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TONIGHT WE HONOR THE FALLEN when 10:30 p.m. Tuesday where Academic Plaza In honor of Aggies who have recently died, the Ross Volunteer Firing Squad will march in Academic Plaza and fire three rifle volleys of seven shots. Buglers from the Aggie Band will play a special arrangement of Taps.
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A&M communication professors Jessica Havens and Matt Mays have volunteer positions at Brazos Valley’s volunteer radio show KEOS 89.1.
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T-Mobile invested nearly $4 million in A&M’s gameday connectivity.
T-Mobile invests $3.5 Million in Kyle Field T-Mobile partners with A&M to provide connectivity on gamedays
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Married A&M communication professors co-run broadcast ‘Future Mixtape’ at KEOS By Ana Sevilla @anavsevilla
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t was 2005 and ‘80s punk rock was playing as people danced at the local dive. In the midst of the party chaos, Jessica Havens and Matt Mays met for the first time. 11 years later and happily married, the couple continues to rock out to different tunes both on campus and at KEOS 89.1, Brazos Valley’s only volunteer radio station. The couple came together because of
their shared passion and devotion to music, and Havens said music has always been an integral part of their relationship. Before Mays and Havens were communication professors at Texas A&M, Mays was a radio DJ in New York. “I started DJing at WRCU 90.1 FM in New York,” Mays said. “I did a show for about a year [in 2010] and then asked her to join me after that.” However, in 2014, Havens and Mays relocated to Texas to begin their careers
at A&M and then their volunteer roles at KEOS. Mays and Havens, now KEOS program director and personnel director, respectively, run their show “Future Mixtape.” “We broadcast live in Brazos County and we play stuff that you won’t hear in other places,” Mays said. “Texas is one of those interesting places where hippies and cowboys blend, and that’s cool. We try to represent that on ‘Future Mixtape.’ We pride DJS ON PG. 4
A&M, Baylor faculty create project aimed at helping dementia patient caregivers By Timothy Deville @TimothyJDeville In Texas alone, there are over one million unpaid caregivers for the growing number of individuals living with dementia. Dementia is a disorder that affects mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory loss, personality changes, and impaired reasoning. In an effort to relieve the hardships faced by caregivers, Dr. Marcia Ory of the Texas A&M School of Public Health and Dr. Alan Stevens of Baylor Scott & White Health jointly developed a project named Texas Cares. Texas Cares aims to aid caregivers by giving them access to information necessary for the proper care of an individual TEXAS CARES ON PG. 2
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A new program called Texas Cares aims to assist those who care for dementia patients.
By Josh Hopkins @texasjoshua1 A $3.5 million deal announced last week will bring T-Mobile into Kyle Field to improve gameday connectivity for the company’s customers. As part of Kyle Field’s overhaul, which began in 2014, a new wireless and cellular infrastructure fell into place. Now, T-Mobile joins AT&T and Verizon in their investment into the Corning1 network, which provides cellular service and Wi-Fi to gameday fans. Phillip Ray, vice chancellor of business affairs for the Texas A&M system, said A&M put the original investment into the infrastructure, and the carriers’ investments offset the A&M spending. “We’re approaching $14 million in this type of budget offset alone, made possible through major carrier partnerships like these,” Ray said. “With T-Mobile now fully on-board, Sprint is the sole major carrier remaining to add going forward.” Ray said he is optimistic about getting Sprint involved soon based on the performance of the system. “Once the system started working and carriers as well as industry professionals could see that it was exceeding projected performance we were able to get them signed on,” Ray said. “Our strategic outlook was we’ll prove the system works first and, as a result, we will then be able to optimize the investment value to Texas A&M University — which is exactly what we were able to do.” Todd Christner, director of market development for Corning1, said the system uses fiber based system to provide a large number of connection points for users, increasing the total load the whole system can handle. “Texas A&M and Chancellor Sharp have done it from a wholistic perspective,” Christner said. “You have a single fan who’s got to engage with each of those services, Wi-Fi, ticketing, point of sale. So, rather than build out separate infrastructures and separate systems for each and they chose our product because it was fiber and it converged all of it networks through separate fibers onto a single architecture.” Ray said so far the system has exceeded expectations and even managed to break a record last October, with more than 8.2 Terabytes of data usage. Additionally, Ray said the stadium T-MOBILE ON PG. 2