The Battalion: October 11, 2013

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Marcus Williams, (center) freshman business major, and Sam McMurry, freshman Blinn Team student, represent the Texas Aggie Conservatives as freshman industrial engineering major Zach Morgan (left) signs their petition to help end meal plan mandates.

Memories for sale Athletic department to sell pallets of playing field grass Aimee Breaux

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DEMONSTRATION AGAINST DINING Aimee Breaux The Battalion

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he Texas Aggie Conservatives asked pedestrians outside the MSC to sign a petition Thursday requesting an end to mandatory meal plans.

Members of the organization said they opposed the required purchase because of the overpriced, low-quality food and

bad service they said was provided by the private company responsible for dining, Chartwells.

Members said they wanted to give students a chance to express their disapproval in an organized manner.

Marcus Williams, freshman business administration major, said on top of the financial rip-off, campus dining services puts stu-

dents in an environment that is unhealthy.

“Everyone points out the ‘freshman 15,’ and you think they’d strive to find a way to prevent that,” Williams said. “When you look, all they serve is pizza and Mexican food. When you go to Sbisa, it’s all fried chicken and pasta — there’s just no healthy alternative. Literally, I buy a sandwich every day, and it gets old.”

Ole Miss to test road streak

In Oxford, A&M looks to win 10th straight away game Michael Ayo

The Battalion resh off the first bye week of the season, the well-rested No. 9 Texas A&M Aggies (4-1, 1-1) will head to Oxford, Miss., to take on the Ole Miss Rebels (3-2, 1-2) on Saturday. The Rebels recently dropped out of the Top 25 after losing their last two games, while the Aggies are looking for their third-straight win and tenth consecutive road victory.

The Aggies will be without senior defensive lineman Kirby Ennis, who tore his ACL two weeks ago in Arkansas and is expected to miss the rest of the season. Texas A&M is expected to have junior safety Floyd Raven Sr. back, who Sumlin said is “probable” to play.

With an offense that has yet to score under 42 points in a game, the Aggies lead the SEC in three major offensive catego-

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ries — scoring (49.2 points per game), passing (365 yards per game) and total offense (586.4 yards per game).

Sophomore quarterback Johnny Manziel is averaging 297.8 yards passing per game and leads the team in rushing with 62.8 yards per game. Eighteen different players have caught a pass and nine have hauled in a touchdown reception in the last five games.

“We encourage [Manziel] to win,” said head coach Kevin Sumlin. “We’re not telling him whether to run or throw on every play.

That would limit his game.”

The Aggies are second in the SEC in third down conversion percentage — converting for first downs 56.7 percent of all third down plays — and lead the conference with an average of 29.4 first downs per game.

The Ole Miss defense, through its first five games, has allowed only 175.8 yards rushing per game. The Rebel rushing deCaleb Stewart — THE BATTALION fense struggled with its last two losses against top-ranked Alabama and unranked Auburn, Senior receiver Malcome Kennedy, the giving up an average of 268 yards per game No. 2 receiver on the team, runs after a on the ground. catch against SMU.

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MSC officials remember Jane Bailey, MSC development specialist, for her caring nature and passion for pushing students to reach their full potentials.

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“They’re lowering [Kyle Field], which will require a new irrigation systems, so we were going to have to replace the grass anyway,” Cook said. “We thought that a lot of Aggies would like to have a piece of Kyle Field turf when they’ve seen so many Aggie football games and memories made. We expect the interest on Monday to be significant.”

Cook said the sale of grass is a part of a bigger discussion among University officials during the Kyle Field renovation.

“When we started the Kyle Field renovation project, we knew there were a lot of items in G. Rollie White that would have sentimental value for Aggies, so we’ve been meeting in committee and we’ve been meeting since early summer about the plan for auctioning off and preserving many items,” Cook said. “Over the summer, the idea of the grass came up in one of our committee meetings.”

Mallory Gibson, freshman business major, said the grass sale is a chance to own a piece of Kyle Field’s legacy.

“Aggie football is such a big deal,” she said.

“I think it’d be pretty cool to own a piece of the field if you were a huge fan.”

Cook said the revenue generated from the grass sales will go toward salvaging items that are part of the original G. Rollie White Building and Kyle Field, and funds beyond that will benefit the Athletic Department.

A&M physics doctoral student Indara Suarez stands near the Large Hadron Collider, where she and the rest of her team are working to upgrade hardware.

liberal arts | 2 Gender studies open house

msc | 3 Jane Bailey remembered

We thought that a lot of Aggies would like to have a piece of Kyle Field turf when they’ve seen so many Aggie football games and memories made.”

— Jason Cook, senior associate athletic director

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Women’s and gender studies will hold an open house to recognize students and faculty members for their research projects and to celebrate the department’s 25th anniversary.

The Battalion ggies can now follow in the footsteps of Johnny Manziel and Mike Evans as pallets of Kyle Field’s grass will be available for purchase online starting at 10:30 a.m. Monday, allowing Aggies everywhere to trod the ground of legends.

The Athletics Department will offer purchasing options of 450 square feet of sod for $400 and a single square for $20, but all sales are on a first-come, first-served basis. The grass will not be harvested until Nov. 9, after the last home game of against Mississippi State.

Senior Associate Athletic Director Jason Cook said the current grass will have to be stripped away with the renovation of Kyle Field.

The Athletic Department, he said, hopes to sell memories along with the turf.

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Small scale, big science A&M group propels Nobelwinning research John Rangel The Battalion

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he hunt for the Higgs boson is over, and two pioneering physicists now have a Nobel Prize to prove it.

The 2013 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded Tuesday to Peter Higgs and Francois Englert for their prediction, now a half-century old, of the existence of the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle responsible for giving subatomic particles mass.

While the prize went to the authors of the theory, thousands of scientists around the world collaborated for

several years to find experimental evidence of its existence, a number of whom call Texas A&M home.

“There is a small army of professors, post-docs and graduate students working on [Higgs boson research] here,” said Alexei Safonov, associate professor of physics at Texas A&M and collaborator with the Higgs boson research.

Safonov, the Aggie team and scientists around the world have a conceptually simple job: smash particles together at the speed of light, look at the ensuing sub-atomic chaos and attempt to pick up an idea of how the universe is fundamentally ordered from the pieces. The hard part is in the details.

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Kye Allums, the first openly transgender NCAA athlete, speaks Thursday as part of Coming Out Week.

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he GLBT Resource Center welcomed Kye Allums as the keynote speaker Thursday night for A&M’s celebration of Coming Out Week, a week dedicated to the encouragement of honest living in regards to sexual orientation and gender identity.

Allums, the first openly transgender NCAA Division I athlete, focused his talk on understanding what it means to be transgender, as well as his experiences discovering who he was.

“I felt like I couldn’t fit in at all,” Allums said. “I tried to be who you wanted me to be.

That didn’t work. Who am I? What do I do?”

The former George Washington University basketball player detailed his personal journey, starting from his early childhood.

“When I was five, I knew two things,” Allums said. “I knew that I was attracted to people, and I knew that I was a boy.”

Allums stressed the importance of creating visibility for transgender people and issues.

Bradley D’Souza, city reporter For full story, go to thebatt.com

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Open house to showcase research Event organizer invites all who are interested to learn about program Samantha Latta

Special to The Battalion embers of the women’s and gender studies program will be in the spotlight as their ongoing research will go on public display for Friday’s open house in celebration of the department’s 25th anniversary.

The open house will be from 1:30-4 p.m. in room 435 of the Liberal Arts and Humanities Building and will feature research from faculty members, undergraduate and graduate students.

Some projects on display, including senior philosophy major Desirae Embree’s, cover topics beyond the traditional boundaries of gender-related issues.

Embree said she will showcase her most recent research on the experiences of Holocaust survivors and how their accounts of suffering can change the way we think about the self. She said her background in women’s and gender studies helped develop the methodol-

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ogy and theory of her research.

“While not directly related to women’s and gender studies, my research is heavily influenced by the analytic methodology that I’ve learned from feminist theory, which is why I think the open house is important,” Embree said. “It shows that women’s and gender studies has applicability beyond topics like gender and sexuality. The tools that it has developed are helpful for looking at all sorts of things, including the topics I’m researching.”

The open house will give women’s and gender studies students and faculty a chance to claim credit for the work done through the program.

Michael Gonzales, senior English major, said the event gives him a chance to display research he has been working on since summer, and potentially attract interest in the process.

“Much of the recent scholarship in the humanities is pursued through the lenses of genders, various feminisms and sexualities, so an open house and its displays that might lure more students into the program is important,” Gonzales said. “Students working in

the humanities today need to have a working knowledge of the issues and theories examined in women’s and gender studies courses.”

Gonzales said the open house will raise awareness for the program, which he said is not well known among the general A&M student body.

“Hopefully it can attract students working outside of the humanities as well, for gender and sexuality and their intersections with race and a host of other identities,” Gonzales said. “Everything examined in women’s and gender studies courses is an important part of everyday life and becoming educated about, and conscious of, these issues is an important part of becoming an educated citizen.”

Claire Katz, event organizer and director of the women’s and gender studies program, said all who are interested are invited to come learn more about the program while taking part in the celebration.

“We are hoping to show the accomplishments, both teaching and research, of our faculty and students,” Katz said.

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Q:

What are you most looking forward to for the Ole Miss game?

“I’m just looking forward to watching Mike Evans go out there and do his thing because he’s from our home town of Galveston. We went to high school with him. I’d just like to see him tear up that Ole Miss defense.”

Mason Heeley, sophomore construction science major

Coffeehouse tunes “[I’m] looking forward to seeing the Aggies put up more points than Bo Wallace because he claims that their offense [is] more potent than ours.”

Jacob Heeley, sophomore construction science major

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Junior interdisciplinary studies major Tyler Stafford (left) performs for the MSC Town Hall Coffeehouse Series featuring Jared Putnam of “The March Divide” (above) in the MSC Flag Room Thursday night.

Higgs boson Continued from page 1

Texas A&M is a main contributor to the Compact Muon Solenoid, CMS, experiment, one of two general-purpose particle detectors at the Large Hadron Collider, LHC, and a critical source of the data that eventually proved Higgs’ 1960s theory. The CMS is responsible for tracking and taking data on the storm of subatomic particles that results from the LHC’s work.

Since joining the CMS in 2005, the Texas A&M presence has grown to about 40 professors and students who work on designing the CMS’ components and analyzing the data it streams from Switzerland to College Station. “[We] helped build the CMS, and we had a full-time Aggie electrical engineer installing it and designing infrastructure,” Safonov said.

Safonov said the CMS is extremely complex due to the minute scales it has to measure.

In order to collect accurate data, the detector needs to track the paths of particles significantly smaller than atoms, a feat Safonov described as someone knowing the position of each brick on the facade of the Mitchell

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Physics building to within millimeters.

Although the Nobel Prize — and the work by international teams such as the one at Texas A&M that went behind it — give validity to the Higgs boson discovery, Safonov is quick to point out that that the work is just beginning.

“Right now the LHC is undergoing several upgrades,” Safonov said. “We want to turn ourselves into a ‘Higgs factory’ so that we can begin to build the life story of the Higgs boson.”

Complex theory aside, the reality is that while a Higgs event has been verified, no one yet knows whether this was evidence of “the” Higgs boson, or of “a” Higgs boson.

To the casual observer the difference is a matter of syntax, but to physicists it is a matter of universal importance.

“Now we are working on confirming Higgs by looking at ways it decays, and checking to see if the Higgs we found is the one predicted by the Standard Model,” Safonov said, referring to the current theory of how subatomic particles and forces interact.

Safonov and the rest of the Texas A&M team are now involved in designing and building the hardware for the LHC’s next generation detectors.

“A large fraction of building the next generation Higgs detectors is taking place here,” Safonov said. “Right now, we’re actually shipping part of the electronics to CERN.” Jason Giomore, research scientist and member of Texas A&M’s CMS team, said any future discoveries will be made partly through A&M’s current efforts.

“We are contributing to the hardware [of the detectors], and anything discovered in the future will be discovered by our hardware,” Giomore said.

A&M is not unique in its involvement with the LHC. Thousands of scientists and hundreds of countries participated in the design and construction, and now take part in the scientific discoveries it enables, said Ricardo Eusebi, professor of physics at Texas A&M and member of the CMS team.

Eusebi said it is this scope that makes the LHC and searching for the Higgs boson unique.

“This is the first time that the world comes together to build a machine as complex and as high tech as the LHC and its detectors,” Eusebi said. “It is the biggest scientific endeavor humankind has ever made.”

“I’m expecting a win. I hope they improve their defense. We’ll play more ranked teams in the future and hopefully by then they’ll be ready to go to take on the ranked teams.”

John Hoang, senior industrial engineering major

“Just can’t wait to see Manziel and Malena and all the other players play and everything, and do better hopefully.”

Joseph Villarreal, senior finance major

“I’m excited about the game being away because I can be with all my friends and not just the five that I sit with.”

Kaitlin Hukill, sophomore health major Photo feature by David Cohen — THE BATTALION

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‘MSC first lady’ remembered

Colleagues speak to memory of Jane Bailey Kadie McDougald

The Battalion ane Bailey, development specialist for the Memorial Student Center, died Monday after 28 years of dedication and work for Texas A&M. Eric Blodgett, communications director for the MSC, said Bailey had a knack for connecting with students and maintained friendships with some students for years after they graduated. “[Bailey] did her job very well because she was a very personable person — very graceful, very friendly,” Blodgett said. “She would make you feel like you were the center of the room — very good at giving people her undivided attention.”

Bailey retired about six months ago.

While here, she was known as the “first lady of the MSC,” MSC President Will Brooke said, and was in charge of coordinating funding for the MSC, advising the development program and coordinating various student trips and seminars. “[Bailey] really believed in what we do in the MSC and what we stand for with the leadership development of students,” Brooke said. “She was very passionate about that and passionate about her students and that showed.”

Blodgett said it was during the student trips that Bailey would connect students to former students. “[Bailey] really helped students network and meet former students who

could possibly help them further their careers or just be their friend,” he said.

Tyler Stewart, former MSC president and Class of 2013, said it was on a conference trip to Boston that he had a memorable conversation with Bailey. Stewart said he was given a certain amount of money for meals and was debating one night if he should buy an expensive dessert or not.

“I didn’t think I should get [the dessert] and [Bailey] said ‘What the heck?

What are you doing?’ and I said I needed to make sure I had enough and she said ‘You’re in Boston. Get dessert every meal. Live life, this is your time,’” Stewart said. “She lived life everyday and wanted us to live every second of every day. It was a simple lesson but it stands out to me.”

Blodgett said many students saw Bailey as a motherly figure because she was able to challenge them to develop as leaders, nurturing them all the while.

“Some of the students called her “momma Jane” because she helped them,” Blodgett said. “She would listen to them, pay attention to them, be a friend when they needed a friend and give them advice on whatever. She was willing to help them in any way she could.”

Bradford Stricklin, vice president of development for the MSC and junior mechanical engineering major, said Bailey was honest and funny. “[Bailey] would speak her mind and didn’t worry what other people thought — she was a big believer in being straightforward,” Stricklin said.

“She didn’t like being called Mrs. Bailey. She’d say ‘That’s my mother-

in-law and she’s dead.’ It’s difficult to describe Jane. I don’t think I can do her justice.”

During the MSC renovation, Blodgett said former students pooled their own funds to honor Bailey by naming an MSC programs office conference room after her.

“It was a group of students who just wanted to let her know how much she meant to them and how much she had helped them while they were here in the MSC and at Texas A&M,” Blodgett said.

Brooke said Bailey was viewed as more than just an employee of Texas A&M in the MSC. He said her passion to push students to “live up to their caliber of potential” reached many people who attribute many of their successes to her.

“If [Bailey] knew they weren’t living up to their potential, she would push and challenge them,” Brooke said. “Many students have come back to the MSC and to Jane to say they wouldn’t be where they are today without her guidance and motivation and passion.”

Bailey was a one-of-a-kind, Stewart said. He said she was humble and could be a right-hand man for everyone who knew her.

“Jane Bailey is one of those people that, without meaning to or trying to, will leave an impact on every person she met,” Stewart said. “I feel like her goal was never to be that kind of a mentor, but she just was.”

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Jane Bailey, MSC development specialist, is remembered by her colleagues as a “very personable person.”

[Bailey] really believed in what we do in the MSC and what we stand for with the leadership development of students.”

— Will Brooke, MSC president

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Ole Miss vs.

(9) Texas A&M

Texas A&M

Texas A&M

Texas A&M

Texas A&M

Texas A&M

Texas A&M

I’ll see you at The Chicken

Rebels gonna Rebel

A&M is 9-0 on the road since 2011 — nice odds

Not nearly as close as last year’s game

Ole Miss was a lot scarier preseason

Fact: The Battalion is the best newspaper

(16) Washington vs.

(2) Oregon

Oregon

Oregon

Oregon

Oregon

Oregon

Oregon

I’m tired of picking Oregon

The Heisman is Mariota’s to lose

Like a runaway corvette with the brake lines cut

It’s not even close

Huskies won’t be able to keep up (get it?)

Fact: Ducks’ feet don’t freeze

(7) Georgia vs.

(25) Missouri

Georgia

Georgia

Missouri

Georgia

Missouri

Missouri

And Georgia

I’m still bitter about Mizzou 2010

Georgia’s scare last week becomes reality

Aaron Murray is en fuego

Dawgs are going to get caught off guard

Fact: Missouri is the “Show Me State”

(10) LSU vs.

(17) Florida

Florida

LSU

LSU

LSU

LSU

Florida

I just want LSU to lose

I hate to say it, but Mettenberger doesn’t suck

Death Valley will prove too tough for Florida

Tigers get back on track

SEC West? More like SEC BEST

Fact: Baby gators make noises inside the eggs

Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Haha, t.u. football

This is my “whoever plays t.u.” pick

Mack Brown’s final stand won’t end well

Bevo tears are real

Probably Mack Brown’s last game

Fact: UT students eat kittens for lunch

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(12) Oklahoma vs.* Texas

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fter a successful two-game road trip last weekend, the Texas A&M soccer team is back under the lights at Ellis Field Friday for another SEC matchup.

The Aggies (9-3-1, 4-1-0 SEC) — riding a four-game win streak — will host the Arkansas Razorbacks Friday in the 10th meeting between the two programs.

The two clubs have played each other evenly with a 4-4-1 record. The most recent meeting last year in Fayetteville, Ark., ended in a 3-1 A&M win.

The Razorbacks (9-4-0, 2-3-0 SEC) will face an Aggie club that holds a 34-10 goal differential over opponents on the season, with a 16-2 mark in its last four games.

While the offense has outshot opponents 295-113, the Aggie defense has made notable contributions to the team’s victories. During the recent four-game win streak, the Aggies surrendered two

goals to opponents despite senior defensive leader Rachel Lenz’s three-game absence due to a concussion.

“We are definitely looking forward to Arkansas,” Lenz said. “Especially because it’s our only game of the weekend and their RPI is higher than ours, so we’re definitely focusing on coming out strong on Friday.”

Despite dropping three of their first five conference games, the Razorbacks proved their competitive edge with the Sept. 27 defeat of the No. 25 Kentucky Wildcats 3-0 in Lexington, Ky. Aggie head coach G Guerrieri said, despite their record, the Razorbacks are a tough team and the return of Lenz will help ease the pressure on the backline.

“A big part of who we are — and who we’ve been for the last three years — is finally getting Rachel Lenz back into the lineup,” Guerrieri said. “With [Lenz], our defense changes a little bit. The personality and the toughness of our team ratchets up a little bit and makes everybody a

little better.”

The Aggies improved their SEC record to 4-1-0 over the weekend with two wins over Auburn and Missouri.

Guerrieri said the successful weekend occurred with the efforts of multiple players — five of whom played the full 90 minutes in both matches.

Junior forward Allie Bailey netted a goal in both matches, moving her goal total to five on the season. However, rather than win streaks, goals and individual statistics, Bailey said she and the Aggies are focused on one thing — Arkansas.

“It feels good to get two wins over the weekend,” Bailey said. “Both goals helped us get two wins on the road, which is huge for us. We just have to keep it going through the rest of the season and the rest of the SEC. But we have another big game against Arkansas this Friday that is important to us.”

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Junior forward Allie Bailey dribbles against a Mississippi State defender in an 8-0 win on Sept. 27.

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Bryan Johnson — THE BATTALION

Senior setter Allie Sawatzky serves in a five-set loss to LSU on Wednesday.

he Texas A&M volleyball team (9-6, 1-3 SEC) will face the Mississippi State Bulldogs (9-7, 0-2 SEC) at 6 p.m. Friday at Reed Arena. Both teams walk onto the court with recent losses, as A&M is coming off a threegame losing streak and the Bulldogs have dropped their last two games.

The Aggies hold a 2-0 series lead against the Bulldogs, with a 3-0 victory last year. The Bulldogs are winless in true road games this season, with losses to Baylor and Belmont

University.

The Bulldogs feature up-and-coming freshman Kimmy Gardiner, who averages 4.88 kills per set, a statistic that puts her ahead of all SEC freshmen and places her fourth in the conference. Bulldog sophomore Roxanne McVey is second in the SEC and ninth nationally with 5.6 digs per set.

“Right now in practice, we are focusing on ourselves,” said sophomore middle blocker Shelby Sullivan. “Right now we are focusing on ourselves and getting better as a team.”

Head coach Laurie Corbelli said the key to an Aggie victory is not necessarily stopping the Bulldogs, but keeping the Aggies from destroying themselves. On Wednesday, A&M gave up three sets to LSU after an an initial 2-0 lead, a swing Corbelli credited to the team’s “mental game.”

“I think there are a couple of things necessary,” Corbelli said. “First, we bring it back to what it really is as a sport that we all know how to play. It is not about the volleyball — it is how we react and how your personal reaction impacts the entire group.”

Despite the losing streak, redshirt freshman Jazzmin Babers has emerged for the Aggie defense and leads the team with 63 blocks.

“It feels awesome to finally be able to contribute,” Babers said. “I learned a lot from Lindsey Miller and Stephanie Minnerly, but it is definitely a plus to be able to have a direct impact on the court rather than an indirect impact last year.”

Aggie fans can get into the Mississippi State game for $3 if they wear pink as part of the annual Dig Pink breast cancer awareness game.

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Dec. ’13 Graduating

SENIORS and GRADUATE STUDENTS

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TIME’S RUNNING OUT to have your portrait made for Texas A&M’s 112th yearbook and have pictures for your graduation announcements. Just walk in to the Student Media office, Suite L400 of the MSC, 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. this week. Or, for appointment email arphototamu@gmail.com or call 979.846.9690. ALL StudentS — juniors, sophomores and freshmen — have your portraits made for the 2014 Aggieland yearbook. Portrait sitting is free.

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