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A&M, nation to celebrate life of Borlaug A memorial starting at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Rudder Auditorium will honor the life of Norman Borlaug, a Nobel prizewinning researcher and distinguished professor of agriculture at Texas A&M University. Borlaug’s medals, including his 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, will be displayed from 9:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Rudder Tower. Borlaug, who died Sept. 12 at 95, is often called the father of the Green Revolution for his development of high-yield, diseaseresistant strains of wheat to fight hunger and famine in impoverished countries. Gov. Rick Perry has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff Tuesday in Borlaug’s honor. “He was somebody who lived a life of freedom and peace and tried to spread that throughout the world, and the world acknowledges that,” said A&M AgriLife Media Relations Manager Kathleen Phillips. “When they talk about fighting hunger in the world his name will come up, and the fact that he was at Texas A&M is something that we can be proud of.”

Dave Matthews from the Dave Matthews Band, is the opening act on Saturday at the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

About ACL ■ Annual 3-day event ■ About 130 bands on eight stages ■ Created eight years ago ■ Average 65,000 attendees a day ■ Its namesake is the 35-year-old television show, Austin City Limits ■ Ticket money goes to the city’s economy, including park projects

Deadline to register to vote today Today is the deadline to register to vote in time for November’s red light camera referendum in College Station. The election will determine whether tickets for red light camera violations will continue to be enforced. “This issue, which affects so many students so personally, could be the beginning of a new tradition at Texas A&M, where students get involved in the community and register to vote,” said petition author Jim Ash. “They’re making a decision that will affect Aggies for years to come.” The red light camera special election will take place Nov. 3. To register visit sos.state.tx.us/ elections/voter/ reqvr.shtml. — Julie Rambim, staff writer

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he overwhelming mass of people, the overpowering smell of marijuana and the never-ending rain combined to make this year’s Austin City Limits Music Festival an experience to remember. Or forget. Depending on whom you ask. “I’ve had a great time,” Molly Sherman, a freshman English major, said on Saturday. “I got really, really soggy today. It was soaking wet at Flogging Molly and Grizzly Bear. But it’s been a lot of fun.” Although many people were able to have fun despite the less than perfect weather, not everyone appreciated their time at ACL. Helen Hankla, Class of 2006, described her experience as “miserable.” “I’m cold. It’s raining. I’m wet. I’m going home,” Hankla said. Even though most would probably agree that they could have gone See ACL on page 3

Austin City Limits may not be Woodstock, but the concert creates its own community.

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Aggies fall to Hogs After Saturday’s loss to Arkansas, the Aggie football team needs all the support that it can get. Students and fans alike need to hold on to team spirit and keep bleeding maroon.

oday kicks off Coming Out Week as a part of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender History Month. Texas A&M’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center is presenting a series of events throughout October, including GLBT Jeopardy and Guess Who’s Gay.

Discuss issues ‘openly, honestly’ ■ “Coming out month is a time for students to be more open to an often misunderstood part of the student population,” said GLBT Resource Center Coordinator Lowell Kane. “This is a time we can encourage people to talk honestly and openly about GLBT issues and the unique concerns students may have here at Texas A&M different from the usual focus granted.”

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Guess Who’s Gay to answer myths in fun way ■ The point of the game Guess Who’s Gay is to “burst stereotypes and myths about GLBT community in a fun way,” Kane said. “It’s like the old adage goes, you can’t judge a book by its cover.” ■ Two drag queen entertainers, Holly B’Loo and Cora Cadette, will perform at HALO on Friday along with Miss Texas Continental Plus 2009, Kelly Kline and Dominique DeVain. The performers will donate tips to the endowment fund. Author and GLBT activist Candace Gingrich will be the keynote speaker for Coming Out Week. For a complete list of events visit glbt.tamu.edu.

GLBT month devotes time to share being gay ■ GLBT History Month originated in October 1994 in the U.S. as a month devoted to encouraging honesty and openness about being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. This year, the GLBT Resource Center is coordinating efforts with departments across campus. The month-long celebration includes performances, speakers, movies, resource tables and a GLBT Endowment Fundraiser at HALO. The GLBT Endowment Fund was recently set up for people to donate directly to A&M GLBT resources and Aggie Ally — a committee that provides a support network for the GLBT community. Ann Littmann, special to The Battalion

Pain-free registration set up for bone marrow program Madiha Rizvi The Battalion You can register for a bone marrow match program and possibly save a life. Scott & White Healthcare in association with Loupots bookstore is conducting a Bone Marrow registry drive Monday through Saturday at the Loupots location at 308 George Bush Drive. The event is meant to bring awareness to the match registry program and offer information on how easy it is to get swabbed and possibly save a life, said Loupots Book-

stores Projects Director Suanne Pledger. Nearly 10,000 patients exist whose hope for survival is a transplant, Pledger said, and about 6,000 are searching for donors through the registry at any given time— only four out of 10 receive the transplant they need. Donors will experience no pain when they register, Pledger said. Potential donors need to be between the ages of 18 and 60, in good general health, with valid identification and a permanent address. AfSee Bone Marrow on page 7

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Texas A&M and its associated research agencies have won 76 grants totaling more than $20 million through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. “This is another great example of our representatives in Washington lending their support to our efforts to create new knowledge or address issues that have economic or other potential that beneﬁts our state and nation,” said Interim President R. Bowen Loftin. As a leading research institution, A&M is paramount in the federal effort to stimulate the economy and create or save millions of jobs, Loftin said. Texas A&M, Texas AgriLife Research and the Texas Engineering Experiment Station received $20,158,662 in funding for research and related projects, many of which were awarded by the National Science Foundation. “This milestone conﬁrms the level of research excellence of our scientists at Texas A&M,” said Vice President for Research Jeffrey Seemann.

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The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum together with the Texas Forest Service and the Texas Engineering Extension Service Brayton Fire School share with the Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and family members to kick off Fire Prevention Week with Smokey Bear at the George Bush Library on Saturday.

Community fired up for prevention As a part of National Fire Protection Association’s Fire Prevention Week, the Bryan Fire Department opened its five fire stations to the public Sunday. “We want it to be a simple event, come on in look at the trucks, meet the guys,” said Bryan Fire Marshal Marc McFeron. This year’s campaign urged residents to “Stay Fire Smart! Don’t Get Burned.” The NFPA focuses on burn awareness and prevention — keeping homes safe from fires. McFeron said many schools have already requested a visit

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from fire trucks to help express the importance of fire safety to students. Groups, schools and citizens are invited to request a tour, public safety talk or can visit any of the stations this month. The NFPA reported that in 2008, U.S. fire departments responded to 386,500 home fires. These fires killed 2,755 civilians. Eighty-three percent of all fire deaths resulted from home fires. — Rachel Latham, staff writer

Panel raises awareness for mental illness October is National Mental Illness Awareness Month and the Mental Health Mental Retardation, MHMR, Authority of the Brazos Valley is opening the floor for discussion at “Breaking the silence: Mental illness and the family.” The event will have a panel of nurses, doctors and patients, who will answer questions about mental illness, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday in Room 102 of the Bryan center at 1504 Texas Avenue. “There’s a really heavy stigma associated with mental illness in our society and just by going to a

panel or student counseling services we can get rid of that stigma,” said Rachel Rashe’, MHMR Authority of the Brazos Valley volunteer. One in five people suffer from mental illness, Rashe’ said, so it’s important to raise awareness. “The more we talk about it the more the stigma will go away and people who have not sought help will not be afraid or embarrassed.” The MHMR Authority of the Brazos Valley is in need of volunteers, Rashe’ said. For more information visit http://mhmrabv.org. Meagan O’Toole-Pitts, city editor

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without the rain, a select few festival-goers actually enjoyed the weather. “”I really liked the Airborne Toxic Event,” said freshman English major Jordan Cleveland. “It started raining at the climax of their performance and it made it a memorable moment for me.” Even Dave Matthews liked the wet weather. “Blue jeans are good in the rain because they feel so good on your body, wet,” the singer said to the audience Saturday night. In its 8th year, ACL has steadily been pushing back the date of the festival. Moving from late August to late September, this year’s organizers pushed the date back once again, holding the affair in October. “It’s previously been really hot,” said freshman sports management major Casey Strong. “I prefer [the cooler weather], but not the rain.” Sherman agreed. “I really like that it’s in October because I’ve nearly died of heatstroke in the past,” Sherman said. “But I could definitely do without the rain.” A major event in the music world, ACL attracts 65,000 people from around the world each year. This year’s fete attracted musicians such as Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Ghostland Observatory, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Kings of Leon as headliners. Thievery Corporation, John Legend, Mos Def, The Decemberists, Ben Harper and the Relentless7, The Toadies and many more up-and-coming artists performed as well. “This whole summer – the past three months – have been all festivals,” said Passion Pit bassist Jeff Apruzzese. “So I feel like I’m finally getting used to it and now it’s over.” So, was this exhausting, rainy weekend worth it? It was for Passion Pit who said they would “love” to play at ACL again. “Definitely [we would come back],” said keyboard player and guitarist for Passion Pit Ian Hultquist. “Hopefully when we come back it will be more relaxed and not super intense like it was today.” Hankla, however, felt otherwise. “I won’t be coming back,” she said. And Cleveland, who agreed that it hasn’t been the festival’s best year, said she still had a great time. “Even though lots of people say it hasn’t been a great ACL compared to others, it’s still ACL, and I love it,” Cleveland said.

OPENING ACT Dave Matthews from the Dave Matthews Band, is the opening act on Saturday at the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

MIDNIGHT MADNESS Steven Chen, a member of The Airborne Toxic Event, plays guitar Saturday on the Xbox 360 stage at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. T.A.T.E is best known for their song “Sometime Around Midnight.”

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NEW YORK’S OWN Donald Cumming, lead singer of The Virgins, performs on the AMD stage, Saturday at the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

MUDDY MESS Heavy rains Saturday at the Austin City Limits Music festival causes the brand new park grass to turn to thick mud.

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onds to answer,cutting the A&M lead to one. A&M scored once more in the 64th minute when Shipley’s free kick met the head of Mautz, who directed the ball past Hanley for a 4-2 lead. Caitlin Noble scored the Jayhawks’ third goal of the night with just under three minutes to play. The second game of the weekend, a match with Missouri, was a closely fought game. “They’re a physical, aggressive team,” Guerrieri said, “We knew we had to deal with it and not let a bully push us around.” The Aggies went toe-to-toe with the Mis-

rom the depths of the press box I emerge covered in the sludge and grime of pessimism. While witnessing the overwhelming beat down of the boys from College Station at the hands of Hogs, I was under the impression that Thursday yell practices, national hype and hopeful predictions were completely useless. But I have made a decision, a decision that separates me from my colleagues in the sports writing world. I will not lose hope. I will not be negative. What is my inspiration? It comes from four students with which I am graced to share a campus. Jordan, Kayla, Joe and Brad were chosen from the ranks of thousands of A&M students and were given the chance to travel with the A&M football team to the ridiculously intimidating Cowboys Stadium. They rode the bus with the team, attended meetings with the team, slept in the same arrangements as the team, and virtually became part of the team. These four students watched the very same game I watched on Saturday. They watched as Ryan Tannehill dropped a wide-open pass that very likely would have given the Aggies another touchdown. They watched as our fearless leader Jerrod Johnson was mangled in the backfield. They watched as Arkansas put up the largest

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Sophomore A&M midfielder Katie Hamilton chases the ball alongside a Kansas player in the Aggies’ 4-3 victory against the Jayhawks Friday in College Station. Hamilton scored the first goal of her college career in the 16th minute of play against Kansas.

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Texas A&M junior quarterback Jerrod Johnson passes the ball in the the Aggies’ 47-19 loss to Arkansas Saturday at Cowboys Stadium.

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number of points against the Aggies in the history of the two teams’ rivalry. Gross. And yet, inspired by the words of Head Coach Mike Sherman, they refused to lose hope. “Hearing Coach Sherman tell the team that they would come back and win, hearing the teammates tell each other the same thing, that was more than enough to make us believe we would win too,” said freshman biomedical science major Kayla Lawrence. Though many have pegged Sherman as being on the hot seat, and needing to prove his position, the chosen four refused to neglect his worth. Senior finance major Brad Roensch said that the way A&M players acted behind the scenes convinced him that Sherman is the right man for the job and shows what effect Mike Sherman has on this team. “Seeing the humility and camaraderie amongst the players shows that Mike Sherman is the right man for the job,” Roensch said. “Those things can easily be forgotten playing for a big school, but the fact the players have them really shows the culture Sherman has instilled.” These humble players’ responses were identical when asked about where to go from after this gruesome loss in front of the eyes of any fan watching on ESPN2. Von Miller, Jerrod Johnson and Kyle Mangan each said the team has to have a hard week of practice and imme-

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souri team and played to a 4-4 draw that couldn’t be broken in 20 overtime minutes. “I think the whole team played with passion,” Mautz said. “We all wanted to win this game as much as anything. There was no turning back in this game, and we couldn’t give up for one second.” The Tigers scored first in the 11th minute on a Michelle Collins header that slipped inside the near post. Hamilton tied the game up for the Aggies four minutes later. A Shipley corner kick bounced off Bri Young and Dittamore before finding the net off the foot of Hamilton. Shipley’s assisted on another corner kick in the 47th when Mautz headed the ball past Dittamore to give A&M a 2-1 lead.

diately bounce back against Oklahoma State. Yeah, yeah, we’ve all heard these words before from athletes, but how do we believe them? How can we have faith? We take the words of freshman accounting major Jordan Jungman to heart. “The loss doesn’t matter at all,” Jungman said. “Sherman is always talking about the upside, and I know we have a great season ahead of us.” Now, mind you, I don’t mean to portray that the team didn’t play badly. I found myself outraged at simple mistakes and ugly plays multiple times during the game. My words are built on the concept of hope and trust in a team. And I know I’ll take some heat for writing so pro-team after the 47-19 beat down, but after talking with these four, I can’t help it. I want this football team to win, and I will cheer my maroon-tinted lungs out making sure they do. I will support them through thick and thin, and I will be heard. I will wash off the slime of negativity and follow blindly, and I don’t care if you don’t want to hear it. Because I am an Aggie, an Aggie am I, and an Aggie supports the team when they need it the most. When an A&M player leaving the locker room told homeland security graduate student Joe Kozlowski that he wished he could have gotten Joe a “w,” Joe replied in a simple manner. “Aggies never lose.” Word, Joe. Word. T.D. Durham is a sophomore english major and sports editor. Missouri added a goal in just over a minute when Bree Thornton found the back of the net for the Tigers, bringing the game to a 2-2 score. The two teams fought back and forth for the remainder of regulation, scoring two goals apiece before going into overtime. The Aggies had goals from Hooper and Shipley. The overtime period was a battle between the keepers. Arnold, who subbed in for Dyer, had two saves, while Dittamore had one. “We looked really good on attack,” Guerrieri said, “We gave Missouri a lot to deal with. We deserved to score more than four, and I’m disappointed we didn’t win. But this time last year, we came out of a weekend series with Kansas and Missouri with zero points, and we got four this time.” A&M travels to Oklahoma State next for a Friday matchup in Stillwater, Okla.

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Students design health clinic Christina Francisco The Battalion Texas A&M architecture students are doing their part to make life a little easier for residents of the Brazos Valley. Students of the Architecturefor-Health design studio have partnered with Health For All, a nonprofit health clinic that provides health care for thousands of unqualified and low-income residents in Bryan. The 15 students in the studio helped design a new facility to expand the clinic’s service and capabilities. Twenty-five percent of the Texas population does not have health insurance, according to Health For All, making it the state with the highest level of uninsured in the nation. Each year the Health For All clinic saves Brazos Valley area taxpayers millions of dollars by providing the 60,000 uninsured area residents with low-cost, quality health care. Professor of Architecture and Skaggs-Sprague Endowed Pro-

fessor of Health Facilities Design George Mann said the project is appropriate in light of all the debate going on in congress. “This project is the prototype of what we need to do in this country,” Mann said. Senior environmental design major Lisa Bradley, who is one of the students working on the project, said she appreciates the opportunity to give back. “Health For All is a good opportunity for those who fall through the cracks in the system,” Bradley said. “It’s cool to get to work with a local project that serves the community.” Bradley said she also appreciates the work that Health For All does in the community. “Health For All was so eager to work with us,” Bradley said. “I really hope this new clinic promotes them and gets their name out there. They could help so many more people.” Health For All Executive Director Derek Dictson said he hopes to expand on the stu-

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ter consent forms are signed, cheeks will be swabbed to check for possible bone marrow matches. These patients are suffering from life threatening diseases like leukemia and lymphoma, childhood diseases where bone marrow donations can help save and extend many lives, said Scott & White Marrow Program Supervisor Luke Potts. “It’s been amazing to see how many Aggies are willing to donate,” Potts said. “This shows the Aggie Spirit and how it is a chance for the Twelfth Man to step off the bench and help the human race by saving lives.” Student Body President Kolin Loveless said the bone marrow registry program is a good opportunity for Aggies to show support. “This is what separates Texas A&M from other universities,” Loveless said. “It is the fact that we give back.” Pledger said 70 percent of patients don’t have a match with a family member, so they rely on the registry system. “People think that it is not going to happen to them, but when someone in the family suffers, they realize it,” she said. Misconceptions are that the process for donat-

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Junior environmental design major Rebeca Carranza shows off a model of her design for the Health for All clinic. dents ideas. “They did a really great job,” Dictson said. “Anytime we can partner with the University is great. It’s always good to have a fresh look on things.” The students also partnered with Assistant Professor Kazu Okamoto and scholar Ruka Kosuge Okamoto from the University of Tokyo to design the clinic.

Check it out The design plans will be unveiled at 4:30 p.m. today at the Hilton in College Station.

ing marrow is painful, Potts said, but most of the transTime: 10 a.m. plants done are similar to to 5 p.m. plasma platelets donations. In the process called Date: Monday aphereis, the donor is given through Saturday a protein called filgrastim, Place: Loupots to generate more stem cells, bookstore at 308 each day for five days. Then, George Bush Drive the donor’s blood cells are collected by a sterile tube, which passes through an apheresis machine that separates out the stem cells. The remaining blood, without the stem cells, is returned to the donor in another sterile tube placed into the other arm. “The patient does not lose any blood,” Potts said. The alternate way to donate is through the marrow collection, where the donor is scheduled for day surgery. General anesthesia is given so the donor experiences no pain. The marrow is collected through placing a needle on the iliac crest of the pelvic bone. The marrow rejuvenates itself in four to six weeks in each process. “It can be uncomfortable but it is not painful,” he said. “Hollywood has dramatized it to that effect. People believe in what they see [in movies].” Potts said the discomfort experienced in surgical donation is nothing compared to that of radiation and chemotherapy that the patients go through.

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