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Jane Lee The Battalion Animal expert Jeff Corwin will be performing at Rudder Auditorium Friday. The fast-paced show “Tales from the Field” includes a variety of animal acts including alligators, snapping turtles and pythons. The show’s purpose is to raise awareness and educate people on conservation and preservation of wildlife and ecology. “The MSC OPAS is very excited for Jeff Corwin’s performance because of his great energy and enthusiasm for animals and the environment,” said Elizabeth Melton, vice president and student committee chairwoman for MSC OPAS. Corwin received his bachelor of science degrees in biology and anthropology from Bridgewater State College and a master’s degree in wildlife and fisheries conservation from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Corwin is an Emmy-winning host of many highly acclaimed television shows and has dedicated his life to conservation of endangered species and ecosystems around the world since he was a college student. “His background and experience with preservation of ecosystems and wildlife is projected through his television programs to let the masses know the problems and situations that are going around the globe,” said Thomas E. Lacher, head of the wildlife and fisheries sciences department. Corwin’s mission is to spread knowledge through education and awareness so the natural resources, wildlife and ecosystems that make up the Earth will be conserved.
Katy Ralston | The Battalion Freshmen in the Corps of Cadets have to deal with many challenges, including shouting sophomores and meticulous uniform inspections. Imagine also having the challenges of living in a foreign country and learning English as a second language. Cadets Hyesu and Suji Shin experience all of the above. Born in South Korea, the Shin twins spent their childhood years in Korea until they moved to Singapore freshman year of high school. After spending a year at the Singapore International School the family moved to Austin to finish high school. They applied to Texas A&M because of the desire to stay in Texas, and after one campus visit, they knew there was no other place for them. The Corps was an added bonus. “We came here for the college visit, and my mom saw people in uniforms, and she found out about the Corps, and she recommended us to join,” Hyesu said. “She actually forced us to join, she said, ‘Y’all need to get the discipline,’” Suji said. See Shin on page 6
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Albritton Bell Tower celebrates 25 years Katy Ralston
The McFerrin Athletic Center, by Kyle Field, was not built with adequate structural supports to withstand high winds, according to a recent report.
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Athletic center not built to code David Harris The Battalion The McFerrin Athletic Center was not built to adequately withstand high winds, according to a university-hired engineering firm, The bubble-like structure was designed and built by Summit Structures LLC based out of Allentown, Pennsylvania. The same company gained notoriety when the Dallas Cowboys’ practice facility, a Summit design, collapsed in May. Interim President R. Bowen Loftin hired a group from Haynes Whaley Associates in Houston to analyze the safety of the building, which consists of both a track and a football field. Haynes Whaley Vice President Mark Thompson told the University in September that he and his firm thought the building could not sustain winds up to 90 mph, which is a national standard. Thompson also said the building was compromised to such an extent that it should be closed. A&M, however, decided not to do so after further discussion with Whaley and because the building withstood high winds during Hurricane Ike.
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Engineers and architects decided the center could stand in winds up to 60 mph, said Texas A&M Athletic Director Bill Byrne. Due to the collapse of the Dallas Cowboys facility and Whaley’s findings, Summit added multiple cables to the facility’s steel frames. More repairs could be made if necessary. “A&M has installed reinforced cabeling in the McFerrin Center at request by the independent firm,” said Vice President for Marketing and Communications Jason Cook. “The installation of the cables was successfully completed in September.” “The indoor football facility has been certified to withstand 90 mph burst, and the track facility has been certified at 75 mph and we’re awaiting results on if it, too, passes.” The Dallas Cowboys’ practice field collapsed on May 2. Twelve were injured, and scout Rich Behm was paralyzed from the waist down. The building was the fifth Summit structure to collapse since 2002. The National Institute of Standards and Technology produced findings that said the structure collapsed in winds of 55 to 65 mph and that flaws in the design were to blame.
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The Albritton Bell Tower at night. On Oct. 6, the 138foot brick and stone tower turned 25 years old.
The Albritton Bell Tower continues to chime in service to the Aggie community 25 years after its dedication date. Dedicated Oct. 6, 1984, by Martha and Ford D. Albritton Jr., the 138-foot tower has become an integral part of the Aggie tradition in its short span of 25 years. “The Albritton Tower is one of the most recognizable landmarks on the Texas A&M campus and signifies the major entry way into the academic core of campus,” said Vice President for Marketing and Communications Jason Cook. In 1969 as president of the Association of Former Students and member of the Board of Regents, Albritton initiated the process of building the bell tower on campus when it was brought to his attention that a university with so much tradition and love for the school was missing this element. “I started thinking about it, and it took us a while, but we finally built it,” Albritton said. “After doing a lot of research, we determined what we wanted.” The team visited campuses around the country that had bell towers before coming to a final design. The Albritton Bell Tower contains Westminster chimes and 49 carillon bells cast at a 200-year-old foundry in France. The bells weigh a total of 17 tons, the largest weighing more than 6,000 pounds, while the smallest weighs 28 pounds. See Bell Tower on page 4
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A&M Ross Volunteers practice Wednesday in the Zone of Kyle Field. The Ross Volunteer Company is the Honor Guard for Texas Governor and were named after former governor and university president Lawrence Sullivan Ross.
Student organizations from A&M will meet today at the vice president’s house for a diversity roundtable to exchange ideas, in an effort to increase diversity at A&M. The Student Government Association Diversity Commission is presenting the invitation-only event and has invited an array of organizations. Fish Aide member Daniel Gutierrez, a freshman biomedical engineering major, said smaller groups is key to the success of the meeting. “[It] will allow the smaller, less recognized organizations to connect with the more outspoken larger organizations to come to terms with the discrepancies regarding diversity on campus,” Gutierrez said.
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straightens out tangled issues Tiffany Neal
Chris Rock’s film a humorous yet insightful take on the issues black women have with hair
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hile images of proud black pageant queens and ’80s runway divas of yore are presented on screen at the beginning of “Good Hair,” comedian Chris Rock recounts the day his daughter Lola asked him: “Daddy, why don’t I have good hair?” The question hit a nerve and led the funny man, along with director Jeff Stilson, on a trek across the globe in order to gain a better understanding of the meaning behind hair in the African-American community. Billion-Dollar Babes Rock uses the annual Bronner Bros. Hair Show in Atlanta as the film’s main structuring device, which essentially serves two purposes. First, the audience gets an inside look at the remarkably strange and entertaining Bronner Bros. “hair battle.” It consists of otherwise talented Atlanta hairstylists cutting hair upside down, underwater and in every other awkward position. The purpose of this competition is still, well, unclear to me since the work the stylists did in their salons appears to be of a higher quality. However, it’s hilarious and a total must-see. Secondly, it allows the funnyman to cut away from topics — such as some black men’s preference for nonblack women because of the texture of their hair and the predominately Asian and Anglo monopoly on the black hair market — when he begins to get uncomfortable going any further, which quite frankly, he does too often in “Good Hair.” In the documentary, it states African-Americans account for only 12 percent of the population, and yet black consumers account for 80 percent of the hair industry’s profit. Rock meets
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Chris Rock talks to participants at the Bronner Bros. Hair Show in Atlanta. The show serves as the setting of Rock’s documentary “Good Hair,” in which he explores the absurdities and sources of black women’s obsession with changing their hair. middle-class women in black beauty salons who are willing to spend up to $3,500 on a weave even though they have to skip rent payments to do so. What does this mean for blacks? Why should the community care? How can I launch a weave business because clearly I’ve been fooling myself with school? Rock attempts to answer at least the first two questions by interviewing one of the few remaining black business owners in the beauty industry. He also awkwardly interviews Asians who cater to the hair-care needs of AfricanAmerican women in order to show that the “creamy crack,” relaxer African-Americans use to straighten their hair, is made for them but not by them. Julia Kirk Blackwelder, professor of history and graduate coordinator at Texas A&M, explores the beauty education industry in racially segregated communities from World War I to the 1960s in her book “Styling Jim Crow: African American Beauty Training During Segregation.” She said notions of what is “good” and “bad” in regard to black hair can be traced back to slavery, a period in history when slaves didn’t have time to groom or any products for which
to groom and were often told by their owners to wear their hair a certain way, which is usually bound up. “Over time, certainly, the concern for having straight and long hair was a reflection of the imposition of white values on African-American,” Blackwelder said. Unfortunately, Rock fails to show the problem of blacks not owning an industry they overwhelmingly support, but the reality is blacks have not been able to take advantage of an industry that would allow them significant upward mobility. “It’s significant because the African-American population doesn’t reap the economic rewards of their own consumption,” Blackwelder said. Essentially, the lack of black-owned beauty businesses means blacks are no longer arbiters of their appearance and can no longer take advantage of the economic mobility that allowed blacks at the beginning of the 20th century to build up their community in a racially segregated America. Getting to the root of it all Aisha Dunham, an assistant professor of communication at A&M whose work exam-
ines controlling images that theorize identity and power, said the media has a central role in defining what constitutes “good” and “bad” black hair. “Straight hair has been equated with a kind of middle-classness. You have corporations to this day that have dress policies that specifically target African-American and Afro-centric hairstyles such as finger waves, corn rows or extensions with different hair color,” Dunham said. Still, more and more black women are giving up their relaxers in lieu of rocking natural, chemical-free hair, regardless of the pressure from culture to assimilate. “Napptural Gatherings are simply a group of young women who wear their hair in its natural state, meaning no chemicals, women that are transitioning to become natural, meaning they still have some chemicals on their hair as they are growing it out, and women who are considering becoming natural,” said Camr’n Turner, Class of 2009. The term “Napptural” is a combination of the words “nappy” and “natural,” which the group embraces to change the perception of the word “nappy” which is usually associated with a negative connotation. Turner says at the meetings attendants discuss issues regarding natural hair such as products that work better for natural hair textures and different styles and techniques for managing natural tresses. Toward the end of the documentary, all of the participants interviewed, including Rock, agreed the most beautiful black hair – whether natural or relaxed — is the hair that doesn’t make you feel bad about who you are. “For most of the ‘napptural’ women I know, our hair has nothing to do with politics, but has everything to do with accepting who we really are,” Turner said. “I ‘fro my hair because that is what it naturally does, and I wear it because I’m proud of who I am and how God made me.” If you’re interested in seeing an entertaining take on the hair issue, go see “Good Hair,” which is out in theaters now.
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The bell tower rings every quarter hour and for special occasions such as graduation and football victories. It can also be programmed to play patriotic and Aggie tunes. During Silver Taps, Aggies gather to honor those students who have died in the previous month. The Albritton Bell Tower sounds off the ceremony with the playing of old hymns. “Whenever you hear the bell tower playing those last two songs, “Amazing Grace� and “Near My God To Thee,� it’s calling the students to gather and to let everyone know that Silver Taps is starting,� said former Silver Taps Remembrance director Austin Carnes. “It gets you mentally
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and emotionally prepared for what is about to happen, to honor the fallen Aggies.� Carnes said he learned the significance of the bell tower by talking with the families of the fallen. They said the chiming of the familiar hymns gives them a peaceful feeling in the tough times they are going through. “It serves such a vital role, when you are standing there in the darkness and able to hear the tower playing the old hymns that I love so much, it really is a great thing,� Carnes said. Albritton said he couldn’t be more pleased with the way the tower has been used to enhance the tradition of Silver Taps. “When I was a Cadet in 1939, the greatest thing that bonded me with the university was Silver Taps, I have just never gotten over it. I’m so delighted that our bell tower is playing a role in Silver Taps each time,� Albritton said. While the tower serves an essential function in the Aggie tradition, it has also started a unique tradition all its own. In place of the Roman numeral IV, the Albritton tower has ‘IIII’ instead. Rumor has it that the IV looked too much like “tu� so it was replaced with the latter, but Director of Cushing Memorial Library David Chapman said that’s just folklore. “People have been told that for so long that they probably believe it, but it’s [because it’s] a European model,� Chapman said. “If you look at the old bell towers all across Europe they have the same thing.� No matter what one believes, one of the tower’s inscriptions read, “I ring with pride and honor for all past, present and future students of Texas A&M University.�
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“Preservation and conservation is so important to humanity because we all live in this one world,� Lacher said. Aggie students can participate in Jeff Corwin’s mission of conservation and preservation through organizations such as the JASON Project, which connects students with explorers and other experts from the science field to inspire and motivate them to learn science. “It is very important that students learn about what is going on in their environment,� Lacher said. “We all need to be aware of our world and protect it for future generations.� “The greatest thing Jeff Corwin does for wildlife and ecology is that he brings the message of conservation to a fun, interactive level for all audiences,� Lacher said. “People in the wildlife and fisheries sciences department as well as other sciences department may understand the scientific methods Corwin is using in his television programs and his live shows, but Corwin also thoroughly explains such facts to people who may not know the science behind conservation and preservation.� Corwin’s show, though advertised for MSC OPAS JR, is for all ages. “This show will bring together a wide range of audiences, from young children to adults because Corwin’s message of conservation and preservation reaches all,� said MSC OPAS student worker Lauren Schwaeble. “I am very excited to go see Jeff Corwin’s performance because not only did I grow up watching his shows, but I am also wishing to enter the preservation and conservation field and would like to learn from him,� said junior biology major Caddy Robinson. For more information on the show, log on to www.mscopas.org or call (979) 845-1234.
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Wildcats tame Aggies in five No. 23 Texas A&M drops third match out of four as they fall to Kansas State Michael Teague The Battalion Texas A&M’s No. 23-ranked volleyball team dropped a heartbreaker on the road, falling to Kansas State 3-2 (25-20, 25-27, 25-22, 21-25, 16-14). “It was too little, too late,” Head Coach Laurie Corbelli said. “We didn’t start attacking at the beginning, and it was like we were waiting to see what the other team was doing. It was very frustrating. Our serve receive never got into rhythm, and we had very little to no middle attack. That put so much pressure on our outsides, and you can’t survive like that.” Following the loss, Texas A&M (14-7, 7-6) falls to 3-3 on the road in conference play but remains at sixth in the Big 12 standings. The Aggies have now dropped 13 of their 14 visits to Manhattan. Senior outside hitters Sarah Ammerman, Mary Batis and Jennifer Banse combined for 50 of the Aggies’ 82 digs in the match with Batis recording a team-high 18. The three combined for 8 blocks. Adding to A&M’s defensive pressure was sophomore Kelsey Black. For the second straight match, Black saw significant playing time and took advantage of it. Black finished with 11 digs and a team-high five blocks. Banse added another top performance to her résumé this season, recording 19 kills. Ammerman led the Aggies with 21. Kansas State (8-14, 2-10) attacked the A&M defense from all areas of the floor. Six players finished with at least seven kills in the match. Junior JulliAnne Chisholm led the Wildcats with 20 kills while senior Kelsey Chipman add-
ed 18. Junior Lauren Mattewson put up a game high 41 digs against A&M’s offensive attack. Both teams started off the match strong and went back-and-forth in the first set. The Aggies seemed to have the advantage when they increased their lead to 13-11. Kansas State, however, rebounded and quickly took all of A&M’s momentum. The Aggies couldn’t overcome late errors and fell 25-20 in the opening set. Much like the first, the second set started off tight until A&M took control. The Aggies carried an 18-15 lead when Kansas State called timeout to recruit. After the break, the Wildcats came out firing until they reached set point at 25-24. A&M was saved by a Black kill and took the lead behind a score by Banse. A Kansas State attacking error sealed the 27-25 victory for the Aggies who went into halftime tied 1-1. Kansas State quickly jumped on top of the Aggies in the third set, racking up a 10-6 lead. A&M came back to tie the game at 13-13 but two aces by Chipman put the Wildcats back in charge. Chipman scored three of Kansas State’s last five points of the set to win 25-22. Facing another tough road loss, the Aggies snagged a 13-6 lead to start the fourth set. Down 21-12, Kansas State tried to regroup but couldn’t find enough offensive power to pull themselves back into the game. A&M forced a fifth set by taking the fourth, 25-21. Neither team could pull ahead in the fifth set. Following a Kansas State timeout, A&M ripped off a 6-3 run giving themselves a 12-7 lead. Needing only three points to complete the comeback, the Aggies ran into more errors that got the Wildcats back in the set. Trailing 14-13, Kansas State put down three consecutive kills to knock off A&M 16-14 in the deciding set.
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Sophomore outside hitter Chelsea Ringel and the Aggies lost to Kansas State 3-2 on Wednesday. The loss was their 13th loss out of 14 tries in Manhattan, Kan.
Voting for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award ends on Nov. 13. As of Wednesday, Texas A&M senior defender Emily Peterson sits in second place, 3 percentage points behind Elizabeth Betterbed of the United States Military Academy. You can vote every day until the deadline. To vote, go to http://aggieathletics.com or text W9 to 74567.
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