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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.
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Stories from Texas A&M students and the reasons why Aggies do not lie, cheat or steal’
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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-
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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.
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