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SBP candidates Reid Joseph and Garret Nerren will answer a series of questions at the final Student Body President debate at 6 p.m. Monday in the George Bush Presidential Library theater.
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inside campus | 2 Creative outlet The photography of the 12 student winners of the Aggie Frame of Mind Contest was displayed in the MSC on Friday. The new competition — with an aim to provide an outlet for art — occurs once a semester.
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Senior catcher Meagan May has recorded three home runs and eight RBIs through 10 games.
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housing | 6 On the rise The corner of Wellborn road and Church Street will soon be the site of a construction project for highrise apartments, causing the demolition of the historic structure of Café Eccell to accommodate increased enrollment of Texas A&M.
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Student senator and junior political science major Cary Cheshire filed suit in SGA’s Judicial Court on Wednesday, Feb. 15 alleging that election commissioner and senior biomedical sciences major, Allison Krenzien, had overstepped her bounds in regards to candidates changing caucuses — in reference to an email Krenzien sent to candidates the day before. The A&M Judicial Court decided that the Election Commissioner did not overstep the prerogative that comes with her office, as there are no regulations around her action.
sports | 3 Series win Jenna Rabel — THE BATTALION
Senior pitcher Mel Dumezich tossed seven shutout innings in a 1-0 win Friday, striking out seven Tar Heel players.
Five-win weekend pushes A&M softball to best start in five years Drew Chambers
The Battalion hen Emily Albus stepped to the plate to lead off on Sunday, Texas A&M softball was coming off its fourth win in two days and eighth win in eight days. Fatigue was a concern. Eleven pitches later, Albus drew a walk and the Aggies’ blistering start rolled on. Albus took tournament MVP honors and the No.
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10 Texas A&M softball team won all five of its games at the Aggie Classic during the weekend, beating No. 23 North Carolina and Pittsburgh twice each and Stephen F. Austin once. The 10-0 A&M start is the program’s best since 2007, when it started 12-0. A&M put the run rule in effect at least once for the second weekend in a row as it beat SFA in only five innings
on Sunday, 9-0. During the weekend the Aggies out-scored their opponents 29-9. However, A&M had to fight from behind for the first time this year and overcame three early deficits. Head coach Jo Evans said they struggled on defense but this is a good team after coming back twice Saturday. “Coming back twice today shows we have a lot of fight in our team,” Evans said. “We
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A&M dean witnesses crisis on cruise ship Camryn Ford
The Battalion urious on the first day, stranded by the second, and wading through floors pooled with gray water by the third, the high spirits with which passengers set out on the Carnival Cruise ship, Triumph, flowed overboard as they awaited the sight of land for days. Kim Dooley, associate dean for academic operations for the College of Agriculture
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Passengers on the Carnival Cruise ship, Triumph, construct a “tent city” to escape the heat after the ship was disabled and stranded.
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and Life Sciences, was among the passengers. “This was only my second cruise,” Dooley said. “It was my husband’s birthday. We were having a blast and it was a great experience, but that changed quickly once the engine caught on fire.” The ship departed Feb. 7 and was disabled after an engine room fire. Tug boats pulled Triumph to Mobile, Ala., docking late Feb. 14. See Cruise on page 4
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Freshman kinesiology major Blake McKenna stares at his phone over dinner with sophomore sports management major Lauren Cummings.
Technology puts new spin on romance, redefines dating Lauren Masters
The Battalion he scene is familiar: candle light, food and romance. It’s date night, and nervous laughter and quick glances are traded over the tabletop. The night seems to be going well, though the couple doesn’t talk much or really even look at each other. Little screens aglow, their phones seem to be doing most of the entertaining,
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need to do a better job defensively. I always feel like it’s the sign of a good team that you can not play your best and still win.” Last weekend, junior first baseman Nicole Morgan led the way with four home runs in four games and added a grand slam Sunday. This week, however, Albus — lead-off hitter and outfielder — paced the team with two doubles, three RBIs and four runs along with a perfect 5-5 mark on stolen base attempts. Ryan Lenamon, senior management major, said the way that different players have
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Organizations, current students and colleges at Texas A&M had the opportunity to reach out to prospective students and their parents during the festivities of Aggieland Saturday.
The No. 24 A&M baseball team dropped its first game of the season to UIC, but battled back on Saturday and Sunday to win the series 2-1.
stepped up at different times is part of the reason for the hot start. “There’s just not a way to stop them,” Lenamon said. “Their bats all the way through the lineup can hurt you at any given time. It’s fun to watch.” Texas A&M took seven of the 11 spots on the All-Tournament team and hit .356 as a team with 15 extra base hits. Evans said Sunday’s game against SFA was their best game of the weekend against a good team. “We came out today and separated ourselves from the pack, and that’s something we had talked about needing to happen,” Evans said. “Putting pressure on their pitchers and pressure on their defense all day, I love to see that. We’re hitting through the order and putting a lot of runs on the
replacing words with emojis and awkwardness with apps. It’s hard to pinpoint the exact cause of this generation’s evolving dating habits, but with advancing technology and social media, increased usage of phones and computers are often assumed to be the main culprit. Brian Altenhofen, communication doctoral student, interactions are becoming less personal in the modern See Dating on page 5
adjustments. We’ve got to be able to take coaching better and take accountability better out there on the court because we are going to play a fired up Kentucky team who is going to try to win the SEC just like we are. We’ve got to quit turning the ball over against pressure,
and that’s what Kentucky did against us.” The Aggies are tied for first place in the SEC right now and have an imposing 10-1 conference record. With a 10-2 conference record, good
o team in the SEC has come within seven points of the A&M women’s basketball team since Jan. 10 — eight teams up, eight down. On Monday, See Basketball on page 3 the last team to beat head coach Gary Blair’s Aggies will enter Reed Arena to put the winning streak to the test. The No. 11 Texas A&M women’s basketball team lengthened its win streak to eight games with Thursday’s win over Florida and will face No. 7 Kentucky at 6 p.m. on Monday. Earlier in the season, the Aggies fell to Kentucky 6562 on its home court — the last A&M loss before the current eight-game win streak. Monday, the Aggies will face Kentucky in Reed Arena, hoping to produce a different outcome. Blair said they have to get their attitudes right going into the Kentucky game and can’t turn the ball over under pressure. Jade Bedell — THE BATTALION “I’m going to focus on Kentucky,” Blair said. “But Senior forward Kristi Bellock muscles to the basket I’m going to correct some during her 13-point, eight-rebound performance in a mistakes and some attitude win over Florida.
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