Agriculture Career Exposition
Fall 2001
October 3, 2001
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Kleberg Atrium
Agriliance, LLC
Ag Workers Mutual Auto
Insurance Company
Agricultural <& Natural
Resource Policy
Congressional Internship
Program
Archer Daniels Midland,
Co.
Cactus Feeders
Cargill - Animal Nutrition
Division
Cargill - Turkey Products
Conti Beef LLC
Environmental Care -
North Haven Gardens
EXCEL
Farm Credit
Fort Dodge Animal
Health
Colden Harvest
H.E.B. Grocery Company
(2 booths)
IBP, Inc.
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Kactus Korral Inc.
The Kroger Company
KRP Foods
Land O' Lakes, Inc.
Lawns of Dallas
Luby's Inc.
Sanderson Farms
Schlotzsky's Inc.
Seaboard Farms, Inc.
Texas Agricultural
Statistics Service
Texas Cooperative
Extension
Trugreen Chemlawn
Tractor Supply Company
Tyson Foods
U.S. Marine Corps
Universal Computer
Systems
Wayne Farms, LLC
Wright Brand Foods
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Pack Rats
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Students explain why they collect certm
things and what they mean to them
By Lindsey Fielder
THE BATTALION
It is not just stamps and coins
anymore. Some people are bom
collectors. They get hooked on
something and even
tually end up with a
large collection.
These collections are
usually valuable and
some are worth a lot
of money, while oth
ers just hold senti
mental value.
Most Aggies in
College Station are
familiar with the infa
mous beer collection.
In Aggieland. a beer
collection ranges
from a pyramid of
cans to neon signs.
A common myth
is that beer collec
tors are mostly col
lege students.
Michael P. Soroka,
a sociologist at the
University of San
Diego, found that the
majority of beer col
lectors are college
graduates with house
hold incomes of
$35,(XX) or more.
Most of these
professionals
describe themselves
as “p ersons w ho like
to drink beer."
These collectors
are not driven by the profit
motive, but invest a lot of money
in their beer collection.
Brett Davis, a sophomore
recreation, park and tourism sci
ences major, collects race T-shirts.
He has more than 80 souvenir T-
shirts from races he has run in.
All runners receive the T-
shirts when they compete in a
race, so Davis decided to start
saving the T-shirts. He has T-
shirts from 5Ks, lOKs and sever
al longer races.
“I don’t wear them because
I don’t want to get them
messed up,” Davis said. “When
I run in a race, I just take the
shirt and hang it up in my clos
et at my parents’ house.”
The most interesting T-shirt in
Davis’ collection, he said, is from
the Millennium Marathon in
New Zealand. It was the first
marathon of the new millennium.
Davis also has a T-shirt from a
100-mile race he ran at
Huntsville State Park.
Erica Walther, a senior kinesi
ology major, collects all kinds of
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memorabilia. Her main collec
tions consist of coasters, elephant
figurines, high-heels figurines
and crystal balls.
The coasters she collects are
the cardboard coasters com
monly seen in restaurants and
bars. Walther started collecting
coasters when she saw a bar
that used them to decorate the
walls and ceiling.
She has coasters from as far
away as Germany and Mexico.
“The coasters symbolize
places I've been or people collect
them for me,” Walther said.
Walther’s collection of ele
phants started in high school.
The elephant figurines are usu
ally gifts and she plans to use
them to furnish a jungle-theme
room someday.
“I started collecting elephants
before 1 knew they had anydj
to do with A&M,” Walther si
“Now they just mean thatma
more to me.”
Her collection of high-hi
figurines started when she
seven years old. She has
heels made out of
glass and porcelain.
The most s
item in this collectiaj
an antique high
figurine her
grandmother gave
w hen she was in
second grade.
Walther and
mother have a hobby
collecting crystal
together, she said,
crystal ball must be
and completely
with no flat side.
The most they
ever spent is $50
crystal ball. Crystal
can cost as much
$300. Walther said.
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their need for tltff
material objects.
Dr. Wendy Wool! I
psychology profess!
at A&M, said peof]
can pursue material things!]
self-serving reasons or foil
personal indication of compf
tence and success.
Some people collect things!
impress other people. Wood sail
Collectors may use thesematen]
al possessions to compare them
selves to cithers or to overcome
self doubt. These are tmwt
motives for collecting.
The positive motives behinc
collecting include pride, secuiit;
and freedom. Wood said
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rial things to support theirfattiil)
When people attain matenij
things for the wrong reasons,
can be unfulfilling, Wood sai!
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have the right motives be
their pursuit, the search can
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