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The No.1 ranked Texas A&M track and field team finished the weekend’s qualifying session at the University of Oregon. Twelve Aggie women and 13 men advanced to compete in a total of 20 events during the upcoming national championship weekend. The men’s and women’s sprint relay teams posted top times in the 4x100, and sprinter Joey Roberts broke a 24-year-old school record with a career best 1:46.89 in the 800 meters. Sprinter Jessica Beard dominated the 400 meters with a time of 51.81, a full second ahead of the runnerup. With other strong showings in hurdles, long jump, triple jump and javelin, the Aggies look to be prime contenders for the team championships starting Wednesday in Des Moines, Iowa.
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The Battalion With the conclusion of spring semester finals and graduation, it’s finally summertime in Aggieland. While some Aggies are swapping out their Nike shorts for business suits, others plan to embrace the tan lines their flip-flops will leave after a long day at the pool. The summer months are an exciting time for students, though they choose to spend their time in different ways. For some Aggies, the summer is an opportunity to build-up the work experience section of their résumés. Katria Kendall, a senior history major, is spending the next two months in Washington, D.C., interning for the Republican National Committee. “It’s definitely a cool time to be interning with the RNC since the Republican candidates for the presidency are just beginning to announce their intentions to run,” Kendall said. She said that she would not know her responsibilities as an intern until she arrives Sunday but thinks she will be working fundraising events or constituent services. Other intern responsibilities include attending speaker presentations, luncheons, and other events with the RNC. “I’m really excited to return to Washington, D.C., for a second summer since I interned on Capitol Hill See Summer on page 3
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Aggies win 2nd consecutive Big 12 title with extra inning walk-off home run Sean Lester The Battalion For the second consecutive year, the Texas A&M baseball team needed extra innings in the championship game of the Phillip’s 66 Big 12 Tournament, and for the second consecutive year the Aggies won the trophy in walk-off fashion. “I’m really proud of the toughness our team showed this week,” Texas A&M Head Coach Rob Childress said. “We didn’t play our best baseball in three of the four games, but we never quit and kept coming.” In the first game of the tournament the Aggies took care of No. 7 Texas Tech coming from behind to win 10-5. They moved on to face No. 6 Kansas State, defeating the Wildcats 4-1 and advanced to the semi-final round. After Kansas State defeated Oklahoma a second time, they advanced to Saturday’s semi-final round to play the Aggies.
The Aggies would again have to face the Wildcats who got out to a strong lead. After closing the gap to 5-4 the Aggies allowed the Wildcats to get out to an 8-4 lead that they would have to overcome. In the eighth inning they did just that, scoring four runs and tying the score at 8-8, sending the Aggies to their second consecutive conference tournament championship game Sunday. “I thought it was a hard-fought game,” Childress said. “Guys didn’t quit, kept chipping away and had a big inning in the eighth to tie the game.” As if it was a ritual, the Aggies started extremely slow getting themselves into a 6-0 hole in the first and second innings of the championship game against the No. 8 seed Missouri Tigers. The resilient Aggies found their familiar come-from-behind style in See Championship on page 3
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Conference helps new students assimilate to A&M Natalee Blanchat Special to The Battalion Hundreds of transfer students flooded into Aggieland to start their new lives as Aggies at the first New Student Conference on May 24. “I think that already having experience attending a community college as large as Lone Star will help make the transition A&M much smoother,” said Emily Pau, a transfer student from Lone Star College-CyFair. The two-day conferences are an introduction to the University for first-time A&M students and will take place throughout the summer. It was great getting to know the departments for our different degree plans and getting to know the students within our majors during the conference,” said Pau. “This way we will have some familiar faces in the classroom.” See Conference on page 3
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Plane crashes at apartment complex, kills two Taylor Wolken The Battalion A small plane crashed at 8:45 Saturday into the parking lot of the Wave’s Z Islander apartment complex, striking a vehicle and killing both passengers. The Rockwell 112 single engine passenger plane left Dallas en route to Galveston where John and Kathy Holmstrom planned to visit friends and go fishing. John, a maritime systems engineering graduate from Texas A&M at Galveston alerted
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Easterwood tower of a “fuel emergency” as they approached the Bryan-College Station area. Soon after Holmstrom radioed that they were not going to make it and crashedthree miles from Easterwood Airport. Tom Latson of the National Transportation Safety Board was brought in from Houston to determine the cause of the crash. There was no fuel at the scene of the crash and no fire. A pilot who overheard the emergency calls at Easterwood has said
there was a fuel leak as reported by The Eagle. “We are out here to determine the facts of the accident, but the main purpose is to use the facts and make recommendations so we can prevent future tragedies,” Latson said. The NTSB has not released findings and said the full investigation could take a year. Taylor Wolken — THE BATTALION The plane will be removed in the next few days, and a prelimi- The wreckage of the Rockwell 112 single engine plane on the way nary report is expected within the to Galveston litters the parking lot of Wave’s Z Islander apartments next week. after crashing late Saturday night.
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last summer,” Kendall said. Her summer won’t be all work and no play. “I’m looking forward to seeing the Smithsonian and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum again,” Kendall said. “I’m also looking forward to seeing some of the things I missed last summer, like the Jefferson Memorial and Arlington Cemetery. Also, I’m excited about being in Washington, D.C., for the Fourth of July again.” During the summer months, some students choose to study or work abroad to gain an educational experience in a different cultural environment. Kristine Martin, a senior university studies major, is traveling to Ukraine to spend time with family and learn what its like to live in a different country. “While I am there, besides getting to see my sister, brother-in-law and niece, I hope to experience the different culture of the Ukraine, the different arts, clothing, music, people, foods,” Martin said. “I love music and arts so being able to have hands on experience of it in a different country is an amazing opportunity.” While Martin will spend the majority of her time in the Ukraine, she said she hopes to travel to the Czech Photos by The Associated Press Republic for a few days to study and witness her heritage and culture. Senior Andrew Collazo, bottom center, is mobbed by his teammates after hitting the game-winning home run against Missouri in the “I also hope to take some beautiful 10th inning of the Big 12 NCAA championship game Sunday in Oklahoma City. photographs of the buildings, people, foods and environment,” she said. “I on base. With a 1-2 count Collazo am huge on photography and being turned a pitch and drove it to the left able to photograph a place in a differfield wall. As the wind blew out of ent country will give me more expeContinued from page 1 the stadium, the team jumped onto rience. I am incredibly excited to go.” the field to watch the walk-off home Aside from the internships and the third and fourth innings as they traveling abroad, Aggies are using scored a combined seven runs to go run leave the field and sail into the their summer to take classes. While on top 7-6. The Aggies went back up bleachers to win the tournament for the Aggies. some students choose to take summer 8-7 with a chance to win the game in “What a game,” Childress said classes in their respective hometowns, the ninth after the Tigers had tied the following the victory. “That’s what Annamarie Cowart, a junior biologiscore earlier in the game. cal and agricultural engineering maWith one out, a ground ball found you’d want as a fan, to come watch a good baseball game.” jor, plans to take her courses in Colits way to senior Andrew Collazo, For Collazo, who gained relege Station. who had shifted from second base to “I want to be able to focus on third base. Collazo threw to second demption on the throwing error school and still have to chance to hang for the double play but airmailed his in the ninth inning, it was his first out with my college friends,” she said. throw into right field advancing the home run of the year and for the Aggies it was their second straight “I wouldn’t get to do that if I spent Missouri runners. The Tigers scored the summer taking classes at home.” two runs and jumped to a 9-8 lead Big 12 tournament championship Cowart said going to summer with the Aggies having three outs to and their third overall. Collazo was named the Most Outstanding Player school gives her the chance to actie or win the game. of the tournament. cumulate more hours so she can take With two outs and a runner on “For Andrew, it was just kind of fewer courses during the fall and second, the Aggies were down to their last strike with senior Gregg Al- fitting. You make an error in the Texas A&M Head Coach Rob Childress gets Gatorade dumped on spring semesters. “Aside from summer school, I cazar at the plate. With a 3-2 pitch ninth inning and you’ve got your him by his team in celebration of their win over Missouri. head down and everybody hates really just want to hang out by the Alcazar sent a chop single over the pool, relax and enjoy the weather,” left side of the infield scoring speedy you,” Childress said. “I went out During the game it was an- regional if they are to win their re- she said. “This will definitely be a junior Scott Arthur to tie the game there and told him, `Somebody’s gonounced that the Aggies would re- gional. If A&M is to advance to super summer to remember.” ing to make a big play, you’re goat 9-9. ceive a regional in the NCAA tour- regional play, they will have to beat ing to get another one hit to you and Missouri could not do anything in the top of the 10th, Collazo stepped we’re going to be OK. We’re going nament at Olsen Field this Friday Florida State to take on the winner of the Tallahassee regional. to the plate with two outs and no one to win this game.’ He’s the one that’s through June 6. The Aggies will not put on a super the hero today.”
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According to NSC Program Coordinator Meredith Malnar, the conferences began in the 1970s when women were first allowed to attend the University and joining the Corp of Cadets was no longer required. This caused enrollment to sky-rocket. “It started out as a preregistration day to help students register for their classes and adapted through the years to meet different developmental needs and help students with their social and personal transitions to the university as well,” Malnar said. During the first day of conferences, students and their families attend a set
schedule of meetings on topics ranging from academic success, financial aid, and different organizations on campus. On the following day, students met with their departments adviser and registered for classes. According to Malnar, students attend these meetings because much of the information is required by the state. For instance, there is legislation that requires financial literacy training during the orientation process. “Transfer students represent a wide range of needs — some have lived on their own for several years and are very well-versed in things like budgeting and managing your money because they’ve done it before — for other transfer students, this is their first time living away from home, and is their first step
towards independence,” Malnar said. “We’re trying to address and meet a whole spectrum of needs.” According to Assistant Dean of Liberal Arts, Donald Curtis, the NSC’s are great for new students trying to get a feel for the different educational aspects of A&M. In a speech to liberal arts majors Curtis spoke of the importance of staying focused on receiving a degree. “I think that the goal of getting a degree is one thing that is lost in all the excitement of being a student at A&M-coming to a new city, a new university — it’s really easy to let that part take over, causing students to lose sight of the ultimate goal which is getting that degree,” Curtis said. “The other deans and I get an hour to talk to students about some of the more important as-
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