Issue date: 10/13/09 Section: News

Media Credit: Courtesy Lacey Terrette, junior environmental studies major, Kyle King, junior biology major, Carrington Gilbert, sophomore marketing major, and Caleb Paulson, junior landscape architecture major are members of Maroon Out, the first student organization with a billboard. [Click to enlarge]

Aggie students may be in the Guinness World Book of Records soon for the most people wearing the same shirt.

Texas A&M Student Council and Maroon Out have applied for the record and hope to reach a broad audience through their billboard.

The billboard, which is placed on Highway 290 after Highway 6 toward Houston, promotes the purchase of a Maroon Out T-shirt for $5.

It was set up Sept. 15 and was a gift from a former student.

"I got into contact with an old Ag that was trying to help class councils, and he gave us the billboard for free. On the billboard it says get your Maroon Out T-shirt for $5," said Carrington Gilbert, director of Maroon Out.

The billboard, designed by Caleb Paulson, assistant director for Maroon Out, is 20 feet tall and 40 feet wide.

"We had an idea to reach people, not only in College Station, but outside as well. A lot of people from here are from Houston, so we were trying to reach people in that area. It was kind of out of our budget initially, so we really didn't think about it but since we had this connection, we got it a lot cheaper than it would've been," said Paulson.

The billboard includes the date of this year's Maroon Out, Nov. 26.

"It was geared more toward getting public involvement, not only within the University, but getting the public to support this tradition as well," said Kyle King, Maroon Out finance director.

The organization has also applied for a Guinness World Record for the most number of people wearing the

same shirt.

"The process they said would take about four weeks. We sent that in, and we're just kind of waiting. It kind of gives more incentive for people to come out to the game and participate and to be part of something big, not just campuswide but worldwide as well," Paulson said.The tradition began 11 years ago, and it still done every year with the exception of 2001 where students wore red, white and blue shirts in honor of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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