The Battalion — November 23, 2021

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Aggies open hearts, homes this Thanksgiving Professor opens home for holidays, students to host on-campus potluck

By Aubrey Vogel @aubrey_vogel With Thanksgiving right around the corner, many Aggies are beginning to travel

home. However, not all students have this option.

With many international students and students who are not close to home, there is always bound to be Aggies who stay in College Station for Thanksgiving weekend.

Since some Aggies cannot be with their families, many A&M professors and students have opened their homes and dinner tables to stu-

dents who are still in town.

Visualization professor Francis Quek said he always invites students to his house for Thanksgiving because he wants them to experience the holiday with other Aggies if they are unable to return home for the holiday.

Since starting at A&M in 1993, Quek said he has hosted the Thanksgiving dinner for stu-

EDITOR’S NOTE The Battalion’s next and final edition of the fall semester will be printed on Monday, Dec. 6 with normal weekly editions returning in the spring 2022 semester.

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Gaining perspective: Students react to Matthew Gaines statue

Melanie McBride — THE BATTALION

On Friday, Nov. 19, Texas A&M students, faculty and staff gathered for the long-awaited unveiling of a new statue, the result of 27 years of campaigning by the Matthew Gaines Society.

Praise, criticism clash as new, historic statue of Black Texas legislator, A&M founder gains recognition across community

By Michaela Rush @Michaela4Batt

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fter 27 years of campaigning, the Matthew Gaines Society celebrated the unveiling of the statue of former Texas Sen. Matthew Gaines on Friday, Nov. 19. Now that Gaines has seen his first game day in Aggieland, students

had mixed reactions to the new face on campus.

Public health graduate student Bria Toms said after finding out about the event from her classmate, she was reminded of a similar memorial at her undergraduate university.

“My previous institution was San Jose State University in California,” Toms said.

“We have a representation of what we consider Black culture, which is the statue of John Carlos and Tommie Smith — the first two African American athletes to raise awareness about injustices within athletics.”

With this additional perspective, Toms said the Gaines statue is a meaningful representation of the progress Texas A&M has made toward accepting and celebrating diversity.

“It means everything,” Toms said. “This is now a new era, [and it’s important to] understand that now we have something to identify with and something to look forward to when we come to campus.”

Biology and philosophy senior Archana Murthy said the statue seemed like a direct response to the ongoing controversy of the Lawrence Sullivan “Sully” Ross statue.

“I knew it was upcoming because I remembered the Sully incidents from last year and how the proposal was to put up a Matthew Gaines statue,” Murthy said. “I don’t think Matthew Gaines was really on the students’ radar before this whole statue thing happened.

I’m not a Black student, so I can’t really speak on their behalf, but just as someone who is a

student, it seems like we need Black representation on campus, so here is Matthew Gaines.”

Murthy also said the statue, while visually appealing, isn’t fully representative of the legacy of the Land Grant Act or A&M. “It just speaks to the fact that we don’t have a Black person that’s been in the school’s direct history, and it doesn’t really talk about or acknowledge the horrific history of the Land Grant Act,” Murthy said. “A lot of Indigenous people had their lands taken away from them as a result of that. It feels like they’re choosing one minority representation over the other, so it’s interesting that the university chose this as the direction to go in order to promote a more diverse campus.”

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Supply chain shortages affect local businesses Shipping companies try to adjust amid increased holiday demand

By Kyle McClenagan @KMcclenagan

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Ahead of the rapidly approaching holiday season, major shipping companies FedEx and UPS are working to increase the number of goods shipped overnight.

The post-COVID-19 lockdown financial boom has affected every level of the economy, from higher wages for the working class to the seemingly ever-rising stock market. However, this increase has come at the price of an enormous strain on the global supply chain.

On Oct. 13, President Joe Biden announced the Port of Los Angeles would be joining the Port of Long Beach in committing to a 24/7 schedule to help relieve the backlog of containerships bringing commercial goods into the county.

Over a month later, many Americans continue to have concerns about rising food and gas prices, as well as worries if holiday gifts will

arrive on time.

During a press briefing, Biden announced overland shipments would also increase.

“FedEx and UPS, two of our nation’s biggest freight movers, are committing today to significantly increase the amount of goods they are moving at night,” Biden said. “FedEx and UPS are the shippers for some of our nation’s largest stores, but they also ship for tens of thousands of small businesses all across America.”

Economics professor and director of the Private Enterprise Research Center Dennis Jansen, Ph.D., said transportation is just one of the many issues contributing to the current bottlenecks.

“Even apart from the shipping problems, there seems to be a [microchip] shortage problem, especially those used in automobiles,” Jansen said. “New cars have gone up 11% or so in a year, which is pretty darn high, and on SUPPLY CHAIN ON PG. 3

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Texas House Bill No. 1694 provides protection to those who contact emergency services to report an overdose, but leaves a gray area when it comes to those who suffer from addiction.

Officials say Good Samaritan law comes with conditions New law puts limits on acts of service regarding drug overdoses

By Grant Maclaurin @GrantMaclaurin Texas passed a new law allowing bystanders who see someone overdosing to call emergency services with protection from prosecution. However, some say this law does not substantively protect those who overdose or those who feel morally obligated to report.

Effective Sept. 1, 2021, H.B. No. 1694, also known as the Jessica Sosa Act, added Texas statutory exceptions to penalties regarding to punishment of drug possession and use. Those exceptions applied to those who were the first to contact 911 and did so while the victim was suspected of overdosing, similar to those with alcohol poisoning.

However, callers are not protected if they had called 911 for an overdose in the past 18 months, have been convicted of a felony or have used this same

protection when calling for a previous overdose.

Texas A&M medical director for Emergency Services Dr. Garry Gore said he chose to pursue medicine in order to help others, which is what this bill can help to do.

“Like a lot of people, we have an altruistic goal to help other people,” Gore said. “When we saw what the power of medicine could do, I think that inspired me to join the crowd.”

Gore said he has found overdoses are common in emergency rooms. “[As an] emergency physician, I’ve had experience with overdose many times throughout my career,” Gore said.

“In College Station, we don’t have as many serious overdoses as compared to some of the larger cities in Texas. Mostly we see alcohol overdose and, to a lesser degree, some of the narcotics and some of the harder drug overdoses.”

Although overdoses are not especially prevalent in College Station, Gore said they are completely avoidable.

“Every overdose can be prevented,”

Gore said. “People using drugs illegally often are not very experienced with them. They often don’t know exactly what they have and they have no way of verifying in any practical way the concentration or quality of the drug that they are getting.”

Limiting overdoses is one of the main pillars of President Joe Biden’s new Overdose Prevention Plan. Secretary for the A&M Health and Human Services Department Xavier Beccera said this new plan is the backbone of the nation’s plan to curb harm caused by drug use.

“Our new strategy focuses on people … putting the very individuals who have struggled with addiction in positions of power,” Becerra said at the announcement of the new plan in Baltimore.

A&M law professor John Manhire said in the law’s eye, acts of public good are always discretionary.

“These caveats, in my opinion and my experience in working in the federal government and seeing how laws were made, it seems as though they were political compromises,” Manhire said.

“The general intent of this law is for the public good. It’s good to enforce laws that the state has deemed criminal. But it’s also good to call 911 in the case of an overdose. This is the balancing act we must measure.”

When contemplating the effectiveness of the new law, Manhire said he is not in support of the effectiveness of the law.

“I don’t necessarily think it’s good policy, if in fact, you really want to get that person to call 911 if they see someone in an overdose situation,” Manhire said.

The need for those witnessing an overdose to feel safe from extenuating circumstances is of basic necessity, Gore said.

“As a medical provider, I don’t care how you got into the state you got into; if you need help, you should be able to get it,” Gore said.

For more information on this law, visit https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/ HB1694/2021.

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Members of the Matthew Gaines Society (from left to right) include Vice President Elizabeth Barnes, President Erica Pauls, fundraising chair Mason Alexander-Hawk and Aketch Osamba, outreach chair.

GAINES STATUE CONTINUED Public health graduate student Jaccard Nelson said the statue dedication was particularly meaningful to him because of the leadership roles he held during his undergraduate career at A&M. “During my undergraduate, I got to work

THANKSGIVING CONTINUED dents almost every year with the record number of students being 84 for one meal. To see the diversity of students from around the world who come to celebrate, Quek said he has a world map in his hallway where students can put push pins where their hometowns are located.

After being invited to someone’s home during his time as a graduate student at the University of Michigan, Quek said he wanted to pay it forward to his students.

“I really appreciated that because everyone had family to go to, and we [could not go back overseas for a few days],” Quek said. “They did the whole Thanksgiving meal — cranberry sauce, turkey, stuffing and all that. It was very, in a sense, traditional, and I appreciate being able to participate in the traditions of the country at which I was going to school.”

Quek said he especially encourages international students, who may not have celebrated

SUPPLY CHAIN CONTINUED that … used car prices have gone up 25%.”

Other goods like food are also following the same trend and may affect how some celebrate the upcoming holidays, Jansen said.

“I think overall meat prices are up over 11%, sort of like new cars, and certain meat products like beef [are] up 20% in price,” Jansen said. “Buying a turkey for Thanksgiving is going to cost you a fair amount more than a year ago.”

Prices have risen across the board, Jansen said.

“I think some of the blame resides with the large amount of spending that we did during the pandemic and we continue to do,” Jansen said.

Jansen also said the Federal Reserve System was not expecting inflation to rise drastically. “[The Federal Reserve] basically said they welcomed a small amount greater than 2% inflation, which was their target, and they welcomed it because of the fact that they were under their target for several years,” Jansen said.

with the former President of the Matthew Gaines Society [Erica Pauls],” Nelson said. “I was able to see them really build [the organization] from the ground up and be a small part of it, for fundraising and raising awareness for the statue.”

Nelson said it’s also important for students to realize the continued influence the Mat-

thew Gaines Society hopes to have on campus. “[The Matthew Gaines Society], even after the statue, wants to continue the legacy of education and not just have the statue,” Nelson said. “I think that’s the big thing, [to] continue that education of who Matthew Gaines is and what he stood for, to show what students

really value.”

Murthy said she is still unsure how this statue will affect students and the larger A&M community.

“I think it’s a nice gesture,” Murthy said.

“But I think we’re going to need more than gestures.”

the holiday before, to partake in the traditional meal.

“I wasn’t born in this country, [but] I learned to appreciate different cultures and understand where they are [coming from]. I think foreign students could do well to get a piece of [American tradition] so that when they go home one day when they graduate and their grandchildren ask what America is like, they can tell them, ‘I was invited to a professor’s home for Thanksgiving and we had this funny thing called turkey, corn, some red cranberry sauce,’” Quek said. “I would encourage foreign students, especially, to not be so separate, but to actually seek to understand the culture that you’re visiting.”

At the meal each year, Quek said he always tells the history of Thanksgiving.

“I think it’s appropriate for us to celebrate the idea that in America, we base a particular festival, where people talk about different things, where families gather in much larger

groups, and evaluate how this festival came about,” Quek said. “It also celebrates the earlier, more agrarian, more bucolic periods of our history.”

With his daughter in town, Quek said this Thanksgiving will be extra special due to a new addition in the family.

“This Thanksgiving is going to be a little special because I’m expecting to be a granddad for the first time, so we have a broader family this time,” Quek said.

Since they would be staying in town for the holiday, history senior Elvira Bradley and electrical engineering sophomore Jon Trevino decided to host a potluck Thanksgiving, open to all Aggies, outside the Liberal Arts & Humanities Building on campus.

The idea originated when the two discovered they would both be in town for Thanksgiving and wanted to do something bigger to bring students together on the holiday.

“We brainstormed ideas and what we could

do back and forth,” Bradley said. “Then I was like, ‘Do you want to be super extra and make a Thanksgiving potluck on campus for international students and people who aren’t going home for Thanksgiving?’”

Bradley said they plan to have pasta and other traditional Thanksgiving foods and are encouraging guests to bring food to the potluck, though it is not required to attend.

“There’s going to be warm food for anybody to come and get if they want — the main thing is to provide community,” Bradley said.

“If you’re an international student, we would love to see food from where you’re from because that sounds crazy cool.”

Bradley said they are not sure how many students will attend, but hope they can give everyone a place to come eat dinner if they are in town.

“Ultimately, if one person isn’t spending Thanksgiving alone, then I consider it successful,” Bradley said.

“They had no idea or intent to have 6% inflation.”

Owner of Shipwreck Grill, Amico Nave Restaurante, Third on Main Kitchen and Admiral Catering, Wade Beckman, said these turbulent times have made business difficult in Bryan-College Station.

“Previous to [COVID-19], if you placed an order with what I’d call a broad line distributor, like Cisco or U.S. Foods, you might have every week that they’d call you and say, ‘Hey, we’re short this week … it was gonna be here Wednesday, but now it will be here Thursday, or we’re going to substitute this item,” Beckman said. “[Now], no phone call, no, ‘You’re going to be short’ and no substitutes.”

The rising food and supply cost for what is available has left restaurant owners with no other choice than to pass the price onto the consumer, Beckman said.

“We took a 12% across-the-board cost increase at each restaurant with the hopes that it would come back down,” Beckman said. “That has not even come close to covering the cost,

so we will probably go to somewhere between a 15% to 18% increase officially on all our menus.”

The labor market has also contributed to higher prices, Beckman said.

“Our kitchen labor is up about 25%, so between those two, any amount we go up … will not allow for any additional profit,” Beckman said.

Beckman also said he fears supply shortages have not yet reached their peak and only adds to the everyday problems restaurant businesses face.

“Best-case scenario, we’re getting close to the spike,” Beckman said.

“Normal-people-problems still exist, so what you have is the normal spikes with the spikes in transportation and labor shortages and [COVID-19].”

Beckman said he is hopeful next year will be better for the supply chain and specifically for his restaurants.

“My guess off the cuff is maybe after the first of the year … you see a slow down across the country, so hopefully that slow down will allow the supply chains to finally catch up,” Beckman said.

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The Battalion’s editorial staff calls for an acknowledgement of student journalists’ work after several instances of stolen work and lack of credit have occurred this semester.

Editorial: Respect student journalism

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espect is an Aggie Core Value.

Plagiarism and copyright infringement are not.

From national broadcasters to our own peers, The Battalion has faced too many instances in which our work has been stolen. And we’re tired of it.

Student journalism is hard enough, from getting called “amateurs” to having doors literally closed in our faces, but having others use our work with neither permission nor credit is the icing that sends the cake toppling over. We may be a bunch of 20-somethings huddling in a windowless basement until 1 a.m. working on Google Docs and Adobe InDesign, but that does not make us any less professional, hard working or — God forbid — passionate than the reporters over at the New York Times. We prac-

tice AP Style, the most widely used journalist writing style, too. We break hard news and investigate, too. We follow media law and ethics, too. We report on nationally recognized issues, too. So do not treat us like we don’t know what we’re doing or we don’t deserve the same amount of credit and respect.

In fairness, sometimes we do get it wrong. Every newsroom does, and we’re not above our own flaws. But if you don’t like our content or wish things were done differently, please, feel free to come work for us or leave us some constructive criticism. Don’t mistake the work of a student as an opportunity to illegally use quality content as if it is your property.

And if you do like our work, wonderful. We appreciate compliments and

praise (and retweets, too!). But don’t steal our articles, quotes, photographs, graphics or videos and republish them as your own. That is not only illegal and unethical, but it is downright disrespectful. Excellence is something Aggies take very seriously, and we, at The Battalion, work our hardest to produce the best content possible for our audience. We Respect our readers by providing the most transparent coverage of notable events, weather and sports, and we ask for Respect in return by recognizing the importance of student journalism.

Thanks for the backward compliments, but next time, please ask first.

After all, Aggies do not lie, cheat or steal — or tolerate those who do.

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In his latest piece, opinion columnist Zach Freeman argues in favor of a cycling reform on Texas streets in an effort to make roadways safer for both drivers and cyclists.

Texas should adopt Idaho Stop Opinion columnist Zach Freeman argues in favor of loosening cycling laws

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n the battle between bicycles and automobiles, cyclists have always been at a disadvantage. It’s much harder to kill someone with a bike than a car, unless you beat them over the head with it.

However, according to many state laws, there is little difference between motorists and cyclists. “A bicycle is a vehicle, and a person operating a bicycle has the rights and duties applicable to a driver operating a vehicle.” As a community that heavily utilizes bicycles,

College Station needs to join the growing movement placing practicality over a one-size-fits-all solution.

Coming to a full stop at stop signs only to restart and try to build up speed seconds later takes much longer on a bike than in a motorized vehicle. This delay creates added danger, as a previously unseen car could have come within a dangerous distance in that time. Not to mention many cyclists ignore stop signs anyway, a situation anyone who has lived in College Station long enough is keenly aware of.

The fact of the matter is: bikes are not cars, and treating them as such often creates unnecessary and dangerous situations for drivers and cyclists. Some states and

cities have recognized this problem and implemented a much-needed reimagining of how cyclists should behave on the road. The biggest biking sensation sweeping the nation has come to be known as the “Idaho Stop.”

The Idaho Stop refers to state legislation passed in 1982, dictating that cyclists simply yield at stop signs and treat red traffic lights as a car would a stop sign. To many drivers who live in constant fear of the next cyclist waiting to hurl themselves in front of their bumper, this may sound counterintuitive, but it gets results. A 14.5% decrease in bicycle injuries occurred within the first year the law was enacted.

Despite its success, Idaho would re-

main solitary in its policy for 35 years, becoming a thing of legend for online cycling communities until 2017, when The Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act was put into law, made the Potato State its first new friend among many more to come. Delaware’s law, which only dictates that cyclists yield at stop signs, caused a 23% decrease in crashes involving bicycles at intersections after 30 months.

Since then, six more states — plus some municipalities in Colorado — have passed stop-as-yield laws. Utah, North Dakota and Oklahoma passed their legislation this year. Now two out of four of Texas’ neighboring states, Oklahoma and Arkansas, have full Idaho Stop laws in place.

Texas should be the ninth state to adopt the Idaho Stop, and if not, then College Station should follow the lead of Colorado cities. The people of College Station and students at Texas A&M are smart enough to maneuver safely under the stop-as-yield framework. As many as 85% of cyclists who already don’t fully halt at stop signs do so in a safe manner.

As well as making the roads safer for everyone, more relaxed laws may encourage people to ride bikes more often. Heart disease and other illnesses that can be traced back to inactivity have been leading causes of death in the United States for 100 years. We should do everything we can to promote biking.

There’s nothing to lose and everything to gain; wouldn’t you like to be a cyclist, too?

The Idaho Stop could be the first major step in making cycling reform more popular and accessible. Dedicated bike lanes separating clueless pedestrians from cyclists? Less pollution and cleaner, more efficient cities? The possibilities are limitless. A utopian cyclist’s paradise like that of The Netherlands may be just on the horizon. Once the first hurdle is crossed, cyclists everywhere can join together in the same harmonious song. While issues like inflation, twisted cycle paths and lousy spokes-people may always be a part of life’s vicious cycle, sometimes the smallest changes can make the biggest influence.

To get closer to this vision of a better world, we need to institute better biking policies.

Full stop.

Zachary Freeman is an anthropology senior and opinion columnist for The Battalion.

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Rounding out the regular season, the Texas A&M football team will travel to Baton Rouge, La., to take on the LSU Tigers and battle for a second or third place finish in the SEC West.

Aggies prepare for regular season finale at LSU A&M football will conclude its 2021 regular season with highly anticipated battle at Death Valley Thanksgiving weekend

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fter moving to 3-0 against teams with cat-themed mascots, the Aggies are just one Tiger away from a clean sweep.

On Saturday, Nov. 20, Texas A&M football completed its home slate with an emotional 52-3 victory over Prairie View A&M. Now, the Aggies must shift gears toward their final game of the season: a road

matchup against SEC West-rival LSU. The rivalry between the Aggies and the Tigers dates back to a time long before the programs first butted heads in the Southeastern Conference. In 1899, the Aggies won the inaugural match of the series in College Station by a score of 52-0. The squads had a chaotic rivalry throughout the 1900s, switching between annually scheduled games and decade-long stretches without meetings.

After halting the series after the 1995 season, the teams would not meet again until they faced off in the Cotton Bowl Classic on Jan. 7, 2011, which LSU won 41-24. A year later, the Aggies joined the SEC, resuming the annual conflict. The Tigers won the first six games in SEC play, but a 74-72 shootout in 2018 broke the streak.

While the Aggies won the most recent meeting, 20-7, the Tigers hold a 34-22-3 lead

in the all-time series.

A&M travels to Baton Rouge, La., with an 8-3 record. After starting the season 3-2, the Aggies found their stride, going 5-1 in their next six games. The streak was highlighted by a 41-38 upset against the previously topranked Alabama Crimson Tide.

While the Aggies’ three conference losses take playoff and conference championship contention off the table, a win would help the squad stamp a ticket to a more favorable bowl game.

Redshirt sophomore quarterback Zach Calzada will start his 10th game for the Aggies on Saturday. In 2021, he has thrown for 1,943 yards, 14 touchdowns and nine interceptions.

He is bolstered by one of the country’s top running back tandems, as junior Isaiah Spiller and sophomore Devon Achane have combined for 1,845 rushing yards and 15 scores.

During Monday’s press conference, head coach Jimbo Fisher said the team has emphasized the importance of stability in the passing game and the rushing game against teams that can stop the run like LSU. “We’ve gotta have balance, just like we’ve had all year,” Fisher said. “You can’t just go throw it; they’re too good and they have different blitz packages. Their guys up front can rush, they can play the run and they can tackle well in space. We’re gonna have to win our battles in both regards, run and pass, to move the ball and score.”

The squad’s receiving corps has dealt with injuries in the latter half of the season, as freshman Demond Demas will miss the remainder of the campaign, and sophomore Chase Lane’s status is unclear, although he will miss Saturday’s game.

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Passing the torch

The undefeated Texas A&M women’s basketball team will travel to the Virgin Islands where it will face a trio of teams in the 2021 Paradise Jam tournament.

Battle of unbeatens Women’s basketball prepares to take on Pittsburgh in tournament

By Luke White @lukewhite03 A trip to the Virgin Islands will give No. 24 Texas A&M women’s basketball a change of scenery, both in weather and competition.

The Aggies will battle the Pittsburgh Panthers on Thursday, Nov. 25 at the University of the Virgin Islands as part of the 2021 Paradise Jam tournament. The maroon and white will also face South Dakota and Northwestern the following two days of the tournament.

Both teams enter the tournament with unblemished records of 4-0. The Aggies and Panthers are both coming off close wins, as BASKETBALL PREVIEW ON PG. 7

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Following Texas A&M’s final home football game of the 2021 season, the senior class reflected on its time in Aggieland and gave a farewell to Kyle Field.

Graduating seniors to leave lasting legacy on Fisher’s program at A&M

By Ryan Faulkner @ryanfaulk03

Athletes come and go, but a program’s legacy never dies.

Before No. 14 Texas A&M football’s 52-3 whollopping of Prairie View A&M, 15 athletes were recognized in the team’s Senior

Day ceremony to commemorate their final time playing at Kyle Field. Though emotions were high for many of the older players, dominance showcased by the team’s youngest athletes helped illuminate the path toward A&M’s potential success moving forward.

For A&M coach Jimbo Fisher, the senior class represented more than just another group of athletes: they personified the coach’s fresh start. Fisher’s first football season as an Aggie came in 2018 — the freshman year of

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BASKETBALL PREVIEW CONTINUED A&M outlasted Stephen F. Austin, 82-75, on Thursday, Nov. 18, and Pittsburgh came from behind to beat Duquesne 69-64 on Saturday, Nov. 20.

The Aggies and Panthers have met just once before, when A&M took down Pittsburgh by a score of 56-50 in 2008 in the State Farm Women’s Tip-Off Classic. At the time, the Aggies were ranked No. 10 in the country while the Panthers stood at No. 23.

As a team, A&M has averaged 89 points per game while allowing just 59 this season. It’s led by a quartet of Aggies averaging double figures in scoring. Graduate guard Kayla Wells leads the team with 18.5 points per game, and junior

FOOTBALL PREVIEW CONTINUED given several wideouts more opportunities to make plays on the field, including junior Jalen Preston. During Monday’s press conference, Preston said the team’s intense routines at practice have allowed them to reload at receiver following the unexpected injuries.

“It has been really tough to have our guys go down,” Preston said. “Everyone has been practicing hard, so when the next man comes up, he is always prepared … It has been awesome to be able to be that guy sometimes.”

The A&M defense has been a bright spot for the team, as the squad ranks third in the SEC in average points allowed per game, with 21.7, and fourth in total sacks, with 33.

Senior linebacker Aaron Hansford leads the team in total tackles with 81 on the season.

He also notched his first career touchdown

guard Jordan Nixon isn’t far behind with 17.3. Graduate guards Destiny Pitts and Qadashah Hoppie round out the group, averaging 12.5 and 11.3 points per game, respectively.

On the flip side, Pittsburgh averages 78.8 points per game while holding opponents to 57.8. The team features just one player averaging double digits in scoring per game, as senior guard Jayla Everett leads the team with 18.3. However, the Panthers prove to be a strong rebounding team, as four players average six or more rebounds per game. Junior center Rita Igbokwe leads the team in this statistic, averaging 7.8.

Tipoff between the Aggies and the Panthers is set for 7 p.m. from the Sports and Fitness Center in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. The game will be broadcast on ESPN3 and 93.7 FM.

last week against Prairie View, as he returned a fumble 18 yards to the house.

Senior defensive lineman Tyree Johnson leads the team in sacks with eight. Junior defensive lineman DeMarvin Leal is close behind with 7.5 sacks of his own.

LSU enters the weekend with a 5-6 record.

That mark carries desperation of its own, as a victory would give the Tigers the sixth win necessary to clinch a spot in a bowl game and give a proper send-off for an LSU icon.

In 2019, head coach Ed Orgeron led LSU to a 14-0 record and a national title with one of the most talented rosters in recent memory.

Less than two years after the confetti fell, Orgeron’s days are now numbered, as the team announced it will part ways with the coach after the conclusion of the 2021 season.

Despite his team’s rapid fall from grace, Orgeron, who is commonly known as “coach

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The Saturday, Nov. 20 game against the Prairie View A&M Panthers marked the last time the senior class played at home in Kyle Field.

SENIOR DAY CONTINUED now-soon-to-be graduates — after eight years with Florida State. Because the older players have been with Fisher for the entirety of his tenure with the maroon and white, the head coach said he was proud to honor their growth and development before the game.

“What [the seniors] have meant from a cultural standpoint, from a practice standpoint, from influence on the other guys, the things that happened … I can’t be happier for those guys,” Fisher said. “It’s been a tremendous group of guys.”

Referred to as one of the most influential members of the entire football program by various teammates throughout the 2021 season, senior defensive back Leon O’Neal represents one of the most significant upcoming departures from the team. Across his first three seasons at A&M, beginning in fall 2018, O’Neal totaled 70 solo tackles, 36 sacks and seven tackles for loss.

But this season, he truly began to shine.

The senior has collected two interceptions, a sack, 35 solo tackles, seven passes defended, a touchdown and one fumble recovery through 11 games — all career-high season numbers.

O’Neal said this development is what made playing his final game in Kyle Field so difficult.

“I didn’t want to get too deep in my feels, in my emotions, but I couldn’t hide it, man,” O’Neal said, “This place changed me. Talking about it makes me tear up just a little bit. I love A&M with all my heart.”

Senior place-kicker Seth Small has followed

a similar trajectory, finding his role as a significant difference-maker on the team as a freshman. Since then, Small became A&M’s all-time leading scorer, passing Randy Bullock’s record of 365 points set between 2008 and 2011. Small also nailed 70 field goals and 161 extra points.

Because of his wide success seen at A&M — both on and off the field — Small said it doesn’t seem possible for his time at Kyle Field to be finished.

“Has it been 44 games? Oh, my gosh,” Small said. “It goes by way too fast, let me tell you.”

But to Small, there was no better way to end his four-year career wearing maroon and white at home in front of the 12th Man. The Aggies dominated the Panthers, finding 447 yards of total offense while scoring 52 points — A&M’s highest point-total since beating Lamar in 2019.

“I think it was sweet to send the seniors out in the way that we did in stamping fashion,” Small said. “I was fighting back tears all game long. It’s just been incredible.”

Along with O’Neal and Small, the other players recognized for Senior Day were Tyler Bulthuis, Travis Pepin, Daniel Bushland, Tyler Ondrusek, Reinard Britz, Justin Mellenbruch, Reese Mason, Galen Gallagher, Micheal Clemons, Aaron Hansford, Jahmir Johnson, Tyree Johnson and Jayden Peevy.

And though they weren’t a part of Saturday’s ceremonious festivities, other players with NCAA eligibility still left may

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O,” said he is proud of the resilience his squad has shown through a chaotic season.

“Life is going to throw you a bunch of curveballs, and I’ve told the guys that,” Orgeron said. “This team has learned how to fight to the end through adversity. No matter what the circumstances are around you, you’ve got to get up in the morning and decide to fight, and this team has done that.”

Despite its losing record, LSU’s offense has fired on all cylinders this season. Sophomore quarterback Max Johnson, who is the son of former Super Bowl-winning quarterback Brad Johnson, has thrown for 2,509 yards, 24 touchdowns and six interceptions.

Junior running back and Baton Rouge native Tyrion Davis-Price has carried the rushing attack, totaling 919 yards and six touchdowns this season.

The team’s biggest weakness has been its

defense, which has surrendered an astounding 34.9 points per game this season. Much of the bleeding has come through the air, as the squad gives up 363 passing yards per game.

On Monday, Fisher said he did not buy into the notion the team treats the LSU rivalry differently than other games, but the familiarity between the schools will always make the matchups special.

“They’re all rivalries to me,” Fisher said.

“But we’re so close in proximity, and they recruit [players from] Texas, and we recruit [players from] Louisiana … They’re a great team, and they’re a team that we’ll have to compete with year in and year out because they’ll always have great players.”

Kickoff is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 27 at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La.

have played their final game at Kyle Field as well. The 2022 NFL Draft is just over five months away, and many Aggies, including junior running back Isaiah Spiller and junior DeMarvin Leal, have been pegged as likely draftees.

Fisher said he is not worried about this prospect, as it is simply a “way of life” in college athletics.

“Listen, you always hate to lose guys, but that’s what the world is. You step up, move on and other people step in,” Fisher said.

“This program is still not done.”

Instead, Fisher said the program will rely on the younger players who have already begun blossoming and finding success in their own rights. Against Prairie View, most starters had been substituted out by the end of the third quarter. This allowed four underclassmen to score, while many others gained crucial playing experience as well.

Sophomore running back Devon Achane, who has presented himself as Spiller’s heir apparent, rushed for 45 yards on 10 carries. But even more impressive, the current NCAA yards-per-carry runner-up scored two touchdowns — his sixth multi-score showing in under two years.

Similarly, freshman wide receiver Moose Muhammad III notched 77 yards on five receptions, scoring twice and tripling his career touchdown total in the process. Freshman running back Amari Daniels, who led the game in total rushing yards with 70, scored his first touchdown, and sophomore place-kicker Caden Davis notched his first extra point.

By not acknowledging age or seniority differences in practice, all Aggies are fully prepared to compete and succeed by the first time they step onto the field, O’Neal said.

“We hold each other to a standard. We don’t care if you’re 18, 17 or 22 [years old],” O’Neal said. “It has to be perfect. We have to do it the right way. And that’s our standard. If we don’t do it the right way, then we’re not satisfied; we’re not happy. Don’t matter what age you are.”

This mindset should not be surprising for new recruits or younger players, Johnson said,

as it is emphasized from the moment a player first joins the program.

“When we got here for workouts and things like that, I basically told everybody, ‘You’re not a kid no more. Let’s ball,’” Johnson said. “‘You’re a grown man now. We ain’t wasting no time; we ain’t skipping a beat.

Let’s play now.’”

Yes, once most of these young players entered the game, Prairie View did slightly better. Along with their field goal — the visiting team’s lone source of points in the matchup — the Panthers nearly tripled their offensive yardage while finding multiple first downs and snagging an interception from A&M freshman walk-on quarterback Blake Bost.

But this was to be expected, Fisher said, as many of them had not recorded that many minutes of playing time in a single day. Instead, the matchup against the Panthers served as a preview of good to come while highlighting the issues which need to be addressed during the offseason.

“Any time you go on the field and the numbers on the scoreboard are for real, it matters,” Fisher said. “You can do it in practice all day; I don’t care who you play. The numbers on the scoreboard are for real. It affects people.”

The seniors on the current football squad have done it all. They survived one of the longest games in collegiate football history, finished a season with A&M’s highest final AP ranking since 1929, defeated No. 1 Alabama, played through a pandemic, secured an Orange Bowl championship and endured the hardships that come with working under a first-year coach at a new program.

Regardless of the greatness leaving Kyle Field in favor of graduation or the NFL Draft, Small said he has no doubt that the next iteration of the A&M football team will continue developing the seniors’ legacy and pushing the program to new heights.

“Who knows what’s going to happen [after I leave]?” Small asked. “I just know that the culture that’s being built here is going to breed something special.”

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7 players to watch for during A&M-LSU Texas A&M’s game against LSU marks the teams’ 11th meeting in as many years. With this rendition of the rivalry being the last game of both teams’ 2021 seasons, plenty of important postseason stakes are on the line,

By Jordan Epp @j_epp22

including the Tigers’ bowl eligibility.

Here are some important players to watch during the matchup on Saturday, Nov. 27:

A&M — Isaiah Spiller, No. 28

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Junior running back Isaiah Spiller wil look to join the ranks of program greats in the Saturday, Nov. 27 game against the LSU Tigers, with only 16 yards needed to reach a 1,000-yard rushing season.

LSU — Ed Ingram, No. 70

Spiller, a junior running back for the Aggies, is on the brink of joining an exclusive club at A&M. If he runs for at least 16 yards on Saturday, he will become the sixth player in program history to have multiple 1,000-yard seasons, joining the likes of Darren Lewis and Trayveon Williams. Spiller, a powerful runner with three strong seasons at A&M, is eligible to declare for the 2022 NFL Draft and will likely be selected within the first couple of rounds. With draft-eligible players foregoing their team’s bowl games more and more often these days in order to avoid the risk of injury, this may be the last time the 12th Man sees Spiller, among other Aggies, don the maroon and white.

A&M — DeMarvin Leal, No. 8

A starter in his freshman season, Ingram is now a graduate student and a staple for the interior of the Tigers’ offensive line for years. The offensive guard was suspended in his sophomore season, but has only missed two games since then. Currently draft-eligible, Ingram will be looking to put some good tape up for scouts against an A&M defensive line known for getting after quarterbacks.

A&M — Kenyon Green, No. 55

LSU — Damone Clark, No. 18

Leal, a junior defensive lineman, is another Aggie who is draft-eligible. Leal has shown a proficiency at rushing the passer and stopping the run, no matter where he’s lined up along the line of scrimmage. The potential first-rounder has earned career-highs in both total tackles, 52, and sacks, 7.5, this season.

Like Spiller, the LSU game could be the last time Leal is seen in an A&M uniform.

Clark is a home-grown senior linebacker from Baton Rouge, La. In his fourth season with the program, Clark isn’t just leading the SEC in total tackles, but he leads the entire Football Bowl Subdivision, or FBS, in total tackles, with 126. Clark will be looking to get his eighth double-digit tackle game this year against the Aggies.

LSU — Austin Deculus, No. 76

A&M — Leon O’Neal, Jr., No. 9

Deculus, a graduate tackle for the Tigers, is set to make program history against the Aggies. The lineman from Cypress will play in his 60th game, becoming the first LSU football player ever to do so. Considered a leader and mentor, Deculus will be concluding his fifth year with the Tigers as the most-tenured player in the teams’ history.

After an award-winning sophomore season, the junior offensive lineman has been a constant on an otherwise fluid A&M offensive line. Another potential early-round pick, Green has played at four different positions along the offensive line this season. Despite being a guard in his first two seasons with the Aggies, Green was supposed to start at tackle in 2021 before his versatility was used to plug up holes along an oft-injured unit. The Swiss Army Knife will be an interesting chess piece at the next level.

After entertaining the transfer portal, O’Neal came back to A&M for his senior season and has seen his production spike as a result. The safety for the Aggies has a career-high 53 total tackles and five pass deflections this season, even scoring his first collegiate defensive touchdown. O’Neal has been waking up the scouts and could be a potential late-round pick in the 2022 NFL Draft.

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AROUND THE SEC A LOOK AT THE CONFERENCE FOR WEEK 13

By Ryne Ryskoski @rusty_ryskoski_

Thanksgiving weekend in the Southeastern Conference features a ranked Egg Bowl matchup, an interesting battle between South Carolina teams and the Razorbacks going for their eighth win.

All these teams have gained bowl eligibility and are fighting to get the

best-possible bid. Mississippi State looks to get to eight wins against the 9-2 Rebels, Arkansas could have its best season since 2015 and South Carolina looks to get a big win at home against Clemson.

No. 12 Ole Miss (9-2) at No. 25 Miss. St. (7-4)

Missouri (6-5) at No. 21 Arkansas (7-4)

Saturday, Nov. 27 - Davis Wade Stadium - Starkville, Miss.

6:30 p.m. CT on ESPN This year’s edition of the Egg Bowl will be a good one, with the Bulldogs going 4-1 over their last five games and Ole Miss going for its 10th win of the year. Both teams have been hot over the last two months, with Ole Miss getting a big win over Texas A&M at home and only losing games to Auburn and Alabama this season. In contrast, Mississippi State has gone 5-2 since losing to Alabama early in the season.

Both teams have surging quarterbacks with potential to throw for 400 yards and multiple scores in each game. Ole Miss junior quarterback Matt Corral has been his usual, efficient self over recent weeks, and he’s been dealing with an ankle injury during that span. Sophomore Miss. St. quarterback Will Rogers has the most passing yards in the SEC with over 4,000 and hits his receivers at an SEC-best 76% rate. He also has the second-most touchdown passes in the conference with 34. Both teams’ defenses are so ineffective overall that it’d be shocking if this year’s Egg Bowl did not become a shootout with Corral and Rogers

Saturday, Nov. 27 - Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium - Fayetteville, Ark. 2:30 p.m. CT on CBS

trading touchdowns. They both give up almost the same points per game and are in the bottom half of the SEC in pass defense.

But there’s a player or two on Ole Miss’ defense that will be a big reason why the Rebels pull out a close win. Ole Miss senior defensive lineman Sam Williams has 11 sacks, the second-most in the conference.

Sophomore linebacker Cedrick Johnson and senior linebacker Chance Campbell have another 13 combined sacks this season to add onto Williams’ total. They’ve proven their ability to rush the passer, and there will come a point in Saturday’s game where they make an important play. Williams especially will be a key for the Rebels in limiting Rogers and disrupting his timing due to size, speed and experience.

In the end, Corral will prove why he is one of the top signal-callers in the SEC with a lot of throwing yards as Ole Miss’ defense gets a few crucial stops late in the game to leave Starkville with the Golden Egg Trophy.

Prediction: Ole Miss 44, Miss. St. 42

Missouri is coming off a 24-23 overtime win at home over Florida, which was ultimately the last straw on the Alligator’s back for coach Dan Mullen getting fired, while Arkansas is looking to get its eighth win of the season — something which hasn’t happened since the 2015 Razorbacks.

The Tigers and coach Eli Drinkwitz seem to have figured out their offensive identity in the last quarter of the season. Senior running back Tyler Badie has had a brilliant last few games to vault himself to the top of the SEC in rushing yards. He’s statistically been the best at his position this year with the most carries, 227; second-most rushing touchdowns, 13; and 335 receiving yards. In the last two games for Missouri, both wins, Badie ran for over 450 yards and scored twice. Redshirt sophomore quarterback Connor Bazelak has also been efficient getting the ball to his receivers while dealing with a lighter workload in terms of passing.

The running game appears to now be Drinkwitz’s go-to playstyle, and it has been successful in the latter part of the year.

Arkansas has had a pretty wild season, at one point getting up to No. 8 in the AP poll before coming back down to Earth.

However, the Razorbacks have been

consistent since dropping a few games in the mid-season. Since its three-game losing streak to Georgia, Ole Miss and Auburn, Arkansas has won three straight games and nearly upset Alabama in Tuscaloosa this past Saturday, losing 42-35. What has been consistent, though, is sophomore quarterback KJ Jefferson and the ground game. Jefferson threw for 326 yards and three touchdowns against Alabama and hasn’t thrown an interception in five consecutive weeks. He stands fourth in the conference in quarterback rating, is tied for the least interceptions and completes passes at a 66% rate. The running game has paired nicely with Jefferson, as the Razorbacks’ running game averages 222 yards a game, the second-most in the SEC. Junior running back Trelon Smith has led the unit with over 500 rushing yards this season and averages 5 yards per carry.

With this game being in Fayetteville, Ark., combined with how well Arkansas’ offense has performed in recent weeks and the low quality of Missouri’s defense, it’s hard to envision the Tigers outscoring the Razorbacks for 60 minutes. Arkansas takes this one in a high-scoring game.

Prediction: Arkansas 40, Missouri 30

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