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News - 2
Opinion -3
Features - 4
Entertainment - 5
Campus Life - 6,7
Sports - 9,10
SINCE 1919
TAR L ETON STATE UNIVERSITY
September 25, 2008
Volume 180, No. 5
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broadway bible
stories
Book of Matthew with a musical
makeover Page 5
a red carpet affair
University honors outstanding
employees Page 2
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Greeks wrap up recruitment
Parihellenic, IFC report rush results, IGC near completion
By ASHLEY FUQUAY
Staff Writer
Even though all of the Pan-
hellenic organizations on campus
reached quota for the first time ever
it perceived my many students in
the Greek community that the num-
ber of students coming through rush
is decreasing.
"The numbers as a whole have
decreased. Less guys have been
coming through rush year after
year, not by a lot though/' said Tyler
McCollum, President of Sigma Chi.
Phi Mu President Hillary Safian
agreed, adding that the economy
could be affecting recruitment.
"We had a lot less this year go
through [rush]," she said. "Hon-
estly, it could be the economy. Not
many people want to pay a lot of
extra fees. There also wasn't a lot of
publicity."
However, some students in the
Greek community disagree.
"I think Greek life is growing
and in a positive direction. Alpha
Gamma Rho has grown and defi-
nitely look for AGR to do big things
on campus," said Micah Moore,
President of Alpha Gamma Rho.
Alpha Gamma Rho has 42 ac-
tive members and recently initiated
14 pledges.
Moore said Sigma Alpha Rush
Chair Destiny Word is not worried
about the
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Varsity cheerleader Ramon Chavez proposed to fellow cheerleader and girlfriend, Heather Owens, on the sidelines during Saturday's game
against the University of Central Oklahoma. Owens accepted and the couple received congratulations from the cheering crowd.
A&M-College
Station offers
classes, shelter
to Ike evacuees
By ASHLEY FUQUAY
Staff Writer
After the disastrous effects of
Hurricane Ike, Texas A&M-College
Station is doing its best to help those
who have been displaced. College
Station is now host to more than
400 special needs patients and 1,572
Texas A&M-Galveston students.
According to Jason Cook, Vice
President of Marketing and Com-
munication at Texas A&M, before
Hurricane Ike there were 1,777
college students enrolled at Texas
A&M-Galveston. Cook's records
show that 1,572 of those students
are now enrolled to take classes at
College Station.
"That is 88 percent of the stu-
dents," said Cook.
Cook said that this has been a
large job that is completely unprec-
edented. In order to accommodate
these evacuees, the university had to
organize billing, financial aid, hous-
ing, dining services and everything
else that is needed for a college stu-
dent to get started at a new school.
"The interesting part is that the
Aggie spirit is a part of everything
we are doing here," said Cook. "We
welcome the Galveston students."
According to Cook, it is planned
that the Galveston campus is ex-
pected to open back up in January
for the spring semester. Power and
utilities should be restored to the
campus in the next couple of weeks,
but the major concern for opening
the campus to the students again is
off-campus housing, because there
is no estimate of the damage done
to residential areas on the island.
Reed Arena at Texas A&M is
home to a different kind of evacuee.
Since Sept. 10, the arena has been
set up as a makeshift hospital by
the United States Public Health Ser-
vice and is home to special needs
patients that had to evacuate before
the storms. A majority of these pa-
tients came from hospitals and nurs-
ing homes from the
See IKE, Page s
Dining hall equipment bids farewell
Caitlin Fuquay/The J-TAC
535 items were up for auction at the former din-
ing hall last Tuesday. Everything from chairs to
nacho machines were included.
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By KELSEY FITZGIBBON
Staff Writer
On Tuesday, Sept. 23, Tarleton's old
dining hall played host to an auction
that allowed the general public to bid
on the building's contents. The auction
began at 10 a.m. as participants moved
through each room of the building to
inspect items on which they wished to
bid.
There were 535 items listed on the
auction catalog. Everything in the build-
ing was included, ranging from large
kitchen appliances and serving lines to
tables, chairs and crates of dishes. Even
paintings on the wall and restroom
fixtures were included in the auction.
Bidders were responsible for the ship-
ment of their own items and were told
to have all purchases out of the building
by Tuesday, Sept. 30.
Dean of Students Rusty Jergins said
that many items were transferred to the
new dining hall after the facility was
built, and what they could not use there
was put into the auction. He also said
that the money raised at the auction
would be put back into the dining hall
account to offset some of the
See AUCTION, Page 8
Caitlin Fuquay/The J-TAC
Even though turnout was low, Dean of Students
Rusty Jergins still considered the auction a success.
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Hensely, Joanna. The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 180, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 25, 2008, newspaper, September 25, 2008; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth476388/m1/1/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.