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■ale. Now he’s ready for a little rest.
I “I’ve slept 11 hours over a period of three
|ays since my friends and I got here on Friday,”
iven said. “This will be my first time to see an
&M and UT football game, and I think it’s
Important for us to go to Austin and be there for
■he team.”
Along with Given, many students braved
lain, long hours and lack of sleep in hope of
■nagging tickets to the annual UT football game.
Each Urquhart. a sophomore history major, said
Pie group he planned to pull tickets w nh arrived
hursday night to get in line.
“We got here really early because we wanted
Ho make sure we got tickets,” Urquhart said. “I
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Hhouldn’t stop at Kyle Field.”
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^^icket, I wouldn’t take it,” he said. “It’s not
orth all we’ve put into it. Being able to yell at
hris Simms from the stands is worth at least
950 anyway.”
Marshall Grice, a sophomore journalism
lajor who planned to pull tickets with Moses
[Hall, said he invested his time and effort so he
ould not be caught in front of the television on
the November 29 game day.
“The t.u. game is an experience,” Grice said.
“It’s being in the crowd doing the yells and
being surrounded by Aggies. It’s not the same as
watching the game from your TV at home.
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For students such as Grice, who pitched tents
and camped out in front of Kyle Field, staying in
line was not an option. Chad Hutson, a senior
industrial engineering major, was one of the first
Aggies to arrive at Kyle Field and was in charge
of making sure that those who got in line, stayed
in line. Hutson, along with four other Aggies,
served as “role call” leaders for those vying for
a ticket.
“Friday night was the official night to pitch a
tent, but five us got here early on Thursday and
decided to divide the students who showed up to
buy tickets into five groups,” Hutson said. "Each
of us has a list, and students were added to it on a
first come, first serve basis. If someone doesn’t
show when we call roll, then their name goes to
the bottom of the list. It’s easier to delegate power
that way, and it is less of a burden on those who
were in line. It’s like a big party and a nice way
to keep order to the situation.”
Given, who camped out with a television and
games, said the three days he spent camping out were
made more comfortable by the party-like atmosphere.
“We’ve played Frisbee, dominoes, video
games and watched movies,” Given said.
“There has been a little bit of studying, but
almost no sleep. It has definitely made the time
go by a faster.”
Even those who stayed in line were in danger
of not being able to snag a ticket, however. Jim
Kotch. Texas A&M’s athletic ticket manager, said
a total of 3,850 tickets were made available to
Texas A&M.
“In the past, UT has issued around 7,000
tickets to A&M,” Kotch said. “This year, they
issued us the minimum number of tickets that
the Conference required. By the time those tick
ets were given to the team, the band and donors,
only 437 were available to students.”
Kotch said one reason so few tickets were
issued was because UT had sold more season
tickets to its own fans than in the past.
Kotch said next year’s UT versus A&M
game, which will be in College Station, will
allow UT fans the same number of tickets they
are offering A&M this year. The limited number
of tickets did not discourage those who braved
the long lines and long hours.
“This is what A&M is all about,” Anthony
Zaccari, a senior finance major, said. “Roughing
it, hanging out with friends and staying up all night
when we have 8 o’clock classes.”
Jeff Treadway, a senior finance major, agreed.
“It’s 3 o’clock in the morning, the night
before we have class, and we’re sitting in front
of Kyle Field watching Top Gun and hanging out
with a bunch of other Aggies. Does it get any
better than this?”
Almost 12 hours later, Treadway discovered
tickets for the game had been sold out, and he would
not be able to purchase a ticket. Nonetheless,
Treadway said spending the weekend with fellow
Aggies was a memorable experience.
“It’s a big disappointment to have waited 14
hours and not even be close to getting tickets,”
he said. “Still, we had a lot of fun camping right
outside Kyle Field and spending time with other
die-hard Aggies.”
Buying time
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engineering major, Ernie Swan, a sophomore
theater major, Cody Pratt, a sophomore general
studies major and Erik Haselhorse, a freshman
genetics major, play "42" while waiting for foot
ball tickets to the UT game.
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Colorado ski industry faces complaints for
controversial ads
I DENVER (AP) — Colorado's ski industry has been pulling out the
stops to lure young skiers and snowboarders now that aging baby
boomers are battling bad knees. But one resort's edgy ads were
dumped after some complained that they went over the edge.
| The Breckenridge Ski Resort used an offensive word for women
to lure young customers in one print ad that begins: "The hill may
dominate you." Another ad referred to courage by using a slang
term for male anatomy.
[ Under pressure from women's groups, community leaders, res
idents and businesses, the resort has pulled the ad campaign.
| Breckenridge Mayor Sam Mamula said he called the resort's
chief operating officer, Roger McCarthy, on Friday to tell him
guests were canceling reservations and residents and others
were incensed.
I Later in the day, McCarthy called him back to say the ad cam
paign was being pulled, though one segment was already in pro
duction and could not be stopped.
| The marketing staff was trying to create "an edgy advertising
campaign appealing to today's youth," McCarthy said.
I "Some of the wording in the two ads in question crossed a line
that should not have been crossed. As a result, the two ads have
been pulled," he said. "Sometimes, when companies make mis
takes, the best thing to do is just admit the mistake and move on."
I The ads were placed in such publications as Skateboarding,
Snowboarding and Stance magazines.
I Ski and snowboarding-related ad campaigns have a history of
being edgy.
Absolut vodka pulled a campaign after Vail Resorts, which owns
Breckenridge, threatened to sue. It showed a bottle in the shape
NEWS IN BRIEF
of a cast suggesting a ski accident with the words "Absolut Vail"
scrawled on it.
Budget Car Rental stopped a campaign that showed a skier tan
gled in a tree. It offered free premium sunglasses to frequent cus
tomers, saying those who rent four times get to "see menacing
tree coming."
Artist Zhao brings volunteers and flags
together for 9/11 banner
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 5-mile ribbon of red, white and blue
flapped in the morning breeze beneath the Golden Gate Bridge
as some 2,000 volunteers formed a human chain along the coast
to remember those who died a year ago in the terrorist attacks.
The banner, containing more than 5,000 American flags,
stretched as far as one could see Sunday and took nearly two
hours to unfurl — a sight artist Jian-Hai "Pop" Zhao has worked
much of the year to experience.
"I wanted to create this kind of artwork to bring people together
from different communities," he said. "It's a beautiful thing to do."
Some volunteers chatted and laughed as the banner was
unrolled, while others used the event as a time to reflect.
"To have people come out and do something that pays tribute
to those who were lost but also brings people together, there's a
sense of closure," said Lori Chelius, a University of California,
Berkeley graduate student who held a piece of the banner.
Zhao's artwork, called "Celebrate: Life, Liberty, Beauty," is
believed to be the longest such work in the world commemorat
ing the tragedy. Its panels were emblazoned with American flags,
silhouettes of the bridge and rainbow trim representing the com
munity's diversity.
Zhao made the Guinness Book of Records last year by creating
a 6.25-mile Olympic Dragon constructed of similar panels on the
Great Wall of China. The event attracted Chinese dignitaries and
world attention prior to China winning the bid for the summer
2008 games.
A native of Beijing, Zhao moved to the United States 14 years
ago and made his home in San Francisco. He began working on
the Sept. 11 project soon after the attacks, paying for most of it
himself with some help from volunteers.
As an immigrant, Zhao said he wanted to create something that
promoted a feeling of solidarity within the nation and the world.
Harrison's album to be released one year
after his death
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The album George Harrison was working on
until two months before his death will be released in November.
Produced by Harrison, his son, Dhani, and Jeff Lynne, the Dark
Horse-Capitol Records album Brainwashed features 11 new
Harrison compositions. It's the first release of new Harrison mate
rial since 1987's Cloud Nine.
"Before we started working on the album, George and Dhani
had collaborated extensively on preproduction," Lynne said.
"George would come 'round my house and he'd always have a
new song with him. He would strum them on a guitar or ukulele.
The songs just knocked me out."
The former Beatle died Nov. 29, 2001, after a battle with can
cer. He was 58.
Dhani Harrison and Lynne spent much of this year completing
work on the album.
"George constantly talked about how he wanted the album to
sound, and there was always that spiritual energy that went into
the lyrics as well as the music," Lynne said.
Brainwashed will be released on Nov. 19.
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