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The Aggies have won all four games Corbin Martin has started in 2017, and he has racked up 23 strikeouts in those starts.
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t’s no secret Corbin Martin has an electric arm. Texas A&M head coach Rob Childress said at the beginning of the season that Martin has one of the most beautiful throwing motions of all the pitchers he’s ever coached.
Every time A&M outfielder Walker Pennington sees someone from another team hitting against Martin, he thanks his lucky stars that he’s a senior and won’t ever have to face Martin again in a preseason scrimmage or practice. Pennington swears he has struck out in each of his last 10 at-bats against Martin and sometimes feels sorry for others who have to step into the box against him. “For a right-hander it’s just devastating. You know he has the stuff, and it seems like he throws eight different pitches,” Pennington said. “Sometimes he doesn’t even know what it’s going to do — most of the time he
does — but he’s got a cutter, a slider, a curveball, a 2-seam and it’s all hard.” Martin, a 6-foot-2, 200-pound righthander from Cypress, entered the season with high expectations as the Aggies’ closer. He had scouts drooling after he pitched to a 1.15 ERA in 14 appearances against some of college baseball’s best hitters in the Cape Cod League, widely recognized as the preeminent summer league in the country. He built on that success in the fall, where he pitched so well that D1Baseball.com’s Kendall Rogers called him the best pitcher he saw from all the schools he visited in the fall.
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His season got off to a rough start, though. He was blowing up radar guns with an explosive fastball registering in the high 90s, but he was erratic and continued to battle the inconsistency that had plagued him throughout his first two seasons in Aggieland. After he surrendered a walk-off grand slam against Baylor in the Minute Maid Classic, his ERA rose to an unsightly 9.72. Childress took him from the closer’s role and moved him to middle relief, and Martin began to churn out quality outing after quality outing. He made a concerted effort to dial back his MARTIN ON PG. 3
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Aggie researchers use charged plates to control the heating for a pore-like chamber in an attempt to reproduce lava lamp-like activity.
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By Alex Sein @alexandrsein A team of researchers at A&M has been working on an alternative theory for how life developed on Earth, and it could affect the way scientists look for extraterrestrial life on other worlds. A team led by Victor Ugaz, associate professor of chemical engineering, sought to uncover how the organic molecules in Earth’s early oceans could have become concentrated enough to combine and form the first lifeforms, since, on average, the oceans did not have a high enough concentration of these particles. According to Ugaz, the answer can be explained by lava lamps on a microscopic scale. “You heat a fluid from below with a light bulb, and then it causes a density change,” Ugaz said. “The fluid near the bottom is warmer, so it’s lighter, and it rises, and then the fluid near the top is cooler, so it sinks.” Lava lamps, according to Ugaz, are designed to maintain a constant flow of liquid inside them. But this was difficult to replicate on the microscopic scale, and according to Yuncheng Yu, a chemical engineering senior on the team, it took years to do. “The previous Ph.D. student — he actually did some computational simulation,” Yu said. “I’m more the experimental side, to use the experimental results to prove what he did from the EARLY LIFE ON PG. 2
By Abbie Maier @abbsmaier Jeff and Josh Anderle are taking father-son bonding to a whole new level. Father and long-established Aggie Jeff Anderle is working to complete the degree he began at Texas A&M 28 years ago alongside his son Josh, who is a first-semester student at Blinn College. Jeff is an original member of the Class of 1991 and will graduate from the College of Liberal Arts in 2017, while Josh plans to graduate from A&M in 2021. Although in different stages of their lives, the pair is able to share their love of learning and of A&M. The Anderle family returned to Bryan-College Station in December of 2015 to start a church in the area, after 17 years of living in Tennessee. “We felt led to come back here and start a church in College Station. When we first decided to do that, we checked if I could finish my degree. That was the first thing I wanted to do,” Jeff said. “I bleed maroon. I love A&M. Not finishing bothered me, so when I had the opportunity I came back and now I’m finishing it up.”
Jeff has been involved in ministry for 27 years, beginning when he first joined Young Life in College Station, a Christian ministry focused on high school students, and became the youth pastor at A&M United Methodist Church during his early years of college. “I was a little bit more invested in doing ministry than I was in school. So the last semester of my junior year, I ended up going on academic probation,” Jeff said. “I transferred to a little Methodist college up in Shreveport, Louisiana my senior year to get a certification in youth ministry, and had left this degree undone.” Josh graduated high school a year early and is almost finished with his first semester at Blinn. He said he enjoys having his family nearby during his endeavors in higher education. “It feels normal to me — the difference is I don’t have to pay rent. I was homeschooled all the way up to high school. When I started going to high school, my mom started teaching there and my dad started substituting there,” Josh said. “My last semester in high school, I was actually in Chattanooga and they were here. So I got a taste of what it’s like to be away from family, and I didn’t like it.” Despite being interested in separate topics, both Jeff and Josh have enjoyed the classes they’ve taken at A&M and at ANDERLE ON PG. 2
By Tyler Snell @Tyler_Snell2 College students are facing a struggle much larger than their next exam these days — they are battling the ever rising costs of higher education, too. A week ago, the Texas Senate passed Senate Bill 19, which aims to limit increasing tuition at public universities and connect future increases to performance measures. Senator Charles Schwertner proposed an amendment that will limit future tuition increases to no more than one percent over the rate of inflation. The amendment passed with a 20-11 vote. “This change will restore a measure of accountability to higher education and ensure that a college education remains affordable and accessible for all Texas students,” Schwertner said in a statement after the adoption of the bill. “As most people know, I have been a vocal advocate of slowing tuition growth for many years and was extremely pleased to see such strong support for this issue in the Texas Senate.” According to a report by U.S. News and World Report, in-state tuition and fees at public universities grew by 296 percent in the 20 year span from 1995 to 2015. The average cost of tuition in 1995 was $2,475.76 compared to $9,803.03 in 2015. “Capping tuition at something close to the rate of inflation means that tuition will have to TUITION ON PG. 2
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computational simulations.” Yassin Hassan, team member and director of the Department of Nuclear Engineering, emphasized the importance of melding engineering disciplines on this project. “This is kind of multidisciplinary — the collaboration between aerospace, nuclear engineering, chemical engineering, with different perspectives,” Hassan said. “We can build a nuclear reactor; in the same time, we can understand, you know, the medical applications.” Eventually, the team discovered that microscopic holes in rocks near hydrothermal vents — places on the ocean floor where magma and water mix to form hot jets of matter — can indeed behave like miniature lava lamps. If the conditions are just right, organic particles in the water will accumulate at the top and bottom of the hole — known as a pore-like chamber — in high concentrations. While the various sulfides released by the vent are toxic to most forms of life, according to Ugaz, they can catalyze primitive organic reactions as well. Thus, the team concluded, with high enough concentrations of organic particles and the chemicals needed to put organic reactions in motion, life may have begun at the bottom of the ocean. According to Ugaz, this is a significant breakthrough, as it helps to solidify the theory that life in other places in the solar system, like on Jupiter’s moon Europa or on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, could arise from hydrothermal vents deep inside those moons’ hypothesized global oceans.
ANDERLE CONTINUED Blinn. “I’ve always imagined going to A&M,” Josh said. “They’ve got the third best animation program for a public school, and that’s pretty amazing. I love art and animation, and it’s what I’m interested in. My favorite memory so far would probably be getting photoshopped for my digital art class for the first time.” Jeff is similarly passionate about what he has had the opportunity to learn. “’I’m taking ‘Special Topics in an
TUITION CONTINUED stay pretty low at public universities,” said Jacob Arnett, A&M legislative relations commissioner and international affairs graduate student. “Capping tuition is good in the sense that [students] don’t have to pay more — but it does beg the question, how well is the university going to perform if it doesn’t get the proper funding?” Texas A&M’s Student Senate passed a resolution at the last Senate meeting against the Texas Legislature Senate Bill 1, which decreased the funding for A&M students from $58 per semester credit hour to $50. “The state of Texas essentially said that a student semester credit hour is worth less than any other student at any university in the state of Texas,” said Joseph Hood, government and public services senior and Speaker of the A&M Student Senate. “In combination with the environment of higher education right now, [SB 19] doesn’t get
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Team lead Victor Ugaz sets up a high-speed camera filming the experiment.
However, Ugaz emphasized the current research is only a proof-of-concept for flows inside pore-like chambers. “We haven’t synthesized anything in this work,” Ugaz said. “That’s what we’re doing now, is we’re going back
and trying to replicate specific reactions that are relevant.” The team’s objective is to eventually prove how life began on Earth, and perhaps, to help scientists discover it elsewhere in the solar system.
Author’ on J.R. Tolkien with Robert Boenig, and he’s brilliant. It’s just wonderful, I come out of that class just walking on air,” Jeff said. “I’m taking the ‘Philosophy of C.S. Lewis’ by Robert Garcia, and it’s the same way.” Wife to Jeff and mother of Josh, Kellie Anderle graduated from A&M in 1991. Jeff and Kellie fell in love while they were both in school here. Kellie said she is supportive of her husband and son’s educations. “Jeff is really enjoying it. It’s a lot of the same of what we’ve done always. Even with Jeff pastoring, he was always studying and writing. He has to be at
class at certain times, but it’s just like in the past when he had to be at meetings, and Josh of course has always been in school,” Kellie said. “It’s been fun; we all love learning. We have a lot of good memories here.” Jeff said he has a unique perspective as a student because of his nontraditional path and understands college to be an exceptional experience. “College is a privilege,” Jeff said. “It’s very easy to lose your focus. This is a very special time where you get to focus in on learning. Just learning for the sake of learning is an amazing thing.”
to the root of the problem. The root of the problem is that we have an education market that incentivises growth that costs a lot of money.” Tuition and fees for out-of-state residents attending Texas A&M has increased 4.9 percent over the past five years and is projected to reach $32,985, annually by the 2019-2020 school year, according to a CollegeFactual report. Arnett said he is worried this capping of funds for universities could impact their revenue and the ability to raise money. “It limits the university from raising tuition when it needs to,” Arnett said. “The downside of [the cap] is that the state does not look like it is going to be able to fund this particularly well. That could affect the university because we won’t have all the money for the programs that we need.” The Texas State Legislature has proposed appropriating $17.5 million for the next two years for the University of Texas compared to $10.5 million for Texas A&M. “The capping of tuition has a lot to
do with the idea that the university can be funded without raising tuition but it doesn’t look like it will be like this in how the state budget is treating higher education,” Arnett said. “Capping tuition is pretty straight forward. It’s just a question of whether or not the university can get the funding to make that a reasonable option for students.” Appointed Legislative Relations Commissioner and political science junior Brandon Gindt said while tuition regulation is positive, it must be across the board for each university in the state. “As of now, Texas A&M is not being funded appropriately by the state because of the base funding levels that are decreased for A&M as opposed to other universities across the state of Texas,” Gindt said. “It’s important to students that the university is funded at that base level to remain competitive and provide that world-class education to students and be one of the leading universities across the state.”
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MARTIN CONTINUED fastball — throwing it in the low 90s instead of the mid-to-high 90s — and focused on not only throwing more strikes, but locating his pitches better to throw quality strikes down in the zone. Then, after getting swept by Kentucky in the Aggies’ opening SEC series, Childress did something that came as a surprise to most: He inserted Martin, whose ERA was still hovering above 4.50, into the starting rotation. Childress realized his pitching staff needed a spark, and he figured moving Mitchell Kilkenny to the back-end of the bullpen and letting Martin start a few games might be just what A&M needed. “He’d quietly put a nice run together,” Childress said, “and obviously the places that we had the guys in the puzzle weren’t working.” Martin, who says he likes starting better than relieving, was also surprised at his coach’s move but appreciated the boost of confidence.
“I had been throwing pretty good in a long-relief role, but I just didn’t think it would come so quickly — I was pumped up about it,” said Martin, who is 3-3 with a 4.33 ERA heading into this weekend’s series against Alabama. “Being able to have a coach that has all the confidence in the world in you and continuously gives me the opportunities instead of just giving up means a lot.” Last weekend against LSU, Martin was at his best. He was efficient — throwing only 99 pitches in a career-high eight innings — and rebounded nicely after he allowed a two-run homer to Tigers shortstop Kramer Robertson on a fastball that missed its spot up in the zone. He put up zero after zero on the scoreboard after that Robertson dinger, keeping the game close and allowing the Aggies to ultimately come back and win. “I feel like that’s the best I’ve seen him pitch during his time here at Texas A&M. He’s transformed into a pitcher,” Childress said. “Nobody’s questioning the arm or the stuff, it’s just about going out there and pitching.”
Martin is still pitching with reduced fastball velocity, which he says allows him to pitch deeper into games and lessens the wear and tear on his arm. It is also a nice luxury for him to know he has the mid-to-high 90s juice in his back pocket that he can unleash if he needs to get out of a tight spot. “I always know it’s going to be in the tank if I need it,” Martin said. “But ever since I toned it down and started to control it better, I’ve been able to pitch better.” Through all the ups and downs, Martin has remained a positive influence in the Aggies’ clubhouse. He has won the team’s Spirit Award in both his years as an Aggie for contributing to team unity and providing valuable leadership on and off the field. Martin is one of the original masterminds behind the bubbles that flood Olsen Field after the Aggies score a run, an act that has become a vaunted Texas A&M baseball tradition since its inception in 2015. “He’s a guy that breaks the tension,” said third baseman George Janca. “When we’re not going good or the tension is kind of get-
ting high, he’s always the one to relax everybody and say a joke or do something stupid to get everybody loose.” As the season progresses into May and June, the Aggies are relying on Martin to impact the team on the mound as well as in the dugout. The dynamic arsenal of pitches has always been there for him, and now he’s found a way to channel that into getting outs as the team’s No. 2 starter. He struggled a bit in his last start against Auburn, giving up three runs in three innings, and he will try to get back to his LSU form this weekend against the Crimson Tide. The series opens Thursday in Tuscaloosa with first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m. “He started putting the competitive piece together with the pitchability piece,” said assistant coach Justin Seely. “I’m very happy for him. Everyone knows how great a teammate he is, how much his teammates like him, how much the coaches like him and how much we root for him, and it’s just fun to see the fruits of his labor come out on the field.”
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