Texas A&M closed Friday
By Jack Molitor
Published: Saturday, September 13, 2008
Updated: Monday, March 1, 2010
Lt. Erin Foxwell of 142nd Air Medical Evacuation unit of the Delaware Air National Guard talks to members of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets about special needs patients arriving at Easterwood Field in College Station, Texas on September 11, 2008. Texas A&M's Reed Arena is being used as a shelter for special needs patients during Hurricane Ike. (AP Photo/The Battalion, Wade Barker)
A special needs patient from Beaumont, Texas is unloaded from an Air National Guard C-130 airplane by EMS personnel at Easterwood Field in College Station, Texas on September 11, 2008. Texas A&M's Reed Arena is being used as a shelter for special needs patients during Hurricane Ike.
Texas A&M President Elsa Murano announced Thursday that Friday classes will be canceled as a precautionary measure for the approaching Hurricane Ike.
Tropical storm winds and heavy rain are expected to hit the Texas coast and reach the Bryan-College Station area. Because all campus offices will be closed, only essential security personnel are required to report to work Friday. Investiture and Convocation-related activities planned for Thursday have also been postponed.
Students who reside on campus are recommended to remain indoors, and those off campus have the option of being accommodated at G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Murano also announced that classes were expected to resume Monday.
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