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June 5,2000
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In its second year. First Yell is looking
to attract another enthusiastic crowd of
Aggies and supporters by bringing in en
tertainment-superstar Bill Cosby.
The event, as stated in its mission
statement, is a time for the Aggie family
to come together to
kick off a new year
and share the excite
ment of being home in
Aggieland.
Tlie Aggie yell
leaders and Memorial
Student Center Town
Hall have been work
ing together for a year to make Cosby's
appearance a reality.
Rusty Thompson, adviser to the yell
leaders, said, "We're not sure if theOT Ag
Class of '43 would enjoy a performance by
Adam Sandler or Chris Rock as much as
the younger Ags. Bill Cosby's humor
spans the generations."
"We wanted a top-of-the-line performer,
someone who would appeal to the widest
variety of people," said Ricky Wood, senior
t yell leader and theater arts major. .
"His name was on the top of every
one's list," said Bubba Moser, senior yell
j leader and agricultural economics major.
"Everybody knows this guy."
With last year's introductory effort serv
ing as a guideline to this year's planning,
Thompson said they are ahead of schedule.
"Things are really coming together for
us this year," Thompson said.
"We want to put this event on tlie map,
and establish it as a tradition hereatTexas
A&M," Moser said. "We want to build on
the success of last year's First Yell and
prove that it wasn't a one-time thing."
First Yell gives the opportunity for for
mer students to relive their days here.
Wood said. "It's also a great cliance for
students to get involved with happenings
on campus ... and it's all for creating ex
citement for the football game," he said.
Moser and Wood are already plan
ning what they'll say on that first en
counter with Cosby.
"I'll show him our appreciation for his
coming," Wood said. "I'd also let him know
about the type of crowd that Aggies are."
"The first thing I'll say is 'Howdy' "
Moser said.
First Yell takes place on Sept. 8-9, with
a variety of events including live music,
carnival games, midnight Yell Practice,
Great Aggie BBQ and the Texas A&M vs.
Wyoming football game. Cosby's perfor
mance is Friday, Sept. 8 at 8 p.m. in Reed
Arena with opening performances by tlie
Singing Cadets, Kappa Alpha Psi and
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"Tickets are already being reserved,"
Thompson said. "So you should get
yours as soon as possible if you plan on
attending."
The deadline for ordering tickets is
July 31,2000.
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Cancer survivors celebrate joy of life
Maureen Kane
The Battalion
According to Lynn McDaniel, a mar
keting and advertising staff member for
the Central Texas Cancer Care, any oncol
ogy group that wants to participate in Na
tional Cancer Survivors' Day can have
their own Events. The Brazos Valley cele
bration, hosted by Central Texas Cancer
Care and other local businesses, is open to
anyone surviving cancer or relatives of
cancer survivors.
Edwina Ramczyk, a nurse working with
Central Texas Cancer Care, defined cancer
survivors as "anyone from the moment of
diagnosis throughout the rest of their life,
whether they live one year, 10 years, 20 or 30
years."
The program for the event included the
presentation of a proclamation, a song sung
by McDaniel, two speeches by cancer sur
vivors, an open microphone time for any
one in attendance to speak about their ex
periences and entertainment by the Aggie
Wranglers. Ramczyk said she has been
working at this event for the past four years,
and has seen how a positive attitude can ef
fect a cancer patient.
Scott Mogonye, a sophomore general
studies major, first noticed the lump on his
shoulder while taking a shower in early July
1998. One month later, his family doctor
gave Mogonye the diagnosis he had cancer.
"When 1 went to the doctor, I knew some
thing was wrong because he had this terrible
look on his face. He said 'you'll need to go to
the cancer center.' A 19-year-old college stu-
College Station resident Bea Green is
undergoing the healing touch ap
plied by therapy practitioner Mary
Sue Rabe. Both were participants at
the National Cancer Survivors Day.
dent doesn't want to hear that he has cancer.
I freaked out, I was pretty nervous, Mogonye
said. "I started reading a lot about Hodgkin's
Lymphoma and found that it is most preva
lent among 19-25 year olds and that there are
only 7,000 cases of Hodgkin's Lymphoma
around the world at any given time."
Although it is considered surprising
when a young person is discovered to
have cancer, it is important for people to
realize that cancer can strike anyone, re
gardless of age. Mogonye did not believe
that cancer could happen to him until it
did. McDaniel said that, like Mogonye,
many people do not know cancer can oc
cur in younger people.
"Cancer can happen to anybody at any
age," McDaniel said. "The more people
who are aware that they need to be diag
nosed early, they need to be checked for can
cer, the sooner you get treated and helped."
"I think people who are very positive
do much better, people who have a very
good attitude about things, even when
they have something bad going on, they
can see something positive, keep focused,
it's easier to get through, and I think that's
the way it is in life," Ramczyk said. "If we
dwell on the bad, it's easy to stay in that
little rut, but if we try to be positive,than it
makes it not quite as hard to handle."
In December 1996, Bea Green found a
lump in her breast which turned out to be
cancerous. She had surgery to rembve the
lump and now, 28 radiation treatments
and eight chemotherapy treatments later,
she says with a smile, "I'm still here.
"I used to crack them up when I'd go
into the doctor's office because I had
about five or six different wigs, a platinum
blonde wig, a wig like Ginger's from Gilli-
gan's Island, a black one. I'd show up in
the office and they wouldn't know who
was showing up. We would have fun that
way. You've got to be able to laugh your
way through this," Green said.
Mogonye, Ramczyk and McDaniel
stated similar opinions about the bond
between cancer survivors. Bringing peo
ple together through shared experiences
and giving each other hope in the face of
this terminal illness is what National
Cancer Survivors Day is all about, ac
cording to Ramczyk.
"I feel that we owe a debt to those
■ who come after us, to be there for them,
to show them that you can come out on
the other side of this. I know what
you're going through. I've been there,
done that, got the t-shirt," Green said.
"If you get cancer, hang in there. Roll
with the punches."
Report shows surge in alcohol arrests on campuses
Alcohol-related arrests on college campuses surged
24.3 percent in 1998, the largest jump in seven years, ac
cording to a survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Law enforcement officials and crime experts attributed
the increase to more heavy drinking among college students
coupled with better reporting and tougher enforcement.
"Alcohol abuse is the No. 1 problem on every college
campus in this country, and 1 don't care how big they-are
or how small they are," said police Capt. Dale Burke of
the University of Wisconsin.
The university's 39,700-student Madison campus re
ported the most liquor law violations — 792 — of any of
the 481 four-year institutions surveyed.
The report, released Sunday, showed an 11 percent in
crease in college campus arrests for drug violations and
“Alcohol abuse is the No.
problem on every college
campus in this country”
— Dale Burke
police captain of the University of Wisconsin
an 11.3 percent increase in arrests for forcible sex offens
es, as well as smaller increases in arrests for weapons vi
olations, assault, arson and hate crimes.
Doug Tuttle, a policy scientist and past public safety
director at the University of Delaware, warned against
reading too much into the statistics. He noted that while
the numbers are required to be published in some form
under federal law, the Department of Education will not
begin uniform reporting until this fall.
Liquor law arrests, for example, are supposed to in
clude citations. But in the past, some universities reported
only instances in which a person was taken into custody,
Tuttle said. Now that more schools understand the defin
ition, the number of reported arrests may rise, he said.
But other experts noted that while enforcement is up,
so are reports of hard-core drinking by college students.
A survey released this year by the Harvard School of
Public Health found 22.7 percent of the college student
population reported frequent binge drinking in 1999, up
from 19.8 percent in 1993 and 20.9 percent in 1997. The
survey included 14,000 students at 119 colleges.
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Summer safety
Tips on how to prevent theft
in homes, cars and on campus
Joseph Pleasant
The Battalion
The College Station area experiences a decrease in the
population of students during the summer months and those
students who leave their apartments unattended become po
tential targets of apartment burglary. Furthermore, students
who remain in town can be victims of car burglary and on-
campus theft. However, there are ways to protect oneselves
from becoming a victim.
Al Lehtonen II, general manger of Polo Club Apartments,
said there is not an increase in security at the apartment com
plex during the summer.
Lehtonen said people leaving their apartments for extend
ed periods of time should take steps to protect themselves.
"Residents should try to keep the look that someone is
in the apartment"
he said.
Lehtonen said
tenants should have
friends check the
apartment and use
light timers so it ap
pears there is some
one in the apartment
at night. Lehtonen
also said tenants
should come check
on the apartment
every other weekend
or so, and change the
time on the timers so
lights do not go on at
the exact same time every night. Tenants should cancel sub
scriptions, such as magazines or newspapers because poten
tial thieves can pick out unoccupied apartments by the stack
of unread periodicals. Residents should also get to know their
neighbors, and have a watch system between them.
But, not only apartments are targets for theft, students liv
ing on campus are also potential victims.
Lieutenant Bert Kretzschman of University Police De
partment said the first defense students living on campus
have against theft is to be aware of their surroundings.
"[Students] should not lull themselves in to a false sense
of security," Kretzschman said.
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