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(Left to right) Kaitlyn Kellermeyer, Russel Geyer, Tyler Wooten and Ashlyn Pedersen came together to create an alternative way for students with visual impairments to navigate campus.
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media studies sophomore, Russell Geyer, mechanical engineering sophomore and Kaitlyn Kellermeyer, economics senior. The idea for the project began when Wooten took a 3-D printing class his freshman year. Wooten said that after taking the class he wanted to find a way to combine what he learned with a way MAPS ON PG. 2
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A few missing key players brought Texas A&M more problems than it expected in Starkville Saturday morning. With their best offensive and defensive playmakers on the sideline, the Aggies’ season quickly began crumbling around them. “I don’t think energy or focus was the problem,” quarterback Jake Hubenak said . “I think we just didn’t execute and they had a better game plan than we did.” The Aggies’ day was disrupted with a few gaping holes in their game plan due to injuries. Junior defensive end Myles Garrett has been battling an ankle injury for the majority of the season. Clearly not at 100 percent against the Crimson Tide, Garrett stayed off the grass in last Saturday’s matchup against New Mexico State. He started Saturday morning but soon re-aggravated his injury and was clearly hindered in his performance and only came in on third down situations. The Aggies were without cornerback Priest Willis while defensive tackle Daylon Mack and safety Armani Watts also left the game early. This made for a virtually non-existent pass rush on Mississippi State quarterback Nick Fitzgerald. The man under center is certainly one to use his legs to bring down defenses. Without pressure he wasn’t forced to attack through the air and therefore made the Aggies suffer on the ground. While just completing 18 of 31 pass attempts, Fitzgerald threw for 209 yards and two touchdowns through the air while carrying the ball 20 times for 182 yards and two scores. A&M conceded a season-high 365 yards rushing this weekend. “We couldn’t stop the run today and we couldn’t run it,” head coach Kevin Sumlin said. “Those are the numbers. We didn’t stay on the field either. Basically it came down to that [Mississippi State] dictated play today. [Fitzgerald]
played extremely well. He ran it but he was also extremely accurate when he threw it. This was more of a lack of execution. They ran it and we couldn’t stop them from running the ball. We weren’t consistent enough offensively to win a game.” That inconsistency was mostly attributed to the loss of signal-caller Trevor Knight. The quarterback exited the game for a good portion of the first half with a shoulder injury. He sat out the next possession before returning for two mediocre drives and eventually returning in the second half with his arm in a sling. Junior Jake Hubenak took the reins in Knight’s absence. While not playing necessarily poorly, Hubenak completed 11 passes on 17 attempts for 222 yards and two touchdowns. However, it was his lack of mobility that had Aggie fans missing Knight under center. Hubenak scrambled seven times for two yards, to Knight’s five rushes for 54 yards and a score. “We get equal reps with both quarterbacks,” wide receiver Christian Kirk said . “Jake can’t run the ball like Trevor can but he still did a great job. I’m so proud of Jake just with the way he’s able to handle adversity. He’s thrown in some big time games and just when we’re down he always finds a way to bring us back.” The Aggies will return to College Station next weekend as they take on Ole Miss. Sumlin says they will have to reevaluate players before deciding who the lead man is going forward. “Obviously it’ll be important to get guys healthy again,” Sumlin said. “[Hubenak]’s been up and down throwing the football as a young guy and you know he’s getting better. He’s got a live arm, he’s a big guy and a really really good athlete. He was highly accurate today…. He was the best player on the field today. His demeanor lends itself to these situations. To come in with cowbells ringing and down by two touchdowns, to play the way he did ... That’s pretty good for a guy that was just standing on the sideline without a helmet. We have confidence in Jake going forward, we’ll see what happens with Trevor [Knight] injury-wise.”
38th annual Songfest features 26 organizations Chi Omega hosts annual event to raise money for charity By Jena Seidemann @jena_seidemann For 38 years, Texas A&M Chi Omega’s Songfest has brought the campus together through song, dance and skits to raise money for philanthropic causes. This year’s Songfest featured 26 student organizations who took the stage Friday and Saturday in three shows. Songfest chair Sarah Bailey, interdisciplinary studies senior, said this event was a cumulation of all the hard work and dedication Aggies have for improving their community around them. “I just hope people get to see how hard working Aggie are by nature and how hard working everyone involved in Songfest is because they care,” Bailey said. “They care about looking good, they are about putting their best foot forward, but this year we were trying to refocus it on why we even put on Songfest, and that is because every participating
act’s philanthropy can get something out of it not just a show, which is my favorite part — this is a show with purpose.” This year, Bailey said they added an additional matinée performance on Saturday to allow more people to come to the show, and that without walk-ups they sold more than 5,000 tickets for Songfest. In addition to adding another show, the event was held weeks earlier than the previous year, but Bailey said her team was prepared. “Having less time in the fall was sometimes tricky, but we knew that was going to be the case since last December, so my team was so prepared and really on top of it. That was the challenge and the reward. We had a lot of big changes even with it being earlier and the third show,” Bailey said. Part of the money raised will go towards Chi Omega’s annual donation of $7,300 to Make-A-Wish, which will help Diana from Katy accomplish her dream of visiting Disney World. Each participating organization is awarded SONGFEST ON PG. 2
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(Left to right) Russell Geyer, Ashlyn Pedersen, Tyler Wooten and Kaitlyn Kellermeyer have teamed up to make campus easier to navigate with braille maps.
MAP CONTINUED to try to help people with disabilities. There, the idea of the campus braille map was born. Kellermeyer, who has lived with visual impairments her whole life, lost sight in both her eyes during her freshman year. Since then, Kellermeyer has been an advocate for students with disabilities on campus. After hearing Wooten’s idea, Kellermeyer said she was excited to see what he was going to create, but didn’t know what to expect. “She didn’t really know what I was talking about,” Wooten said of his initial meeting with Kellermeyer. “She just kind of told me to do it and that we’ll see what happens. After that, we ended up meeting up again and she was absolutely amazed at what it was.” Since their initial meeting, Wooten said that things have taken off drastically. “We’ve finished the smaller version of the map and we’re on the final stages of that,” Wooten said. “We printed out about 12 of them for Disability Services, so now they have the maps and they’re checking them out to people.” This summer, Wooten enlisted the help of Kellermeyer, Pedersen and Geyer to help put together the “Assistive Mapping Project.” Wooten, Pedersen and Geyer had decided to combine their efforts after meeting in their freshman leadership organization, Freshman Leaders Establishing Excellence (FLEX). Pedersen, who handles the non-profit’s public relations, said each member contributes in their own way. “I work more on the PR side of things,” Pedersen said. “I created the website and Russell [Geyer] is an engineer as well, he works more on the electrical part of the maps.” The electrical on the maps consists of interactive buttons emitting the sounds of different windchimes placed on campus, an initiative led by Kellermeyer in the past year. According to Wooten, the group recently received a patent for this concept.
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money to help their charity of choice. “Our goal is to raise $150,000,” Bailey said. “Last year we raised $168,000, but it will be hard to tell this year because of the different way we did ticket sales and the show being earlier and how our silent auction went.” For her first time participating in Songfest, Pi Beta Phi member Courtney McMillan, accounting freshman, said the camaraderie helped make the freshman transition easier, as well as forcing her out of her comfort zone to meet new people. “I got to meet a lot of upperclassmen in Pi Phi that I wouldn’t have normally met, and they were so sweet and welcoming because I had never danced a day in my life, but they would take the time to teach me the dances outside of practices,” McMillan said. “We partnered with the Brotherhood of Christian Aggies, and those guys are the funniest guys I have ever met so they made all the practices super fun.”
Pedersen said they began the non-profit in hopes of creating more maps for campuses across the country. “We’re possibly looking into other colleges where we can set up student ambassadors on different campuses,” Pedersen said. “This way we can give students opportunities to work on the engineering, 3-D printing — stuff like that.” While expanding to other campuses is the long term goal — the group is currently in the works of establishing a large interactive braille map in the Memorial Student Center. “Right now we’re working on the large map,” Wooten said. “We have it now, so that it will be multiple sheets of the small map. So if you take the smaller version, it will be 4x3, so 12 sheets total.” Wooten said the large map to be put in the Memorial Student Center will be broken up into pieces, with the idea of removable segments helping ease the hassle of updating the map if a building changes. “If something on campus were to update — say a building on campus changed — we’d be able to go into the software, delete that building, draw a new one, print out that new piece of the map and come up to the big map and just replace that,” Wooten said. Wooten and the rest of the group are now just waiting for the large map in the MSC to be put up. Wooten said that depending on the feedback they get, they’re going to try to further develop and improve their ideas. Kellermeyer said that she hopes to see more progress in the future in further developing the map and increasing accessibility for students and visitors. “We’ve been able to do something that has hopefully been beneficial to other people while also educating the public about people with disabilities — which is a really cool position to be in,” Kellermeyer said. The small campus braille maps are currently available now for check out through the Disability Services Offices.
In addition, McMillan also said it was rewarding to invest back into the community by raising money for Pi Beta Phi’s philanthropy, the Bryan Adult Learning Center. “It is an awesome way to raise money for you philanthropies,” McMillan said. “I have seen first hand what the Bryan Adult Learning Center has done for people wanting to learn to read, or learn English or get their GED.” Even if someone does not perform in the year long preparation process, Delta Zeta member Marisa Cox, public health senior, said the event can involve anyone in the community, which is why it has been so successful for the past 38 years. “I participated last year, and it makes me wish I did it this year, but I didn’t have the time,” Cox said. “Even if you aren’t dancing, you can still participate by buying a T-shirt that puts money to [the cause], donating, bidding in the silent auction and then of course attending the event. It is not just sororities and such, its other men’s organizations, women’s organizations, as well as the corps so it helps the whole campus community.”
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Guest column: Creating the next generation of leaders Recent grad urges students to consider Aggie core values at polls By Paige Waskow
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However, after working with him, I realized that he had been written-off as someone who couldn’t succeed, and he acted out because of low self-esteem. I made it my mission to rebuild his confidence, and to help him see school could be a place of joy, support and success — and in doing so, his academic success followed. He has already made nearly a year’s worth of reading growth 12 weeks into the school year, simply because he began to see himself as someone who is both smart and capable. Additionally, a few weeks ago in the area near my school there was a shooting that resulted in the deaths of two men. A local eight year old organized efforts to promote peace in his community. I think about his teacher and parents, and what they must have said and done to mold such an empowered and influential young person. It’s these experiences that turn my previous hope into my current conviction. I believe there will be a day when my students are the ones running for president. I know there will be a day when the “Time’s 100� list includes Daron, Jada, Lavell. But we have to be part of the generation making that possible. This November, we must ensure our country’s moral arc continues bending toward justice for all. We can do that by showing our students real-world examples of leaders who look and sound like them. And secondly, we must give our children the tools to empower themselves to become the next generation of leaders. So when we think about how this election will go down in history, we have two choices: We can tell the next generation that we lived it, and we couldn’t find the answers. That we didn’t have the courage to disrupt the systems and structures that sustain inequality and injustice. Or we can tell them that we lived it, and we changed it. As Aggies, one of our core values is selfless service. So as you head to your polling place, and as you consider how you’ll make your impact after graduation, I ask you to think beyond yourself. Don’t just be a leader. Let’s create the next generation of leaders. Paige Waskow is a Class of 2015 graduate and current teacher in the Teach For America corps member in Indianapolis
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