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RETURN OF A RIVALRY Intramural games aim to revive showdown in Texas

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niversity Dining Services eliminated meal trade time zones on campus and enabled meals in the Howdy plan to role over every month, instead of expiring after 28 days.

Mohamed Eldamaty, meal plan supervisor for dining services, said the decision was influenced by student feedback from a campus wide survey distributed

by Chartwells.

Both changes went into effect on Tuesday.

Eldamaty said the cancellation of time zones was due to problems with students wanting to eat more than one meal in the same time zone because of class schedules and time restraints.

“Time zones allowed for one meal for the breakfast time zone, one for lunch, one for dinner and one for late night,” Eldamaty said.

“However, certain meal plans had some problems with this because students were not getting the full benefit of their plan.”

Eldamaty said the Howdy plan was changed because students had issues with the system.

“Students didn’t want to use their meals to avoid dealing with system issues,” Eldamaty said. “Their meals were just sitting there unused. By removing the restriction, we are trying to adjust and listen to what students want.”

Some students say there is still room for improvement. Christa Walker, sophomore psychology major, said she is happy dining services is listening to the student voice, but still has problems with the meal trade system.

“The changes don’t go far enough,” Walker said. “The meal trade options are still limited and have less healthy options. I don’t think the fight for change will stop until we go back to using dining dollars everywhere like last year.

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exas A&M packed its bags and waved goodbye to the University of Texas to leave for the SEC, ending a 118-year rivalry between the two schools. But an initiative between the student governments of both universities will bring back the rivalry through intramural football and basketball games.

Dubbed the Lone Star Intramural Showdown, the games will first pit the winners of A&M men’s, women’s and coed intramural football teams against their UT counterparts. The football games will take place Nov. 17 at the University of Texas.

Horacio Villarreal III, student body president at UT, said the impact of the games will be felt on a more personal level than the games played between NCAA athletes.

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n an effort to spread cultural awareness on campus, a celebration of Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, will take place Friday in the Memorial Student Center.

The Hispanic President’s Council, the Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists, the Mexican Student’s Association and the Committee for Awareness of Mexican-American Culture are collaborating with the J. Wayne Stark Galleries to organize this

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year’s celebrations.

Joseph Puente, executive director for the Hispanic President’s Council, said Dia de los Muertos is a time to celebrate the life of loved ones who have moved on from this world.

Puente said the celebration will take place in the J. Wayne Stark Galleries and will include a traditional altar, a Ballet Folklorico performance, papel picados and a sugar candy skull decorating competition with gift card prizes.

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Cult classic Rocky Horror comes to Bryan

Student Senate convened last night to vote on several bills regarding dining and a resolution for a memorial dedication.

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The Battalion s the iconic red lips appear on the screen, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” pulls viewers out of their seats, away from the relaxed movie watching experience and into a different reality.

The musical comedy will be shown Friday and Cepheid Variable, the A&M sci-fi student organization, will perform on stage as the shadow cast, reenacting scenes while dressed as characters from the film as it plays on screen.

“For someone who’s never been before, expect to see a lot of fish nets and corsets and those sorts of attire,” said Jimmy, a physics

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graduate student and director of the shadow cast who said he legally dropped his surname.

“Expect a loud, rambunctious audience, yelling throughout the whole movie.”

“The Rocky Horror Show” began as a stage play and was later adapted into the 1977 movie, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and depicts the strange night of a newly engaged couple as they become stranded at a castle. Still in limited release almost four decades after its premiere, it is the longestrunning theatrical release in film history.

Luis Cervantes, junior anthropology major and cast member, said the interaction between the cast and the audience is what makes the movie and performance so unique.

Cervantes said as the movie continued to screen across theaters, each audience would come up with “callbacks” targeted at different characters in the movie. He said the callbacks eventually caught on throughout different theaters.

“They started making more callback lines to the point where there’s different lines in the different areas,” Cervantes said. “What you’ll hear –– a call back line in College Station won’t be the same as the shows I’ve seen in Austin, Dallas or San Antonio.”

Jose Arredondo, managing partner with Grand Stafford Theatre, said audience See Rocky Horror on page 3

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he Texas A&M soccer team returns at 7 p.m. Thursday to Ellis Field to take on the LSU Tigers (9-7-2, 5-4-1 SEC).

“They’ll be focused,” said head coach G. Guerrieri. “I’m sure that their backs are against the wall a little bit. They’re going to make the SEC Tournament, but I know that they have high aspirations and they will come in and give us their best game.”

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the Florida Gators, the Aggies (13-4-1, 9-21 SEC) will get one more chance for the title against LSU. With a win against the Tigers, the Aggies are guaranteed at least a share of the SEC regular season crown.

An Aggie victory and a Florida loss or tie against Georgia will mark an outright title for A&M. However, if Florida and the Aggies are both victorious, the two teams will be co-champions of the SEC. Bryan Johnson — THE BATTALION

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Bianca Brinson and the Aggies can clinch at least a share of the SEC regular season title Thursday at Ellis Field with a victory over the LSU Tigers.

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Police stress caution amid Halloween fun

Officers say to employ sober drivers, monitor noise levels Jennifer Reiley The Battalion

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o keep people in Bryan-College Station safe for Halloween, police departments sent out tips regarding costumes, parties and alcohol consumption to raise awareness of safety hazards particular to the holiday.

Kelley McKethan, public information officer for the Bryan Police Department, said the police departments are encouraging trick-or-treating between 6-8 p.m. so police officers can focus their resources on areas of need. While more people will be out after dark, McKethan said there hasn’t been a notable increase in accidents or incidents on Halloween in the past.

Lt. Allan Baron of the University Police Department said while Halloween safety focuses mainly on trick-or-treaters, college students should also exercise caution.

“Dealing with Northgate in general, if students plan to drink they need to

have someone they can trust to be sober and get them safely home,” Baron said.

With the sun setting sooner every day, college students in dark costumes can put themselves in risky situations, especially when walking along roads or in poorly lit areas. Baron said students are encouraged to incorporate some reflective material to their costume or find a way to help make drivers aware of their presence.

“If they’re walking after dark, students need to make sure their outfits are visible so they can be seen by passing vehicles,” Baron said. “While our main focus with costumes is for kids, everyone should be cautious of open flames and if their costumes include knives, guns or swords they need to be cardboard weapons to avoid accidental injury.”

Masks are also a problem, especially for convenience store owners. Lt. Chuck Fleeger, public information officer for

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“There is an altar set up at the J. Wayne Stark Galleries,” Puente said. “It represents an opportunity to remember a person through their favorite food, flowers, candles and especially pictures. Friday there will be a performance from Ballet Folklorico, papel picado and most importantly food.”

The event will introduce the campus to the cultural richness of the holiday, Puente said.

“There is a difference between American and Mexican culture with regards to death,” Puente said. “In American culture, it’s more about the grieving process. In Mexico, it’s a celebration of their life. They’ve come before, they’ve lived their life and you want to celebrate it appropriately.”

Alessandra Luiselli, associate professor of Hispanic studies, said the preparation of an altar like the one that will be in the Stark Galleries is central to Dia de los Muertos.

“Altars are built inside homes in order to welcome those spirits that will visit us for just one day.” Luiselli said. “Those altars are never morbid. The colors of an altar have to be radiant or the spirits will not show up for the celebration. Black is the color that an altar in honor of the death should never have. The altar must display only the brightest flowers such as the cempazuchitl, a flower of the brightest orange color.”

Juan Daniel Orocio, sophomore chemical engineering major, said a feature of Dia de Los Muertos is the ofrenda, or offering, that is placed at the grave of the deceased. The ofrenda usually consists of

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the College Station Police Department, said students should remove masks when entering a convenience store and people should not drive with masks on.

“Steer away from masks that cover the whole face,” Fleeger said. “They can put people on edge.

People with masks should be mindful when they go into convenience stores.

They’re out to have a good time, but masks can put store clerks on edge.”

Halloween parties can also create issues for police officers. Baron said students should try to keep the number of people at a party to a minimum and keep noise levels down to be respectful of neighbors who may not be partying on a Thursday Halloween.

“Students who are hosting parties need to make sure that if they are providing alcohol, the people partaking in drinking are of legal age,” Baron said.

CARPOOL, the campus organization that provides rides home for students, will be in operation on Halloween night.

pan del muerto, or bread of the dead, as well as the deceased person’s favorite food dish and some of their favorite items.

Orocio said even items that may have led to the person’s death, such as alcohol or cigarettes, can be placed with the ofrenda.

“The most common thing you put there is water, which is a symbol of life,” Orocio said. “Then comes the pan del muerto, then you just place things that the person liked. My grandma really liked guitar music, so we place a guitar on there.”

Luiselli said candy skulls like the ones that will be decorated on Friday in the gallery are a common traditional element.

“A tradition is to give to our friends and family members little skulls made of sugar,” Luiselli said. “The skull that you are given to eat must have your own name written in the forehead of the skull. It is funny. I love to eat my own sweet and delicious skull. I love to eat the skulls of my friends too, and I never, ever eat the sugar skull that has the name of someone I dislike.”

Luiselli said the celebration is a fusion of two Catholic holidays – All Saint’s Day on Nov. 1 and All Souls’ Day on Nov. 2 with the celebration of Mictecacihuatl, the Aztec goddess of the underworld.

“Dia de los Muertos festival is a celebration that has taken place in Mexico since pre-Hispanic times,” Luiselli said.

“Its tremendous force in the national imagery of all Mexicans comes from the syncretism that took place when the Aztec civilization was forced to accept the Catholic religion that the Spaniards brought with them when they conquered Mexico in 1521. What both cultures shared was a belief in the afterlife.”

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“I’m going to Austin to protest with PETA activists against humans dressed as animals because I think it’s disrespectful.”

Shelby Sulak, senior biomedical sciences major

“I will go to Northgate and see what’s happening there.”

Ankur Singhal, computer science graduate student

“I’m a pre-med major, so I have to hit the books and study up.”

Lance Weld, sophomore biomedical sciences major

“I am going to a Halloweenthemed Bible study and then going to hang out with friends afterward. ” Silvia Chavez, senior nutritional sciences major Photo feature by Jade Bedell — THE BATTALION

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Audience members at the Red Wasp Film Festival last year enjoy independent movies from local, national and foreign filmmakers.

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he Brazos Progressives will feature independent films at the 11th Annual Red Wasp Film Festival on Friday and Saturday in Bryan.

Red Wasp Film Festival chair, Krista May, said the submission guidelines were open to everyone, regardless of age or content. The festival will showcase independent films from local filmmakers as well as those across the state, country and world.

“We’ve had people as young as 14 submit something they’ve created and actors in films who are even younger and have attended Red Wasp to see themselves on screen,” May said. “We’ve accepted music

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participation is strongly encouraged as part of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Cepheid Variable will be selling bags with props for use during the show, he said.

“So there’s anywhere from throwing things on stage like toilet paper to different props depending on what the cast brings with them,” Arredondo said.

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Event judges selected 11 out of 29 entries to be screened at the film festival, some hailing all the way from Poland and France, May said. Filmmakers can earn awards in six different categories including Audience Favorite and Red Wasp Best. Gift certificates, bottles of wine, Red Wasp Festival T-shirts, posters and a trophy for Red Wasp Best award winner are all prizes to be won.

At the 2012 festival, “Enchiridion,” a surrealist vampire story, won the Independent Spirit Award. “Enchiridion” director Mark Beal, Class of 1989 and video producer for College Station City Hall, said he had a good experience at the festival.

with a lipstick ‘V,’ on their forehead or forearm. At the end of the showing, they said there is always a ‘virgin sacrifice.’

“We let that be a surprise for the ‘virgins.’ Every cast does that differently,” Jimmy said. “We tend to not tell ahead of time what the ‘virgin’ is going to expect.”

Jimmy said he expected the show to sell out quickly as the show will not only coincide with First Friday, but is also the day after Halloween. “‘Rocky Horror’ and Halloween go together hand in hand,” Jimmy said. “Every single Rocky cast has to

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Villarreal, who presented the idea of the intramural rivalry games to A&M student body president Reid Joseph earlier this year, said both student governments decided that the inaugural year of the competition would feature the two sports they felt students demanded most — football and basketball.

The football games will be hosted at UT this fall, Villarreal said, and A&M will host the basketball games in the spring. The schools will alternate which sport they are hosting annually, with the possibility of adding more competitions as the showdown continues.

“We’re even trying to get sponsorships on it so that it could become a revenue stream for both student governments for both campuses as well as the Rec Sports departments,” Villarreal said.

“We do feel a lot of potential with this. Obviously there’s a ton of history behind the Texas–A&M rivalry so we think that some people would be really interested in getting involved with it.”

Matt Keller, A&M SGA vice president of student services and senior industrial distribution major, said the desire present on both campuses to maintain the rivalry is enough to establish the Lone Star Intramural Showdown as a longtime tradition.

“The student body president of Texas, when he ran, specifically one of his points he made to the student body was, ‘Hey, I want to bring A&M here to play intramurals with us,’” Keller said. “So obviously there is a want at Texas to play this game and we know there’s a want at Texas A&M to play

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Ugeo Williams, UT student government vice president, said the departure of Texas A&M from the Big 12 conference has left a void that has not been filled.

“Because A&M is now part of the SEC we don’t know where that new rival will come from,” Williams said. “Right now it just seems like it’s always been Texas and Texas A&M and we want to keep that fury alive while we can.”

Williams said the intramural games will help preserve the bond present during the A&M–UT football games.

“Especially when it was on Thanksgiving Day, it was a family event,” Williams said.

“You go home or your family comes here, you eat with your family and then you go to the game, so it turns out to be much more of a communal feel.”

For Bri Ferguson, sophomore nutrition sciences major, the intramural games will provide the opportunity to restore something that was missing from her family.

“I’m pretty excited about it because a lot of my family is all t-sips,” Ferguson said.

“I’m the first Aggie out of my family so when the rivalry kind of died down on an NCAA basis that affected our family dynamic pretty big. I’m excited to beat the hell out of t.u. and go and tell my family.”

As the date of the intramural clash draws closer, Villarreal said he and the rest of the University of Texas is focused on welcoming the Aggie turnout.

“I would just really like to push for A&M students to come out,” Villarreal said.

“We’re really excited, we’re doing it at a really nice facility, we have a nice setup and we’ve been working on it really, really hard. It’d be a really fun way to come see friends at UT and to support the A&M team that will be participating.”

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