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he iconic yellow wristbands with lettering spelling out LIVESTRONG could be found on countless wrists dating back to 2004.

The nonprofit foundation provides cancer support services for both patients and survivors, while also providing initiatives to further cancer research. Fifteen years after the foundation’s establishment, four Texas A&M students seized the opportunity to intern at the LIVESTRONG headquarters in Austin.

Senior Heather Fogus, juniors Juliana Boswell and Callie Zinsmeyer and graduate student Stephanie Whitehead are spending their summer interning with the LIVESTRONG Foundation.

The internships range from areas of development and fundraising, marketing, government relations and external affairs. Numerous sub-groups fall within those categories allowing each intern to meet their interest and passion.

Fogus, a political science major, said LIVESTRONG was a suitable choice because of her desire to work with a nonprofit organization after school.

As part of “Team LIVESTRONG” Fogus works with fundraising and brainstorming incentives to achieve donations.

“A lot of [fundraising] is spreading LIVESTRONG’s message to all [the] donors,” Fogus said. “You’re keeping good relationships so that the overall message is positive. So you just want to make sure you’re giving the best impression possible.”

LIVESTRONG places a strong emphasis on spreading cancer awareness and prevention to different communities. For instance, the Promotores program trains people to act as a resource to the Hispanic and Latino population in lower socioeconomic areas, while educating those who have little or no knowledge of cancer prevention or research.

Boswell, junior international studies major and intern with the Promotores program, described the act of service as casting a significant role in her life and family.

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Senior Heather Fogus and junior Juliana Boswell do their respective Texas A&M wildcats at the LIVESTRONG Foundation in Austin. The internships allow students to work in fundraising, marketing, government relations and external affairs positions.

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Chemical engineering professor Sam Mannan testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on the ammonium nitrate explosions.

lmost three full months after the devastating West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion, researchers at Texas A&M and members of Congress are working toward preventing similar disasters, while Gov. Rick Perry is concentrating on remedying current problems in the aftermath.

On June 27, Sam Mannan, director of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center and professor of chemical engineering at Texas A&M, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in Washington, D.C. He presented research he and his team of graduate students had been working on regarding the prevention, mitigation and preparation of response teams for ammonium nitrate explosions such as those in West and Geismar, La. “Congress’ interest in chemical safety is not surprising due to the explosions in West and Louisiana,” Mannan said.

“They reached out to us and asked us to testify on the different issues with current regulations and how to prevent ammonium nitrate explosions such as this one from occurring in the future.”

Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, the chairwoman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, said in a press conference Tuesday she had sent out letters to every governor, asking them evaluate the research and make plans to implement better federal legislation regarding ammonium nitrate.

“I made a pledge to the families [in West] and I’m not going to stop until there are more protections in place to prevent chemical disasters like the one in West, Texas,” Boxer said. “There [are] a lot of things we can’t control … we can control this. We have the information.”

Tuesday also saw Gov. Rick Perry formally appeal the denial of a federal disaster declaration for West. A declaration would give the town, which experienced more than $35 million in public-sector damage, access to federal funds to assist with rebuilding, according to the Associated Press.

Zhe Han, chemical engineering graduate student and member of the research team, said she was researching the safety aspects of ammonium nitrate a year before the See Congress on page 3

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Texas House passes abortion bill AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas House has approved on Wednesday new abortion limits in a second special session, less than two weeks after Senate Republicans failed to finish work on the bill amid a filibuster and raucous protests.

A final vote could be held as early as Friday in the Senate, where the measure died as the first special session expired. The House voted mostly along party lines Wednesday on what has become signature GOP legislation.

Lawmakers spent more than 10 hours debating it Tuesday, and Republicans rejected every attempt to amend the bill. Throngs of protesters were missing for Wednesday’s mostly procedural vote after days of protests by supporters and opponents.

The bill requires doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, only allow abortions in surgical

centers and bans abortions after 20 weeks.

Republican Rep. Jody Laubenberg of Parker outlined the bill that would require doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, only allow abortions in surgical centers, dictate when abortion pills are taken and ban abortions after 20 weeks. Exceptions to the ban would only be allowed when the women’s life was in imminent danger.

Democrats and women’s rights activists have protested the bill for weeks. The measure failed to win enough support during the regular session, then died in the first special session due to a 13-hour filibuster by state Sen. Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth Democrat.

Davis’ successful filibuster put the Texas bill in the spotlight of the national abortion debate. On Monday

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EA Sports travels to Kyle Field for improved NCAA 14 video game Sean Lester

The Battalion n previous versions of Electronic Arts Sports video game NCAA Football, Texas A&M had a hard time showing what truly makes the gameday atmosphere at Kyle Field so unique.

When the Aggies started their first season of SEC play, the ever-increasing brand was seeking further expansion and the NCAA Football 14 video game, released Tuesday, looked like the perfect starting point.

Shane Hinckley, director of collegiate licensing at Texas A&M, reached out to EA Sports and spoke to them about what he was hearing from A&M fans.

“He got some of the feedback he had received from Aggie fans over the years — current students, former students — about

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EA Sports producers made the trip to Kyle Field to improve the gameday atmosphere in the NCAA 14 game, which adds yell leaders and Reveille.

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some of the details of the game that weren’t quite right,” said Kyle Pope, program director of collegiate licensing at A&M, Hinckley and Pope teamed up with EA Sports and invited the designers and producers of NCAA Football 14 to campus to help expand the look and sound of Kyle Field.

On the weekend of the ArkansasA&M game, NCAA 14 game producer Ben Haumiller and his crew set up their equipment to take in every dimension of Kyle Field.

“We brought out our scanning equipment, a brand new technology we have with the ability to scan stadiums to get the accuracy of the dimensions,” Haumiller said. Previously the way stadiums have been done was all based off of photo ref-

erence. Now we can go through and use these laser scanners and get accuracy of these dimensions to within a millimeter of the real world size.”

The process took three days, and Haumiller called Kyle Field one of the hardest stadiums to scan because of the tiered structure.

“I don’t think they had been to A&M in a long time, so they didn’t have the exact dimensions for Kyle Field,” Pope said.

“They had two guys that went to almost corner of the stadium — from the first deck, the second deck, to the third deck taking digital measurements.”

While at A&M, Hinckley and Pope set up for the yell leaders to be in attendance as See NCAA 14 on page 4

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he National Nuclear Security Administration has named six universities as centers of excellence that will help work with the emerging field of predictive sciences involving nuclear warfare, with Texas A&M being one of them.

The designation as a center of excellence will bring $8 million to the University over a five-year period, said A&M System Chancellor John Sharp in a statement.

“Our College of Engineering continues to innovate and improve on their status as one of the top programs in the country,” Sharp said. “This designation as a center of excellence by the NNSA is evidence of the momentum.”

With countries such as North Korea conducting nuclear testing underground, the NNSA has used simulation and modeling tools to assess nuclear weapon stockpiles.

The alliance with universities allows for training where graduate students and post-doctoral researchers will learn skills to eventually use on largescale simulations.

“I feel this recognition is indicative of the caliber, quality and value of our pro-

gram,” said Yassin Hassan, head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M. “We are fortunate to have strategic administrators, dedicated faculty, hard-working staff and extraordinary students who are committed to setting our program apart.”

Schools were selected as multidisciplinary simulation centers or singlediscipline centers, with A&M having a single-disciplinary system receiving $1.6 million per year under NNSA’s Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program II (PSAAP II) agreement.

“We expect the PSAAP alliances will continue to help develop the predictive science field and the workforce of the future, wherein simulations will be pervasive and instrumental in important, high-impact, decision-making processes,” said Robert Meisner, director of the NNSA Advanced Simulation and Computing program.

For students within the Department of Nuclear Engineering, the alliance provides for unique opportunities that weren’t once available.

Chaz Mazzilli, sophomore radiological health engineering major, said the announcement opens up the idea of pursuing a nuclear path and asserts the prestige of the A&M engineering program.

“This designation of the A&M program as a center of excellence by the NNSA affirms the program as one of the nation’s elite engineering colleges, which brings praise to both the faculty and the students,” Mazzilli said. “It shows that our researchers and professors are among the best of the best and promises that the program will only become larger, more refined and highly sought after in the future.”

The NNSA was established by Congress in 2000 as an agency within the U.S. Department of Energy responsible for enhancing national security through the military application of nuclear science. The association is responsible for the management and security of the nation’s nuclear weapons, nuclear nonproliferation and naval reactor programs and responding to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the U.S. and abroad.

Mazzilli said the recognition will give himself and others within the College of Engineering a better idea of what is expected of them when trying to pursue a nuclear engineering career path.

Other schools selected were the University of Utah, University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign, Stanford University, University of Florida and University of Notre Dame.

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night, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee spoke to abortion rights opponents. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America announced a statewide bus tour Tuesday morning, dubbed Stand With Texas Women.

“It seems like every time women looked up from doing their laundry of helping children with their homework, the Texas Legislature is right there taking aim at them again,” said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. “Over the past few years, more than 50 women’s health centers have been shut down.”

Women from both parties who support abortion rights introduced a series of amendments to water down House Bill 2, hanging coat hangers on the front podium to symbolize illegal abortions, which they say will become more common if the law is enacted. Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, called for an exception to the 20-week ban in cases of rape and incest, but Laubenberg rejected the proposal.

An anti-abortion voting record is critical to winning Republican primaries in Texas. Texas Alliance for Life, a Christian group that maintains a scorecard on lawmakers, sent out messages on Twitter opposing each amendment, signaling how lawmakers should vote for a high score.

Supporters of the restrictions insist that they will improve the health care women receive by placing more stringent conditions on abortions. Laubenberg told the House on Tuesday that her bill would ensure that women get high-quality treatment while protecting “babies” after 20 weeks of gestation.

“What we’re talking about today truly is about the health and safety of a woman who would undergo an abortion, but also, I want to point out, we are talking about an unborn child,” she said.

Federal courts have ruled that states can regulate abortions but not to the extent to make them impossible to obtain.

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Pro-life supporters rally in Austin on Monday. Mike Huckabee, David Dewhurst and Gregg Abbott were guest speakers at the rally.

That hasn’t stopped Republican-led legislatures in Texas and several other states from passing laws in recent years that test the legal limits.

Opponents of the Texas restrictions say they would effectively ban abortion in much of the nation’s second mostpopulous state by causing the closure of 37 of its 42 abortion clinics.

Houston Rep. Sarah Davis, the only Republican opposed to the law, warned that the bill as written is unconstitutional and she offered an amendment to make it less stringent.

“I believe the bill as drafted will be a de facto ban on abortion,” she said. “No one wants to see abortions, it’s a terrible way to end a pregnancy, but it is a constitutionally protected right.”

They also say the Texas restrictions and those passed by other states conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which established that a woman has the right to get an abortion until her fetus could viably survive outside of the womb, which is generally at 22 to 24 weeks of the preg-

nancy.

It’s unclear if the Texas restrictions could survive a court challenge. Federal courts have suspended aspects of the bill passed by other states. On Monday, a federal judge blocked enforcement of a Wisconsin abortion law requiring admitting privileges.

The Texas Medical Association, the Texas Hospital Association and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology oppose the bill, calling it unnecessary.

The Texas Department of Public Safety has more than doubled the number of troopers at the Capitol due to the rallies and marathon hearings, said Sen. Kevin Eltife, a Tyler Republican who oversees the Senate Administration Committee. He declined to reveal the exact number of troopers or how much the boost in security cost.

Lawmakers told the DPS they wanted plenty of troopers on the ground no matter the expense, he added.

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fter thousands of Uttarakhand people were immobilized by the sweeping monsoons that struck the North Indian state in mid June, the Indian Graduate Student Association (IGSA) organized a local initiative in College Station for the injured state.

Heavy rainfall is not uncommon in India, usually occurring bi-annually. However, the rainfall in June was more than 400 percent of the amount expected in the mountainous region, resulting in a death toll of more than 1,000 and displacing more than 4,000 villagers, said Sunny Goklani, graduate student and vice president of IGSA. Rural lands throughout the state are especially vulnerable during these

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explosion in West. “[The disaster] made the research more important than ever and I wanted to help fertilizer plants prevent these types of disasters in the future,” Han said. “This explosion and this research can be an alert to fertilizer plants and industries everywhere.”

The team’s research focused on how explosions involving ammonium nitrate can occur, along with prevention and mitigation measures.

They specifically focused on the current regulations regarding ammonium nitrate and other chemicals and how these regulations can be improved.

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“cloudbursts,” or heavy amounts of rainfall. Biren Parmar, an IGSA advisor, said this particular monsoon was the perfect storm. The heavy rainfall caused landslides that destroyed homes and trapped thousands of residents.

“A lot of rainfall dumps a whole lot of water in a region in a short amount of time,” Parmar said.

“These regions are not able to sustain this water.”

The devastating effects of the monsoon were not limited to rural areas, affecting urban centers such as Kedarnath. The city is a popular pilgrimage site for those practicing Hinduism, leaving visiting tourists either swept away or stranded.

Goklani said the Indian Army force and non-governmental organizations are providing necessary relief such as evacuations, relocations, food

and shelter, but this relief is temporary. IGSA chose to support the International Association of Human Values (IAHV), a non-governmental organization that provides a longterm relief strategy and will stay at least 6-8 months.

“There has to be something done for these people in the cold months — get them back on their feet,” said Manisha Chavda, a local IAHV volunteer who assists in collecting funds within Bryan-College Station.

Chavda said 100 percent of the money collected by the IAHV for the Uttarakhand relief effort will be directly utilized for aid.

With close ties to local IAHV volunteers such as Chavda, IGSA has assisted in reaching out to the community to participate in door-to-door outreach or to find venues in which to set up donation boxes.

those questions,” said Diana Castellanos, material sciences and engineering graduate student and a member of the research team. “There were already regulations in place that could have prevented the West explosion.

We focused on filling gaps in current regulations and what precautions need to be taken to improve.”

When asked about the hearing, the research team said they were glad the Senate was taking the issue seriously, but were nervous when their research was being presented.

“It was our work being presented and it would be our fault if something went wrong,” Castellanos said.

“We were very nervous about what questions would be asked. Thankfully, everything that was discussed and all of the questions had already been researched, and there were no

questions that we had not thought of already.”

As part of their research, the students visited West to collect data from the site and the investigators.

They also spoke with residents, trying to gather as much information as possible.

“There was limited information because a lot had not been confirmed yet, but we learned a lot,” said Alba Pineda, chemical engineering graduate student and member of the research team. “One thing we could not believe was that a typical construction material [to store ammo-

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“We are trying to support in any way possible,” Parmar said. “Any small amount is going to help.”

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Castellanos said that an incident involving ammonium nitrate in Bryan in 2009 should have alerted other fertilizer plants not to use wood.

During the incident, the El Dorado Chemical Company caught fire on July 30, 2009. More than 80,000 Bryan-College Station residents were asked to evacuate, the Associated Press reported, and the University provided temporary shelter at Reed Arena.

“The Bryan incident had involved wood and the plant had been rebuilt with better materials,” Castella-

nos said. “Other plants should have learned from that and done the same.

You have to not only learn from the past, but invite other companies to keep looking and researching ways to prevent accidents like this.”

The research team does not know if they will be called upon for the follow-up hearings, but intend to continue their research in this area.

A comparison of American regulations regarding ammonium nitrate with regulations around the world, especially Europe, may be evaluated in future research.

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“The team at the LIVESTRONG Foundation is passionate about serving cancer survivors and strives to make decisions based on how it will impact these individuals,” said Whitehead, a marketing intern and marketing graduate student. “I admire their commitment to improving the lives of those affected by cancer, and hope to emulate these values in my own career.”

Taking with them the skills from their time spent at A&M, the interns have found LIVESTRONG to be a place fostering both professional and personal growth.

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well as Reveille and her handler. Haumiller and his team took detailed photos and video of the locker room, players’ facilities and practice fields as well.

They attended Midnight Yell, and when gameday rolled around, they were in awe of the A&M crowd.

“The yell practice was unlike anything we had ever experienced,” said Haumiller, a Florida State alumni. “We take microphone recorders and we record the crowd. We were able to use those yells in our game to make it sound more authentic.”

Midnight Yell provided the crew with clean, uninterrupted sound, which was perfect for translation into the video game.

Upon leaving campus, Haumiller began focusing on how he could implement all of what he had seen and learned about A&M into the game. The yell leaders and Reveille were the first things added to this year’s game, along with an updated version of Kyle Field.

“A&M just opened their doors and said, ‘Come take a look around at everything,’” Haumiller said.

“Some things we were able to get in the game right away, like the yell leaders and Reveille. Others will be coming down the line.”

NCAA 14 also features yells that are on cue with game play. During kickoff, the fans can be heard doing the “Gig ‘em” yell and during lulls the “Ag-

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Junior Callie Zinsmeyer (left) and graduate student Stephanie Whitehead (right) are two of four Texas A&M students chosen at the LIVESTRONG foundation.

“This internship, much like my time at A&M, has shown me what it takes to represent a consistent and true image to the public,” said Zinsmeyer, a community programs and engagement intern and international studies major. “Whether it be a household brand like LIVESTRONG or presenting the best

version of yourself to everyone you [interact] with.”

A portion of LIVESTRONG’s motto is to “improve lives.” Zinsmeyer said her time spent at LIVESTRONG has given her a “clearer vision” for how she will shape her own future, and helped to improve her own life.

gies” yell is heard.

With the amount of information and footage Haumiller and his staff were able to take in, he is sure that Aggie elements will be added in future games like the yell leaders being tossed into Fish Pond, locker rooms and practice facilities and even “sawing varsity’s horns off.”

“As we are able to make our crowds look better in the game, we’ll be able to get things in like the swaying fans that currently we aren’t able to support,” Haumiller said. “That’s going to be a real cool visual piece as we move to a next generation of consoles to show the swaying fans and what that looks like. I was down on the field and you look up and it’s intimidating.”

It won’t be long before the crew will be back at Kyle Field getting scans of a renovated version, something Haumiller said would be easy now that initial scans have been completed.

Since a demo version of the game was released in June, with A&M being one of six teams featured, reception has been through the roof among A&M students and fans.

“Kyle Field in NCAA 14 is the first real Kyle Field there has ever been in an NCAA game as far as I am concerned,” said senior construction science major Brian McGhee. “Between the branding, fight song, yells and the surroundings outside the stadium, this is the first time I have felt like I am playing at the real Kyle Field in the game.”

The game also had input from A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin, who visited EA Sports to give input

on how recruiting works. Haumiller said Sumlin was taken by surprise at how accurate the playbook looked in comparison to the real thing.

For Pope, the game was equally as realistic and helpful to the continued development of A&M’s brand after moving to the SEC. “With our move to the SEC a lot more people are becoming aware of Texas A&M and wanting to know more about Texas A&M,” Pope said. “With the number of people that play this game, if they are wanting to play with A&M they also get exposed to how unique A&M is with our traditions and gameday atmosphere because the game is now more accurate than it used to be. It’s a huge thing for our brand to have EA out and make the game as realistic as possible.”

The cover of NCAA 14 features Michigan Wolverine quarterback Denard Robinson, but A&M was only hundreds of votes away from having receiver Ryan Swope on the cover in a nationwide fan vote.

McGhee said he appreciates the changes inside the game and what the future holds with A&M and EA Sports, something Haumiller too is excited about.

“A lot of schools are gracious with us and a lot of schools work very closely with us,” Haumiller said. “But we haven’t had a school be as accepting as Texas A&M was to say, ‘We want to make sure these parts are in your game and yeah we could just send you a video, but we want you experiencing it.’ It’s been phenomenal to have that relationship.”

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