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Ryan Davenport, campaign manager for student body president Jeff Pickering, gives an inside look into what it takes to win a student body president election.
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Kalee Bumguardner is the first Aggie to lead both the ‘Aggieland’ and ‘The Battalion’
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First SBP debate Student body president candidates address questions submitted by students at 7 p.m. Monday at the George Bush Library. The Batt will tweet live from the event, @thebattonline.
The Battalion Aggieland Yearbook and The Battalion are two of the University’s oldest traditions. Through the work of dedicated Aggies, both organizations have received numerous state and national awards. Kalee Bumguardner, graduate student in agricultural leadership, education and communication, is the first Aggie to be editor-in-chief for The Battalion and the Aggieland. Bumguardner was editor-inchief for The Battalion for summer 2009 and the Aggieland Yearbook in 2011. Many Aggies have worked for the two organizations, but she is the first to serve as editor-in-chief on both. Bumguardner worked many posts at the Aggieland, but said her favorite part of being involved with the yearbook was making the designs. “I loved organizing everything, and I had the best staff I could ask for, so it was lots
Story stats ◗ Bumguardner produced 42 issues of The Battalion in summer 2009 and wrote 21 stories. ◗ Throughout her four years as an undergraduate at Texas A&M, Bumguardner wrote 39 articles.
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Softball The A&M softball team left its season debut tournament with a 3-2 record, including victories against two Top-10 teams, Stanford and Arizona.
Tennis The Aggie men’s tennis team knocked off Texas, 4-3, in Houston before falling to Tulsa, 1-6.
Track The Aggie men’s and women’s track teams took first place finishes Saturday at the Texas A&M invitational.
Basketball
Randy Luck — THE BATTALION
The men’s and women’s basketball teams took a beating Saturday against Iowa State, 46-69 (men’s), and Baylor, 48-71 (women’s).
Kalee Bumguardner, graduate student in agricultural leadership, education and communication, is the first student to have served as editor-in-chief of both The Battalion and the Aggieland.
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Donors take peek into MSC Amber Jaura The Battalion The grand spaces, historic settings and polished features of the renovated Memorial Student Center were on full display Friday evening for the project’s financial contributors, chronicling another step leading to the building’s April 21 opening. More than 200 donors in the Flag Room of the renovated Memorial Student Centerfor the MSC “First Reveal,” organized by the Texas A&M Foundation. The event recognized guests for contributions to the MSC renovation and expansion. Speakers included Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin, Texas A&M Foundation President Ed Davis and MSC President Elizabeth Andrasi, nonprofit management certificate stu-
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Donors socialize in the MSC Flag Room Friday during the MSC First Reveal. Architects sought to preserve the historic room’s personality through the process. dent. The night’s main event was a lottery that matched the building’s pillars with donors — a new feature in the building. Contributions for that merited naming rights for Flag Room and Twelfth Man Hall pillars were $200,000
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The Battalion Student body elections are right around the corner. Sunday night signaled the start of a busy campaign season as more than 120 candidates vying for campus leadership positions reviewed rules and regulations before pre-campaigning kicks off Monday. Hopeful senior and junior yell leaders, senators, class presidents, residence hall advisors and the six candidates competing for student body president attended the mandatory meeting, held by the election commission board, to address questions and learn about the voting process before diving into the campaign trail. Kyle Jackson, finance graduate student
and election commissioner, said candidates have to become knowledgeable about the rules so that they do not conduct a blind campaign. He said candidates will have more freedom this year to speak freely to organizations. The change came after a unanimous vote by student senators in the fall to alleviate previous speech restrictions. “The election commission board used to monitor when candidates were allowed to speak and it was a little bit restrictive,” Jackson said. “It really isn’t right to restrict that speech and we wanted to let the students be able to get their messages out and that a student with a vision can run and be successful.” Student Body President Jeff Pickering said the new rules remind students that the nominees are more than brightly-colored campaign signs or a “catchy slogans” — messages that were inhibited in previous See Elections on page 6
THIS WEEK IS YOUR LAST CHANCE to have your graduation portrait made for the 2012 Aggieland yearbook
To schedule your portrait appointment, go to www.thorntonstudio.com. Then go to School Portraits, Scheduling, click New User, complete form with Registration Password: tamu, click submit and login; or call 1-800-883-9449, or see the photographer beginning today in Room 308 of Rudder Tower. There is no charge to get your Class of 2012 section photo in Texas A&M University’s 110th yearbook.
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