be the second year she will be
taking summer classes and she is
looking forward to the relaxed at
mosphere.
■ "The classes are more laid-
back," she said. "The teachers let
■eir guard down and are more
^Ursonal with students. Plus, you
can get a parking spot closer to
ypur class."
ft
Walton said the summer also al
lows students to
get through the
classes quicker.
"In the sum
mer, the classes
are only five
weeks, not like a
15-week semes
ter," Walton said.
"In the summer
you feel like you
are really accom
plishing some
thing because you
take, study and
pass a class in the
one-third of the
time. The same
amount of materi
al is learned, just
less painful."
Walton said
that as a native of
College Station,
she has seen many summers pass
and many students come and go.
"I am probably the only one
who loves it when students leave,"
Walton said. "There is no one here
and you can go out to eat or go to
the mall and
you don't have
to wait in
lines."
Jacque Hall,
assistant man
ager of Holly
wood 16 Movie
Theater, said all
businesses are
affected by stu
dents leaving,
but fortunately
summer is the
big time for
movies, so there
are always peo
ple to fill the
seats.
"We do take
a drop, but it is-
— n't that bad,"
Hall said. "You
can tell the students are gone be
cause it is less busy, but the stu
dents that remain can still enjoy the
great movies.
You can drive
down Texas
Avenue without
stopping every two
seconds because of
the car in front of you.”
— Steven Daniels
support manager of
College Station Wal-Mart
"Think of it this way, summer is
the time for big, blockbuster
movies. If the students of Fall and
Spring wqfe here, then it would be
difficult to get in to see the movies.
You would have to wait in very
long lines."
Steven Daniels, support manag
er of Wal-Mart in College Station,
said the big difference Wal-Mart
experiences is in employment.^
"When summer comes we have
to hire new people," Daniels said.
"Most of our employees are stu
dents and they transfer to other
stores for the summer."
Daniels said the hours of the
store remain the same in the sum
mer, but the rush hours change be
cause of the drop in student popu
lation.
"Our busy times used to be in
the evenings because students
would want to come after classes,"
he said. "Now, our busy times are
in the morning, but people can
come in and out without a wait and
a rush."
Daniels said on the whole the
entire town is much more calm, re
laxed and not as congested.
"You can drive down Texas Av
enue without stopping every two
seconds because of the car in front
of you," he said. "You can actually
make it down the street and even
catch all the lights. Students can go
to the George Bush Library and get
in without standing around staring
at each other."
Whep summer rolls around
many students begM to think of
College Station as the safest place.
There are not as many students
and so students believe there is not
going to be as much crime.
However, Lt. Bert Kretzschmar,
supervisor of the University Crime
Prevention Unit said even though
many of the students have left stu
dents should not assume it is safe.
"There are thousands of out-of-
town people that come for all sorts
of camps," he said. "If you leave
your bag or purse lying around
and think nothing will happen be
cause it is A&M, trust me, some
thing will happen." Y
Kretzschmar said students
thoughts of theft in the fall and
spring do not occur in the minds of
students in the summer.
"Students get a little laxed
about property," he said. "But they
should not get a false sense of se
curity because it is summer. The
same rule*? of the fall and spring
still apply for the summer."
Yesterday, summer officially be
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of bed, took a shower, got dressed
and headed off to classes. They
sweated, they studied and they
(hopefully) learned something.
When they came back to their
apartments, dorms, or houses, re
ality hit them of the choice they
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