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“Aggies United,” which will intentionally and directly conflict with the scheduled speaking event for Richard Spencer, the creator of the term “alt-right,” an offshoot of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism. Aggies United, which will feature speakers and entertainment not yet announced, will take place from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Dec. 6 in Kyle AGGIES UNITED ON PG. 3
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A&M volleyball preps for first postseason matchup against SMU Friday in Austin By Heath Clary @Heath_Clary
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he Texas A&M volleyball team will kick off its postseason play Friday against SMU, marking the fourth time in the past five years that Laurie Corbelli’s squad has begun the postseason in Austin. Postseason play will begin Friday at 4 p.m., the NCAA selection committee announced Sunday night. The first
and second round matches will be played at Gregory Gym in Austin, as No. 4 Texas is the host team. The Aggies (21-8) and Mustangs (24-7) will kick off the regional action, and then the Longhorns (22-4) will play Texas-Rio Grande Valley (21-3) at 7:30 p.m. “I’m kind of used to having to prepare them for that opening round match against someone other than the Longhorns,” Corbelli said Sunday after the selection show. “Once it’s tournament time anything can happen so we’ll be prepared for all three but first SMU.” The winners of the two first round matches will meet Saturday at 7 p.m. Senior middle blocker Jazzmin Babers said the Aggies’
familiarity with Texas and its gym will benefit them this upcoming weekend. “I assumed we’d probably go to Texas, and this will be my fourth time there,” said Babers, A&M’s all-time leader in block assists. “It’s nice knowing the gym and knowing what to expect and most of my teammates have already played there. It will be good being close to home where our fans can come support us.” The Aggies have never played SMU, but will be tested by the Mustangs, who won the American Athletic Conference and will be making their second NCAA tournaVOLLEYBALL ON PG. 4
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B-CS to participate in Wreaths Across America in remembrance of veterans By Meredith McCown @meredithrhoads
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Terra cluster opens new computing possibilities By Pranav Kannan @pranavkannan92 The High Performance Supercomputing Center (HPRC) at Texas A&M received an upgrade to its capacity with the installation of the “Terra” cluster — new data processing devices that are 10 times faster than the existing system. This revamped computer system will be utilized by researchers in geosciences, engineering and data analytics to analyze massive amounts of information and perform complex computing for sciences. Honggao Liu, director of HPRC, said every two years the processors used in computers have become faster with more cores. Liu said to provide the advantages of increased speed and power to researchers, the supercomputing systems need to be upgraded every three to four years. “Our previous system was launched in 2009, so it is an old system so it’s really time to upgrade that,” Liu said. “We usually keep two large systems in production so that researchers can continue to use the system.” Michael Bishop, A&M professor and director of Geospatial Science Applications and Technology center, said his research in earth systems and landscape evolution in areas like mountain environments utilizes massive amounts of geospatial data, including satellite imagery, topological and subsurface data. He said the spatial and temporal nature of the data creates extremely large data sets. “We try to extract information out of geospatial data sets and we do various kinds of analysis that are very computationally intensive,” Bishop said. “It requires high-performance computing TERRA ON PG. 2
The Bryan-College Station community is one of more than 1,200 locations across the United States that will honor veterans by placing memorial wreaths on their graves within the four city cemeteries, including the Aggie Field of Honor and College Station Memorial Cemetery Dec. 17. Wreaths Across America, (WAA) a national nonprofit that places wreaths on veteran gravesites each year, will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year. Last year, 97 wreaths were placed at Aggie Field of Honor and the goal for this year is to place wreaths on 1,000 veteran and first responder’s graves in the Brazos Valley area. So far, 281 wreaths have been sponsored. A wreath can be sponsored through a $15 donation. The ceremony for the Brazos Valley area will take place at 11 a.m. at the Aggie Field of Honor. Executive director for WAA Karen Worchester said each year the nonprofit organization chooses a slogan to represent its mission, and the 2016 slogan is “Say Their
Names.” “The mission of Wreaths Across America is to remember our fallen heroes, honor those who serve and their families, and teach younger generations the value of freedom and the sacrifices made,” Worchester said. “The remembrance wreath is a symbol of respect and gratitude, and it means so much to the Gold Star families to know their child will never be forgotten as we say their names while the nation shows its gratitude for their service.” Ellen Fuller, volunteer co-chair for the Brazos Valley chapter of WAA, said challenges arise when people misconceive that the government provides the wreaths. “The wreaths are a gift from lots of volunteers from thankful Americans,” Fuller said. “So the misconception — I would say overcoming the misperception that the wreaths are provided by the government … They are donated by thankful citizens.” According to Fuller, all of the different locations across the nation will hold a synchronized ceremony Dec. 17 in remembrance of fallen veterans. Each ceremony will reflect the specific community in which it is held. “Everything is synchronized to the noon
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ceremony in Arlington [Cemetery in Virginia],” Fuller said. “So there will be somebody in Riverside, California at 9:00 a.m. when we are at 11:00 in Bryan-College Station … We try and make it personal to the community as far as what they’re going to see.” The purpose behind National WAA Day is to promote unity within the volunteers and individuals laying the wreaths, WREATHS ON PG. 2
A&M group seeks new avenues for anti-cyberbullying A&M researchers receive grant to develop KidGab app By Pranav Kannan @pranavjkannan92
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A&M’s Sketch Recognition Lab received a grant to further research into the way children communicate.
A group of A&M researchers that has made it their mission to understand human behavior just received a National Science Foundation grant to fight cyberbullying. Researchers in A&M’s Sketch Recognition Lab recently received the Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER), which supports new approaches for scientific exploratory research. Aggies have used this grant to develop KidGab, a social network platform for children that allows researchers to collect data to design safe online spaces for children and artificial-intelligence-based protection systems. Tracy Hammond, A&M professor, director of the Sketch Recognition Lab and principal investigator of the grant, said the lab is focused on human computer-interaction and artificial intelligence. “Children are particularly interesting, and the way that they text is very different from the way adults text or
chat online,” Hammond said. “That was a very intriguing problem for me, and I thought it aligns very well with our lab.” Stephanie Valentine, research scientist at the Sketch Recognition Lab and chief architect of the KidGab social network, said she wanted to do research with a big societal impact — cyberbullying. “It got me so upset that all of these people were working on cyberbullying, but no one was actually doing anything about it,” Valentine said. “I decided that I wanted to do something about it — I’d fill that gap in research.” Hammond said the grant’s objectives are to create a sustainable network for engaging children to allow researchers to study their interactions. “There are essentially no studios done on how kids seven to 13 interact online socially,” Hammond said. Valentine said while the device is not aimed to encourage children to be on social networks, KidGab trains children on how to do it safely by providing a safe space online. “We cannot see to stop them from going online, instead we are providing KIDGAB ON PG. 2
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in order to extract quantitative information out of the data.” Liu said the Terra system uses the latest 16-core processors, giving a total capacity of 397 teraflops, a unit of computing speed. The new capacities can handle larger scale and more complex equations in areas such as life sciences, agricultural sciences and computational fluid. “When we have more power, we can solve more complex equations,” Liu said. Anthony Filippi, associate professor in the Department of Geography, said his research in remote sensing involves space and aerial based image processing. High-performance computing is used to process these big data sets by allowing parallel processing in areas such as image classification and reducing processing time. “One example would be chunking up or tiling the data into multiple parts and process them in parallel to arrive at a result more quickly,” Filippi said. Bishop said the center for GEOSAT is working with multiple faculty and students on campus to use high perfor-
mance computing in precision agriculture, climate, ground water, landscape and other types of modeling. Additionally, they are working on new geo-visualization techniques using the high-performance capabilities. “The new ‘Terra’ system is also going to help a lot of people visualize data,” Bishop said. Filippi said the increased processing speed of the new supercomputing cluster would contribute to his research utilizing data from portions of electromagnetic spectrum bands. “The number of bands that I would be able to process within the given period of time would increase and the amount of area that we are able to process would increase with much faster processing speeds,” Filippi said. Liu said the future HPC can possibly have “many-core” processors focussed on the “exa-scale” of power. He said the HPC looks to reach out to the non-traditional HPC community providing new hardware and software applications by providing workshops and seminars and increasing the center’s awareness. “Lots of student if they want to learn about HPC, new technology specially related to computing we offer tutorials, short courses and workshops,” Liu said.
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Worchester said. “The symbolism of National Wreaths Across America Day is one of unity,” Worchester said. “Hundreds of thousands of volunteers unite on the same day to lay wreaths that are sponsored by individuals and companies and say their names. In the past, we’ve encouraged participating to pause at Noontime for a moment of silence which corresponds with our wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown.” Ronald Schaefer, cemetery sexton for the City of College Station and Air Force veteran, said seven donated wreaths for each branch of the military will be represented. “It’s a remembrance of their family and their loved ones,” Schaefer said. “It started out with a guy who had too many wreaths up in Maine. And so instead of just throwing them away, they went out to Arlington and put them out and it caught. So it started becoming a tradition in other places as well.” Fuller said WAA has impacted her life, as her father was honored as a veteran. “My mom and dad are buried at Arlington and I was touched by the kind strangers that placed the wreath for my dad,” Fuller said. “And I didn’t know who they were in 2011, but after Mom died in 2012, I found out who those kind strangers were, and it was Wreaths Across America. I started volunteering and will be doing it as long as I can because I know what a difference it made to our family.” Donations can be made via www.wreathsacrossamerica.org until the deadline Tuesday Dec. 13 at midnight. Each sponsored wreath will be placed on the grave of a first responder or military veteran in Brazos Valley, or an alternative location if specified, on Dec. 17.
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AGGIES UNITED CONTINUED Field. The primary focus of the event will be a wall that attendees can sign their name on to express unity and solidarity, according to Young’s statement. “For my part, I will not be at [Spencer’s] speech,” Young said in his email. “Rather, I am pleased to report that the campus is planning its own gathering that same evening … which I plan to attend.” Young’s email denounced Spencer’s speech, but also expressed Spencer’s right to speak on campus as per the First Amendment. “So let me be clear, barring a breach of contract and/or unresolvable safety concerns, we have no plans to prohibit the speaker from using the room he has rented,” Young said in the email. “Freedom of speech is a First Amendment right and a core value of this university, no matter how odious the views may be.” In the email, Young expressed his satisfaction with university response to the event. “At the same time, I am also truly heartened by the clear message that the Aggie community is sending in reaction to this intrusion — the firm resolve to speak up in opposition to these views, the resounding affirmation that they do not represent the Aggie values we espouse and to which we aspire, and the call to action to reject these views,” the email read. Preston Wiginton, former student, white nationalist and member of the “alt-right” who organized for Spencer to come to campus, said while he applauds Young for allowing Spencer to speak, he is disappointed that the event is being held at the same time. “I am often bedazzled how the world goes bonkers about [sic] the polar bear may potentially go extinct, but when it comes to the displacement of white people and the dwindling numbers of white people, nobody cares. Obviously Dr. Young doesn’t,” Wiginton said in a statement. Wiginton said he feels the counter event is a disrespectful move by the university. “Furthermore Dr. Young does not care about the concerns of white Americans,” Wiginton continued in his statement. “The Richard Spencer
event was to be a dialogue of some of the most pressing events of the day. In not attending the Richard Spencer event and even encouraging the A&M community to not attend by hosting an event counter, Dr. Young makes a statement that spits in the face of white America.” Amy Smith, university spokesperson and senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Texas A&M Amy Smith said Aggies United is the result of a reallocation of funds from a previously planned holiday celebration event. “When this came along, we heard from the students their desire to protest the speaker and we thought we would just combine the budget that we had set aside for the celebration to celebrate being Aggies and support the students and their desire to do this,” Smith said. Student Body President Hannah Wimberly said she and other student leaders helped plan Aggies United. Wimberly said the event hopes to send a positive message for the A&M campus. “I think it’s a powerful event for Aggies, community members, faculty, staff and students to come together and join and unite,” Wimberly said. “I know the details of the event are a little TBD, but it will be a time for all of us to come together.” The Faculty Senate Executive Committee released a statement supporting Young’s announcement and said they look forward to Aggies United. “We, the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate at Texas A&M University value diversity, inclusiveness and support the right of free speech, while reiterating that hate is antithetical to Aggie core values,” the Faculty Executive Committee said. Lieutenant Alan Baron of the University Police Department said UPD is going to make sure attendees and guests have equal security during Spencer’s speech. “The University Police (UPD) will formulate a plan that is appropriate for the event to ensure the safety and security of the participants and the campus community,” Baron said in an email. “Although we cannot provide specific details, many things are taken into consideration during the planning process to ensure everyone’s safety.” Spencer’s speech is still scheduled as planned at 7 p.m. Dec. 6.
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VOLLEYBALL CONTINUED Tournament appearance in school history. “It’s been a long time since I’ve seen SMU live,” said Corbelli, who has led the Aggies to the postseason 20 times and has recorded a 24-19 record. “With them winning their conference, I have looked to see who their big hitters are and what type of defense they play. We’ll definitely spend the majority of our time getting ready for that match against SMU.” Last year, the Aggies were ranked as the No. 10 team in the country and hosted their own region, but were knocked off in the second round by seventh-ranked Hawaii. They will try to improve on last year’s success this time around. They have a veteran-laden team, with several players having significant NCAA tournament experience, and they played a brutal nonconference schedule this season, which A&M is hoping will yield benefits come Thursday. “Our preseason and SEC play alone has helped us with competition,” said junior setter Stephanie Aiple. “It’s not like we’re going to go into NCAAs having not played anyone in the top 10 or top 25. I think we’ll be prepared.” The Aggies also didn’t have freshman outside hitter Hollann Hans to lean on early in the season in their early nonconference losses.
Now that she has more experience and playing time under her belt, A&M has yet another weapon to attack opposing teams. “Hollann was just starting out as a freshman outside [hitter], so I think she has improved tremendously,” Aiple said. “And I think just our team offense, our team defense and our blocking has all improved since preseason.” Corbelli and the rest of the Texas A&M coaching staff will do their best to prepare the Aggies. Corbelli said she spent most of the weekend watching the team’s early losses to Wisconsin and Minnesota, trying to find the areas her team has improved as well as the areas they need to focus on in the week of practice leading up to the match against SMU. Ultimately, Corbelli said she is happy with where her team is heading into the postseason. The Aggies suffered a crushing defeat to Kentucky on Nov. 20, but rebounded with wins over LSU and Auburn to end the season on a high note. “I think we’re playing really well,” Corbelli said. “Our blocking has improved 100 percent — our blocking is so much better. I think our serve receive has better tempo and defensively I think we’re leading the SEC in digs per set. I really feel good about the improvement and where we are and how we’re playing, and I hope we can take that to the tournament.”