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Home-schooled students successful at A&M Julie Weddle Posted: 8/30/06 For Ian Martinez, coming to Texas A&M and attending classes with hundreds of students was a big shock. "Last semester I had a class with 300 people," he said. "In junior college the biggest class I had was about 10 people." Martinez, a sophomore biomedical engineering major, was home-schooled with his family every day of his schooling except for one science class in junior high and his freshman year of college. "It made the family feel more closely knit," he said. "They're basically my best friends." Statistically, home-schooled students are academically...

Family, friends cheer on McAllen astronauthttp://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA071806.1A.valley.space.169b85e.html http://tinyurl.com/zs9yd Web Posted: 07/17/2006 11:02 PM CDT Jesse Bogan Rio Grande Valley Bureau McALLEN — The recent e-mail from outer space informed the small group the voyage had been safe and rewarding. Their supporting role was almost over. "Now the shuttle is just about packed and ready to come home," astronaut Mike Fossum, 48, who grew up in McAllen, wrote them from the space shuttle Discovery on Sunday. "We're all ready, too — our objectives have been met." Hours later, on Monday morning, they gathered before a large television screen in Fossum's boyhood home,...

Sugar Land police and volunteers with search and rescue organization Texas EquuSearch are looking for a 16-year-old Sugar Land girl missing since Friday night. Ashton Glover was last seen at 11 p.m. Friday at University and Commonwealth boulevards, “seen leaving with an unknown male in a white Toyota pickup truck,” according to information from Texas EquuSearch. EquuSearch spokeswoman Barbara Gibson said Glover’s family contacted the Dickinson-based non-profit group Friday night, and when they began a search, Sugar Land police already were on the scene looking for the missing girl. “The biggest thing is her truck hasn’t been found, either,” Gibson...

Dixie Chicken Offering Items For Auction The owners of the famous Dixie Chicken are giving patrons the opportunity to take home a piece of their favorite bar. Hundreds of items, including graffiti-carved domino tables, ladder-back chairs, stuffed deer heads - even a walk-in cooler and an old upright piano - will be on sale March 25 during a "spring cleaning" auction. Auctioneer Craig Conlee digs through some of the items from the Dixie Chicken that will be up for auction. Bidding on taxidermy items, domino tables and an assortment of chairs will take place March 25. The sale is merely...

Jacob Tadesse went to A&M because it had a scholarship, not for its traditions, but the Yates grad found support Editor's note: This is the second story in an occasional series chronicling Jacob Tadesse's first year at Texas A&M University. Colleges and universities across Texas are grappling with how to recruit and retain minority students. Jacob Tadesse showed up last week at his alma mater Jack Yates High School in one of Houston's grittiest neighborhoods to sell the idea of college, and Texas A&M University in particular. With baggy jeans and some street slang, Tadesse did not look or sound...

Burn night information Burn will be held at Hot Rod Hill off of Hwy 21 northeast of Bryan/College Station, Tx on November 19, 2005. Gates open to the public at 4 pm. Bonfire is scheduled to burn at dark-thirty. There will be on-site parking (weather permitting) before 6 p.m. and we strongly recommend parking on-site as parking is limited at the off-site locations. We urge you to carpool. On-site parking directions: Exit Hwy 21, north of Bryan, and head east (right) on Hwy 21. Take a left at the flashing yellow light on to Marino Rd. Hot Rod Hill will...

An Aggie walks into a bar with a little pink piglet under his arm. The barkeep says "Where did you get that?" The pig replies; "College Station! There's THOUSANDS of them!

A&M student Andrew McNeel's photo of Loupot's Bookstore's novel approach to hurricane preparation has made the rounds on the Internet and brought worldwide attention to the store. A new Aggie joke was born out of last week's Hurricane Rita preparation craze. "How do Aggies board up their windows for a hurricane?" You can ask the folks at Loupot's Bookstore on University Drive for the punch line. They decided last Sept. 23 to attach plywood on the inside of the shop's windows instead of the outside. Since then, a photo of the peculiar method has made the rounds on the...

News of possible Tech-A&M move draws mixed reactions BY GEORGE WATSON AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Like many fans on the South Plains, Texas Tech football games are a family affair for the Garzas As the popularity of Red Raider football under head coach Mike Leach has grown, David Garza's investment has as well. He's purchased five sets of season tickets each of the past three seasons and bumped that total up by two for the 2005 campaign. And like many, he even arranges his weekend work schedule to attend games with his family. A Lubbock resident since 1973 and at one time a...

When Brendon Jones gets ready to leave his apartment, he puts on his pants, his shirt and his dog collar. Without the collar he feels upset; almost as though he has no identity. Jones, a freshman computer engineering major, goes by Sakanz - the name engraved on the metallic blue bone on his dog collar - and is one of thousands of Americans who identifies himself with a group of people that calls itself the furries. He describes furries as people who like to dress up as animals and interact with each other. "I'd say being a furry is like...

Bush becomes member of Singing Cadets By MELISSA SULLIVAN Eagle Staff Writer Eagle photo/Patric Schneider Bush was named an honorary Singing Cadet and received an official sweater at Saturday’s concert. Eagle photo/Patric Schneider Former President George H.W. Bush sings God Bless the USA with the Singing Cadets. It is no secret that former President George H.W. Bush loves Texas A&M University and all the traditions that define it. So when the Texas A&M Singing Cadets suggested that he become an honorary member of the group, he readily accepted. During a performance Saturday night at Rudder Auditorium, members of the student...

Isn't this a satanic hand sign? I'm sure it means something else, but what? I can't believe that it is satanic...

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He's just a walk-on. Number 39 in your program, zero in your heart. Means nothing to you. Just another sadly spotless jersey on the sideline. So how is it that Josh Amstutz is the toughest, bravest and most inspirational member of Texas A&M's football team? Well, look at his right leg. There are two scars left by a bullet that passed through it almost two years ago, a gift from an Iraqi sniper. How he runs on it as well as he does is anybody's guess. Look at his jaw. It was stern and square enough for the Marine honor...

COLLEGE STATION - Three decades after earning his bachelor's degree from Texas A&M University, U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards was back on campus this week trying to convince a new generation of Aggie students that he is still one of them. "If college students and high school seniors voted with the same intensity as our senior citizens, you guys would be the most powerful voting bloc in the state of Texas," the seven-term Waco Democrat told an informal assembly of about three dozen students who peppered him with questions about whether the draft might return, whether student loans would be available...

Oct. 27, 2004 - Aggies have reason to be optimistic about their employment opportunities, as evidenced by significant increases in on-campus recruiting and an expected 11,000 interviews of Texas A&M students this fall - a number that should be among the highest number coordinated by any university career center in the nation, says Leigh Turner, executive director of the Texas A&M Career Center.      This year's numbers, when compared to those at this time last year, reveal significant increases in active recruiting companies, up 28 percent to date for this fall; resume drops, up 98 percent; and job-listing companies, up 22...

The Aggie Band made a blatantly obvious political statement during the halftime show at the Colorado game with their W-formation. I found this highly inappropriate and offensive, as the political stand is not representative of the entire student body. There is a time and place for everything so. To Dr. Timothy Rhea, director of bands, I would just like to say let's let football be football and save the politics for another time and place.

San Antonio architectural firm O'Connell Robertson & Associates Inc. has been selected from a short list of highly acclaimed national architects to develop a comprehensive master plan for Texas A&M University's athletics facilities. Central to that plan is the expansion of the Aggies' Kyle Field from 82,000 to 115,000 seats, which would make it the largest football stadium in the nation. O'Connell Robertson is the architect of record for the project. But it is getting a solid assist from Heery International, a full-service engineering and construction-management firm based in Atlanta. Chris Lammers is heading up the master plan team...

The World War II Pointe du Hoc Ranger Monument is located on a cliff eight miles west of Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, which overlooks Omaha Beach. It was erected by the French to honor elements of the American Second Ranger Battalion under the command of Lieutenant Colonel James E. Rudder. During the American assault of Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, these elements scaled the 100 foot cliff and seized the German artillery pieces that could have fired on the American landing troops at Omaha Beach. At a high cost of life, they successfully defended against determined German...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Two Texas A&M football players have been charged with alcohol-related crimes after they shouted racial slurs outside a fast food restaurant. Police, who were called to the restaurant to investigate, followed a sport utility vehicle driven by A&M football player Geoff Hangartner from the restaurant early Monday to a nearby home where Hangartner failed a field sobriety test, The Bryan-College Station Eagle reported in Tuesday's editions. Hangartner was charged with driving while intoxicated. His passenger and teammate, Cole Smith, was cited for public intoxication, according to the newspaper. Coach Dennis Franchione said the charges against his...