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Claybrook not yet counted out Jake Walker The Battalion John Claybrook’s campaign will appeal its last-minute disqualification from the student body president election in a judicial court hearing Monday night. Claybrook was disqualified by the Election Commission Friday evening because of inconsistencies in his expense report. Violations and alterations involved the cost of Claybrook’s website, tax levels and shipping costs for campaign supplies, eventually adding almost $300 to the candidate’s total expenses. This addition put him over the $1,800 budget

allotted to student body president candidates. The Excel spreadsheet provided by the Election Commission was formulated to automatically incorporate taxes. In Claybrook’s expense report, the final total for items purchased outside the BryanCollege Station area did not include taxes, meaning the spreadsheet was likely altered. “Because this rule required Claybrook intentional alteration of the spreadsheet provided by the Election Commission, this should constitute falsification of

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a finance report, which the Election Commission has set as a precedent by ruling as a major campaign violation,” read the violation submission against the Claybrook campaign, obtained by The Battalion. The cost of items purchased outside the B-CS area is determined by the Election Commission’s interpretation of “fair market value,” which already incorporates tax, per the election regulations. Because of this, a Claybrook campaign representative said the spreadsheet’s imbedded formula counts tax twice on each item that has already been assessed at fair market value.

The Claybrook campaign was also accused of prorating its website, which is prohibited by the election rules and regulations. The Claybrook budget report only expensed one month of use of the domain, giving the impression that time was prorated. “Taking one bite out of an apple does not leave you with a fraction of unused apple,” read a second violation submission regarding the domain dispute. “If Claybrook had bought twelve separate months of web domain for, say, $5 each, then the unused months could be left out under this rule. However, an See Appeal on page 4

B1G home sweep

Softball coverage The Aggies defeated Houston in a Sunday revenge game, 3-2. The team ﬁnished the weekend with a 4-1 record. Read our recap and the A&M Invitational recap online at thebatt.com

inside voices | 3 Election mayhem Regulations and unruly candidates complicated this year’s campus vote.

nation & world Putin wins Russian election MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin scored a decisive victory in Russia’s presidential election Sunday to return to the Kremlin and extend his hold on power for six more years. His eyes brimming with tears, he deﬁantly proclaimed to a sea of supporters that they had triumphed over opponents. Associated Press

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Senior first baseman Jacob House drives in two game-tying RBIs in a two-out at bat Sunday to swing momentum in the Aggies’ favor.

A&M sends Big 10 champs back to Michigan winless Roland Ruiz The Battalion On a sunny and breezy Sunday afternoon, the No. 5 Texas A&M baseball team completed the weekend sweep of Big 10 champion Michigan State, 9-8, in front of 4,528 at Blue Bell Park. The Aggies extend their winning streak to five games after a hard-fought battle Sunday, despite falling into a 4-0 early deficit in the first inning of the ballgame. The Aggies needed resilience and intensity on the base paths, building a come-back in the sixth and seventh innings to solidify the victory and sweep

against the Big 10 Conference favorite. The game began with two errors in the Aggie infield, setting the stage for four Spartan runs including a two-run homer from freshman outfielder Jimmy Pickens. A&M sophomore right-hander Rafael Pineda struggled in the first inning, surrendering four runs — none earned — on two hits. His defense three errors put the Aggies in an early hole. A&M head coach Rob Childress said he was impressed by the way his team continued to fight all game long. “It was probably my fault,” Childress said. “I

don’t know if I didn’t have them ready to play. By the time the first punch was thrown, they got ready to play and played well.” The Aggies (11-1) answered the Spartans’ (4-6) early offensive spark by scoring a run in the second and fourth innings, but were unable to add more despite bases-loaded opportunities in both at-bats. Junior shortstop Mikey Reynolds was hit by a pitch in the second and junior right fielder Tyler Naquin reached on an error in the fourth, giving the team a fighting chance to come back. See Sweep on page 6

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Churches protest contraceptive mandate Jake Walker The Battalion

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President Barack Obama’s new policy on insurance coverage of contraceptives in Catholic hospitals has caused controversy.

Seven states, including Texas, have joined a lawsuit suing President Barack Obama for passing a new Health and Human Services contraceptive mandate. The mandate requires employers to provide abortion-inducing drugs, sterilizations and contraceptives free of charge to their employees. The problem comes with religious-affiliated establishments that are against the use of contraceptives. The Ro-

man Catholic Church is one of these establishments, and spokespersons have said this mandate is an infringement on its rights of religious freedom. Since the mandate, Obama has released a compromise applying to churches and employers, but the churches are still not happy. “There cannot be a compromise to something that the government has no right to do in the first place,” said the Rev. David Konderla of St. Mary’s Catholic Church. The compromise is meant to exempt faith-based employers from covering the

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A&M falls to Texas in season finale, 79-64 Mark Dore The Battalion In A&M’s last trip through the Big 12 Conference gauntlet, the defending national champions found no mercy from their in-state rival. The No. 17 Aggies dropped their second game of the season against a Texas Longhorns team that has struggled in conference play, falling in Austin Sunday in their regular season finale. A&M head coach Gary Blair said

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Texas was motivated by the prospect of missing the NCAA tournament. “Texas played with a sense of urgency tonight,” Blair said. “If they would have lost the game they would have been out of the NCAA tournament. It’s simple.” Three-point shooting was the difference maker in the contest: The Aggies made just one of four attempts from beyond the arc while the Longhorns tied a season-high with nine made three-pointers on 15 attempts. On a day when the Longhorns

honored their seniors, senior Yvonne Anderson rocked the scoreboard for a career-high 25 points to go with nine assists. Fellow senior Chassidy Fussell made five of seven attempts from three-point range for 19 points. Blair said Anderson’s play was the deciding factor in the contest. “[Anderson] was the biggest key in the ball game,” Blair said. “Fussell is going to get hers. We tried to play Tyra White, have a taller player on See Finale on page 6

cost of contraceptives, but requires that insurance agencies cover the cost instead. This raises implications in the case where there are some self-insuring religious employers and religious insurance agencies that may be against the use of contraceptives, but would still be required to provide them. “The compromise is, unfortunately, not acceptable. I believe it is a threat to the very religious freedom our founding fathers died to protect,” said Kristine Cranley, student minister at St. Mary’s. See Contraceptive on page 2

Physician with women’s clinic dies at 61 After serving the A&M community for 11 years, Dr. Janice Butchee died Feb. 28 at the age of 61. Butchee graduated from Lamar University and Texas A&M-Galveston, and received her medical degree from the University of North Texas Health Science Center’s Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. She became certiﬁed in Family Practice, and served in her hometown Butchee of Buna, Texas, until she began working at the A.P. Beutel Health Center at A&M in 2001. She was a physician at the Women’s Clinic. Barrett House, staff writer

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Taylor Wolken: Election regulations have rendered SBP race comical

he SBP race has become heated with a flurry of action from the Election Commission. First, Thomas McNutt’s candidacy was questioned and now John Claybrook has been disqualified after winning SBP with 60 percent of the vote. With all the absurd controversy, I want to know, “Where is the long-form birth certificate?”

I don’t really care if you support John Claybrook, Thomas McNutt, Drew Barber or Satan’s starfish, our University’s electoral process is hilarious, stupid and hilariously stupid. SGA, to put it politely, is the most worthless group of résumé padders at our University, and thanks to their burdensome rules and regulations, students’ frivolous votes for a frivolous position are being cast aside. For the majority of Aggies who didn’t vote in the election, I want you to learn about the Aggie election system. After a little work, I found the SGA election rules and as an avid supporter for write-in candidate “SGA is a waste of life,” I want you to know the SGA rules are pedestrian. Voters in the election had to go to a simple website to cast their vote. What they didn’t know is that under election law, “An election official shall be present at each polling place throughout the official election time as defined by these regulations.”

There was no election official present while I voted on my luxurious porcelain throne, so my vote, as well as any who voted outside the scrutinizing watch of an election official, shouldn’t count. Another fantastic rule is, “The Election Commission will submit a list of Fair Market Values for generic and commonly used campaign items.” Yup, the Election Commission will determine the value of things purchased on the free market. They know better than the person who sold you things. Then we find, “The term ‘flyer’ is defined as a single piece of paper with a surface area no larger than 93.5 square inches (equal to that of an 8 ½ inch by 11 inch piece of paper).” If only paper could be made slightly larger, this rule may be obsolete. Then we have “Campaign materials may be distributed with a maximum of one flyer per bulletin board and three

per kiosk for each candidate.” SGA rules are clearly the only thing standing between A&M and anarchy. “The term ‘bulletin boards’ shall be defined as the cork board and the surrounding frame.” So put stuff on the walls and you are golden. “Residents of campus housing may affix

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materials inside their respective dorm room, but materials may not be affixed facing out of windows or on the hallway or balcony side of doors.” SGA wants to mandate what you do in your own bedroom. “Only four (4) people working for one candidate or any mutually supportive group of candidates may campaign in one place at a time.” Heaven forbid a candidate have active supporters willing to campaign for them. Four people is fine but five, oh no, that’s too much free speech. If I can get the Aggie Band to throw a parade for me, then I shouldn’t be punished for being awesome. But what do I know? We don’t want to discriminate against candidates who don’t have supporters, at least not until voting begins. These ridiculous rules have put the “micro” in “micromanagement” and undermined the actual electoral process. Rather than campaigning and winning support, candidates were

spending more time finding reasons to disqualify one another. Thanks to these glorious rules, the Election Commission spent Tuesday night determining if a candidate’s website cost was sufficient to merit disqualification. Thanks to these rules, the candidate who won the runoff has been disqualified. Thanks to these rules and the stupidity of SGA, we can’t even have our votes count regarding which worthless candidate’s résumé we want to pad. In this new runoff, I would like to register a vote of no confidence in SGA. It’s a waste of student fees that, in practice, has done absolutely nothing but embarrass our University.

Taylor Wolken is a senior economics major.

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Robert Carpenter: Address the real source of election turbulence

t was a perfectly pleasant spring semester at A&M, then this campaign season arrived. Now everyone’s upset.

John Claybrook is angry he was disqualified. Thomas McNutt is angry he was almost disqualified. The other candidates are angry McNutt wasn’t disqualified. Students involved in campaigns are angry because they’re convinced the other candidate is a lying, cheating scumbag. Even students not involved in campaigns are angry because the election season from hell just won’t end. At least the conspiracy theorists are happy. Shortly after Claybrook was disqualified on Friday, I held conversations with multiple people who voiced the same sentiment. “The election commission is the villain.” That’s the view I’m afraid students have adopted: The drama, the miscalculations, the

general confusion is the commission’s fault, For one, the miscalculations in the yell so that is where many have directed leader, RHA president and sophomore class their anger. president races were not made by the election One source in SGA said the election comcommission. A University employee in charge missioner received multiple threats last week of the online voting system made a tabulation before ruling on violation submissions. error that led to the mistakes. The Election Wait … what? Commissioner didn’t have access to These are campus elections. It’s the numbers before announcing not exactly Bush v. Gore. winners to safeguard the election’s Pointing ﬁngers Set aside the fact that the integrity. is not going to commissioner is a student. Set But the bigger issue lies with ﬁx the problem. aside any token respect we think the process. our community holds for memAs of this weekend, the Elecbers of the Aggie family. It’s aption Commission has received 109 palling and disgusting that individuals violation reports against candidates. would resort to blatant physical intimidation There were 60 last year. Sixty. The election to influence a democratic process. commissioner is the most-sued student in the Has the election commission been perfect? history of SGA. No. Even our editorial board disagreed with Personally, I don’t know how some of one of the commission’s decisions last week. the candidates had time to campaign while But there are misunderstandings that have taking photos of petty infractions, drafting exacerbated the situation and it has grown complaints and generally trying to get the out of control. other guy disqualified. It’s obvious that for

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some candidates, this was not a student-first election. It was a win-at-all-costs election, and when the election commissioner made controversial rulings in which at least one party was going to cry ‘foul,’ the commission became the popular scapegoat. Before the appeal on Monday, let’s take a deep breath and holster our guns. It’s easy and trendy to blame the election commission, but pointing fingers is not going to fix the problem. The student body and Student Senate need to take a long, hard look at the election regulations, weeding out what is unnecessary and keeping only what is required to maintain order. If we fail to do so, the 2013 elections will be just as much of a headache as this one.

Robert Carpenter is a senior applied math major and editor in chief of The Battalion.

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Part of the show Sam Neal: My up-close-and-personal experience with the Blue Man Group

efore the performance began, a staff member pulled me aside and asked if I wanted to be a part of the show.

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I was only told that they were going to come find me in the crowd, and that the act was going to involve paint in some way. Before the performance began, a staff member pulled me aside and asked if I wanted to be a part of the show. I was only told that they were going to come find me in the crowd, and that the act was going to involve paint in some way. I was given a special black pair of shoes (which were two sizes too big, but I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t complain), led back to my seat and my row was marked with a special piece of tape. I was one of two people lucky enough to be chosen to go on stage during the show. Then the auditorium lights went out, and the stage lit-up in a sea of neon colors. Three men with blue faces appeared from behind a thin screen, and the performance began. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really liked it. It was unlike anything Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever seen,â&#x20AC;? said Brandon Dupy, sophomore construction management major. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mixture of a rock concert and a theatrical performance.â&#x20AC;? When one of the blue men finally made his way to my seat, he took me by the hand and led me through the crowd and onto the stage where he helped me put on a white jumpsuit. I was then turned to face the audience one last time before they placed my head into a large,

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The Blue Man Group wowed the audience during live performances on Friday and Saturday night at Rudder Auditorium. thick helmet. large painting appeared to From there I was robbed feature the outline of my of my senses. I could only body. I reached the end of hear the â&#x20AC;&#x153;oohsâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;ahhsâ&#x20AC;? the aisle, returned the shoes of the crowd and jumpsuit, as my body and made my It was was pulled way back to and swung in my seat. every direcThe blue Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever seen. men made tion. I vaguely remember Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mixture of a several pieces being laid of tangible art flat against a throughout surface at one the show. and a point, though Amy Brown, it was hard to sophomore â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sophomore political scitell with the thick jumpsuit construction major ence major, on. The helBrandon Dupy asked one of met was rather the blue men disorienting. in the lobby I ended up inside a small to sign a piece of artwork wooden box, which was that she was given. The man opened up before the crowd stopped, looked at Brown, who was bursting with aptouched his face with his plause. thumb, and smeared a small Afterwards I was escorted amount of his blue paint on down the aisle; the man the canvas. behind me was holding a Brown understood his

action immediately, and smiled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually fitting,â&#x20AC;? Brown said. Sadly I did not get to keep the painting of me, it was later sold at the merchandise stand after the performance. The show ended in a finale of red, green, and blue flashing lights and lasers. When the curtains closed, the crowd stood to their feet and roared with applause for an encore. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s request was granted as the blue men went back on stage to perform their famous paint bucket trick once more for the crowd; this time with even more flare. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mind blowing, spectacular, and out of this world,â&#x20AC;? said Abi Brady, sophomore communication major.

regulations state that social media is not regulated. The Claybrook campaign was charged an additional $87.09 for shipping charges. Womack said the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;shippingâ&#x20AC;? does not appear in the election rules and regulations, therefore the Election Commission should have no jurisdiction to regulate shipping. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The purposes of the budget is not to regulate how you get the material, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to keep the election fair so that somebody doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have surplus materials,â&#x20AC;? Womack said. A third violation submission â&#x20AC;&#x201D; submitted anonymously, like the other two â&#x20AC;&#x201D; claims that shipping costs should fall under the term â&#x20AC;&#x153;services,â&#x20AC;? which does appear in the regulations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Had money for shipping and handling not been spent, the items would not have been delivered to College Station and they could not have been used for campaign-

ing,â&#x20AC;? the submission reads. The SGA Judicial Court will make a decision on the appeal Monday night at a time and place as yet undetermined. If Claybrook wins his appeal, he will become the student body presidentelect. If he loses, Drew Barber will face Thomas McNutt in another runoff, with voting from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday. Claybrook said he was disappointed with how this election turned out, but was confident in his campaignâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are very hopeful with the case we are going to be presenting tomorrow and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very confident that come tomorrow night, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get to be student body presidentelect,â&#x20AC;? Claybrook said. McNutt declined to comment on the issue, and members of the Election Commission could not be reached.

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