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Senior third baseman Riley Sartain leads the A&M softball team with six home runs.

Taking on the Tigers A&M softball team heads to Mizzou, hoping to bounce back in SEC play By Hannah Underwood @hannahbunderwoo Looking to bounce back after a series sweep by Florida last weekend, Texas A&M softball will travel to the University of Missouri for a three-game SEC series starting on Thursday. The Aggies are 25-18 on the season and 3-12 in conference play, after dropping their last three games against the Gators at home last weekend. Missouri (24-18, 7-8 SEC) is the first unranked SEC opponent A&M has faced so far

this season. Head coach Jo Evans said that doesn’t matter since the Tigers still pose a threat. “We’re always looking to win,” Evans said. “They have seven wins in conference. They’ve had some good wins against some good teams. We need to do the things that we do well. We need to be more consistent defensively. We need more consistency on the mound.” Junior pitcher Kendall Potts has taken double shifts on the mound the last four weekends. She said getting days off during the week helps her recover from the long weekends. ”I’d definitely say [my recovery] has gotten better since the first weekend,” Potts said. SOFTBALL ON PG. 3

Next stop: South Carolina Baseball to take on Gamecocks in Columbia on second leg of road trip By Alex Miller @AlexMill20 Consistency — it’s what Texas A&M is currently searching for on the diamond. The No. 7 Aggies are still trying to put all of their pieces together ahead of this weekend’s road series against struggling South Carolina (22-15, 4-11 SEC). It’s part of a road stretch spanning eight of nine games for A&M over the next two weeks. Despite a 2-2 outing last week, the Aggies rose three spots in Monday’s poll to No. 7, their highest ranking of the season, after taking the series over Auburn. A&M wasn’t able to maintain immediate momentum though, dropping Tuesday’s game to Houston, 4-1. In the loss to the Cougars, A&M mustered just two hits against Houston’s mid-week

staff. It’s part of a lingering struggle to keep the Aggie bats hot. “We just need to be consistent up and down the lineup,” A&M head coach Rob Childress said. “We’ve got to have more than one or two guys going in order to be consistent. Until we do, the opportunities that we do have that are so minimal, we’ve got to be able to capitalize on those.” The remedy? Second baseman Bryce Blaum said it’s sticking to the Aggies’ approach. He pointed toward A&M’s sweep over Kentucky earlier this season as evidence that the Aggies can be big at the plate. A&M scored 31 runs on 43 hits over the weekend. “When we’re committed one through nine, we’re very good as a unit,” Blaum said. “As we saw against Kentucky, that was probably the most committed we had been all season.” Although A&M is still searching for answers, South Carolina might be searching BASEBALL ON PG. 4

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The shark-themed MSC Birthday was held in Rudder Plaza and included free food, prizes and photos with Reveille.

Celebrating students and service Memorial Student Center hosts party in honor of 68th birthday By Meagan Sheffield @mshef350 Rudder Plaza became a beach on Wednesday to celebrate the Memorial Student Center’s 68th birthday. University Center and Special Events

hosted the shark sighting-themed party from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Anyone with a Texas A&M UIN was able to participate and receive a free T-shirt and goody bag. The event offered yard games for prizes, free samples from several vendor booths and a photo opportunity with Reveille. The MSC opened in 1951 to fill the need for a student union. As the number of students increased and technolo-

gy improved, the MSC was renovated from 1971 to 1974, and again from 1989 to 1991 and 2009 to 2012. University Center and Special Events communications coordinator Kelly Jo Eblen said the birthday party became an annual event after the MSC was remodeled and rededicated in 2012. Eblen said the marketing team picks MSC ON PG. 4

Texas A&M will hold its Campus Muster Ceremony on Monday at 7 p.m. in Reed Arena. The annual Aggie Muster is held in honor of Aggies who have died in the past year. Since more than 1,600 people are honored at Aggie Muster each year, each separate ceremony has a different list of names read out. The Campus Muster will honor current students from the College Station campus, former students who were serving on active military duty during the past year, university faculty and staff who passed away in 2019 — including those who retired or relocated in the last four years, former students with an immediate family member who was enrolled when they died and members of the class of 1969 who have passed away in the last year. The Worldwide Roll Call — in which the Association of Former Students reads the name of every Aggie who has died in the past year beginning at 3 p.m. and ending after 5 p.m. — will be held on April 21. There will be more than 300 Muster ceremonies worldwide this year. While A&M made the decision to move the 2019 campus ceremony from the usual April 21 date, A&M clubs celebrating off campus are encouraged to host Muster on the day that works best for their area.

CENTURY SQUARE ANNOUNCES FREE PARKING On Wednesday, Century Square shopping center announced that its parking garage, located behind Star Cinema Grill, will be free for visitors to use. Previously, parking in the garage was only validated for those visiting Star Cinema Grill. Although garage parking will now be free year-round, street parking and valet parking rates will remain the same, with Sunday street parking being free of charge.

Woodward heading back to Baton Rouge Reports indicate A&M athletic director will leave for LSU job By Angel Franco @angelmadison_

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Athletic Director Scott Woodward is reported to be making a move to LSU after spending over three years with Texas A&M Athletics.

Texas A&M may be looking for a new athletic director. According to several reports, Scott Woodward will be leaving College Station and heading to Baton Rouge to join his alma mater, LSU. At 4:25 p.m. on Wednesday, TexAgs executive editor Billy Liucci reported that Woodward would become the next athletic director for the Tigers. “Per multiple sources in the know, Scott Woodward has signed a ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ and will be LSU’s next AD, probably to be announced tomorrow or Friday,”

Liucci wrote on TexAgs.com on Wednesday. Two weeks ago, Woodward hired Buzz Williams from Virginia Tech to become the next men’s basketball coach at A&M. Williams is the latest in a series of high-profile hires orchestrated by Woodward. “As we began our search, it quickly reaffirmed to us what we all know — the A&M brand is powerful, as the depth and breadth of the candidate pool was incredible,” Woodward said in a statement at the time. “We kept our focus on finding an elite basketball coach, a developer of talent, a tremendous recruiter, a tireless worker and someone who fits Texas A&M. Buzz Williams is all that and more.” Woodward’s biggest hire was in December of 2017 when he hired Jimbo Fisher away from Florida State

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Fighting postpartum depression Drug developed by Texas A&M researchers approved by FDA By Savannah Mehrtens @SJMehrtens After nearly two decades of research, a drug created by Texas A&M College of Medicine professor Samba Reddy and his team to treat postpartum depression was approved in March by the Food and Drug Administration. Brexanolone, sold under the name Zulresso, is given intravenously to women in the hospital, requiring them to stay for about three days. In addition to interfering with the bond between mother and child, postpartum depression can lead to life-threatening situations in which a woman who has recently given birth may have thoughts of harming themself or their child. Zulresso is the first neurosteroid to ever treat this condition and may have uses for other disorders such as anxiety. Reddy said his research lab has been focused on the group of neurosteroid compounds which protect the brain from conditions like distress or injury. “I choose to focus [on the] female brain because these neurosteroids fluctuate with the menstrual cycle,” Red-

dy said. “[The premenstrual] period has been associated with low levels of neurosteroids in the brain.” Bryan Clossen, senior neuroscientist at Stream Biomedical and Class of 2010, was a Ph.D. student in Reddy’s lab, where he worked on neurosteroids in relation to the drug. He said this drug is a great first step in treating postpartum depression, though it has other applications as well. “I was actually a little surprised to see it approved for postpartum depression first because I think it has a lot of application in anxiety and also in other disorders that include hyperactivity or hyperexcitability, like epilepsy and some other conditions like that,” Clossen said. Neurosteroids are a safe alternative to other treatments for depression and epilepsy, Clossen said. However, giving them to patients and helping them remain effective in the body can be challenging. “One of the reasons it’s kind of hard to give to people is your body is so good at metabolizing it, it has a very short half-life, which is another reason why we did so much work in designing new drugs and new versions of these compounds,” Clossen said. “They can be used either in pill form or [in other forms] that have a longer half-life so

they don’t require a continuous infusion like this first drug does.” Reddy said the research team will likely be able to make the neurosteroid available in the form of a pill in the near future. Postdoctoral fellow Chase Carver worked in Reddy’s lab for five years and said there is a need to look into the sex-specific effects of drugs. This neurosteroid is an example of what that looks like. “Something that’s been getting a lot of traction in science recently is repurposing drugs that are already FDA-approved, already determined to be safe, and finding new purposes, new mechanisms where they can be used for neurological disorders,” Carver said. Carver said the future for these kinds of drugs will be to help target specific patient groups, such as women with postpartum depression, who can benefit from effects that were not previously studied. In this case, understanding the levels of progesterone that are naturally occurring in women had an effect on the research and implementation of this drug. “Drugs that can specifically be targeted toward a subset of a population,” Carver said. “That’s really exciting because we can narrow in and put a lot of focus on the effects of those drugs.”

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Health sophomore Tiara Kinnebrew created illustrations for “Ten Big Dreams for Ten Little Toes,” which was published in February and is now available on Amazon.

Illustrating dreams Student Tiara Kinnebrew illustrated children’s book published this year By Giselle Warren @GiselleWarren16 When Elizabeth Bobé first finished her book, she struggled to capture her story with the right pictures. It was not until health sophomore Tiara Kinnebrew came along that Bobé felt like the story’s meaning was illustrated properly. Bobé was inspired to write her book by her daughter, Sophia, who has cerebral palsy. As Bobé was talking to Sophia one night and playing with her toes, she told her daughter that she had faith that she would be able to overcome the challenges that cerebral palsy would pose. Thus, “Ten Big Dreams for Ten Little Toes” was born. When it was time for Bobé to illustrate the book, she struggled to capture the essence of the story through her own illustrations. “When I wrote the story, I felt it was powerful, but what I saw in my mind I wasn’t able to put down on paper,” Bobé said. “I saw the visions in my mind, and even though I felt that the words described it, I just felt that it wasn’t being communicated fully without the pictures.” Bobé connected with Kinnebrew through her former co-worker and Kinnebrew’s former middle school teacher, Monte Robinson. She knew Kinnebrew’s artistic style would be what Bobé had been searching for. “Tiara’s illustrations were the perfect dance partner to Elizabeth’s story of faith

and perseverance,” Robinson said. “Complimenting the inspirational theme of the poem, the illustrations help to influence and guide the reader as they take the journey with Sophia from infancy to beyond her high school graduation.” Robinson’s recommendation ended up being exactly what Bobé was looking for. The story Bobé struggled to depict came to life through Kinnebrew’s illustrations. “Something I really wanted to make sure happened was portraying the amount of love that Mrs. Bobé has for her daughter, Sophia,” Kinnebrew said. “Through this, I drew the characters to the likeness of everyone involved in the written story and added flairs of magical elements and color, especially the color pink. Sophia’s wheelchair in a majority of the pictures I’ve seen has pink elements, so putting that color into the illustrated dreams and desires was a kind of homage to that being a part of her that also doesn’t define her.” The book was published in February and is now available for purchase on Amazon. When it first came out, it became an Amazon #1 release for Children’s Christian Bedtime Fiction, establishing the book as a resource for families and children who might need encouragement. “Our main focus is to encourage children and their families to just believe beyond what we see with our eyes only,” Bobé said. “I think a lot of times we settle on limitations, and I just really think that there’s so much power in faith and believing, and so my heart’s desire would be that we would ignite a fire in others to believe.”

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he Joker is a character who’s had many representations over the years. Similar to James Bond, the Joker isn’t tied to one specific actor. His face changes all the time. However, some of the Joker’s many faces have been better than others. This list takes a look at some of the best versions of the Clown Prince of Crime in movies, TV and video games. 3. Jack Nicholson Considered by many to be the best Batman movie outside of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, Tim Burton’s 1989 film, “Batman,” has one of the most outstanding versions of the Joker I’ve seen on screen. Now, I may have some problems with a version of Batman who kills, and I’ve never liked the idea that the Joker was actually the one responsible for killing Bruce Wayne’s parents, but aside from these flaws in the

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film, there is almost nothing to fault in Nicholson’s performance. Playing opposite Michael Keaton’s Batman, Nicholson delivers a magnificent and chilling performance. With iconic lines like “dance with the devil in the pale moonlight” and a frenzied craziness perfected years earlier during his role as Jack Torrance in “The Shining,” Nicholson’s Joker strikes the perfect balance between calculatingly devious and downright maniacal. 2. Heath Ledger Everyone knows of Heath Ledger’s legendary performance as the Joker in Nolan’s “The Dark Knight.” Every film fanatic and Batman fan has heard the stories of Ledger’s intense method acting techniques. How Ledger was so frightening in the role that he scared Michael Caine, a veteran actor, into forgetting his lines. And of course, how Ledger was awarded an Oscar posthumously for the role following a drug overdose. Ledger is, without a doubt, the best live-action representation of the Joker that has ever been seen on film. He disappeared into the character, completely bringing to full

rankings say, any team in the SEC is a challenge to beat. “Every team in the SEC is hard to beat, regardless of rank, whether that’s RPI rank or in the SEC ranking,” Sartain said. “So same thing, go out there and attack and show no mercy.” Sartain was drafted No. 18 overall by the Aussie Peppers of Minnesota in the National Pro Fastpitch College Draft on Monday. Sartain said being drafted, while unexpected, became one of her favorite memories.

form all his insanity and neuroticisms. His voice, his look, his walk, his facial expressions all brought the terrifying character into the real world. Ledger’s performance was so phenomenally good that, despite the dozens of interpretations that came before him, he became the one true face of the Joker in the minds of many fans. It’s impossible to describe all the ways in which Ledger completely nailed the part. So why, then, is he only in the number two spot? Because while Ledger may be the best live-action version of the character, there is one actor who has been consistently voicing The Joker since 1992. 1. Mark Hamill Yes, the “Star Wars” veteran is responsible for voicing the version of the character I consider to be most definitive. What “Star Wars” fans might not have known about the man that plays Luke Skywalker is that he has a very wide range of vocal abilities. The voice he lends to the Joker is both light and sinister, playful and lethal. It has highs

Sartain said she was sitting at the A&M student-athlete awards banquet after losing an award she had been nominated for when she got a congratulatory text on her phone. “I was like, ‘That’s weird, I didn’t win the award. What are they congratulating me for?’” Sartain said. “And then I remembered that the draft was that night, so I went on Twitter as fast as I possibly could and saw that I had been drafted.” For Sartain, the focus is still on the weekend ahead. The key to coming out of the weekend

and lows that match the character’s volatile moods and can positively chill your bones at times. But the most impressive part of Hamill’s version is his evil, maniacal laugh — something that the two versions listed above didn’t really have. Hamill has voiced the Joker since 1992 when he started on the TV show “Batman: The Animated Series.” Since then he has reprised his role in countless video games, animated movies and TV shows. Hamill alone has dozens of different Joker appearances under his belt. But his best, in my opinion, is the version from Rocksteady Studios’ “Arkham” video game series. These beautiful cinematic games perfectly capture the essence of the Joker and his relationship with his antithesis Batman. They are an absolute must-play for any Joker fan. A new version of the Joker is set to come out soon. Oct. 4 brings the release of Joaquin Phoenix’s new Joker origin story film, titled simply “Joker.” I have very high hopes for the film, and the trailers promise a stunning new version of the character. It’s too early to tell whether Phoenix will replace one of the representations on this list, but Joker fans will be able to see for themselves soon enough. Keagan Miller is a psychology junior and columnist for The Battalion. with the series win is staying true to the team, she said. “Whenever we get in trouble, it’s when we’re getting outside of ourselves and trying to do things that we don’t normally do, trying to be players that we’re normally not,” Sartain said. “I think when we stick to what we’re good at, we can be a very good team.” First pitch on Thursday and Friday is set for 6:30 p.m., with Saturday’s game starting at 12 p.m. The games will be streamed on SEC Network+.

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Josh Gleason — THE BATTALION

Junior outfielder Cam Blake has four stolen bases this season.

BASEBALL CONTINUED for more. The Gamecocks are tied for last place in the SEC standings and have yet to win a conference series this season. “They’re desperate,” Childress said of the Gamecocks. “They’re 4-11 in league play right now and this is a pivotal weekend for them.” A&M’s pitching staff will be facing a confusing Gamecock batting order. South Carolina is last in the league in batting average (.241), but first in home runs (59), showing it might not have threats to string together several hits but can make opponents pay with one pitch. “[They’re] physical up and down the lineup,” Childress said of South Carolina’s batters. “They lead the league in home runs with almost 60 and they are hitting under .200 in league play, so there’s some ways to get them out, but if you make mistakes and give them free base runners, they can get after you in a hurry with the long ball.” Left-handed pitcher John Doxakis said it’s key to keep the ball down in the strike zone against a team like South Carolina, not

allowing them to barrel anything up in the zone. “We know they’re a team that’s capable of doing a lot of damage,” Doxakis said. “We’re not going to take them lightly. … You’re going to have to live down in the zone against these guys.” Right-handed pitcher Christian Roa returned to the rotation last weekend for the first time in three weeks. On a limited pitch count, Roa worked 2.1 innings, allowing one run on two hits while throwing 43 pitches. A&M has officially left the Sunday spot open, but Childress expects Roa to start this Saturday and have his pitch count increase. “As long as he continues to progress well off of last week’s performance, hopefully we can get one more inning out of him and continue to build him up as we move forward in the season,” Childress said of Roa. A&M and South Carolina are set to begin a three-game series Thursday night at 6 p.m. Friday’s game will have a 6 p.m. first pitch with the series conclusion starting on Saturday at 3 p.m. The final game will be broadcast on SEC Network, while the first two will be on SEC Network+.