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ith a mood of solidarity and solemnness, Aggie Muster reminded the 12,000 Aggies in attendance Monday what it means to be a part of the Aggie family. Peter Rozanski, Muster Committee member and junior civil engineering major, said this year’s event went smoothly. “I think [Muster] was a phenomenal combination of celebration and mourning,” Rozanski said. “I think Bill Youngkin’s speech reminded us of the camaraderie that we have as Aggies. I think that the roll call is powerful and it was nice getting to see the families’ different reactions while knowing they were loved by the Aggies surrounding them.” Kayla Taylor, sophomore human resources major, said she attended to call “here” for her friend Christy Crow, Class of
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2016, who died Wednesday. “Muster was really hard knowing somebody whose name was called but it was a closing experience for me,” Taylor said. “She would have been here if she could. She was the definition of an Aggie.” Muster speaker Bill Youngkin, Class of 1969, was head yell leader at A&M and is now an attorney in Bryan. Youngkin said many universities offer high-quality educations similar to A&M’s, but none have the unity and the spirit he saw in Aggies after the Bonfire collapse or during each Silver Taps. Youngkin said Muster embodied that spirit, showing how much of a family Texas A&M really is. “Our traditions are what makes us a family and being a family is what makes us different from all the rest,” Youngkin said.
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epending which way you slice it, I’ve got approximately two parents, three brothers, four grandparents, one great-grandparent, 10 aunts and uncles, 12 cousins, one boyfriend and at least 10 friends that I am relatively sure like me at least a little bit. And I’ve got six tickets for graduation. This would really be a non-issue if my graduation was about me. I just wouldn’t show up to the thing. Graduation requires me to wake up at some unholy hour, put on makeup and junk, wear a big floppy robe and sit still for 16 billion hours. I’ve already been through my high school graduation, where I at least got to break up the tedious affair by giving some pretentious speech I wrote. But graduation is like those birthday parties they throw for one-year-old kids. Those things obviously aren’t for the children. It’s about adults watching little pudgy babies
smoosh cake in their adorable, misshapen faces. Graduation isn’t about me getting a diploma. It’s about my grandma trying to figure out how to work her digital camera so she can take a picture of me in a cardboard hat. Which is why this whole six-ticket affair is such a scandalous disaster. I realize “there just aren’t enough seats” seems like a reasonable explanation to some people, but my family doesn’t exactly buy into “reasonable explanations.” They think I am precious and they want to see me walk across a stage in heels and get a diploma. Maybe it’s because they’re proud of me. Maybe it’s because they want to be there to see if I fall down. Either way, this limited seating thing isn’t quite cutting it. I know it’s too late to get anything fixed for this graduation. It’s fine. I’ll just tell my sweet Great Grandma Glenz, who is recovering nicely from a broken knee, that no, she can’t come to the graduation of her oldest great-grandchild, essentially ripping her little heart from her petite little chest. It’s no big deal. I enjoy upsetting little old ladies. But to avoid crushing the dreams of other 90-year-old women, I’ve decided to set up an easy system for the administration of Texas A&M as See Graduation on page 4
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he FBI confirmed Monday that a 16-year-old boy traveled from San Jose, Calif., to Honolulu, Hawaii, sitting in a not-so-typical airline seat — the wheel well of the plane. Sunday morning, a boy ran away from home, climbed into the undercarriage area of a Boeing 767 and hid away for more than five hours until the plane landed in Honolulu, FBI spokesman Tom Simon said to the Associated Press. The boy was discovered on the tarmac upon arrival and taken into custody. Kenneth Bowman, Texas A&M professor of meteorology, said given the conditions at an altitude of 38,000 feet, it was amazing the teen survived the flight. “The pressure is about 20 percent of what it is at sea level, so there’s only about 20 percent as much oxygen available,” Bowman said. “The summit of Mt. Everest is about 29,000 feet and this is almost 10,000 feet higher than that,
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almost two miles higher. People can barely make it the summit of Mt. Everest, and if you stay up there very long, you die.” Along with the high altitude, Bowman said temperatures at that height could be well below zero, sitting around minus 70 or minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Bowman said this is not the first time this has happened. Multiple news outlets have sourced the Federal Aviation Agency, which reports “105 stowaways have sneaked aboard 94 flights worldwide since 1947, and about one out of four survived.” “It must be like drowning in cold water, where they can revive people after a long period under really cold water because their metabolism and everything has just slowed almost to a stop,” Bowman said. Leighton James, junior agribusiness major, said she was surprised the boy was able to get onto the plane without See Stowaway on page 3
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eople around the world are making efforts to respect and replenish the Earth. Earth Day will be celebrated Tuesday in all 50 states of the U.S. and in 192 countries, said John Maleri, associate director of Earth Day Network. The Environmental Issues Committee and Texas A&M Information Technology are recognizing the 44th annual Earth Day by holding an ewaste recycling campaign, to properly dispose of electronic devices. Lacey Baze, Class of 2006 and communications coordinator for Texas A&M IT, said disposing of e-waste improperly could have serious effects on the environment. “If you throw away things like computers, cellphones, any kind of electronic device, batteries, ink cartridges, toxic materials from them leak into the land and end up in the water supply,” Baze said. The repercussions of improper disposal of e-waste not only have the potential to harm animals, Baze said, but also to harm people. “All the freshwater fish, all the animals that drink from the rivers and lakes we have here in Texas and across the
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United States — we don’t want them drinking toxic water,” Baze said. “This is in addition to us. A lot of our water supply comes from those sources as well.” Victoria Benson, director of programming for the Environmental Issues Committee and junior psychology major,
exas A&M will travel south to Reckling Park in Houston to take on the Rice Owls Tuesday night. Rice boasts a 16-5 record in Conference-USA and is No. 21 in the nation. The Owls claimed a 5-3 victory Sunday behind the arm of freshman Jon Duplantier against UAB. A&M freshman Nick Banks is up to a .315 average for the year, good for second highest average on the team behind Cole Lankford at .319, after a 3-for-5 Sunday performance with 2 RBIs and a home run. Five Aggies are hitting above .300. Joining Lankford and Banks above the .300 mark are Patrick McLendon (.310), Jonathan Moroney (.308) and Ryne Birk (.303). A&M (24-17, 8-10 SEC) has a .284 overall batting average with opponents hitting .259 against them. Birk had a 3-for-6 outing in the Kentucky series including a 2-for-4 Sunday that featured five RBIs. Rice is led by John Clay Reeves, who has started all 38 games for the Owls this year and has 52 hits, 27 RBIs and a .351 average in 148 at bats. Shane Hoelscher and Skyler Ewing
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have also found success at the plate. Ewing leads Rice with 38 RBIs while Hoelscher has an on base percentage of .393. Rice head coach Wayne Graham entered the 2014 season with Rice as the 15th-winningest coach in NCAA history for active coaches. Graham won his 1,000th Division I game on Feb. 18 against Texas State in an 11th-inning win for Rice in its home opener. Junior right-handed pitcher Corey Ray will get the start on the mound for the Aggies. Ray will enter Tuesday’s game with a 3-0 record on one previous start. Ray has accumulated a 1.38 ERA in his 10 appearances. A&M Consolidated High School alumnus and College Station native Chase McDowell will get the nod on the mound for Rice. McDowell sports a 3.11 ERA and is 3-3 in his 11 appearances, which include eight starts. SEC matchups against Mississippi State, LSU, Arkansas and Ole Miss still remain on the docket for A&M. Tuesday’s first pitch is slated for 6:30 p.m.
(Top) The Lil’ Wranglers perform Monday at the Muster Camaraderie Barbecue. (Right) Bill Youngkin, Muster speaker and former head yell leader, helps lead yells at the barbecue.
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said college students can significantly impact environmental awareness and conservation by just taking the steps to get involved. “I feel like college students are one of the biggest untapped resources when it comes to making big changes for our country,� Benson said. “That is especially true when it comes to the environment. We are such a large population and we have such a strong voice, we just don’t always use it.� It was a mentality of speaking up that spurred Gaylord Nelson to found Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Maleri said Nelson, a U.S. senator from Wisconsin, was moved to action after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 oil spill in Santa Barbara, Calif. Maleri said Nelson saw the potential in college students to make a change. “Inspired by the student anti-war movement, he realized that if he could infuse that energy with an emerging public consciousness about air
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being noticed. “I wondered how he got away with it and why no one saw him,� James said. “I would’ve never dreamed that was even possible without getting caught. I was also shocked
and water pollution, it would force environmental protection onto the national political agenda,� Maleri said. The date, April 22, was chosen specifically with college students in mind, Maleri said. “Senator Nelson chose the date in order to maximize participation on college campuses for what he conceived as ‘an environmental teach-in,’� Maleri said. “He determined the week of April 19–25 was the best bet as it did not fall during exams or spring breaks.� Although the methods of participation have changed, the core mission of Earth Day has remained the same, Maleri said. “Whether it is a local trash clean-up event or a tree planting effort, Earth Day has always been embodied by the events and individuals who participate,� Maleri said. “The issues and means by which people joined have changed over time. In 1970, Earth Day participants got involved in local events to help improve the treatment of the natural world in their community or area. In 2014, individuals can join a
that it had happened before.� Maxwell Zhou, junior electrical engineering major, said he was surprised. “I think it’s crazy,� Zhou said. “How on earth did he survive those temperatures and lack of oxygen?� James said she would not have had the courage to run away, let alone climb inside a plane.
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they look to next year’s graduation ceremonies. Obviously, since the seating has been limited for the College of Liberal Arts, the Mays Business School and the Dwight Look College of Engineering, those graduation ceremonies need to be split up into two separate affairs for each college. As a psychology major with personal knowledge of the college, the liberal arts ceremonies are the easiest to divide up. The ceremonies are about the guests and not the graduates after all, so surveys should be sent out to all parents and guardians of the graduates to gauge exactly how disappointed they are in
their children’s life choices. Trust me, the split will be perfect. A look of pure shame and displeasure follows the words, “I’m majoring in psychology and minoring in religious studies,” almost exactly 50 percent of the time. It’s the same look I see as I look at my reflection in the drive-thru window, waiting for my chicken nugget order at 3 a.m. It’s just a fact of nature. The beauty in this is that there won’t be nearly as many awkward conversations between graduation guests. I imagine there are probably some plucky and perky parents on graduation day that lean over to invade their neighbor’s personal space, all ready to share their joy and coffee breath, only to receive half-hearted sighs
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FOR RENT Canyon Creek 3/3 TownhomeRecently furnished & decorated, includes cable, WIFI, HD Flat Screen, 3 privacy-keyed BR’s each with private bath- $495 per BR. (see CSRental.com for pics). (501)833-8261,(501)765-0748, paschalg@comcast.net Close To Campus! 4/2 &5/2 houses, preleasing for August, great floorplans, updated, no pets 731-8257, www.BrazosValleyRentals.com Duplex 3bd/2ba. All appliances, full-size W/D, fenced yard. Located at Rock Hollow Loop. $850/m. 469-233-4653. Gateway VIllas. 3/3 Townhouse/ $1395. Pets OK. (979)587-8200 Just available! Close to campus, College Main and Eastgate areas. 2bd/1ba., some w/dishwasher, 1-fenced, some bills paid. $325-$450/mo. 979-219-3217. Luxury condo, close to campus, brand new, granite countertops, with wood floors, contact 979-693-4900 Northgate. Apartments 1/1, 2/2,and 3/2. House 3/3. Washer/Dryer. Walk to campus. aggievillas.net Call 979-255-5648. Now preleasing 2,3,4,5 bedroom houses and duplexes, pet friendly, Aggielandrentals.com 979-776-8984. Pre-lease 4 and 5 bedroom houses, available August, great floor plans, close to campus, updated, W/D, all appliances, no pets. www.brazosvalleyrentals.com 979-731-8257. Preleasing for May, efficiency apartment, 1bd, 2bd, 3bd, 979-693-1906, great prices and amenities. Spacious 3/2, CS duplex, W/D, prelease for May and august, $895/mo., 979-693-0551. Tribeca Square Apartments, 1&2 bedrooms with W/D, Prelease today and save $300 off move in.
FOR SALE College Station: 122 Ridgewood. ‘98 Crest Ridge 16x86w/10x20, covered deck. CH&A, garden tub, large kitchen and island. Nice! $21,600/negotiable. 830-710-0145/830-703-9283.
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HELP WANTED Aggie owned since 1987, College Station Pawn is seeking to fill full-time and part-time positions, no experience necessary, we will train, apply in person, 2232 South Texas Avenue CS. Athletic men for calendars, books, etc. $100-$200/hr, up to $1000/day. No experience. aggieresponse@gmail.com Caffe Capri now hiring for wait staff and host positions, smiling and up beat personalities only, apply in person. www.theplaceforitalian.com Child Care FT & PT shifts available. Some nights & Saturdays required. Apply in person at 3609 E. 29th St., Bryan. CiCi’s Pizza Now Hiring! Counter Staff/ Register/ Drive-thru personnel needed. No experience necessary, Evenings &weekends a must. Starting Pay up to $9.00 hour. Apply in person at CS location. City of Bryan now hiring Camp Counselors, Recreation Assistants, Lifeguards and Water Safety Instructors, do not have to be certified. Apply online bryantxjobs.com, call (979)209-5528 for more information. Cleaning commercial buildings at night, M-F. Call 979-823-5031 for interview. Cotton Patch, College Station 979-695-9707, now hiring servers, hosts, cashiers. Apply between 2-4pm at Rock Prairie Rd and Hwy 6. Dairy Queen is seeking a part-time IT Support/POS Help Desk Technician to work in our Bryan corporate office. 20hrs/wk, $17/hr. Submit resume to alexis.alexander@smithdq.com or call 979-220-5412. Frittella Italian Cafe now hiring servers/busers. Please call (979)260-6666 for details. GIS mapper needed full-time. Must have GIS mapping experience or have completed GIS courses. Email resume to texaslandgis@gmail.com
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Howdy Aggies! SSC Grounds Management Department at TAMU is hiring students. Part-time opportunities and Full-time summer employment are available, we also offer internships for horticulture, turf (including athletic turf), greenhouse operations, entomology, and irrigation management. SCC provides flexible schedules including 4/10 schedules during the summer and highly competitive pay, training, and continuing career opportunities after graduation. Please apply in-person at the facilities services location at 600 Agronomy Rd in College Station for more information please call: (979)458-5533 Gig ‘EM! Lifeguards and Water Safety Instructors for Briarcrest Country Club and Castlegate Community. Fun working environment, flexible hours. To apply call 254-498-5315 or email mturner@phillipsevents.com Equal Opportunity Employer. Local business looking for someone with web design knowledge. No experience required. Pay is negotiable. Flexible hours. Call (956)244-5819 if interested. MEMdata, a local hospital equipment management company is seeking dependable and organized FULL & PART-TIME employees to be part of a growing team! Must be able to work a minimum of 24 hrs/wk, M-F 8-5. Good telephone communication and negotiation skills required. Must be self-motivated and able to multi-task while working within deadlines. Computer skills essential & knowledge of MS Excel a plus! Pay DOQ plus bonuses. Email resumes to careers@memdata.com or fax to 979-695-1954. Need HVAC service technicians. Willing to train. Great summer job. Top pay and great team. Call or text Aggieland Climate Control, Inc 979-450-2653 or email aggielandclimate@gmail.com or http://www.coolaggieland.com New Position: Part-time staff position needed ($10-$12/hr) for busy real estate office. Must be a detail-oriented people person with reliable transportation and have reasonable computer skills in MS Word and MS Excel. This staff position requires 20-25 hours per week with additional optional hours available from time to time. Start date available immediately. For job description and application, go to: www.coventryglenrealty.com and click on Employment Opportunities side bar. Part-time job helping handicapped. Male student preferred. $360/mo. 8-10hrs/wk. 979-846-3376. Part-time summer help, apply in person, Conlee-Garrett Moving and Storage, 600 South Bryan Ave., Bryan. Property Tax Research, Business or Engineering major preferred, email resume to texaslandgis@gmail.com RA or entrepreneur? Wants to earn extra money? Premium energy drinks distributor opportunity! Call 979-209-0778 call for an appointment.
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4 Bedroom 2 Bath $1700/month
3701 Holick Lane
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MOTORCYCLE 2008 silver Honda Rebel with saddlebag, 4000 miles, $2500. 2-year TAMU student owner selling. TAMU motorcycle parking only $80/yr. Call or text 832-257-2577.
REAL ESTATE 8 CS 3/2 Duplexes, shuttle, $229,900, Town & Country Realty 979-777-6211, 979-739-2035 B/CS. Sell/Buy/Invest! Michael McGrann TAMU ‘93 Civil Engineering 979-739-2035, mike@aggierealtor.com Nadia McGrann 979-777-6211, Town & Country Realty.
SERVICES Party in style in our Hummer stretch limousine. Complimentary beverages ;) , tv's, and party lighting to go with our 1500watt stereo system. Check out our pictures, pricing, and availability online at www.traditionslimos.com or call or text 979-587-1727. Looking forward to serving you. Jose Rodriguez President TAMU Class of '92
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