During my senior year at TAMU, we welcomed students from Tulane who were displaced due to Hurricane Katrina. I am glad to see that we are doing the same again for our fellow Aggies. I would expect nothing less from our fabulous university.

I hope everyone treats our Sea Aggies with compassion and respect, remembering that they have been abrubtly taken from their school, and many are without their personal possessions including clothes, computers, and textbooks! Help them out whenever you can, and steer them in the right direction when searching for their classes. They are used to a much more compact campus and will certainly need our help.

No other school is so quick to help others in need. It's times like Katrina and Ike that make me proud to be an Aggie.

My heart goes out to each and every one of our extended Sea Aggie Family. These students, many of whom are still having to pay rent on the home they have lost, have been been devastated by a natural disaster and have lost everything they own. I know my roommates and I are honored to welcome a Sea Aggie into our home, and can only hope the same of others. Please think of these students in this time of need and lets share with them the Spirit of Aggieland.

As a former Sea Aggie I express my relief at the warm welcome that is sure to be received in College Station. Texas A&M is a very special place for most Sea Aggies, and for me nothing was ever (and still is) quite as exciting as a weekend trip to the Aggie Holy Land to watch some football and hang out with friends.

Please give your fellow visiting Ags a very warm reception and try to help in anyway possible. They are all coming from a campus that they love very dearly, being separated from personal possessions, friends, and loved ones in Galveston, and going from a 1,200 student campus (with about 15 buildings on Pelican Island) to a sprawling campus of almost 50,000.

I hope that it brings about a closeness of both campuses, that we realize we are much more alike than we are different- sharing the same values and traditions. I am sure that this terrible event will bring forth the best in every Aggie and the Spirit of Aggieland will help to make this a great experience for both Sea Ags and main campus Ags alike.

WHOOP & Gig 'Em- Meghan Senkel class of 2003