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Activists ‘say no’ to corporate agriculture then marched to the headquarters of Seminis, Inc. in the Centeq building on West Campus. The group sought to raise awareness of the practices of Monsanto Co., specifically its use of genetically modified organisms in food and other agricultural products. Seminis Inc. is a vegetable seed company with local headquarters that is owned by Monsanto.

“I’m a small farmer. We’re against the corporate takeover of the food industry. More regulations and punishment should go to the corporations, not small farmers,” said Millican-based farmer Zach Peoples.

“We’d like to see the University supporting small

Protestors march against big business food production practices at university Robby Smith

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Protesters demand extensive testing of Roundup, a commonly used herbicide.

The Battalion Several dozen students, farmers, Occupy protestors and an Austin City Council hopeful banded together to protest the corporate takeover of agriculture and food production at Texas A&M, one the nation’s largest agricultural research universities.

The protestors converged Monday in Academic Plaza holding signs, chanting and passing out flyers,

See Protests on page 3

About Monsanto Monsanto employs more than 21,000 people in 66 countries, selling agricultural and vegetable seeds, plant biotechnology traits and crop protection chemicals.

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Functional newborn mannequins outfit a room in the Health Science Center.

The first in a fourpart series on sexual assault sheds light on an underreported danger for women on college campuses.

Lifelike lessons via medical mannequins

inside voices | 6 Feminism redefined

Women from many cultures who take pride in their ethnicity face numerous stereotypes on a daily basis.

Robots serve as teaching tools for A&M health center Jessica Orwig

A&M club creates scholarship The Brazos County A&M Club committed $110,000 to create an endowed scholarship for Brazos County Aggies and an endowed fund to support Texas A&M University Silver Taps ceremonies.

Additionally, the club repurposed an existing scholarship to create its second Sul Ross Scholarship. All three gifts are funded through the Texas A&M Foundation.

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Junior guard Adrienne Pratcher dribbles around an Arkansas defender during the Aggies’ 61-59 win Monday night in Reed Arena. A&M will play No. 2 seed Maryland in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament, though the time and location were not determined as of Monday evening. See thebatt.com for a full recap.

The Battalion What speaks but never thinks, bleeds but never feels, and breathes but never sleeps?

The answer lies in a bed on the second floor of the Health Professions Education Building on the Texas A&M Health Science Center Bryan Campus. His name is SimMan, and he is just one of the interactive, medical robots that medical and nursing students use to prepare for treating real people.

Although SimMan is only a robot, his reactions and appearance resemble that of a human. For example, if a student administers a dose of the hormone epinephrine, SimMan’s heart rate and respiratory rate will increase accordingly. These reactions are controlled with software programmed by trained physicians who observe the students’ actions via cameras in the room.

“We simulate as much as we can See Teaching Robots on page 2

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Class of 1969 starts own Twelfth Man tradition Alumni group attends home games after Blair calls for support Mark Dore Roger Zhang — THE BATTALION

Members of the class of 1969 watch the Aggies play Oklahoma State on Feb. 18. The group attends every women’s basketball game at Reed Arena.

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of maroon and white shirts changes in composition — if not in passion — as the games pass by. But in section 108, when the women took the court, 48 members of the Twelfth Man remained constant.

Four years ago, Aggie women’s basketball head coach Gary Blair issued a call in The Battalion for current and former students to rally around his team and increase attendance. A contingent from the Class of 1969 answered his call in a major way, and four years later the Class

of ’69 Family and Friends group thrives at every women’s basketball home game.

“We started to support the women’s basketball team because Coach Blair was saying that the students did not support his team, so our class decided that we would as former students,” said Freddie Wong, a member of the Class of ’69 and women’s basketball season ticketholder.

“I believe we have about 48 tickets, See Class of 1969 on page 5

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farmers and not large corporations.”

Peoples was a student at A&M, but dropped out to help his family with their farm in Millican. He wanted to study sustainable farming methods, but said the curriculum only focused on corporate farming methods — of little worth for a small farmer.

Another local farmer, Laura Cauvel, joined the protest.

“We want to get Monsanto out of A&M, out of town and out of the food system altogether,” Cauvel said.

Monsanto employs more than 21,000 people in 66 countries, selling agricultural and vegetable seeds, plant biotechnology traits and crop protection chemicals.

Though not a part of Texas A&M, Seminis’ offices are located in the AgriLife Research headquarters and the Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center on campus.

The protestors went in-

side the Seminis office to deliver their 100-page petition including more than 1,500 signatures. Once inside, they found that the branch manager for Monsanto Co., Rick Jones, was not present.

Bhimu Patil, A&M professor and director of the Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center, accepted the petition and agreed to deliver it to Jones. The protestors still voiced their views and concerns to Patil.

“We are against genetic engineering food crops, Roundup and Agent Orange,” protestors said adamantly to Patil.

“We have a cease-and-desist order detailing the crimes of Monsanto. We don’t think that a corporation should be allowed to kill for profit.”

Patil told protestors that he works for A&M, not Seminis or Monsanto, and that Seminis is not affiliated with the university. Patil said that his work does not involve genetically modified organisms and recognizes that all food products must be tested before going to the market.

“Here, we work with fruits

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and vegetables to improve human health by reducing human diseases,” Patil said.

Clean water, food and air is a cause that can unite all people, said Austin City Council hopeful John Duffy.

“We are going to cities with Monsanto extension offices to raise awareness of this issue that impacts all areas of life,” Duffy said.

Duffy said the campaign is utilizing film to reach out to a larger audience.

“We are at the beginning of a campaign against Monsanto across central Texas,” Duffy said. “We are having screenings of the movie The World According to Monsanto across the state where people of the typically urban Occupy movement can connect with rural agricultural communities.”

Another protestor, sophomore early childhood education major Maggie Patterson, said the film has received positive reception in the area.

“The owner of Brazos Natural Foods came to the screening and gave her support for us,” Patterson said. “She put up our petition in her store, too.”

Many Occupy protestors said they came to College Station to protest because the Monsanto office is here on campus and they want to reach out to Aggies.

“They want to control all aspects of production,” protestor Rob Gorr said. “Professors are afraid to speak out because of Monsanto funding.”

Patterson said many concerned citizens in other cities around the world joined to protest the practices of Monsanto during the past week.

“This is not just a political issue. [Monsanto] work[s] with the Food and Drug Administration. There are health and planting issues, too,” Patterson said. “We are targeting a whole array of issues. When we ask our congressmen to go to the FDA to get labels on [genetically modified organisms], they say ‘no’ because it conflicts with their private interests.”

The university police department was aware of the protests, said Sgt. Allan Baron, and several officers observed from a distance.

“We had no problems and handled the situation like any other similar case,” Baron said.

Protesters from Austin and College Station march to the Centeq Building, on West Campus, in protest of genetically modified food.

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Forty-eight members of the Class of 1969 Family and Friends group have made a tradition of attending every womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball home game.

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which includes classmates, spouses and other family members.â&#x20AC;?

The group began with 21 members who attended four conference games together four years ago and has grown in size each year. Wong credits another member of the group and a former classmate, Phil Callahan, with coordinating tickets and organizing the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first effort.

Callahan and the rest of the group are well aware that their support for the team dates prior to the 2011 NCAA championship run and the wealth of publicity that came along with it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are proud of the fact that we got behind Coach Blairâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program and teams before they won the national championship,â&#x20AC;?

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Wong, who remains active in the A&M community through involvement

in groups such as the Reveille Club, said the bulk of the group consists of classmates who have retired and settled in the Bryan-College Station area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have also extended an invitation to all our classmates who may visit the Bryan-College Station area from time to time to come and join us,â&#x20AC;? Wong said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also have a few who will come on a regular basis from as far as Yoakum.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an eclectic group, with former cadets, non-regs and a diverse set of backgrounds â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even with a few familiar faces from around campus today. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Many of us retired from military service and went on to civilian careers,â&#x20AC;? Wong said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Others have retired from major corporations, education, small business, et cetera. There are some who are still working, on campus as well as [in] the local community. We have folks in real estate, an optometrist, several lawyers, ranchers and farmers. Several retired from

major corporations and are now working on campus helping students.â&#x20AC;?

Sports such as football and menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball have historically drawn larger crowds than womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball. Blair, the student-athletes who compose the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team, and a number of devoted fans â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Class of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;69 Family and Friends included â&#x20AC;&#x201D; might argue that this disparity is unfair. After a 22-10 season, the Aggies earned a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament and finished their final home game Monday night with a thrilling 61-59 second-round victory against the University of Arkansas with a trip to the Sweet 16 on the line.

Wong said the Class of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;69 will continue to support the Aggie women regardless of the seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ultimate outcome. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We Aggies have a long history of supporting our team, regardless of the winloss record,â&#x20AC;? Wong said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to keep that tradition up.â&#x20AC;?

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or many among us, the stereotype of a traditional woman is strangely opposite of that of a career woman. I see this kind of prejudice in my daily life. We all presume.

of pre-conceived ideas that define the appearance of a successful, independent career woman.

Let us understand that yes, there is oppression of women, and in many cases, traditions are forced upon women of various cultures.

But traditions and ethnicity can also empower women.

Consider the world’s greatest woman We associate an African woman with public figures, activists and leaders — people braids, an Arab woman with a traditional like Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, hijab covering or an Indian woman who has Tawakkol Karman and Aung San Suu Kyi. a bindi on her forehead with an oppressed Their ethnicities have allowed these women female figure of a male-dominant society — to incite meaningful, definitive changes in forced to follow her culture’s traditions. In their cultures and in others’ lives. the same way, our minds are so polished A leader’s power to rise above life’s difto relate professionalism to high ficulties is related to the connection heels, A-line skirts, make-up she can create with the people she We have made a and ironed hair that we have leads, which, to a great extent, made a subtle equation in is generated by how effectively subtle equation our minds that the more she identifies herself with the that the more the ethnicity, the less the masses. If I, as a woman leader, a woman’s education and even less the can communicate this sense of ethnicity, the less professionalism. We have belonging to a culture through her education. also made the assumption that my dress, then I have partly emthe more cloth coverage and powered myself to reach my people. the less skin exposure, the more opThen, and only then, I will be in a pressed a woman is. position to lead change in my community.

Cultural shyness, to a great extent, is maThis public appeal though ethnic identity nipulated and used as a proof of oppression, is my power. There is no reason to demean while the real courage to save women from this. There is no reason to look down upon sex trafficking, slavery and domestic violence it. There is no reason to sympathize. is only embodied by a few. We live in an Let’s rethink and redefine feminism. Let’s increasingly global society, with globalization assume that when we see a woman with a sadly and pitifully tending toward westernhijab, a bindi or braids, that she can be eduization of cultures in our minds and in our cated, empowered and ethnic. outlook.

It is time we change this notion.

Archana Gawde is a molecular To truly become global, it is imperative and environmental plant that students accept the cultural richness sciences graduate student and around the world. We need to see society president of the international with a kaleidoscope of colors and multiple students association dimensions as opposed to a magnifying lens

MAILCALL From Brandon Valenta, freshman business major As a member of the Student Government Association, I am deeply offended by the comments in the opinion column “Buried Under Rules” (March 4). The column argues that SGA is a “waste of student fees that, in practice, has done absolutely nothing but embarrass our university.” Clearly SGA REALLY does nothing for Texas A&M. I mean, we don’t need Traditions Council to organize Silver Taps and other traditons. We don’t need to hold Muster, because the most poignant tradition on campus that remembers fallen Aggies means nothing. We don’t need Aggie Recruitment Committee because who needs new students? We don’t need Alternative Spring Break because students don’t need fun things to do if they are on campus during spring break. We don’t need Carpool because a safe way home late at night is a

waste of time. We don’t need Environmental Issues Committee, Replant, or Big Event, because who cares about our campus and our community? We don’t need Senate, the student body president, the executive council, or any of the commissions because student voices don’t matter. I hope by now you have caught the sarcasm in my voice.

SGA does much for this university that few people realize, and I am proud to call myself a member of it. When the column attacks SGA, it neglects the fact that there is more to student government than just elections.

So if there is an embarrassment at our great school, it is thatThe Battalion would run a column that degrades SGA in the matter that this column has. We are called as Aggies to be respectful to each other. This column has done the complete opposite.

EDITOR’SNOTE The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by the various authors and forum participants in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of Texas A&M University, The Battalion or its staff.

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