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Turkey Day targets
Midnight hoops Midnight Madness at Texas A&M ignites basketball season. Aggies of all types welcomed the season with The Spirit of Aggieland last Saturday at 12 a.m. Catch video of the event at thebatt. com.
Sweet victory
Adrian O’Hanlon III: Replacing
What was the most impressive aspect of Texas A&M’s 55-28 win against Baylor on Saturday? Was it A&M’s combined 266 rushing yards, the TannehillSwope connection, or the defense’s five sacks? Weigh in at thebatt.com.
the Lone Star Showdown
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he top-3 things for A&M students to do before graduation: shake hands with President Loftin, get an Aggie Ring and go to the last A&Mt.u. football game.
Tag yourself “Like” and tag yourself in a panoramic picture of the student section at Kyle Field on The Battalion’s Facebook page.
Randy Luck — THE BATTALION
Junior receiver Ryan Swope catches a 68-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback Ryan Tannehill. Swope caught 11 passes for 206 yards and a school record four touchdowns against Baylor on Saturday.
No jury required, 55-28 Austin Meek: Aggies punctuate conference dispute
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ith less than two minutes remaining on the clock, the entire student section of the fourth-largest crowd in Kyle Field history began chanting in unison: “S-E-C! S-E-C! S-E-C!”
Writing for this newspaper has its perks — scarfing down pasta salad while watching the game in an air conditioned press box is one of them — but it’s moments like those when I wish I were standing in the student section. The sound simply pounded through the entire stadium, reverberating off the walls loud enough for television viewers to hear. Winning at Kyle is always a treat and conference games only up that ante. But didn’t Saturday feel like something more than a win
over a team we’ve handled three years in a row? This game will always stick in my mind because of the way the Aggies won it. In a battle of top-25 teams, No. 21 beat No. 20 — actually, “beat down” would be a better description — by 27, a margin almost greater than the number of points the Bears put on the scoreboard themselves. The thing I’ll always remember is the way the Aggies thoroughly dominated Baylor.
For the first time this year, Ryan Tannehill showed off his arm strength, throwing for 415 yards, good for 16.6 yards per completion. The bubble screen — a staple of A&M’s aerial attack most of the season — hardly made an appearance. Tannehill connected on two 68yard bombs to Ryan Swope and a 47-yarder to Uzoma Nwachukwu. “You’re gonna have a few chances a game [to make big plays],” Tannehill said. “You’ve See Football on page 4
DeLoss “Darth” Dodds, Texas athletic director, said in a statement Friday that the rivalry is postponed until at least 2018 because the Longhorn’s nonconference schedule is full. Now that the Lone Star Showdown is on hold until 2019, Aggie fans wonder which team(s) will serve as the knockoff of the longest-played intra-state rivalry in the nation. Simply replacing the Texas game with another heated matchup is an impossible task. The Twelfth Man yells, hisses and cusses loudest against the school that has belittled A&M’s progress on and off the field for 117 years and then some. Here’s my wish list of filler rivalries until the Showdown’s return: No. 1 Oklahoma/Oklahoma State Either team works as both have good football pedigrees and are tearing through the 2011 season ranked in the top-10. Oklahoma football is synonymous with winning after seven national championships. The Sooners are national contenders and bring in top-10 recruiting classes each year. Who wouldn’t want to compete with that each season? OSU is to OU what A&M is to t.u.: a little state school trying to step out of the shadow of big brother. The Pokes have flourished under See Rivalry on page 4
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For recyclers, a ‘Dream’ comes true
Students welcome autumn with pumpkin patch Tori Blanchard
Austin Adams The Battalion A Redbox-sized, robo-recycling machine — dubbed the “Dream Machine” — hums and flashes outside classrooms 113 and 114 in Wehner Building. The Dream Machine recycling initiative is a PepsiCo Inc. and Waste Management effort, offering rewards for each plastic or aluminum waste item recycled. “Only 12 percent of public spaces are equipped with recycling receptacles — indicating a clear need for greater public access to recycle bins,” said Tiffany McBride, regional marketing manager for Pepsi.
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Senior agriculture major Erik Mitchel uses the Dream Machine in Wehner. Students recycling at the Dream Machine for the first time register and receive a rewards card, used to identify a specific account in future visits. This way, students’ See Dream on page 3
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The Battalion It is Aggie Habitat for Humanity’s biggest fundraiser of the year, an annual community event for Covenant Presbyterian Church, and a chance for students to add a fall flavor to their abodes. It’s the great pumpkin — the great pumpkin patch, that is. “The community really enjoys the pumpkin patch,” said Elly Espinoza, senior entomology major and director of special events of Aggie Habitat. “You will see older ladies asking for someone to help them as they try to roll around these huge pumpkins. Sometimes people come and take family pictures there. It’s really pretty and welcoming.” Located at 220 Rock Prairie Road in College Station, at Covenant Presbyterian Church,
the patch attracts both community members and churchgoers alike. Hailey Minter, director of special events of Aggie Habitat and junior Pumpkin human resources development major, said picking it is convenient that Pumpkin patch the congregation of the hours are 12 p.m. Covenant Presbyterian until dark Sunday Church walks past the through Friday, and patch when entering Saturday from and exiting service. 8 a.m. to dark. “They use a big corner lot by the church for the patch — it’s nice to see it go to such good use,” said Steve Martindale, Covenant Presbyterian member. “We
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