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Congratulations to the 1999 New Members of Kappa Kappa Gamma Allison Austin Erica Ingram Kimberly Bandy Amanda Jost Melissa Barker Meagan Land Carrie Beard Kodi Lyttle Sara Birdsong Leslie Macferran Shannon Blackman Elizabeth Martin Rebecca Bond Erin McCuistion Tanya Boucher Mindy McRae Kasey Brasier Lane Neill Lauren Brosnahan Natalie Neiss Jennifer Bryson Lindsay Ogle Crystal Buckner Joy Orr Lindsay Buzbee Amy Perrin Anne Cacioppo Lindsay Pickering Lisa Conaway Kate Pigg Molly Cullen Allison Porter Margaret Cussen Amanda Reese Christie Dally Katherine Russ Erin Davis Stephanie Shumway Kendall Delleney Whitney Stover Lauren Ernst Ginger Thames Christina Garland Chelsey Theiler Sarah Graf Jennifer Turner ! Ashley Grona Cori Waits Selina Gutierrez Lauren Ward Nicole Haggerty Paige Wardlaw Kathryn Harris Liz Wardlaw Terry Hill Jennifer Watson Lee Ann Howell Erin Weynand Robin Hughey d | Laura Young Kristen Ingebredtsen Kelln Zimmer Page 4 • Monday, September 13, 1999 A GGIELIFE Battalion Come fluff your pillo Housekeeping Week highlights students’ cleaning}! BY SUZANNE BRABECK The Battalion T his week is national house keeping week, which may prove to be another good ex cuse for students to eschew study ing for more noble pursuits. At the very least, this week gives students a better excuse than “playing video games” when they are asked to jus tify their midterm GPR. Ashley Hoyt, a freshman busi ness administration major, said housekeeping week is not likely to gain instant acceptance by the masses. “Parents and kids alike seem to dislike cleaning,” Hoyt said. “Why else are cleaning chores given to the young on weekends? But, when we go off to college we rebel again and stop doing them, unless of course if it delays my calculus homework.” It could be argued that there are too many national holidays estab lished every week and month. Sep tember alone is designated as His panic heritage month and contains Labor Day. Hoyt said while there are many national holidays set aside for worthwhile reasons, students de serve more recognition than they are given. “Why is there a week for every thing?” Hoyt said. “How come there is not a college student week? We re ally should have that one.” Added on top of the national hol idays honoring various and sundry groups are the factoids every A&M student is expected to learn. Stephen Smith, a senior mechan ical engineering major, said house keepers deserve the thanks of the student body, but having another holiday is not necessary. “If we give them a week, we’ll have to give everyone a week,” Smith said. “I think appreciation for the custodial crew here at A&M should just be a given. We should not have just one week to appreciate them all of the time.” Living on campus yields a unique perspective to the celebration of housekeeping week. Emily Luke, a sophomore civil engineering major, said students living together in close quarters differ in their views of cleanliness than those who live in more spa cious housing. “I think people that have their own apartments care more about housekeeping than people that live in the dorms.” Luke said. “You can tell because most guys’ halls usual ly stink even after their bonfire grades are gone. ” Luke said for students who only own half a single dorm room, house keeping can bring roommates clos er together or drive them apart. “With a limited space in a dorm room, organizing is more of a challenge than housekeeping,” Luke said. Hoyt said students who were taught to be neat before moving off to college become the cleanest dor mitory residents, making the dorm room a more conducive environ ment to studying. “All 1 do at home is make my bed and pick up my clothes, so there is room to walk,” Hoyt said. “Our room is always picked up, and so is my room at home. During the week end my room does get kind of messy because we are very busy, but dur ing the week it is clean because I can’t study in a dirty room.” Luke said it is nice to have cus todial staff come into the dorm room to clean the bathroom, but a community bathroom is even less of a hassle. Joy Luke, Emily Luke’s mother and a mother of another current A&M student, said she thought it would be a good idea to have col lege students clean their own bath rooms because most should already be in the habit of performing that chore. She said she would support it, especially if it lowered the cost of living on campus. “A clean toilet is no laughing mat ter,” Luke’s mother said. "It is a fact of life that toilets need to be cleaned, nd so, the world as ^■.students ovl it enters 3 tlird week o t 3 simester- ig battle with ndjng machine steliance, cked-up traffic id cafeteria-in- tced bowel mo’’ noi in that orcl< Mi ich is expec jdent. After dis lleltion of Che< eke s (aka: cou tough energy tc ?a»st vending t ading through 1 to get to class, ?cte 1 to write vi Haling their un injection betw< kes, Regis Philt ims’ plight wit! Desperate tor udents go to an hetlier it be bril ripjoyees, coerc •ading or posing graficant other ievJ tests. All of iglv r grades are tou ,h the latter arize one v\ te Irofessor’s ni •ani ;h Funhoy.” A hygienicall\ ealthier alternat ie phenomenon lemental Instrui SI sessions ha o perfection by t rst.Sl session w hen Christoph but it must be done correctly. It is an important responsibility, but some one must monitor it.” Barbi Bernard, a sophomore gen eral studies major, said she did not know housekeeping week existed. “Being a resident adviser in a res idence hall has shown me that a cus todial staff is needed," Bernard said. “Even though I can see appreciating them, a week is a long time. 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