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Submissions to the 2019 ArtFest are in the Reynolds Student Art Gallery until April 20.

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Student art on display in MSC ArtFest competition showcases wide variety of Aggie-created submissions

By Meagan Sheffield @mshef350 Students from a wide range of disciplines submitted paintings, sculptures and films to compete for cash prizes in this year’s ArtFest.

The annual student art competition and exhibition is held in the James R. Reynolds Student Art Gallery and sponsored by the MSC Visual Arts Committee. Submissions will be on display until April 20 and visitors will be able to vote for the best submissions until April 1. The winners will be announced during an opening reception on April 4 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the gallery.

Students collectively submitted 92 pieces, 88 of which are 2D or 3D art and four that are film submissions. The best film submission will win $100, and the top three 2D or 3D submissions will receive $100, $75 and $50, respectively.

ArtFest program advisor Mary Compton said the community should attend the opening reception to meet and support the artists.

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Kwami Etwi warms up before participating in the 40-yard dash at the 2019 Texas A&M Pro Day.

Former A&M players participate in Pro Day ahead of April 25 NFL Draft

By Abigail Ochoa @AbigailOchoa88 With 52 NFL personnel, 32 teams represented, two general managers and 18 former Texas A&M football players in attendance, the NFL Pro Day kicked off at the McFerrin Athletic Center on Tuesday.

Among A&M’s draft prospects were Jace Sternberger, Trayveon Williams, Erik McCoy and Cullen Gillaspia. The Aggies com-

pleted drills and testing such as vertical jump, broad jump, 40-yard dash, 5-10-5 shuttle and position drills.

A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher said it was great to see his former players showcasing their talents and the amount of progress they’ve made since the fall.

“They all have dreams and aspirations, which is one of the reasons they came here,” Fisher said. “Those guys did a great job; hope everything goes well for them.”

Sternberger, who transferred to A&M last April as a tight end, participated in position drills on Tuesday, choosing to use his numbers and statistics from the NFL Combine

for other drills. He said his journey since declaring in January has been a whirlwind.

“I still really haven’t had the time to process everything,” Sternberger said. “Ever since the day I declared for the draft, its been going 100 miles an hour, from moving to a different state, to pro day, to going to the combine — its been hectic. I’m just smiling and waving through it all.”

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Training for vital conversations Student Counseling Services to launch interactive suicide prevention program

By Marina Garcia @margar211 On April 3, students can pilot test a simulation program designed to teach users how to identify and assist students in distress.

The program — offered through the Office of Suicide Prevention and one of the many training modules produced by online health simulation company Kognito — will begin in the fall of 2019. Introducing Kognito simulations to Texas A&M was made possible by the Garrett Lee Smith Campus Suicide Prevention Act Grant, which Student Counseling Services received last year.

This semester, students who sign up to pilot test the program will spend an hour and a half using it and giving feedback. The online role-playing simulations train users on how to lead conversations with people in crisis and how to connect them with support.

Counseling services assistant director Santana Simple said the counseling center is not always able to help every student on campus and this program will utilize students’ desires to help their peers and assist more students.

“What we know through our suicide prevention trainings is there is a lot of people who want to support individuals who are maybe just distressed or that may be having suicidal ideations,” Simple said.

There are currently in-person trainings where students can learn how to help their peers, but Simple said it can be a challenge for students to attend and she hopes the convenience of Kognito will increase the number of students who take this type of training.

The Kognito simulations are designed to help train its users to become gatekeepers. Glenn Albright, co-founder and director of research at Kognito, said a gatekeeper is someone who can identify an individual who is in psychological distress and know how to correctly help them.

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Students can register to test Kognito simulations starting on April 3. The program will help users assess the signs of psychological distress and help at-risk students.

Service in the Lone Star State

Bush School hosts philanthropists for panel discussion about volunteerism across Texas

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William Brown, director of the Center for Nonprofits and Philanthropy, served as the moderator at the discussion about volunteerism on Tuesday.

Tuesday evening the Bush School’s Center for Nonprofits and Philanthropy invited students and activists to learn about service in Texas from those who are leading the charge.

Among those leaders were First Lady of Texas Cecilia Abbott, CitySquare CEO Larry James, OneStar Foundation CEO Elizabeth Darling and regional Wells Fargo Bank President David O’Neil. Each spent the hour speaking to attendees about how to succeed in volunteering and the steps Texans can take to see service reach new heights.

Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and senior professor Frank B. Ashley III opened with a quote from late former President George H.W. Bush: “There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.”

Ashley said Aggies at the Bush School have dedicated themselves to these ideals through their academic and occupational lives.

“Here at the Bush school, we are proud of the fact

that over 70 percent of our graduates go into public service upon graduating, while other schools typically range from 20 to 40 percent,” Ashley said. “If you ask our students why they are here, I can almost guarantee that their response will be because [they] want to serve others.”

Director of the Center for Nonprofits and Philanthropy William Brown said service is the driving principle behind the center’s efforts.

“What matters, in the end, are not possessions,” Brown said. “What matters is engaging in the high moral principle of serving one another. It is the connections we have to each other that can make a difference.”

Abbott focused on how to serve the state as a whole and said her top priority is to encourage Texans to give back through volunteerism and service. Abbott explicitly praised an organization within Texas A&M which she felt fulfilled this mission.

“One of the first groups we honored with the Governors’ Volunteer Award, in the first year of Greg’s first term, was The Big Event here at Texas A&M University,” Abbott said.

The event featured a panel moderated by Brown in which James, Darling and O’Neil discussed a range of service-related topics. O’Neil spoke about Wells SERVICE ON PG. 3

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Keagan Miller says anyone who is interested in a mind-boggling story filled with secrets and lies should consider giving “The Act” a try.

The SEAD Gallery in Downtown Bryan currently features work from artists John Krajicek, Dawn Winter and Cameron Sands.

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‘I paint because I love to paint’ New SEAD Gallery exhibition highlights three local artists

By Rose Moczygemba @MoczygembaRose A colorful new modern art exhibit is now open to the public in Downtown Bryan.

The SEAD Gallery and Bookshop in Bryan opened up a new exhibit on March 21 featuring three artists’ works: John Krajicek, Dawn Winter and Cameron Sands.

Joan Quintana, the curator of the exhibit and director of the gallery, helped open the gallery six years ago.

“We opened it because, at the time in Downtown Bryan, there was no dedicated art gallery,” Quintana said. “We work in community and economic development, so we are trying really hard to make Bryan-College Station a place where people want to come and live and stay. Having cultural arts and creative venues for experiences is a really big part of that.”

According to Quintana, the gallery features a new exhibit every Third Thursday of the month. Displays are put together by Quintana and the staff, and depending on what they are showing, an exhibition will be art-based, science-based or engineering-based.

“We curate our exhibits based on our understanding of the market and what the market is interested in, in terms of the types of art we exhibit,” Quintana said.

“Depending on the artists that come to us, we then have to put together a cohesive exhibit. For example, for this exhibit, we have three artists. It’s a group show. We have abstract art in this particular show, so it’s not realism.”

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Ginny Ford and Selina Colwell were two guests that visited to view the new exhibit.

Ford said she attends the gallery regularly.

“They always have fantastic artists on display here,” Ford said. “[This exhibit] is colorful, it’s vibrant, it makes me feel happy. And I don’t normally like modern art.”

The visit was Coldwell’s first time at the SEAD Gallery, and she said she enjoyed her time viewing the new pieces.

“My family is made up of artists, so we have a bunch of traditional-type art,” Coldwell said. “So I’m drawn to modern art just because it’s something that they’ve never done.”

John Krajicek, one of the artists whose paintings are on display, is a painter and an executive professor at Mays Business School who primarily teaches MBA students. The SEAD Gallery and several other places in the Bryan-College Station area have featured his work before.

“I am creating things that are hopefully interesting and compelling, but for aesthetic reasons,” Krajicek said. “If I have a purpose beyond that, it would be to remind people that art for art’s sake is worth it. I’m drawn to abstract art in particular because it often tends to be non-representational. The inability to get a handle on what it is really resonates with me.”

Rather than using paintbrushes, Krajicek prefers to use tools such as his fingers and palette knives. To him, painting is meditative and an excellent way to gain focus.

“I paint because I love to paint,” Krajicek said. “When I paint, I am totally in the moment, totally focused on what I am doing, not ruminating about the past or lurching into the future. It is me and paint and canvas. And that is very intoxicating.”

The show has a lot going for it, but its future remains unclear Keagan Miller

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ulu’s new weekly true-crime drama series, “The Act,” follows the strange story of Dee Dee Blanchard and her daughter, Gypsy Rose, as they move to a new town, and their secrets are slowly revealed. I had conflicting opinions about the show while watching the first episode, and it was hard to tell how the rest of the show will turn out.

On one hand, “The Act” has two things going for it: its crisp images with oddly striking cinematography and its truly intriguing based-on-real-life story of a small-town murder. Anyone who knows the story of the real Blanchards can tell you the 2015 murder case was about as strange and dramatic as it gets outside of fiction. Without spoiling too much for viewers who want to go in blind, Dee Dee and Gypsy’s tale is one rife with secrets, abuse and Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Reading the details of the case feels like reading the synopsis of a fictional mystery book. It makes sense why the story has been adapted several times in the years since it happened and why Hulu chose the story for their new show. This, combined with the high production value and sharp imagery of the first episode, makes me think the show might hold promise in the future.

On the other hand, the show has a few things working against it. The acting was unconvincing, the script seemed poorly written and the actors, try as they might, were incapable of bringing the story to life. All the characters seemed flat and undeveloped. Dee Dee and Gypsy themselves didn’t see much development, let alone

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their many neighbors. Everyone seemed like a caricature of the quintessential small-town neighbor, and no one really got a life of their own. Now, I do acknowledge that this is a review of just the first episode of many yet to be released, and the lack of development displayed may as well have been a conscious choice to develop the characters more slowly throughout the rest of the season. But for a 53-minute episode, there wasn’t much to look at.

Another thing I thought hurt the show was that I already knew the story being told on screen, as is likely the case with most of the show’s viewers. They presented everything as mysterious and subtly sinister, which would be the perfect direction to take if the material was original and everyone didn’t already know about every surprise before it was revealed. Unfortunately, I spent much of the episode bored, waiting for them to stop building suspense over a reveal I already knew was coming.

I think many viewers will face the same problem. I have no doubt that the show was designed for someone ignorant of the story upon which the show is based.

Overall, it’s hard for me to form a conclusive opinion about the show based on the first episode alone. There were parts I liked and parts I didn’t, and it’s impossible to tell which of these the show will continue with. If you’re interested in a truly mind-boggling true story filled with lies, watchful eyes and diabolical abuse, then you might want to give “The Act” a try.

It could get better, or it could get worse.

At this point, I can’t say.

Keagan Miller is a psychology junior and columnist for The Battalion.

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After ArtFest received about 130 submissions in 2018, the winners were decided by popular vote instead of judges.

ARTFEST CONTINUED “I think [art] is a really great expressive activity,” Compton said. “This is something we open up to the entire campus, not just the visualization students, and we encourage people who are not visualization students. It’s nice to see that everyone has that creativity in them.”

According to Compton, faculty judges and gallery directors were the only judges of ArtFest, but after ArtFest received about 130 submissions in 2018, the winners are decided by a popular vote during reception night.

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SERVICE CONTINUED Fargo’s efforts to motivate its workers to give back.

“Every team member gets two days they can go out and serve with paid time off for philanthropic or volunteer activities,” O’Neil said.

“Team members can also get paid time off from three days to three months, where they can take a leave of absence, allowing them to serve a significant role in a philanthropic setting.”

On the topic of expanding service, James said through his 20 years of experience, he has learned what moti-

senior Daniel Molina said judges are looking for the piece that demonstrates the best technique and emotionally moves their audience.

According to Molina, the goal of ArtFest is to use art to challenge the community’s way of thinking.

“ArtFest brings culture, ideas and innovation to the A&M community through the visual arts,” Molina said. “It also showcases the massive amount of artistic talent from A&M students. There are not many places on campus that display student art, and ArtFest is an outlet that can do such a thing.”

Visualization sophomore Julie Choi won first place at ArtFest last year with her piece

vates volunteers and what doesn’t.

“If we didn’t engage the people with the problem and the solutions to the problem, we were going to misfire badly,” James said.

James said volunteerism and service has steadily decreased throughout the state over the past years. He asked the panel about the importance of reversing this trend.

“Government can’t do it all,” Darling said. “As much as some might wish that it could, it cannot do everything. It’s about relationships and building those bridges across sectors to make progress on these problems that [government] can’t fix alone.”

“Phoenix of Immortality.” This year, she submitted her oil painting “A Hunt in Twilight,” which depicts a hunter observing a deer grazing in the woods. Choi said the piece was originally the final project for her painting class and her first large-scale oil painting.

“I’ve never really worked with wet mediums like oils and acrylics before, and I liked how it turned out a lot,” Choi said. “It shows how my techniques have changed from last year, and I take pride in self-growth. I wanted to tell a story through a moment in time, and I want viewers to interpret my piece and create their own backstories and resulting consequences of the scene.”

KOGNITO CONTINUED “These simulations were built to really prepare faculty and students on how to become gatekeepers and to feel confident in their ability to do so which will enhance mental health,” Albright said.

The learner can get assistance from a virtual coach that gives feedback for every conversation decision the learner makes, whether it be positive or negative.

The program provides overviews on different lessons, such as how to connect with an at-risk person, and also gives short quizzes to make sure the user understands the trainings. The simulations can be done in 35 minutes.

Kognito places the learners in a virtual online environment where they can talk to virtual humans.

These people have a personality, memory and emo-

At ArtFest, Choi said she enjoys seeing other works on display and hearing what people outside of her field have to say about her work.

“There’s something exciting about seeing people who did ArtFest last year submit again and seeing how everyone has evolved in their work and techniques,” Choi said. “It allows prospective artists to showcase their work to the public and show what they’ve been pouring their energy and passions into. As an artist, its uplifting to see people react to their piece and enjoy themselves in a setting filled with creativity and art.”

tional responses that allow them to behave similarly to a student that is experiencing psychological distress.

“The learner has the opportunity to practice what can be a really challenging and difficult conversation with this virtual student and getting them to feel comfortable on opening up and talking about what’s going on,” Albright said.

Mary Ann Covey, director of counseling services, said she hopes the simulation is part of the freshman experience either through Fish Camp or Living Learning Communities and wants upperclassmen to get involved as well.

“This is kind of showing a way to have those conversations that can be more productive for both sides, for the student that’s worried about other students as well as the student that’s struggling,” Covey said.

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Left: Sophomore Zach DeLoach high-fives junior Braden Shewmake and senior Chandler Morris as he returns to the dugout after scoring a run. Right: Sophomore Dustin Saenz allowed five hits in his 2.1 innings pitched.

Aggies keep streak alive against Lamar A&M earns non-conference win before hosting home SEC series

By Grant Spika @GrantSpika The Aggies loaded the bases in the bottom of the sixth as junior catcher Hunter Coleman stepped up to the plate.

Coleman tripled to deep right-center to clear the bases and extend Texas A&M’s lead to 8-3. The Coleman triple helped secure the Aggies’ 10-7 midweek victory against Lamar on Tuesday at Blue Bell Park.

“That definitely felt good, to get things

PRO DAY CONTINUED playing for an SEC team.

Williams said he has spoken with the Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Bears and Houston Texans, while Sternberger has worked out for the Arizona Cardinals and has spoken to the New Orleans Saints, with more visits scheduled through April.

McCoy, who is mostly being worked at center, has spoken with the Los Angeles Rams and Carolina Panthers, and he will meet with

rolling in the right direction,” Coleman said.

“Our offense continued to be relentless in tonight’s game. It felt good to finally cash in on some of those opportunities.”

With the win, No. 11 A&M improves to 22-5 and 5-1 in SEC play, while Lamar falls to 9-15 and 2-7 in the Southland conference.

The Aggies deployed a committee of pitchers to face the Cardinals’ hitters as sophomore Dustin Saenz got the start, tossing 2.1 innings and giving up one run on five hits. The A&M bullpen threw 6.2 innings and combined to give up three runs on eight hits.

At the plate, the Aggies were led by Coleman, junior infielder Braden Shewmake and sophomore outfielder Zach DeLoach. Cole-

man went 2-for-4 with four RBIs, while Shewmake went 1-for-3 with three RBIs and DeLoach rounded out the batters after going 1-for-4 with a two-run home run.

“The coaches gave me an opportunity,” DeLoach said. “I’ve been working hard trying to get my swing back to where it needs to be.

I felt good tonight sticking to the approach of staying up the middle and driving the ball.”

Lamar sophomore starting pitcher Jack Dallas tossed four innings, giving up four earned runs on six hits. After Dallas’ four innings were up, Lamar used five more pitchers throughout the game that gave up a combined six runs on seven hits.

At the plate, the Cardinals were led by

sophomore outfielder Avery George and junior catcher Jorge Gutierrez and junior infielder Logan Berlof. George went 2-for-4 with an RBI, while Gutierrez, who played for A&M his freshman season, went 1-for-2 with two RBIs and two runs scored and Berlof went 3-for-5 with an RBI. “You can see how we played here last week — with an awful lot of confidence,” A&M head coach Rob Childress said. “Every time they had an opportunity to grab the momentum, we’d answer right back offensively.”

The Aggies will be back in action this weekend as they host the Missouri Tigers. The first game of the three-game series is scheduled for Friday at 6:30 p.m.

the New York Jets, Baltimore Ravens, Washington Redskins and Arizona Cardinals soon.

McCoy said pro day and the combine call for a different mindset than playing in a regular season game because of the different way players prepare their bodies.

“It’s a lot different,” McCoy said. “Here [at A&M], you’re doing all the conditioning.

Doing this [pro day], you’re preparing your body for certain things; you’re preparing your body for the 25 bench press, the 40[-yard dash], instead of actually preparing yourself to play football.”

Gillaspia took part in most of the drills, participating in tight end, running back, full back, linebacker and special teams workouts.

“It was overall a good day,” Gillaspia said.

“I’m just looking for a place to play and looking for a team that can fill me in wherever I need to go, whether it’s linebacker, whether it’s fullback. … At the end of the day, it’s about making a roster, and wherever I can add value is what I’m going to do.”

As for projections on which player will be picked and in what round, Williams said anything can happen on draft day, despite mock

drafts or NFL projections.

“It really depends on how a certain team is feeling you,” Williams said. “A team might want to really go early on you or want to go mid round on you, but we will see. I’m excited, and hopefully I go as early as possible.”

Players will learn their fate during the NFL Draft in Nashville, Tennessee, from April 2527. The draft will be televised on the NFL Network, ABC, ESPN and ESPN Deportes starting on April 25 at 7 p.m.

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