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How Johnny Manziel has spent his offseason making public appearances and undermining the concept of the “student athlete.”
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kyle field renovation
A&M poll supports fee bump Mark Doré
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The Battalion he Kyle Field poll presented by the A&M administration last Wednesday showed that 55 percent of responding students favor an increase in the University Advancement Fee and student sports passes to fund a $75 million portion of the planned $425 million renovations. The survey asked students whether they did or did not support an increase in the UAF of $2.42 per semester credit hour and sports passes by $11.48 per game. The UAF was established last spring as a streamlining of the then-13 mandatory student fees into a single fee. In the separate SGA referendum, which allowed students the choice between sports pass and fee increases or drawing from existing UAF funds, 65 percent of students opposed the increases. Whereas the administration proposal involved covering 60 percent of renovations with the UAF, the option in the SGA referendum presented a 40 percent cover by the UAF. University spokesman Jason Cook said neither survey was a vote ‘for’ or ‘against’ Kyle Field renovations and neither was binding. The issue, Cook said, is how to fund renovations, not whether they should be made. “There is a shared sentiment on campus that we need to do something about Kyle Field and a shared vision that we want it to be the best college football stadium in the country,” Cook said. University President R. Bowen Loftin will review results from both surveys, Cook said. Loftin said in an email Wednesday that A&M will “certainly proceed” with its renovation plans.
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Engineers recalculate vaccine mobility
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Sophomore business administration honors student Ty Dunlap maintains top-notch grades while playing the best golf of his collegiate career.
Dunlap scores low on course, high in classroom James Sullivan
The Battalion egarding the balance between athletics and academics, the popular verdict is that many collegiate athletes are incapable of handling the rigors of university academics. That’s why sophomore business administration honors student Ty Dunlap stood out among the country’s collegiate talent — dropping birdies for the
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Senior mechanical engineering major Travis Schott demonstrates the “CoolBike” project.
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The Battalion hat started as a class project grew into a more effective way to refrigerate and transport vaccines to remote villages in developing countries. Four students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering turned heads with a mobile refrigeration system called the “Coolbike.” Devesh Ranjan, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, assigned his thermal fluids class with a hands-on project in order to equip them with a better understanding of the concepts studied in class. “I wanted to give them a different perspective,” Ranjan said. “I tell them now that they are ready to go out in the industry. Let’s try to do something that you will be proud of after leaving. All the while, I keep the project aimed at the benefit of developing countries.” The four students teamed up with the intention to construct a mobile refrigeration unit that would allow vaccines to be transported from distribution sites in developing countries to remote villages that normally would not have easy access to such aid. The cooling system is fastened to the back of a bicycle and is powered solely by pedaling. Travis Schott, senior mechanical engineering major
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Texas A&M golf team last postseason while maintaining top-notch grades. “He’s just an all-around athlete, but he’s still a great student,” said A&M head golf coach J.T. Higgins. “He was our ‘low-man’ at every tournament in the postseason. He was our best player at the conference tournament and nationals.” While Dunlap’s balancing act between golf and honors academics may
seem routine now, the sophomore braved rough stretches at Mays Business School last year as a freshman. Entering the golf program in the fall of 2011, Dunlap immediately matched stride with heavyweights on the team, taking up a contributing role early and holding it. The quick assimilation into his sport, however, came at a price in See Dunlap on page 2
college station
Fraternities educate city’s youth Jennifer Keith & Camryn Ford
The Battalion nvested in the knowledge of kids half their age, members of the Sigma Chi and Chi Phi fraternities at A&M tutor children at College Hills Missionary Baptist Church every week. Each fraternity dedicates a day per week toward mentoring and supplementing the education of children from elementary school to high school, tutoring in subjects from math and English to science. The two fraternities began a partnership with 99 Tutors, whose founder and president Detrick Eaton described it as tutoring “for students by students.” “[Eaton] saw a need for a tutoring and mentoring program here because he’s a member of the church,” said Parker Lachowsky, senior biology major and president of Sigma Chi Fraternity. Lachowsky said this has been the most successful year so far, and that tu-
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Bradley Williamson, junior business administration major, tutors children from the community with his fellow fraternity members. toring has been a way for him to take his mind off of stresses, while still doing something productive. “Honestly — getting to work with these kids and getting to know them – they come up with some stuff you would never think they would come
out and say,” Lachowsky said. “It takes me back to elementary days when you talk about warm fuzzies. [Tutoring] is something where the benefit to you is really intrinsic in the actual work, not See Tutors on page 6
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