The Battalion: October 17, 2016 by The Battalion

A cadet crawls through the mud and under barbed wire during his team’s competition of the fall Corps Endurance Mud Run.

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MUD, SWEAT AND CADETS Teams from the Corps of Cadets competed in a mud run promoting teamwork

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hile the Texas A&M football team took a break from the hot Texas sun for the off week, the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets headed out to a challenge course for a mud-filled day with the goals of bonding and building endurance in mind. The “Endurance Mud Run” — which is one of three events that make up the larger competition, known as “Cadet Challenge” — pitted teams from each unit of the Corps against each other in a race through a diverse series of obstacles and challenges. The race was held at

the Corps obstacle course site near Easterwood Airport, utilizing two of the sites’ most challenging courses. Corps chief of staff and history and English senior Samuel Simmons said the run is an event which challenges the Corps and is a way for teams to build comradery in a fun way. “The endurance mud run is kind of some motivating military training,” Simmons said. “It gets them out here and shows off their physical prowess and gets them dirty and gets them crawling through the mud which is something you can’t do every week.” Simmons said this event functions as an effective bonding experience for each unit within the Corps. “It’s good for the bonding of the unit,” Simmons said. “You come together as a team and you accomplish something and it’s just kind of motivating, crawling through the mud and getting all sweaty.”

Simmons said the race consists of multiple sections, each of them presenting different challenges to the competing teams. From there, teams advance to the grenade course where they face a new set of obstacles, all united by a common element. “The grenade course is a bunch of crawling through the mud,” Simmons said. “You have some barbed wire, you have some obstacles that you’re kind of dodging around while you’re crawling and so you’re getting real dirty through there.” Finally, the mud-covered teams take off down the road on the final leg of their journey. Simmons said one key requirement for the run is that each team must include cadets from every class year. CORPS ON PG. 3

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Freshman middle blocker Hollann Hans and sophomore middle blocker Kaitlyn Blake had a combined 25 kills against Florida.

Aggies lose to Florida at home A&M volleyball drops game against No. 9 Florida Sunday in Reed Arena By Heath Clary @Heath_Clary Entering Sunday’s showdown with No. 9 Florida, the Gators were the only team in the SEC that had the advantage over Texas A&M in the all-time series. The Gators (16-2, 6-1 SEC) added another tally to that lead in a 3-1 match win over the Aggies (11-7, 5-2 SEC) at Reed Arena by scores of 27-25, 25-21, 25-23 and 25-16. The loss came on the back-end of their first home stand of the season and ended A&M’s four-match win streak. Outside hitters Kiara McGee and Hollann Hans led the Aggies with 14 kills each, Ashlie Reasor and Kaitlyn Blake pitched in 12 and 11 kills, respectively, and setter Stephanie Aiple distributed the ball to the tune of 50 assists. The game got off to an inauspicious start for the Aggies, as Florida immediately jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first set and prompted A&M head coach Laurie Corbelli to call a timeout. Then junior opposite hitter Ashlie Reasor got hot. She spiked down two quick kills for the Aggies first two points, and then recorded four more kills before the set ended. A&M steadily gained momentum after the timeout and managed to tie the score at 24 after a kill by Jazzmin Babers and an attack error by Florida. The teams traded points on the next two plays but then the Gators scored two in a row to take the first set. The Aggies started much better in the second set, and after taking a 4-3 lead early on a kill by Hollann Hans, led for the remainder of the set. They extended their lead to 24-19 and then a nice double block by Babers and Stephanie Aiple closed out the set. A slow start plagued the Aggies again in the third set as they fell behind 7-2 and had to call a timeout. Even VOLLEYBALL ON PG. 4

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Attendees participate in interactive activities for all ages at A&M’s Chemistry Open House.

Connecting children to chemistry A&M’s 29th annual Chemistry Open House educates community By Gracie Mock @g_mock2 Strawberry DNA extraction, super slime and polymer smoothies were just a sliver of the numerous demonstrations and hands-on activities available to attendees at Saturday’s 29th annual Chemistry Open House and Science Exploration Gallery. The demonstrations were put on by faculty and students from all around the

Department of Chemistry and volunteers from biology, physics and science related organizations. The event had multiple stations around the Chemistry Building, with presentations like the Chemistry Roadshow, Low Temperature Physics Extravaganza, Research Lab tours and a variety of demonstrations. The goal of the event was to get kids interested in chemistry, but it was open to everyone of all ages. “Basically it’s all to get kids interested in science and to let them know kind of who we are in Chemistry Department, the kind of things chemists do for the community,” said volunteer and chem-

istry grad student Anna Christianson. The Aggies Forensic and Investigative Science Organization (AFISO) was one of the many groups present and their demonstration involved identifying blood at a crime scene. They had four different types of fake blood and real blood that they added hydrogen peroxide to, making a reaction demonstrating how to identify blood at a crime scene. “What happens when you add hydrogen peroxide and blood together, [is] it foams up quickly,” said Katherina Kang, forensic and investigative science OPEN HOUSE ON PG. 2

A&M’s Borlaug Institute assists Afghan farmers By W. R. Harvey @willinwriting

Continuing the legacy of Norman Borlaug — a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and the “Father of the Green Revolution” — A&M’s Borlaug Institute is dedicated to helping fight hunger and poverty in Afghanistan and other developing agriculture communities. For the last two years, Texas A&M University has played an integral role in the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Afghanistan Agricultural Extension Project-II (AAEP-II) to help train Afghan farmers and government officials in modern and sustainable agricultural practices. The three-year $19.8 million project is comprised of a consortium of universities led

by University of California-Davis. Texas A&M leads the livestock component of the project focused on training and extension capacity building. The overarching goal of this project and its predecessors is to help stabilize Afghanistan’s agricultural sector. Tim Davis, regional director for Asia and lead faculty member on AAEP-II, said the outcome for the project is to help Afghans improve methods for producing livestock and agricultural products. “Ultimately, it needs to be something that helps that country become more stable,” Davis said. “Obviously it’s not a stable country, so what you learn from development history is the first that needs to be stabilized in a country is the agricultural industries, so that the people can feed themselves. Because if they

can’t feed themselves, you’re going to have a lot of problems.” Carmen Bryce, program coordinator for Asia, said AAEP works differently from other humanitarian and extension projects USAID has funded in the past. Instead of working directly with farmers ,this project focuses on training officials in the Afghan government and universities to reach out to the agricultural sector. “The goal of AAEP is to eventually reach farmers, but the way our consortium does that and the way USAID designed this project, is that we work by building capacity among the government extension agents and also university faculty,” Bryce said. “So where maybe in FARMERS ON PG. 2

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OPEN HOUSE CONTINUED senior. “It does a violent reaction and it’s really interesting to see. So if you were to react hydrogen peroxide with the blood or the fake blood, it wouldn’t react at all, but even with dry blood, it foams up immediately.” Christianson said one of the most popular attractions of the Open House is the Chemistry Roadshow hosted by Jim Pennington, instructional assistant professor of chemistry. “It’s an hour show where he does a bunch of big chemistry demonstrations with explosions, elephant toothpaste, reactions that make a lot of heat or light or slime and so it’s a lot of fun,” Christianson said. “He also puts that on at local schools.” The Chemistry Roadshow travels all over Texas during the summer and occasionally during the school year to educate and spark interest in chemistry. Pennington’s show includes explosions, elephant toothpaste, an “evil” gummy bear and more. Iyan Cirillo, College Station resident and A&M Consolidated High School sophomore said the color changing flames was his favorite part of the show. “I personally liked when [Pennington] was messing with the colors of the flames, with the metal,” Cirillo said. “He explained how it’s used besides chemistry, he explained that it’s used in fireworks and I believe he explained how it burned.” Wayne Versaw and his son Miles are College Station residents who attended the event. They said their favorite demonstration was “Visualizing the Invisible.” “They had a light and some mirrors — they’d shine the light and [the mirror] would refract it and he had a lighter and the gas from the lighter — the butane — would interrupt the waves that are refracted in a different way,” said Miles Versaw, A&M Consolidated High School sophomore. “They had a little TV and you could see the way the actual stream of butane coming out even though you normally couldn’t see that with your eye. That was pretty neat.”

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FARMERS CONTINUED the past or other project that we partner with in Afghanistan, they trained farmers directly. Our objective is to equip the government of Afghanistan to be able to train farmers. So that’s how we’re looking towards long-term sustainability.” Bryce said a major aspect of the project was an effort to reach to women, since 90 percent of the women in the impacted provinces are engaged in some level of agricultural production. “We’ve started an internship program for women,” Bryce said. “[We] are working with women from the local university that are studying agriculture but lack the practical experience. Now they’re working for us on the project and developing those practical skills. Which is crucial because one challenge with reaching women, is there aren’t enough women extension officers to reach women farmers, producers, or just contributors to the household.” Elsa Murano, director of the Borlaug Institute, said this project is one of many that the Borlaug Institute is currently involved in, aimed at their goal of helping

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CORPS CONTINUED “For the Endurance Mud Run, we ask that each outfit, each unit in the Corps, put up 10 cadets, and these 10 cadets need to represent all four classes in the Corps,” Simmons said. “So we have freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors on every single team.” Political science senior and commanding officer of Squadron 4 Davis Vercher said this inclusion requirement serves to enhance some of the benefits already offered by the competition. “It definitely is a great competition to improve competitiveness in the Corps and improve bonding within units and to allow units to put aside the freshman-versus-upperclassmen mentality and just have everyone come together, work as a team,” Vercher said. “I think it’s very beneficial for the Corps and I’m glad that we’re doing it.” David Haywood, commanding officer of Company K-2 and allied health senior, said the competitive nature of the event provides additional advantages for the Corps of Cadets. “I think the competitions between outfits build unity within each outfit and make people want to be better than the other person,” Haywood said. “So this competition creates — overall — a Corps that is more physically fit, that cares to want to come out here and work harder.” Haywood said the run was difficult but rewarding. “It was a little bit harder than I thought it would be but I’m glad we went through it,” Haywood said. “We put out our hardest and that’s what really matters to me — as long as everyone was trying as hard as the possibly could.” As more and more units crossed the finish line, Simmons said he was pleased with the progression of the event so far. “The endurance mud run has gone really well,” Simmons said. “It takes a lot of planning, but it’s also one of those events that’s a lot of fun to plan. So I’m extremely excited and I’m glad that a lot of cadets are having a good time out here.” Vercher said he felt energized at the end of the challenge. “We just pushed hard. Everyone in my team did extremely well, motivated me the whole time, so I’m pretty motivated right now,” Vercher said. Laura Haslam — THE BATTALION

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VOLLEYBALL CONTINUED though they managed to fight back and tie the score at 23, the Gators ultimately prevailed on an attack error by McGee that landed just outside the stripe and then Shainah Joseph used a bit of finesse to collect the set-ending kill. Corbelli said that although A&M played a strong game there were several key components that could have given the Aggies the advantage over No. 9 Florida. “I felt like we kind of shot ourselves in the foot,” Corbelli said. “By backing off, I don’t think we did it intentionally. Once our offense started to get stopped once or twice, we backed off. We just prevented ourselves from having a chance.” Then the Aggies ran out of steam in the fourth set. After a back-andforth start that had the score tied 1515 at one point, the Gators ran off 10 of the final 11 points to clinch the set and the match. “You could kind of just see a shift in the third and fourth sets, how everyone was a little bit on edge,” Reasor said. “We weren’t really hitting, we were tipping a lot. We backed off when we should have taken it as a challenge. I think learning to just keep our foot on the gas all four or five sets.” Babers led the Aggies with a .417 hitting percentage, but she was quick to credit Aiple for setting her up time and time again. “Stephanie is a great setter so a lot of those points are from her,” Babers said. “It makes it easier for me when she jumps and takes two blockers with her.” In all, the Gators outhit the Aggies .241 to 184. A&M will have nearly a week off before returning to the court Friday to take on GeorMorgan Engel — THE BATTALION gia in Athens. The match is slated to begin at 6 p.m. and will be broadcast Senior middle blocker Jazzmin Babers had 4 blocks against No. 9 Florida. on SEC Network +.