The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 27, 2004, Image 3

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Page 3 • Monday, September 27, 2004
PAGE BY JULIE BONE
By Teresa Weaver
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— Laura Boren
Fish Camp, GUIDE, T-Camp
and Howdy Camp adviser
ranged an easy class load this semester. She said she
orries that next semester will be harder to keep up,
it that she never feels like she’s losing her drive.
“1 haven’t burned out, but I get up every morning
id ask myself why I do all the things 1 do,” Delong
lid. “The answer is always the same. I love the mis-
on and the people behind what 1 do. It’s about being
issionate about what you’re doing. If that wasn’t
icre. it wouldn’t be worth it.”
Scott Orr, a senior political science major in the
s of Cadets, is the commanding officer of com-
anyE-1, and has been a member of the Ross Volun-
trs.andhas participated in many other organizations
unng his three years on campus.
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“Students help with Muster because it is one of
the best examples of what it means to be an Ag
gie. The day of Muster, students spend time with
the families and give them a chance to understand
what their child did and what they were a part of
here,” Orr said. “It’s about showing the outside
world what Texas A&M is about.”
Orr spent last semester with four to six hours
of sleep each night because of his commitments
to organizations.
“After class, there would be RV training for two
hours, Muster committee for two hours, and by
then it was 10:30 p.m.,” Orr said. A
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class as well as work on Mus- ||
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the next day it was the same
thing over again.”
Orr handles all the pressures
of school and organizations
with the memory of being a
freshman in the Corps.
“As a fish, they put so much
on your shoulders, your natural
reaction at the end of the year is
to go out in the community and
continue that work load,” Orr said.
“They train you to be this ‘Super
Aggie.’ Since then, it’s been easier to
handle all the stress.”
Fish Camp is an easily recogniz-
able organization on campus due to
the amount of time and work student
leaders put into it.
With co-chairs chosen in November and counselors
selected in February, most of the spring semester and
all of the summer are devoted to preparing for camp,
said Laura Boren, the adviser for Fish Camp. Boren,
besides advising Fish Camp, also oversees advisers for
GUIDE, a freshman mentoring organization; T-Camp,
a camp for transfer students; and Howdy Camp, a
student-run orientation for spring semester transfers.
With the level of responsibility and intensity co
chairs must deal with, Boren said most co-chairs
have no other major leadership involvements.
Still Boren said around 25 percent of co-chairs are
actively involved in other organizations.
“There is always a point where a leader gets
overwhelmed and feels they can’t complete their
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tasks,” Boren said. “That’s why we have
co-chairs, you have a partner to balance out the
work load.”
Boren said there is a different attitude about in
volvement at A&M than at other schools.
“At A&M it is all about the Aggie Spirit. Here stu-
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dents are compelled to make a difference,” Boren said.
Orr’s advice to freshmen is to get out there
and be involved.
“Do as much as you can for as many people as you
can, and then you’ll really start to understand what it
means to be an Aggie.”
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