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Aggielife
Fight For Your High
Students reflect on horror stories of parties past
BY JENNIFER SPURLOCK
The Battalion
The perfect date turns to a
nightmare as that special someone
barfs up Freebirds and camps out
at the toilet for the rest of the night.
The perfect drink does not look so
yummy when it is accompanied
by the Chinese food eaten two days
ago. Especially when it is spread
out in the form of a welcome mat
on a perfectly groomed carpet.
Oops...party foul.
College students across the na
tion will spend this school year
gathering stories of nights that
started so right and ended so
wrong. From major to minor, par
ty fouls teach A&M students about
the not-so-finer things in life the
i hard way.
These major to minor
events could be classified, filed
away, stored for a generation of
Aggies. Several students know mi
nor annoying party fouls that are
the perfect ingredients to ruin a
night.
Sarah Goldston, a junior politi
cal science major, knows of two
party fouls that annoy her. “Don’t
follow someone to a party who
says they know where it is but re
ally doesn’t,” Goldston said. “Run
ning out of beer at a party is also
a major foul to me.”
There are important rules in at
tending a party. Always check the
party room layout to make sure
there are restrooms on the
premise.
Shaun Dalrymple, a senior Eng
lish major, said he is also quite fa
miliar with bathroom woes.
“I went to a party once where
the toilet broke,” Dalrymple said.
“Since I was the only one who
could fix it, I raced into the bath
room to stop the disgusting liquid
from spewing out.
“Unfortunately, 1 slipped on the
toilet mess and had a massive fall.
I did save the apartment from a
disastrous flood.”
Jill Riley, a senior journalism
major, said she always makes sure
there are adequate bathroom fa
cilities where she goes. "I went to
a party once, and the bathrooms
didn’t work,” Riley said. “Most of
the girls left, while the guys used
the backyard. It was awful.”
One of the most horrible party
fouls happens when the victim
least expects it.
Kenneth Macdonald, a senior
journalism major, found himself
in a hot situation at one party he
attended.
“I wasn’t very coordinated at
this party, and I dropped a beer
down the front of my pants like I
urinated on myself,” Macdonald
said. “Needless to say, I spent a
few hours sitting on the sofa wait
ing for it to dry. Luckily, beer
doesn’t stain.”
Another rule for party atten
dance would be to observe the
rules of common decency, espe
cially if enunciating is becoming a
difficult task.
David Chambers, a junior fi
nance major, was made a victim of
his own blubbery.
“The first party 1 went to on
campus 1 made a fool of myself
while talking to some girls,”
Chambers said. "Everything was
going great while I was running
through some pick-up lines until
asked them what school they went
to. After they replied Texas A&M
with weird looks on their faces
just happily said ‘me too.'”
The most embarrassing part
fouls of them all, however, univei
sally include the inappropriate st
cretion of bodily fluids.
Mark Klockentager, a !
marketing major, said be
cause of past experi
ence he is very aware
of anything he touch
es at a party.
“At a party one time,
there was a guy staying at the
house who no one liked,” Klock
entager said. “One of my friends
just happened to find his retainer
in the bathroom. Well, as drunk as
he was, he proceeded to urinate
on the mouthpiece and dry it off
with a hair dryer. The guy never
knew about it.”
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September
1-3 MSC Visual Arts Committee Annual Poster Sale 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Rudder Fountain
3 MSC Film Society Varsity Blues 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Rudder Theatre
5 MSC Marketing Team Fall Open House 2-6 p.m. MSC 1 st and 2nd Floors
8 MSC Visual Arts Committee Face to Face Artist Talk: Beverly Penn 5-7 p.m. MSC
Visual Arts Gallery
9 MSC Black Awareness Committee Nu House 3:30 p.m. location: TBA
10 MSC Film Society The Matrix 7 and 9:45 p.m. Rudder Theatre Complex.
11 MSC Cultural Committee Consortium Leading With Diversity 1 1 a.m. - 1 p.m.
16 MSC CAMAC Diezy Sets Celebration 10 a.m - 2 p.m. Rudder Fountain
17-18 Yell.Leaders First Yell - Weekend Warmup/Bill Engvall/Cook-off Classic Simpson
Drill Field
22 MSC CAMAC and MSC Town Hall Ballet Folklorico de Mexico 7:30 p.m. Rudder
Auditorium
24 MSC Film Society Clue 7 and 9:30 p.m. Rudder Theatre
27 MSC Recreation Committee Jack White Billiards Exhibit 2-4 p.m. MSC Basement
30 MSC OP AS Don Cossacks of Rostov 7:30 p.m. Rudder Auditorium
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