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building is complete. The last two
stacks of Bonfire, the fifth and
sixth stacks, will be completed
on the day before and the day of
Bonfire, respectively. The fifth
stack will be built by the junior
redpots, and the sixth stack will
be built by senior redpots. Once
stack is completed, the outhouse
is placed on top, and Bonfire is
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in our country, but it is seldom
that you hear about the positive
things they do,” Mcilhaney said.
“The Aggies here at Texas A&M
have to be some of the best young
adults in the world, between the
Big Event they put on every
spring to students working indi
vidually, one by one, forming
groups and building homes for
people.”
Surovik said although he often
cannot convince bank employees
to come out and help, the Aggies
are always there.
“The Aggies are awesome,”
Surovik said. “[Students] are the
backbone [of the project].”
The land the house is on was
donated by the City of College
Station. Plans are underway for
another Habitat house to be built
and placed on the lot neighboring
the Ellis’ home.
Fifty percent of Fortune 500
companies underwrite employ
ees’ remedial basic-skills training
at an annual cost of $300 million.
The military spends $70 mil
lion annually on basic-skills re
mediation for recruits.
At a time when illiteracy is
having an impact on the econo
my, two Texas A&M professors,
Valerie Balester and Michelle Hall
Kells, have co-edited a book tar
geted at English teachers, Attend
ing to the Margins: Writing, Re
searching and Teaching on the
Front Lines.
Kells said she recognized a
need for research to respond to
the interests of college students
from overlooked backgrounds.
Kells said literacy goes beyond the
ability to read and write.
“Literacy is the ability to gen
erate meaningful text and to in
terpret texts that are coming at
you,” she said. “It is a develop
mental process for all of us.”
Kells said the best way for pro
fessors to tell if a student is func
tionally illiterate is to have them
write.
“My recommendation to pro
fessors in any field is to encourage
writing and the process of gener
ating text whenever possible,”
Kells said.
“T/ie evidence is
there that there
are a lot of people
with problems read
ing and writing”
— Dr. J. Lawrence Mitchell
English department head
Dr. J. Lawrence Mitchell, head
of the Department of English, said
although he does not believe illit
eracy is a problem at A&M, it is an
issue in other parts of the state.
“The evidence is there that
there are a lot of people with
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tion won both the first and second
place titles in the chess event.
Takuya Yamada, director of the
Mini-Olympics and a junior archi
tecture major, said the atmosphere
of the games was exciting, serious
and fun because the players—all
from different countries—they
were all excited about being in
volved in the games.
“Watching the players cheer for
their teams was fun because each
country had its own way to cheer
their players,” Yamada said. “For
example, some countries brought
traditional drums to create spirit
for their country, that was very dif
ferent from the usual sports
events.”
Yamada said though the com
petition was rough, all of the play
ers enjoyed themselves.
“The players were very serious
because they were representing
their country, but they enjoyed
the games because they met so
many people from all over the
world who enjoyed the same
sports,” Yamada said.
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rate maneuvers. Some club mem
bers judged the competition, while
others participated.
Effie Hadley, winner of the ad
vanced competition and a sopho
more nutritional science major,
said she was happy to help raise
money.
“It was good competition,”
Hadley said. “I know that the team
needs money—it is doing a lot of
fund raisers.”
Shaffer said turnout for this se
mester’s Thmble-Off was lower
than expected. Therefore, compe
tition was held only in intermedi
ate and advanced levels.
Next semester’s Tumble-Off will
be in April. Shaffer said he hopes
more people will show up to par
ticipate and watch.
Gift certificates and coupons from
community businesses were prizes
distributed afterwards to the top-fin
ishing competitors.
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