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^HB Scott Leslie Barrow, 20, of College
Station was indicted Thursday on
^Barges of failing to stop and render aid
when his 1995 Ford Explorer collided
JH^Bth a Yamaha motorcycle on Sept. 3.
^Bieof the motorcycle’s riders, 18-year-
old Jonathan Graham Hatfield of King-
r^-flvood, Texas, was killed in the accident.
lenhanisiB Hatfield, a Baylor freshman, was tak-
en to the College Station Medical Cen
ter after the accident and was pro-
Gulliai nounced dead at 2:32 a.m.
isherinfeK Barrow, a sophomore business major,
onaaoii 'had just pulled out of Treehouse 11 apaft-
i- Bents when the motorcycle struck the
tor 1 ' afte Explorer. Barrow’s roommate was riding
in the vehicle and was knocked uncon-
ginuf scious. Barrow reportedly then left his
iless w: vehicle on foot but later agreed to meet
with College Station police officers.
Is.alsQcC Barrow was arrested and released on
$20,000 bail six days after the accident
ong all ..#curred.
in at naw* j| le motorcycle’s driver, freshman
1 ■ v Heath Keagan Davis, was charged with
intoxicated manslaughter for having a
blood alcohol level of. 16, twice the le
gal limit in Texas. If convicted, Davis
could face a sentence of two to 20 years
in a state prison and a $ 10,000 fine.
Barrow’s blood alcohol level was
measured during his meeting with po
lice after the accident. Sgt. Dan Jones
with the College Station Police Depart
ment said Barrow could not have been
charged with intoxicated manslaughter
if he was.over the legal alcohol limit.
“The case would be very difficult to
prove, because he could have con
sumed alcohol after the accident had
occurred,” said Jones.
“The failure-to-stop-and-render-aid
case is pretty clear-cut and easy to
prove,” Jones said. “We have witnesses
to prove that he was not there after the
accident.”
Jones said the punishment for failing
to render aid can range from no more
than one year in a county jail to no more
than five years in a state prison.
“The punishment is sort of a hybrid
that could range from a Class A mis
demeanor to a third-degree felony,”
Jones said.
Jones said the court date for the case
has not been set.
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Although the annual football
game against the University of
Texas is usually held when Aggie
Bonfire burns, Texas A&M will hold
its pre-game yell practice Tuesday at
8 p.m. at Kyle Field this year. The lo
cation may have changed, but yell
leaders said it will have a tradition
al sense of motivation.
“This yell practice is to help
show the team the support we are
giving them to go up there and beat
Texas,” said head yell leader Ricky
Wood.
Senior yell leader Bubba Moser
said this year’s yell practice will be
similar to previous Bonfire yell
practices.
“Obviously, the main difference
CiC41 is we are having it at Kyle Field this
year, but it will have the same pur
pose that it had in the past — to mo
tivate the Twelfth Man and the team
[for the game on Friday,” Moser said.
I Rusty Thompson, yell leader ad-
1 viser, said not much will change oth-
ler than the location.
“The entire team will be there.
IThe band will be there. The yell
[leaders will recite the Last Corps
[Trip,” Thompson said. “Dr. Bowen
[will be there to speak, along with
, R.C. Slocum and senior representa-
ftives of the football team.”
Wood and Moser said they are un-
I sure what to expect Tuesday night. In
I past years, the yell practices held be-
| fore the Texas game boasted crowds
I of more than 70,000. However, the
I absence of Bonfire this year, com-
1 bined with the fact that the game will
I be in Austin, makes this year’s turnout
I more unpredictable, they said.
Wood said the yell practice will
be on the field instead of the track to
| provide better acoustics to people on
the third deck.
Moser said the collapse of the
1999 Bonfire affected the mood of
yell practice before last year’s UT
R game.
“Last year, we had to combine the
R memorial and the motivation in one
event. Bonfire is fresh on people’s
minds again, but we were prepared
and were able to have two services,”
Moser said. “Last Friday night, we
had the memorial, and now we are
able to focus on the motivation.”
A second yell practice will take
place at midnight Thursday on the
steps of the capitol in Austin.
Elephant Walk
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Seniors prepare for Elephant Walk
E-Walk tradition allows Aggies to reflect on recent years
By Bryan Blanton
The Battalion
Load, ready, aim, fire. Boom!
Today marks the beginning of the end for
many Aggies who have spent at least four years
at Texas A&M, as the Class of ’01 participates
in the November ritual of Elephant Walk.
Elephant Walk is the end of the Aggie se
niors’ student role as the Twelfth Man. Like
the dying elephant that is no longer useful to
the herd and wanders the jungle aimlessly
looking for a place to die, the Class of ’01 also
will walk alone, separate from the rest of the
student body. The seniors will walk around
campus, visiting landmarks for the symbolic
last time.
The event, which occurs before the Universi
ty of Texas football game, will allow the senior
class to remember events from their college years.
Activities will begin at 10:01 a.m. with
games, food and pictures with elephants at
Law/Puryear Field (near All Faiths Chapel).
At 12:01 p.m., the seniors will continue their
festivities at Kyle Field with a yell practice, per
formances by the Singing Cadets and guest
speaker Dr. Ben Welch.
At 1:01 p.m. the seniors will leave Kyle Field
“This is a time to reflect
on just how great
the past few years
have been”
— Ben Cholick
senior yell leader and
a construction science major
and begin their journey throughout campus, led
by the senior yell leaders.
“This is a time to reflect on just how great the
past few years have been,” said Ben Cholick, se
nior yell leader and a construction science major.
“Now it’s ourtime to move on.”
The walk will begin at Kyle Field and will stop
at Fish Pond, the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue
and the Corps Quadrangle for brief yell practices.
“I’m looking forward to this experience,”
said Ashley Messersmith, a senior elementary
education major.
“It will be a time to relive old memories, hang
out with old friends and new ones,” she said.
Elephant Walk began in 1922, when two Aggie
Band freshmen from the Class of ’26 wandered out
of Kyle Field after the football team lost for the
second time in the first two weeks of the season.
The two freshmen began to play a mournful fu
neral march, intending to break the jinx of several
Aggie football losses that season. Others began to
join the march, resulting in a spontaneous parade
through campus. For the rest of the season, the two
freshmen continued their walk, regardless of
whether the football team lost. After that year, the
Class of ’26 discontinued marching throughout
campus.
See E-Walk on Page 2.
MSC received renovations in ’70s
$8 million improvements not received well by students
By Joseph Pleasant
The Battalion
Thirty years ago, the living room of Ag-
gieland, or “the C,” as the Memorial Student
Center (MSC) was known in the 1970s, got
a new look and was expanded. When the $8
million renovation was complete, the MSC
had many new features, including the new
ly constructed Flagroom, but it was not well
received by students.
Jane Bailey, assistant to the director of the
MSC, said the decoration of the Flagroom
caused controversy on campus.
“The Flagroom was unpopular because it
had a number of animal heads mounted on
the wall,” Bailey said.
Bailey said that a survey showed 92
percent of the student body did not like the
Flagroom.
“One person in a Battalion article de
scribed the MSC as a cheerless, drafty, mau
soleum — built as a showplace with little
thought for the need of students and facul
ty,” Bailey said.
After the survey was published, the heads
were promptly removed from the Flagroom,
but they continued to cause conflict for the
University. The University and its interior
decorator engaged in a dispute over the own
ership of the heads.
“The University said the heads be
longed to the decorator; the decorator
said they belong to the University,”
Bailey said.
The University finally gave in and
kept the heads.
“In the end, the heads were stored
in a hangar somewhere on West Cam
pus, where they still reside today,”
Bailey said.
The MSC also added a new book
store, meeting rooms s expanded recre
ation facilities and a remodeled hotel.
In January 1971, Guion Hall —
which had been used since 1917 for
theater arts — was destroyed when the
MSC began expansion. Students’ feel
ings were mixed as they watched the
old building removed to make room
for the new.
The University spent more than
$100 million on construction through
out the decade.
Dr. Arnold Krammer, a professor of
history, came to the University in 1974
See MSC on Page 2.
RUBEN DELUNA & JOSEPH PLEASANT/The Battalion