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It didn’t take long for Fisher to see the benefits of adding Sternberger to their roster during practices and drills. Fisher said Sternberger has the work ethic of a true old school football player.

“Once you get a hold of him, I mean he’s so fun to coach in practice and like I said he should have played in 1955…” Fisher said.

“He doesn’t have a slowdown button and he loves the game.”

With all eyes on the new tight end, Sternberger continued his offensive reign in the Aggies’ season opener against the Northwestern State Demons, adding two more touchdowns to his résumé. He said his first time in front of

For nine years, Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney have gone head to head, and for the last eight they’ve split the games evenly.

The ninth game between the two has a very different setting, with Fisher in a completely different conference. Saturday’s game between A&M and No. 2 Clemson present different challenges for the coaches on both sides of the ball.

For Fisher, the idea of playing his former ACC opponent in his second game as the head coach of an SEC school was both surreal and, in his words, “fitting.”

“I had no idea [A&M would play Clemson],” Fisher said. “It was kind of ironic when they [told me] after I accepted the job. I said ‘Really? That’s ironic.’

For so many years, whoever won that game, won the [ACC].”

In 2015, the newly redeveloped Kyle Field opened, making the home of Aggie Football the biggest stadium in the state of Texas and the fourth largest in college football, with an official seating capacity of 102,733. Clemson has never played in front of a crowd that surpassed the 100,000 mark.

Heading into this week, Swinney said his program is taking a high-tech approach as they prepare to play in front of the 12th Man for the first time in 14 years. According to Swinney, the staff is using Virtual Reality to help players have

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Junior tight end Jace Sternberger was named John Mackey Tight End of the Week for his performance against Northwestern State in the first game of the Aggie football season.

Transfer tight end embraces role as Aggie football’s newest star player

By Abigail Ochoa @AbigailOchoa88 As Texas A&M’s new man on campus, tight end Jace Sternberger has captured the hearts of Aggie football fans.

A transfer from the University of Kansas, Sternberger was one the first players recruited by A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher and his staff. However, the Aggies could have lost out on him if it wasn’t for wide receivers coach Dameyune Craig.

While on the lookout for tight ends, Craig

came across Sternberger’s highlight reel and quickly came to see a valuable player in him despite the lack of playing time at Kansas.

Sternberger moved to Northeastern Oklahoma A&M for his sophomore season, completing 21 catches for 336 yards and securing six touchdowns in 2016 — a record that was sure to top his one reception for five yards while at Kansas. “[Dameyune Craig] did some research that he was in Kansas and went to [junior college] and he’s not the starter,” Fisher said. “I said, ‘Well why?’ and he said, ‘But I’m telling you, the guy’s a really good player,’ [Tim Brewster] looked at the film, I looked at the film, we all looked at it…and it was just a great job by our staff of evaluating a good player.”

Containing Clemson Aggie defense hopes to keep Tigers at bay

By Jack Holmes @Jack_holmes88 The Aggies are coming off a dominant defensive performance in their season opener against Northwestern State, but they will face a much bigger test on Saturday night when No. 2 Clemson comes to town.

A&M defensive coordinator Mike Elko has history with the Tigers. Elko faced off against Clemson three times while coaching at Wake Forest, and Swinney knows how dangerous an Elko-coached defense can be. “[Elko] came from Wake Forest and I was really, really happy when he left and went to Notre Dame because he was one of the best that we saw year in and year out,” Swinney said. “I’m very impressed schematically with what they do.”

A&M could face two talented quarterbacks this weekend. Both Kelly Bryant, who led Clemson to the playoffs last season, and Trevor Lawrence, a freshman with dual threat abilities, may see time on the field.

“Everyone says that Lawrence can throw the ball, which he does, but the guy can run. The guy’s an athlete,” Fisher said. “Kelly Bryant, you’re talking about a guy that went to the playoffs, won big games, and who’s won an ACC championship. He can run and throw it too.”

The Aggie defensive line will have a tough job on Saturday night as they look to contain and put pressure on both quarterbacks. Sopho-

more running back Travis Etienne, who ran for 766 yards and 13 touchdowns as a freshman, will also be a threat from the backfield. Despite the skeptics, senior defensive end Kingsley Keke is confident in his squad’s ability to compete.

“I don’t know what they are saying out there right now,” Keke said. “I just know my team is going to be ready to play.”

In the season opener, A&M allowed only 1.6 yards per carry and Northwestern State only converted one of their 12 third down chances. Seniors Landis Durham and Keke at defensive end, along with senior Daylon Mack and sophomore Justin Madubuike on the inside, are a tough group for any offensive line to handle, and Swinney knows what the Tigers are up against.

“They’ve got some big dudes up front,” Swinney said. “That No. 34 [Daylon Mack], he’s an earth mover. [Kingsley Keke] is a very good player. [Landis Durham] led the SEC in sacks last year.

Very talented. They got a lot of guys back on defense that started at different times last year.”

Depth has been a problem at linebacker for Elko’s defense to start this season, but Fisher said he expects sophomore Anthony Hines to return to the field this weekend for the big game. Injuries have forced young players to step up and others to play out of their natural position, and junior Tyrel Dodson has taken notice.

“The young guys have stepped up just knowing what to do and knowing where to be at the right time,” Dodson said. “It’s been very helpful, DEFENSE ON PG. 6

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By Grant Spika @GrantSpika After dominating Northwestern State 59-7 in game one, the Aggies are looking at their biggest home game of the season as No. 2 Clemson heads to College Station fresh off back-toback playoff appearances and a national championship in 2016.

One of the key matchups of the game is the battle in the trenches between A&M’s offensive line and Clemson’s defensive line. The Tigers’ D-line is arguably one of the best groups in college football and the Aggie’s offensive line must be prepared if A&M is going to pull off the upset.

“Clemson’s D-line is really good,” senior right guard Keaton Sutherland said. “We’re excited for the opportunity and we’re going to have to play the best we can and we expect to have to do that every week, so we’re excited to see what we can do against them – bring our A game.”

After some position changes and questions, offensive line coach Jim Turner settled on sophomore Dan Moore Jr. at left tackle, sophomore Jared Hocker at left guard, junior Erik McCoy at center, Sutherland at right guard and sophomore Carson Green at right tackle. With three true sophomores starting, the A&M line is fairly young and unproven, but they’ll get their chance to change this on Saturday as they battle the veteran Clemson defensive line.

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“We’re excited for what they bring,” Sutherland said. “All three [sophomores] had experience last year and getting that game experience last week and being able to work together worked out well for us.”

Game one against Northwestern State saw some positive things along with some negative things for A&M offensive line. The biggest takeaway from the blowout win was the Aggies’ ability to run the ball, as they put up over 500 rushing yards against the Demons. Running backs Trayveon Williams, Kwame Etwi, Vernon Jackson, Jashaun Corbin and others had massive holes to run through all night thanks to the O-line.

“The offensive line did great in game one,” Williams said. “Throughout the whole summer I said the offensive line had been doing a great job, they had a great camp and it showed. They had a lot of push off the ball last week and they’re ready to go out there and compete in the next one.”

The biggest negative was the O-line’s pass blocking. Starting quarterback Kellen Mond was sacked twice in the first game. The first sack came on a big third and five play that saw Demon linebacker Blake Stephenson go unblocked right up the middle to drop Mond for a nine-yard loss. The second came on a first down play in which Northwestern State sent a corner blitz that went completely unblocked, catching Mond off guard after a play action.

“We had a couple hits on the quarterback that we didn’t need to take,” Fisher said. “That’s something we have to get cleaned up There were too many

GAME PREVIEW CONTINUED an idea of what it is like to play in a specific environment.

“They’re going to have a hard time preparing for Kyle Field,” Swinney said.

“None of these guys have ever been there so they won’t have anything [to compare it to].”

Swinney said video personnel within the program typically take for the VR simulations during or after a game, however this is not the case with A&M since the last time the Tigers were in Aggieland, the year was 2004 — long before the development of current VR technology.

“We just don’t know a lot about Texas A&M,” Swinney said. “Unfortunately, I think the unknown is a competitive advantage for them and hopefully our experience can be a competitive advantage for us.”

STERNBERGER CONTINUED a big A&M crowd was an eye-opening experience.

“It was great,” Sternberger said. “You can try to get prepared for Kyle Field, but whenever you experience it for the first time, you just got to embrace it. Warm ups I was kind of like ‘Oh this is really cool,’ then running out of that tunnel it was like ‘Woah, this is big boy football.’”

A major piece of Fisher’s strategy for the season is making better use of the tight ends, keeping players like Sternberger on the field longer. Sternberger said this allows for more options on the field.

“Trevor [Wood] and even [Ryan] Renick and [Glenn] Beal have been great assets to this team,” Sternberger said. “Being able to play two tight ends in a game has really opened up our play book. We can go out and execute wherever we need to.

I feel like Trevor [Wood] being healthy is going to be a great thing.”

Sternberger said playing time was a big part of why he chose to leave Kansas and come to A&M. “I love being in the game a lot,” Sternberger said. “I love how [many] tight end sets we do. That’s one of the things coach Fisher told me we were going to do when he was recruiting me, so to see that follow

hits on the quarterback and it’s not always the offensive line, you have tight ends that are blocking, running backs that are blocking and everyone else too.”

The loaded Clemson defensive line includes four starters that all have the potential to be first-round picks in the 2019 NFL Draft. At defensive end are senior Austin Bryant and junior Clelin Ferrell. Bryant recorded the second most sacks on the team in 2017 with 8.5.

Ferrell has a similar physical stature to former A&M great Myles Garrett and tallied 9.5 sacks, giving him the team-lead and second in the ACC. At the two defensive tackle positions are senior Christian Wilkins and junior Dexter Lawrence. Wilkins recorded 60 tackles and nine tackles for loss last year and led the team with six tackles with one sack in Clemson’s 48-7 win over Furman last Saturday. Lawrence is the biggest player on the team at 6’4” 350 lbs., clogging the middle of the line on opposing teams’ running plays.

The Tiger D-line also features a pair of five-star freshman defensive ends.

Xavier Thomas, a strong side end, was the third ranked player in the class of 2018, while KJ Henry, a weak side end, was the 14th. “[Protecting Mond] will be very imperative because all those guys up front were first and second team All-Americans last year,” Fisher said. “They’re dynamic, they can beat you with power, they can beat you with speed, experience, agility and knowledge. They’re a well-coached group and it’s going to be a great challenge.”

Meanwhile, as the Aggies prepare to take on one of the best teams in the country, Fisher said he is excited to see what his new team can do against a well-rounded Clemson team.

“I think that it’s a great opportunity to find out [what your team is like],” Fisher said. “Clemson is as good as anyone in college football in the last few years.”

Despite the extra challenge of facing a nationally-ranked opponent, Fisher said his approach to preparing his team for Saturday isn’t changing and never will.

“It is another game,” Fisher said. “It is to us. One win, one loss, whatever happens.

You have to approach it that way. Your opponent doesn’t matter.”

up felt good.”

Just days before A&M’s matchup against No. 2 Clemson, Sternberger was named the John Mackey Tight End of the Week for his efforts in week one. This award highlights individual players from tight ends during the football season.

Aside from the attention on the field, Sternberger is receiving more attention off the field than he expected when first transferring to A&M. “I’ve never really noticed A&M needed a tight end that much but I’m very aware now,” Sternberger said. “It’s a great situation to be in. I’d say it’s been a little excessive, but I’m not complaining.”

As far as his thoughts on matching up against a stacked Clemson defense, Sternberger said the Aggies go into every practice with a strong, competitive mindset.

“It’s going to be a great opportunity,” Sternberger said. “Week in and week out, though, when we practice, I try to approach the teams we play as [if] everybody is the first-round pick because that’s obviously my dream to be one day and everybody’s dream to be one day.”

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AROUND THE SEC A LOOK AT THE CONFERENCE FOR WEEK 2

Week one of college football saw the SEC go 13-1, looking like one of the most dominant conferences in the game. With upsets such as Auburn over Washington, or LSU’s blowout win over Miami, the nation saw the kind of top tier football the SEC is known for. This week, fans will get to see the first couple of in-conference games, both in the SEC East. Here are some noteworthy games to keep an eye on going into week two:

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No. 25 Florida (1-0) vs Kentucky (1-0)

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This early-season showdown could very well decide the winner of the SEC Eastern Division.

Both Georgia and South Carolina know that they will have to play at their very best in order to leave Williams-Brice Stadium with a win. Georgia is coming off a blowout win against Austin-Peay where the Bulldogs looked similar to last season when they made it to the national title game. Sophomore quarterback Jake Fromm leads the Georgia offense with the help of new running back D’Andre Swift, who took over at the position in place of Nick Chubb.

Both Fromm and Swift will have to find a rhythm early on in this game, while having to contend with South Carolina’s dominating defense led by linebacker TJ Brunson. The Gamecocks look to establish themselves as an elite team this season and a win over the Bulldogs would be a great first step. Junior quarterback Jake Bentley will have to play one of his best games in the season as he has to contend with Georgia’s championship caliber defense. Watch out for a close game in one of the SEC’s toughest venues, with Georgia emerging victorious.

As the other battle in the east this weekend, the Florida and Kentucky game displays two middle of the pack teams hoping to make their own splashes in 2018. Florida christened the Dan Mullen era with a decisive 53-6 win over Charleston Southern last week, but Kentucky may pose Mullen’s first true test. Sophomore quarterback Feleipe Franks led the Gators with 219 passing yards and threw for five touchdowns last week. He will have to keep that momentum going into Saturday when they face the Wildcats defense. Kentucky, on the other hand, is hoping to finally contend for the division title, breaking their 31-season losing streak to the Gators is a must if they hope to compete for the SEC East. The Wildcat offense will have to show improvement however, following a four-turnover performance in their win over Middle Tennessee last week. The quarterback position will be the biggest question for Kentucky, as they benched starter Terry Wilson in favor of sophomore Gunnar Hoak. Look for Florida to come out on top at home in this one with a more solid offensive production.

Prediction: Georgia 28, South Carolina 21

Prediction: Florida 28, Kentucky 17

No. 18 Mississippi State (1-0) at Kansas State (1-0)

Missouri (1-0) vs. Wyoming (1-1)

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Sat. Sept. 8, Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium, Columbia, MO 6:00 p.m. on ESPU

Mississippi State travels to Manhattan, Kansas for an SEC vs. Big 12 showdown with Kansas State. Joe Moorehead began his tenure at the head coaching position with a commanding win over Stephen F. Austin 63-6. The Bulldogs should only improve going into this match-up, with the return of quarterback Nick Fitzgerald, who served a one game suspension last week for violation of team rules. Kansas State comes off a close call against South Dakota, winning by only one field goal. The Wildcats will try to produce points behind their experienced offensive line, which has well over 100 combined starts. They hope to hold the rugged Bulldog defense, one of the best in the SEC. While Kansas State may provide a harsh battle in the trenches, expect to see Mississippi State runaway with this one, giving Moorehead his second win.

Missouri enters this week with a 51-14 win under its belt over UT-Martin, and the Tigers hope to ride that momentum into Saturday when they face Wyoming. Senior quarterback Drew Lock, who threw for 289 yards and four touchdowns, will be leading Missouri in hopes of having a repeat of his performance of last week. Meanwhile, Wyoming is reeling from a 4119 loss against Washington State. The Cowboys hope to bounce back and replicate the success they found in 2017. Missouri’s offense will be tested by Wyoming’s punishing secondary, but the Tigers will ultimately grab their second win going into week three.

Prediction: Mississippi State 31, Kansas State 17

Prediction: Missouri 34, Wyoming 21

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5 Things to Watch For During Saturday’s game Key factors that are sure to make a difference as the Aggies take on No. 2 Clemson

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The battle in the trenches Clemson’s biggest strength this year is their defensive line. Composed of two All-Americans and two first team All-ACC players, all four will be first or second round draft picks in 2019’s NFL Draft. A&M’s biggest challenge this week will be creating holes in this talented defensive front for Trayveon to gain major yardage, as well as maintaining a pocket for Kellen Mond to operate in. Head coach Jimbo Fisher will no doubt put a substantial emphasis on physicality on the line of scrimmage this week on both ends of the ball.

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It’s no secret that A&M’s offense will be runheavy after an explosive performance by the junior running back against Northwestern State.

Williams will be instrumental in creating plays for the offense with his patient style and ability to spot holes in the defense.

Redshirt senior linebacker and 12th man Cullen Gillaspia waves a 12th man flag.

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Tiger’s quarterback rotation In last week’s game against Furman, Clemson gave senior Kelly Bryant the start under center, but he did not have the best performance of the day. Highly touted freshman Trevor Lawrence came in and had massive success, throwing more efficiently than Bryant and throwing two more touchdowns. Bryant, though a solid passer, is definitely a threat on the ground. He had five rushes for 44 yards and one touchdown, while Lawrence really showed out in the air. Bryant will no doubt get the start on Saturday night, but how much he will play will depend on his performance. Lawrence will see time in both halves to relieve Bryant.

DEFENSE CONTINUED with Buddy Johnson hopping in and Larry [Pryor] coming out from safety. He plays everything.”

Linebackers are asked to do a lot in Elko’s defense. They must be active not only in defending the run but also the pass.

The group was key in allowing just 251 total yards last Thursday. With a win under their belts, Dodson believes this week’s defensive calls will not be quite as vanilla.

“We’re going to mix some things up and give Clemson

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More field time for TE Jace Sternberger As seen last week against Northwestern State, Sternberger took an immediate role in moving the ball down the field and getting ahead early against the Demons. He earned the John Mackey Tightend of the Week award after an impressive opening performance with 56 yards and two touchdowns in the first half. This week will be no different. His ability to separate and create open looks for Kellen Mond is going to be a key component of this offense. Additionally, look for Sternberger’s improvement when he has possession of the ball using his impressive athleticism.

some things that they’ve probably never seen,” Dodson said.

“It’s going to be fun.”

The Aggies gave up one big play in last week’s game, a 77yard catch-and-run touchdown after redshirt junior defensive back Roney Elam lost his footing in coverage. A&M can’t afford slip ups like this against Clemson, which has talent at wide receiver and two quarterbacks that can make teams pay for any mistake. Even so, Swinney is well aware of this secondary’s capabilities, led by senior Donovan Wilson.

“I think their safeties are as good as we’re probably going to see,” Swinney said. “I’d say all four of their starters in the

Clemson has played on the biggest stages that college football has to offer. Just in the last two years, they have blanked Ohio State, beat Alabama to win the College Football Playoff and played in the Fiesta Bowl in a consecutive CFP appearance. However, there is a significant difference between a neutral site with 100,000 people and a crowd where the majority of 100,000 people are going to try to drown the Tigers out all game. Crowds like the one A&M brings can be the difference between a win or loss. Expect this to be a major factor in A&M’s performance.

secondary are probably going to play in the NFL. It’s pretty easy to see that. They’ve got size and length.”

The maroon and white are confident heading into one of the biggest home games in recent memory. The defense knows what it’s up against in the Clemson offense, but the Aggies believe they can get the job done.

“They have really good wide receivers and a really good offensive line,” Dodson said. “Everything is good about them.

They’re very fast and have a good quarterbacks that can run and throw the ball. We also have a good defense, so it’s going to be fun.”

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Built To Help Others (BTHO) plans to continue sending volunteers for the rebuilding process in Houston, where they have already cleaned over 30 homes.

One year after Harvey, research, relief efforts continue Texas A&M remains heavily involved in rebuilding affected areas and studying the storm’s effects

By Savannah Mehrtens @SJMehrtens Just over a year after Hurricane Harvey, biology senior William Schuyler Lamm is one of many still working to rebuild all that was lost.

Lamm is the president of Built To Help Others, previously known as BTHO Harvey, a student organization founded in August 2017 to rally support for those affected by the storm.

“In reality, things haven’t changed too much,” Lamm said.

“Past couple months I’ve been doing plannings and everything for groups to go down this year too.”

The hurricane was the most significant tropical cyclone rainfall event in United States history and an estimated 40,000 flood victims evacuated to or took refuge in shelters across Texas and Louisiana, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s public report.

Compared to other storms, Harvey brought a few firsts, according to instructional assistant professor of atmospheric sciences, Tim Logan.

“It’s the first time that an official storm surge warning was issued and then there was the first ever three-day advanced warning of excessive rainfall,” Logan said.

Logan said Harvey was also different in the way it devel-

oped. While a typical hurricane would go on an eastwardly path, there were two patterns preventing this motion, forcing it to continue its movement toward the Gulf Coast.

“It’s weather. Things are going to get damaged at some point,” Logan said. “But we do our best to protect life as best as we can because there’s certain things you can always rebuild.

Once you lose your life, that’s pretty much it.”

Due to its size, scope and intense impact, Harvey won’t be soon forgotten, said Sam Brody, professor in urban planning and marine sciences at A&M and director for Texas Beaches and Shores.

“There are hundreds of thousands of people who were impacted that had never experienced that level of flood inundation before,” Brody said. “Some [areas] had flooded for the third time in three years, but in general the reach of the flooding was just so wide and impacted so many people that the collective memory of the storm is going to be longer than I think any other storm we’ve experienced.”

Lamm said he was inspired to volunteer when Harvey made landfall and he saw the level of destruction the storm brought.

However, he said more should have been done in the last year.

Built To Help Others raised nearly half a million dollars, traveled to the Houston area to help rebuild and cleaned out about 30 to 35 homes, alleviating the stresses of those affected.

Lamm said people still need walls put into their homes, furniture moved in, and much more, because many are still not able to live in their damaged properties.

“In the grand scheme of things, nothing’s really been com-

GUEST COLUMN

Matthew Curtis ’19 Featured During Clemson Game Aggie student is merging the battlefield and the classroom to design a new kind of tourniquet.

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owdy! I hope you are joining us at the game tomorrow night as we BTHO Clemson! Just before halftime is a video that I hope you will enjoy. It highlights one of your fellow students and entrepreneurs and someone who is leading by example on this campus. Matthew Curtis ’19 (pictured here) is a veteran and engineer. He has a remarkable story that starts in Spokane, Washington, where he enlisted in the Marine Corps out of high school, deployed once to Afghanistan and conducted two training operations in the Kingdom of Jordan.

After he finished his service, Matthew started his time at Texas A&M as an engineering undergraduate and was immediately impressed with the resources at his disposal within the College of Engineering and on campus for students interested in innovation and entrepreneurship. He decided to use what he was learning in the classroom and what he had learned overseas to take on an ambitious project during his undergraduate education.

When he was in Afghanistan, he saw that good tourniquets were in high demand among active service members. In the event of traumatic injury, a functioning tourniquet capable of preventing hemorrhages was often the difference between life or death. Sadly, Matthew saw that some of the tourniquets provided didn’t perform up to snuff in battle conditions.

Having seen the problem and gained the knowledge to address it, Matthew got to work creating a better tourniquet that can be applied faster and more easily than standard models. He spent his downtime drawing designs and using resources like the Engineer-

ing Innovation Center to create early prototypes. His work is still in progress, but he hopes that military personnel and civilian first responders could one day use his product to save lives.

With a story like Matthew’s, a few things stand out to me. As a veteran, I notice the steps this university took to make a former service member feel at home. As the leader of the Texas A&M Foundation—a team of passionate professionals dedicated to purposeful philanthropy for Texas A&M—it makes me proud that Matthew is the deserving recipient of three great scholarships from Bebe and Bruce Glasgow ’73, the Knauss Family, and Lou and C.C. Burton ’42. Lastly, like each of you, as an Aggie, I appreciate that his story is just one of many stories on this campus about students, faculty and staff that live the values that set our university apart in the world. We are a university that means so much because it stands for so much.

Matthew acted on an idea and received the support to turn it into a reality. I ask you: What’s your big idea? How are you going to positively impact our future? Learn more about the many initiatives we support by visiting our website at txamfoundation. com and or stopping by our building on the south side of Kyle Field, right across from the Haynes Ring Plaza at The Association of Former Students.

Thanks for all you do and lets BTHO Clemson!

To watch more of Matthew’s story, visit leadbyexample.tamu.edu/Matthew.

Thanks and Gig ’em!

Tyson Voelkel ’96 President, Texas A&M Foundation Watch for a video about Gracie Arenas Strittmatter ’04 ’08 during next week’s game vs. Louisiana-Monroe.

pleted in total, not only with just us but with all the other organizations that are trying to help out,” Lamm said. “There’s a lot more to do. That’s why we’re trying to get on this again and trying to get everyone knowledgeable that there’s a lot more to do and that there’s a lot of ways to still help.”

Brody is the lead technical expert in a group of his fellow-researchers gathering data analytics and evaluating the impacts of Harvey. The group is working to produce a definitive report for Rebuild Texas, a commission created by Texas Governor Greg Abbott and led by A&M System Chancellor John Sharp.

“There has been a surprising amount of positive change and a real appetite for change at the local, all the way up to the state level,” Brody said. “We’ve already seen some major initiatives take place in response to the storm which, frankly, surprised me.”

Despite what he has witnessed, Brody said he holds a positive attitude as he looks toward the future.

“I’m hopeful for the future despite all the problems we have,” Brody said. “Houston and Texas in general can become the leader in this area. The Texas A&M System has the expertise and the resources to lead the way for the state and I think nationally and internationally we can go from a perceived lagger to a leader in dealing with coastal and urban flooding. I think that’s going to be a critical thing for A&M to focus on in the future because we’re right at the hub of all these issues.”

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