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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 2003)
NEI! THE BATTALI lly Daniel Chapman THE BATTALION ion iued from page!: on is due to tuitioncjjj rowth can also be r the impact of otbc: h as the top 10 pr. said. n is receiving lessisi n the state and hasrjj is uell. he said. -i administration at g to soften the bio. s h\ making budge; he board, choppint from the admini and a total of 5.4 otn the college. Ariana Nizza’s fatherH s. This totals a .. Miows how to work a room. $20.5 million frer On the last day of spring s budget V'®mester, her father came to alance the budget IN 4 he i move out - The y J^fccided to venture over to im. a sear. ssln,. S},j sa f or one i as j campus o\s through Aui: moa ] before leaving for the ncreases ssere rq simmer. They arrived at ssa> state lass prt- Sbisa only to find it closed, ed tuition increase I. "We all turned to leave hoot could only tax »cept my dad who said C( I Idem Is.-Let me take ■ increased it. |» 1,e °f this,’ in his thick this semester, the : ‘tcccnt. d a $2 per Student: 1 H^trollecUiptothe* .reuse in tuition, anager, and for 10 minutes •k. .. —Iked to him,” said nizza, a across the state. , , . , . SDphotnore business admin- bul could go not a tration major .. , c0ll | dn -, matched ihu o. heat a word he said, but g in a S4 per credr Aggielife The Battalion Page 3A • Monday, September 8, 2 Parents just don’t understand ’ antics on visits to Aggieland amuse and embarrass their children luctantly, and to my embarrassment, the manager lei us in. My father looked as though he had just inher ited a gold mine and began to get his tray together. He ■iked to every worker about Ju. ■ Jc l.»Hl *» up higher lb twe left he said bye to iiitton. with schools no I to stay withini , A AM plans to it another $9 per the spring 'Let me take care of this/ he said in his thick Italian accent. He strolled up to the manager and for 10 minutes talked to him. I couldnt understand a word he said, hut reluctantly and to my embarrassment, the manager let us in. — Arianna Nizza psychology major s the univenir i, which plans ton 119 per ca*dil hou.' y said the $9 ir. tave been higher ( ev ery person and made his grand exit.” I For any student who thinks coming to college brings absolute freedom from their parents, think again. From move- in days and football games to the dreaded spontaneous visits, many students find and have learned to appreciate that mom and dad are a vital and sometimes amusing part of the Aggie Cover: experience. lion had not intent' : Parents sometimes need to be taught the subtleties of College t Josefy and then Station streets. Brock Ramos, a senior psychology major, knows lent government i this from firsthand experience. Brock’s mother was at the wheel up and encoutJi: turning onto Texas near the Holiday Inn, it low, which i> | “She got into what she thought was a turning lane but was actu- idget cuts were it ally oncoming traffic,” he said. “At the time, I started yelling some thing like ’Get back in the other lane! We’re going to die!’ Later t the numerous fee when we realized that she had almost killed everyone and caused a pay along with! 1 . f it is likely they wi! ig again in the tula ites said, to keep up withGit hire 100 new (is s each year forihe trs. he says there be more help fror ore cuts intemall)- tuition increases Taylor, vice pres;- ce, said three ne» - have been forme- t funding to invf ig of those new fa. s. pc the students w re of all of this,"!; nd understand tfe ct this to better the- ucation they recei'; traffic jam, it was quite humorous to think about.” Parents are crucial to a college student’s success. Most provide monetary and emotional support. Unfortunately, a student’s social life can be adversely affected by his parents’ behavior. Move-in day can culminate in an embarrassing parental moment for some students. Joy Vick, a freshman accounting major, knew it wouldn’t be a normal weekend when her mom came down to help her move in. Vick was moving into her residence hall and was searching for her mother because she wasn’t sure where she had parked. “When my mother spotted me from a distance and realized that I Ivan Flores* THE BATTALION couldn’t see them because of all the other parents, she commenced with an impromptu ‘interpretative dance’ to differentiate herself from all the other Aggie Moms,” Vick said. “Once 1 saw flailing arms in the comer of my eye, 1 knew it had to be her, but it honest ly made me want to turn and go the other direction. This isn’t anything out of the ordinary for my mom, but even though 1 grew up with it, she can still surprise me.” While college students are the definition of grace under pres sure, the same cannot always be said for their parents. 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