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Tusks sawed off First SEC win a record-breaking game for Manziel Mark Dore The Battalion Last September, the Aggies were invited. In July, the acceptance took effect. Weeks ago, the football team took to Kyle Field with a maroon SEC logo emblazoned on the turf. But it wasn’t until Saturday, when A&M (3-1, 1-1) washed over the Arkansas Razorbacks (1-4, 0-2) in a 58-10 thrashing, that the Aggies’ inclusion in college football’s most exclusive party became more than ceremony. Given the new conference, the history of second-half disasters and a nagging recent inability to close out Arkansas, A&M
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Freshman running back Trey Williams dives into the end zone after a long run against Arkansas Saturday at Kyle field. Aggie football secured its first SEC win against Arkansas 58–10. head coach Kevin Sumlin said the team’s relief was clear. “We got a monkey off our back today,” Sumlin said. “Everybody was talking about what happens to us in the second half, and these guys were determined to play.” Sumlin wasn’t on the sidelines to witness three straight heartbreakers against Arkansas — including last season’s 18-point lead whisked away by a stagnant second half — but this year’s seniors were. The win was the first in four tries for seniors, including senior defensive lineman Damontre Moore. “Everybody was overwhelmed,” Moore said. “It felt like the [2010] Nebraska game, the [2010] Oklahoma game, all
over again. We came in after the game excited, splashing Gatorade all over. It’s a great feeling for the seniors who have been through all this Arkansas rivalry.” Trailing 10-7 in the first quarter, Sumlin’s Aggies reeled off 51 unanswered points to close the contest. After a mixed-bag preseason of coaching scandals and top-10 rankings, Arkansas dropped its fourth in a row, furthering a disappointing season for Razorback fans. The SEC takes pedigree seriously. But now, in his fourth start, the conference’s newest member upstart freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel has churned out the most total yardage in a game in SEC history. Sumlin pulled Manziel just after the start of the fourth quarter, but not before he accumulated 453 yards and three touchdowns passing and 104 yards and a touchdown rushing. His 557 total yards shattered the previous school record of 487 held by former quarterback Jerrod Johnson and nipped an SEC record of 540 shared by Archie Manning and Rohan Davey. Offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury praised Manziel’s performance. “I felt like it was the best game he’s played in the pocket,” Kingsbury said. “He still went outside when the play wasn’t there. He’s got that ability. He pulled the trigger today. He liked what he saw and ripped it.” Aiding Manziel’s success was a rejuvenated performance from his offensive line, which senior center Patrick Lewis said came from better communication. See Arkansas on page 5
campus inside trends | 3 New network Paige Robinson, Class of 2010, founded Trellise, a website geared toward helping student organizations on the A&M campus be better organized and connected with their alumni. The beta site launched Monday.
sports | 5 Never slowing down Despite pulling off their first conference victory the Aggies are forced to focus on the future. With a rough SEC schedule ahead there’s no room for relaxation.
campus A&M one year older Texas A&M is celebrating its 136th birthday Tuesday. The school was established by the Morrill Act on July 2, 1862, but didn’t open its doors for registration until Oct. 2, 1876. On Oct. 4, 1876, 40 students and six faculty members began instruction.
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Miller Hardin, an employee of a food truck, hands out orders to hungry customers Wednesday afternoon on campus.
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Food trucks offer alternative dining options Jennifer Keith The Battalion In the midst of the latest cuisine trend, food connoisseurs and chefs across Bryan-College Station are giving customers an alternative to sit-down restaurants for their growling stomachs. Chef Tai Lee, the owner of Chef Tai’s Mobile Bistro and chef at Veritas Wine and Bistro, said some of his motivation for his food truck came from his desire to lose the stigma that there is no good food in College Station. “Chow.com rated College Station as one of the worst towns for food because we are so saturated with fast food chains,” Lee said. “I want to expose our town to different diverse food, and hopefully they will open up their eyes so that they aren’t afraid of eating sushi.” Being an Aggie, Class of 2002, Lee has a special connection to College Station and has been in the city since 1998. “I am an Aggie, I want my fellow Aggies to taste my food and see more of what I do,” Lee said. “I owe everything to the Aggies and local residents. I see such a tremendous unity
and friendship in this town. I love this town.” Lee balances being chef at Veritas Wine and Bistro while at the same time channeling his love for cuisine to help develop his mobile bistro which also offers catering services. In 2011, The Food Network named Chef Tai’s Mobile Bistro “America’s Favorite Food Truck” after Lee’s bistro won $10,000 on The Food Network’s show The Great Food Truck Race. Local Daniel Orozco said he loves the food truck’s constantly changing menu. “I like that [Chef Tai’s] is something different.” Orozco said. “College station has a lot of chains, and I like that this brings a fresh idea to the table.” Parked merely a few yards from Chef Tai’s Mobile Bistro is the Cake Junkie Cruiser, a food truck affiliated with Cake Junkie’s local bakery. Senior community development major Ann Vonk works on the Cruiser, and said she applied to work specifically for the food truck because of her curiosity in the mobile cuisine movement. “I am very interested in the food truck revolution,” Vonk said. “It’s a See Food trucks on page 3
The Battalion Apollo and Gemini astronaut Capt. James Lovell presented the $10,000 Astronaut Scholarship to senior aerospace engineering major Emily Boster during a ceremony Friday at Rudder Auditorium. “Emily has demonstrated quality leadership in aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University,” Lovell said. “She embodies the top characteristics of an Astronaut Scholar by being intelligent, perseverant and driven to lead on the path toward the advancement of scientific knowledge and technology.” Boster has a 4.0 GPA and expects to graduate in the fall of 2013. She is part of Texas A&M’s Astronomical Instrumentation Lab and has worked on the VIRUS instrument, which was built to help astronomers better understand dark energy. She has also worked on components for the Giant Magellan Telescope, which, once erected, will be the world’s largest optical telescope. Boster’s current project is working on a flight machine that lifts heavy payloads for civilians.
Capt. James Lovell: “Once we get comfortable going to the moon again, it will allow our curiosity to truly expand to other worlds, such as Mars, then other galaxies.”
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A DNA double helix model on display at the Bush Library and Museums is part of the travelling exhibit, Genome: The Secret of How Life Works. President George H.W. Bush approved of the Human Genome Project, which could potentially identify and cure genetic disorders.
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Former student to upgrade campus fabric Barrett House The Battalion Texas A&M is known for its ability to equip students with the necessary skills to be innovative. It’s also known for an alumni base that continually supports the University and its students. Paige Robinson, Class of 2010, is doing both. Robinson, who graduated with a degree in finance, is the founder of Trellise, a technology platform that enables student organizations to effectively manage their groups and stay connected to their alumni. The beta site launched Monday, allowing initial access to 45 student organizations. Robinson said the goal of Trellise is to improve student organizations, which she calls the fabric of campus. Her own experiences in student organizations — such as Tell Your Story — and the issues she had with them also contributed to the creation of Trellise. “Pouring my heart and soul into Tell Your Story, I went to hand it off to the next year and there was no infrastructure whatsoever to help facilitate that handoff,” Robinson said. “There’s no consistent technology tool that enables organizations to be successful from year to year.” Robinson has integrated the website with
student organizations during every step of the platform’s production, utilizing several organizations — such as Big Event, CARPOOL and Muster — to constantly provide feedback. It’s something Robinson said she is very proud of. “Students are always going to be our core customer base and we’ve taken a lot of pains and steps to ensure that we always hear their voice,” Robinson said. One of those steps for the business will be on-campus student representation through a student organization. Robinson said the company is currently preparing a group of students who will have student organization status. Justin Cardenas, senior biomedical sciences major and director for The Big Event, is among many students who have worked closely with Robinson during Trellise’s development. Cardenas said the website is a useful tool for student organizations, and utilizing student input has been important. “We think its goal of incorporating alumni as well as helping out students within the organization connect better is helpful for A&M,” Cardenas said. “I think she’s done a great job along with communication as well as portraying her mission, her goals every step
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Senior Derek Smith prepares an order for a customer at Chef Tai’s Mobile Bistro Wednesday on campus.
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fun way to get some extra cash. I actually have never had one of the cupcakes, but the most popular is the red velvet.” The Cake Junkie Cruiser often parks next to Chef Tai’s, offering customers like Jacquelyn Nguyen dinner and dessert in one stop. “The kids love it,” Nguyen said. “They get excited on Wednesdays to come get hamburgers and cupcakes. When [these food trucks] first started, I followed them everywhere.” A local food truck that caters more towards college students is one called The Rollin’ Joint, which serves southern drunk food every
students and their desire for the website to be shaped by students. “Since we are Aggies and love the Aggie family, we wanted it to be shaped by students and designed by students, and that’s why we brought students on so early,” Pearce said. Robinson has become an example for students searching for creative job opportunities. For Robinson, when creating her own business, she said the worst thing that could have happened was failing. “It’s hard work. I don’t think I’ve slept in a week, and you get told no a lot,” Robinson said. “But the worst they can say is no, and the worst that could happen is you fail, and failure is just not that bad.”
Thursday through Saturday night on Northgate from 11 p.m.-2:30 a.m. Founder Tyler Riddle said The Rollin’ Joint prides itself on the fact that it focuses on food quality. This is achieved through constantly changing menus with plates such as hickory-smoked pulled pork BBQ with Dublin Dr. Pepper sauce, chicken fried rice, and macaroni and cheese topped with crushed Cheetos and bacon. “We make everything from scratch,” Riddle said. “Our menu is a very southern solid drunk food menu. We don’t cut corners or do anything premade.” Though College Station remains The Rollin’ Joint’s original location, Riddle hopes to expand the truck to every SEC campus in the next five years.
Jeff Harris, the owner of a local shaved ice joint named Frost Bites said that a lot of the food truck industry has to do with convenience. “We come to you,” Harris said. “If you are at your office and can’t get out, or if you want to reward your employees for working overtime, call us and we’ll come out to treat everybody.” Harris started Frost Bites in July of 2011, and now manages it on the side while working as a full time police officer. “I have some really good customers,” Harris said. “I enjoy coming up to check on [the truck]. I know all of the customers and people even recognize me in the grocery store.”
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“I have a year and a half left [at A&M] to see all the work coming to fruition,” Boster said. “To see an instrument come from a computer model to seeing hundreds of parts that will build an instrument that studies dark matter is exciting.” The aerospace industry does not have many female workers currently involved, and Boster hopes that she can inspire many other women to choose and pursue careers in the industry. “My hope is to just do the best job I can do as a woman and be an inspiration to younger women,” Boster said. “If they think, ‘Oh, I’m a girl, I cannot do engineer-
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They established themselves as a threat in a conference where such hazards aren’t taken lightly. The die has been cast and it came in the form of a 48-point victory over a preseason top 10 opponent, a strong, but deadly, statement that will last the remainder of the year. And don’t be fooled by the lack of national attention— the rest of the SEC, especially the likes of Alabama and LSU, received the message loud and clear. A storm is brewing in College Station and the forecast predicts a high chance of broken records along with a possible inclination toward earth-shattering upsets. “We got a monkey off our back today,� head coach Kevin Sumlin said following the win. “As we are, [however], we’re a work in progress.� Texas A&M’s “monkey� comes in many forms. The Aggies picked up their first conference victory as an SEC member, silencing multiple critics. They also defeated Arkansas for the first time since 1991, avenging their program’s trifecta of losses garnered in the Southwest Classic over the past three seasons. Finally, and most importantly, A&M was able to prove their ability to perform in the clutch.
Following last season’s incredible bungles in which the Aggies blew five second half leads, clinching a big win against a quality opponent Saturday was a landmark victory for the program. “Everybody was talking about what happens to us in the second half, and these guys were determined to play,� Sumlin continued. “Execution is key, and we took care of the ball and executed very well.� Despite the pressure that was lifted over the weekend, however, the dominating style of play A&M displayed against the Razorbacks will only serve to add a much heavier, and ultimately more dangerous, load to this Aggie squad. Looking forward, almost the entirety of their conference slate remains. Visiting ranked opponents No. 1 Alabama and No. 20 Mississippi State along with hosting a deadly No. 4 LSU team over the course of the coming months, A&M still has the weight of their schedule bearing down upon them. And now, every one of the western division powerhouse programs recognizes the Aggies’ capacity to take control of a big time matchup. Finding success is one thing. Maintaining it, though, is another aspect in itself.
Nothing will come easy and every team will give the Aggies their best shot, working to stay off the list of programs that took a loss from “the new guy on the block.� Arkansas was the first. No program desires to be second. Or third. Or fourth. From this point forward, there will be not a moment of respite. No more off weeks or passing seconds for celebration, only preparation and battle in the never-ending war for the conference title. Welcome to the SEC.
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fense wasn’t concerned with conceding yardage so long as big plays were minimized. “The more snaps they have, the more chances they have to throw a pick or fumble the ball,� Terrell said. “We knew we might give up a lot of yards but as long as we didn’t give up the deep ball we knew we were going to win this game.� The win prevented A&M from slumping into a potentially devastating 0-2 home record in the SEC. The Aggies, very much in the conference hunt just one game behind first-place No.1 Alabama in the SEC West, look ahead to a road date in Oxford against the Ole Miss Rebels. Ole Miss (3-2, 0-1) put up an early fight but fell on the road to heavily favored Alabama, 33-14. A win in Oxford would go a long way toward solidifying any early noise touting the Aggies as a legitimate force in the new-look SEC. Senior linebacker Sean Porter said the team has let fans down in the past, but said this year’s group has a chance to shock some teams. “We know that we didn’t close games last year and this year we’re changing that,� Porter said. “If we just play our game, we can compete with anybody.�
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“Communication was a big factor which was something we were lacking in the past weeks,� Lewis said. “The more we communicate, the better we play.� A string of three quiet games had people murmuring about the diminished involvement of senior wide receiver Ryan Swope. Against Arkansas, Swope hauled in five catches for 141 yards — his 10th such game of better than 100 yards, a school record — including an 80-yard touchdown from Manziel. Of the touchdown, Swope said when the play call was made he knew he had a chance to make something of it. “That was just a little double move, a great call by Coach Kingsbury,� Swope said. “When he made that call I knew it was my time to flip the switch and take over the ball game.� The Aggies converted their 716 yards into 58 points, while the Razorbacks turned out just 10 points in 498 yards. Senior safety Steven Terrell, who gathered in two interceptions on the day, said the de-
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Top: Senior receiver Ryan Swope finds the endzone for the second time this season. Bottom: Freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel directs blockers as he scrambles Saturday against Arkansas.
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