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DEEP FROM THE HEART, LIVE IN AGGIELAND

Benefit concert raises more than $33 million for hurricane relief funds

Multiple artists donated their time to perform at the relief concert on Oct. 21 in Reed Arena. Photos by Cassie Stricker — THE BATTALION

By Luke Henkhaus @luke_henkhaus The stars aligned in Aggieland Saturday night, rallying support for those impacted by this year’s brutal hurricane season, creating a historic, unforgettable evening for fans from Texas A&M and beyond. Former Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama joined a stunning lineup of musicians in Reed Arena for the Deep From the Heart: One America Appeal Concert, raising relief funds for the victims of hurricanes Harvey, Maria and Irma. Flanked by performances from multi-platinum-selling country group Alabama, pop star

Lady Gaga, soul legend Sam Moore and others, the group of former presidents delivered remarks on the devastation wrought by 2017’s powerful storms and America’s effort to heal its wounded communities. “These were grievous storms back to back,” Clinton said. “There is still work to be done in Texas and in Florida and our friends in Puerto Rico and the American Virgin Islands have only begun to dig their way out of

what could b e still a calamitous disaster, but can be a new beginning if we just do what we ought to do and prove that the heart of America, without regard to race or religion or political party, is greater than the tides.” Before the first song was sung, the One America Appeal Campaign had already generated over $31 million from around 80,000 individual contributors, according to David Jones, CEO of the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation.

Throughout the televised event, an additional $2 million was collected through a text message donation system. Though the former Presidents Bush and former first ladies Barbara and Laura have become familiar faces at A&M, the concert was one of very few trips to College Station for Carter, Clinton and Obama. “I’m thrilled to be able to introduce 39, 42 and 44 to one of the finest universities in the RELIEF CONCERT ON PG. 4

The BCS Asian Market is Bryan-College Station’s largest source of international goods.

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Midfielder Stephanie Malherbe played her last career game in Aggieland against Vandy.

Stocked with authenticity: a taste of home Seniors’ final Local market provides cuisine for game at Ellis international students, community By Andrew Little @drewlitt Hidden from the view of most local shoppers is a bustling market where international students shop for what reminds them of home. BCS Asian Market is the largest international supermarket in the Bryan-College Station area. Located on the corner of Harvey Mitchell and Texas, the humble BCS Asian Market fills a void for many in the international community. For students like I-Fan, biochemistry Ph.D. student from Taiwan, that void is the limited number of international goods that can be found in College Station. “This is the only Asian supermarket here, so I have to come here because I just miss

some stuff from my home country. This is the only store I can buy stuff like milk tea, or some kind of meat, like pork,” I-Fan said, referring to specific drink brands and meat cuts the market carries. Bowen Pan, meteorology Ph.D. student from China, said she comes to the store for the similar reasons. Even though HEB and other groceries stores have international goods, they don’t carry everything Chinese people want, according to Pan. “It’s, like, American international food, instead of real international food,” Pan said. “There are limited choices. For Chinese snacks, there are more options [at BCS Asian Mart], rather than HEB.” One of the employees at the market, Ping Zhao, came to the U.S. eight months ago with her husband, who is a visiting scholar at A&M. Zhao said it’s difficult for Americans to find the store on their own. “Many Americans ... come here, and they’ve probably never seen this place be-

fore, but their Asian friends introduce them,” she said. “Then they can usually find something they like.” Zhao, who works as both a cashier and shelf stocker, understands that many Americans might think the store is messy. Keeping everything in order is difficult, she said, because the store is under certain constraints. “[Americans think] probably that there’s a lot of stuff and it’s pretty cluttered, basically,” Zhao said. “It’s because we don’t have enough workers. Also, because the store is small and we don’t have many shelves, goods come in and we just put them up when we can.” BCS Asian Market isn’t only a supermarket, but is also home to one of the few Chinese restaurants that can be found in the area, Shun De Mom Express. This two-inone setup is something Pan thinks gives the store character. “My previous roommate and I MARKET ON PG. 4

A&M improves season record to 13-2-1 after defeating Vanderbilt 2-1 at home By Grant Spika @GrantSpika In the closing career home game at Ellis Field for seniors Mikaela Harvey, Haley Pounds, Stephanie Malherbe and McKayla Paulson, the No. 14 Aggie women’s soccer team defeated Vanderbilt, outscoring the Commodores 2-1 Sunday night. With this victory, the Aggies improve to 132-1 on the season, while Vanderbilt falls to 106-1. This marks Texas A&M’s ninth consecutive win heading into the final conference game of the year against Mississippi State on Thursday SOCCER ON PG. 2

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Uncharacteristic errors cause defeat Aggies fall to Ole Miss in four sets, going 0-2 over the weekend By Ryan MacDonald @Ryan_MacDonald2

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Sunday afternoon, the A&M volleyball team lost to Ole Miss at Reed Arena in four sets; 18-25, 22-25, 25-22 and 16-25. The loss marks the Aggies’ second straight defeat just one weekend before hosting Tennessee next Friday. Sophomore outside hitter Hollann Hans had 16 kills and 12 digs, her second career double. Freshman setter Camille Conner garnered 39 assists. Ole Miss started the set on fire, winning eight of the first 10 points. The Aggies crawled back into the set getting as close as 11-9. However, any time the Aggies were able to string a couple points together, they were unable to execute. Texas A&M Head Coach Laurie Corbelli said many of the errors the team made were uncharacteristic. “We had attack errors that were just flying off the hand, just some really odd stuff that is very hard to explain,” Corbelli said. The Aggies were unable to mount a comeback and Ole Miss took the first set 25-18. The second set was much more competitive as the Aggies got out to an early 9-5 lead. Ole Miss then won 10 out of the next 11 points. A&M made a comeback later in the set, winning seven straight points and tying the score up at 21-21. The Rebels then won four out of the next five points, and clinched a 2-0 lead in match. “We just can’t seem to get anything going for very long,” Corbelli said. “It’s a little bit of fight here and there but not all the time.” The Aggies seemed to finally be clicking in the third set, thanks in large part to Hans’s coming alive with six kills and three digs. The Aggies battled to a 20-20 tie and won five out of the next seven points, narrowing their margin to 2-1. Hans and senior Kiara McGee were bright spots in the fourth set, with six and four kills respectively. The Aggies had seven errors as opposed to Ole Miss’s two, which made a big difference in the set. Ole Miss handily won the fourth set 2516 and clinched the match with three wins and just one loss. Two losses this weekend will make it very tough for the Aggies to make a run at the NCAA tournament; however, Corbelli says the team won’t let up their fight. “You never stop the 12-hour days with your team, with video, team meetings and player meetings,” Corbelli said. “We’ll have to have a staff meeting to see what changes we’re going to make. The team needs to make a change in mindset.” A bright spot for the Aggies was freshman middle blocker Morgan Davis who came in for the second set and had three kills. Davis has played in just nine sets since the start of the season; however, she dominated at the net against the Rebels. Davis finished the match with seven kills. “[Davis] does that every day in practice and it was just time to get her on the floor,” Corbelli said. “She was on fire today and helped us win set three for sure.” The Aggies will get back to work in practice this week and host the Volunteers on Friday night at 6:30 p.m. in Reed Arena.

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Senior captain Mikaela Harvey has started in 15 games this season.

SOCCER CONTINUED in Starkville, Mississippi. A&M head coach G. Guerrieri said following the game that he was glad the team was able to get the win, giving the seniors a good memory of their last game at home. “I think being Senior Day was that much more special,” Guerrieri told 12thman. com. “They were going to go out and do it for [Mikaela Harvey] and [McKayla Paulson] and [Stephanie Malherbe] and [Haley Pounds]. The team was going to do whatever it took to get them the win today on their Senior Day.” All three Aggie goals were made in the second half of the game. Despite this, the team out shot the Commodores 10-0 in the first half. After not being able to get a shot off in the first 45 minutes, Vanderbilt opened the scoring with a goal in the 47th minute of the game when Commodores senior Simone Charley scored off a corner kick. Shortly after, in the 55th minute, the Aggies equalized on sophomore midfielder Grace Piper’s laser from outside of the box. Harvey said freshman Addie McCain and Piper’s goals came at a good time during the match and she was happy they were able to score. “Piper has a rocket of a shot,” Harvey told 12thman.com. “She hit it perfectly into

the upper 90 and I was just happy for her to get another one and Addie played amazing today and they really helped me out in the midfield.” The Aggies weren’t done scoring, as they waited just four minutes to score the winning goal in the 59th minute with McCain’s shot. Both Vanderbilt and A&M would see more chances the rest of the second half, but the 2-1 score held. A&M finished with 19 shots, seven on goal, eight corners and three saves, while Vanderbilt finished with seven shots, four on goal, one corner and five saves. Malherbe said the timing of the goals gave the team morale and helped them finish out the game knowing they were going to come out victorious. “To get that goal right away and then to get that second goal pretty quickly after I think sealed the deal,” Malherbe told 12thman.com. “I think all of us were pretty confident, none of us really got our heads down because we knew that we deserved to win this game.” No. 14 Texas A&M will be back in action on Thursday as they travel to Starkville, Mississippi to take on the Mississippi State Bulldogs in the final game of the regular season before kicking off the SEC Tournament next week. Kickoff in Starkville is slated for 7 p.m.

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Community members of all ages visited campus for the annual Chemistry Open House Oct. 21.

CREATING A POSITIVE REACTION 30 years of Chemistry Open House engaging community with science By Jillian Sanders @jillsands98 Alka seltzer rockets, space rocks, colorful slime and other experiments lined Ross Street on campus this Saturday as part of the Chemistry Open House. The annual science event has drawn community members of varying ages for the past three decades. “We normally get about 2,000 to 3,000 people and they come from about a radius of 100 miles,” Joanna Pellois, chemistry graduate advisor, said. Director Stephanie McCartney became the organizer of the event in 2014, and said since then has strived to make the event line up with National Chemistry Week. “There’s a theme every year, and I’ve been trying to incorporate that theme into our overall day,” McCartney said. “This year is ‘Chemistry Rocks,’ so we brought in people from geosciences, we got geology and geophysics and some people from atmospheric sciences and geography. It’s just really cool to have all these other sciences included to see how chemistry interacts with everything.” In the chemistry building, Jim Pennington’s road show about fires, explosions and chemical

reactions recommenced every 30 minutes, with some shows reaching 300 viewers. Across the street, kids flocked to various booths to learn about space rocks, hurricanes and the chemical composition of College Station’s water. The Tress family, one family among hundreds that attended the open house, attended so that College Station High School sophomore Natalie Tress could get extra credit for her chemistry class while also learning more about the sciences. “I thought the road show was really cool,” Natalie Tress said. “I’m thinking about doing engineering here after high school.” Michelle Abney, seventh grade teacher at A&M Consolidated Middle School, said she has enjoyed attending the event for multiple years because of the benefits it brings to her and her students. “I love getting the DNA from strawberries, and I’ve done that several times with my students,” Abney said. “I take the ideas from here and take it to the classroom, and that’s one of the most successful ‘wow’ factor activities, that [the kids] do.” Along with gaining curriculum ideas, Abney said she enjoyed seeing familiar faces buzzing around the booths. “Seeing all my students here is amazing,” Abney said. “I’ve been seeing so many former students, former middle schoolers and now high schoolers, getting really excited about science.”

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4 1. Lee Greenwood and The Singing Cadets perform ‘God Bless the U.S.A.’ to open the concert. 2. Robert Earl Keen (left), Class of 1978, and Lyle Lovett, Class of 1979, perform ‘This Old Porch,’ a song they wrote together in college. 3. Surprise guest Lady Gaga encouraged the crowd to come together to help Americans in need during this time of catastrophe. 4. (left to right) Former Presidents George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama haven’t appeared together since 2013. 5. Multi-platinum-selling country band Alabama was the final act of the show.

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RELIEF CONCERT CONTINUED United States,” George W. Bush said. The concert also served as a homecoming for country artists Robert Earl Keen and Lyle Lovett, Class of 1978 and 1979 respectively, who came together to perform “This Old Porch,” a song written in the heart of College Station, not far from local landmark The Dixie Chicken. Of all the acts to take the stage however, none drew quite as tremendous a response as pop superstar Lady Gaga, whose surprise appearance brought the Reed Arena crowd to its feet. “Pain is such an equalizer,” Gaga said. “And in a time of catastrophe we all put our differences aside and we come together because we need each other or we can’t survive.” Five specific stories of service and the people behind them were honored at the concert with awards from Points of Light,

MARKET CONTINUED normally eat here, and afterward we just take a walk, relax and buy some stuff,” Pan said. “It’s more like a combination here, which makes this store really special.” Owner Shun De Ding, a Chinese immigrant who came to the U.S. 15 years ago, said the restaurant has become more and more popular among the American community. This prominence has allowed the opening of a second location north of the A&M campus. “Sometimes at lunchtime, over half [of the customers] are Americans,” Ding said. “When they come here they’ll say, ‘Everyone is Chinese,’ and they’ll think we’re a very authentic Chinese restaurant.” Zhao said there’s a need for a store like BCS Asian Market in College Station due to

a volunteer organization inspired by former President George H. W. Bush’s Daily Point of Light Award honoring the positive achievements of individuals. “That spirit of altruism, that spirit that says we’re all in this together, that in dire times ignores all the differences that we had before, that spirit is exemplified by the five Points of Light recipients,” Obama said. To close the event, the evening’s array of bands and artists shared the stage with Texas A&M’s Singing Cadets and the Houston Gospel Choir for a rendition of Bill Wither’s 1972 hit, “Lean on Me,” emphasizing the spirit of cooperation and collaboration behind the long-term hurricane relief efforts. “All of us on this stage here tonight could not be prouder of the response of Americans when they see their neighbors, when they see their friends, they see strangers in need, Americans step up,” Obama said.

the large presence of the Asian community. “I think right now it’s very important, because there are many Asian students here,” Ping said. “Visiting students and scholars, from China, Vietnam, also Japan and Thai, many come here. Actually I’ve heard many customers say, ‘Oh thank goodness there’s an Asian market here.’” Pan said the market, although not exactly like what she would find in China, has been meaningful while she’s been away from home. “For me I think it’s a pretty important thing,” Pan said. “It reminds me of my hometown whenever I come here, so I always come here to remember Beijing.” Editor’s note: Quotes were translated by the reporter from Mandarin prior to publication.