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Ryan Bishop sophomore mechanical engineering major
“I’m going to Galveston to do some construction for my church back home.”
Rebecca Saunders sophomore education major
“I’m going to Washington state to visit a friend there.”
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“Going to Kansas City to visit the International House of Prayer and World Revival Church.”
Worldwide well-being Aggies travel abroad to aid others
Hayden Pottkotter freshman psychology major
“To go home. I don’t really have any plans.”
Katy Ralston The Battalion Imagine sandy beaches, crystal clear waters, majestic mountains and green rolling hills — having the travel abroad experience of your life. Switch lenses to run-down buildings, crowded understaffed clinics, makeshift schools and muddied streets — making your travel abroad experience someone else’s life. In many cases, people in underdeveloped regions are faced with the challenges of inadequate food and shelter,
no education, poor hygienic knowledge and lack of medical care every day. One student organization at Texas A&M University is allowing students to use travel abroad experience to begin a change for the better in people’s lives. WorldMed is an international outreach focused organization that coordinates opportunities for students to go abroad through various types of mission trips to needy countries. See WorldMed on page 3
Getting involved For more information about joining WorldMed, upcoming trips and meetings visit http:// worldmed.tamu. edu/.
Aggies go green, raise student fees Calvin Mark freshman general studies major
“Going home and not doing anything. I just want to see the family.”
Robert Carpenter The Battalion The A&M student body voted to approve the “Aggie Green Fund” Wednesday and Thursday. Fifty-seven percent of voters were in favor of adding the $3 per semester and $1.50 per summer session fee. The student body will contribute about $150,000 to the fund per semester. Pending approval by the Board of Regents, the fee will begin in fall 2010. A University Committee, the Aggie Green Fund Advisory Board, will be in charge of reviewing project proposals and overseeing the allocation of funds. Luke Ellis, a sophomore bioenvironmen-
tal science major who volunteered for the Green Fund Campaign, said the student body will be responsible for making this initiative a success. “The cool thing about the Green Fund is that the extent of the projects is up to the creativity of the students,” Ellis said. “It’s now up to the students to decide what they want.” About 100 campuses across the nation have green funds in place. Examples of green fund projects include the purchase of electric vehicles for the campus fleet, installation of smart grid energy metering equipment and funding of student internships. More than 4,600 students voted against the fee.
Tyler Terrill, a freshman biomedical engineering major, said he was concerned students’ money would be wasted. “I have reservations with the fact that they seem very vague about what the money will be used for,” Terrill said. “I would have preferred that existing funding and resources be used to modify energy use and recycling on campus.” Approximately 37,000 students did not vote for or against the fund. Steven Martinez, a sophomore supply chain management major, said this is just another fee among a long list. “There are so many fees I don’t know what’s on my bill anymore,” Martinez said.
Martian lander mission a success Natalie Booker junior psychology major
“Going out of town to Corpus and having fun with my roommate.” Laura Sanchez and J.D. Swiger — THE BATTALION
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■ The Phoenix outlasted 90 day survival period, transmitting images and soil information about the red planet’s oxygen potential Picture perfect To view images, videos, blogs and other news stories concerning the Phoenix visit http://phoenix. lpl.arizona.edu/.
Brandi Tevebaugh The Battalion The Phoenix Mars Lander was launched in 2007 to study the ice, atmosphere and soil on Mars. The mission was successful, but scientists lost contact with the solar-powered lander during the Martian winter. Final attempts to contact the lander will be made in April, but Mark Lemmon, an associate professor of atmospheric science, who worked on the project said he has little hope the attempts will be successful. “It was doomed from landing because it’s a
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arm to dig into the soil on Mars and provide chemical analysis for scientists. The most unexpected find in the soil of Mars was perchlorate, which sustains several types of bacteria on Earth. “It measured the various traits of salts and nutrients in the soil… The big surprise finding was something called perchlorate, which is a really good oxygen source,” Lemmon said. “We don’t have any reason to believe that there’s life on Mars, but it is an oxygen and energy source sitting in the soils of Mars right where there’s also water available.” Lemmon has been involved in Mars missions since 1997 and helped write the proposal for Phoenix. Bean became involved with the project after working for Lemmon and helped analyze photos taken by the lander. “I was an instrument downlink analyst for the camera. Basically that meant every day the images were coming down, I would process them, make them into color images because they would come down in black and white
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The trips are conducted through health or internationally related student organizations at A&M, reputable independent organizations outside of the University and doctors who perform medical outreach trips. WorldMed brings together the opportunity in one place for students to find, apply and meet others interested in the same trips. It began two years ago by students David Goodwin, senior chemical engineering major and former student Katy Britten as part of a project for a leadership class. “What we did for our project is a global health conference Spring of 2008 where people came in and talked about the global health problems they had and we decided to form an organization from that so we could also send students on trips and do different projects to get them involved in,” Britten said. So far in its short history, participants have been on trips to Uganda, Peru, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Tobago, India and Vietnam. Programs added this year include Guatemala, Mexico, Jordan, India and Argentina. The trips are chosen by WorldMed’s International Outreach Coordinator Rika Mallepally. After polling the members to gauge where interest lies, Mallepally searches for outside organizations focusing on regions and service work. Factors weighed in making the decision include personal student cost and having an overall goal as an organization to improve society. “You will see a lot of organizations that will say pay $3,000 to stay in Mexico for a week and learn the culture, or donate x amount of money to this organization to buy food, and that is great but, WorldMed sees that as an immediate solution,” Mallepally said. “We really like working with organizations that work to develop infrastructure so that these countries can sustain themselves in the future.” Mallepally’s first trip with WorldMed was in 2009 as a freshman to Uganda, Africa with two other WorldMed members, where they worked in a medical clinic taking vitals and shadowing doctors in hospitals. They extended their grasp to the villagers, teaching people about family planning, water safety and hygiene with presentations created during the previous semester. As part of a similar Costa Rica trip, Brady and other WorldMed members stayed in homes with native Costa Rican families and traveled to a small village every day to work in a children’s clinic. On this mission, the volunteers worked in reception and the pharmacy, shadowed doc-
tors in the exam room and helped paint a clinic. They presented health education curriculum to children at a soup kitchen focusing on safe food preparation, education about HIV and malaria and hygiene. Although students can sign up and go on the trips individually, the benefits of going with WorldMed are numerous. Brady said one benefit was taking the confusing amount of paperwork out of the application process. “There is a ton of paperwork to fill out, and we handle almost all of it, but if you were to do it by yourself it would be a lot more work,” Brady said. A semester before the trip students form relationships with attendees and develop projects to be implemented on the trips, such as the health curriculum. Students who have taken trips said WorldMed made an impact —internationally, personally, Brady said. “It’s really easy to get focused on your life and your little problems that you have, but you go to these countries and you see that these people can’t even count on having meals regularly, much less regular care and safe conditions,” Brady said of the personal aspect. “It’s just really eye-opening.” Mallepally said in countries where NGOs are prevalent the effect each individual trip has on global awareness as a whole is fractional. However, it’s the effect it has on Texas A&M that is astounding. “The fact that we are just one tiny university makes the impact on global awareness tiny, but it broadens what A&M does. It has a much larger impact at home,” Mallepally said. “On campus, we have done a lot to raise awareness that we hope will motivate people in the future.” WorldMed has other opportunities to make an international impact other than going abroad. “What we are trying to do is allow students to participate in global outreach through trips and from their dorm room at A&M,” Mallepally said. Students can develop health care awareness PowerPoint presentations and send cards to children in hospitals, Mallepally said. The opportunities are open to all majors. The summer and winter trips include a wide variety of outreach, not excluded to the health or medical fields. “If you are an education major, you can go work in orphanages and schools or if you are a business major, you can do micro-finance work in developing small business and loans,” Mallepally said. “If you are an engineer there are a lot of medical tools and basic architectural tools that need to be designed in an environment where they don’t already have everything.”
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A&M sweeps Winthrop Aggies ride strong pitching performances to improve to 9-2 on season Brad Cox The Battalion Rain clouds and wet field conditions did not stop Texas A&M from slipping past Winthrop 2-1 on Sunday at Olsen Field. When light rain started to fall in the fourth inning, the Aggies beared down to complete the weekend sweep of the previously undefeated Eagles. Senior center fielder Brodie Greene broke up a 1-1 tie in the eighth inning when he connected on a 2-1 pitch with junior second baseman Andrew Collazo waiting on second. Greene doubled to left field to score Collazo and give the Aggies the 2-1 lead. “I asked Joe [Patterson] who was going to do it, me or him, and I guess I got up first so I got it done,” Greene said. Greene, who knocked two doubles in the game and was 5-for-12 in the series, is batting .452 and leads the team in doubles
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Sophomore pitcher Ross Stripling picked up his third win of the season on Saturday at Olsen Field. Stripling pitched six and 2/3 innings in the 12-4 win, giving up one earned run and striking out nine Winthrop batters.
with five and triples with three. Sophomore right-hander John Stilson, who entered the game in the sixth inning, closed the game in the ninth, completing a dominating performance by Aggie pitchers and defense. Junior Nick Fleece started the game, officially throwing five innings though he faced a single batter in the sixth inning. Fleece gave up two hits and Winthrop’s only run, all in the fourth inning. He was unhittable in his other four innings, allowing three base runners. “Nick gave us everything that he had,” A&M Head Coach Rob Childress said. “We played incredible defense. Not just routine plays, but great plays and found a way [to win].” Freshman Jack Feckley and sophomore Estevan Uriegas each faced a batter in the sixth inning before Childress sent Stilson to the mound. Despite pitching 3.2 one-hit innings, Stil-
son said his best pitches were not working. “I wasn’t very good today,” Stilson said. “I just stuck with the fastball mainly. I tried to throw a curveball every now and then but that wasn’t working much either. I just had great defense behind me.” Stilson has not allowed a run in five appearances and 16 innings pitched. Sunday’s duel was a stark contrast to the previous two games of the series. Junior pitcher Barrett Loux struck out a career-high 12 and sophomore left fielder Scott Arthur and junior catcher Kevin Gonzalez each drove in two runs en route to a 7-0 win over the Eagles on Friday. The Aggies stole eight bases, three of which by Collazo, in Saturday’s game as sophomore pitcher Ross Stripling struck out nine and gave up four runs, one of them earned, in a 12-4 win. A&M will put its five-game win streak on the line on Tuesday when it starts a two-game series against Penn State.
Aggies finish 3-1 at A&M Invitational Courtney Nelson The Battalion There was a lot of action at the Aggie Softball Complex last week as Texas A&M beat Houston on Wednesday and welcomed several teams to the Texas A&M Invitational over the weekend. On Wednesday, A&M defeated the Cougars 6-4 in a hard-fought game that Head Coach Jo Evans said she anticipated. Although the team hit well, it was the freshmen that came up big again. Catcher Meagan May and infielder Sydney Shannon hit home runs, both solo shots that would prove to make the difference in the Aggie victory. The Texas A&M Invitational began on Thursday with the Aggies playing BYU, an annual postseason team that was the team to beat at the tournament. A&M played tough but couldn’t take care of business, falling to the Cougars in extra innings, 5-3.
After seven innings, the teams were tied with one run apiece. BYU capitalized in the eighth as they scored four runs to the Aggies’ two to capture the victory. Junior Rhi Kliesing pitched the entire game, but her offense could not give her enough help. It was her second loss of the season. “Rhi pitched well enough to win that ball game and offensively we needed to do a better job for her, because we certainly had plenty of chances to get ourselves ahead in regulation,” Evans said. Freshman Mel Dumezich picked up her first career shutout for A&M in Friday’s game against Northern Colorado. The Aggies hit well throughout the lineup, with contributions from junior outfielder Kelsey Spittler, senior infielder Alex Reynolds, senior shortstop Macie Morrow, sophomore infielder Kelsea Orsak and May to give the 7-0 victory. In their second contest of the day, A&M played
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BYU again, hoping for a different result from the previous day. Despite the Aggies’ early four run lead, the Cougars came back to defeat them 5-4. Sophomore Rebecca Arbino pitched for the Aggies and allowed five runs, only two of them earned, as she picked up her third loss of the season. May hit her seventh homer of the season in their effort, but three errors were enough for BYU to use to their advantage. “That’s the way we want our kids to play,” Evans said. “It is frustrating for us to have a game in hand and let it get away like that, but we have the tools and the kind of talent we need to be successful.” The Aggies would dominate the final day of competition, run-ruling both Monmouth, 10-0, and Northern Colorado, 11-1, after five innings. After losing twice already, they were ready to come out fighting and that is exactly what they did, scoring 21 total runs with 28 hits on the day.
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Freshman pitcher Mel Dumezich picked up her first career shutout in A&M’s 7-0 victory over Northern Colorado on Friday at the Aggie Softball Complex.
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Special to The Battalion Texas A&M University is established on the foundation of spirit and mind. With values that include tradition, empowerment and acceptance toward cultures, the literary journal Callaloo plays a key role in diversity among students, faculty and alumni. Within Callaloo, a 30-yearold quarterly journal published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, the reader encounters writings from around the world including poems, short stories, short plays and displays of artwork. Callaloo emphasizes diversity at A&M, suggesting to the world that A&M is a place of scholarship and creativity, said founder and editor Charles H. Rowell. “Let us hope that Callaloo will remain a positive center of diversity and an outlet for emerging writers,” he said. Founded in 1976 at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., Callaloo is sponsored by A&M. While emphasizing African American voices, Callaloo publishes the work of other cultures as well. “Even the staff of Callaloo is a diverse group; we take pride in practicing what we are trying to advocate,” Rowell said.
Once a year the journal editor of “Hecho en Tejas: sponsors the two-week Callaloo An Anthology of Mexican Creative Writing Literature” and a recipiWorkshops, ent of many awards attracting including PEN Texas A&M’s literary emerging Hemingway and journal Callaloo brings writers PEN Southwriters from all over from west Book the world to share across awards. He experiences with the read the prose students during their U.S., published in Canada, the Texas isannual creative writing the sue of Callaloo. workshops. Workshops United “I have will be held March Kingdom always been 16-24. and the Caan admirer of the ribbean. DistinCallaloo journal. Many guished writers lead the workcampuses would wish to have shops and give free readings. the bloom that this journal has On March 1, Callaloo pregiven to the University as a sented one of many events on whole,” Gilb said. A&M’s campus. The occasion For the aspiring writer, Gilb “Austin Writers Reading” was offered some tough advice. honored by the voices of two “Quit! If the person hears guest authors, Dagoberto Gilb that and still wants to pursue and ZZ Packer, sharing pieces writing, this person has a with students and faculty. At fighting chance. Writing is the event, President R. Bowen hard. It’s like being in the Loftin also made an appearance NBA. You have to have your to show his support for the heart in it,” he said. program. Packer recieved her “Callaloo and the programs bachelor’s degree from Yale regarding this journal help us University and a master’s in be complete as a University,” creative writing from Johns Loftin said. “It adds different Hopkins University. She is dimensions to the campus that the recipient of several honors we have not had in a long including a Guggenheim time.” Fellowship and a Whiting Gilb is an author with Award. She has published several novels such as “The works in The New York Times Blood of Magic.” He is the Magazine, Harper’s Magazine
and Ploughshares. During Packer’s presentation, she read a clip from her short story collection, “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” and gave the audience a sneak preview of her novel, “The Thousands.” “I have been trying to get involved with Callaloo for some time. I became interested because I believe that it is the only journal out there with such emphasis on African Diaspora as its center,” Packer said. “Having such a journal on campus shows progression.” To writers across campus, Packer emphasized the importance of reading. “Read as much as possible. Writing is informed by reading, what the authors did and what they didn’t do,” she said. “Writing is more than just being able to write, you must be a reader.” For more information about upcoming events presented by Callaloo and order information about this journal, visit http://callaloo. tamu.edu.
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