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Alt-right speech organizer meets with Texas A&M officials Monday By Brad Canon @BradCanon1
Texas A&M officials met with Preston Wiginton, the organizer for the campus visit of alt-right activist Richard Spencer and a member of the Foundation for the Marketplace of Ideas, Monday morning to discuss logistics, safety and the cost associated with hosting the increasingly high-profile event scheduled for Dec. 6. The event will be moved from its original location in Rudder Tower to the MSC in room 2400 and will require higher levels of security due to the controversy of the event. The planned event has caused outrage from current and former students, and many have called for the cancellation of the white nationalist’s speech. Spencer came under public scrutiny recently after video of a speech he gave at a conference for the National Policy Institute, a think tank for white nationalists and the alt-right, circulated around the Internet. His remarks ended with him saying, “Heil Trump, heil our people, heil victory.” Wiginton said the main issue is security at the event in response to the planned protests. He said A&M officials have no right to charge him for security to a point where he can’t finance the event. “The Supreme Court has ruled that free speech cannot be priced,” Wiginton said. “Technically we don’t have to [pay for security] — if it’s reasonable — with the relationship I have had with A&M I don’t mind spending some.” Spokesperson for the university and senior vice president and chief marketing and communications officer Amy Smith said since the event is expected to be larger than a typical event, the extra expense which will be needed to host the event will be placed on the organizers of the event and not the state. “We have a responsibility to keep our buildings as a safe environment for our students and because he is here that is going to be part of the
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hen a certain player gets the ball, it’s clear something dynamic is going to happen. That’s definitely the case with sophomore forward Ally Watt, whose compelling play making ability landed her a spot on the United States U-20 Women’s World Cup Team.
Watt joined a talented Texas A&M team in fall 2015 and didn’t just blend in — she stood out, scoring seven goals in her freshman campaign, four of which were game-winners. As a result of her impressive 2015 campaign, Watt was selected to the 2015 All-SEC Freshman Team. Watt has seemed to find success on the
national team. On Nov. 26, the official Texas A&M soccer Facebook account congratulated Watt on being named the FIFA Player of the Game after she scored the equalizer in the final 10 minutes of the United States match against Mexico in the FIFA U-20 World Cup Quarterfinal. Watt credits her success last season to
the coaching staff and her continued training the past two years with her teammates. Watt planned ahead and redshirted her sophomore season after being named to the U-20 Women’s World Cup Team this past September. WATT ON PG. 2 Alex Sein — THE BATTALION
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By Hannah Gerken @gerken.Hannah For biology senior Luis Bañuelos, painting murals of A&M traditions has always been a passion, but recently he was offered an opportunity for his artwork to stand for something much bigger. Bañuelos has become known for his Aggie murals, and one even found a new home in Moldova, a small Eastern European country. “When I started painting, I wanted to do something challenging and something that meant a lot to me,” Bañuelos said. “It didn’t take much searching to find something around campus that would work well.” Bañuelos was contacted by BUILD, a student service organization that converts empty pods into medical units to be shipped to countries in need in honor of the 12 victims of the 1999 Bonfire collapse. The organization asked Bañuelos if he would paint the Bonfire Memorial in one of the mobile medical clinics. “I had known Luis through the Terry Scholars Foundation and he posted on Facebook that he was wanting to do another [mural],” said Kayla McCabe, design and construction team leader for BUILD. “I thought the Bonfire Memorial he had done before would be fantastic.” Each clinic is dedicated to one of the 12 victims of the collapse, and then sent overseas to serve in countries in desperate need of medical supplies and services, McCabe said. The clinic housing Bañuelos’ mural will be sent to Moldova and has been named after Michael Stephen BAÑUELOS ON PG. 4
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Senior Luis Bañuelos spray painted Aggie icons in Graffiti Park in Austin before being asked to paint the Bonfire Memorial in the BUILD pod.
Modern physics and astronomy are discovering new things about dark matter and energy every day, and each discovery helps paint an ever-clearer picture of the universe. Dark energy is a mysterious form of energy that seems to emanate from empty space itself. Discovered in 1998 by two independent teams of researchers, little is known about dark energy except that it causes the expansion of space. There is no way to physically detect it, so it must be measured by its effects on things that can be seen. A&M physics and astronomy professor and co-creator of one of the original research teams Nicholas Suntzeff said finding a way to detect this dark energy was a challenge the teams had to tackle in 1998. “If you know the brightness of something — say a 75 watt light bulb — you figure out how far away it is, then you know if it’s bright or faint, but you have to know it’s a 75 watt light bulb,” Suntzeff said. “When a certain type of star explodes, you get essentially the same brightness, always, and that was our first discovery.” Using this information, the team was able to plot these supernovae across the universe. “We were able to measure accurate distances because we knew how many watts the explosion was,” Suntzeff said. “Even with the present expansion of the universe, we could predict how far away things were in the past based on how much matter there is in the universe, how old the universe is and how fast the universe is DARK MATTER ON PG. 4
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WATT CONTINUED “When I first got here I would say I was a completely different player,” Watt said. “Phil and G have helped me transform into the athlete that I am now, into the player that I am now. They’ve helped me so much and supported me through this whole process.” The qualifying process started two years ago when Watt received an email about camps for the U-20 squad and she continued to meet with players and coaches every couple of months. Watt wasn’t able to be on the qualifying team because she was in season last year with A&M playing in the Elite 8. After Watt qualified for the team, she was encouraged by the U-20 team to redshirt in order to compete at an international level with the squad. Texas A&M head coach G Guerrieri said he was thrilled when he first heard the news that Watt had made the team. “I think back to when I was her age and the dream of playing for the United States in a World Cup was a dream little bit too far,” Guerrieri said. “So I think it’s really cool when our players through their experience with this program, have earned that opportunity.” Guerrieri said he knew in May both Watt and junior midfielder Mikaela Harvey both made the U-20 Women’s National team, but Harvey decided to play out her season with A&M as a captain. “They both came to us with questions of ‘What should we do,” Guerrieri said. “And our answer to both of them was, ‘Do what you want to do, no matter what — we’ll support you 100 percent.’ In Ally’s situation she wanted to live the dream of playing for the United States in the World Cup and
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Sophomore forward Ally Watt is one of only 25 women soccer players to make the United States U-20 World Cup Team.
we completely supported her in that.” After Watt had made the squad, the focus of her training shifted to bonding with her new teammates that she would face international competition with. “What we really focus on at one point is just the chemistry and the bonds we have on and off the field,” Watt said. “The community we’ve created on the U-20 team has been unreal — I didn’t expect it when I first started going to camps … Honestly we became like a family at this point.” While Watt has been away, her teammates at A&M have shown her a lot of support. Sophomore forward Emily Bates said her friend is a very unique player and teammate. “Ally is a one-of-a-kind player and person,” Bates said. “Having her on the field is such an incredible positive because she’s so fast and she’s so good with the ball and she’s just very driven. Nothing’s going to stop her from doing what she wants — especially as a person, she’s a great friend. We’re lucky to have her.” Bates said Watt making the U-20 team against all the competition she faced for a roster spot is quite the accomplishment.
“Obviously only 25 make that out of the whole country,” Bates said. “That’s such an incredible achievement for her and she’s worked so hard for it and I’m so happy and so proud of her.” Watt said she’s constantly felt the support of her teammates throughout this whole process and is looking forward to playing with the team again during spring practice. “The support system here at A&M is one of the reasons why I came here,” Watt said. “The family I have here, the relationships that I’ve developed here with my teammates and with other people here at A&M helped push me to want to do this because I know that they have my back no matter what.” Watt said making the U-20 Women’s World Cup Team is a good indicator of whether or not she can play soccer professionally, like she wants to. “I just felt like this was an opportunity that will test me,” Watt said. “And it really has shown how much I’ve grown and it’s a step towards maybe what I want to be doing later on. I would love to be playing professional soccer; if I don’t use my degree that’d be okay … I just feel like this is a test of how good I could be.”
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Only 5 percent of people with diabetes have Type 1 diabetes. Michelle Milstead — THE BATTALION
Dealing with Type 1 diabetes
In light of American Diabetes Month, students share experiences, struggles By Michelle Milstead @mmilsteadd
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rom diagnoses at a young age to hospital trips to recent discoveries that lead to major life changes, students with Type 1 diabetes have faced many challenges associated with the disease, some of which were highlighted in November, during American Diabetes Month. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which a person’s pancreas stops producing insulin, a hormone that enables people to obtain energy from food. While its causes are not yet entirely understood, scientists believe both genetic factors and environmental triggers are involved. Its onset has nothing to do with diet or lifestyle, and there is nothing to prevent Type 1 diabetes. Presently, there is no way to get rid of it. Erica Fox, allied health sophomore, was diagnosed when she was six years old after her great-aunt noticed symptoms during a family trip. Fox said diabetes is now a regular aspect of her daily routine. “I was so young and I’ve grown up with it so I haven’t really known much of a different lifestyle,” Fox said. “I’ve never really hated having diabetes; I’ve just embraced it.” Fox said she’s been able to tackle her disease and doesn’t hide behind it or let it control her. Her journey with diabetes has motivated her to pursue a field that will help others do the same. “I’m now a health major and I want to do nursing because I eventually want to be a certified diabetes educator and educate newly diagnosed patients when they’re in the hospital and hear they have diabetes,” Fox said.
“I want to be there to say, ‘Okay, this is how you’re going to handle it the rest of your life. Your life is going to change, but you can do it.’” Agriculture business senior Tanner Nix said although it was hard for him to deal with it when he was diagnosed at the age of eight, he knew the situation could have been much worse — and he’s now able to fight it, remaining focused on being healthy. “I thought, ‘Well, we already knew something was wrong, this could be so much worse — let’s be glad about it,” Nix said. “You’ve always gotta push yourself and tell yourself you have to do this because it’s your health and you have to be diligent about it because if you’re not, there are so many consequences.” After being diagnosed, Erin Elliott, nutritional science junior, found out from her doctors about a summer camp for kids with diabetes near Dallas called Camp Sweeney. Elliott said attending the camp impacted her so much she decided to return as a counselor this past summer. “I went and met a bunch of people who were also diabetic and that kind of shaped my journey with diabetes because they teach you all about it and they are big about building community and I’m really thankful for that because it’s helped me take care of myself and it’s always good to have friends that you know that understand,” Elliott said. “It’s fun to work as a counselor at any camp, but it’s mostly just giving back to the camp that gave a lot to me.” Mathematics freshman Josh Edwards was diagnosed when he was 11 but recently went to the hospital after he didn’t get enough insulin and his blood sugar spiked, putting him in a state of ketoacidosis, a diabetes serious complication where the body overproduces blood acids. Edwards said the experience has taught him to be more aware and self-reliant. “My whole life I’ve been told, ‘We can’t do
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BAÑUELOS CONTINUED Eubanks, Class of 2003. “The father of Michael Eubanks is one of our adult sponsors and I thought it would be a nice tribute to him for putting so much support behind BUILD,” McCabe said. “It would be fantastic if the memorial remembering a victim of Bonfire was actually right there on the wall of the clinic.” Bañuelos’ first time painting an A&M mural was in June 2016 at the Graffiti Park in Austin, where he created a mural of the Century Tree. Bañuelos continued making trips to add on the Aggie Ring and Bonfire Memorial. Because of his start in Graffiti Park, he’s stuck to his roots by doing all of his murals in spray paint, he said. “I started with the Century Tree and was very happy with how it turned out,” Bañuelos said. “After that, I wanted to see what else I could do. The Aggie Ring has now become one of my favorite pieces.” After being featured on Texas A&M’s social media, people began to take notice of
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cost of renting the room, part of his agreement is that he has to bear the costs of that as well as insurance and other requirements,” Smith said. Texas A&M professor of law Lynne Rambo said anytime the school allows citizens to rent rooms on campus it creates a “limited public forum” which protects people’s right to speak, regardless of the content of their speech. And if the costs with allowing a person to speak are excessive due to the content of the topic, those costs cannot be placed on the speaker. “Let’s say [hypothetically] it costs $5,000 in police services, the university cannot put that on the speaker because effectively it is punishing him for the listener’s reaction to his speech,” Rambo said. “The First Amendment doesn’t allow the state to punish the speaker for the listeners reactions.” Wiginton said he believes the event will
Bañuelos’ artwork. He has since painted a mural of the Aggie Ring and of Kyle Field at The Corner Bar & Grill on Northgate. Bañuelos said after painting in a place where his work lasted only a day or so because artwork at Graffiti Park is only temporary, it was nice to be able to paint in places where it could leave a lasting mark. Senior Carly Farmer, a friend of Bañuelos, has watched him paint most of the murals in person. Farmer said she is always amazed by how he paints with such precise movements when using something as unpredictable as spray paint. “Every single one he’s done, people come walking up asking for pictures and wanting to talk to him about his talent,” Farmer said. “He’s one of the most impressive people I know.” Bañuelos said he was thinking about recreating his first mural of the Century Tree in his hometown bedroom for his next project. “I am always open to any opportunities that anyone has for me to paint,” Bañuelos said. watch what happens and that the way things move around out in the universe is being influenced by some stuff we can’t see, and that’s what dark matter is.” According to Jeremy Holt, professor of physics and astronomy, there are some candidate particles for dark matter, namely new ones being discovered in particle accelerators, but there aren’t even estimates yet for the masses or charges of dark matter particles. “From a nuclear physics point of view, we enter into the discussion for a particular type of dark matter particle, namely weakly interacting massive dark matter particles,” Holt said. “They could have masses anywhere between the proton/neutron mass and up to a thousand times proton/neutron mass.” One way to look for these particles is through their hypothesized interactions with nuclei, which, according to Holt, would result in a measurable difference in the momentum of the normal matter nuclei. However, there is another way, which involves the principle of all matter particles having antiparticles that destroy each other on contact. “It’s possible that dark matter has an anti-dark matter counterpart,” Holt said. “Just like normal matter and anti-matter will annihilate and produce, say, high energy photons, if there’s still some anti-dark matter circulating around in the galaxies and in areas where there’s a lot of mass, then potentially, you could look for signals of dark matter by trying to observe dark matter/ anti-dark matter annihilation.” go well, and every time he has held events on campus they have gone well and the student body has shown hospitality towards him. “Mr. Spencer is here and there are other people that I would love to bring that are not politically correct, but that will make students think, that will challenge students and I hope the students will come and challenge them,” Wiginton said. The goal is to bring speakers to campus that are prominent right now and to create a discussion on campus for students and right now Richard Spencer is prominent in the media and that’s why he is coordinating his event, Wiginton said. “The fact that Spencer is a white nationalist — he was brought primarily because he is popular in the media right now but his issues of immigration and race relations are very important and nobody wants to talk about them,” Wiginton said.