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l-'riday, Sepiemhcr l,2( dday, September 1,2(XX) SC i ■ HI n r Wlit^ Page 3 THE BATTALION Continued from Pagel ic most significant change of /ear's MSC Open House, in ion to the new organizations, lir will no longer be confined hallways of the MSC. This sOpen House will spread ,s the breezeway and into ler Exhibit Hall, manda Arriaga, part of the marketing team and a senior igement major, said thatap- mately 40 organizations will . ated in Rudder Exhibit Halil i number of organization^ Iso set up on the breezeway. ic success experienced by Open House in previous has not come without dif- y. e event attracts large crowds iftcn complicate movement d the complex, particularly ashmen. suallx it is the freshmenthai ,e around and tr\' and pickup . at a variety of booths." said Altendorf. senior associate' or of the MSC. “Typically pperclassmen know what i ant to visit and don’t stray ach." ansors hope the additional \s ill ease some of the con- n that has become svnom- with Open House, tat many people in this fa- at one time can be rathe ' Altendorf said, hat limited us in the pa e space issue, but nowtha ve increased that we ar ned about having enough But even that is not much Miccrn because we can a; to out and rent tables,",41 f said. umber of groups will be lo in (side near Rudder four d performing in the MSC om. , ions Flagroom demonstn ic 1 ude J udo exhibitions andi nances by the Singini and the Aggie Wranglers, C Open House is mad e by a $30 dollar feepaii i participating student or ion. idition to providingjacili the event, the MSCfran- marketing functions fot louse. EWMER Continued from Png and Starr's initial assigf ten the office openedi is to determine whetj re any improper relatioi j ween the Clintons at Guaranty Savings a| tich was owned by al. ugal and his ex-wifeS| partners with theClintoi hitewater land devekfl orthern Arkansas, on Guaranty failed all x pa yens of $63 million. [ office said last yearthl f the investigation wastf IIion. the federal goverj ost expensive special J n. The Iran-Contra profj 1 million. :inent from Ray’s u kansans for serving» grand juries. Stories from Texas A&M students and the reasons why Aggies do not lie, cheat or steal’ Stuari Hutson The Battalion Michael Simpson, a junior recreation, parks and tourism sciences major, was camping in New Mexico when he was startled by the discovery of a little piece of Aggieland. “We found an Aggie's keyring and wal let in the middle of this New Mexico camp- wei _coME course STATION L. A -A. jL jL jk ADRIAN CALCANEO/The Battalion ing site, so we picked it up and carried it to the local authorities, who* made sure that it got back to its owner,” Simp son said. “1 probably would have done that no matter whose it was, but the fact that it was a fellow Aggie’s just made me want to go through the extra effort. It was an obliga tion because an Aggie will help an Aggie no matter what.” This is just one example of why Texas A&M is lauded as one of the most honest cam puses in the country. For many Aggie students, the well-rehearsed code of honor “Aggies do not lie, cheat or steal” is more than rhetoric spouted by professors warning their students against scholastic dishonesty. For those Aggies, honesty among students is a stan dard expected when one steps onto A&M soil. “I lost my wallet in front of the Student Computing Center. My entire life was in there — my credit cards, my I.D., my money and a lot of important informa tion,” said Anne Hensler, a senior ge ology major. “It turned out that some one delivered it to the front desk at the Com mons. They didn’t even leave a name for a reward or anything, and nothing was taken out of it. That isn’t something that would have happened at t.u. I know — I used to go there.” Sarah Rebecca, a senior sociol ogy major, said she has always considered A&M an honest and safe environment because of the campus’s atmosphere. “I lose things all the time and have them returned to me, and 1 feel safe leaving my backpack while I work out at the Rec Center,” she said. “I think it is because A&M has a small, wholesome, home-town at mosphere. A lot of the students come from small-town Texas, and that is what they try to re-cre ate here.” Howard Kaplan, a distin guished professor of sociology, of fered a more scientific assessment. “I’m not saying that A&M is or is not a more honest place than anywhere else, but you can dis cuss certain aspects of A&M that could possibly result in it being as such,” he said. “Honesty is most likely to be found in an environ ment where the alternative is in conceivable, or in other words, where everyone has the same moral values.” Kaplan said that, since most A&M students hold the same moral values (those of a small town Texas city), someone who does something that breaks with these morals may be persecuted by the rest of the population. This would be intensified by what Kaplan calls a “low level of anonymity,” meaning that every one tends to know everyone else. “The students at a college where there are a lot of differ ent morals and where there is a high level of anonymity, such as at a college in a big t city, might have a lower lev- ’ el of honesty,” he said. Sgt. Betty LeMay, a crime prevention specialist for the University Police Department, said that, although there may be a higher level of honesty, this still does not ensure stu dents’ safety. “Generally, we’ve got a good bunch of Aggies here, but students need to remember that they don't move into a Utopia when they move to College Station,” she said. “There still are those who aren’t Aggies that wait to prey upon college students.” LeMay said students often get lulled into a false sense of security when they first move to A&M. “It’s really nice to think that you are safe, but you need to remember all the safe ty precautions that you would take if you were in a big city,” she said. “Because, A&M is really a big city, regardless of what it may feel like.” Blindly trusting those one meets face to face may also be a mistake, LeMay said. “There are predators out there that look a lot like A&M students. Some even attend class,” she said. “But there are people out there that literally work the campus to get money out of students. “It’s kind of tough when you have a little was buying food at the Underground Market my freshman year, and I dropped $15 on the ground. I didn’t realize it until I got to the cashier and I didn't have any money. Luckily, somebody had already picked it up and had given it to the cashier.” — Anne Hensler, senior geology major ”A waitress at Red Lobster had taken some guy’s credit card and dropped it while she was carrying it back from the register. An Aggie picked it up and gave it back to her when he could have just as easily taken it and bought himself something nice online.” — Scott Swetnam, outdoor education graduate student “A friend of mine left her wallet on the table at The (Dixie) Chicken and couldn’t find it when she went back to look for it. Someone picked it up and gave it to the bartender." — Sarah Rebecca, senior sociology major RUBEN DELUNA/THe Battalion girl crying in your office asking, ‘How could another Aggie do this to me?’All you can tell them is that it wasn't another Aggie.” Regardless, students like Bowie Hogg, a senior marketing major, still feel safe leav ing their doors unlocked at night. “I walk away and don’t even think twice about it unless I am leaving for a long time,” he said. “Generally, everybody trusts and looks after everybody else.” No one is perfect. Even Aggies have been known to bend the truth now and again. Danny Shaha, coordinator of Student Ju dicial Services, said that, while no one has been expelled from the University for the past year for scholastic dishonesty, where stu dents have been disciplined for poor conduct. “The first ones that pop to my mind are the ones who forged documents from Beu- tel to get out of tests or quizzes,” he said. Not everyone forges the Beutel documents. Some try to earn it the okl-fasioned way. “I’m not going to comment on any specific cases, but there have been instances around test times where illnesses were greatly exaggerated. ... Let’s leave it at that,” said Dr. Ann Reed, as sociate director of'clinical services at Beutel. f son, Aggielife Editor Opinion Editor diison, Photo Editor :s, Photo Editor Jes, Night News Editor list, Copy Chief is, Radio Producer trough Friday during the fall aiil| r session (except University Itol j tage Paid at College Stati as A&M University, 1111TMI at Texas A& . News offices are in 014 Reetl| 147; E-mail: Thebattalioil rship or endorsement by 145-2696. For classified advei- Id, and office hours are 8 all U" ■■ uc^s Pizza fftad-fottKl Piztt, <fe Stremleti 2418 Texas Ave. S • 693-BUCK (2825) Carry-out Special MEDIUM 12 1 Topping Pizza *3.50 TM ixas A&M student to pii Mail subscriptions are mer or $10 a month. Toclia#! Purchase 3 for FREE DELIVERY Not valid with any other offer. 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