The Battalion: September 18, 2017

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Facing the future Undocumented students contemplate impact of DACA walk-back on Texas A&M community

By Luke Henkhaus @luke_henkhaus

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ggies pursuing American education and opportunity through a recently-rescinded immigration policy must now contend with the shadow of uncertainty looming over some 800,000 undocumented residents protected by the policy.

On Sept. 5, President Trump moved to walk-back the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program put in place by former President Barack Obama in June of 2012. For those who met the requirements — including arriving in the U.S. before the age of 16, pursuing education or military service and maintaining a clean criminal record — the program offered a renewable two year period of protection from deportation and the opportunity to obtain work permits as well as other benefits like participation in the social security system.

For business management junior Maria Gallo-Blanco, who arrived in the U.S. at the age of 8, DACA opened doors previously thought to be out of reach for young, undocumented residents.

“Since I was in high school, I knew that I wasn’t born here, especially when I started applying for college and knowing that my friends were getting their driver’s licenses and stuff like that that I couldn’t get because didn’t have a social security card or a social security number,” Gallo-Blanco said.

When DACA was implemented, Gallo-Blanco said she was able to receive a social security number and begin applying for higher education and scholarships.

“DACA has given me the opportunity to not only be here at A&M but just to be in the U.S. without fearing that I might get deported out of the blue,” Gallo-Blanco said. “For me, that has meant a lot.”

Current DACA recipients will retain their protected status until their two year period expires, and President Trump has said he is in favor of congressional action that would allow them to continue living and working in the U.S. through a policy similar to DACA. However, until a deal is reached, the future remains unclear for students like Gallo-Blanco.

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Aggies continue to improve despite young, injured players A&M shows promise after second half comeback against Louisiana-Lafayette

By Alex Miller @AlexMill20 Depleted and dysfunctional at times, Texas A&M (2-1) woke up from a sluggish start in the second half to top Louisiana-Lafayette (1-2) 4521, Saturday afternoon at Kyle Field.

“Part of it is because of the early game, and some of the new guys aren’t used to it,” senior safety Armani Watts said. “We woke up at 6:30 this morning, so some of the guys are getting used to that.

We just had to refresh and get our minds right, then come back and play how we play.”

Missing the likes of Trayveon Williams, Connor Lanfear, Jake Hubenak and Charles Oliver, the Aggies were unable to gel with various groups in the first half while rapidly rotating personnel.

“We went into the game saying ‘Series this’ and ‘Series that’ these guys are going to go into the game, not wait until situations,” Texas A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin said. “Did that hurt us in the

first half? It probably did, but I think it helped us and it will help us down the road because of the combinations of guys that we played.”

In the first thirty minutes, the Ragin’ Cajuns were cruising on both sides of the ball and caused the Aggies to stumble in key areas – specifically the run game.

With Williams out, the Aggies totaled 15 carries for minus 22 yards on the ground in the first half.

Kendall Bussey was the leading rusher at the break with just 14 yards on three carries. A&M still had Keith Ford, but the brute was bullied in the first two quarters, with minus 4 yards on seven carries.

“Watching from the sidelines, I was kind of able to see a few more things that Keith [Ford] wasn’t seeing on the field and I was just trying to help him make that adjustment,” sophomore running back Kendall Bussey said. “I knew come halftime we’ll make some adjustments and talk things out so I was just ready to go second half to try to make

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Senior yell leader Cooper Cox possibly out for five weeks Senior yell leader Cooper Cox broke his collarbone after being tackled following the first home game of the season.

Head yell leader Ian Moss described what happened and said Cox is anticipated to recover in a couple of weeks.

“Last Saturday after we beat Nicholls State he got tackled during the capture and as he went down his shoulder hit the ground wrong and he actually broke his collarbone,” Moss said. “He had surgery to help him heal a little bit quicker and he should be back within about five or six weeks. We’re looking forward to having him back.”

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The 230th anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution was Sunday, Sept. 17 and events celebrating will take place both at Texas A&M and in the Bryan-College Station community.

In 2005, the U.S. Department of Education established Sept. 17 as Constitution and Citizenship Day to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution. Texas A&M will continue to honor Constitution Day through the month of September with events throughout the community, including an exhibit at Larry J. Ringer Library in College Station presented by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

The Daughters of American Revolution are a 125 year old organization

consisting of over 900,000 women who are descendants of patriots that served in the American Revolution.

With events all throughout the month of September, Leonara Owre, vice regent of the La Villita Chapter of the Daughters, said that members of the organization are dedicated to promote awareness of the Constitution.

“A lot of people aren’t aware that it was the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution who petitioned Congress to establish a Constitution Week,” Owre said. “The official documents of our nation, especially those that have governed us for several years are things we are very passionate about. We want to preserve the importance of these documents. We have a Constitution as of Sept. 17, that was signed 230 years ago. That is huge. This document is still in operation.”

To continue the commemoration of Constitution Day, Communication Director for the Bush Presidential Library David Anaya said they were honored to give out copies of the Consti-

tution to their visitors.

“Constitution Day allows us to remember how important our government is,” Anaya said. “The American society really encourages people to live by what the Constitution stands for. It’s just been so important how for 200 plus years, it’s still standing. Many other nations look at our Constitution as something that should be revered.”

On Monday, Sept. 18, Aggie Agora will host their second annual Constitutional Convention led by political science professor Joe Ura and communication professor Jennifer Mercieca.

Mercieca said that this event was created to help students think critically about the Constitution and learn about the difficulty of constitutional revision.

“The attendees will have the opportunity to think for themselves about what is good, bad and needs to be changed about the constitution,” Mercieca said. “Ultimately we all benefit when we understand how the government is designed to function.”

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DACA CONTINUED “I would say I’m unsettled and kind of in shock because we’re in this kind of gray area where we don’t know what’s going to happen,” Gallo-Blanco said. “I’m a junior so I’m applying for internships and stuff like that, but I don’t know if I should continue with that path because when you apply for internships they ask you ‘Are you a permanent resident?’ or ‘Can you work after the internship?’ and it’s like, ‘Well I don’t know.’”

Carlo Chunga, urban and regional planning junior and vice president of the Council for Minority Student Affairs, came to the U.S. in 2002 and said he worries that Congress’ potential inability to come to a decision may undermine the long-term goals he has worked toward.

“DACA, it literally empowered me to go to college, to pursue a higher education, to eventually get a Ph.D., to give back to society and to provide for my family who’s been through so

much already – they deserve a break,” Chunga said. “DACA has opened so many doors for me to live what we now know as the American Dream.”

After a lifetime shaped by American culture and education, Gallo-Blanco said she must now confront the possibility of leaving her home and returning to a country she hasn’t known for many years.

“Even though I have family back in Mexico, it’s not the same thing,” Gallo-Blanco said. “It’s not the same culture, it’s not the same language. Nothing is the same. I’ve been learning the history of the United States. Do I know anything about the history of Mexico?

Not really.”

Although University President Michael Young released a statement expressing his hope that Congress will find a solution, Chunga said undocumented students are looking for a more tangible commitment. In the wake of the DACA rescission, the Council for Minority Student Affairs released a petition outlining various steps the university could take to ensure the safety

of undocumented students.

“Right now we just want to see actual policy change and we want to make it aware to President Young that students do care about what happens to the undocumented students here at Texas A&M,” Chunga said.

Economics junior Metzli Sanchez said that while she also wishes Young would have taken a stronger position, the support of friends, family, classmates and faculty are helping her stay positive through the period of uncertainty.

“I’m not scared,” Sanchez said. “I’m pretty hopeful, and I’m just taking everything day by day.”

As the eyes of the nation turn once more to Washington, Sanchez said the best way to understand how DACA’s absence will impact the Aggie family is to stay informed and avoid misconceptions.

“I love to encourage the rest of the student body who either don’t know or maybe disagree with DACA, just talk to someone about it, educate yourself on it because this affects you as much as it affects all of us,” Sanchez said.

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BROTHER JOHN: THE MAN BEHIND THE VOICE

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Many students have become accustomed to the sights and sounds of Brother John’s sermons as he delivers them about 14 times per week at Rudder Plaza.

Former student returns to preach to students strolling through Rudder Plaza

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tudents walking through Rudder Plaza on a regular class day have probably seen a man standing next to a sign reading “Save the Chapel,” passionately preaching his sermon as hundreds of students walk by to and from class.

That man is John Ellison, Class of 1982, or more commonly Brother John.

Since 2012, Ellison has spent nearly everyday of the semester preaching to a mobile crowd of students as they walk past his sermon.

At the sound of the bell tower’s gong at

5 a.m., 12 p.m. and 7 p.m., Ellison begins the message that he delivers nearly 14 times a week. On his time away from the stage in Rudder Plaza, Ellison also works two shifts a day as an elementary school bus driver.

Having originally preached at College Station’s All Faiths Chapel, since early 2009, Ellison eventually made the location switch to Rudder Plaza after realizing the chapel doors were locked one morning.

“I came up one morning and the chapel was locked,” Ellison said. “And I sensed a prompting to come out here, so I’ve been here for about five years.”

While he delivers his sermon several times a day, Ellison said that in his five years preaching on the plaza, he has yet to attract much of audience.

“I have never drawn a crowd,” Ellison said.

“I had four or five young people gather [at

Rudder Plaza] one time and we got into a discussion, but that was as many people as I’ve ever talked to at one time.”

Although it may appear as if students are constantly ignoring his presence, Ellison has caught the eyes and ears of many Aggies walking by. Communication junior Kyra Rodriguez, said she admires Ellison’s dedication and the amount of dedication it demonstrates.

“He’s so perseverant,” Rodriguez said.

“And he’s one of the few who actually has a heart for the people. It takes a lot of character.”

Standing and delivering his sermon for hours every day catches the attention from many passersby, like communication sophomore Steven Anderson.

“I feel like he’s passionate,” Anderson said.

“He’s passionate about what he has to say and he knows [there are] people calling him crazy,

but he’s still pushing the agenda for what he believes in.”

Ellison said that it is words of encouragement by various students that give him much of the endurance needed to deliver his message at such demanding hours. He said that encouragement sometimes comes when he needs it most.

“It’s very interesting that people will come up to me and make those kind of comments,” Ellison said. “And often right when you need to hear them. If I’m feeling really discouraged, then they’ll come up.”

Although his schedule is quite busy, Ellison said he plans to continue preaching on Rudder Plaza “as long as the Lord needs” and invites students to speak with him regardless of their religious beliefs.

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Mark Platt, instrumentation engineer, presents the detectors that are currently being made.

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INVISIBLE Grant provides Texas A&M scientist resources for dark matter research

By Sanna Bhai @BhaiSanna Dark matter is all around. It is invisible to the naked eye and can be felt, but detecting it hasn’t been possible.

For 80 years, scientists have known that dark matter exists, but identifying it has been a challenge for physicists all around the world due to the weak interaction of dark matter, causing it to be confused with other particles.

The Mahapatra Group was created by Texas A&M in 2009 to focus on Cryogenic Dark Matter research. Their current project, which is funded by a federal grant they received of half a million dollars, is developing dark matter detectors. This grant adds to the prior received grants of $1.7 million.

According to Rupak Mahapatra, principal investigator of the Mahapatra Group said, this new unique grant is applied only towards the development of the next generation dark matter detector. The other previously received grants were spread out through a variety of needs.

“The impact of dark matter is huge,” Mahapatra said. “Dark matter produces a gravitational pull which makes the stars move much faster than they should. Approximately 85 percent of the galaxy is made up of dark matter, pulling in stars to move and confirming the existence of this matter.”

Although dark matter has such a large role in the galaxy, there is still no way to detect it due to its weak interactions.

“We have this dark matter that we are trying to detect and nobody has ever detected that because it is very weakly interacting, meaning billions [of dark matter particles] would pass through you. In fact, they are,” Mahapatra said. “It is almost like a host. It is passing through you and you don’t feel it because it is a very weak interaction … it is one of the biggest questions in physics.”

To put things into perspective, Mahapatra provided an analogy to explain the subtlety of dark matter, which makes difficult to detect.

“If I asked you, if you were driving a car and you get hit by another car, would you notice it?” Mahapatra said. “Most definitely yes.

If you got hit by a rock, would you notice it?

Maybe lightly. If you got hit by a small pebbles [would you notice it]? Maybe or maybe not. If you got bit by a mosquito, would you notice it? No. This is the same challenge. You don’t notice it, so it hardly changes anything in your life.”

Mahapatra said his team is collaborating with Stanford University to combine the parts they are working on individually into a single detector to hopefully be able to answer one of the biggest questions in physics.

After a decade of work at University of California–Santa Barbara, Mahapatra moved to Texas A&M eight years ago to continue his research in fabrication lab dedicated to dark matter research. Most universities provide fabrication labs for their students and faculty,

GAME ANALYSIS CONTINUED something happen.”

The Cajuns offense capitalized on A&M miscues, too, converting two turnovers inside A&M territory into 14 points.

“People just wanted it. Our guys were fighting,” ULL quarterback Jordan Davis said of the Cajuns strong first half. “We had it in our mind and we were ready to go.”

Any chances of an upset were axed in the second half though, as the Aggies outscored ULL 31-0, out-gaining the Cajuns 353-82 in the final thirty minutes.

“I think what changed was that the first half we weren’t playing with emotion,” sophomore linebacker Tyrel Dodson, who had a pick six in the fourth quarter, said. “You know, no one can play defense without any emotion. Second half we came out with emotion and created turnovers.”

The Aggies took advantage of three second half Cajun turnovers converting them into 21 points. In total, A&M turned five ULL turnovers into 28 points.

“Our defense has consistently created turnovers,” Texas

Fedja Kadribasic, a graduate physics student at Texas A&M, is using a dilution refrigerator to test the dark matter detectors.

but rarely are they used for only one purpose, Mahapatra said.

Fabrication is a process that is used to create the detectors. Given that a single particle can invalidate the process, the labs must be 100 times cleaner than an operation room.

Mahapatra said the process begins with raw crystals, first polishing off the crystal and making it flat, then depositing various layers of metals so it circuits.

“Next you do what we call photolithography,” Mahapatra said. “With the metals on top of the semiconductors, either germanium or silicon, these are called semiconductor detectors. Then you put the circuit map, essentially. Then you shine ultraviolet ray through it so it make an exposure, like photographic films. Then we do chemical processing. Then we inspect and package and then you have the final detector.”

Zack Wetzel, Ph.D. candidate and member of the Mahapatra group, said he became involved because of an increased interest in dark matter.

“There is a real thought out and well done science behind the theory of dark matter, the origin of dark matter and just what the potential properties of it could be and then using

A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin said. “We’re in the plus margin every week.”

Freshman Jacob Kibodi stole the show down the stretch, springing for a 67-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter to cap off a team-high 101 yards on four carries.

“Jacob Kibodi showed that he wants to play and he’s capable of playing and he’s big and he’s fast,” Sumlin said. “I like that combination. It’s always good when it’s on your team.”

Freshman quarterback Kellen Mond settled in during the second half, going 13-for-17 and 152 yards with one touchdown. Mond’s down-field passing showed major improvement as well, as the freshman had seven 15-plus yard passes in the game.

“He’s gotten better and I think he’s comfortable. He’s more assertive. He was a lot more assertive last night at practice, he was a lot more assertive pre-game and that’s normal as a young guy. I think during this time, we as coaches are getting to know him, what his strengths are,” Sumlin said. “So for him it’s a learning experience, but I think he’s obviously becoming more comfortable with playing.”

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those ideas,” Wetzel said. “The experimentalists, like us and this group, we take those ideas and we try to come up with actual experiments, detectors and devices that could see those properties that dark matter has … The theorists figure out what to look for and we sorta figure out how to look for it.”

Fedja Kadribasic, physics graduate student and member of the Mahapatra group, works on the dilution refrigerator to test the detectors. This machine dilutes a mixture and provides assistance in developing the detectors to zero in on the dark matter particles versus the neutrinos. With this machine and facilities, exploring the new realms of dark matter is possible, according to Kadribasic.

“There is a combination of sorta dark matter mass and this so called cross section that hasn’t been explored yet and what that means is that there is some region of masses, of dark matter, that they just don’t have the equipment to actually be able to run-to actually be able to look for it,” Kadribasic said. “These kind of set ups, combined with the fabrication facility we have here, allow us to detect fabricate new kinds of detectors that can actually look for dark matter in those regions that nobody has been able to explore.”

Up front, numerous offensive lines took the field, as the Aggies were still trying to piece together its starting five.

“We were substituting in mass trying to get our young guys some playing time, some experience,” sophomore offensive lineman Erik McCoy said. “We have a lot of guys who are not at 100 percent, so we know we’re going to have to play other guys down the line.

“We’re getting to the point where we’re finding the best five to work with each other.”

Turning to SEC play, players and coaches alike agree that spring-boarding off the second half of today’s game will be critical to remain consistent in next week’s match up against Arkansas in Arlington.

“It’s going to be very, very important for us to find that balance. We just have to stay consistent,” Dodson said. “If you’re inconsistent going into SEC play, that’s going to be bad. So we have to find some consistency and have high energy while doing it.”

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