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thebattalionQ:What is the spookiest

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“Probably the Quad at night because there is a lot of weird

people wandering around.”

Kaitlyn Thibodeaux,freshman Blinn

Team

“For me I guess it’s close to the water fountain between Blocker and the library. It’s like

there isn’t a lot of light over there.”

Sam Shute, freshman

environmental geoscience major

“The creepiest place on campus

is Academic Plaza with all of these

old, haunted-looking oak trees.”

Jesse Tune, G-7 Grad level anthropology

“When you walk from Hart to the SCC between Heldenfelds,

there’s a shortcut there and it’s pretty

creepy.”

Kara Wong, sophomore

sociology major

“I think campus in general at night is

creepy.”

Sarah Ferrara, junior health major

“The Animal Industries building;

it’s old.”

Katelyn Nix, junior psychology

major

Grisly accident, mysterious file, reader discretion advised

Texas A&M is a university built upon history. Echoes of the past resonate within Rudder Tower, Military Walk, the Me-morial Student Center and throughout the very soul of Aggieland’s spirit and tradi-tions. But behind one building on campus lurks a darker legacy; one built upon blood, misfortune and terrifying encounters with the unknown.

Sitting in the shadow of the Oceanogra-phy and Meteorology building, the Animal Industries building is a testament to the per-vasive power of a well-documented ghost story.

Depending on the version that is told, legend holds that decades ago, a faculty member accidentally cut himself in the basement late at night and died before he could make it out of the building. Howev-er, unlike many urban legends, this macabre rumor about the Animal Industries building runs red with more than just a vein of truth. Within the confines of the Cushing Me-morial Archives lies a file documenting the sordid history and paranormal events that have come to define the building.

The file states that construction on the Animal Industries building began in 1929, costing the University $225,000 — nearly $3 million in today’s currency. The build-

ing opened its doors in 1931. Built to ac-commodate the animal science department, the basement floor of the building’s annex housed the animal meat laboratory under-neath the main lecture hall.

Enter Roy Simms.According to a resolution passed in his

memory by the Texas A&M Board of Di-rectors in 1959, Simms joined the staff as a worker for a dining hall in 1938. He served in this position until joining the Navy in 1944. After the war, Simms returned to A&M and worked at the University’s stock farm. In 1948, Simms was promoted to meat locker foreman, the position he held

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I’m fairly certain Roy haunts the main building and not the annex anyway — he takes the elevator.

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All tricks, no treatsAdrian O’Hanlon III: Sherman dresses as

Coach Fran for Halloween

T exas A&M entered the season with the looks of a title

contender and a team motto no fan can resist: Are you

ready? After Coach Sherman allowed the team to blow its

third double-digit lead Saturday — and its chances of a Big 12

Conference title — I have another slogan that is more fitting:

It’s time.

Josh McKenna — THE BATTALION

Missouri quarterback James Franklin runs through the Aggie defense for a touchdown in the first quarter Saturday, earning the No. 2 highlight on ESPN’s Sportscenter Top Ten plays of the day.

It’s past time to win and keep con-ference title hopes alive. There’s no more time to change schemes because there are only a few games left to play. It’s time to reflect on what went wrong in the three colossal collapses and what has plagued the Sherman era in Ag-gieland.

Play calling:All three games started with steady

doses of power football on both sides of the ball, but one of the side effects was drowsiness. Against Oklahoma State, Sherman stuck to character and relied on the ground game to grab the early lead and set the tone for the rest of the game. In the second half he went to the air against the best secondary in the conference, making for a stomach-churning collapse.

Things seemed to be fixed when Sherman unleashed junior running back Christine Michael on the Hogs in the first half, going for 128 yards and three scores on the ground. Michael was easily the most focused player on the field but Sherman elected to change the rotation in the backfield and throw in a mix of passes leading to another loss.

The Missouri game started out as the slowest game of the season but senior quarterback Ryan Tannehill looked to have things under control by taking part of each of A&M’s four scores in the first half. This time Sherman kept the pass-to-rush ratio very even but had no answer for Missouri’s comeback.

Leadership:As high-profile players on this team

had their egos stroked by fans and

In comparison◗ Dennis Franchione:

Overall Big 12 2003 4-8 2-6 2004 7-5 5-32005 5-6 3-52006 9-4 5-32007 7-5 4-4

Bowl losses: 3

◗ Mike Sherman:

Overall Big 12 2008 4-8 2-62009 6-7 3-52010 9-4 6-2*2011 5-3 3-2

Bowl losses: 2* - season in progress

media throughout the summer, the team has Tony Romo Syndrome. I’ll be the first to admit that I thought the Cowboys’ quarterback was a great play-er with a charming personality. Now it seems he just goes through the motions, just like the Aggies are doing.

Sherman should have this under control by now. It’s not in his nature to pump up the team by showing emo-tion. That’s not his personality, but as legendary NFL coach Vince Lombardi

once said, coaching goes beyond the X’s and O’s.

“Coaches who can outline plays on a blackboard are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate,” Lombardi said.

Record:Aggie fans have been waiting since

1939 for another national champion-ship. The OSU loss put A&M out of position but the loss to Arkansas put them out of contention for a national title. Losing to Missouri erased hopes of even a conference title.

Mediocrity is unacceptable to the Twelfth Man. Nearing the end of his fourth year, Sherman’s record is 24-22 overall, 14-15 in conference play and one frustrated sports editor at The Battalion.

Dennis Franchione, Sherman’s pre-decessor, was 25-23 overall and 15-17 in conference play with less talent at the end of his fourth season. After a pe-destrian 32-28 record (and an internal investigation), Franchione resigned and now coaches at Texas State.

I think Sherman is too classy to have something on the side but his record places him under the microscope, nonetheless.

Instead of trying to micromanage ev-ery aspect of the game, Sherman needs to stay in the flow of the game and start winning. Otherwise, A&M should start saving up for a $1.8 million buyout.

Adrian O’Hanlon III is a senior agricultural communication and journalism major and sports editor at The Battalion.

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Only four yell leaders led the crowd at Saturday’s football game against Missouri. Absent was junior yell leader Josh Light, who has been suspended from yell leader activities. “He is still a yell leader, but he is ineligible to participate in activities until further notice,” head yell leader David Benac said. Light said the suspension is a temporary disciplinary measure, but declined to comment further about the infraction. “I made a mistake

and took responsibility for my actions,” Light said. “I will be very excited to put my uniform back on and serve the University again.” Attempts to contact the Corps of Cadets were unsuccessful.

Jennifer Siegel, staff writer

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sportsBig 12 adds West VirginiaThe Big 12 welcomed West Virginia from the Big East and bid goodbye to Missouri before the Tigers even had a chance to make their move to the Southeastern Conference offi cial. Now that the poaching of the Big East seems to be over, the beleaguered league is not backing down. It has been busy courting six schools and says it was braced for the latest loss. The Big East plans to keep West Virginia for two more years — just

as it has vowed to keep Pittsburgh and Syracuse away from the Atlantic Coast Conference until 2014. The latest round of conference realignment appears to be winding down, but tug-o-war over who goes where when likely will take a while to sort out. The Big 12 leaders voted to add West Virginia on Friday morning.

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until his death.On Nov. 14, 1959, Simms and two

teaching assistants were working after-hours in the animal meat laboratory, conducting routine meat cutting. In order to cut across the meat more ef-ficiently, Simms pulled himself up onto the cutting table. On his third slice, the knife cut through a weak portion of the meat and the blade slashed upward into his left thigh, severing the femoral artery in his groin and stopping short against the arch of his pelvic bone.

While one of the teaching assistants ran for help, the other assistant attempted to carry Simms out of the laboratory. But it was too late. A slashed femoral artery can release up to 4 liters of blood in as many minutes. Simms lost consciousness and died from extreme blood loss on the inside stairwell of the Animal Industries annex.

In 1983, the animal laboratory was relocated to West Campus. However,

decades of rumors and eyewitness ac-counts postulate the theory that Simm’s spirit still lingers within the halls of the Animal Industries building.

“It’s a good story,” said Colt Bran-denberger, senior wildlife and fisheries major.

Located on the basement level is the men’s restroom, which serves as an en-trance to the building’s fire escape. It is aligned with rusty steel hooks that were used to hang cattle by their front hooves before slaughtering. A drain sits in the middle of the whitewashed brick floor, an access point for blood to stream into. It is the same room Simms was working in before the tragic accident.

Brandenberger, who has classes in the annex of the Animal Industries building, said he studies in the building’s open labs late at night. When he uses the rest-room, he waits for Simms’ presence.

“Sometimes I’ll go to down there late at night to use the restroom. I’ve called out to Roy several times to see if he was there,” Brandenberger said. “I’ve had yet to hear a reply.”

Along with the fire escape, old refrig-

eration rooms that are protected by thick, stainless steel doors occupy the basement floor. Darrin Moore, a research associ-ate for ecosystem science and manage-ment, said these rooms were utilized in the 1950s by the stock farm to keep the carcasses of butchered cattle fresh.

Moore, who can be found in one of these rooms grinding and processing root samples, has worked in the building for five years and still waits to see the ghost of Roy Simms.

“I’m fairly certain Roy haunts the main building and not the annex any-way — he takes the elevator,” Moore said. “The cleaning crew leaves it open for him during the night so he can ride it from floor to floor.”

Janitorial workers have tradition-ally left the elevator at the bottom floor with doors open at night for Simms’ use. Otherwise, the Cushing file says Simms’ ghost wanders around the meat lab.

According to faculty members, throughout the years several janitors have requested to be reassigned from the late shift at the Animal Industries building. Steve Potter, graduate student for water management and hydrologi-cal sciences, said that while he has had his share of goose bumps from the aged building, he, like Moore, has yet to wit-ness a ghost.

“There was a time when I was work-ing in one of the labs of the annex around midnight and the maps that cover the walls started fluttering around out of no-where,” Potter said. “It is an old building and those headed horse statutes attached to the ceiling seem to look down on you, following you with their eyes — it just has a dark and creepy feel to it.”

For as long as students attend class within the Animal Industries building, there will always be whispers and sink-ing suspicions that they are sharing their classrooms with more than just class-mates and professors.

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Josh McKenna — THE BATTALION

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A professor demonstrates the proper method of butchering cattle to a group of students in the 1950s at the Animal Industries building.

The room where Simms had his fatal accident now acts as a fire escape from the annex of the Animal Industries building.

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monday 10.31.2011

LGBT members share experiences

Various community members and students from different religious backgrounds gathered to welcome and affirm the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communi-ty in the Bryan-College Station area.

Speakers from United Campus Ministry, Unitarian Universalists of the Brazos Valley, Congrega-tion Beth Shalom, the Treehouse Campus Ministry and Friends Con-gregational Church gave their own affirmations and personal experi-ences with the LGBT community.

Al Schaffer, representing the Congregation Beth Shalom, spoke about the relationship he has with his daughter, who is a lesbian, and how excited he was to be involved in her wedding in San Francisco.

The main speaker was Rev. Stephen Sprinkle, the first openly gay scholar at the Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian Univer-

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sity. Sprinkle addressed the issue of hate crimes against the LGBT community, covered in his most recent book, Unfinished Lives: Re-viving the Memories of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims.

Sprinkle talked about cases includ-ing the murders of Matthew Shepard and Billy Jack Gaither.

Sprinkle also addressed ways to ensure the safety of the LGBT com-munity in the future.

“Even with federal protection from the government, the amount of violence against the LGBT com-munity has increased,” Sprinkle said. “We need to change the language we use. When something like this happens, it is not a tragedy. It is a moral outrage.”

David Elizondo, senior human resource development major, said he often participates in events sup-porting the LGBT community across campus.

“I thought it was eye opening and I love anytime where I can gather together with the queer commu-nity as well as the faith community together in College Station,” said Elizondo, who is a member of Friends Congregational Church — an open and affirming church of the LGBT community.

Elizondo was disappointed in the small turnout, but said it was not unexpected.

“I definitely think it’s the fact that we’re a minority within a minority. The faith community is pretty big, but as far as those that are accepting of the LGBT community, doesn’t get very far,” Elizondo said.

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Rev. Stephen Sprinkle signs his book, Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memories of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims for Sunday’s LGBT community meeting at the Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building.

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