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Wednesday, September 6,20(Xl ;A&M road program ts and cloning at A&M erbs in the mustard famih methods of reproduction. 1 studies plants and environ ology, and she has a special n insect ecology. She ravel to Portugal to si mortiy and ecology to fur- tudies. : of us had ever heard die xas Aggie’ until we goi : students said in theAtij ■elease. "We had absolute- a what an Aggie was cant. Now I knowthatyou ys tell an Aggie by hi: irit.” A&M is scheduled to sen: o Oxford in Decemberanc icr two students to England g. Weclnesday, September 6, 2000 AGGiklcfe, Page 3 A THE BATTALION ne irrigation requirement' The greens on the »oi: o maintain and the turt'o: y expensive.... theseare ? University that we can Hagge said, nback on irrigation, k king the most of theira g is replacing timed spm f campus. In someplace more moderate tempei Id new plants. T raffi&ndT ri bulations The unofficial guide to parking in the campus’s most aggravating and congested blue lot :e ot the cutback aroffl |, as L a( jy Luck on his side and locates a spot ncludes patches in icularly on West Campc y grass poses more tk esthetic problem for Brazos County is one state that is considered, sk for wildfires. A cut could increase the pos i grass fire on campi id that all the grass« very short and could ed easily. ing to the Texas Fore out of 254 counties :1 uding Brazos Coum lemented burn bans : threat of wildfires.Tl Bv Brooke Hodges The Battalion For the first week of school, the Parking, Traffic and Transportation Services (PTTS) allowed those not willing to tight for spaces in University-sanctioned lots to park illegal ly without penalty. But that time is over, and blue-tag com muter lots have once again been declared war izones where Aggies battle Aggies for that brief moment of glory and legal parking. Among commuter parking lots, few are valued more highly than the parking area be hind the H. P. Zachry Engineering Complex (deemed "Zachry Lot" by avid commuter students) due to its proximity to Northside classes. Parking in this jungle of concrete and steel can be a taxing experience for even the most rugged parker. For those who are virgins to this experi ence, this is a first lesson in finding a park ing spot in Zachry Lot. When entering this parking zone, a com muter is basically entering a casino, minus the $4.99 steak "buffet. The first task as*a high-stakes parking gambler is to pick a row to try one’s luck. Sometimes, a commuter commuter pulls into his row of choice, har boring the idea that he is only three people away from parking ecstasy, he inevitably sees three more cars waiting for spots at the other end of the row. This now means that he is not the third person to get a spot, but the sixth. If the math is done properly, one will find that Mr. Commuter is in for anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour wait for a spot. What does he do with the time now on his hands? Here are some suggestions: read a newspaper, cram for a test, enjoy a beverage of choice or jam to one’s fa vorite radio station or CD , n (be sure all windows are \ rolled up if a decision to partake in some bubble-gum boy band is reached, just for dignity’s sake). The next 30 or so minutes is when the con- Blue-tag commuter lots have once again been declared war zones where Aggies bat tie Aggies for that brief moment of glory and legal parking. fusion sets in. This is when the rotation rule comes into effect. Instructions on claiming parking spots are as follows: Commuters take turns claiming parking spaces based upon their position in line. The first person on side A goes first. Then, the first person Thirty minutes have passed, our com muter has enjoyed his morning dose of caf feine, he has 15 minutes until his class starts, and he can hear the faint call of nature. The two cars in front of him and the three cars on the oth er end of the row have all gotten parking spots. He is finally the first person in line. The commuter must now look for an unsuspecting pedes trian who will soon enter his or her vehicle and leave a parking void which he can fill. Once a target is spotted walking toward a vehicle in the row, the commuter must watch for the usual signs of entering a car: looking for keys, backpack re fer which he must compete with only one other driver. David Bogatiuk, a junior economics _ major, said even this prime opportunity can be a challenge. “We both gunned it for the same spot, and Igot it.” he said. “He just drove away, but we were really close to hitting each other.” For those Aggies who are not as lucky as Bogatiuk, picking a line to enter into is just like picking a water-fountain line in ele mentary school: get in a line, wait and wait some more. Then promise the per son in front of the line that if they get out 'of the way quickly they will have a new best friend. Once a commuter has picked what he n Brazos Valley forb- believes to be the fastest-moving row in itained 1 ires. the whole lot, the waiting begins. 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Ashley Caton, a junior elementary educa tion major, made the mistake of not moving up and became a victim of spot theft. “I was waiting for a spot in Zachry [Lot] for 30 minutes and a guy walked out and got in a truck,” Caton said. “The girl behind me in line whipped around me and took the spot. 1 was 20 minutes late for class because I had to wait for the next spot.” Caton said after she was robbed of her spot she rolled down her window and yelled at the girl as she walked by. “I was screaming, ‘Don’t you know? It’s a rule! You just don’t take a spot from someone.’ ” Will Short, a senior English ma jor, said he was waiting when anoth er driver attempted to steal a recently vacated spot. Short took a proactive ap proach to saving his spot. “I stuck [the nose of my truck] into the spot so he couldn’t pull his car in,” he said. “The guy would not move, so I sat there and honked at him forever.” Short said he finally got out of his vehicle and informed the other student, through a rolled-up window, that he had been waiting for 30 minutes and was not moving his vehicle. “The guy finally moved and let me park,” he said. "It was my spot; I had waited forever, and probably the only reason I actually did that was because my truck was bigger than his.” If everyone who is trying to park in Zachry Lot will respect each other and re alize that everyone is trying to get to class class, then the established system of waiting one’s turn will work. WORSHIP LED BY ROSS KING Sponsored by Composs College Ministries BURGER HOUSE! 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