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Super Tuesday Breakdown: Super Tuesday results Newt Gingrich
46
Mitt Romney
Delegates
41
46 Idaho 66.9%
2.3%
Delegates
20%
7%
13
2
14.2% 16.5%
32
Massachusetts 72.1% 12.1% 9.6%
4.6%
Votes
Ron Paul
Georgia 26%
47%
Votes
Votes
32
Rick Santorum
Delegates
41
North Dakota
11 35
Votes Delegates
8.5%
23.7%
2
7
Delegates
28.1% 8
11
Ohio 38%
14.6%
Votes
39.7%
37%
35
9.3% 21
ASSOCIATED PRESS
14 25 9
Oklahoma Votes
27.5%
28.1%
13
13
Delegates
27
9.6%
14
1
Tennessee Votes
24.1%
Delegates
5
27.8% 10
37.3%
9.1%
25
GOP nominees continue fight for delegates Jordan Williford
Vermont 40.3% 23.4%
8.3%
Votes Delegates
43
33.8%
9
25.1%
4
4
Virginia 59.5%
Votes Delegates
40.5% 43
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Alaska Votes Delegates *At time of press, results in Alaska were yet to be determined.
The Battalion Super Tuesday, the day in the primary process when the largest numbers of presidential nomination delegates are won, provided a push for Mitt Romney’s campaign. In order to win the Republican presidential candidate nomination, the nominee must accumulate 1,144 delegates, and 437 delegates were up for grabs on Super Tuesday. The number of delegates won leading up to Super Tuesday was a combined 353: Mitt Romney, 203; Rick Santorum, 92; Newt Gingrich, 33; Ron Paul, 25. At time of press, Super Tuesday had provided Romney with an additional 203 delegates, Santorum with 77 delegates, Gingrich with 66 delegates and Paul with 15 delegates. These results do not include Alaska.
While Super Tuesday is the culmination of many states’ involvement in a day of primaries and caucuses, each state has its own unique process. Some states award delegates on a winner-take-all basis, where a single candidate wins all the delegates in that state, while others appropriate delegates proportionally, where candidates win delegates based on the percentage of the vote they garner. “[Last week] Mitt Romney won the Michigan vote overall, but [Romney and Santorum] tied in delegates. It’s kind of like the Electoral College — it’s not just about the popular vote,” said Kinzie Craig, political science doctoral student. Joe Ura, political science professor, said the success of different candidates in the primaries held thus far has more to do with the ideology of the respective state and less to do with a See GOP on page 4
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Parts of drill field memorial missing Emily Davis The Battalion Simpson Drill Field has been a nucleus of surrounding change and currently is without pieces to its World War I memorial. On February 23, 1920, Texas A&M University President William Bizzell led a ceremony dedicating 53 live oak trees on campus in memory of the Aggies who died in World War I. The trees were later regrouped around Simpson Drill Field. But over time,
some of the trees have died and been replaced and the plaques have broken and been removed, but the area remains a memorial. On June 5, 1969, an article from The Bryan Daily Eagle reported that many of the trees had become diseased many years prior and needed to be replaced. Also, the plaques at that time had cracked and broken because of root expansion and needed to be replaced. Many years after that, a similar fate struck the trees. In February 1975,
construction efforts on campus damaged the roots of some of the trees. This was far from the last time these trees have encountered a problem. In 2008, 25 trees were planted to replace some that died due to poor drainage systems on Simpson Drill Field. The University raised the soil around the trees to keep them from drowning again. There was no mention of the plaques in this article, which indicated See Simpson on page 4
military
Naval captain debriefs public on carrier deployment Rachel Bishop The Battalion When Former President George H.W. Bush entered the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center at the George H.W. Bush Library Tuesday night, a hush fell over the room. The former president, his wife and military personal gathered in the conference center, awaiting the arrival of Capt. Brian “Lex” Luther, commanding officer of the USS George H.W. Bush, and his public debriefing of the aircraft carrier’s first
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combat deployment. The carrier was named after President George H.W. Bush as a testament to the beacon of hope and freedom that Bush’s presidency was to the rest of the world, President of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation Roman Popadiuk said. Luther took a quote from the ship’s namesake’s inaugural speech to set the tone of the maiden voyage: “We know what’s right — freedom’s right. We know what works — freedom works.” The former president
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Hugh N. Ross, christian scientist, speaks as one of two Trotter Prize winners.
Religion, science pair to prove origin of universe Joanna Raines
the time, the president impressed upon the sailors that this maiden voyage was an
The Battalion Science and religion are normally viewed as entirely different belief systems. It is a rarity to find someone who can embrace the fact-seeking and hard-evidence-demanding nature of science and yet pray to a God they cannot see. The Trotter Prize is awarded each year to those rare members of the scholarly community who bridge this gap. This year’s recipients — Gerald L. Schroder and Hugh N. Ross — gave their lectures on how they view creation theory and big bang theory as one in the same. Although they come from different religions, both Schroder and Ross posit the origins of creation in science and religion are complimentary rather than contradictory. The scholars presented their hypothesis on how texts in the Old Testament of the Bible and science prove the same beginnings of the world. Schroder is a lecturer from the Aish HaTorah College
See Combat on page 4
See Cosmology on page 6
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The crew of the recently returned aircraft carrier, USS George H.W. Bush, discusses their experiences on the carrier. was present when the ship set to sea on May 11, 2011, and issued a challenge to the members of the crew. At
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LOS ANGELES — Twin NASA probes in orbit around the moon have begun mapping the lunar gravity ďŹ eld in hopes of ďŹ guring out why Earth’s only natural satellite is shaped the way it is. The campaign kicked off late Tuesday, two months after the spacecraft arrived back-to-back at the moon. Scientists still don’t know why the far side of the moon is more mountainous than the side that always faces Earth.
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MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin rejected opposition protests against his presidential election victory and his foreign ministry ruled out any softening of Moscow’s stance on Syria, strong indications Tuesday that the Russian leader has no intention of easing tough policies either at home or abroad. Putin The harsh statements came after helmeted riot police forcefully broke up Monday’s opposition attempt to occupy a downtown square in a challenge to Putin’s victory; they arrested about 250 people who were later released. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov defended the police action, saying that it showed a “high level of professionalism, legitimacy and effectiveness,� comments signaling that the government would show no hesitation to use force again on
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protesters. Putin, president from 2000 to 2008 before becoming prime minister due to term limits, won more than 63 percent of Sunday’s vote. The opposition and independent observers said the election was marred by massive fraud, including so-called “carousel voting� in which busloads of voters are driven around to cast ballots multiple times. Putin on Tuesday shrugged off opposition claims of rampant vote fraud as irrelevant. “It’s an element of political struggle, it has no relation to the election,� he said. His campaign has been laced with anti-Americanism, including claims that the U.S. had instigated the opposition protests in order to weaken Russia — strident rhetoric that resonated well with his core support base of blue-collar workers, farmers and state employees. He can be expected to continue the same tough policies he has pursued as prime minister,
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Lanham, De Amaral win election runoff Mason Lanham won the race for Residence Hall Association president and Meghan De Amaral was declared sophomore class president Tuesday night. The runoff occurred late because of an election procedure error that declared Lanham, a junior psychology major, and De Amaral, a freshman political science major, the victors after the primary election, despite not receiving a majority of the votes. ModiďŹ ed runoff campaigning was Monday, and students could vote Tuesday for the two positions. Lanham received 113 votes, or 58 percent, and De Amaral recieved 378 votes, or 59 percent. Kalee Bumguardner, staff writer
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Finally finished Naila Dhanani: As election season ends, disappointment ensues
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entered this year’s election season full of hope and excitement. This would be the year we would elect our first student body president to lead us into the Southeastern Conference, to lead us into the reopening of the Memorial Student Center, to lead us anywhere we Aggies want to go in 2012.
It was supposed to be a time where hardprotecting the integrity of the role of student working students with an enormous passion body president and our University. for our University and a desire to serve its Student body president will do more than students would come together and campaign just shake the hands of important people and for the school’s most prominent position. make vague claims regarding the quality of Instead, I left this season disappointed. students’ experiences. The SBP is expected Rumors, gossip and malicious intentions pit- to be the student voice in all decisions made ted candidate against candidate and overshad- affecting our University. owed the true spirit of election season. Each This election season reflected poorly on campaign submitted violations against the the candidates and the campaigns. Elections other, readily defying the Aggie Spirit they are a time of heightened emotions, but they so adamantly preach; the Election Commisshould not be a time of reckless decisions. sion refused to accept the runoff vote; and Student Body President-Elect John Claythe Judicial Court had to step in not once, brook was never in violation of but twice to allow the student body’s voice the election code — as the to finally be heard. Judicial Court refunded Feb. 27 Campaigns are important, especially each fine — yet was to those who have dedicated hunMcNutt dreds of hours in order to promote a website particular candidate. But campaigns controversy should never take precedence over
denied office for a short period of time. Although Claybrook emerged victorious and the students’ voice was ultimately heard, this election left many questioning the integrity of the role of student body president. It’s difficult to place trust in an office that has been the subject of such controversy in recent days. I’d like to see students — the actual student body, not Student Senate or any other branch of Student Government — lobby for a change in election codes, in particular the Transparency Clause, so candidates don’t have to resort to auditing each other in order to ensure a fair election and
Feb. 20 Election begins
Claybrook disqualified
Primary results announced
J-Court ruling on McNutt appeal
Naila Dhanani is a junior biomedical sciences major and opinion editor.
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prevent an exercise in sham democracy. As we look to the coming months, I hope Claybrook will encourage students to come together and overlook the lack of productivity that has been the face of Student Government. Claybrook has the power to affect the future of our University and I hope he’s in it for the long haul.
Feb. 29
Runoff begins, violations ensue
Mar. 5
J-Court rules, Claybrook elected SBP
Jorge Montalvo — THE BATTALION
Unsung hero Robert Carpenter: Why the Claybrook appeal was about more than the candidate
EDITOR’SNOTE As editor in chief, I am answerable for all opinions published in The Battalion, and made an error in judgment when considering Monday’s opinion column, “Buried under rules.” Although the First Amendment ensures our newspaper’s right to look critically at students’ decisions, motives and involvements, I regret publishing comments that directly criticized students, in particular using the word “worthless,” in an unwarranted manner inconsistent with our newspaper’s mission. The remark did not contribute to the column’s argument that student government election regulations are excessive, and should have been omitted. I apologize for this lapse in judgment.
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hen international affairs graduate student Mark Womack finished his defense of John Claybrook Monday evening, the beyond-capacity crowd in the Koldus Governance Room erupted into applause. And kept applauding.
step forward with these arguments when McNutt’s candidacy was threatened earlier in the week. It was, after all, essentially the same setting. But better late than never. Although 95 percent of those in attendance were died-in-the-wool Campus elections should be student gov“You’ve heard what people have been Claybrook supporters, the ovation ernment’s two weeks to shine each spring. saying about student government. ‘The guy Womack drew was not simply a It’s the process that validates SGA’s authority that wins doesn’t win. That doesn’t make show of support for their favorite to speak on behalf of students. It’s democrat- any sense.’ ‘What happened to my SBP candidate. It was a response ic principles in action. It’s one of the purest vote?’” Womack said, three days after stuinspired by a voice that finally expressions of student voice. dents decided decisively in favor of Claygave students a reason to trust Unfortunately, for reasons addressed on brook only for his candidacy to be imperiled. their student leadership. the pages of this newspaper since early “The way things are going right now, I Womack returned to his seat last week, a series of events caused really can’t blame people for seeing while students stood from theirs, the 2012 elections to fall far short Womack finally student government like that.” the whooping and clapping growof aspirations — disenfranWhen manipulated regulagave students a ing in volume. His oral defense chising the electorate with an tions threatened SGA’s credibility, reason to trust Roger Zhang — THE BATTALION was so passionate and so true to unyielding attention to internal Womack turned the organizatheir student Mark Womack makes his case before the J-Court. the spirit of student representation disagreements that threatened to tion’s constitution against its leadership. that it offered life to an organizarob students of ultimate authority. actions, citing a clause prohibiting nated by the logic students felt but no one tion in need of a champion. If SGA didn’t want to be a conexcessive punishment. Let’s just hope that the student leadership temptible body on campus, it was at least “Excessive punishment shall not be im- had voiced. “Hundreds of hours wasted is excessive.” present in the room took note. sending mixed messages. posed under the statute,” Womack said, his At this point, the stage was set. His time So when Womack stood before the voice growing louder with intensity. “This is had expired, but Womack wasn’t finished. Judicial Court, he didn’t simply shoulder excessive. This is excessive.” Robert Carpenter is a “You have a choice, ladies and gentleClaybrook’s presidential hopes. He had to In the waning seconds of a 30-minute apsenior applied math major men. You can reward bad attitudes. You can convince the nine-member council that peal of taxes, rules and numbers, the passion and editor in chief of reward name-calling,” Womack said. respect for student government was worth was finally surfacing. The Battalion. “Or you can let the students decide.” salvaging. “Six thousand votes being ignored is What needed to be said was finally said. And he didn’t try to sweep the ugly under excessive,” Womack said as every ear in the My only regret is that other campaigns didn’t the rug. room begged to hear an argument domi-
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surge in support of any specific candidate. “[The candidates] go to New Hampshire, which is a more libertarian, more moderate state in the Republican Party, where there’s a tradition of caring about electability, and so Mitt Romney wins there. They go to South Carolina and Rick Santorum wins because that’s a state where, on average, voters care more about that conservative purity,� Ura said. “It’s not that Romney was winning and Santorum fought back, it’s that we’re going from place to place where priorities are different.� The affect of Super Tuesday on the outcome of the primary elections has lessened because states have moved primary dates earlier in the year to increase each state’s influence in determining the candidacy. “Now it’s only about 20 percent of the delegates that are available on [Super Tuesday]; it’s a big slice of the
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opportunity to set the tone for the rest of the ship’s life as a part of the U.S. naval fleet. The captain personally accepted this challenge by telling his crew “how we do it is written in this voyage.� The ship has many purposes in maritime strategy. Luther said the size and capabilities of the ship allow it to be a forward presence and reassure allies simply by going into specific ports. The ship’s ability to be used as a means of deterrence was illustrated in that its presence could calm elevated situations. The ship’s operations also included exercises with the British naval fleet and training the Spanish naval operators as that country tries to regain its naval presence. USS George H. W. Bush and her crew fulfilled the power projection aspect of maritime strategy, or the crew’s ability to apply all or some of its elements of power, by participating in Operation New Dawn and supporting troops in Iraq. The crew was also involved in Operation Enduring Freedom by supporting the troops in Afghanistan from off the coast of Pakistan. Luther described the ship as a city at sea being that it housed 5,000 people during its seven-month deployment. The carrier also boasted a post office, its own TV station, chapel and even a Starbucks. The emphasis on sailors’ quality of life was immediately apparent as Command Master Chief David Colton described part of what the ship offers to make the day-to-day living easier for those onboard. “My sailors drink Starbucks coffee, and we have made it to where [the] sailors are now offered Facebook. We are doing everything we can to improve their quality of life,� Colton
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that they had already been removed. Recently, several of the trees were removed and replaced with smaller trees. Annette Walker, media relations coordinator for the Corps of Cadets, said this was due to the drought that killed many trees around campus. “As for the trees, my understanding is none were removed for construction, but rather died,� Walker said. “Many of the trees on campus are dying — all over campus actually — and when new ones are planted, they are smaller and newer and will take time to grow.� Plaques were originally placed at each tree displaying the names of the men, their class year and when and where they were killed. However, those plaques are
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Texas gets to vote, but had we voted at our normal time this year, we would have had a say. Instead our primary has been pushed back to May 29,� Harris said. Because of litigation regarding redistricting and a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, San Antonio Division, the Texas primary date was changed from April 3 to May 29. “There are almost 1,000 delegates that will be awarded between now and the day Texas gets to vote, so it’s quite possible that the nomination will be awarded before we vote in Texas,� Harris said.
said. Captain Luther further iterated the importance placed on the sailors’ quality of life by detailing the liberty calls allowed each sailor, as well as opportunities for fun while still out in the open sea. Activities such as the steel beach day, which involved jumping into the ocean from the deck, as well as a concert put on by a few Texas country singers, helped keep the morale high. “You have to remember that we have an all-volunteer navy. Every sailor is sacrificing something to be in the navy. What we are doing is trying to recognize the sacrifices they’re making in serving their country. And yet, at some point, they need a break. [These sailors] are here to work, but they want that recognized, and that’s what we’re trying to do.â€? The dedication to crew-wide morale had very impressive results; the ship was honored with every departmental award that could be given for a maiden voyage, including the highest medical readiness of any ship in the U.S. naval fleet. Senior Medical Officer Kim Toone expressed her amazement at the ship’s operations, as well as her own journey from being an undergraduate at the University of Florida. “[During drills,] I turned to my fellow officer, and said, ‘how did I get here?’ To this day, I still wonder at it all,â€? Toone said. Looking back at the accomplishments of the deployment, Luther said what the experience meant to him. “It has been an honor and a privilege. The ship is a technological marvel, but the true treasures are the sons and daughters of America [that served aboard the carrier]. It has been an honor to be their commanding officer ‌ I think we’ve written quite the chapter for the first operational deployment of the carrier.â€?
no longer there. Lyndsey Raney, library specialist at the Cushing Library, said they were removed many years ago. “A couple of decades ago, they removed the plaques because they had eroded over time, and they weren’t secure in the ground anymore,� Raney said. “Some of them had cracked, some of them had sunk into the ground. They weren’t really settling in to the ground any more, so they removed them.� About a year ago, Simpson Drill Field came under the jurisdiction of the Corps of Cadets. Before that, it fell under Rec Sports jurisdiction. Pat Reeves, commander of the Corps of Cadets and senior biomedical sciences major, said the Corps has been and plans to continue maintaining the field. “We’re responsible for making sure it’s not torn up,� Reeves said. “We keep up
the length of the grass and make sure there’s no potholes.� At the ceremony in 1920, L.J. Hart, president of the Board of Directors gave a speech dedicating the trees to the fallen Aggies. His words still ring true today: “So long as you will remember the sacrifices made by these sons of A. and M. College, you will be equipped to meet and solve the battles of peace which are no less than those of war, and so long as you treasure such memories and go forth in life with the highest resolutions that long will you live up to the traditions of this College, so long will our republican institutions and our splendid scheme of government be kept in safe hands and handed down to posterity, that they may live under and enjoy the blessings of a land where human freedom is eternally secure.�
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of Jewish Students in Jerusalem, Israel. The foundation of his lecture came from using ancient commentary to analyze the first five books of the Bible, the Torah. “Both Torah and science hold by the fact that there was one physical creation,” Schroeder said. It all comes down to the source of energy that created our universe. Schroder went on to say that both science and religion agree on the idea that something non-physical, outside of time and possessing the ability to create caused the beginning of our universe. Religion defines this power source as God. The second speaker also argued for the evidence that the bible and science can coexist. Hugh N. Ross is the founder and president of “Reasons to Believe,” an organization in its 26th year that seeks to spread the ideals of Christianity through scientific research. Ross said the commonalities between the big bang theory and cosmology caused him to become the first Christian in his family. Ross said that since there was a beginning, there has to be a beginner. “Everyone agrees that we see design in nature,” Ross said. “The real debate is who or what is responsible for the design we see.” To answer that question, Ross turns to the Bible. Ross described creation as a miracle that cannot be explained without the supernatural — that in order for there to be life that comes from nothing, we have to live under just right conditions. There is no universe that is a twin to ours, leading Ross to conclude that ours is unique and made by a higher being. Additionally, Ross has found the scientific method, the theory that the universe is
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Gerald L. Schroeder, lecturer at The Aish HaTorah College of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, exegetically explains the origins of creation in The Book of Genesis.
Learn more Students can find more information at the Trotter Prize recipients’ websites: GeraldSchroeder.com and reasons.org continually expanding and the laws of physics all appear in the Bible multiple times. He believes that increasing evidence is science continues to support the idea that there is a God. When being introduced by the award’s namesake Ide Trotter, he described the scholar’s theories as different than award winners from years past. “They are both fully committed to understanding nature,” Trotter said. “They also hold the view deemed controversial at best, and possibly irrational in most academic circles.” This proved to be true when it came time for the question and answer section
at the end of the lecture. A Texas A&M cosmology professor said he disagreed with everything Ross said, and that he wished the Trotter Lecture Series had given him a chance to express his opinions and theories. He said he felt left out because his views were not represented, and that he wanted a chance to speak at the next lecture. Physics graduate student Andrew Traverso disagreed with much of what was said at the lecture. He found the evidence provided at the lecture to be less than convincing, and taken out of context. “Most of what they proposed is very weak evidence that there is a God,” Traverso said. Traverso is both a scientist and a Catholic. He said he does believe that science and religion complement one another, and that the fundamental idea to this coexistence is faith.
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