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The story of A&M as it opened its doors
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of Texas A&M
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n Oct. 2, 1876, the
Agricultural and
Mechanical College
of Texas opened its doors for
registration. Two days later,
Gov. Richard Coke dedicated
the institution, and the first
40 students and six faculty
members began instruction at
the college.
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September 25 --29
MSC Hallway
1 0:00 am - 5:00 pm
applications for Advisor Positions
Will be available.
For more info contact:
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Old Main was the first building on campus
when it was erected in 1875. Today, the Acade
mic Building replaced Old Main because a fire
that destroyed it on May 27, 1912.
It is often asked, “How did A&M become
such a-friendly school?” When A&M first
opened its doors, the first faculty members and
students had one building in which to live,
teach, learn, dine and, make their home for the
school year.
One could only imagine what life would be
like today if the student body lived with the en
tire faculty. Students and faculty had close-knit
professional and personal relationships.
Over the years, A&M grew. The college was
in a pasture far from any town or civilization. It
soon occupied 5,200 acres and was the largest
campus in the country.
In the early 1900s, students were referred to
as “farmers,” and the name “Aggie” was picked
up in the 1920s.
Students would arrive at the college via a
train that picked up and dropped off at a local
depot. Today, that depot has a historical marker
across the street from Albritton Tower.
A&M was founded as an all-male military in
stitution. Because many of A&M’s early years
were during times of war, few students finished
their degrees. Many left in the middle of their
college days to serve our country in battle —
many did not return.
For this reason, A&M has several forms of
remembrance to Aggies who gave their lives de
fending the country.
One of these well-known memorials is the
Memorial Student Center (MSC). In 1951 the
MSC was originally dedicated to 55 Aggies who
gave their lives in wartime.
Today, the MSC has almost quadrupled in size
and serves as a “home for students” while they are
participating in student organizations, between
classes, or when meeting friends in the Flagroom.
Fifty-five Hags fly over Kyle Field before
each home football game. The flags are hoisted
in the early morning hours by members of the
Corps of Cadets so that when Aggies begin to
flood the stands, those flags will be flying
proudly in reverance. Fifty-five trees surround
the O.R. Simpson Drill Fiel, with a memorial lo
cated at the West Gate. On the side of the MSC
is a plaque that reads, “Greater love hath no mar:
than this, that a man lay down his life for his
friends. John 15:13."
A&M is a school committed to excellence in
all areas. Through the course of attending A&M
a bond is built and an unspoken truth is formed.
No matter what, no matter where and no matter
why two people should ever meet — if Aggie
rings sit on their fingers, they have been friends
and will always be friends.
One may disagree with me on this, but one
could disagree with anything. I am not making
an overall assumption and forming an opinion
for all current 44,000 students or the hundredsol
thousands that have come before us — I am siro
ply stating the obvious: “Aggies are we ... true it
each other as Aggies can be.”
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A
girl in Matthew Wentzel’s class of
ninth-graders at Minnie Howard
School wanted to know who gets
HIV/AIDS. “Gay people do,” said a
15-year-old classmate in the back.
When Wentzel told them no, statis
tics show that among adolescents,
heterosexual females are at highest
risk, the class was silent.
“That’s the basic introduction,”
Wentzel told a reporter later. “The
realism of this epidemic hasn’t real
ly sunk in.”
Wentzel says he doesn’t sugar-
coat the issue. “If you ask. I’m go
ing to give you an honest answer,”
he tells his human development
class, which includes this northern
Virginia district’s coursework on sex
education.
But nationally, sex education
lessons might not be as informative,
a new report suggests.
A survey of 1,501 students and
their parents, plus 1,300 educators,
found that students learn in school
the “birds and bees” basics of how
babies are conceived. Most also
learn how sex partners can contract
diseases. And — because of state
policies — many teachers stress ab
stinence as a way to prevent
gone too far, leaving parents out of
the process.
“Parental control or lack of it is
the basic problem, rather than what
just happens in schools,” said Liz Al
ston, the pro-abstinence-only chair
'If sex education is to become part of
the curriculum, it has to evolve. /f
— Matthew Wentzel
Ninth grade school teacher
HIV/AIDS, other STDs and un
planned pregnancy. What’s missing,
say teachers, students and their par
ents, are lessons that would help
young people avoid such situations
in the first place.
“What’s important is that this
class is being taught at the most dif
ficult time for them,” Wentzel said.
“If sex education is to become part
of the curriculum, it has to evolve.”
Others say sex education has
of the Charleston County, S.C.,
school board that’s battled over
teaching abstinence only or includ
ing lessons about birth control.
But the report, conducted by non
profit health researchers at the
Kaiser Family Foundation and re
leased Tuesday, found that parents
want their children to learn more
about birth control and safe sex,
more than their children reportedly
learn.
Now reluctant school official;
should be more willing to expait
their programs, said Ramon Cortine;
a former superintendent who nowdt
rects a school reform research project
at Stanford University.
“We tend to be responsive to the
politics of rhetoric,” he said. “We
now have better information
who can yell the loudest.”
For instance, 97 percent of par
ents want their children taught ho 1
to deal with sexual assault; just 59
percent of students said they covered
that in their most recent class,
in 10 parents want their children to
learn about birth control; eight in
students say they do.
“Sex education is often debated
at the political and advocacy kind of
levels, but rarely does it get down to
real world discussions,” Tina Hoff
Kaiser’s chief public health re
searcher. She said the study is meanl
to further research on the issue,
invoke changes in any particular
state or school board’s policies.
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