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(Top) The Student Recreation Center as it stands Tuesday.

(Bottom) Conceptual rendering of the REC after planned renovation.

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he Student Recreation Center is about to make some substantial gains.

Beginning in the spring of 2014, the REC will undergo a two-year facility expansion that will add both space and services to its amenities. The expansion, scheduled for completion in January 2016, will not result in increased student fees.

“It has been 18 years since we built the REC in 1995,” said Kelly VonDrehle, communications coordinator for the department of recreational sports. “For some time we realized that it’s been over-

crowded, and now is the time to expand.”

VonDrehdle said the REC has paid off one loan, which allows it to borrow money without increasing fees.

The expansion plan calls for several overhauls of existing space. Rick Hall, senior associate director for the department of recreational sports, said the weight and fitness room will double in size, and new activity rooms for group exercise classes and student organizations will be added.

Gymnasium space will also be added and the natatorium will be renovated.

According to the Texas A&M University System, the project will cost $33,500,000. Several other features are planned for new additions as alternates if construction bids are favorable.

“We also hope to add an indoor, eight lane pool, a 6,000 square-foot multi-

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ifty years ago to the date, more than 300,000 participated in the March on Washington. One such participant was former Texas A&M professor Charles Gordone.

His wife Susan said the late Charles, who is most notably known for his activism and Pulitzer Prize-winning play “No Place to be Somebody,” made his mark on Texas A&M when he was invited to teach at A&M in 1987 by then-president Frank Vandiver to help increase diversity.

“The A&M kids really loved him,” Susan said. “They adored him. He loved them back, and he was quite a fixture on campus.”

Susan said among other things, her husband co-founded the Committee

We also hope to add an indoor, eight lane pool, a 6,000 square-foot, multi-activity room that can be used for large group activities and banquets, and a potential second entrance on the south side of the building.”

— Rick Hall, senior associate director for the department of recreational sports

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Charles Gordone recites his Pulitzerwinning drama, “No Place to Be Somebody,” at Joe Papp’s Public Theatre in New York City.

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for the Employment of Negro Performers in his time, and consequently brought both his experience and his passion to the table at A&M. “He broke down barriers in New York City and in Hollywood for African Americans and people of color,” Susan said. “He was very active in actor’s equity.”

Susan said her late husband tried to create a type of theater that embodied the way he wanted America to be.

“I think he was someone who devoted his life to a calling, to find a truly American theater, where people of all races and nationalities could come together,” Susan said. “He believed that America was one culture to which many ethnic groups contributed, and he devoted his life to realizing that as a writer, as a director and as an actor.”

She said Charles’ activist sentiments live on at Texas A&M as well as in his play and poems.

Aja Holston, senior political science major and chair for the See Gordone on page 3

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The Battalion he band Rosehill has not only musical talent but a mission. This Texas country band has used their music to be a platform after their drummer committed suicide, an event that irrevocably altered the course of their lives and the direction of their band.

Rosehill will be opening for Brandon Rhyder at 9 p.m. Wednesday at Hurricane Harry’s, but they are no strangers to College Station. The duo of Blake Myers and Mitch McBain have been friends since their youth, After our when Myers drummer’s and went to Blinn afsuicide happened, ter graduating from we decided that we high school, McBain frequently visited to wanted to honor collaborate on muand grieve him the sic.

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The Texas A&M football team announced Tuesday it will commemorate fallen teammate Polo Manukainiu with a helmet sticker designed to reflect his Tongan heritage.

The decal, shown left, incorporated Manukainiu’s number — No. 90 — along with a Tongan pattern, and will be worn throughout the 2013 season. The Aggies debut against Rice noon Saturday at Kyle Field.

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“I think it’s more convenient to have both the certain amount of meals a week and the dining dollars. It gives students the option whether or not to use their dining dollars, instead they may want a meal because dining dollars are not like Sbisa or Duncan, it’s more a Chick-Fil-A type thing.”

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his year, the Singing Cadets will take the stage for the 108th season.

Auditions are being held all week for the all-male performance organization. David Kipp, the director of choral activities, said the group welcomes all auditions. The students who join the Singing Cadets are easy and enjoyable to work with, Kipp said, because they all have experience singing.

“One of the neat things about working with the cadets is we don’t have to teach them,” he said. “We work with the greatest group of guys I can imagine.”

The Singing Cadets perform at many campus events and are frequently requested for concerts by the president’s

office and the Association of Former Students.

Each year, they perform around 70 to 80 concerts around the state and the country.

Every three years the Singing Cadets go on an international tour. Last year, they traveled to China. Kipp said the group represents the core values of A&M and he enjoys seeing the values promoted not only in the United States, but across the world.

“If we can do that in the United States and all the way to China, what a great opportunity,” Kipp said.

Senior sports management major, Rob White, said he’s enjoyed being in the Singing Cadets. One of his favorite moments, he said, was performing for and meeting George W. Bush in 2011

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Woodson’s Black Awareness Committee, WBAC, said she remembers the MSC honoring Charles Gordone in 2011 through an art exhibit and said his impact on our world today can’t be measured by today’s society.

“Speaking as a black woman, the importance of an individual’s work combined, I don’t think we can ever know [how important that is],” Holston said. “We wouldn’t be living in the world we’re living in without them. Just how grateful and honored I am to be following in the footsteps of my ancestors, that’s really powerful.”

Holston said Gordone had direct impact on the WBAC, the first African-American

when the former president visited campus.

“I got to have a one-onone conversation with him,” White said. “I also got to sing at Gov. Rick Perry’s inauguration.

John Rogers, junior chemical engineer student and Singing Cadets business manager, said his brother convinced him to audition and helped him through the process.

“My brother was a former student,” Rogers said. “It was a great group and I heard a lot of stories, so I auditioned.”

Every Friday afternoon at 5 p.m. before home football games, the Singing Cadets will hold a concert in the MSC Flag room, with the first performance this Friday.

organization on campus, because he provided a voice for the minority students at a time when they had none. “[WBAC is] very action based and about gaining equality on campus,” she said. “The work of the professors who could stand up for students is exactly what we needed. We try to continue to be voices. We try to continue the work in the ways we are able.”

But for all that Charles brought to the table, Susan said he was able to find the America he was always looking for when he came to Texas during a time where cultures were coming together.

“By coming to teach at Texas A&M and helping to integrate, we were led to Western revival music and poetry, where Charles truly did feel he finally found that America he was looking for,” Susan said.

In the eight years that Charles Gordone

The Singing Cadets, an all-male chorus, will hold a concert in the MSC Flag room at 5 p.m. on Friday before all home football games.

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One of the neat things about working with the cadets is we don’t have to teach them. We work with the greatest group of guys I can imagine.”

— David Kipp, director of choral activities

worked at A&M before his death in 1995, Susan said Charles lived his life without bitterness “He had a second act, which is very rare,” Susan said. “By coming out to A&M and bringing his understanding and his hope and his talents in the arts, he was able to really find something that he never dreamt that he would end up finding.”

While Charles was recently given a historic marker outside of the public library in his hometown Elkhart, Indiana, Susan said she hopes to one day have him memorialized at A&M. “I believe it is a legacy that all Aggies will be enriched by,” Susan Gordone said.

Jared Walder, junior mechanical engineering major, said the diversity today on campus improves the student’s experience.

“It’s better to have a more diverse cam-

pus,” Walder said. “It helps you grow as a student.”

Holston, who played an integral part in the organizing of the WBAC’s week planned memorials of the March on Washingon, said Charles’ legacy is something that today’s generation can learn from, but that there is still work to be done.

“We’re still working through what it means to have equality,” she said. “The civil rights movement is not over, it’s just changed its face. Remembering the giants and knowing where they went wrong and where they went right is important so we can learn from their mistakes and build on their accomplishments.”

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of the building,” Hall said in a press release.

Plans to expand the REC have existed for at least a year. In June, several concerns were raised at a Council for the Built Environment meeting that pushed back the expansion announcement and construction date, notably because of the REC’s proximity to the railroad.

“The [original] plan had to be overhauled,” said Holly Scott, senior political science major and chief policy advisor to Student Body President Reid Joseph. “There had to be a re-

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As their success grew, Radney Foster became their producer, helping them produce two live records.

Everything was going well for the group until tragedy struck.

“We originally got into music for the lack of responsibility,” Myers said. “After our drummer’s suicide happened, we decided that we wanted to honor and grieve him the right way.”

To honor their drummer and friend, Myers and McBain cowrote the song “Bible and the Gun” which illustrates a young man struggling with suicide.

“He was more than just our drummer,” McBain said. “It was tough to go through that. You hear about that type of thing happening, but this was real and it hit home.

Our grieving process was done through this album.”

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design to account for keeping a safe distance from the railroad tracks.”

The REC has more than 400,000 square feet of space for students to use. However, with a student body population over 50,000, some students find the current space inadequate to meet everyone’s health goals, a concern that the Department of Recreational Sports acknowledges.

“The student population has increased 25 percent since we first opened 18 years ago,” said Dennis Corrington, executive director at the Department of Recreational Sports. “The new space that we are adding will go a long way to meet the needs of the 50,000-plus student body.”

causes of death in the United States, particularly among college aged groups and military personnel, but Myers said he couldn’t find many people talking about it.

“He had just left Blinn when it happened,” Myers said. “This is something that college aged students are going through but no one is really talking about it. After we finished our second record we decided it was time to confront this issue. No one talks about what gets people to that point and we want to.”

The duo hopes that by publicly talking about suicide, awareness and prevention can take place.

“We heard from a guy in College Station that said he listened to the song and it saved his life,” Myers said. “He had been struggling with suicide. If this song can save one life, how many more can it affect?”

The band is calling their campaign “Save A Life Tonight”, which will officially begin in September, which is suicide preven-

The growing student population and its effect on the REC’s ability to serve students can be seen in the weight room, where the volume of users can sometimes force students to either wait or come back at a later time.

“Every time I go to the weight room, it’s always crowded,” said David Novinski, sophomore construction science major. “Sometimes you walk into the weight room and you’re forced to leave because it’s too crowded.”

Rather than deal with wait times, some students adapt their schedules to fit around the REC’s increasing usage.

“The most convenient time for me to go [to the REC] is 5 or 6 p.m., but I usually have to wait 15 minutes before something

tion and awareness month. All of the money made from iTunes sales from “Bible and the Gun” will be donated to various suicide prevention organizations.

“This starts in September but we want it to continue for as long as it can,” McBain said.

Adam Drake from 98.3 KORA in College Station said he listened to Rosehill’s newest CD, “Crooked Thoughts” in one day and called Myers and McBain directly after.

“When I got the advance on their new CD,” Drake said, “I called them immediately to tell them my favorite song was ‘Bible and the Gun.’” Not only was Drake impressed

by Rosehill as a band, he said, but he found “Bible and the Gun” a song that can impact anyone.

“I have never personally dealt with suicide but this song can hit everyone in some way,” Drake said.

opens up, so I had to change my schedule,” said Berkay Basagaoglu, sophomore biomedical engineering major. “Now I go at night around 9 p.m. to avoid the crowds.”

The REC’s current facilities will remain open during construction, however several areas will most likely temporarily close as the project progresses. Hall said the weight and fitness room may not be available during certain times throughout the project, but during these closures alternate locations for weight room equipment will be provided.

Hall said the outdoor pool will close beginning October 1, 2014 for several months to upgrade its mechanical systems.

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SEC, A&M announce women’s basketball schedule James Sullivan

The Battalion exas A&M and the Southeastern Conference released the 2013-14 women’s basketball schedule on Tuesday, which will officially kick off for the Aggies on Nov. 11 with a road match against North Texas.

After a successful 2012-13 season — which included bringing home the University’s firstever SEC Championship — the women’s basketball team looks to replicate and build on last year’s results.

A&M head coach Gary Blair said both the non-conference and league sections of the schedule for the Aggies are highlighted with tough opponents, with even old-time rival University of Texas making an appearance.

“We are very excited in the makeup of our schedule and the challenges that it will present to us in developing our team,” Blair said.

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12 games against teams that participated in the 2013 NCAA Tournament, seven games against teams that participated in the WNIT and three former National Champions in Texas, Louisiana Tech and Tennessee.”

Texas A&M and UT will face off in the Paradise Jam Tournament on Nov. 29 in the Virgin Islands in what will be the first scheduled match between the two age-old rivals since the Aggies realigned to the Southeastern Conference last July.

Blair said the renewal of the rivalry has the potential to open the door for other traditional A&M opponents to schedule the Aggies in future seasons.

“Hopefully, [the Texas game] will do a good job of breaking the ice so that a lot of [programs] that would like to play each other can do so,” Blair said. “Texas and A&M, Baylor and A&M, A&M and Texas Tech: those are a lot of teams that [players] grew up playing kids on the same AAU teams and we would like to continue on with those same series. However, there has to be mutual people wanting to play those games.”

As for the remainder of the non-conference schedule, A&M hosts big-time Division

I foes Washington and San Diego State and will travel to Penn State, which Blair calls one of the Aggies’ toughest road matches.

Blair said the Aggies will face their strongest opponents when they reach the conference slate, including many of last year’s nationally ranked squads who visit Reed Arena throughout the early part of the spring semester.

“Our SEC schedule presents the most challenging home conference schedule in A&M basketball history,” Blair said. “Nationally ranked teams from last year, including Tennessee, Kentucky, LSU, South Carolina and Georgia, will all come to Reed Arena. All these are top 25 pre-season-ranked teams.”

Blair added A&M’s tough scheduling throughout the season comes with an added bonus — experience against teams destined to make the NCAA tournament.

“Our [ratings percentage index] in the last five years has been in the Top 10 in the country,” Blair said. “We try to play the hardest schedule we can do in addition to our league schedule, which is going to be loaded particularly in conference play because we’re playing five out of the top six teams at home this year, so we’re prepared for the tournament.”

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“We had a huge head start from where we were last year,” Malena said. “The team chemistry on the offensive side of the ball is great. I

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Lawn crew member needed, $10/hr. Hrs Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9-6, experience required. Students only.

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Part-time job helping handicapped. Male student preferred. $360/mo. 5-10hrs/wk.

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We are looking for Casino Dealers: Blackjack, Roulette, and Dice dealers. Events are normally nights and weekends. Apply in person Monday-Friday 9am-4pm: Party Time Rentals 1816 Ponderosa Dr College Station.

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ROOMMATES 1 bedroom room for rent in a 4bdrm/3.5ba home on Harvest Drive C.S., male only. $360/mo, 936-499-7183.

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