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with the collapse.
The cause of the accident is still
under investigation, and the report
will be filed March 31, 2000.
The Big Game
The largest crowd ever to view
a football game in Texas watched
the University of Texas and A&M
battle to the end in a 20-16 victory
for the Aggies. For once, though,
the final score did not matter.
Though the rivalry most likely will
return to its usual intensity next
year, no one will forget the moment
that everyone, even Longhorn fans,
came together to mourn the stu-
Passageway
Continued from Page 1
on their present alignment unless they are moved, which
we hope they will be eventually,” he said. “Whether or
not the train moves, [the passageway] still gets us un
der Wellborn Road. Wellborn Road is not going to be
moved, and it’s a barrier through campus and a very
hazardous crossing. ”
The Southside Parking Garage, presently the largest
on campus, holds 2,000 cars. The new garage will ac
commodate 3,700 cars. Along with the expansion of the
Zachry parking lot, total parking capacity on campus
will be brought to approximately 36,000 spaces.
Williams said there currently are 1,700 students on a
waiting list for a garage space, and the new garage
should alleviate all parking problems on campus. He
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dents lost the week before. m
The Bonfire col
brought this team back it
spective,” A&M punters
Lechler said.
“Which is that this plate
most special school in thee®
because of the tremendous!
port of the fans and howst
family Aggies are.”
saici the $30 million garage will be built using J
revenues and will be used primarily for student [J
“This was one reason for increasing parkingieB
year, so we could build up enough revenue to™
these two facilities," he said.
Students will be able to park and get to the®
deuce halls with little effort, because a shuttleisp/B
to run from the West Campus Parking Garagerj
dence-hall locations once the project iscompleti,
handicapped-accessible parking will be availabletsj
first level of the new garage.
Williams said the “rainbow” aerial pedestrian™
which currently crosses Wellborn Road, willbetoiri
“It doesn't meet current [AmericanswithDisa
Act) requirements, because the slopes are
it is too narrow,” he said.
The projects are estimated to be completed
cember 2002.
Bonfire
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jor, stun
to make the ground a little more
stable. This time, the cause may
be a little harder to fix.”
John Weese, A&M faculty ad
viser for the Bonfire investigation
commission and a professor of me
chanical engineering, said the com
mission will use the information re
vealed by the soil tests as a piece of
the puzzle which hopefully will
show why the stack fell.
“The commission will receive the
information and will give it full and
careful consideration,” he said. “Their
conclusions and analysis on the mat
ter will be revealed in their final report,
along will all their findings. ”
Continued from Page 1
The slogan “Wake Up and Drive”
is spread throughout the area by lo
cal car salesman, Gordon Roundtree.
Rolph said A&M and Baylor stu
dents participated in the commer
cial, which begins airing at the end
of this month.
“It is important to get the word
out, and we are excited that the
commercial will air on heavily
watched channels like MTV and all
of the major networks,” he said.
After the winter break, Ferguson
will travel to the University of Texas,
Stephen F. Austin State University
and Texas Lutheran College to get
support from those schools.
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affects every college studerd
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not happen,” he said. “St»he pencil,
need to encourage their frieiriilB^ason said
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Foundation, 73 percent q
dents will fall asleep onetint
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sible for making the decisiontof
over if they are too tired todn-
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lives, so pull over andg
road instead of putting yotusdfj
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BY JEFF KEMPF
The Battalion
Aggie. TVadition. Many people
find these words synonymous, and
this year many Aggies shared their
love for tradition with their families
at home.
One Aggie family carried on its
five-year Thanksgiving tradition of
carving a totem pole.
Each year the Hill family picks a
theme for the pole, and this year the
choice was obvious.
Missy Crow, a member of the Hill
family and a junior elementary edu
cation major, said the family came
together in a special way this year.
“After the Bonfire collapse and
the loss of fellow Aggies, my family
wanted to dedicate the tradition to
those who lost their lives building a
tradition for us,” she said.
Since 1995, Charles Hill has
found an appropriate tree on his
farm and stripped its bark to prepare
for the arrival of the rest of the fam
ily. On the weekend following
Thanksgiving, the family gathers on
the family’s farm in Crockett to join
in fellowship and carve a nearly 20-
foot pole.
Scott Brewer, a member of the Hill
family and a senior construction sci
ence major, said the work is tedious.
“We begin by cutting grooves into
the tree with a chain saw,” he said.
“Then we use chisels, hammers and
chain saws to draw and sculpt the
designs.”
The project starts Friday morning
of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend
and typically concludes the following
afternoon. The pole is erected using
a large tractor and chain. A five-foot
hole holds the totem in place, and soil
is packed around its bottom.
This year the pole’s top is adorned
with an intricate Bonfir^ replica.
They Hill, a junior engineering
major, came up with the idea cht logical the
Bonfire design. ■‘They he!
“I wanted to make this ■d. “I donT
memorable,” he said. “ThispcBng to do 1
be in the ground forever,soihf®^ the box
fire was appropriate for thep f or being a gi
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bols of Aggieland and the A;: dreaded fina
it. The 12th Man, the “gig 1 ® ^esun for
and a football with the score™
year’s A&M-UniversityofTexasjjji
ball game are represented. ;
Crow asked friend and room
Leslie VanDusen, a junior elffl
tary education major, to joi
family this year.
VanDusen said she was]
pressed with the work and cou!|
believe the passion the
showed toward the project.
“The craftsmanship isamaffi
she said. “You would never8
people you who are your p
carve totem poles, letalonedot|
so well.”
Gallery to host art workshop
BY JESSI HIGHFILL
The Battalion
Endangered species and the art of
Andy Warhol are the subjects of a
children’s art workshop Sunday at 2
p.m. in the J. Wayne Stark Galleries.
The workshop is part of the galleries
“Sundays in the Galleries” program.
The workshop will begin with a tour
of the gallery’s current exhibit,
“Andy Warhol: Endangered
Species,” and will conclude with
two hands-on art projects for chil
dren and parents.
Catherine Hastedt, Stark Galleries
curator, said in the first project chil
dren will choose an animal from the
exhibit and draw a picture of that an
imal’s appropriate habitat, including
elements the animal needs to sur
vive, such as food and water.
The second project will focus on
the style of Warhol’s work. The
children will use sponge prints,
overlay them with colored mylar
and finish their drawings with ges
tural lines, Hastedt said.
“This will teach them about col
or contrast, line and movement in
art, all of which are recognized ele
ments of Warhol’s art,” she said.
The workshop is free, Hastedt
said, but parents must register their
children in advance.
The “Sundays in the Galleries”
program is offered once a semester,
but the gallery would like to do more
in the future, Hastedt said.
Parents can register their children
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