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The Other Education
Students keep busy at A&M with more than 700 groups
By Jane Holden
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Open House Sunday, and A&M’s 700 clubs
and organizations will give students an
opportunity to peruse what A&M has to
offer, ranging from the Students for a Free
Tibet to the Aggie Wranglers.
Nathan Bowden, a senior environmental
design major, found an interest in MSC
Town Hall his freshman year. Now, a third-
year member of the organization aimed at
showcasing musical talent, Bowden
describes it as his “comfortable niche.”
“Town Hall is a microcosm of the
University,” Bowden said. “It is not like tra
ditional Texas A&M. I have a lot of karma
with everyone there, and it is a quick and
easy way to plug into the pipeline of local
live music.”
Similar organizations are the Opera and
Performing Arts Society, Visual Arts
Society, Film Society and Cepheid
Variable, a science-fiction, fantasy
and horror club that sponsors sci-
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Other popular activities include aca
demic organizations within colleges, polit
ical-interest organizations and sports-related
clubs. There also is a diverse variety of
cultural organizations and groups that wel
come new Aggies to A&M.
Many freshmen recently have expe
rienced the spirit-filled adventure of Fish
Camp and recognize the positive affects of
their counselors’ efforts.
Mike Cook, a senior industrial distribu
tion major, contributes his time to a sim
ilar organization, T-Camp.
“T-Camp is for students who transfer
into Texas A&M from other schools,”
Cook said. “We teach them about our
traditions and help them adjust to a new
school of about 43,000 students.”
Cook said he became involved with
T-Camp to return the guidance he
received there.
“As a counselor, I
have met a lot of peo
ple with similar inter
ests as myself,” Cook
said. “We end up spend
ing a lot of time together,
and you leave with
friendships you didn’t
have before.”
Andy Buchmann, a
graduate student studying
finance, is the co-founder
of GUIDE, a new club
that pairs freshmen with
mentors to aid in the tran
sition from high school to
college life. Buchmann
said he and his friends
have had to work hard to
create this organization.
“There were definitely
challenges,” Buchmann
said. “But the University
wasn’t trying to set up
walls to prevent us.
They just wanted to
help us be certain
we knew what we
were doing.”
Buchmann
said that it would
have been nice to
have started
GUIDE earlier.
“I look back now and
think there were so many
opportunities I could have
had and people I could have met,”
Buchmann said. “I would definitely
recommend to the freshmen that they
get involved in the University.”
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