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Starting strong Aggies defeat Duke No. 6 with record high score, 92-77 Game stats Texas A&M Danielle Adams: 24 points, 5 rebounds Tanisha Smith: 19 points, 6 rebonds, 5 assists. Sydney Colson: 17 points, 4 rebounds, 10 assists. Duke Jasmine Thomas: 26 points, 9 rebounds. Allison Vernerey: 11 points, 7 rebounds
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Texas A&M junior point guard Sydney Colson goes up for a shot in the Aggies’ 95-77 victory against No. 6 Duke.
Michael Teague The Battalion The No. 16 Texas A&M women’s basketball team started the 2009-2010 regular season Sunday at Reed Arena with a 95-77 upset of No. 6 Duke. “Our kids were hooked up,” said Texas A&M Head Coach Gary Blair. “They played well and to have an NCAA playoff game as your first game of the year says a lot about our commitment to playing the best teams. We’re going to try to keep our schedule upgraded and hopefully we’ll be able to get the Tennessees, Connecticuts and Stanfords in here as well. If we say we’re the best, you have to go out there and play the best.” Junior center Danielle Adams gave a strong performance in her A&M debut. The junior scored a team-high 24 points including three 3-pointers. “I feel real happy,” Adams said. “We were up against a re-
Fraternities raise money for Fort Hood victim families Ann Littmann The Battalion The Interfraternity Council organized a golf tournament at the Briarcrest Country Club in Bryan Sunday to benefit the Fort Hood shooting victims’ families. From 8:30 a.m. — 2:30 p.m., 26 teams competed in the traditional “two-man scramble” tournament. The teams included members from various fraternities united in support of American troops. “It was a way for fraternity men to give their support to the families of those injured at Fort Hood,” said the council’s Vice President of Public Relations Ben Peterson. “In addition, numerous sponsorships were obtained and players had the opportunity to win items like a Texas A&M Tag Heuer watch from David Gardner and a custom suit from
JoS. A. Bank.” The participation fee was $60 per person and included 18 holes, a golf cart and a T-shirt. In the past, the council has presented the revenue generated from the tournament to the Still Creek Boys and Girls Ranch in Bryan, Texas. However, the tragedy at Fort Hood deeply touched the members, Peterson said. “The Interfraternity Council was initially going to donate the proceeds of the tournament to the Still Creek Boys and Girls Ranch,” he said. “But after hearing about the tragedy at Fort Hood, we knew that it was a cause that we’d like to put our energy into. “After much research, Spencer Hough, vice president of Interfraternal Relations for IFC and organizer of the See Fort Hood benefit on page 2
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Senior finance major Spencer Hough and senior economics major Logan Campbell present a representative from Operation Home Front with a check Sunday at the Briarcrest Country Club to support families of the Fort Hood shooting victims.
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Camels steal the show Saturday at the Brazos Valley Worldfest at Wolf Pen Creek Park.
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ally good team at No. 6 in the country. The atmosphere was great. I’ve never seen anything like it playing in junior college. It was different and I enjoyed it.” Adams transferred to A&M from Jefferson Junior College where she was named the 2009 Women’s Coaches’ Basketball Association National Junior College Player of the Year. Despite the vast difference in her opponents’ talent, the twotime junior college All-American continued her success against perennial power Duke. “She just knows how to play the game,” Blair said. “How many kids at that level can come from junior college and understand the game? This is a kid who should have been playing D-I two years ago and now we’re reaping the benefits. Danielle Adams is going to be a force.” Duke failed to find an answer to the Aggies’ powerful
The delectable smells of mouthwatering food permeated the air as students and families flocked to the colored booths in Wolf Pen Creek Park Saturday for the third annual celebration of international awareness known as Worldfest. Worldfest commemorated international appreciation with cultural displays, demonstrations, international cuisine, performances, children’s crafts, educational competitions and many other activities. The event presented more than 45 cultural displays this year in addition to the other festivities. “We love learning about other cultures and we wanted to see MSC Committee for the Awareness of Mexican-American Culture,” said mother of three, Raye Leigh Stone. “It’s a beautiful day
filled with beautiful cultures, and it’s a great time with the kids.” The mission of Worldfest is to promote and celebrate the international diversity and heritage of the Brazos Valley. Texas A&M University and the city of College Station are in charge of organizing the community-wide festival. Texas A&M and its many planning partners began working on the U.S. Department of Education International Education Week in 2005. By 2007, the events of International Education Week eventually expanded to the first Brazos Valley Worldfest on Nov. 17, 2007, in historic downtown Bryan. Awareness of other cultures is a concept Stone said she tries to pass on to her children.
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golf tournament, felt as though Operation Home Front would be the best choice.” The council worked in conjunction with Operation Home Front, and the Emergency Tragedy Fund to provide financial aid to the families of soldiers injured or killed. A representative from Operation Home Front was present to accept the council’s donation and to share a few words with the participants. “She expressed sincere gratitude and shared some touching stories with the players,” Peterson said. “Last week, she visited Fort Hood and met with the family of one of the soldiers that was shot six times by the gunman. Although it wasn’t easy, she knew that the funds raised by Operation Home Front would help families of soldiers.” Ninety-five percent of all funds raised will go directly to troops in need.
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We may have not won the battle against hunger worldwide yet, but at least we made a difference today. ‘If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one’ — that’s kind of one of our themes of the event, because we’re not trying to shoot for big, we’re trying to shoot for our community right here.” — Ali Madha senior biology major co-chairman of Fast-A-Thon
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Megan Ryan The Battalion The Muslim Student Association is on a mission to stop hunger in Brazos County. Their strategy: go hungry themselves. To accomplish T li h their th i goal,l the th students t d t organized Fast-A-Thon, recruiting more than 1,000 people to pledge to fast from 5:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday. They asked companies to sponsor the event, and for each person who fasted the sponsors made a contribution to the Brazos County Food Bank. “Today each of us lived a hunger-filled life in order that someone else might not go hungry,” said Theresa Mangapora, director of the Brazos County Food Bank. “I don’t take that lightly. I take that very seriously, and I’m very, very grateful. We’ve made a great sacrifice today and it means a lot. It’s going to mean a lot to someone in this community.” The Brazos County Food Bank feeds about 40,000 people in Brazos County. Ali Madha, senior biology major and co-chairman of Fast-AThon, said that number includes many children in the local school systems. “The basic theme for the entire event is that we go hungry for a day so that someone else doesn’t have to,” Madha said. “The basic idea of the program is to get the campus of Texas A&M University to fast for an entire day in the same fashion that Muslims do generally in the month of Ramadan.” After the participants fasted, the organization
had a banquet to thank them for their support. They served burritos from Chipotle, one of their sponsors, and entertained them for the evening. “I’ve been doing this for about three years now, and every year it gets better,” Madha said. “The hardest thing is abstaining from water, because you get thirsty, you get real thirsty.” Lauren Garmley, a freshman forensic sciences major, participated in the event. She said by the time she got to the banquet she was very hungry. “I actually had an exam this morning so I was really tempted to eat breakfast, but I still did pretty well on the exam,” she said. Some of the other students who participated said they agreed — fasting was not an easy task. “It was pretty difficult,” said Ariel Reynolds, a freshman biology major. “There was all this food in my dorm, and I kept looking at it and wanted to have a bite.” It gets easier with practice, according to Sairah Bhatti, sophomore nutritional sciences major and public relations officer for the student association. “I go through this [fasting] for about a month every year, so I guess I’m kind of used to it, but sometimes it gets hard,” she said. “Knowing that it’s for a good cause makes it totally worth it, though.” This year, the Brazos County Food Bank will donate about 3 million pounds of food. “We’re taking food that maybe not all of us would want and finding a way to give it to
someone who can really use it,” Mangapora said. “Hunger is one of the first indicators of poverty. I’ve been in this position now for [almost] five years, and this has been by far the year of most demand at the food bank.”
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The Muslim Student Association recruited more than 1,000 people to fast in Thursday’s Fast-AThon, and sponsors donated to the Brazos County Food Bank for every person who participated. A banquet was at the end of the day for participants. Watch a video of footage from the banquet and interviews with participants online at thebatt.com.
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Ol’AgSTORIES Chad Robertson Class of 2003 I remember a loud pop and all of a sudden I was on the ground about 30 feet below, where I was on my swing when Stack was still standing. It was all of a sudden dark. The lights on the perimeter poles all went off. My first thought was, ”Man, that is going to be a pain in the butt to put back up.” I figured if I was OK where I was, then everyone else must have been fine, too. It was incredible how quickly things were organized in such a chaotic environment. Students did what they could until medical help arrived. Then dorms and Corps outfits gathered to get a headcount to find out if anyone was missing. It was a rough time. All of my dorm buddies ended up making it, [though] several had to get immediate medical treatment. One, John Comstock, was the last survivor to be pulled from stack. I remember walking back to my dorm that morning and getting people up to come back and help to move out logs when we were need, and calling my parents in the middle of the night to let them know I was not hurt. They drove 10 hours from my hometown to come see me and made me go to the hospital when they got here. It turns out I had a concussion and a cracked finger, but I was definitely lucky. I was obviously a little out of it because I went to my 8:00 poli sci class in my grodes and pretty beat-up looking.
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Kaminari Taiko perform Saturday at the Brazos Valley Worldfest on the World Stage at Wolf Pen Creek Park.
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“We live in a global society. There is such a value in all different cultures because of all the beautiful things they bring to the world.” Petroleum engineering graduate student Ruth Fernandez participated in Worldfest by representing her native country, Ecuador. “I am out here today to show what Ecuador is all about,” Fernandez said. “I so greatly enjoy Texas culture, and this is an opportunity for Texas to enjoy the culture of Ecuador.” Fernandez, who moved from Ecuador to attend Texas A&M, said people have a skewed view of Texas A&M. “Many outsiders view us as conservative and close-minded, but we are actually very diverse and there is a large international student population,” Fernandez said. Her booth, set up by the A&M Ecuadorian Student Association, depicted the four regional areas of Ecuador as well as plants, animals and traditional clothing associated with the culture. Fernandez has participated in every Worldfest since its inception and said she is amazed at the amount of growth the event has experienced.
This year’s celebration was biotechnology graduate student Aniket Bondre’s first. “Texas A&M has a large international student population, and I am here showcasing India,” Bondre said. The A&M India Association’s booth gave visitors an opportunity to see traditional Indian garments and jewelry, as well as participate in a professional henna booth and partake in a taste of the sweets India has to offer. The event served as a great environment for fostering interaction among Texas A&M international students, said aerospace engineering graduate student Reema Padia. “There are so many cultures here that I have never seen or learned about before,” Padia said. “This event is just as much of a learning opportunity for us as it is for American visitors.” Padia moved from India to Texas in 2007 to attend school and assert her independence. “Being away from my home and my parents has taught me a lot,” Padia said. “I have gained respect for American culture and a deeper appreciation of the culture of my family.” Festival Coordinator Kim Fox said breaking down cultural barriers and ridding the world of preconceived cultural notions is the main purpose of Worldfest.
“International awareness is at the heart of Brazos Valley Worldfest and is the goal of the education program,” Fox said. “As students understand world cultures, they break down cultural assumptions and develop cultural understanding. Teachers, parents and students are together investing in a future of cross-cultural acceptance.” Worldfest provided an educational experience for spectators and displayers alike. “Since we live in a smaller community, we don’t have the opportunity to experience and interact with other cultures as much as people living in a big city. Brazos Valley Worldfest is a great way to expose people to the exciting cultures and differences around the world,” said Tori Whitelaw, junior international studies and French major. “It is exciting for me to help participate in Worldfest because as a member of my club, Aggie International Ambassadors, part of our mission is to promote awareness of different cultures in our community. I felt that Worldfest was doing an excellent job in doing just that.” While the event greatly impacted all who attended, perhaps the greatest impression was made on the children, Whitelaw said. “My favorite part of Worldfest was seeing the kids’ excitement as they learned about far away people and places.”
Christina Class of 2003 [I remember] waking up early the morning of the collapse to my roommate throwing a phone up to me in my bed, saying ”Your mom is on the phone and she is freaking out.“ Our dorm was supposed to be on Stack that night, but schedules were changed and I was studying for a big exam. It was a painful experience for everyone in the Aggie family and we will never forget those lives lost or their families. My good friend lost her Bonfire buddy in 1999, and still thinks of and prays for his family. We were all touched in one way or another and must always keep those who lost their lives in 1999 in our hearts, especially this time every year, as they will always have a sacred place in the Aggie family; they exemplified what the Twelfth Man is. We are a family, and we work hard to keep traditions alive, because at the end of the day, that is what sets A&M apart, our traditions, our family, and what we pass down from one generation to another. My mom and dad - Class of 1978; my aunt and uncles, right behind in 1979 and 1986; myself, class of 2003; my brother, class of 2009; my son, class of 2027; my daughter, class of 2029. Bonfire is a tradition we now hold in our memories, and even though it does not burn on campus anymore, what is most important is that it burns in our hearts. “The Aggies are we, true to each other as Aggies can be....”
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Weekend sports The Texas A&M football, men’s basketball and volleyball teams competed this weekend, with only men’s basketball coming away with a win. The football team was beaten 65-10 by Oklahoma, the volleyball team was defeated 3-0 by No. 9 Nebraska and the men’s basketball team beat Angelo State 88-69. Read the full stories at thebatt.com
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A continued digression David Harris
Ten games into the season, the football team continues to get blown out by Big 12 opponents. The time has come for Aggie fans to wake up and smell the roses.
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Texas A&M junior point guard Sydney Colson celebrates during a game against No. 6 Duke Sunday at Reed Arena. Colson scored 17 points and had 10 assists in the Aggies’ 95-77 victory against the Blue Devils.
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attack. A&M shot 56.9 percent from the field and had five different players score double-digit points. A&M’s 95 points were the most scored in school history against a Top 10 opponent. “The bottom line is they played a team game,” said Duke Head Coach Joanne P. McCallie. “You’re looking at five people in double figures. Our team defense did not perform
and that was a problem.” “The past few years we’ve had go-to players,” said junior point guard Sydney Colson. “This year, we’re so much more balanced that it’s much harder to guard us. We’re going to be a big threat this year because we have more options.” Colson racked up a double-double for the Aggies, scoring a careerhigh 17 points and adding 10 assists. “Colson was magnificent,” Blair said. “She’s going to make some turnovers, but sometimes you just
got to let the kid play. Let her play and find her rhythm. A point guard has to be in a rhythm.” Senior forward Damitria Buchanan made the Blue Devils aware of her presence in the starting lineup with her defense. The forward recorded a teamhigh seven rebounds and tied the school record for most blocked shots in a single game with seven. “She looked like Micheaux II out there,” Blair said. “She didn’t even attempt a shot. This is what
this team is all about: people stepping up and role-playing.” Battling through injuries to her shoulder and hand, sophomore point guard Sydney Carter came off the bench to record 14 points, five rebounds and four assists. Reed Arena hosted 6,866 fans at Sunday’s game. The attendance was A&M’s largest in a season-opener and against a nonconference opponent. Wednesday, the Aggies will play against Rice at Reed Arena.
Soccer advances to Sweet 16 David Harris The Battalion It took two overtime periods and a shootout, but the No. 22 Texas A&M soccer team advanced to the Sweet 16 for the fourth time since 2005 with a 1-1 shootout victory over No. 10 LSU Sunday in Baton Rouge. The Aggies advanced to the second round with a 3-1 victory over Memphis on Friday. Junior forward Whitney Hooper scored two goals in the match to lead all scorers. “To beat a well-organized, talented team like Memphis was going to take some really good goals,
and we’re fortunate that we have Whitney and that she scored those two,” said A&M Head Coach G Guerrieri. “It was a nice way for us to get through the first game of the tournament.” On Sunday, the Aggies scored first against the Tigers when senior defender Emily Peterson netted one in the 66th minute. The goal was the first of Peterson’s season. The Tigers didn’t take long to provide an answer as their leading scorer Melissa Clark scored in the 68th minute on a penalty kick. The two teams battled through both of the 10-minute overtime periods, but 110 minutes wasn’t
enough to determine an outcome, and the teams moved to penalty kicks. In the shootout, freshman defender Mary Grace Schmidt scored first for A&M. Junior goalie Kelly Dyer followed by stopping forward Malorie Ruttlidge’s attempt, and the Aggies were up 1-0 after the first round. “Kelly Dyer is one of the best goalkeepers I’ve ever been around as far as penalty kick situations,” Guerrieri said. “We knew that if we put our balls in the back of the net that Kelly would take care of the rest.” In round two, junior midfielder
Rachel Shipley netted her penalty kick, but Tigers midfielder Taryne Boudreau answered to make it 2-1. In the third round, senior forward Cydne Currie scored, but LSU followed suit again as Brittany Lowe put it past Dyer. When Peterson scored for the Aggies in the fourth round and Clark missed for the Tigers, the Aggies had prevailed 4-2. The win was the first shootout victory for A&M since the 2007 Big 12 tournament against Iowa State. With the win, A&M will head to Tallahassee to face off with the No. 1 seed in their region, Florida State.
o, I’m sitting here trying to come up with some positives that came out of the “Fightin’” Texas Aggies’ performance on Saturday in Norman, Okla. So far, my list reads: They showed up. Literally. We have tangible evidence to suggest they were, in fact, present in Norman. And…Yeah, that’s all I’ve got. 65-10. Another embarrassment. Another showing of ineptitude. And, suddenly, the sunshine pumpers are awfully quiet. Cat got your tongue? The 22nd game in the infamous era of Mike Sherman sure looked familiar, didn’t it? Here’s some breaking news, Aggie fans. Under Sherman, Texas A&M’s football program has become THE embarrassment of the Big 12. This delegation doesn’t come merely from wins and losses. It comes from the simple fact that this and last year’s teams do not compete. Seriously, what teams in the Big 12 or, better yet, the entire Football Bowl Subdivision get blown out more often than the Aggies? In Sherman’s almost two years at the helm, the Aggies have lost 12 out of 16 games to teams from BCS conferences. In those 12 losses, the margin of defeat is nearly 27 points. Read it again. And, again. Let’s all stop the argument about this team being young. Seriously, it’s game 10 of 2009, and the team is regressing. In addressing the argument about it taking more than two years to instill a system, let us look no further than Georgia Tech under Paul Johnson. Yeah, the No. 7 team in the country is in their second season of a new system. So is Big 12 North frontrunner Nebraska. So is Ole Miss and Arkansas. And, Houston. And, even bowl bound SMU. Every single one of those programs is improving. Drastically. Can you really sit here, look me in the eyes and tell me A&M, as a program, is progressing? The defense on Saturday again made an opposing quarterback look like a Heisman contender. The offense couldn’t pick up a first down; much less sustain a legitimate drive. And, the special teams couldn’t grasp the simple fundamental of catching a football. Much like the Kansas State game, this team allowed a couple bad breaks to snowball into a pathetic blowout. There were no adjustments made. There were no coaches getting up in the face of the players. There was no fire or emotion on the field or the sidelines. Seriously, it is unacceptable. Honestly, if I’m a former student, I’m taking the money I would use on a ticket to this Saturday’s battle of the basement between Big 12 doormats A&M and Baylor and spending it on a couple chances to go see a team that actually performs up to its capabilities, like Texas A&M See Football on page 6
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Men’s swim opens season with two wins T.D. Durham The Battalion The Texas A&M men’s swimming and diving team opened its 2009-2010 season with wins over Harvard University and Boston University this weekend. A&M opened its two-meet tour of New England with a 131.5-102.5 win against the Harvard Crimson on Friday. Senior Nikita Denisyako, junior Balazs Makany and freshman Omar Enriquez led the Aggies in the pool, each with multiple individual wins. A&M opened the meet with first and second place finishes in the 400-yard medley relay. Both relays included true freshman John Dalton and William Wagner swimming the freestyle legs. “The guys did a really good job of taking care of business,” said A&M Head Coach Jay Holmes. “We wanted to get off to a fast start, and the 400 medley relay did a good job of that.” On the boards, sophomore diver Grant Nel took first places in the 1-meter springboard and the 3-meter springboard, both with NCAA zone qualifying scores of 320.23 and 407.28, respectively. Senior diver Henry Stevens also turned in a zone-qualifying performance on the 3-meter with a score of 321.23. Also taking individual wins was senior Casey Strange, in the 50-yard freestyle and junior Bryan Snowden, in the 200yard breaststroke. A&M traveled into Massachusetts the next day to defeat
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basketball. But, I digress. The fact of the matter remains, if the Twelfth Man is expecting any sort of change, then you are going to be sorely disappointed. The Athletic Department sits in a multimillion dollar hole. Our athletic director, in his pursuit of
the Boston University Terriers 135-108 in its second dual meet in two days. The Aggies jumped out to another quick start, grabbing first place and tying for second place in the first event of the meet, the 200-yard medley relay. A&M won a total of nine individual events, with multiple victories from Nel, Enriquez and Denisyako for the secondstraight day. Enriquez from San Andres Tuxtla, Mexico, took first in the 400-yard individual medley and the 500-yard freestyle with times of 4:02.23 and 4:36.07, respectively. Denisyako tallied his individual wins in the 200-yard freestyle and the 100-yard butterfly, two events he does not usually swim. Holmes said most of the team was put into events that are not their specialties. “We wanted to put some guys in off races and see how they would respond in different situations,” Holmes said. “I thought they did a good job of stepping up on the blocks and competing hard in whatever situation they faced.” On the diving side, Nel and Stevens grabbed the first and second place spots in both the 1-meter and 3-meter springboard events. Nel now has a total of four individual wins in the season. The Aggies will take a break from meets and start a winter practicing schedule before returning to the pool against Auburn University Jan. 9 in College Station.
“Building Champions,” signed off on Sherman, an unproven commodity in the college game, for seven years. And, here’s the kicker. Sherman’s buyout would be nine million dollars in December. Suffice to say, he’s not going anywhere. And, for that matter, neither is Texas A&M football. David Harris is a junior economics major
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o you think you have a serious wound? Well you’re in luck because I just happen to this super handy dandy Student Health Services “First Aid for Wounds� pamphlet. But James, you say, what is a wound? How do I know for sure if I have one? I’m glad you asked. A wound, according to the pamphlet right here, is any of the following: cuts, scrapes, scratches, punctured skin and hurts. How do you know if you have a wound? Easy. First examine the suspected part of your body in a sterile, well-lit environment. Step 2: Hit it with a hammer. Now you know. But James, you say, this hurts. You know what they say, pain is weakness leaving the body. Of course, sometimes it’s parts of the body leaving the body, but there’s still a significant amount of weakness in there too. And can’t you feel that other feeling? The feeling of knowledge entering your mind. Sometimes learning is painful, but it’s always worth it. (If many people follow the directions in this article, I will soon learn what it’s like to be on the receiving end of a class action lawsuit. Well, now that we’ve got our wound, what are we going to do with it? First off, we need to “Apply pressure with a clean, lent free cloth to stop the bleeding.� If all you have are lenten cloths, then continue bleeding to death. But wait, that’s not all. “NOTE: If the blood soaks through the cloth do not remove the cloth.� This will only attract vampires, instead “add another layer of cloth on top of the first layer to continue absorption.� Next “clean the wound with cool, clean water� and add the rosemary, paprika and lime juice and let it marinate for two to three hours. Substitute garlic for rosemary if you’re still worried about the vampires. Now “bandage the wound if it could get dirty� and “watch for swelling and redness� and vampires. (Swelling and redness hang with the wrong crowd. I know you may be a little woozy from all of that blood loss, but try to memorize these handy “First Aid Tid-Bits.� (If something has been reduced to “tid-bits,� I
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Bruising and bleeding are a natural part of any student’s life. Some humorous help on avoiding the hospital and vampires when the worst injuries happen. think you may be a little beyond first aid.) “Do not pick at your scabs. Scabs are actually your body’s way of protecting the wound from dirt. Scabs will fall off when the time is right.� And when the time is right, be sure to use Trojan, now available in garlic to ward off vampires. Also “raise the injured body part above the heart. This will slow the amount of blood flowing to the wound.� Depending on the area, this may take a certain amount
of gymnastic prowess. I’ve started taking yoga classes just to be on the safe side. Now remember to “contact a doctor if any of the following occur:� the wound is jagged, the wound is on your face (oh my goodness. Oh wait, that’s what it looks like normally). The cut has dirt in it that won’t come out (try coaxing it with a bit of food and a soft reassuring voice). The cut drains a thick, creamy, grayish fluid (reduce heat and add potatoes, stir occasionally). You can’t move comfortably. You are dead. But remember, preparation is half the battle. Be sure you have a first aid kit on hand with all of these important supplies for any emergency: Acetaminophen, ibuprofen and aspirin, cough suppressant (aka garrote wire), antibiotic ointment, bandages of assorted sizes, triangular bandage (for any injured triangles you come across), hydrogen peroxide, tweezers (to remove the lint from the cloths), duct tape (good for leaks of all kinds), garlic and a doctor. Well, I hope that has better prepared you for any emergencies in your future. Anyways, I better start picking the lint off my wound-cloth now. This pamphlet just gave me a paper cut.
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MAILCALL From Alex Adame, Class of 2008, graduate Hispanic Studies student In response to the whining about the grassy knoll, I am really relieved the construction of the new liberal arts building is going to be put on hold so we can preserve a safe haven for students to sleep and play Frisbee. As a Tier 1 research institute, our focus should not be on making sure everyone has a place to sleep and throw the Frisbee between classes. Why even build an educational building near the center of campus? What doesn’t make sense is why a bunch of hipsters are complaining about not having a place to toss their Frisbee, kick their hacky-sack and sleep like vagrants while their “fellow� students are out of a much-needed building. I think I have a fair trade for all the students crying out about the injustice against their sleep and Frisbee spot. Why don’t you keep the grassy knoll and liberal arts can have your building. You can discuss having a new building out on West Campus, they can build an arcade and ball pit like at Chuck E. Cheese. In the article “Stay off the Grass� the author wrote Tyler Reed, landscape architecture class of 2009, as said “[I] hold the grassy knoll as a place sacred and nurturing for students scholarship and recreation.� What scholarship takes place on the grassy knoll? Scholarship takes place in the classroom, in the library and in the studies and schooling or our student body. Scholarship should take place in our educational facilities. If you stop opposing this building, a great deal of scholarship will take place on that site. Our primary concern needs to be academics. We should care more about our facilities than nap time and honestly, if you think your classes are too hard and can’t make it through without sleeping between classes, well then college probably isn’t for you.
From Barrett Stephens, senior agricultural systems management major With controversy over the grassy knoll heightening, I can understand both sides of this argument. The liberal arts department deserves to ďŹ nally have a building they can call home. It seems almost every department has a building now to call their own, one they fought tooth and nail to get. The problem is Vision 2020 states we are going to expand our Academia, but it also states we’re going to protect our grassy areas. I always thought the liberal arts were based upon inspiration, but lately it seems otherwise. The grassy knoll is and has been an inspirational point, a place of relaxation, and a last hold out for the green areas of campus. If the grassy knoll is to ďŹ nally fall
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under the foundation of a courthouse-like structure, then what grassy areas is Vision 2020 protecting? To ask someone who has seen the grassy knoll once about its preservation is preposterous. Departments aren’t always located for convenience, as can be seen by how far the college of agriculture stretches. If you want a new building sometimes you have to sacriďŹ ce and “hump itâ€? a little. As the old saying goes, you have to give a little in order to get a little. If liberal arts and Board of Regents have their way, by the end of 2020, this campus will be nothing more than asphalt and concrete.
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From Daniel Woelfel, junior math major Thank you for having the courage to point out that the Fort Hood shooter, Maj. Nidal Hasan, was Muslim. We now know that his conversion to Islam and interpretation of its teachings led him to embark on his attack. In response to a Mail Call in which the author was disgusted by the fact that The Battalion even mentioned Hasan’s conversion to Islam, your attitude is the same one that inhibited law enforcement ofďŹ cials from taking decisive action long before the shooting ever began. We now know from reports that investigators were reluctant to investigate Hasan because it would have been perceived as “politically incorrect.â€? If we refuse to identify enemies at home, how can we possibly expect to defeat an enemy that has proved it can attack us anywhere?
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Tickets go on sale Sunday at 3:00 p.m. 4.0 & Go is located on the corner of SW Pkwy and Tx Ave, behind KFC next to Lacks and Bourbon Sreet Bar.
Check our web page at http://www.4.0andGo.com or call 696-8886(TUTOR) .
how to GET A CONTRACT: • visit our website: http://aggieland.tamu.edu • stop by our office: The Grove Bldg. #8901 (next to the Albritton Bell Tower)
where to TURN IN A CONTRACT:
AGGIELAND 2010 Official yearbook of Texas A&M University
• The Grove Bldg. #8901 (next to the bell tower), 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
have a question? call 979.845.2681
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