The Battalion: April 14, 2010 by The Battalion

Aggies remember Holocaust The Texas A&M Campus Ministries Association is putting on multiple Holocaust remembrance events in honor of the millions of lives lost during World War II. On Tuesday, information tables were set up in front of Sbisa to inform students about the different events. The Association will be reading names of victims in front of the Sul Ross statue from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. “We’re going to read out as many names as we can. Unfortunately, we wouldn’t have time to call out all the names, since 9 million people perished,” Weiser said. Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, was originally during this week until the United Nations decided to move it to January. The Texas A&M group decided to still use this week as the time to remember those lives lost. Al Marks, a liberated holocaust survivor will speak at Texas A&M Hillel at 7 p.m. today about his experiences during the war. Laura A. Sanchez, staff writer

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■ Facilities will house cancer treatment, research on campus Katy Ralston

The Battalion The Texas A&M Health Science Center is expanding its campus and will soon welcome an addition — the joint research and treatment center. The addition was announced by the Texas A&M University System and Mary Crowley Cancer Research Centers. The center’s mission will be to get new drugs and vaccines to people who need them, said Brett Giroir, Texas A&M University System vice chancellor for Research and IIT executive director. On average it takes 17 years and $2 billion for a new drug or vaccine to be approved for humans, Giroir said. The institute was created to bring the resources of the

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Two weeks of fun

April 14, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded while watching a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. He was taken to a nearby house and died the following morning at 7:22 a.m.

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Party animal Comedian Dennis Bruce encourages students to party hard and slack off in college in his humorous guide, “Party Thru College.”

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Baseball recap The Aggie baseball team loses to No. 11 TCU 6-1.

Health science center expands

■ Fortnight serves as Honors Program proponent, social time Nicholas Badger and Evan Andrews— THE BATTALION

‘out of the many, one’ I-Day look at world through eyes of Aggies from across globe Melissa Appel

The Battalion Some students choose to experience other cultures and traditions through a semester abroad, but today Aggies can take a trip around the world without ever stepping foot out of Aggieland at the International Day celebration. International Day is presented by the International Student Association, and draws from more than 20 member organizations representing various countries and cultures. I-Day serves as an outlet for organizations to share the culture of other nations with the Aggie family.

“International Day is really important for each organization and for the Texas A&M community,” said sophomore Pablo Garcia, president of the Colombian Student Association and head of the public relations committee for International Day. “The organizations do their best to represent and to show their country, their culture and their patriotism. It is one of the biggest events of the spring semester.” I-Day is a shortened version of International Week. International Week, a tradition more than 20 years old, was canceled by the

If you go The Cultural Display will be open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium. The Display Show and Talent Show will be at 7 p.m. in Rudder Theatre. Tickets are $3 for students and available at the Memorial Student Center Box Ofﬁce.

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The Battalion Even while taking a study break, Aggies get the opportunity to learn during Honors Fortnight. Honors Fortnight provides an opportunity for the Honors Program and Honors Student Council, to reach out to students through social activities and educational interests. “Honors Fortnight serves a dual purpose,” said Maren Cannell, senior biochemistry and genetics major and Council president. “First, it is to promote the name of the Honors Program on campus. So many students are Honors eligible, but don’t participate in the Honors classes, graduation distinctions or research opportunities. Second, Fortnight provides an opportunity for Honors students on campus to meet and learn.” The tradition of Honors Fortnight was first initiated

See International on page 9 See Fortnight on page 12

Stompfest raises money for cause

Cadets compete in challenging triathlon

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The Battalion Stompfest, an event put on by the National PanHellenic Council will be at 7 p.m. tonight in Rudder Auditorium. “It’s the only fundraiser that NPHC does all year,” said Alexis Phipps, senior music major and president of NPHC. “The philanthropy is for the African American Student Leadership Institute, the Distinguished Gentleman’s Club and the Uniting Divine Sisters Retreat.” For Stompfest, each of the seven councils See Stompfest on page 10

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Stompfest is at 7 p.m. today in Rudder Auditorium. To purchase tickets online go to http://boxoffice. tamu.edu/.

The Battalion Bill Swoboda is a senior economics major and member of the Corps of Cadets Company C-2, but what sets Swoboda apart from other Corps members is his position as captain of the Corps triathlon team. Swoboda and five other cadets represent A&M by competing in statewide triathlons. Swoboda made the Corps triathlon team an official organization of the University in the summer. With

funding from the Corps of C adets Association, the team competes in one triathlon a month. “It is more of an individual sport, but we work together as team,” Swoboda said. “We only have five members and thanks to the Corps of Cadets no one has to pay for anything at this point.” The students compete in levels of triathlons starting with a sprint triathlon, which has a 300-meter See Triathlon on page 9

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Art exhibit in Langford

A student art exhibit sponsored by the Texas A&M chapters of the American Institute of Architecture Students and the Tau Sigma Delta honor society will run through Friday in the Wright Gallery in Langford.

Right now, PPD is looking for men and women for a post-surgical pain relief research study of an investigational medication. Surgery for qualified study participants will be performed by a board certified oral surgeon. Financial compensation is provided upon study completion and the surgery is performed at no cost.

Today mostly cloudy High: 81 | Low: 58 courtesy of NOAA

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Aggie Ring Day

Aggie rings will be distributed at a yell practice at 2:30 p.m. Friday on the steps of the Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center and will conclude at 8 p.m.

Choral activities concerts Texas A&M Women’s Chorus will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Bush Conference Center and the Singing Cadets will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Rudder Auditorium.

Thursday mostly cloudy high: 79 low: 59 Friday mostly cloudy high: 79 low: 58 Saturday mostly cloudy high: 81 low: 58

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In a closely watched congressional race in central Texas, Republican Bill Flores defeated Rob Curnock on Tuesday to win the GOP nomination in District 17 to face Democratic Rep. Chet Edwards in the fall. “Tonight we have taken an important step forward in returning limited government principles for our country and ﬁxing the damage that Congress and this administration have created,” Flores said. “I am more energized than ever to run a vigourous, issue-based campaign that will defeat Chet Edwards in November.” Longtime family law judge Debra Lehrmann defeated exlegislator and evangelical speaker Rick Green in a Republican runoff for the Texas Supreme Court Tuesday. “We’ve been able to communicate to the voters that judicial experience is important,” Lehrmann said as the ﬁnal election results rolled in. “People want to know. People want good judges.” Lehrmann will face Democrat Jim Sharp in November. In the State Board of Education runoff Tuesday, Republican educator Marsha Farney defeated Brian Russell. They were competing for the GOP nomination to replace resigning Republican Cynthia Dunbar. Farney will face Democrat Judy Jennings in the November general election.

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Marcel McGrew, a senior history major, practices a backflip in his tumbling class Tuesday in the Read Building.

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Sushi and spring rolls

As part of Asian Heritage Month, the Asian Presidents Council and the Vietnamese American Students Association will teach recipes for sushi and spring rolls as an opportunity to taste a part of the Asian culture from 5 to 9 p.m. today in room 111 of the Koldus Student Services Building.

Poetry slam

There will be a poetry slam from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday in Studio 12 in the Commons. No registration is required. For more information visit http://townhall. tamu.edu.

“My Children! My Africa!”

The Texas A&M Department of Performance Studies presents South African playwright Athol Fugard’s award-winning 1989 play “My Children! My Africa!” over two weeks beginning Thursday. Tickets are available at the MSC Box Ofﬁce.

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ith a band name like The Literary Greats, one envisions a group of pretentious English majors quibbling over grammatical minutiae (a la Vampire Weekend’s “Oxford Comma”) and making obscure references to Austin Meek Kundera and Kafka. This is not the The self-proclaimed “do-it-yourway that Brandon Elam and Chris selfers” have crafted a catchy, warm Ginsbach, former A&M students, style described by Ginsbach and like to run their band. Elam as “Indie-Americana.” “It’s a free-flowing dynam“I listen to a lot of Kenny ic,” Elam said. “I’m in Rogers, the Pixies, WeeHouston, Ginsbach’s in Midland, and we The Literary Greats zer,” Elam said, “but what and Elkhart bring you listen to doesn’t just enjoy playing their intricate matter as much as what together when guitar work influences you.” we can.” and appealing Fingerprints of Their musical Wilco (circa “A.M.”), philosophy began Southern panache Dr. Dog and the when they were to Schotzi’s on Old 97s can be found students (Elam maApril 24. after a quick peek at their jored in bioengineerMyspace. “That Mountain ing, Ginsbach in accounting) Yonder” stands out as one of the performing in the bourgeoning live music scene of College Station strongest songs, and Elam channels his inner Rhett Miller in the ethein the late ’90s. real “Clock Radios,” which was “We had a very strict open door recorded in his apartment in 2001. policy,” Ginsbach said. “Anyone “Our music is homegrown,” could come over at anytime, plug Elam said. “We started laying down in and jam.” tracks in my apartment almost 10 These all night musical jams years ago and we’ve been taking it produced most of the material step by step ever since.” that appeared on their first record, That’s one of the unsung adself-titled “The Literary Greats.” vantages of being unsigned. Often In 2007, along with brothers Darin and Taylor Lee (on bass and drums) times, bands are given strict deadlines from their record labels that and the visionary Kris Becker on can quickly breed animosity among keys, who’s also played for the the members. The pressure to crank Hong Kong Orchestra, they asout fresh music at a rapid rate has sembled their most recent offering broken the back of many a band — “Ocean, Meet the Valley.” The (re-watch Tom Hanks’ 1996 film album vaulted up to No. 108 on “That Thing You Do!” for an acute the CMJ Top 200 chart, and The reminder). One gets the feeling this Literary Greats were one of three pressure is completely devoid from unsigned bands on the Top 200.

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Film festival

SWAMPFest, a studentrun ﬁlm festival, put on annually in the spring by Aggie SWAMP (ScreenWriting, Acting and Movie Production), Club will be from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Geren Auditorium of Langford Architecture Center.

Celebrate Earth Day from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Wolf Pen Creek Amphitheater. Face painting, tie-dying and live music are among the activities that will be offered. Admission is free.

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1. Mandy Moore “I Wanna Be With You”

The Literary Greats was formed by two former students in the late 1990s. Their latest record is titled “Ocean Meets Water” and was released in November. the minds of The Literary Greats — they come across as a group of guys who love playing music together and are riding the train as long as possible. So far, it’s been nearly a decade and they’ve got an impressive body of work to show for it. Also on the bill for the evening is Elkhart, a band whose music sounds like what Calexico or the Red House Painters would have made if they hailed from Texas. Fronted by Travis Hopper, class of 2000, Elkhart has garnered much praise since the 2008 release of “The Moon,” described on their Web site as “nine unhurried vignettes of slow Southern music.” The album is a sleepy collection of guitar-led tracks backed by Hopper’s vocals that are more whispered than sung. In a Jan. 25 article in The New Yorker, Sasha Frere-Jones described the British band The xx as playing music meant “to be sung inches from someone’s ear, preferably with the lights off.” The same words ring true when talking about Elkhart. “I started listening to a lot of American Analog Set, a lot of stuff from The National, and Red House Painters of course, and Elkhart sort of organically grew from there,” Hopper said. At shows, Hopper mans the mi-

|i still love this song|

crophone and second guitar as Michael Crowder plays lead while Justin Bolin slaps the bass and Jarad Brown rhythmically drums. On the record, the guys collaborated with Eric Pulido (a member of the marvelous band Midlake — envision a modern day Fleetwood Mac minus Stevie Nicks) and Daniel Hopkins, a talented drummer and

2. Nickelback “How You Remind Me”

oh, they were made

4. Britney Spears “I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman”

|wow, Britney’s in a movie now? she’s unstoppable!|

5. Train “Drops of Jupiter” |what happened to these guys?|

6. Vanessa Carlton “A Thousand Miles”

|who sung this at your talent show?|

7. Blink 182 “All The Small Things” Elkhart will be performing with The Literary Greats the night of April 24 at Shotzi’s on Northgate. Their latest album is “Moon” released in 2008. front man of the successful Dallas group, Radiant. The Literary Greats and Elkhart will be performing at Schotzi’s April 24. Fresh off the heels of a successful showcase at last month’s South by Southwest music festival in Austin, The Literary Greats and Elkhart will undoubtedly put on a show to be remembered. Austin Meek is a sophomore general studies major and special to The Battalion.

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8. Jimmy Eat World “The Middle”

|“children, settle down please”|

9. All American Rejects “Swing, Swing”

|i wonder if this emotional-type music will catch on?|

10. Creed “Higher”

|all in all, you can’t deny they rocked|

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arty hard, with no inhibitions. Forget to study — on purpose. And hey, while you’re at it, just maintain the façade of an utter screw-up for four years. Behold the mindset of Dennis Bruce, former comedian and pretentious author of “Party Thru College: The Official Party Animal’s Guide to Angela Washeck College.” In his eyes, it is perfectly acceptable inadequacy and bare minimum work ethic, the to waste time and money on a “self-indulgent more talented he is. journey to nowhere,” a concept he adamantly Bruce provides a detailed chart of career posendorses throughout his hilarious book. sibilities for these so-called clever students: Everything from the cover art, If you mess up in interior design, you exhibiting large-bosomed women Dennis Bruce can arrange the chairs at a burger in swimsuits holding beers, to teaches a college joint, and if you fail in Asian studies, the table of contents featuring student how to you are qualified enough to wash titles like “Dressing the Part: dishes in a Chinese restaurant. skillfully slack The Screw-up Wardrobe” and Beware of courses like Wine Tast“The Typical Screw-Up Day” off in “Party Thru ing 101 and Leisure Studies, Bruce says paints the parody of the ideal College.” sarcastically, because these will only ruin college student. the screw-up’s reputation. It’s way more In the first chapter, Bruce conducive to a screw-up’s image to do badly in thoroughly explains the fundamental Quantitative Business Analysis. difference between screwing up and flunkIt’s a good thing Bruce accompanies his ing out — screwing up requires a much more self-proclaimed dazzling language with an skilled person. While flunking out will always equal amount of pictures, mostly flagrantlyend in due time, being a screw-up requires stereotyped art of attractive females and frat dedication and discipline because after all, the guys. If he did not create a picture novella on longer a person can go carefully allocating his

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a first grade reading level, the book really would be a joke, ironically. The images make the words more vivid and add to Bruce’s points. Perhaps Bruce’s most comical proposal states “the human sense of aesthetic appreciation declines in direct proportion to the amount of alcohol ingested,” accompanied by a portrait of a beautiful blonde in a Courtesy photo swimsuit beside an ugly witch. The witch “Party thru College” is a humorous look at is his illustration of how a woman looks avoiding studying and wasting time and money minus a guy’s “beer goggles.” in college by comedian Dennis Bruce. Another highlight is the list of excuses why you didn’t study (the toilet is stopped up.) And Bruce ingeniously advises the lous, and if you go into it with the right mindscrew-up what to do when accidentally scoring set, you’ll get some great laughs in. an A. There will inevitably be five stages of acDudes, bros and the female versions of such ceptance for the above average grade, including would especially find the book entertaining. shock and anger that are bound to make you Yes, it’s funny. Of course, it’s creative. But laugh aloud. no, it’s not something that will challenge your There are parts of Bruce’s rhetoric that are just mind. Hopefully, this kind of lit will never turn plain offensive and vulgar. I know it’s a comedy into a genre, but I must say — if ever it did, piece, but there are sections adding nothing to Bruce would be the bestseller. his overall point, besides being distasteful. You might wonder what place a book like this could have on the shelves of today’s college student. The key here is not to take Angela Washeck is a it seriously. This book is meant to be ridicufreshman communications major.

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Juniors Austin Krajicek (back) and Jeff Dadamo (front) rose to the No. 4 ranking among doubles teams in the latest ITA rankings.

No. 9 Aggie men take on No. 3 Texas Beau Holder

The Battalion While the Big 12 men’s tennis season begins to wind to a close, Saturday’s matchup between archrivals Texas and Texas A&M has evolved, as it often does in many sports, into a winner-takeall showdown. The No. 9 Aggies and No. 3 Longhorns will meet at the Penick-Allison Tennis Center in Austin with undefeated conference records and with the winner guaranteed the Big 12 regular season championship. An A&M (20-4, 5-0) victory would grant them sole possession of the conference title; a victory by Texas (21-2, 4-0), who has one Big 12 match left to play after the Aggies, would ensure them at least a share of the title. “It’s going to be an exciting time,” Aggie Head Coach Steve Denton said. “The rivalry is way bigger because of the two schools, not just the individuals. It’s going to be there long after we’re all dead and gone.” The match comes on the heels of the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings, released Tuesday, in which the Longhorns jumped to a season-high No. 3 ranking and the Aggies, after defeating then-No. 9 Baylor and No. 14 Texas Tech, moved into the top 10 for the first time since 2005. A&M has won 13 straight matches, the second longest such streak in school history, and will aim for their first conference regular-season title since 2001. “We had our rivalries at Florida,” said junior Jeff Dadamo, who transferred to A&M from Florida after his sophomore year, “with Georgia, and that was pretty tough for us because they’ve always been top 10, top 15 in the country … LSU and Baylor, their fans are pretty tough, so after [those two] I’m pretty much ready for whatever heckling [Texas fans] can bring.” Dadamo is one of three Aggie players ranked nationally in singles, at No. 35. Sophomore Alexis Klegou is ranked No. 112. Junior All-American Austin Krajicek moved up to a career-best No. 5 nationally in singles. Krajicek is only the third Aggie in the last decade to achieve a top-five individual ranking. He and Dadamo together form the No. 4 doubles tandem in the country. Both Dadamo and Denton emphasized the role of doubles in past and future success. “We’ve really started playing a lot better doubles, and winning doubles points takes a lot of

pressure off of the guys in singles,” Dadamo said. Denton, a former player and All-American at Texas from 1976-79, pointed out that dedication to improvement in the area has laid the foundation for the team’s performance. “We’ve had a lot of success in our doubles and we can continue to improve on it, and we will if we continue to work on it and focus on it,” he said. “It’s a focus in our practice every day because we recognize the importance of it and our guys are improving … these guys have bought into the concept of having to develop and get better if we’re going … to be successful the rest of the season.” The Aggies’ 20 wins this year are a high for fourth-year coach Denton at A&M. The last Aggie team to win at least 20 games went 24-9 in 2004 and made it to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA tournament. Denton warned of the depth and talent of the Longhorns’ lineup. “They’ve lost twice, to the two teams that maybe, outside of USC, have the most talent on paper — Virginia and Tennessee,” he said. “What makes them so good is that they don’t have holes. They play well at all three doubles lines, they’re capable of winning any singles match, one through six, and that’s what makes a great team because everyone isn’t going to have their A-game every time … it makes them a very tough [group] to play against, top to bottom.” He added that the Aggies’ lineup runs nine or ten deep as well, citing it as evidence of his own team’s quality. The winner of the match will earn a point for their school in the State Farm Lone Star Showdown, which Texas currently leads 6.5 points to 5. The first team to reach 10 points will win the showdown. Though Texas leads the all-time series 3-2 since its creation in 2004, Texas A&M has won it the last two years. Aggies and fans are invited to travel to Austin with the team. The fan bus will leave the George P. Mitchell Tennis Center parking lot at 9 a.m. and return to College Station after the match. Those who are interested in making the trip are asked to e-mail Texas A&M director of operations Kevin O’Shea at koshea@athletics.tamu.edu. “It’s a great rivalry and the guys all get excited to play on both sides,” Denton said. “The schools love to compete against each other and it makes everybody better.”

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Senior pitcher Shane Minks hurls one to the plate in the Aggies’ 6-1 loss to No. 11 TCU Tuesday in Fort Worth. Minks pitched two innings in the defeat giving up two hits and zero earned runs.

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The Battalion FT WORTH — At the same stadium Texas A&M’s 2009 season ended, the Aggies hit another roadblock, losing to Texas Christian University 6-1 on Tuesday. A&M left fielder Joaquin Hinojosa accounted for the Aggies’ only run, hitting a solo home run over the left field wall in the fifth inning. The Aggies hit into three double plays and stranded six runners, struggling for the third consecutive game to get timely hits.

A&M Head Coach Rob Childress said they had several missed opportunities, including a one-out hitand-run in the fourth inning that ended after second baseman Adam Smith hit into a double play. “We’re gonna be fine,” Childress said. “We’re gonna keep getting after it each and every day. Keep swinging the bats. I thought we had a very good approach today, we hit a lot of ball hard.” Meanwhile the Horned Frogs took advantage of most of their opportunities, scoring four of their runs with two outs. Left fielder Jason Coats paced TCU with a pair of hits and three RBIs. With the Frogs leading 3-1 in the

fifth inning, he hit a two-RBI double into left field to extend the lead to 5-1. He hit an RBI single in the seventh to set the final score at 6-1. The Aggies went through six pitchers with starter Nick Fleece throwing two innings and giving up the first two TCU runs. Shane Minks pitched the next two innings and Jake Feckley, Clayton Ehlert, Kyle Martin and John Stilson pitched an inning each to get A&M out of the game. Ehlert and Stilson were the only Aggie pitchers to not give up a run, retiring the same three batters in

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In front of a record crowd of 4,375, the Horned Frogs beat A&M for the first time since May 12, 1995, the final Southwest Conference meeting Continued from page 5 between the two. Losing the third consecutive game, the Aggies their respective innings. fell to 20-11-1 overall with a three-game series “I saw some good things out of guys like Ehlert, Shane Minks and Kyle Martin,” Childress against rival Texas on the horizon. The Longhorns are 27-7 overall and are in sole said. “We just wanted to get some guys some possession of first place in the Big 12 with a 10-2 work. Unless a guy shows me he’s got a hot hand, record. we’ll ride him. Minks was pretty good for five “This was a big game for us tonight and these outs, wasn’t able to get that sixth out. Ehlert was guys show up and get after it every day,” Chilreally good tonight.” dress said about keeping the team focused. “It’s The Frogs started right hander Paul Gerrish, just a matter of getting timely hits, playing rouwho threw 4.1 innings, giving up five hits and tine defense, and making big pitches and getting A&M’s only run. off the field. Those are things every team goes Right-hander Tyler Lockwood pitched the through over the course of the year.” final 4.2 innings for TCU, giving up three hits.

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of 2008, or try her hand at being just a student. Pierson chose the latter and walked away from the A&M soccer team. Fast-forward to 2010. The Aggies, fresh off a trip to the Sweet Sixteen in the NCAA Soccer Championships, come back with experience across the board and players returning from injury. However, a problem emerges for Head Coach G Guerreri and his Aggie soccer team. Arnold, the starting keeper, had minor surgery to repair her knee, and Dyer had torn her ACL, rendering her incapable of playing in the spring season. Facing the possibility of playing a field player in goal for the spring, Guerreri made the decision to call Pierson back for the season. Pierson talked to her parents, and weighed the pros and cons. After deliberation, Pierson agreed to finish the season in net for the Aggies. In a schedule that looks like the nonconference schedule of college football teams (cupcakes like Stephen F. Austin (10-8-2 in the Southland Conference), SMU (7-11-1) and Houston (4-12-2)), Pierson stepped up admira-

bly, especially considering she had not played in organized soccer in more than a year. Pierson went 4-1-1 in her games as keeper, in front of a handful of fans for each match, in a season that has no playoffs and no standings. Her efforts, however, aren’t diminished by this fact. Just because the wins and losses had no impact doesn’t mean Pierson stepping up had no impact. By coming back for a few weeks, everyone benefitted. Guerreri didn’t have to put a field player or Arnold, who had needed knee surgery, in goal. Pierson was able to play the sport she loves in an organized setting, and the fans got an interesting storyline in a spring season usually reserved for doing nothing more than shaking off the rust. Pierson’s story may not carry the same weight as Gill’s, but her willingness to step in and play, even if she won’t be back (Arnold and Dyer are expected to be ready by the beginning of the 2010 fall season), is admirable. So, for selflessly stepping in when Aggie sports needed you the most, here’s to you, Sarah Pierson. Kyle Cunningham is a junior sports management major.

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Organization members and participants view International Day as an opportunity to share heritage with other Aggies. Continued from page 1 “I think it’s a really good idea to get to see how everyone else’s culture is different from association due to logistical problems. Organizaours,” said senior animal science major Greta tions worked to compromise with the creation Monson. of a one-day event. Rodriguez said everyone can take away a betStudents can view presentations and exter understanding of other countries. hibits at the Cultural Display in “I, personally, am very excited Rudder Auditorium. Orgato be able to share with everynizations will have tables one my roots and culture depicting traditions of and at the same time learn “International Day is their culture through from others,” she said. “I really important for photos, arts and crafts. think this event will im“The different oreach organization and pact students because it ganizations will be for the Texas A&M will encourage them to able to set up a table community,” know more about the and demonstrate to cultures.” Aggies and other Pablo Garcia, president of Although ISA reprecommunity memthe Columbian Student sents a variety of organibers the uniqueness Association zations and international of their country,” said students, the Aggie Spirit public relations comunites them, Garcia said. mittee leader Vanessa Ro“I-Day shows the diversity driguez, also president of the that Texas A&M has to the AgVenezuelan Student Association. gie community, and the importance of “It will be like taking a road trip around this multicultural environment that makes Texthe world.” Students will participate in a talent show today. as A&M University a special and very unique place,” he said. “I-Day shows that no matter “The diverse International Aggie communiwhere you are from, we all are Aggies, and we ty comes together and brings to campus their are members of this big family.” countries’ dances, dramatizations and other performance arts,” Rodriguez said. “You don’t have to go overseas to get a share of cultures.”

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Last weekend, the Corps triathlon team competed in Kemah, Texas. “I got involved with the team because I enjoy competing with people around the state and the U.S. in such a demanding sport,” Simon said. On Sunday, the team competed in Kemah, Texas, and Brandt Rensmeyer, a sophomore University studies major, took 10th overall in the top group at the triathlon and competed against athletes who were in the Olympics. Simons won fourth place in his group.

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One of the fourth-generation jets replaced by the $113 million F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Adam Bechtold joining another sexy-yet-infamously expensive aircraft, the F-22 Raptor. The stated goal of the JSF is to replace either in part or altogether the F-16, F-18, A-10 and Harrier Jump Jet in the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. Without a doubt, the JSF improves on all these. This fifth-generation jet is a selfdescribed striker and fighter rolled into one package. It is said to be superior to fourth-generation fighters in multiple ways: four times more effective in air-to-air combat, eight times more effective against fixed and mobile targets and three times more effective in reconnaissance and destroying enemy air defense. These are excellent improvements, especially considering the dominance al-Qaida’s Air Force

has displayed in the skies over terrorists simply look for other ways Afghanistan. While we shouldn’t to gain an edge. discount a future war with The solution has While the F-35 is an been roadside an enemy of strength and improved plane, the technology comparable to bombs and our own, the fact is our plainmulti-billion dollar current conflicts require a clothes cost outweighs the shift from the old model. soldiers. beneﬁts given the For centuries the edges The bottom economy and nature gained in warfare were techline is that a of the war on terror. nological. Although tactics $113-million were certainly important, they aircraft cannot were more standardized across defend against IEDs the board and the army with the and suicide bombers any better than advantage was the one with bigger F-16s or Harriers. cannons, more accurate firearms and The military needs to arm for the most soldiers. The arms race of the present as they develop for the Cold War was largely upended the future, directing spending to by the prospect of extending missile maximize effectiveness against our defense to the cosmos — an initiacurrent enemy while keeping an tive too costly for the Soviets. eye on the potential conflicts of The fundamental objective of war tomorrow. I’m not against develis to kill the enemy and incapaciopment, just debilitating and irtate the ability kill you. Where one relevant spending. If the day comes side has an advantage, the other when we absolutely need a fighter will look for a counter-measure to fleet worth the GDP of Argentina, offset that advantage so the fight can I’m all for it. For now let’s focus on continue. America has the technonomadic mountain guerrillas. logical edge in this war and because there is absolutely no way al-Qaida Adam Bechtold is a senior can match us in budget or weapons, history major.

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From Bill Avant, class of 1971

In response to the column “Ending an Era,” Rick Perry, class of 1972, is the longest serving and most successful Texas governor in modern history — by all accounts, Texas has best weathered the current national economic “crisis,” recession and downturn compared to most other states in the country. His leadership and policies, related to ﬁscal restraint, tort reform, spending controls, less intrusive government and regulations have made Texas a good example for the rest of the U.S. A great Aggie and GOP leader — what a disconnect with this article here, … the author ought just go straight to the National Democratic Party spin operation or ACORN, and leave Texas and A&M political discussion to more knowledgeable writers ... ALL of A&M, new and old, can be very proud of Rick Perry, who more than deserves re-election this year.

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