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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
3
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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science & religion
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
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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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