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The growing fields of genomics and biotechnology are instrumental in continuing to cultivate new discoveries in agriculture. Phillips, who served as chief scientist for the USDA and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, spoke of how important these advancements are to certain countries in the world. “I was invited to a meeting of the ministers of agriculture of rice producing countries,” Phillips said. “The minister from Bangladesh made the comment that rice is life. He went on to say that, without rice, there is no life.”
The Battalion Open records obtained by The Battalion revealed that Colo. shooting suspect James Holmes was a strong candidate for the neuroscience graduate program at Texas A&M University. Jacob Holmes is the suspected perpetrator of the July 20 mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. The massacre left 12 people dead and 58 injured. It is considered the largest mass shooting in U.S. history and the most deadly shooting in Colo. since the Columbine High School massacre. Included in Holmes’ application are a handful of letters of recommendation from Holmes’ professors at the University of California, Riverside; email exchanges between Holmes and the Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience faculty members; an ApplyTexas application; an essay Holmes submitted to A&M and Holmes’s resume. In Holmes’ application essay, he wrote he was passionate about neuroscience, which he said likely stemmed from his interest in puzzles as an adolescent. “Rational people act based on incentives for self-fulfillment, including fulfilling needs of self-development and needs of feeling useful and helpful to others,” Holmes wrote. “I have always been fascinated by the complexities of a long lost thought seemingly arising out of nowhere into a stream of awareness.” The neuroscience graduate recruiting committee at A&M invited Holmes to campus for an interview and social events. The committee said they were very impressed with his application and wanted to schedule a visit for March 6, 2011. According to emails exchanged between A&M faculty and Holmes, Holmes withdrew from the application process March 1, only five days before he was scheduled to visit campus. In the final email, Holmes apologized to the faculty and said he would be pursuing other interests and wouldn’t be coming [to A&M] for a visit. One neuroscience staff member at A&M said in an email it was too bad and Holmes should have been acted on sooner. Holmes graduated from the University of California, Riverside, in June 2010 with a cumulative 3.949 GPA and a bachelor’s of science degree in neuroscience. Holmes scored a
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Ron Phillips addresses the crowd during his speech concerning genomics as a representative of the Norman Borlaug Institute Tuesday evening at the George Bush Library.
Future revolution Phillips talks Borlaug vision, biotechnology outlook Jessica Smarr Special to The Battalion While one 50-minute class is held at Texas A&M, more than five thousand people will die from hunger and poverty. These people are not statistics, they are not numbers. They are humans. Ron Phillips, regents professor emeritus and former McKnight presidential chair in genomics at the University of Minnesota, gave a presentation on Norman Borlaug and the future of the green revolution Tuesday evening. The program focused not only on the legacy left by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
inside lifestyles | 4 Run and gun A not-your-everyday gun club has come to campus, featuring three guns, targets, tactical gear and more. Aggie 3-Gunners are ready to compete and looking for eager competitors. A&M is the first school in the country with a collegiate 3-Gun competition team.
sports | 3 Across the pond Although not popular in the U.S., the sport of cricket has managed to make its way to the A&M campus. The University boasts a nationally recognized cricket team, the Aggie Cricket Club.
Borlaug but also on the future of genomics and crops, which utilize biotechnology. Borlaug was noted for his humanitarian work, and Phillips said that he was one of his idols. Borlaug used his scientific achievements within agriculture to create a world with less hunger and pain. “Never think for a minute that we are going to build permanent peace in this world on empty stomachs and human misery,” Philips said, quoting Borlaug. “It won’t happen, and the sooner our leaders at all levels of society reflect on that, the better.” Borlaug was able to combat human suffering with his research in wheat production.
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Aggies look toward South Carolina State Michael Rodriguez The Battalion The Texas A&M football program is coming off a win against the SMU Mustangs. With a 1-1 overall record, the Aggies have seen improvements in key areas but the coaches acknowledge there is room for improvement as the season continues Saturday against FCS opponent South Carolina State. “After the first game, we needed to improve our effort on special teams and that happened,” said head coach Kevin Sumlin. “Our defense was consistent. Our special teams changed field position with returns, and that gave us an opportunity to kick it in offensively and get rolling and close out the game.” Redshirt freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel earned SEC Freshman of the Week honors and led the Aggies to the 48-3 victory over the Mustangs. Manziel has been working on becoming more of a pocket quarterback and facilitating the offense by reading through his progressions. “I think that Johnny’s improvement from Saturday to Saturday was his ability to throw the ball from the pocket and keep his eyes down the field,” See Football on page 3
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Freshman political science major Matt Valentin is forced to pay with cash at the Rattlers in the MSC after a division of Compass Group USA decided not to honor dining dollars.
Luz Moreno-Lozano The Battalion Change has reverberated throughout the campus since the issue of outsourcing first hit the stage last spring. None received an outcry from the student body until dining dollars were no longer going to be accepted at campus convenience stores. It was announced Wednesday by Dining Services that the convenience stores on campus — also known as C-Stores — would no longer be accepting dining dollars.
The issue stems from the initial outsourcing of dining services to Compass Group USA, which has assumed responsibility for dining services, building maintenance and landscaping custodial services on the A&M campus. Chartwells, a division of Compass, was tasked with awarding a contract to either University Dining Services or Rattlers — which had been previously running the C-Stores. Rattlers was chosen, detaching whatever association the University had See Dining on page 4
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Cricket club fills niche on campus Close cousin to baseball, cricket enthusiasts attempt to spread knowledge of their sport Camryn Ford The Battalion Although it is flourishing among enthusiasts in countries such as India and Pakistan, the sport of cricket is hardly recognized in the U.S. Baseball is often considered a close cousin to cricket, a sport that originated in England during the 16th century. “Cricket is something I have grown up with. It’s pretty much a religion in India,” said Adhithya Rengarajan, president of the Aggie Cricket Club. “Finding out that there is a cricket club [at A&M] is really exciting for people.” The game of cricket is extremely popular in India. By the end of the 19th century, the sport was intriguing players from all over the country. Whether players are young or old, cricket fuses together a large demographic of active players. “It is just kind of like a backyard sport when you are young,” Rengarajan said. “You don’t have to be in a league or anything. You just play anywhere.”
In America, baseball is considered to be the country’s pastime. Rarely do Americans even consider the ancient game of cricket when discussing sports, but it shares similar mechanics to those found in baseball. Aggie Cricket Club has been at A&M since 2002 and became part of American College Cricket in 2011. The team has developed into a group of champions over the years. “Because of their accomplishments within American College Cricket, when a potential student is making a choice about where they will get their degree and play the game they passionately love, there is no question that Texas A&M will be high on that short list,” said Lloyd Jodah, president of American College Cricket. The Aggie Cricket Club has been able to utilize its talent in the past couple of years. After winning the Southwest regional championship in January 2012, they became semi-finalists at the 2012 spring break championship in Florida.
“We are currently ranked number three in the country,” said team captain Angad Mehta. Former teammate, Venkatesh Ravishanker, said the Aggie Cricket Club initially played in the Southwest regional championship with the University of Houston, University of Houston Clearlake, Texas Tech and West Texas A&M. When they advanced to the national championship, the Aggie Cricket Club played teams from all over the country such as Rutgers University and the University of Maryland. The team has come a long way in the past 10 years. Without much financial support from the University, Aggie Cricket Club put together a winning team with personal funds they worked hard for. “They perform off the field, manifested in the work they did, including fundraising [in order to] get their own cricket field,” Jodah said. The Aggie Cricket Club plays at the University Apartment grounds. They have been playing there since the club was started in
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The Aggie Cricket Club has been around since 2002 and still practices at the university apartment grounds.
Cricket facts ◗ The longest cricket match in history occured in 1939 in a match between England and South Africa. The game resulted in a tie after 14 days.
◗ Cricket orginated in England and the first recorded game occured in 1646. ◗ Played with a straight bat (unlike a round bat in baseball) and a round ball with 11 players on each side on an oval field. 2002 and they practice on the weekends. They are currently struggling with funding. According to Rengarajan, the Aggie Cricket Club is only working with membership fees right now to get equipment. However, when it comes to traveling out of state it is hard to get money for 11 or 12 players to go.
By increasing fees, Regarajan said people pull out of the club. He said that A&M has been kind enough to provide funding when they approach the University on a needs basis. However, that is not always enough to help a team reach its full potential. The club’s main goal this year is to be recognized by the Department of Recreational Sports.
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Sumlin said. “What he’s finding out is that he’s not the fastest or most talented guy on the field. We can talk to him about what we want him to do and what we don’t want him to do, but he’s a very talented guy that has got to continue to work on moving from an athlete that’s playing quarterback to a quarterback that’s an athlete.” While the focus has been on the improvement on the offensive side, the eye test can tell that the defense has improved, not only on the week-to-week basis, but a distinct difference from the defense that was on the field last year. “[I am] pleasantly surprised,” said defensive coordinator Mark Snyder. “We’re playing with a lot of effort, playing very physical and they are doing everything we’re asking them to do.” The defense is propelled by aggressive play calling from Snyder in combination with his imposing pass-rusher, junior defensive end
“Texas A&M is a top cricketing university among the national league,” Venkatesh said. “With the right amount of support and funding [A&M] could achieve great success and in the process bring fame to Texas A&M University as a brand.”
Damontre Moore. Moore’s five sacks ranks second among FBS teams and speaks to his impact. “Damontre’s maturation process — you can see it,” Snyder said. “We talked about what was needed and what kind of player he could become. If he would just trust in us and do what we ask him to do, good things will happen.” With the excitement of the offense clicking and the defense becoming a force, the concern of looking ahead lingers overhead against the athletically inferior Bulldogs. The players and coaches denied the speculation. “We know that they’re a football team that’s hungry to win,” said senior wide out Ryan Swope. “We’re looking forward to this game and we’ve just got to take every game one at a time and take a look at the film and have a good practice.” The Aggies will take on the Bulldogs this Saturday at Kyle Field. Game time is set for 6 p.m.
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(Above) Senior wide receiver Kenic McNeal races for the endzone upon catching a deep pass by freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel. (Right) Manziel trots to the endzone for one of two rushing touchdowns after slipping past SMU defenders.
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Lock and load Students deploy gun competition club John Tee The Battalion Some students are interested in learning how to shoot properly and take part in competition while doing so. Aggie 3-Gunners is a new student organization billed as the nation’s first collegiate 3-Gun competition team. Chase Jennings, a geography graduate student and veteran 3-Gun competitor, created Aggie 3-Gunners. Jennings felt that 3-Gun was a fun sport with a high entry bar due to equipment costs and wanted to find a way to introduce college students to his passion at a reasonable price. “I have been doing 3-Gun competition for a while now and I saw a substantial age gap between competitors,” Jennings said. “I felt that this was a sport that my peers could surely enjoy as much as I do, but it’s very challenging on a college budget. The price point just wasn’t right. I wanted to lower the high-bar entry to competition and open this sport up to as many people as possible.” 3-Gun is a form of competition shoot-
ing that involves the use of three different firearms. Competitors are required to use a rifle — usually a semi-automatic, such as an AR-15 — a pistol chambered in 9mm at the minimum and either a pump-action or semi-automatic shotgun. 3-Gun differs from other shooting sports because it is more physically demanding. Competitors regularly suit up in full tactical gear, similar to that worn by law enforcement and military, and run and shoot targets separated according to designation for rifle, pistol or shotgun. Because 3-Gun is a sport involving firearms and strenuous physical activity, safety is a much bigger concern than it is in other shooting sports. All guns must be unloaded until the competitor begins a stage. Range officers oversee everything and make sure the competitors are ready to compete before any weapon is loaded. Infractions that could breach safety, such as a competitor dropping a firearm while running a stage, can result in immediate disqualification. “It’s actually a very safe sport,” said
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with C-Stores — outside of their contract with Compass. When Outtakes reopened as Rattlers on Thursday the company was no longer owned by the University, but instead by Chartwells. It was Chartwells that decided to refuse the acceptance of dining dollars. “We want to accept dining dollars,” said Laurell Lovell, a manager at Rattlers. “It’s the
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In a world where food is a necessity but not a certainty, improvements in crop production can literally be the difference between life and death. More than two billion acres of biotech crops have been planted since the year 1996. This technology has been implemented in various crops such as corn and cotton. Research has been done to increase drought and flood tolerance in different plants, as well as increasing insect resistance. Though utilizing biotechnology to increase yield seems to be a straightforward solution, starvation is still a growing problem in a growing world. With a projected population in-
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Members of the 3-gun club and competition team practice at Gun Smoke shooting range in Snook, Texas. perience this is something that most people can take part in,” said Kelly Hines, senior mechanical engineering major. “All are welcome, from hunters and target shooters to professional competitors.” Membership fees are $25. Meeting times and more information is available on the Aggie 3-Gunners Facebook page. “Our hope is to get students introduced to this sport and form new world-class competitors from Texas A&M,” Jennings said.
Matthew Laffite, junior aerospace engineering major. “With modern advances in gun technology, firearms are safer than ever before. More importantly, each day of competition starts with a safety briefing and there are designated range officers enforcing safety rules. No one has ever been injured due to gunfire during a competition.” Aggie 3-Gunners exists so that anyone may get involved in the sport on a college budget. “I think with proper time and adequate ex-
company [Chartwells] who didn’t want to take them.” Hearing the voices of students, University officials and Dining Services called an emergency meeting Thursday night regarding the situation — at which Chartwells participated in. Students felt that they were being cheated and inconvenienced. According to Gina Capetanakis, marketing manager for Chartwells, effective Sept. 17 the campus convenience stores were again accepting Dining Dollars. “Chartwells always appreciates student feedback so we can improve and address any concerns each guest may have as it pertains to
our foodservice agreement with the University,” Capetanakis said. Students were urged to express their feelings about the new rule to University officials. Students reacted utilizing Facebook and Twitter to voice their opinions. “Students were very upset and were reacting [that’s why they changed it back],” Lovell said. Students who live both on and off campus use convenience stores on campus for a variety of reasons. Anything from milk to school supplies are stocked and can be bought, and their locations are ideal for students living in dorms.
“I would go there instead of going to the grocery store,” said Alveza Munoz, senior biology major. “I could get milk and snacks for studying.” The initial decision to refuse dining dollars and its repeal has caused confusion among students. “I went over there earlier today and they accepted my dining dollars,” said Elizabeth Green, junior industrial engineering major. “I hadn’t been there since last week so I was just really confused.”
crease of one billion more people in the next 14 years, supplying enough food to sustain this kind of population is an increasing problem, Philips said. “You could argue we are on a collision course with famine,” he said. More problems arise when you begin to evaluate the controversy surrounding genetically modified foods. Many new developments are caught up in years of legalistic webs and debates. Most notably is “Golden Rice.” Golden rice has an increased level of beta carotene, a precursor of Vitamin A. Vitamin A is necessary for humans to retain eyesight. In developing countries, 350,000 children per year go blind and 1,800 children under the age of five die because of Vitamin A deficiencies. The developers of golden rice expect that this rice could save the lives of one million chil-
dren per year. Release of this rice, and other developments like it, has been strongly opposed by organizations such as Green peace, Phillips said. He also said there were many concerns that the opposition to biotechnology has raised over the years. Apprehensions for food safety, development of resistance in unwanted pests and plants, corporate control of crops and the environmental effects are a few of the issues that have been discussed. Dustin Herb, a student working on his master’s degree in plant breeding in genetics, finds that the risks do not offset the benefits. “I don’t think there’s as much validity in the claims that are against it,” Herb said. “There’s no doubt in my mind that the research within agriculture will outweigh any problems with it.”
Sean Thompson, a student pursuing a doctorate in plant breeding, said he found the controversies around bio-tech food to be superficial. “It’s compounding problem that we as Americans, it’s not something we see or even think about, yet we want to have the argument on their behalf. While we stand here and another 5,000 people have died,” Thompson said. Phillips said the ultimate solution to these problems lies within the human mind. “It’s just amazing what the human brain can do,” he said. “The ingenuity and creativity and the application of basic research will have a major impact.”
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all the people, not just the people who voted for you,” said press secretary Jay Carney. He added that Obama “deeply believes that we’re in this together.” Romney seemed to say otherwise in the video, made last May, in which he told donors at a fundraiser that 47 percent of Americans “believe the government has a responsibility to care for them ... believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. That that’s an entitlement.” He said, “I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” In a Tuesday interview on Fox, the network of choice for conservatives, Romney said he wasn’t writing off any part of a deeply divided electorate in a close race for the White House, including seniors who are among those who often pay no taxes. Instead, he repeatedly sought to reframe his remarks as a philosophical difference of opinion between himself and Obama. “I’m not going to get” votes from Americans who believe gov-
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ernment’s job is to redistribute wealth,” he said, adding that was something Obama believes in. He also said he wants to be president so he can help hard-pressed Americans find work and earn enough so they become income taxpayers. Privately, some Republicans were harshly critical of Romney’s most recent comments and his overall campaign to date, saying he had frittered away opportunities. They also noted that with early voting already under way in some states, the time to recover was smaller than might appear.
CHICAGO (AP) — The city’s teachers agreed Tuesday to return to the classroom after more than a week on the picket lines, ending a spiteful stalemate with Mayor Rahm Emanuel that put teacher evaluations and job security at the center of a national debate about the future of public education. Union delegates voted overwhelmingly to formally suspend the strike after discussing details of a proposed contract settlement worked out over the weekend. Classes were to resume Wednesday. The walkout, the first in Chicago in 25 years, shut down the nation’s third-largest school district just days after 350,000 students had returned from summer vacation. Tens of thousands of parents were forced to find alternatives for idle children, including many whose neighborhoods have been wracked by gang violence in recent months. The teachers walked out Sept. 10 after months of tense contract talks that for a time appeared to be headed toward a peaceful resolution. Associated Press
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His campaign at a crossroads, Mitt Romney said Tuesday the federal government should not “take from some to give to the others” as he sought to deflect a wave of criticism over recent remarks dismissive of nearly half of all Americans. The former Massachusetts governor neither disavowed nor apologized for the comments he made in a videotape that surfaced on Monday. In it, he said 47 percent of Americans don’t pay income taxes and believe they are victims entitled to government help, adding that his job as a candidate is “not to worry about those people.” He spoke as at least two Republican Senate candidates pointedly disagreed with the man at the top of their ticket, and as GOP officials openly debated the impact of a series of recent controversies on the party’s chances to capture the White House from Barack Obama. Obama’s White House piled on, seven weeks before Election Day. “When you’re president of the United States, you are president of
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1510 on his GRE — 90 points shy of perfect. Holmes had previous work experience from several science laboratories in California and a job mentoring children at a summer camp. Holmes’s professors at the UC Riverside, wrote nothing but praise for Holmes in their letters of recommendation to Texas A&M. “I found James to be determined, hard working, while at the same time inquisitive,” a neuroscience lab professor wrote. “I would give James my strongest recommendation.” A different professor instructed Holmes in a class that focused on neural processing and cognition and extensively discussed mental disorders.
“[Holmes] has proved to be a very effective group leader,” the professor wrote. “James demonstrated … that he is the top student and that he has a strong drive towards neuroscience.” In his application essay, Holmes said he aspired to become a cognitive neuroscientist. Cognitive neuroscience, in its most basic sense, is the study of how chemicals in the brain interact to form the process of thought. Sometimes this study overlaps into psychology. Holmes said he planned to continue performing research after graduate school in either academic or public sectors. “My life-long goal is to increase the efficiency of how human beings learn and remember,” Holmes wrote.
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