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Aggies! serve@tanm.edu Virtual Volunteer Services Center!! http://givem.tamu.edu/ info^ 31 Amy Carrier aciimer<^bushschaol.tiintu edtr A my Carrier Lori Salter 845.1133 \re you REALLY open-minded? Then come check us out! Beta Xi Chi Multicultural Fraternity Information on Sept. 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Blocker Room 123 For more information call 764-0950 or 764 1693 The Texas A&M Career Center and The Business Student Council present. Oareer Fa jf Networking A seminar on how to make the most out of a Career Fair Learn insider tips on how to effectively network with recruiters and make great impressions at career fairs and at employer receptions. Thursday, September 7, 7:30 p.m. 159 Wehner Join representatives from JC Penney, Fersuson, and Cintas who will present the seminar. Grept door prizes will be given away! Texas A&M Career Center 209 Koldus 845-5139 http ://careercenter. tamu.edu Page 6B CAMPUS I ucsela y. September 5 .2000 THE BATTALION Silver Taps Continued from Page 1A beginning at 10:15, hymns can be heard coming from Albritton Bell Tower - the hymns became part of the ceremony in 1984. “Campus is totally silent,” French said. “The theme of Silver Taps is paying final tribute to members of the Aggie Family. It’s kind of per sonal. Each person witnesses it and has time to reflect.” During the ceremony, the Ross Vol unteers march to the walkway between the flagpole and the statue of Sul Ross, where they perform a 21 -gun salute. Afterward, six buglers play a special arrangement of Taps, composed specifically for A&M by Col. Richard Dunn in the 1930s. Taps is played three times from the top of the Academic Building - to the north, south and west. It is not played to the east because the sun will never again rise on the Aggies being honored. Traditions Council and the De partment of Student Life host recep tions for the families of Aggies hon ored at Silver Taps, explaining to them what to expect, and then escort them to the ceremony. Besides host ing and escorting families, French said, members of Traditions Council also “set an example on campus of how to act during Silver Taps.” She said that Taps is an incredi ble experience that everyone should attend. “You could almost see the passion in ... the families’ eyes when they saw the number of people who came out to honor their son or daughter. I could hear the Ross Volunteers breathing - the spirit, how much they put into it, was incredible. It changed the way I viewed Taps,” French said. “These students are not numbers. They are Aggies. At Taps you feel Aggie spir it. No one tells you what it is. You cannot see it, but that’s where you feel it most.” The Department of Student Life also provides the families’ names to the Muster Committee so that the families can be notified about Muster. As a continuing memorial to an Ag gie who has died, a book related to the Aggie’s major in the Sterling C. Evans Library is dedicated in his or her name. Sharee Klug, a junior psychology major, recently transferred to A&M and will attend her first Silver Taps ceremony on Tuesday. “I’m excited,” she said. “I’ve heard a lot about it. I think it’s going to be a very moving experience.” Accident Continued from Page l A systems major, immediately told her to dial 911. All CARPOOL cars are equipped with cellular telephones. She said emergency and rescue teams arrived approximately two minutes later. Mauritzen said Barrow was still there when she arrived. “He just looked frantic — like he didn’t know what to do,” Mau ritzen said. Mauritzen said the victims seemed to have suffered head trauma. “I didn’t see helmets, but that did not mean they were not there,” she said. Muaritzen, Blocker and their pas senger— who reportedly was not in toxicated — stayed on the scene to help. Hatfield and Davis were both from Kingwood, Texas. Due to the Labor Day holiday, CSPD could not provide any addi tional information. Goodman said an investigation is in progress. Operation Squirrel Rescue • L Speakers Continued from Page 1A Introducing a speaker like Kerlee Sr. helps bring about that perspective. “To understand what it’s like from the family perspective could totally change people's minds,” Schwery said. “We’re just thinking about being Aggies and carrying on the tradition that’s been here for 90 years, but there’s more to it than that. If some thing in your institution provides so much controversy and elicits so much emotion in people, then why do it? It's that way with the Aggie family. “If this bonfire continues off cam pus, then it’s going to drag people down and make things worse than they were in the beginning.” Ricky Wood’s position is simple: he is against an off-campus bonfire. He said the point of speaking out against KTFB’s proposed plan is to ensure that the Aggies stand as united as they did after the Bonfire collapse. “The freshmen will be in charge of making sure that the Bonfire in 2002 is a good and safe one,” Wood said. “We need to talk about what’s going on and address the issues.” The people most strongly affect ed by the University's decision are the ones Schwery hopes to target in tonight’s meeting. “It’s important to talk to fresh men,” she said. “But more so, for the upperclassmen who worked their butts off last year — building stack and cutting down trees every week end — with so much invested — who never got to see it burn.” ByMarium M The Battalion Texas A&l Slocum suspei er Russell E Bynum was an rant for two cc “I really about [the arr him an indefu PATRIC SCHNEIDER no BaTMU* Agriculture majors Jessica Howe, Keith Blahuta and Jeff Duke find a baby squirrel behind the Eller Oceanography & Meteorol ogy Building. The squirrel was taken to its mother. Heat Continued from Page l A for the College Station Fire Depart ment, said firefighters have been battling an unusually large number of grass fires this summer. “We’ve experienced what the de partment would consider some ma jor grass fires, including one about a month ago that burned approxi mately 50 acres,” Humphreys said. Low humidity also increases the risk of grass fires, Humphreys said. “When the relative humidity is be low 25 percent, as it is now, it's easy for something small like a cigarrette butt to start a grass fire,” he said. The climate also has lake reservoir officials concerned. Martin Gustafson, the Am Corps of Engineer reservoir ma: ager for Lake Somerville, said lake is currently five feet below no mal levels. “Most bout ramps are still os' able, but we would caution boatei of sandbars and low areas. It’s! a new lake when the water k drops,” Gustafson said. 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