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3 • Tuesday, July 1, 2003
Discipline and Challenge
Corps members talk about giving their time to recruit incoming freshmen
By Ashley Marshall
THE BATTALION
While most students fall out of bed
and put on a T-shirt and flip-flops to
attend summer classes, Chris
Krueger wakes up and puts on
his Corps uniform and senior
boots as the weather pushes
100 degrees.
Krueger, a senior
mechanical engineering
major and operations officer
for the Corps of Cadets, is
one of IOO cadets who vol
unteered for the Summer
Recruiting Company, which
helps recruit incoming fresh
men to the Corps.
Every summer, at least three
cadets from each company volun
teer to stay in College Station and
participate in various activities to
welcome and recruit incoming fresh
men.
While most cadets enjoy the sum
mer break to live in an apartment, the
SRC requires at least two cadets from
each outfit to live in the dorms.
The cadets are also required to wear
their uniform at least twice a week.
When asked if it was hot, Krueger
replied with a sigh, but remained posi
tive.
“It’s a great time to learn how to use
the buses,” Krueger said.
To non-regs, it may seem as if the
SRC makes a tremendous sacrifice of
its time and comfort, but the cadets say
it is all about how you look at it.
“1 guess you could say it is (a sacri
fice), but it’s what we want to do,” said
Eric Brown, a senior German major.
“And that’s why most people are
here, it’s what they want to do:
keep the Corps going.
Without people we don’t
exist, so we
need to make sure our numbers are
steady.”
Cadets in the SRC host and attend
events to recruit their goal of 900 fresh
men. Such events include the Open
House Welcome Program, Orientation
Housing Meetings, Blinn Team and
Transfer Student Conferences and
Spend the Day with the Corps, a short
er version of Spend the Night with the
Corps.
Every Tuesday and
Thursday, the SRC
hosts free lunches in
the Memorial Student
Center for the New
Student Conferences to
give students and
parents a chance
to talk with cur
rent Corps
members and
ask questions.
“It’s mostly
for the parents,”
said Bobby
Roggenbuck, a
senior environ
mental design
major. “It’s to
ease their mind,
and to have a
question-and-
answer cadets
who will be taking
care of their son
or daughter.”
The informal
lunches also
offer the oppor
tunity for
prospective
cadets to relax over pizza and pasta, ask
questions and meet their new class and
the upperclassmen that may be in their
outfit.
“This is a chance for everyone to get
to know their buddies and the people in
their new class,” Krueger said.
“Everyone’s invited whether they join
the Corps or not.”
For Roggenbuck, the best part of
being in the SRC is meeting the new
cadets in the relaxed and laid-back
atmosphere.
“At this time, it’s not a big shock for
them coming in,” he said. “We don’t
have our game faces on.”
When Freshman Orientation Week
begins the week before fall classes, the
freshmen will undergo rigorous train
ing in the Corps. But Krueger said that
during the summer, everyone is on the
same level.
“They are considered recruits right
now,” he said, “not freshmen.”
Adam Collins, a recruit from Ross
S. Sterling High School in Baytown,
said he has not felt intimidated yet
because of the welcome he has received
from the SRC.
“Every time you walk in the door,
there’s always someone firmly shaking
your hand,” he said.
Collins decided to be in the Corps
after he saw its teamwork and cama
raderie during the Spend the Night with
the Corps program. Collins said he
knows the work will be hard, but he
wants the discipline it will teach him.
“I want to do big things in my life,”
Collins said. “And if I try to do it on my
own, I might get lazy. But the Corps
won’t let you get lazy, and I look for
ward to that challenge.”
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