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Seen by some as an office or classroom, by others a sports arena and still others as a bookstore, for 59 years G. Rollie White

Coliseum has served in many roles on campus. It was erected in 1954 as a symbol of peace,

hope and change. As written in “A Centen-nial History of Texas A&M University,” the decade of its inception “marked a time of relative tranquility” at A&M — compared to the Depression decade, war years and war reconstruction years — but also a concern

for “things that were clearly coming, but were not yet quite here,” such as coeduca-tion, elective military training and a regular student body.

Then-University President David H. Mor-gan, under recommendation from a faculty committee, decided at that time that insti-tuting noncompulsory military training was the best solution to combat the declining en-rollment at A&M. He also wanted to move Corps freshman into Corps dorms and civilian freshman into civilian dorms. The Board of Directors agreed.

“For the first time in its peacetime history, there is established a division in the organiza-tion of the student body,” said Tyree L. Bell, chairman of the G. Rollie building commit-tee and Board of Directors member, at the coliseum’s dedication ceremony. “Can they be kept together in one united spirit, with a partisan loyalty to each other and the college itself, and to the ideals for which it was cre-ated? I believe this building can be made to serve that purpose.”

And with his next closing words, Bell set the standard for this structure at the heart of

campus as a place where relationships were started and memories were made.

“Let us today dedicate this coliseum, The G. Rollie White Coliseum, as a citadel to Ag-gie Spirit, a shrine where all Aggies — stu-dents, alumni, college staff and faculty, friends — all may come and find inspiration to per-petuate the Spirit of Aggieland.”

Wednesday marked the first time that the facility would no longer be open to the public, and it is scheduled for demolition Aug. 19 to

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Attorney speaks out on reseating lawsuit

12th man foundation

At a press conference Tuesday in downtown Houston, Claude

McQuarrie, the attorney repre-senting upset endowed seat hold-ers in their lawsuit against Texas A&M’s 12th Man Foundation, shed new light on the Kyle Field re-seating debate.

McQuarrie gave an overview of the case and presented some of the evidence that will be pre-sented at the hearing, scheduled for Aug. 2, on the motion for temporary injunction against the Foundation.

“The Foundation thinks that this matter is contained,” Mc-Quarrie said. “They believe that there are only one or two … own-ers that are so upset and in the po-sition to do something about it, and that they can weather that storm. Nothing could be further from the truth.”

President of the Foundation, Skip Wagner, said Tuesday to The

Battalion that there is no language in the endowment agreement that guarantees exact seats in an exact section, but rather guarantees seats in an “endowed seating area.”

“We think that the one case, they don’t have a legal case,” Wagner said. “Our lawyers have looked at that [lawsuit] and will deliver everything that the en-dowment agreement calls for.”

McQuarrie said the group of upset endowed seat holders is growing daily.

“We have the evidence and we are fully prepared to go to trial if we have to,” McQuarrie said. “I surely hope for the Founda-tion and the sake of Texas A&M University and for the sake of the students that for all the embarrass-ment that is going to result, it can be avoided.”

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Grad students help Alamo preservationcampus

As time takes its toll on the Texan landmark that symbolizes the fight for independence that oc-

curred more than 175 years ago, a conservation team led by Robert Warden, professor of architecture and director of Texas A&M’s Center for Heritage Con-servation, strives to ensure the Alamo does not be-come merely a memory.

The team consists of seven A&M graduate stu-dents as well as professors and students from Texas A&M Kingsville, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas at San Antonio.

“This kind of groundbreaking preservation

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The Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani-

mals (SPCA) and the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have formed what Kenita Rogers, the college’s associate dean for the professional programs, said is the largest partner-

ship between an animal shelter and a veterinary program in the country.

A&M veterinary students are re-quired to participate in a two-week rotation at the Houston SPCA as part of the core curriculum for fourth-year veterinary students. In the first three years of study, students focus on course work. In the fourth year, they complete various core and

elective rotations. Rogers said the college believed the rotation pro-gram was an important opportunity that all students should experience.

“We believe in it so much that we made that two-week rotation required,” Rogers said. “We be-lieve it’s a really great experience

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Vet Med partners with animal shelterveterinary medicine

See SPCA on page 4

Professor Robert Warden records data for future preservation of The Alamo.

See Alamo on page 4

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make room for the renovation of Kyle Field.

In The BeginningBuilt as a replacement to an outdated

DeWare Field House, G. Rollie’s construc-tion foreshadowed it’s own demise.

The coliseum was named after then Board of Directors president G. Rol-lie White. At the time it was considered a state of the art facility and was called by some a “football stadium with a roof over it.”

For Thomas Miller, a yell leader in 1957-58, it was more than just the largest building on campus.

“It was a large building, probably the larg-est I had ever been in [at the time],” Miller said. “It would hold seven or eight thousand, which was everyone in the Corps and every-one in the school at the time.”

Miller recalled A&M not having a “very good team” at the time. Aggie basketball went 4-20 in its first season in G. Rollie White. During Miller’s yell leader days, the team was getting better at 11-13.

In those initial years of existence, the colise-um served as more than just a basketball court. Concerts at full capacity were held on campus for the first time.

One could say it was “fit for a king,” as Elvis Presley played a concert on its floor in 1955. Joining him was Johnny Horton, whose cover of “The Battle of New Orleans” still graces the Dixie Chicken from time to time.

Advance tickets to the show were 75 cents. They sold for a dollar at the door.

“We saw some pretty good programs,” Miller said. “Elvis was there the year before I got [to campus]. He wasn’t famous yet. I think it was on record that the Aggies liked him but he wasn’t famous yet. That took an-other year.”

The King of Rock and Roll not only played on the same floor, but he even changed in the same dressing room that Aggie basketball and later Aggie volleyball players called home.

The Holler HouseThe memorable moments were just begin-

ning at G. Rollie when Shelby Metcalf was hired as head coach of the men’s basketball team in 1963 after serving five seasons as an assistant coach.

Metcalf, who died of cancer in 2007, started a winning tradition in his first season at A&M, winning the Southwest Conference and ad-vancing to the NCAA Regional Quarterfinals.

It was during this period that students be-gan flocking to games where there was a new building with champion-caliber play.

“It was the greatest place to play basket-ball in the history of the world,” Metcalf told The Battalion in 1998. “I don’t know if the other coaches had the same feelings about the place.”

As the calendar turned to the ’70s, Met-

calf brought added attention to his crowds. In 1974 he earned his doctorate from A&M in recreation and resource development, with a dissertation titled, “Crowd Behavior at South-west Conference Games.”

It was during that time that Metcalf recruit-ed junior college star John Thornton, who was the SWC Newcomer of the Year in 1973-74. Thornton’s father was a yell leader who grad-uated in 1950, and he was no stranger to G. Rollie White.

“Back in the day [our family] would come to A&M football games from San Antonio and they would have tickets,” Thornton said. “My brother and I, we wouldn’t have tickets, but we could get in at halftime when they let the gates open. Before half we’d go to the top of G. Rollie and there were windows up there and you could see into Kyle Field. So, we could watch the game up top of G. Rollie and into Kyle Field as long as the action was at one end of the field. Then when [the half] was over with, we would run in to see the band and everything.”

In his senior year, Thornton was team cap-tain and led the Aggies to a Southwest Confer-ence title. That year the attendance record was set on Feb. 15 against Arkansas when 8,608 packed in the seats. Another 1,700 watched the game on closed circuit television from Rudder Tower Auditorium.

The total attendance of 10,308 were watching what would become known as the “Shot Heard ‘Round the Conference,” as Tim Floyd hit the game-winning basket with seconds remaining for a 62-60 win.

“The entire band was in there and that whole wall was aluminum so [sound] just reverber-ated,” Thornton said. “When they turned off all the lights and had just that spotlight to introduce the starting lineup you couldn’t even hear yourself, literally. Goosebumps upon goosebumps.”

That’s when G. Rollie White Coliseum changed. No longer was it a symbol only of hope, but a symbol of intimidation opponents feared. It had officially become the “Holler House on the Brazos” as it would be remem-bered for years to come.

Dark DaysIn 1978, The Battalion wrote an editorial

calling for a new coliseum. Houston, Arkansas and Texas were all advancing their programs with new arenas and A&M was falling behind.

Upon Metcalf’s departure in 1990 the Uni-versity started to splinter, with some wanting a new venue and others wanting to spend countless dollars to keep the “Holler House” at the center of campus.

In 1993, a $30 million renovation became a possibility, but it was beat out by what would become Reed Arena. Reed Arena was built for $36.7 million, and brought with it the struggling basketball team that had seen just one winning season since Metcalf was fired.

The move did open G. Rollie to the Ag-gie volleyball team, which took over the bas-ketball locker rooms as the venue became a volleyball-only space.

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Wednesday marked the final time G. Rollie White Coliseum was closed to the public, as demolition is expected to begin Aug. 19.

“G. Rollie was a big reason why we were impressed with the Aggie program,” head vol-leyball coach Laurie Corbelli said. “The size of the facility and the term ‘Holler House’ made it sound like such a great place to have a home event.”

Corbelli was hired in 1993 and said she was happy to have G. Rollie as a volleyball-only facility in 1998, but that too changed in 2009 when the court became home to the Univer-sity Bookstore during the MSC renovation process.

“I think former players were who I heard from the most — who couldn’t believe we were, in their eyes, kicked out of G. Rollie,” Corbelli said. “When they’d come to campus they couldn’t go to G. Rollie. They’d walk up the ramp and would just leave once they saw the bookstore.”

When the team moved to Reed Arena to accommodate the bookstore they never re-turned, marking one of the final changes of G. Rollie’s existence.

The EndThis week, current and former students

could be seen walking around G. Rollie White Coliseum, taking pictures and reminiscing one last time.

“I’ve been around here so long and the campus has played such a big part in my life, and my family’s life, that I hadn’t been back through it until my daughter, who is 28-years-old, called me and said, ‘I want to go through it one more time with you,’” said Thornton, who was interim head coach after Metcalf was fired. “It’s really hitting me. You’ll have pictures but you’ll never be able to step foot in it. We had so many stories and memories that came flooding back. I’m so glad I got to do that and that she took the initiative to say, ‘Dad, that meant so much to us as a family. Let’s go through it one more time.’”

Both Thornton and Corbelli got emotional when talking about the memories associated with Jolly Rollie, as it was also nicknamed.

Many former students have commented that their first date as an Aggie happened in those bleachers, with some meeting their future spouses just feet from the action of Metcalf, Thornton and Corbelli.

“I kind of raised my kids in G. Rollie so my son, Russell, used to play on the ramps and play with Alex Caruso, who’s a [now] sopho-more on the basketball team,” Corbelli said.

Upon a final walk into the facility, the smell of cigars smoked by coaches in the building’s early existence still radiates. The clattering of the air conditioning installed in the late ’60s is overheard from the rafters to the hallways.

“We’re all sad to see it go but they need to make room for the new stadium expansion,” Miller said.

In recent weeks, members of the Depart-ment of Health and Kinesiology have moved out. So too has the Letterman’s Association and finally the volleyball team, which held its youth camp through Tuesday.

“For me coaching is all about my players and I think about just how much that build-ing, that environment, G. Rollie played a role in our lives from 1993 to ’08,” Corbelli said. “The All-Americans, the blood on the floors, the times I sent them into the bleachers to run. I’ll have to fight the feeling that those years are gone. Those memories are going to be that much more important. I wouldn’t doubt it if it spend some of my evenings during the season looking through pictures of those years.”

Corbelli said she hopes to get a piece of the court as one of many items that will be auc-tioned off by the University upon the build-ing’s demolition.

Now just a skeleton of what it once was, G. Rollie has been a signal for hope and continual change to some, for others, a noisy “Holler House” where games were won and lost.

But beginning in August, G. Rollie White Coliseum will become but a memory — much like the ones it helped create through 59 years as an icon.

We’d go to the top of G. Rollie and there were windows up there, and you could see into Kyle Field. So, we could watch the [football] game up top of G. Rollie and into Kyle Field as long as the action was at one end of the field.”

— John Thornton, interim head basketball coach, 1990

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Aggies team up with NASA for groundbreaking research

When Texas A&M electronic technol-ogy and industrial distribution profes-

sors Joe Morgan and Jay Porter were con-tacted by NASA in 2012 with an academic innovation challenge, they gladly accepted.

Five teams from universities across the country were selected to participate in the challenge to design a system that could wire-lessly control and monitor power consump-tion for NASA’s Deep Space Habitat (DSH) Program. At Texas A&M, the initial design and development of the project was taken up by electronic systems engineering technology seniors — Akeem Whitehead, Jeffrey Jordan, Derek Garsee and Christian Carmichael —for their senior design capstone project.

Once they graduated, the project was passed on to students from the Mobile In-tegrated Solution Laboratory (MISL). Senior Mickie Byrd and junior Colton Schimank picked up where the group had left off. The power monitoring and control system will undergo its final endurance testing — run-ning continuously for a week without inter-ruption — in the coming weeks.

Porter said the project had important im-plications, as astronauts in space must always be careful about how much power they use since they have a precise amount of power at any time. When they run out, there’s no way to get more until the solar panels recharge.

“[The Smart Plug power-monitoring and control system] controls the amount of power so that they only use what is needed and don’t run out of power,” Porter said. “It monitors how much power is used for a giv-en task and learns from it in order to reserve

power and prevent overuse as well as detect problems that can lead to too much power being drawn or even a disaster.”

Kristina Rojdev, aerospace engineer in the Systems Architecture and Integration office at NASA Space Center said in a statement that the Texas A&M students had provided a valuable component to assist in the creation of wireless hardware.

“The DC Smart Plugs created by Texas A&M will fulfill this need by providing data on the power consumption of a DC compo-nent, as well as providing the capability of controlling the power to the DC component, all through a wireless network,” Rojdev said. “This project was very challenging and the students and faculty at Texas A&M produced hardware that was very impressive. The de-velopment and demonstration of this tech-nology is an exciting first step toward future flight hardware in wireless instrumentation.”

Morgan said Texas A&M’s partnership with NASA began with the return of Mat-thew Leonard, Class of 1986 and project manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The partnership for this wireless system proj-ect was also aided by Leonard’s return to campus.

“Matt Leonard came back to A&M last year to enhance the relationship between NASA and A&M by connecting our researchers with NASA,” Morgan said. “A&M has now become better understood and appreciated with NASA. Our partnership focuses on de-veloping technology, educating students in courses with what we learn, NASA engineers mentoring students and creating and main-taining an open community.”

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the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the student’s work would be instrumental for fu-ture spaceflight.

“The Texas A&M University team has a very high skill level and were quite impres-sive with their work,” he said. “It must be noted that the work they have done is right in our NASA critical path, and not just a side project performed for academic value. The students that had a hand in the Smart Plug design and implementation can be proud that they have ownership of future human spaceflight endeavors, and that their design will become heritage for future actual flight hardware that will be implemented for gen-erations to come.”

Morgan said a long-term contract with the NASA space intelligence program was set and that the project and relationship with NASA was only “beginning to blossom” as they will continue to work with different projects, such as robotics.

Byrd said, as an undergraduate, the cap-stone project was a unique opportunity.

“We get to do real-world work that is usu-ally only done by graduate students and we were, in fact, mistaken as graduate students multiple times,” he said. “We get to solve real problems and receive a great learning experience that normally doesn’t happen as an undergraduate.”

NASA Deep Space Habitat Engineer Daniel Carrejo (from left) assists senior Mickie Byrd and junior Colton Schimank in creating a wireless system that can control and monitor power consumption for NASA’s Deep Space Habitat.

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of the animal caseload and the breadth of experiences, we believe all students ought to have the opportunity to learn from.”

Rogers said the program is unique in that it offers students exposure to not only a high volume of cases, but a wide variety of species. She said the shelter serves approximately 1,000 animals each day, from household pets to large animals, native wildlife and exotics.

“When you think about being in a situation where there are 1,000 animals on any given day being cared for, that sort of put it in perspective for me,” Rogers said. “Not only how big their task is and how large their mission is, but also how many opportunities there are for our students to learn.”

The concept of shelter medicine is different from a standard veterinary clinic, Meera Nandlal, the Houston SPCA public relations manager said. The wide variety of species and issues experienced can create a fast-paced and diverse care environment, she said.

“[The students] are getting a huge overview of a wide variety of animals in a two-week period, and every day there’s something different going on, hour after hour, minute after minute,” she said. “They’re getting quite a bit of exposure in a very short amount of time.”

First-year veterinary medicine stu-dent Beverly Finneburgh, said she is excited about participating in the program as a part of her curriculum. The exposure to a diverse set of ani-mals will help give her and other stu-dents experience outside of their area of concentration.

“It can be easy as a student to become too focused on your interest, whether it be small animals or exotics, and a rota-tion at the SPCA forces you to work on whatever walks through the door,” Finneburgh said.

With the vast number of individual animals serviced each year, practicing shelter medicine will also give students experience in population medicine, as opposed to simply individual medicine, Rogers said. Vaccinations and conta-gious diseases become even more of a concern within a shelter.

The program will also allow students to ride along with a Houston SPCA ani-mal cruelty investigator and attend court proceedings regarding animal welfare. Finneburgh said exposure to the reali-ties of animal abuse and abandonment will provide veterinary students with valuable information.

“The up-close views on animal cru-elty, while tragic, will better prepare students to deal with such cruelty in their own practice, whether it be in a

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project at the Alamo is long overdue,” said Jerry Patterson, commissioner of the Texas General Land Office and class of 1970 in a statement. “The data gained will be vital to ensuring the Alamo re-mains an icon of Texas history and per-sonal freedom for future generations.”

The team uses historical data detail-ing the famous 1836 battle and other events surrounding the structure. Scan-ning and recording imaging data then creates 2-D and 3-D models of the Alamo when entered into a design soft-ware that will be used to help repair weather damage.

“We’re using texts, drawings and photographs, if they’re available, to cre-ate the models,” Warden said.

Carolina Manrique, an architecture graduate student and member of the team, said their data will help Pat Ross-er, the Alamo’s conservator, preserve the historic site.

“We scan and record the data as it is now and have another group working on models using historical documenta-tion such as texts, drawings, and photo-graphs that let us see how it has altered over time,” Manrique said. “We study the state of the material, the structure of the Alamo using 3-D laser scanning to get detailed information regarding its appearance.”

Manrique said the team consists of student in Warden’s summer course

called “Recording of Buildings” in which they study different architectural features and sites. In addition to the Al-amo, the students are also studying G. Rollie White Coliseum to collect data before it is demolished.

Another group in the class is cur-rently working in Belize, studying a Mayan archeological site. Last summer, the class studied Alcatraz Island.

Manrique said the ultimate goal is to preserve an important piece of

Texas history.“It is important to have as much ac-

curate information as possible to keep track of and maintain [the Alamo] over the years,” she said. “We get to see and find other historical things that we haven’t seen yet. The technology helps contribute to the memory of a place and this technology allows us to preserve a site that’s important to the Texas community.”

Professor Robert Warden and a group of seven Texas A&M graduate students have spent the summer studying the Alamo and creating high resolution scans like the one above to help preserve the Texas landmark.

clinic or another setting,” Finneburgh said. “It can be hard to identify and ad-dress cruelty for a practicing veterinar-ian, and I think being exposed to it as a student under the care of another vet-erinarian will be a huge benefit.”

Rogers said the program also pro-vides a great opportunity for the Hous-ton SPCA to expose students to issues concerning animal welfare such as vac-cinations, population control and abuse.

“I think they see it as a way to help shape new veterinarians for the future, to make sure they understand the is-sues out there with this portion of ani-mal welfare and make sure that they’re helping us train a group of veterinarians that’s prepared to help deal with some

of these societal issues,” Rogers said. The benefits of this program will be

long-lasting, as the experiences gained through the Houston SPCA will greatly emphasize the idea of giving back to the community, said Eleanor Green, the Carl B. King dean of veterinary medi-cine and biomedical sciences.

“We have a very student-centered culture here in our college and the veterinary school and this is another example of that,” Green said. “This is about not only what is good for students and how we can best prepare them, but doing so in a way that serves Texas and Texans.”

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Fourth-year veterinary students partner with veterinarians at the Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to learn more about providing care for a wide variety of animals.

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