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More than meets the eye Athing Mu breaks records in her freshman track season By Jennifer Streeter @jennystreeter3

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In her freshman season, Athing Mu holds the collegiate record in the 4x400-meter relay, 600-meter and 800-meter indoor races.

Deuteronomy 28:13 reads, “The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.” When discussing Deuteronomy 28:13, freshman Athing Mu said God rewards those who run toward Him. “As a follower of Christ, our main goal is to live in the image of Jesus in order to connect to God and ‘get to’ God,” Mu said. “I believe when God is ready to give you blessings, He gives it to you with all

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Jenkins said. “I think it’s really incredible because when you get to know her, she’s so much more than just a runner. She’s such a beautiful and pure soul. She’s always full of joy…She really has a heart for God, I think that’s something that’s very honorable about her. And I think that has really carried her with running, with everything.” The runner and the entire A&M track and field program is coached by Pat Henry. Henry has been coaching since 1974, but has been the head of A&M’s program since 2005. In that time, Henry has garnered nine NCAA Championships and accumulated 36 national team titles on the NCAA Division I level. In over four decades of coaching, Henry said Mu is the best woman he’s ever seen on the track.

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Founded in the 1970s, a group of Texas A&M students created an anonymous hotline called the “Gayline” that connected the Aggies to LGBTQ+ resources throughout the community.

Gay Student Services set precedent for LGBTQ+ resources on campus By Nathan Varnell @newsncv Editor’s Note: This story highlights sensitive issues and may contain triggering content. An anonymous hotline run by LGBTQ+ Aggies in the 1970s and 80s paved the way for the pride seen on campus today. Six years after the Stonewall riots, a handful of gay and lesbian Aggies founded Gay Student Services, or GSS, a social organization which became the first explicitly gay student organization at Texas A&M. To support other gay students, GSS started the “Gayline,” an anonymous referral hotline that connected callers to everything from affirming health services to finding local gay bars. Former students from two generations of GSS said the Gayline did more than kick off a high-profile court case; it provided a support system and safe havens for an acute minority of A&M’s student body. One of the founding members, Michael Garrett, Class of 1977, said he became involved at a time when he couldn’t imagine the Supreme Court ever recognizing gay marriage. At first, members of GSS, known first as Alternative, were hesitant to even seek public recognition as a student organization by A&M’s administration.

“It was completely homophobic,” Garrett said. “There were a few supportive people, but the administration could not handle it at all, end of story.” Before the hotline, the predominant way to find other gay people in the 1970s was through mutual acquaintances, Garrett said. You had to know somebody who knew somebody else, and all of it was very under-the-radar for the sake of safety. It was hard to know who to trust, Garrett said. “There used to be a one-story building across from the YMCA building, and they had campus roommate services there,” Kevin Bailey, Class of 1987, said. “They had big 5x8 files with cards in them to write information and phone numbers on. I was there looking for a roommate and saw a card that just said, ‘My name is Eric, I’m gay, and I know a lot of people that are looking for roommates,’ and it had a number on it.” Eric was the president of GSS in 1984, and before long, Bailey joined the group and was helping to staff the same referral hotline he had called. He later became the historian for GSS, and when he wasn’t “working late into the night on computers,” he said he worked to piece together the story of the group’s early years. Altogether, his collection of records and other media, later donated to Cushing Library, has preserved a portion of LGBTQ+ history often forgotten. Coming together “I had come out to myself in 1972, but wasn’t really ‘out’ until much later,” Garrett

said. “My freshman year at A&M, I was just adapting to the culture, but when that first group of us happened to meet by accident we realized there were more of us than we thought.” As Alternative slowly grew in numbers as a social group, the members started thinking about how to make other students aware that there was a supportive group, said Garrett. But their first attempts were met with apathy and resistance. “The first thing we thought of was a Speaker’s Bureau, where those willing to be publicly out would speak,” Garrett said. “Not just on campus, [but] any place in B/CS.” The members hoped to speak to their experiences and dispel myths about being gay, Garrett said, much like the Coming Out Monologues now hosted by the LGBTQ+ Pride Center. “We wanted to make people comfortable being gay,” Garrett said. “That’s the reason we came out so publicly, we were out and okay with it and wanted to try and let people know it was okay. Although very few people were ever interested in hearing us.” Alternative decided to have those interested come to them, and the Gayline began in 1975 as a second phone installed in student Mike Minton’s mobile home, Garrett said. The group would regularly gather at Minton’s home ready to answer the phone, whether they were visiting, studying or had “pushed all the furniture out of the way to dance,” Garrett said.

Advertising the Gayline with flyers did not go over well with the administration, Garrett said, nor with the students who often ripped the flyers down. Alternative was forbidden from on-campus advertising unless it were a recognized student organization — which John J. Koldus III, vice president of Student Affairs at the time, would not allow. This conflict produced the change from Alternative to GSS and the nearly decade-long court battle that ended in 1985. “When they started the court case, they were aware that in order to get around A&M’s ban on social organizations they needed to provide a service to the community,” Bailey said. Running the Gayline The Gayline started small, but grew to have an expansive list of local referrals and consistent volunteer training from professional counselors. Their operation wasn’t cheap, Bailey said, but the service was sustained by collections from members and donations from sympathetic members of the community. By the time Bailey joined GSS, he said the Gayline was a forwarded line. The physical phone box was installed at the local Unitarian Universalist Church, but whoever was staffing the line had calls forwarded to their personal lines at their homes. As their membership and services developed, so had their methods, Bailey said. “Our intention which we tried to get across to the university was that we were trying to GAYLINE ON PG. 4

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GAYLINE CONTINUED provide support, and for real counseling we referred callers to professionals,” Garrett said. “Often someone who called was closeted and didn’t know what to do, or someone straight wanted to know what being gay was like. Sometimes they just wanted to know where the gay bars were.” Given the administration’s negative attitude toward GSS, callers didn’t trust the campus counselors or other services, Garrett said. This prompted GSS to find people in the community who were receptive to them, which was not an easy task early on. “I can think of one particular therapist and one physician who were okay,” Garrett said of his time working the line. “We did have a counselor affiliated with Brazos County. She gave classes to those of us who were going to be answering the phone on how to handle situations like when someone was suicidal, how to refer somebody to mental health counseling and convince them to do it and other basics.” Those classes were not a one-time occurrence. Training guides provided by Bailey describe a wide range of techniques such as problem solving with the callers, warning signs of suicide and good responses when handling emotional conversations. The guides kept from the 1980s were provided by counselor Rick Grossman and the Suicide and Crisis Center of Dallas. The Crisis Center even provided questionnaires and tests for volunteer training so that in potential

ATHING MU CONTINUED “She is a fantastic athlete. I’ve been doing this [for] 48 years. She’s the best female athlete I’ve ever had,” Henry said. Less than a year into her collegiate career, Mu ranks first on the Collegiate All-Time Top10 Performance List in the indoor 600-meter, indoor 4x400-meter, indoor 800-meter and the outdoor 800-meter. Mu said she not only runs for herself, but for God and her faith. “I’m just coming out here and trying to test myself and see where I’m at and just run,” Mu said. “I’m doing this for me, nobody else besides God. I’m just having fun with it.” At the upcoming Olympic Trials in June, Mu said she intends to run the 800-meter. This is the particular event in which she broke the all-time women’s collegiate record at the Michael Johnson Invitational on Saturday, April 17. Her time of 1:57.73 met the Olympic qualifying standards and set her fourth collegiate

emergencies volunteers could help until professionals could intervene. However, many calls were not seeking help, both Bailey and Garrett said. “There were a lot of prank calls,” Garrett said. “But back then it was easier just to make fun of them, which pissed them off.” According to preserved call sheets, the crank callers often used slurs, made mocking sexual comments or demanded they “get off campus,” often. Making change “[The Gayline] broadened our community, but it was still difficult at the university to be out,” Garrett said. “That didn’t change the entire time I was there.” As the court case proceeded in the background for GSS, the men both recalled a number of news articles and opinion pieces, mostly unsupportive or unrepresentative, regarding the organization. “Once the lawsuit was filed and I came out in an interview for the [Battalion], I’d get catcalls from dorm rooms as I walked across campus,” Garrett said. “But there was also a period of time where campus cops had to escort me to class. When I got to campus I checked in with campus police, someone would be assigned to me, and as long as I was on campus they had to follow me around. When I was in class, they stood outside the classroom door.” Harassment came from A&M faculty and staff as well, Garrett and Bailey said. In one class in particular, Garrett’s grade was lowered from an A to a D, and when questioned, the

professor said if he had spent less time on “his other activities” then his grade would not have suffered. Sherri Skinner, Class of 1984, a doctoral student when GSS began, likewise had many academic issues, mainly with con-

record. “[Mu] running 1:57.73 is one of the single greatest performances I’ve ever seen in collegiate track & field,” Henry said. “I’ve never seen that dominant of a performance. She is in a league of her own right now.” Not only is her time an American junior record, but also a world-leading mark. Mu is often inspired by her big heart and the love she has for the sport, Jenkins said. “I know her heart and I know that she’s just amazing,” Jenkins said. “She’s trying to do everything she feels like God is calling her to do. She’s just trying to be the best that she can be and she’s just loving it. She loves being young and enjoying track and field. That’s one thing I love about her, just having a teammate who really radiates such positive energy. She’s really helped me find that love again for track.” Even more impressive, at the SEC Championship in E.B. Cushing Stadium, the freshman ran the 400-meter with a time of 49.84 seconds. Mu said achieving the under-50 mark was a

big goal for her, but she still strives for more. “For some reason, [under 50], it’s such a goal for me,” Mu said. “I’ve done it [in] splits so when I PR and do it, it’s like I already did it so it’s not that much of a big deal, but at the same time it’s like, ‘Okay, we’re moving up, we’re improving, we’re doing well.’ I think my goals are just higher and I’m just trying to do the best and strive for greatness.” Henry, who has led the Aggies to a total of 17 conference titles, said he likes to balance developing young and talented runners with older runners who have more experience. “What we try to do in our program is that we’re about development,” Henry said. “We’re fortunate enough to have some really good freshmen in our group, [but] I don’t ever want to have a young team. If you have a young team, something went wrong at some point.” More recently at the NCAA West Prelims on the week of May 26, Mu earned her ticket to the NCAA Outdoor Championships, setting the U.S. under-20 record in the 400-me-

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Members of Texas A&M’s Gay Student Services often received prank phone calls while operating the hotline.

ducting research for her dissertation. “It’s hard to say stand up and be proud if it means you lose out on support or love,” Bailey said. “If you don’t think your family is supportive, you need to find a support group. That was really the biggest thing with not just GSS, but other people I was involved with.” Yet slowly but surely, the culture began to change. In October of 1985, the Student Senate narrowly passed a resolution recommend-

ing that the administration officially recognize GSS. The court case was decided in favor of GSS on April 1, 1985, and it finally became a recognized student organization. By the late 1980s, there was less of a need for the Gayline’s anonymity, and eventually the line was disconnected, Bailey said. “We got there,” Garrett said. “It took all of us to work at it, and we’re still working at it.” The culture didn’t just change at A&M. Gay activists became highly organized in the 1980s during the AIDS crisis, culminating in a march on Washington, support from the CDC and WHO and anti-discrimination legislation in the 1990s. Many of those achievements began with small, “backyard” minority communities such as Alternative and GSS. Garrett was unaware of the creation of the LGBTQ+ Pride Center at A&M, and was “shocked” to hear about it for the first time. “What makes me truly happy is that if the work that we did back then has led to the fact that y’all can have a pride center on campus, then we accomplished our goal,” Garrett said. Both Michael Garrett and Kevin Bailey are now peacefully retired with their partners in Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth, respectively. “I’m glad that we were able to help, that somehow or another things that we did back in the 1970s has made life easier for LGBTQ students at Texas A&M,” Garrett said. “All we wanted to do was just be treated like human beings.”

ter with a time of 49.68. The championship meet takes place in Eugene, Ore., and starts on Wednesday, June 9. Despite her success so early on in her career, Mu said she has more to aspire to in the championship and in life. However, these goals are not only regarding personal records or times, but also inspiring others. Jenkins said one of Mu’s top goals is to show others if they set their minds to something, anything is achievable. “She’s trying to make a difference and inspire individuals and encourage young people that they can make their dreams come true,” Jenkins said. “They shouldn’t set limitations for themselves, and with God anything and everything is possible. That’s what she really instills in me and a lot of our teammates. She’s really just setting the bar and showing people that there is so much more that we are really capable of and we don’t need to let standards or our fears get away from that.”

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After retiring from a professional basketball career, former Texas A&M women’s basketball point guard Sydney Carter returned to Texas A&M to join the coaching staff.

WNBA athlete Sydney Carter pursues coaching career at her alma mater By Casey Stavenhagen @CStavenhagen Former Texas A&M women’s basketball point guard Sydney Carter has done it all. After winning a National Championship and playing at the highest level in the WNBA and overseas, Carter has returned to her alma mater as the team’s video coordinator in pursuit of a coaching career. Carter fits into a list of point guards under A&M head coach Gary Blair that have transitioned from player to coach. It wasn’t the path she envisioned while playing at A&M, but said as she aged, she realized the career was a natural fit. “I feel like I’ve always been a player-coach,” Carter said. “I’ve always been vocal, I’ve always been a talker, I’ve always had leadership qualities. Being in the position this year to actually see the workings of a coach, and the fact that I just find so much joy in it, lets me know that I am walking in my purpose.” As a member of the 2011 National Championship squad, Carter racked up accolades that propelled her into the WNBA – Big 12

All-Defensive Team, the All-Big 12 Second Team, fifth in A&M all-time career 3-point field goals, 10th in career assists and 10th in career steals, according to 12thman.com. “To this day, it’s 10 years later and I can’t put it into words – just even in that moment we won [the National Championship] – how I felt,” Carter said. Carter’s progression as a player took time as she learned the ins and outs of the way A&M operates on the hardwood. A&M assistant coach Kelly Bond-White, who has been coaching at A&M for 18 years, compared the process to refining coal into a diamond, something Carter now helps current players with. “The best players learn how to read, whether it’s defense or offense,” Bond-White said. “It took Syd a minute to get to that point, but by her junior and senior years was when you really start noticing that we don’t have to coach as much.” The process continues as a player becomes a coach. Bond-White said a culmination of experiences have molded Carter into a valuable coaching presence and someone who has found her voice among a veteran coaching staff within the last year. “That learning curve starts all over again, but the game doesn’t change,” Bond-White said. “You know the game, so now you’re

passing it down to the next generation. I see her talking, you hear some of those same Blairisms along with knowledge that she’s taken from other coaches from across the WNBA.” Not every process was easy for Carter. She was selected in the third round of the 2012 WNBA Draft, but had a short-lived career in the league playing for a different team in each of her four years, according to WNBA.com. “I went out of the WNBA on my terms,” Carter said. “I decided not to continue to play after my fourth year because my body just needed the rest. Going from WNBA and having a week or two before you go overseas, as you get older it just gets tougher.” Carter headed to Europe where she found success, playing for three years and winning three Latvian/Estonian Championships and one Eastern European League Championship. Carter said she always wanted to retire on her own terms, but a knee injury in 2018 cut her playing career short. Shortly after retirement, the video coordinator position opened up. “For me, it was literally like coming back home. I’ve traveled all across the world, but not a lot of places feel like home,” Carter said. “And College Station, I mean you spend a lot of time here in those four years [as a student], and you develop so many relationships.

I didn’t feel like I had ever left.” In her current role, Carter handles the scouting film highlighting opposing teams, as well as A&M players’ strengths and weaknesses. Carter’s former A&M teammate and current Chicago Sky guard Sydney Colson said Carter’s value to the maroon and white goes beyond her duties as video coordinator and into the connections she makes with players. “[Carter is] a player’s coach,” Colson said. “[She] just knows how to motivate a kid. You know what it was like when you played and what you needed to hear, what worked for you. It’s important for coaches to understand that everyone is different, and she gets that.” In the Elite Eight of the 2011 NCAA Tournament, Carter stayed on the floor for the entire 40 minutes and led the team to a 5846 win with a 22-point and three-steal effort. Colson described the game as “a testament” to the kind of person Carter is. “Coach Blair wanted to go to Tyra [White], and I was just like, ‘No, we’re good,’” Colson recalled. “I knew [Carter] was feeling it; she knew she was feeling it. We’re going to do it our way, and she had a hell of a game. She performed, and she put it all out there.” Colson said the 2011 squad trained against a men’s practice team – a mental and physical test for the Aggies. Despite the bumps and bruises accumulated during practice and in games, Colson said it made the team closer. Bond-White said Carter could coach in many programs due to her experience with the game, but her loyalty to A&M and its coaching staff brought her back to College Station. “Syd has had a chance to go many places to advance within this coaching field, but Sydney’s love for Texas A&M is what has kept her here,” Bond-White said. “She doesn’t feel like she’s selling anything. This is home; she truly believes in the family of it, and this is where she feels like her worth is.” Handling the ball is now in the rearview for Carter, while handling a clipboard is the road ahead. “Why not start your career learning from the best?” Carter said. “Why not come back and learn from a hall-of-famer and three other people that could be head coaches anywhere else in the world? “I think it would be a dream if I could stay here and coach at A&M throughout my career. That would be 100 percent perfection, and I think we all know that. Obviously, things don’t work out that way. I see my path in being an assistant coach whether that is with A&M or somewhere else.”

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Senate Bill 8, otherwise known as the Heartbeat Bill, restricts the ability for women to receive legal abortions in the state of Texas.

The Heartbeat Bill isn’t pro-life Opinion writer Kaelin Connor argues banning abortions will never stop women from getting them.

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ne story that has stuck out within recent news is that of a 13-yearold girl who was raped and impregnated by her grandfather. Due to the limited abortion options near her hometown and within the state of Texas, the girl and her mother were forced to travel across Texas to get an abortion. The Heartbeat Bill, if put into effect in September, would bar even this young girl from an abortion. Why? Senate Bill 8 makes no exceptions for rape or incest. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said, “Our creator endowed us with the right to life and yet millions of children lose their right to life every year because of abortion.” His main argument is that abortion goes against “God’s” creation of life and denies thousands of children their right to live. Well, there are two problems with this comment. One –– religion has no part in dictating any part of Texans’ lives. It isn’t fair

to impose Christian values on those who aren’t of the faith. If it’s a moral issue, fine, but implementing a religious belief is unconstitutional. Our forefathers made this principle clear in the Bill of Rights. And two –– Abbott’s second argument is contradictory based on Texas’ lack of care for children outside of the womb. Texas shows no interest in the care for minority children or their mothers, let alone any child itself. The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services reported 15,780 children in foster care as of April 2021. In San Antonio, for instance, the amount of foster care children without placements is spiraling. If Senate Bill 8 is implemented, the women who can’t afford to raise a child will resort to the state’s burgeoning childcare system. The system simply can’t handle the effects of banning abortions. With more pressure on the deteriorating system, taxpayers will take the heat to support thousands of displaced children. If the Texas legislators’ goal is to reduce abortion rates, banning them isn’t an effective method. Women will still get abortions but at a risk. Restricting abortion access does not lower abortion rates but makes abortions more unsafe. In fact, in countries that have banned abortions, only one in four abortions

is considered safe. Women face the possibility of an incomplete abortion, hemorrhage, infections and sometimes death. Restricting or banning abortion doesn’t achieve anything other than back alley botched procedures and preventable maternal deaths. If lawmakers’ only priority is children, there should be subsidized child care, paid maternity leave and grants for single mothers. If the Heartbeat Bill bans abortions after six weeks, child support should start then, since Republicans consider that point the start of new life. If an illegal immigrant mother conceived her child on U.S. soil, then the six-week mark considers the child an American citizen. If a six-week old fetus is a whole person and a mother insures her child and miscarries, she should be able to collect. By determining the existence of life we need to treat it as such. By only stating six weeks as the start of life but not including fetuses in other categories that a born infant would qualify for would be deceitful. If we’re claiming it’s a human then it deserves human rights. If there are any discrepancies with these suggestions then we need to reevaluate how pro-life of a state we claim to be. Restricting or banning abortion is not a responsible decision. Implementing policies and legislation that benefit both

mother and child is, however. To start lowering abortion rates and unplanned pregnancies, children need to be taught comprehensive sex education, not just abstinence. A Columbia study found that abstinence-only education does not delay sexual initiation and instead inflates the risks of “[withholding] medically accurate information, [stigmatizing] or [excluding] many youths, [reinforcing] harmful gender stereotypes and [undermining] public health programs.” America’s youth deserves and should know the risks and information surrounding sex so that all are aware of their options. Abstinence teachings only set the youth up for unplanned pregnancies and many other risks. A study investigating the correlation between abstinence-only education and teen pregnancy found significant differences in state’s reported rates of teen pregnancy and the type of sexual education curriculum. Specifically, states which taught comprehensive sex education saw fewer teen pregnancies than states teaching abstinence-only or no type of sex education at all. In fact, the study found that states with abstinence-only curriculum do not reduce teen abstinence behavior and are, in fact, more likely to experience more teen pregnancies. Another nail to drive is the importance of affordable access to birth control. For instance, an uninsured intrauterine device, or IUD, out of pocket costs $1,300. Birth control pills can cost anywhere up to $50 out of pocket. The stigmatization surrounding contraceptives alone are enough to discourage women from seeking preventive methods, but so is the price and accessibility. Almost half of U.S. pregnancies are unplanned. If birth control was available at free or even reduced costs, abortion rates would decrease. Texas cannot claim to be pro-life while knowing that banning abortions can create deadly risks for women. Texas cannot be pro-life while children are placed in a collapsing foster care system. If we as a state are going to uphold a certain standard for life then we need to additionally support the continuation and satisfaction of those lives. At best, banning abortion suppresses women and our rights. If Texas can’t understand that, then we’re not pro-life at all. Kaelin Connor is a psychology senior and opinion writer for The Battalion.

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Changes have been COVID-19 restrictions made to the for Aggie Ring Day this November. Ring Day, which had previously become Ring Week this semester, will be held on Nov. 17, 19 and 20. Recipients President-elect Joe can choose a time between Biden is proceeding 8:30 a.m. and 5 with a transition of p.m. on Tuesday or power and announced Thursday or between via Joe Biden Facebook his 13-member COVID-19 8:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. on Friday to pick up task force on Nov. their Aggie Ring. 9. Texas A&M’s Public Different from the Ring Policy Research Institute Week held this Kirby Goidel, Ph.D., past September, the said the president-elect get anything done. They want the Association of Former country to is unlikely to fulfill his Students will now allow dream of unity any time be in a better place.” recipients to bring soon after America’s up to two guests into Communication professor longtime disintegration Jennifer Merof trust in institutions and the Clayton W. Haynes Ring Plaza cieca, Ph.D., author across Williams, Jr. Alumni of “Demagogue for Democrats and Republicansthe country — by President: The Center with them Rhetorical Genius to alike. of Donald “[President Donald] during their assigned pick up their rings Trump,” said Biden’s Trump has been time. All guests will focus on healing the By Myranda Campanella unique. His goal is be required to wear to keep his core support- nation and moving past polarization face coverings inside @MCampanella_ ers… And one way is a mesthe Alumni Center, sage for all of that he keeps them according to the Ashappy one particular America and falls in line with is by going after the sociation’s website. other side,” Goidel rhetorical strategy: the said. role.” “In that type of environment, “priestly “We do not encourage he 2020 presidential it’s very hard ditional guests to campus,”you to bring adMercieca has seen a wave of election to imagine that in the short-term this a statement on changes in to change.” is going this rhetoric said many presidents have utilized the website reads. “The electoral politics. throughout history, two guests in must which the Despite Trump’s harsh be accompanied by the leader evokes the values Within a week of ring rhetoric while atof the nation during winning tacking the left der to enter the restricted recipient in ortimes of crisis. This Pennsylvania, President-elect throughout his presidency, is area around the Goidel said he believes Joe Biden has announced Alumni Center, the Trump’s more authentica clear departure from Biden Ring Plaza and inside a COVID-19 task turn rhetorical style where force, reached out to some of that rhetoric will be able to he says exactly what the Alumni Center foreign allies and plans building.” he thinks, Mercieca announce his senior to after rebuilding trust across down over time said. Vice President of “Where [Biden] differs cabinet members. Amerthe nation. the Association of from Trump probica is already beginning “In Congress, it’s become Former Students ably the most is the to see the effects. De- polarized Kathryn Greenwade way that he is constantly so partisan and evoking spite the current president’s that it’s American hard to values, talking about imagine bipartisanrefusal to concede ship, but the election, the Biden what he thinks America I think a lot of them RING DAY ON PG. means,” want Washing- “He’s 6 gun making changes. Administration has be- ton to work better,” much more optimistic Mercieca said. Goidel said. “They However, Director about America didn’t of get into politics to fight all the time and never

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Texas Democrats’ hope of a blue Texas was snuffed out Wednesday evening as top-of-the-ballot Democrats failed to flip the state in their favor. Coming off of Beto O’Rourke’s narrow loss to Ted Cruz in 2018, Democrats had hoped Mary “MJ” Hegar could unseat incumbent Senator John Cornyn in the U.S. Senate race. Cornyn, 68, was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2002 and will enter his fourth term with almost 54 percent of all votes against Hegar. Texas U.S. Senate Race

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fter more than 100 million voters cast early ballots nationwide, the 2020 presidential election is nearing its end during one of the most turbulent election years in history. According to the Washington Post, the trend of thousands of positive cases of COVID-19 confirmed each day have not stopped since the election began. Despite this, the CDC permitted voters who have been exposed to or infected with COVID-19 to vote in person, with precautions. “CDC’s recommendations for isolating someone who has COVID-19 or quarantining someone who was in close contact with a person with COVID-19 would not preclude them from exercising their right to vote,” the

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Final results for the Brazos County local elections came in late Tuesday evening after polls officially closed at 7 p.m. According to the College Station city blog, results are not yet official as the election commission still has to count absentee, military and provisional ballots. Mail-in ballots determined to be qualified will be counted after 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 10. These mail-in ballots will be particularly pertinent in determining the winner of College Station City Council Place 1 which, as of Tuesday evening, was in favor of incumbent Bob Brick (50.01%), a research specialist at the

CDC said in an email to CNN. On Tuesday afternoon, preliminary exit polls from ABC News showed that a plurality of voters said the economy was the most important issue in the country, not COVID-19. Among those topics surveyed in the exit polls for the most pressing issues, the top three were

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Cornyn had a strong turnout in Brazos County after a late campaign visit to the Bush Library on Oct. 29. He secured 58.67 percent of Brazos County’s votes and held Hegar to 38 percent. Hegar conceded the race to Cornyn Tuesday shortly before 9 p.m. in a Twitter post. “I’m so proud and incredibly grateful for all of your support,” Hegar said. “Together, we’ve worked so hard, and overcome so much, shattering expectations along the way. We’ve built a powerful grassroots movement from the ground up, and I know our fight here in Texas U.S. SENATOR ON PG. 2

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Texas legislators look to ban schools from teaching Critical Race Theory, which studies the structures of American society through the country’s history between laws and racial issues.

We can’t keep whitewashing America’s history Opinion writer Ozioma Mgbahurike suggests telling the full truth is helpful to all Americans. Ozioma Mgbahurike @Ozi_Oma_

he Texas legislature has had one eventful session. If you have not been paying attention or are just plain tired of the constant wave of bad news that comes from Texas Republicans, you are not at fault at all. The bills passed so far include one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation, the passing of permitless carry for handguns and a bill to withdraw state funding from sports teams that don’t play the national anthem at games. Now, the latest attack is on our education system with Republicans banning the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools because, well, why not? Let us begin with what Critical Race Theory, or CRT, actually is, because Republican lawmakers across the country will have you believe this topic is the new culture war that will lead to America’s destruction. The GOP claims CRT is an agenda that teaches everyone that all white people are irredeemably racist and will further sow racial division in America. After the bill was approved by the Texas House of Representatives, Rep. Steve Toth stated, “At a time when

racial tensions are at a boiling point, we don’t need to burden our kids with guilt for racial crimes they had nothing to do with.” The bill is built on a lie because, in actuality, CRT is a means of studying the structures of American society through the lens of race. Created by Harvard University’s first Black law professor, civil rights attorney Derrick Bell, its aim is not to blame white people but rather to study how racist laws have significantly prevented other minorities from achieving the same level of success. The bill aims to ban public schools and open-enrollment charter schools from teaching CRT. Despite opposition from advocacy groups who believe it is essential to have uncomfortable conversations about race in this country, the Texas Senate approved the bill in an 18-13 vote. The bill is yet another example of America putting white individuals’ comfort over the safety of people of color. By effectively whitewashing the stories we tell about this country’s history, we are once again left with the idea that the United States of America is an exceptional country with no need for improvement. However, that idea is not a reality for everyone in this nation. Since this country’s foundation, we

have not collectively examined what it means to have a nation built on the institution of slavery. Even worse, we fail to acknowledge the legacy it leaves behind in our society. Providing an education that aims to be pleasant reading rather than thought-provoking ends up raising a generation that fails to understand the oppression their fellow citizens suffer. Another reason why the GOP hates the CRT is because it goes against the argument of American Meritocracy, it’s not the color of your skin, but the quality of your character that determines your worth to society. As much as we wish that sentiment to be true, that is an idea that doesn’t agree with reality. We can’t keep saying people of color have gotten their freedom because America is the land of opportunity. The truth is we have gotten those rights, despite the overwhelming pushback racist policies this country has presented us. CRT is not some way to indoctrinate students into some leftist agenda. Instead, it simply provides our nation’s history and gives an explanation of why things are the way they are right now. It is a means to explain why a Black American family is worth 10 percent of the average white family. Or why in 2015 Hispanic women earned 58 cents on every dollar

earned by a white man. CRT provides the necessary argument that racism is not an individual problem, but rather something systemic. Failing to challenge the structures of white supremacy will only promote it further and our country will never achieve the exceptionalism it so proudly boasts. We can’t move forward as a nation if there are still institutions that promote the lie that the Confederacy was founded on the need for “state’s rights” rather than to preserve the institution of slavery. We already failed one generation with the teachings of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a women’s group that was highly influential in promoting Confederate leaders as heroes fighting for a lost cause. The stakes are too high to lose another generation. American author and activist James Baldwin once said, “The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.” For example, take the stories of cowboys and Native Americans in which the cowboy always defeated those he deemed as “savage” and “uncivilized.” As a child, we are conditioned to always root for RACE THEORY ON PG. 11

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