at Texas A&M while enjoying other festivities put on by the class council. There is also a junior E-Walk that takes place at the same time for some class to class competition.

“We just really thought about where the tradi-tion started and how going to the SEC can really hurt us in our traditions and our uniqueness,” said Rachel Herrod recreational parks and tourism sci-ence major and the director for junior E-Walk “We really wanted to make sure we go back to our roots this year.”

Elephant Walk began in 1922 after A&M expe-rienced a football loss. After losing the game, two freshman bandsmen decided to march out of Kyle Field in mourning and the rest of the band and the Corps followed behind. Although these marches stopped after the end of 1922 season, the senior

class of 1926 performed the march again led by the same two cadets who began the original march, in remembrance of their time at Texas A&M. Junior E-Walk, which will also be taking place this Tues-day, arose purely from class rivalry.

“Junior [E-Walk] started in the 1980s just be-cause juniors wanted to rise to their place as se-niors,” said Janelle Shen, junior communication major and the director of senior elephant walk. “They got really rowdy and became destructive to the school. They would throw mud balls, water balloons and flour at people.”

Both of these walks are steeped in history and the celebrations Tuesday are designed to reflect the competitive atmosphere between classes. The event

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Students cross over the H2O Fountain during the 1984 Elephant Walk. The tradition began in 1922 in the aftermath of a football game loss.

Elephant Walk signifies the end of an era for students

Out with the old

Elephant Walk is a tradition in which seniors walk around campus in remembrance of their time

Chris Scoggins Special to The Battalion

See Elephant on page 4

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hey are large, old and gray, and

they wander campus visiting its

many historic locations be-

fore wandering off to die. They are

elephants, they are seniors, and they

will march in the time-honored tra-

dition, Elephant Walk, on Tuesday.

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Missouri previewCatch the fi nal edition of The

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insidelife | 3Aquatic acrobatLanden Ehler, junior construction science major, gained a national championship title in an unconventional sport — barefoot water skiing. Turn to page 3 to learn about his rise to fame in this niche hobby.

In hopes of improving safety

along Northgate, the City of

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the sustainability of businesses.Perhaps the most tangible symp-

tom of the struggle between busi-nesses and the freight restrictions is the vacant building on College Main and University Drive that formerly housed Loupot’s Book-stores. For eight months, this building located on prime real estate in Northgate has been on the market.

Robert Forrest, owner of Sarge’s military surplus two doors down, said the problem is that

freight trucks are forced to load more than a block away. He said the city has thus far not made the area conducent for the major companies that some local business were hoping would take over the corner building.

“Walgreens or a store of that nature would have six or eight vendors a day coming to stock their shelves,” Forrest said. “Right now the city has left no

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Freight restrictions frustrate business owners on Northgate

See Business on page 5

northgate

Tanner Garza — THE BATTALION

Northgate feels tension from the current amount of freight restrictions taking place on University Drive. Business owners say the restrictions interfere with deliveries.

Lack of t.u. game shifts focus to holiday

Every November, the grateful hearts and grateful stomachs of many gather to celebrate Thanksgiving Day. For Texas A&M, even more significance has been placed on Thanksgiving with the tradi-tional Lone Star Showdown, an antici-pated football game against arch rival the University of Texas. But with no Thanks-giving football game scheduled this year, how will the holiday change for Aggies?

Although the game would have been scheduled to be played in Austin this year, its absence is still felt in College Station. Some students who have previously at-tended or watched the Thanksgiving game are disappointed in the break of tradition, but plan to make adjustments to still enjoy the holiday.

“It’ll be weird not having the game to go to, as my Thanksgiving is normally built around the game,” said Dustin Deere, se-nior accounting major. “My family is pret-ty much all Aggies, so we would either all go to the game or watch it as a fam-ily at home if it was in Austin. It’s been

Darcy Jacoby Special to The Battalion

a tradition of ours. This year, we’ll eat a big dinner instead of lunch since we won’t have to rush to Kyle Field, and then we’ll probably watch the other football games that night.”

Jamie Rouse, senior animal science major, has attended and watched every

Thanksgiving game as a student. She said not having a game this year is bittersweet. She will miss the game, but more room will be allowed for other special parts of Thanksgiving.

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The Texas A&M and Texas rivalry dates back to 1894 and is the third longest-standing rivalry in the FBS.

thanksgiving football

Break shuttle benefits students

For the first time in A&M’s history, students will be able to go home for Thanksgiving break via shuttle buses thanks to the University’s partnership with the company Campus Coordinator.

The “break shuttle” services provided by Campus Coordinator offer students a convenient way to trav-el to large Texas towns like Houston, San Antonio, Austin and Dallas — trips that leave from Reed Arena and arrive in the heart of the city for Thanksgiving, Winter, and Spring Breaks.

The founder of Campus Coordinator, Matthew George, said many students at A&M expressed inter-est in the break shuttle services.

“Every college is getting more and more expen-sive and that’s a really big burden on some families,” George said. “We have heard from tons of students who just don’t go home because it’s too expensive.”

Though the services are new to Texas A&M this Thanksgiving, George encouraged students to try them, as the services are thriving at universities throughout the nation.

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See Shuttle on page 4

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See T.U. on page 6

Divine equationGuest lecturer Walter Bradley places astronomy homework and calculus book alongside the Bible in a Ratio Christi lecture series. Read students reactions at thebatt.com.

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Albie Burch, sophomore business administration major, guides tours full of history and tradition around campus for prospective students and their families Monday afternoon outside the MSC.

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Texas A&M loves its sports heroes. From football legends to Olympians, A&M celebrates their triumphs with wholehearted en-thusiasm. This August, another A&M student earned the title of champion, but not in a sport that many are familiar with.

Landen Ehler, junior construc-tion science major, started bare-foot water skiing around age five. He grew up close to Lake Travis and Lake Austin and competed in his first nationals competition when he was eight years old. Af-ter winning the regional champi-onship three times in a row, he pushed past his competitors this year and claimed the top prize in his division.

“Competitions are just for fun,” Ehlers said. “But I’ve always been competing. It’s the hobby side. It’s not my life.”

Barefoot skiing is the fastest competition in water sports. Like traditional waterskiing, there are three portions to the competition: slalom, trick and jump. Ehlers said the boat usually travels about 42 mph.

“I really like showing off,” Ehlers said. “It’s a really weird sport that no one does. In my opinion, it’s one of the hardest sports there is and it’s one of the most physically challenging things you can do.”

Besides the strange factor, Ehlers began barefooting because his father, Blake Ehlers, has been competing for years.

“I grew up in the sport 100 percent,” Landen said, “I grew up going to ski tournaments and watching [my dad] compete.”

Over the years, the Blake has

taken on the role as coach to his son. Landen goes home to train often, but struggles to bal-ance training with the demands of school.

“It’s hard work and something that doesn’t come easy,” Blake said. “The difference between success and failure in barefooting is razor thin. I get to ski alongside [Landen] in competitions and it’s fun to share that with your kid.”

Since coming to school at A&M, Landen joined the Texas A&M Waterskiing Team in or-der to continue practicing while in town. The team, led by Jim Norton, competes in several tour-naments per semester mainly in Texas and Louisiana.

“I never did any traditional wa-terskiing,” Landen said. “I didn’t actually ever ski on a ski until two years ago when I joined the wa-terski team. My main role on the team is to teach people how to barefoot and to be the guy who likes to go really fast.”

The team’s normal practice spot — Lord’s Lake, 20 miles from the Texas A&M campus — is dry, limiting their ability to practice.

“Now at A&M, I don’t ski at all,” Landen said. “My freshman year I probably went out about three times a week. Now I prob-ably ski about once a month.”

Landen recently competed in

an endurance race, which involves

the boat going as fast as it can and

the first skier to the finish line

while still holding on to the rope

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ed as a team on Lake Austin, de-

spite intense fog, where they hold

the course record at 24 minutes.

It was the first time in two years

that Landen had lost a barefooting

competition.

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Judge denies bid for park Nativity displays A federal judge on Monday denied a Christian group’s bid for a preliminary injunction to force suburban Santa Monica to reopen spaces in a city park to private, unattended displays, including Christmas Nativity scenes. U.S. District Court Judge Audrey Collins formalized an earlier tentative ruling during a hearing. Christmas Nativity scenes had been erected in Palisades Park for decades. Last year, atheists overwhelmed the city’s auction process for display sites, winning most of the slots and triggering a bitter dispute. Santa Monica offi cials snuffed the city’s holiday tradition this year rather than referee the religious rumble, prompting churches that have set up a 14-scene Christian diorama to sue over freedom of speech claims.

Public nudity ban eyed in San Francisco San Francisco may be getting ready to shed its image as a city where anything goes, including clothing. City lawmakers are scheduled to vote Tuesday on an ordinance that would prohibit nudity in most public places. Supervisor Scott Wiener’s proposal would make it illegal for a person over the age of fi ve to “expose his or her genitals, perineum or anal region on any public street, sidewalk, street median, parklet or plaza” or while using public transit. A fi rst offense would carry a maximum penalty of a $100 fi ne, but prosecutors would have authority to charge a third violation as a misdemeanor punishable by up to a $500 fi ne and a year in jail.

Wranglers say ‘Hobbit’ animals died on farmAnimal wranglers involved in the making of “The Hobbit” movie trilogy say the production company is responsible for the deaths of up to 27 animals, largely because they were kept at a farm fi lled with bluffs, sinkholes and other “death traps.” The American Humane Association, which is overseeing animal welfare on the fi lms, says no animals were harmed during the actual fi lming. But it also says the wranglers’ complaints highlight shortcomings in its oversight system, which monitors fi lm sets but not the facilities where the animals are housed and trained. A spokesman for trilogy director Peter Jackson on Monday acknowledged that horses, goats, chickens and one sheep died at the farm near Wellington where about 150 animals were housed for the movies, but he said some of the deaths were from natural causes.

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Student pursues barefoot water skiing hobby to national championship title

Champion’s wake

“There’s a lot of stress being put

on the body while you’re bare-

footing,” Ehlers said. “I’ve fallen

a lot, but never gotten seriously

hurt. I’m lucky.”

Ehlers said he has no intention

of pursuing professional waterski-

ing, despite having reached the

highest achievement possible for

his age group.

“There are people who take

barefooting as their life and com-

pete at a different level,” Ehlers said.

“But there are only two or three of

them. So technically, I guess I’m re-

ally fourth in the nation.”

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Landen Ehlers, junior construction science major, was recently crowned the national champion in his age division for men’s barefoot water skiing.

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“I know it’s something new to [A&M] cam-pus but it’s not something that’s new to us,” George said. “We are partnered with A&M transportation departments, it’s not that we are an outside business. I encourage students to give it a try.”

He said Campus Connector has a lot of po-tential to be a hit in Texas because many Texas students come from the same cities.

“The demographics of A&M speak for themselves,” George said. “The vast majority of [A&M] students are from Texas. Students, especially without cars, were having a hard time. They were having to take a cab and then fly to their city.”

Texas Tech University has greatly benefit-ted from Campus Connector’s break shuttle services, George said.

“Texas Tech runs a very similar service through their Parent’s Association,” George said. “On a significantly smaller campus, they are sending eight or nine buses for breaks.”

June Broughton, the communications man-ager for Texas A&M’s Transportation Servic-es, said the department began speaking with Campus Connector this past spring to find a way to get students home for the holidays.

“We offer a number of alternative transpor-

tation services that make it easier for students

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on- and off-campus bus service, car share, bike

lease and bike share,” Broughton said.“We didn’t have a service in place to help

Aggies who don’t bring a vehicle to get home during semester breaks,” said Ron Steedly, A&M alternative transportation manager. “Campus Connector fills this gap.”

Debbie Hoffmann, associate director at A&M’s Transportation Services, said the Uni-versity decided to give the break shuttle ser-vices a try for the benefit of the students.

“There was no cost to the University to partner with Campus Connector,” Hoffmann said. “It really was just a matter of reaching out to them to establish the relationship so Aggies could take advantage of the service.”

Campus Connector, the brainchild of George, grew out of his and his friends’ expe-riences as college students years ago.

“We started up in the northeast,” George said. “When we started it all up, we were col-lege students in a very isolated college in Ver-mont. A lot of the students in the country have no real easy way to get from their campus to where they’re from.”

After introducing direct transportation ser-vices to various universities across the country, Campus Connector has grown to be the largest national provider of transportation services to universities in the nation.

George said he believes every student has the right to go home in a convenient and af-fordable way and he hopes to make that pos-sible through Campus Connector.

“Our challenge is making sure everyone at the University knows that,” George said.

“At some of the smaller universities we work with, we can reach students pretty easily. But it’s a challenge reaching 50,000 students [at A&M].”

As cab rides and airfare can often be re-quired for many students to travel home for the holidays, George hopes that Aggies learn by word of mouth about the convenience of Campus Connector’s break shuttle services.

“We don’t want students spending hours and hours extra and hundreds of dollars to get home when A&M has made a significant in-vestment into [these services],” George said.

After hearing from interested students, those at Campus Connector are considering expand-ing their services to students for transportation home on weekend breaks.

“We have actually had a lot of interested in potentially starting a weekend shuttle,” said George. “[It would be] a much smaller shuttle for students who are looking to get out of Col-lege Station for the weekend.”

In addition to being a convenient means of transportation, the break shuttles provide stu-dents with comfort and entertainment on their rides home.

“It’s essentially much more than the typical charter bus or Greyhound,” George said. “The vast majority of the buses that we use through our local transportation providers usually have Wi-Fi and power outlets. We find that most of the students end up taking a nap on the way home, but if they don’t we specifically choose our buses to make sure that they have Wi-Fi and everything else.”

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will begin at 12:30 p.m. T-shirts and food will be available for purchase and students will have the opportunity to take pictures with live el-ephants and listen to live bands perform.

Juniors and seniors will step off the quad at 3:14 p.m. and 3:13 p.m., respectively, after a Yell Practice at Duncan Dining Hall. The ac-tual walk portion will consist of several com-petitive yell practices between the junior and senior classes at key locations across campus. Although Elephant Walk is a time for com-petition, for many it is a time of camaraderie and remembrance.

“This has basically taught me not to wish my life away,” said Brandon Waters, senior political science major. “I remember walking down the side of military walk with my buddies freshman year talking about the future and now the future is here.”

The event will conclude at Kyle Field at 5:30 p.m., where class pictures will be taken and class gifts will be presented. This year’s speaker, as-tronaut Michael Fossum, will give a speech on graduating and how to become who you are as an Aggie.

“To me its just the Class of 2013,” Shen said. “This is one of their big events and I want to let them leave with something memorable, some-thing that they really enjoyed and something that I gave back to them.”

For some seniors, some of the locations of

campus hold special meaning for them — mem-

ories and places that they will never forget.

“For me it’s going to be Rudder,” Waters

said. “Mainly because that’s where I got my

Corps Brass and got to drop with my seniors.

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The big aspects of my time here just com-pacted there as a whole.”

Although Elephant Walk is for many a time of remembrance and for some even sor-row at the passing of their time here, it does allow some to look forward to the future.

“It sounds cheesy but it really is walking around campus and remembering when we did this and remembering how fun that was,” Herrod said. “I think it’s a unique way to close that door with dignity and celebration instead of sadness.”

Members of the Corps of Cadets participate in the tradition of Elephant Walk. This year, juniors and seniors will step off from Duncan at 3:13 p.m. and 3:14 p.m., respectively.

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alternative way for any of those vendors to bring their prod-uct. So, does the city want it to be a business district or do they want it to be something else? Because, if it is a busi-ness district, we have to have freight delivery.”

To further communication with businesses, Lance Simms — assistant director of plan-ning and development services for the City of College Station — said the city has put infor-mation such as a map of load-ing zones and a page of helpful loading advice on their North-gate parking website page.

Having found out that a truck driver received a cita-tion for parking in the usual unloading spot, Michele Kim, manager at Kyoto Sushi on College Main, said she feels the new restrictions hurt rela-tions with distributors and said she never learned of the city’s loading zones.

“I have truck drivers ask-ing where to park and I don’t know,” Kim said. “The city said they’d give us loading zones, but they never did.”

Across the street from Kyo-to Sushi, Barry Ivins — owner of The Corner Bar and Grill — said he is optimistic that things will work out.

“Right now the vendors are really upset, but we’re still getting out merchandise,” Ivins said. “Everyone is an adult here. Everyone is go-ing to figure a way to make it work.”

While Ivin said the current system of unloading will be less practical when the weather heats up, he said the city is cur-rently working with him by lowering the safety bollards on College Main for a few hours

once a week to accommodate for The Corner’s deliveries that require close proximity.

Simms said College Station began an educational cam-paign to explain the changes on Northgate Oct. 8. He said the campaign consisted of three weeks of placing educa-tional fliers with loading tips and restriction information under the windshield wipers of trucks in violation with the city’s guidelines. After this, law enforcement agencies began issuing warnings with-out fines to violators.

Simms said officials tried to make face-to-face contact whenever possible.

“Everyone knows where we are headed,” Simms said. “Our goal is full compliance with all the city regulations and ordinances. There’s some resistance to change, I under-stand that, but we are trying to do it in a reasonable and re-sponsible manner, kind of ease into where we need to be.”

Simms said changes were the result of previous moni-toring of safety violations, specifically among distributors unloading in a fire zone be-hind University.

“Frankly, we witnessed some abuses of the use of that fire lane,” Simms said. “We continue to allow that fire lane to be used as a delivery area because we know it is really convenient to those bars right there, but what is not accept-able is to park a delivery truck in the fire lane, blocking the fire lane if you will, and just leave your vehicle.”

Simms said the largely wood-based buildings, crowds of people, and delivery truck blocking access open the area up for a potentially disas-trous situation.

“Painting a worst case sce-nario, fire trucks roll up and

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they can’t access the fire lane because there are delivery trucks parked there and we don’t know where the drivers are,” Simms said. “Frankly I think it is pretty generous on the city’s part to allow the fire lane be used as a delivery area. The requirement though is that you have to have someone there with the vehicle, so at a moment’s notice the vehicle could be moved and the fire department can gain access.”

Hunter Hahn, freshman in-ternational studies major, said the city government should have a greater say when it comes to matters of safety.

“I am all in favor of sup-porting local business,” Hahn said. “But sometimes busi-nesses have to consider what’s best for the community as well, whether it be construction that blocks their building’s view for a little while or closing off streets to make places for peo-ple to walk.

John Raney, Texas state representative and founder of Texas Aggieland Book-store, said the city has not incorporated small-business input enough. Raney said many of his suggestions, such as retaining and creat-ing more parking lots, have gone unheeded.

“The city has had meet-ings all along, they just did not listen to anyone here,” Raney said. “The city did not consider retailing at all. They based changes as if it was a safe-ty issue and nothing else. No one wants anyone hurt, but I don’t know if they improved anything.”

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“It’s a curse and a bless-ing,” Rouse said. “It’s a curse because the game was always a huge A&M tradition and a fun part of my holiday. It’s a blessing because it gives me more time with my family. This year, I’m going home and to my grandma’s.”

While many of who have been in Aggieland before this season have had the oppor-tunity to witness the Lone Star Showdowns of former days, most first-year Texas A&M students have not — and may never — experience a Thanksgiving game day against the Longhorns while attending college.

Such is the case for Duke Sawyer, freshman theater arts major. Because it is his first year in College Station, he hasn’t had to make any ad-justments for the lack of a Thanksgiving football game. He plans to attend the off-campus bonfire as well as the home game against Missouri, which is scheduled for the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

But he said he still feels

the pain of missing out on the Aggie Thanksgiving tradition.

“I’m from North Caroli-na, and I wanted to see A&M beat up on t.u.,” Sawyer said. “But I’m not going to get to see that now.”

Others, such as Allsion Bendas, sophomore his-tory major, find it easier to part with the Thanksgiving game in regards to not spe-cifically playing the Texas Longhorns. The tradition of the Lone Star Showdown has faded, but the change from the Big 12 to the South Eastern Conference brings new opportunities, tradition and excitement to Texas A&M.

Bendas attended and en-joyed the Thanksgiving game last year, but con-cedes that letting go of the Lone Star Showdown is well worth the potential the SEC has to offer. She plans to stay in town and attend the Missouri game.

“It sucks that we’re not playing t.u., but we’re in the SEC and onto better and bigger things,” Bendas said.

Thanksgiving Day game or no Thanksgiving Day

game, Texas A&M won’t be scheduled to play the Longhorns anytime soon in football, unless the teams are matched for a bowl game. So with the Texas rivalry out of the picture, will the Thanksgiving Day game re-sume with a new conference rival, or will games stay on regular Saturdays? How will Aggie holiday plans be fur-ther impacted?

Drew Carson, junior ap-

plied science major, said

he thinks future games will

continue to stay on Saturdays

and he favors that over play-

ing on Thanksgiving.

“It makes sense [to have

continued Saturday games]

because the Thanksgiving

game was a part of the Tex-

as rivalry,” Carson said. “

It gives people more time

with their families, which

encourages them to come

back for a Saturday game

since they won’t have to

be away from their fami-

lies on Thanksgiving. Also,

we get to sleep and burn

off all the food we had on

Thanksgiving and then come

back ready for the game

on Saturday.”

T.U.Continued from page 1

The Aggies and Longhorns have only ceased playing for six seasons since 1894, the most recent hiatus ending in 1914.

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