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

More than 1,500 students who were driven off their island campus in Galveston, Tex., by Hurricane Ike resumed classes last week 150 miles inland, on the main campus of Texas A&M University at College Station. The students, who are enrolled at Texas 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.

Known as "Sea Aggies," the students were invited to

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