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A&M quarterback Kellen Mond completed 19 of his 29 passes against Alabama.
Tide triumphs in tough game Analysis: missed chances and missed cues kept A&M from beating Bama Senior Ellie Scott served in the U.S. Air Force from 2009 - 2013.
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By Emily Bost @EmmyBost In a series of three tweets posted July 26, President Donald Trump announced a ban that would exclude transgender Americans from serving in the U.S. military, sparking controversy over issues like military efficiency and trans-related health care coverage. The ban will make the roughly 1.4 million adults that identify as transgender in the United States ineligible to serve, according to the New York Times. “Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail,” read Trump’s tweets following his initial directive. Since Trump announced the ban, six transgender soldiers filed lawsuits with the federal court in August, arguing that the ban will affect their medical treatments and career opportunities and requesting that it never go into effect, according to the New York Daily News. The Trump administration has requested that the federal court not consider any lawsuit opposing the transgender service ban because there is not yet policy to supplement it. However, since Defense Secretary James Mattis is temporarily allowing transgender troops to serve, the plaintiffs have no legal basis to file
suits currently. For Ellie Scott, recreational parks and tourism sciences senior and transgender veteran, the military served as an opportunity for her to gain discipline and function as an adult. Scott first found out about Trump’s tweet via text from a friend and although she does not have interest in serving again, she is annoyed by Trump’s ban because of the lack of input from military
officials and the American people. “People are going to serve their country because they want to serve their country,” Scott said. “If they’re physically and mentally capable of passing all the other exams, why does it matter what they have in their pants?” Gender identity was something Scott struggled with internally and socially from a young age, she said. Scott also said she repressed her identification with the female gender until she got to A&M in 2006 for a mechanical engineering degree. Scott struggled her first semester, resulting in her withdrawal from the university to join the Air Force. According to an analysis funded by the Department of State, there are currently between 1,320 to 6,630 active-duty transgender servicemen in the U.S. military. Historically, the military has not covered gender transition surgery. If the military were to begin covering these transition-related procedures, it would
The final result was as expected – Alabama beat Texas A&M. But the Aggies did something unexpected – made it hard for the Crimson Tide to win. As 26.5–point underdogs at home, A&M was picked by many to be steam-rolled by the Tide, but as the Aggies walked off Kyle Field Saturday night, the 27-19 loss felt as if it could have been even closer. Maybe it should have been. A&M was in striking distance of getting within a score, or even going ahead on several occasions on an Alabama team who came to College Station riding on back-to-back SEC victories by a combined score of 125-3. “It is real disappointing. It came down to the wire there,” 12th Man Cullen Gillaspia said. “They’re a great ball club, but you have to take positives from it, too. They’re the number one team in the country and we just went toe-to-toe with them until the final seconds of the game.” Costly turnovers, big plays and penalties kept the Aggies from doing what seems impossible – beating Alabama. “It’s tough to know that if a couple more things would’ve went our way we would’ve had a closer shot to win the game,” wide receiver Christian Kirk said. “That’s how Alabama is. All the credit goes out to them. They’re the number one team in the country for a reason. They’re not going to give you anything.” In the fourth quarter, Alabama safety
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A sediment core showed iron particles left from the last ice age; possibly allowing for the growth of more algae which absorbed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and lowered global temperatures.
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BUILD began construction on five new medical clinics on Oct. 2.
BUILD begins fifth year Texas A&M organization aids developing nations By Tyler Snell @Tyler_Snell2 Just a short drive north of campus, students have the opportunity to put their construction skills to the test and work on a project that serves various developing communities. BUILD started its fifth year of construction last week and will continue until Nov. 17. BUILD was founded in 2012 and partners with healthcare accessibility organization Medical
Bridges to construct medical clinics contained in storage containers that are then sent to developing nations in need of healthcare and supplies. This year the organization is building five medical clinics and each one will honor an Aggie veteran and their family. Last year, BUILD had roughly 1,400 student volunteers over the course of the semester and hopes to increase that number to over 2,000 this year. “We are having some side projects for when we have an influx of volunteers so everyone can be involved and everyone can be a part of the project,” Amanda BUILD ON PG. 2
Heavy metal in the high seas How ice-age iron particles may have influenced climate By Alex Sein @AlexandrSein According to Franco Marcantonio, Texas A&M geology professor, there is a chance that iron particles deposited into the Pacific Ocean during the last ice age could have affected global climates. Marcantonio’s research began when he took part in an expedition to the Galapagos Islands to retrieve a core sample — a cutout that contains eons of sedimentary layers detailing the Earth’s geological past — from the bottom of the ocean. After bringing it back to the lab, he said
he found something interesting and unusual about it. “We found eight, maybe nine intervals in the sediment core that had increased amounts of dust from the continents, and dust from the continents has iron in it, and some of that dust, it’s really fine-grained, it dissolves, and when it dissolves, it releases the iron, and iron is important because it’s an important micronutrient for plants in the ocean,” Marcantonio said. These plants, according to Marcantonio, would mostly be algae, and while there is no way to directly tell how much algae was present in the ancient ocean, a trace element called barium can indicate the presence of algae. Marilyn Wisler, a former un-
dergraduate research student under Marcantonio who performed the barium analyses said that the results indicated a correlation between the amounts of barium in the ocean and what the climate was like at the time. “With all the analyses that we had, we ended up correlating them to different climate events,” Wisler said. “The barium only occurs in the seawater, and for the fact that that could be correlated to what’s going on in the atmosphere was really interesting to me.” Marcantonio said that his current hypothesis was that algae growth spurred by increased iron levels led to the algae absorbing increased amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which in turn lowered OCEAN ON PG. 2
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OCEAN CONTINUED average global temperatures. According to oceanography professor Lisa Campbell, algae growth like this is possible with an increase in iron. “Chlorophyll needs iron, that’s a component of the molecule, and also iron is important in a lot of enzymes for normal functions of cells,” Campbell said. “If iron is depleted, then the cells can be limited in their metabolic functions and their growth, so there’s vast regions of the ocean that are thought to be iron-limited.” Marcantonio also said there was a correlation between when these pulses of iron particles were released into the ocean and when groups of icebergs broke off of Arctic sea ice in the Atlantic Ocean. “There is particle debris on the bottom of these iceberg armadas that calve off into the North Atlantic Ocean,” Marcantonio said. “Once the icebergs melt in the ocean, the particle debris will fall to the seafloor. These layers of ice-rafted debris are deposited at about the same time we found the dust intervals in the equatorial Pacific. A fundamental part of my research is to try and figure out what exactly this correlation means and how it’s related to global climate change.” However, according to Campbell, artificial induction of iron particles into the ocean can be very dangerous, and is not a solution to current climate change issues. “You don’t know which phytoplankton you’re going to stimulate,” Campbell said. “There’s many thousands of different phytoplankton species in the ocean and so it’s possible that you’ll stimulate ones that aren’t very good food sources or ones that are toxic.” According to Campbell, affecting the base of the food chain could have unforeseeable consequences for entire marine ecosystems, so while random iron deposits in the oceans had a seemingly desirable effect in the past, there is no way to know if that would be the case today with artificial iron seeding.
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BUILD CONTINUED Wolken, BUILD chief executive officer and electrical engineering senior, said. “Sometimes we get a lot of volunteers at once, which is great, but we want to have everyone serve a purpose and help while out there.” The BUILD site is off of Agronomy Road near the General Services Complex and has been getting prepped for construction work since January. “There was a lot of communication with our trucking department, manufacturer of the containers in Houston and getting the forklift there to operate it,” Matt Doherty, BUILD operations team leader and construction science junior, said. “The biggest thing is coordinating all the entities to make sure the project gets off smoothly.” BUILD Chief Operating Officer and environmental design junior Kayla McCabe said her favorite part of the construction phase is seeing the number of Aggies that come to the site. “I love being out on-site with everyone,” McCabe said. “One Friday night last year, we probably had close to 80 volunteers and just seeing the fact that all those people gave up a few minutes of their time or an hour of their day to come work on something is my favorite part of what we do.” Since its inception, BUILD has constructed 13 different medical clinics that
have gone to nine different countries with the help of over 3,000 students. “When you come out to the site and see people from every major, every college and every classification, you just see everyone coming together and building something, and it is inspiring,” McCabe said. “Going to class you can see Aggies coming together, but when you get out here, you really understand the Aggie Spirit.” The mission of BUILD is to get as many students from all areas of campus to work on the project as a community, Wolken said. “We want to see students come out who might not work together in any other form, don’t have classes together, may not be in the same clubs or organizations,” Wolken said. “BUILD can be the uniting factor where everyone can come out, put their hands on this project, and it can be the effort of the student body, not just BUILD itself.” Doherty said through BUILD students are able to make an impact on each other while impacting developing countries. “We are able to bring together the university, bring together all the students into one physically uniting service project and send these clinics off to third world countries and impact people all over the world without having to leave campus,” Doherty said.
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annually cost between $2.4 million and $8.4 million, in addition to the whole Department of Defense’s estimated annual budget of $640 billion, according to the same analysis. Those opposed to transgender service, such as Tyler Craven, Class of 2017 and rifleman in the 1st Battalion 7th Marines who served in Afghanistan, argue that continuing to allow transgender people to serve would be too costly if the military began to cover sex reassignment surgery, in addition to the current coverage of hormone therapy and mental health counseling. Craven said the incentive to join the military to a non-combative job for medical benefits could also weaken military readiness. Former President Barack Obama’s approval of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 helped expand access to trans-related procedures and medications to many transgender Americans by preventing sex discrimination in health care policies, according to Hilary Booth, Nurse Practitioner at Beutel Health Center. Since insurance companies perceive sex reassignment surgeries as cosmetic procedures, not as medical necessities, they therefore do not always provide coverage, Booth said. According to Booth, gaining approval for sex reassignment surgery depends largely on a person’s community, resources and support system. “Most surgeons are going to make you wait and be on medication, do hormones, be going through the transition for a year before they’ll start thinking about [surgery],” Booth said. “They just want to see that documentation that you are committed to it. Medication, we can stop, and effects usually reverse. But surgery is forever.” According to the HealthCare.gov website, some health insurance companies still exclude trans-related coverage in their policies, but these exclusions may be considered illegal in some cases because the anti-sex-discrimination provisions of the affordable care act extend to gender identity. Scott said it is unjust for political ideology to hold such a dramatic influence over who receives medical care.] “It’s about these people’s mental health,” Scott said. “If you want to go start arguing about how it’s purely cosmetic, braces are cosmetic. So do you want to remove dental coverage for all of these soldiers’ kids too because you don’t feel like taxes should cover cosmetic surgeries?” Those opposed to transgender service have also raised concerns about unit stability. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders supplemented Trump’s tweets by saying transgender people serving “erodes military readiness and unit cohesion” and that the decision
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was made based on military efficiency. Craven said his support of Trump’s ban is not of a discriminatory nature, but rather stems from a concern for unity in the critical environment of active combat. “A ban on open transgender [soldiers] is good because the military is not a social experiment,” Craven said. “We’re not trying to implement new strategies to see how they work … when you’re out there in firefights every other day, sleeping a foot from each other for seven months with no AC, you get to talking and you learn everything there is to know about each other and you bond and any kind of difference that could create tension is just magnified.” According to Scott, the unit cohesion and morale argument has been used in the past by people who have tried to keep minorities out of the military. Scott said if someone isn’t capable of doing the job, they shouldn’t make it through basic training or technical school and if transgender people can meet the proper standards, there is no legitimate reason to kick them out. “We don’t let people who can’t make it emotionally through basic training into the military because if you don’t have a breakdown in basic when they’re trying their hardest actively to break you, you’re not going to have a breakdown because you’re on hormones,” Scott said. According to Craven, the culture of the U.S. military has contributed to the country’s power and success and therefore should not be abandoned. Although much has changed in terms of race and gender, there should be a predominant culture in the military that remains unchanged, Craven said. Physical and psychological limitations should be made to keep certain people from joining the military to preserve unit efficiency and stability, especially in combat arms positions, Craven said.
Because the nature of active combat is high stress, Craven said the smallest differences among members of a unit reveal themselves and have the ability to divide members on deployment. Any personal problems and differences are exposed and amplified in active combat, affecting the entire group’s dynamic, Craven said. For example, Craven recalled one of his deployments in which his unit was predominantly comprised of Republicans, who often expressed opposition to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential campaign. However, one of his buddies in his unit considered himself a Liberal and expressed his support for Clinton after a long day of active combat in which the unit lost some of their men. “We [had] high strung emotions,” Craven said. “And everyone gets extremely angry and goes ‘So you think it’s okay for Hillary Clinton [to be president] even though she let guys die, just like you saw ours die? You’re just going to let her become president?’ And it ended in a fist fight and that’s just over politics.” Trump signed papers in August instructing the military not to move forward with former Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s 2016 announcement allowing transgender troops to serve openly. However, it may take until March 2018 to create and implement a policy to supplement Trump’s initial directive. As debate continues over the functional and financial effects of Trump’s ban, Scott said it is important not to lose sight of what is at stake for transgender Americans and what such a policy would mean for their careers and opportunities in the future. “It’s so frustrating to me that I am a political football basically just because of who I am and what clothes I want to wear, you know?” Scott said. “I’ve served my country.”
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(Left to right) Junior Shelby McNeel, senior Derin Norton and sophomore Lizette Chapa competed Friday in the Aggieland Open. Norton’s time of 18:57.7 helped seal the women’s victory.
Cross country ahead of the pack Women take title, men finish second in Aggieland Open By Andrew Kim @AndyTweets0925 Friday afternoon, in front of A&M fans, the men’s and women’s cross country team finished in the top two spots of the Aggieland Open. The women won their portion of the meet behind the efforts of senior Devin Norton. Norton led the pack for the Aggies, running the 5000-meter distance in 18:57.7. Following the meet, Norton said it felt good to get back into the groove of things after struggling to start the year. “I’m really excited about this race. I’m a senior this year and my season got off to a rough start,” Norton said. “So, it was good to get a good race under my belt. I had Olivia [Arriaza] and Lizette [Chapa] right there with me during the race, which was awesome.” On the men’s side of the meet, A&M came in second by scoring
42 points. Ryan Trahan’s efforts led him to a third place finish on the Dale Watts course. “I thought they competed well,” A&M assistant coach Wendel McRaven told 12thman. com. “It was pretty hot out and I wanted them to be a little bit conservative early in race, but they didn’t quite listen to that 100 percent. They got out a little bit aggressively. The result was good.” As the women’s team clinched their title, Tarleton State, Baylor, Sam Houston State, UTSA, Louisiana-Monroe, Prairie View and Texas Southern all finished behind by a wide margin. Not only did Norton shine in the Aggieland Open, two other Aggies finished within four seconds of each other. Sophomore Olivia Arriaza and junior Lizette Chapa finished along with Norton in the top ten. As for the men, Ryan Trahan led the team to a 7, 9, 10 and 13, placing to complete the team’s scoring. Juan Uribe finished ninth, Sam Erikson finished eleventh, Zephyr Seagraves finished
twelfth and Eli Canal finished fifteenth. “It was a bit of a relief coming down to a 5k after opening at 6,000 meters and moving up to 8,000 meters,” Trahan said to 12thman.com. “With the 5k, a shorter race, it feels more like a sprint compared to the longer distances we race. The finish of the race came down to four or five runners in the last 600m. I gave it a good effort and the Tarleton guys had a nice kick today.” Tarleton State’s Justin Botello and Quenten Lasseter stood out as Tarleton State clinched the men’s team title with 37 points. Despite the result, McRaven said he was pleased with the way the men ran, saying there’s always room for improvement. “Its was a chance for them to run a shorter distance both for training as well as an opportunity to potentially make the travel squad,” McRaven told 12thman. com. “It was good for them, and obviously we wanted to win on the men’s side as well. We came close to pulling it off.”
Minkah Fitzpatrick stepped in front and intercepted A&M quarterback Kellen Mond’s pass to Camron Buckley at the 1-yard line. The turnover kept A&M from potentially getting within seven points. “They lined up two by two, and motioned Christian Kirk across the field,” Fitzpatrick recalled of the play. “He had a little bit of separation at first when the quarterback threw the ball, and I just closed on him to make the pick.” A&M’s defense held its own on the Tide’s ensuing drive, and 12th Man Cullen Gillaspia blocked J.K. Scott’s punt out of the end zone for a safety, making it 24-12, Alabama. “Coach Banks drew up a great scheme against their punt team,” Gillaspia said. “I wish it wouldn’t have gone out of bounds and I wish we could’ve gotten a touchdown there, but the ball is shaped funny and it bounces weird ways.” After receiving a kickoff, though, the Aggie offense got into a pickle. Mond lost 16 yards on back-to-back plays, and with an added delay of game penalty, A&M was forced to punt on fourth-and-26. Alabama knocked home a 44-yard field goal after shaving nearly five minutes off the clock on a methodical drive to go ahead by 15 with 2:09 to go. The drive included a 17-yard completion and A&M was flagged for pass interference. Mond scampered in for a 1-yard touchdown run with 17 seconds left, but after a failed onside kick, any chances of a comeback were dashed. “He hasn’t always done everything
right, but he’s given us a chance in all of these games to be successful, either with his legs with the scramble, and he’s made some good throws,” A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin said of Mond. “We’re not in that position at the end of the game to try and onside kick and do some things if he doesn’t play the way that he did down the stretch.” Big plays helped put Alabama over the top. The Tide tallied six plays of 15plus yards, all of which came on their five scoring drives. “Great win for our team on the road, tough atmosphere,” Alabama head coach Nick Saban said. “We knew this would probably be the best team we’ve played and they played us tough in the front seven.” Alabama was also able to neutralize a strong A&M rushing attack, holding the Aggies to a season-low 71 yards – a mere 1.8 yards per rush. Trayveon Williams was the leading rusher with just 38 yards on 15 carries. “We played the game to try and stop their run, which we did a pretty good job,” Saban said. Despite the loss, A&M knows that it can right the ship on the road ahead, beginning next week when the Aggies travel to Gainesville to take on Florida – a team that suffered a 17-16 loss at home to LSU on Saturday, a week after the Tigers’ lost 24-21 at home to the Sun Belt’s Troy. “As season goes on we’re going to keep growing stronger. I’m pretty confident that this next week, going into Florida, we’re going to have our best week in practice and going into the bye week,” Kirk concluded. “We still have a long season to go and each week we’re going to get better and better.”
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Climate change and Harvey A&M expert says warmer conditions create a more intense hurricane season By Taylor Fennell @TaylorPFennell When Hurricane Harvey made landfall in August, the country watched as the storm dumped more than 60 inches of rain throughout South Texas. Now, experts like Andrew Dessler, atmospheric sciences professor at Texas A&M, are saying that climate change played a role in the size and intensity of Hurricane Harvey. According to Dessler, climate change doesn’t create storms, but it does strengthen prexisting storms. “The occurrence of a storm itself is largely [due to] chance and other environmental factors like El Niños and internal variability,” Dessler said. “The way humans have have affected [environmental conditions] is they have made the impacts of the storms a little bit worse.” Dessler said as humans continue to warm the ocean and climate, storm conditions intensify. “Even though we might not be producing more storms, the storms that do occur are going to have higher wind speeds and they’re probably going to have more rainfall,” Dessler said. “You can see examples of that in the incredibly intense storms over the Caribbean and the huge amounts of rainfall from Hurricane Harvey.” Hailey Mueller Lavigne, civil engineering senior and chair of Texas A&M’s Environmental Issues Committee, said students can combat climate change by bringing awareness to the issue. “Don’t ignore this problem, because it won’t go away,” Mueller Lavigne said. “Be proactive in letting other people know your concerns, be it your friends, parents, even senators and congressmen. The simplest way to help is to just be a voice.”
Dessler went to say this is the perfect time to talk about climate change, especially since so many people are focused on this hurricane season’s impacts. “No politician wants to talk about issues that they’re not winning on, and they’re not winning on climate change,” Dessler said. “So they don’t want to talk about it. I think that’s really counterproductive. The right time to talk about it is when people’s attentions are focused on the impacts.” According to Dessler, environmentally conscientious actions are important but he said voting is a major action all Americans can take to create more stable climate. “The one thing that everybody should do, if they care about climate, is vote for politicians who have similar views on political issues,” Dessler said. “We really need coordinated government-level action to really address the problem.” Mueller Lavigne said climate change is a serious issue and its effects must be taken earnestly. “Hurricanes feed off of warm waters and warm air,” Mueller Lavigne said. “I know that the temperature differences don’t seem like a lot to some people, but when they are taken into the sheer scale of hurricane, very scary things start to happen.” Gabrielle Amaya, an English freshman from, Texas City, which was hit hard by Harvey, said she can attest that Hurricane Harvey was scary for those who live close to the coast. “Harvey increased in strength overnight,” Amaya said. “A lot of the people had their houses flooded. They had to move to their roofs. These people were stuck at their houses with no way out.” Dessler said Americans should learn from Hurricane Harvey and begin to combat climate change. “People have to realize that climate change is not going anywhere,” Dessler said. “We need to stabilize the climate if we want to keep these impacts from getting bigger.”
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