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Crash kills two students, one in critical condition By Katie Canales Two students were killed in a one-car accident around 1:10 a.m. Sunday while heading northwest on FM 244, according to KBTX. Two more Aggies were injured in the crash, with one in critical condition at the Temple Scott & White Memorial Hospital as of Sunday evening. Kinesiology junior Corinthia “Nikki” Williams and communica-

tion senior Alexis Emmou, the driver of the car, were pronounced dead on the scene. History junior Rene Contreras, a passenger, is in critical condition at the Temple Scott & White Memorial Hospital and Tyra Preston, university studies senior, was treated at St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan. D’Juan “D.J.” Johnson, sports management junior, said Williams, who was known as “Nikki Nikki Nikki” to her friends, was support-

ive and protective of those close to her. “She was a good friend,” Johnson said. “She was a real, true friend.” Esteli Nyampundu, interdisciplinary studies senior, said she knew Williams for four years. “Nikki was a very, very loveable person,” Nyampundu said. “Whenever she walked in a room, best believe you’re about to laugh.”

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eeing isn’t necessarily believing anymore. Due to technological advances, physicists can say with a high degree of certainty, that everything that can be seen in the physical world is less than five percent of what is actually there. The other ninetyfive percent is a combination of dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter is still highly ambiguous but, thanks to an international collaboration, it may soon be discovered in part with instruments under development at

Texas A&M. The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, or SCDMS, will be one of the biggest dark matter detection experiments in history. It aims to use detectors of unparalleled sensitivity placed two kilometers underground to try and record dark matter for the first time. These detectors are being designed by a team of A&M physicists to determine the nature of dark matter. Rupak Mahapatra, physics professor, along with professors David Toback, Rusty Harris and Nader Mirabolfathi, are at the forefront in United States’ efforts to find dark matter.

The search is tough — humans cannot see or feel dark matter because its particles don’t interact with the observable world. “Dark matter has no electromagnetic interaction,” Mahapatra said. “Of course they have gravity, but they also have a weak interaction. What this means is that if you pass a billion times a billion times a billion particles through your body, every once in a while, one will hit you.” It is not a concept that is easily grasped, but Mahapatra explained it in simple terms. MATTER ON PG. 2

A revitalized Kyle Field is months from its unveiling, enrollment continues to rise, construction projects dot the campus landscape and a handful of new deans are in place. And now, one more change at a university full of them — the president’s office has a permanent occupant. Seated around a large wooden conference table in a conservative blue shirt and floral maroon tie, A&M president Michael K. Young spoke exclusively with The Battalion Friday morning about his first official day, his perceptions of the student body and his vision for the university’s future. His optimism for the path on which A&M heads is rooted in, among other things, the nature of the students and the way he has been received. “The passion for the university it something I’ve never seen,” Young said. “When you have all these former and current students and tremendous faculty supporters, all kind of galvanized behind this university, it really is unique.” Young, who was previously president of the universities of Utah and Washington, was put YOUNG ON PG. 2

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March to the Brazos raises $113,000 By Sam King

More than 2,200 from the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets made an 18-mile trek starting and ending at the Quad Saturday for the 39th annual March to the Brazos. This year, the Corps raised $113,000 for the March of the Dimes, a nonprofit that works to prevent premature births and aid children with birth defects. Becky Goss-Shepherd, March of Dimes division director for the Waco-Temple-Kileen and Bryan-College Station areas, said it was amazing to see the Corps, whose outfits compete to raise the most money, come together at the March to the Brazos. “It’s amazing to watch them all come together because [we’ve] been working with them all as individuals

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On April 25, Nepal was hit by a earthquake, and according to a tweet on Sunday from Nepal’s National Emergency Operation Center, 7,250 people have died and 14,267 people are injured. Brewer, who has been to Haiti three times to help, the first trip coming a year after the earthquake from which the island country is still recovering, said he was sitting in class reading about the earthquake when he felt a calling to go be a part of the relief.

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Nyampundu said Williams had a captivating personality. “If you met Nikki one time, I promise you will never forget Nikki,” Nyampundu said. “That’s for sure.” Ana Gonzalez, psychology junior and a close friend of Emmou, said she had a heart of gold and a bright smile. “She was so selfless and supportive of not only her friends, but any stranger she met,” Gonzalez said. “Even if she had only met someone once, the next time she saw them she made them feel like they’d

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NEPAL CONTINUED “I’m pretty strong in my faith, and so to be honest I just felt called to go,” Brewer said. “I just felt that I needed to be able to do something. I understand there’s a lot of people that really want to do something, that want to go, they just may not have the opportunity, they may have families or commitments here in the United States, and so with me being a graduating senior in college I thought this may be a good time to go.” Brewer will be attending the Texas A&M College of Medicine in the fall and has worked as an EMT in addition to his medical work in Haiti. Brewer

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Allied health freshman Ronak Noorani washes one of the SCDMS detectors. “background” cosmic rays from interfering with the detectors, but eventually will move to a facility called SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. At the new location, the detectors will be two kilometers underground. The aim of this is to keep nearly all unwanted rays away from the detectors. There will be a total of about 60 ki-

lograms of detectors, with each detector containing about 1.5 kilograms of Germanium and 0.6 kilograms of Silicon. Since each individual detector is so valuable, significant time is put into making sure that they work correctly, but at the current pace, the SNOLAB experiment will be ready to begin in three years.

said his team will be focusing on disease prevention and treatment. “The biggest thing that’s going to start occurring in the next couple of weeks is widespread epidemics,” Brewer said. “We’re going to have a cholera outbreak, a lot of tropical diseases coming in. I don’t really know the incidence right now of typhus and yellow fever down there, but we’re expecting a lot of viral and bacterialborne infections, and so that’s really what my team’s going to be concentrating on.” Brewer said one of the biggest diseases that is affecting Nepalese citizens right now is cholera. “There’s a big incidence of cholera right now going on over there, we’ve already had over 1,200 cases going into the hospital,” Brewer said. “It’s a big waterborne illness and so that’s really what I’m hoping to focus on is just kind of prevention of those diseases.” While this is not Brewer’s first medical mission, this will be the earliest he’s responded to a disaster situation, arriving only one month after the earthquake on May 27. Because of this, Brewer said he is feeling some degree of nervousness. “I was in Haiti a year post-earthquake there, but going to Nepal one month post-earthquake … We have team members on the ground and they’re sending us updates and it’s going to be a whole different world,” Brewer said. “There’s a lot of chaos down there — not really a whole lot of structure, organization, the govern-

ment can’t really bring in a lot of materials right now, they can’t even land large jets at the airport — and so it’s going to be hectic.” But more than nerves, Brewer is anxious to be able to help. “I’m a little bit nervous for that, but in the same sense, I love this,” Brewer said. “I love doing this kind of work, this is my passion, this is what I want to do as my career and so I just absolutely love this style of work and I feel semicomfortable being on a team.” To many, the numbers of injured and dead may seem daunting and insurmountable. But Brewer said he is confident his help will be able to make a difference, even if it’s on a minor scale. “One thing I’ve learned is that if you can make a difference in one person’s life, to me, that’s worth it,” Brewer said. “That’s made the entire trip worth it. I mean, seeing, we’ve had patients in Haiti that have come with diseases and things like that, and being able to see them be able to go back to their families … at the end of the day you know that you were able to make a difference in that one person’s life, that makes all the work, all the sacrifice, all the sweating, all the cold — it makes it all worth it.” Brewer urges anyone who can donate to do so, and suggests donating to established relief organizations, including the organization with which he is going to Nepal, International Medical Relief. People who are interested can donate at internationalmedicalrelief. org.

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Retiring history prof looks back at 41-year tenure at A&M After 41 years of teaching history, professor Arnold Krammer has shaped it as well, affecting the lives of thousands of students. Even now, as he retires this year, commemorated with a surprise send-off celebration Thursday, his fire for teaching remains. “I have lots of things that I take into class, all kinds of historical items and things like that,” Krammer said. “When I put this in a student’s hands, many times I’ll see the light, and he’ll say ‘This really took place didn’t it?’ Yes, it did. And I’ve got you.” As he gave his last lecture Thursday, friends, family, colleagues and students burst into the room. At the event, history professors R.J.Q. Adams, Chester Dunning and Terry Anderson spoke briefly and presented Krammer with a certificate lauding his accomplished career as well as his devotion to the students at Texas A&M. The event was planned and carried out by Adams and Chester Dunning, two colleagues and longtime friends of Krammer’s in the Department of History. Adams was hired into the Department of History in 1974 and shared 41 years alongside Krammer, while Dunning was hired by the search committee on which

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Pre-order your 2016 Aggieland yearbook. Save $10. Go to the optional services box in Howdy when you register for fall. The 114th edition of Texas A&M University’s official yearbook will chronicle traditions, academics, the other education, athletics, the Corps, Greeks, campus organizations and feature student portraits. Distribution will be during Fall 2016.

It’s not too late to order your copy of the 2015 Aggieland yearbook. The 113th edition of Texas A&M’s official yearbook will chronicle the 2014-2015 school year. Distribution will be in Fall 2015.

If you haven’t, pick up a copy of the

award-winning 2014 Aggieland yearbook that is a 520-page photojournalistic record of the 2013-2014 school year. . For the 2014 or 2015 yearbooks , go online to http://aggieland.tamu. edu or call 979-845-2613. Or drop by the Student Media office in Suite L400 of the MSC.

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forward by the Board of Regents as the sole finalist for the A&M presidency on Feb. 3. Since then, a rapid transition took him to the table at which he sat Friday. He has had to formulate a leadership trajectory while indoctrinating himself in the unique Aggie culture. Luckily, he said, he’s had plenty of help. “In some ways people have a remarkable enthusiasm to tell me how to run the university,” he joked. Still, he has undergone an education of the university and its history, drawing on people like Marky Hussey, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences who served as interim A&M president. Hussey said he has had regular contact with Young about the student body, the Corps of Cadets, the core values, the “little renovation project” that is Kyle Field, ongoing searches to fill dean vacancies and more. Hussey’s advice for Young is simple: Listen well and adapt to the Texas A&M environment, something he said applies to all leaders entering new roles and new locales. “You may come in with a set of ideas, but there’s nothing that’s cookie-cutter about it,” Hussey said. “You just can’t pick up what you did one place and replicate it somewhere else. Each institution, each leadership opportunity is really different.” Young’s first day concludes a week marked by student outcry over the regents’ decision to modify the university seal and rename the MSC Flag Room. An online petition garnered more than 10,000 signatures and Student Senate unanimously passed a resolution in opposition. Young said the problem does not come from “mistakes of the heart.” “I’ve worked with a lot of higher education boards over the years,” Young said. “And I’ll tell you something that I’ll hope you credit, because I think it really is true: I don’t think I’ve ever dealt with a board that has the kind of love and passion for students that this Board of Regents does.”

MARCH CONTINUED Texas A&M seal to each outfit for them to raffle off. The watches raised more than $27,000, said Randy Lunsford, Class of 1989 and sales manager with David Gardner’s. To promote competitive spirit among the units, Commander Dennis Hassman, Texas A&M Corps of Cadets training officer, said the top-10 outfits in raising money get to choose a football game in the fall to be on the sideline. “A lot of outfits, some of them will pick a game they know they get to travel to, like the Arkansas game up in Dallas or out of state,” Hassman said. “And then others say, ‘I want Alabama.’” Steve Fullhart, KBTX managing editor and anchor and March to the Brazos emcee, said the Corps displayed unity in its fundraising. “You guys do things together — that’s part of the mission of this Corps, to develop

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On Senior Day, No. 25 A&M softball completed a home sweep of Ole Miss. Story at TX.AG/BATT57. Still, he said if, “we haven’t looked as carefully about how we create some mechanisms to ensure people really do have input and these conversations that engage everybody who has an interest and a stake in it,” then it can be addressed. A practice of seeking student opinion, beginning with student leaders, has become commonplace in his time in higher education, Young said. But it’s important to consider, he said, that the biggest impact he can make on a student’s experience comes through drawing the best faculty and keeping tuition affordable. He’ll have to negotiate student engagement from off-campus, though, as he won’t live in the president’s residence. “I would hope that from 10 o’clock or 11 o’clock at night to six in the morning you left the president alone,” Young joked. His wife vouched for his approachability. “He is your friend. He really is,” Marti Young said. “He may not get to see every single person and shake every single hand, but I’m married to him and I know why he does what he does.” All Texas A&M vice presidents submitted letters of resignation prior to Young’s arrival, another decision from Chancellor John Sharp that drew attention in recent weeks. While Young said he appreciates the gesture, it wasn’t his idea. Within a year, he’s expected to decide which letters, if any, to accept. “I have no intentions, as I think my past reflects, of coming in and doing a bloodletting,” Young said. Though his term began Friday, Young has been around College Station for a couple weeks. On April 21, he attended his first Aggie Muster, a ceremony he said moved him deeply. “Unless you’ve sat through it, you can talk all day long about how the generations of this university connect, how these traditions transmit and what really binds Aggies together,” Young said. “But you sit in Muster and you get it. It was incredibly powerful. And when the Ross Volunteers walk in, the hair on the back of your neck just stands up.”

leaders together to benefit others,” Fullhart said. “That’s what has happened here.” Alyssa Michalke, commander of the Corps of Cadets for 2015-2016, said the event is meant to be a bonding experience for cadets, bringing them together on the tiring 18-mile march and in serving the community. “It’s been a great day, it’s nice and cool out here, it’s a lot of good bull,” Michalke said. “You get to interact with your juniors and seniors and joke all the way, listen to music. It’s a good bonding experience.” The event also served as an informal transfer of ranks for cadets. The money raised will go towards March of Dimes initiatives, Fullhart said. “So share your story in this time together, in this time of fellowship and know your money is going to go towards research that is happening across the country, yes, but also right here at Texas A&M that could one day end this issue of premature birth,” Fullhart said.

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