September 25, 2008

Galveston's 'Sea Aggies' Find Their Land Legs at College Station

By Katherine Mangan

College Station, Tex.

More than 1,500 students who were swept off their island campus by Hurricane Ike resumed their fall semester on Wednesday 150 miles inland at Texas A&M University, flagship campus. The students, who are enrolled at A&M's marine-oriented branch campus in Galveston, were hurriedly moved into spare rooms and impromptu classrooms as administrators scrambled to resurrect their fall semester.

The Galveston students, who are known as "Sea Aggies," were invited to finish out their fall

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