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Bomb threat hoaxer charged After an extensive investigation by the FBI and Brazos County law enforcement, Dereon Kelley of Bryan was arrested and charged for a felony violation of the Federal Explosive Materials Statute for the Texas State Threat. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in federal prison and a possible $250,000 fine. Brittany Henderson, also of Bryan, is no longer a person of interest in the Texas A&M bomb threat case.
Town hall meeting to be held The City of College Station will hold a town hall meeting for public input on proposed pedestrian infrastructure improvements along University Drive and between College Main and South College Avenue. The meeting will include exhibits and a presentation by city officials on the proposed pedestrian improvements at 7 p.m. on Monday in the A&M United Methodist Church Annex Sanctuary.
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Henry Lelei added an SEC Runner of the Year award to go with his haul of three SEC Runner of the Week awards this season.
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After being named men’s SEC Runner of the Year to go with three SEC Runner of the Week nods, Lelei seems to be taking the transition in stride. “The transition was hard,” Lelei said. “[America] is different from how Kenya is. I came over here and I was fast, but my first
semester I couldn’t catch up with people. As I proceeded on, I learned.” Texas A&M head coach Pat Henry said Lelei is one of the forerunners of the Texas A&M cross country team. In the past couple of years, with the help of Lelei, the Aggies have claimed numerous No. 1 finishes and have competed with the best, including a third place SEC championship finish. Coach Henry said one reason Lelei came to Texas A&M is his competitive nature. “Henry is an individual that’s very intent on being very successful himself, but he really loves being on a good team,” Henry said. “So he wanted to be on a team See Lelei on page 5
Ahead of the curve ◗ Posted fifth fastest winning time since the SEC added the 8,000 meters in 1986. ◗ Led SEC in 6,000 meters, five miles, and 8,000 meters this season. ◗ Won conference meet by 17.5 seconds, breaking the previous course record in the process.
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Cyclist spreads Christian message through music Aimée Breaux Special to The Battalion Expressions of belief such as those from fireand-brimstone preachers promoting angry messages and can lessen onlookers’ desires to listen. Sometimes all it takes to make an impact on the surrounding community is a man on a bicycle. Jordan Chappell, sophomore sociology major, rides to and from class on a bicycle covered with various verses from Psalms. While few may have seen his text-ridden bike, more have probably heard the Christian music blasting from a stereo in his backpack. He said his reasons are simple. He wants to share the warmth he finds in Christian music. “God was really able to speak to me through music,” ChappelI said. “I feel like there was one song in particular that really got me hooked and if all it took was one song for me, there could be one song that really speaks to someone else. If it has the same effect on them, if they are able to
see Jesus through the music, then that’s what my main goal is.” Chappell said he hopes the music he plays will serve as a means of turning around a bad day. “I’ve had several people tell me that they were having a bad day and they heard a song and it completely changed their day,” he said. “So, I know that that’s not me, that’s Jesus working through the music.” George Garcia, freshman Blinn Team student, was one such person affected by Chappell’s music. “I can’t say much for the religious aspect of it,” Garcia said. “But when I heard the music playing, it definitely brought a smile to my face after a long morning at work.” Unlike some religious preachers, Chappell’s goal is built around promoting goodwill and a positive image: the kind of free speech that is ensured by First Amendment rights. Chappell said his expression of belief is a sort of See Biker on page 6
David Cohen— THE BATTALION
Sophomore sociology major Jordan Chappell uses his speakers to communicate his faith to others around campus.
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Candidates’ economic policies share common goal Shrikant Chaturvedi Special to The Battalion The economic policies of President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney were guaranteed discussions in the presidential debates and have proven to be a pressing issue in the presidential race. In response to the need to increase jobs, Obama supports an insourcing policy that would provide incentives in America by eliminating tax breaks for companies outsourcing jobs to other countries, according to his campaign website. Romney stresses retraining American workers to help them obtain skills needed for job opportunities in the modern economy and attracting the best and the brightest workforce from around the world, according to his campaign website. Lori Taylor, associate professor at the Bush School with a doctorate in economics, said Obama and Romney line up in regard to boosting manufacturing and increasing jobs. She said Romney is in favor of cutting taxes and regulations to encourage business growth and that his plan seeks to increase trade, energy production, human capital and labor flexibility.
Evan Andrews and Elyse Wudeck — THE BATTALION
Obama supported bailouts of automobile companies back in 2009. Romney took a different stance by proposing that those companies go through a managed bankruptcy to avoid costs incurred by labor contracts with the United Auto Workers Union. According to his website, Romney is against stimulus spending by the federal government because he believes it adds to
the federal debt. Taylor said bailouts might not work in the long run for the economy. “The assistance provided to auto manufacturers was instrumental in helping them to avoid See Economics on page 5
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soccer | A 2-0 semifinal loss to Auburn cut short A&M’s first SEC tournament.
volleyball | Weekend wins over Alabama (3-0) and Arkansas (3-1) have A&M in first place.
w. basketball | The Aggies dispatched Arkansas-Fort Smith in a rout, 102-29.
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Basketball tips off season In an exhibition, men’s basketball topped Incarnate Word, 97-83.
Efficiency model Mark Doré: Fans have a newfound trust in this team, and the numbers show why
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&M throttled Mississippi State Saturday morning — the game was over before I finished breakfast — but there was something wrong. I’ve seen big wins in my time here. Some, though not many, were bigger than Saturday’s road win over the No. 15 Bulldogs. I was thrilled with the win, but I wasn’t beside myself as I was in 2010 after the Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas games. Have I matured since my freshman year? Hardly. So what was the difference? I’ll tell you: Saturday, we expected it.
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Top: Redshirt freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel carves the Mississippi State defense for some of his 129 yards on the ground. Bottom left: Senior running back Christine Michael carried 11 times for 52 yards and two touchdowns. Bottom right: Manziel makes it to the second level of the Bulldog defense on one of his 21 carries.
Johnny Manziel was sensational, but we’ve already seen sensational. Sumlin and Kingsbury threw together a cocktail of offensive looks that had a decent Bulldog defense guessing — and guessing wrong — all afternoon. Aggie fans have a team whose product they can be confident in every week. Take a moment and compare that with last season. Has the performance on the field merited such a wholesale shift in fan confidence? Let’s look at the numbers. By my count, Manziel has led 18 drives over the past two games before being pulled for his backups — a 63-21 win at Auburn and a 38-13 win at Mississippi State. For our purposes, let’s define a successful drive as one that leads to points or puts the kicker in position for a makeable field goal. Freshman kicker Taylor Bertolet warrants a conversation best saved for another day, but it’s unreasonable to blame a quarterback for a kicker’s misses.
Of those 18 drives, 17 have been successful from Manziel’s end for a conversion rate better than 94 percent. That’s seven touchdowns and a missed field goal in eight drives against Auburn, and six touchdowns, three field goal attempts (two missed, one made) and one punt in 10 drives against Mississippi State. Before we go on, a clarification, because observant readers will have caught something in that last sentence. What happened to the fumble at the goal line Saturday? The play in question was ruled a turnover on the field and a Mississippi State touchback after Manziel stretched across the goal line. The ruling was wrong. He had the full nose of the ball across the goal line and the rulebook says that’s six points. It won’t show in the box score, but just as a quarterback can’t be blamed for a kicker’s misses, he can’t be blamed for a referee team’s misses either.
The offense won’t convert 94 percent of its first-team drives in Tuscaloosa against No. 1 Alabama next Saturday, just as it didn’t against LSU or Florida. Against Alabama and the unrivaled best coach of the nation, Nick Saban, the same coach who decried the breakneck speed of offensive schemes like Kingsbury’s, there are too many variables in the way of definitive prediction. I don’t know if the fact that A&M and Alabama played LSU in much the same way means anything. I don’t know if LSU’s success through the air with a quarterback inferior to Manziel was an indictment against an Alabama team some thought invincible, or if Zach Mettenberger and LSU caught Alabama napping. If it’s the latter, don’t count on a team catching the Crimson Tide off guard twice in a row. But maybe Alabama is beatable. Maybe defensive lineman Damontre Moore has anchored that unit enough to keep Alabama
quarterback A.J. McCarron in check long enough for the slippery Manziel to do his thing. If the Aggies win the turnover battle by two or more, win the field-position battle by 15 yards or more, and don’t let the penalty yardage stack too high, the game will be within reach. If only two of those three things come to fruition, Sumlin will have his first road loss in his tenure at A&M but no one will blame him. If none of those things happen, it’ll get ugly for the maroon team. Alabama is a machine. The Mississippi State and Auburn wins were impressive, not shocking. They showed us a hyper-efficient Manzielled offense converting possessions into scoring opportunities better than nine times out of 10. But to topple the national championship favorite at home, that would shock the nation. But should it? Isn’t A&M the best — or at least most complete — two-loss team in the country? Isn’t
the team peaking at the right time? Or have I been buying too much of what Manziel has been selling? In Tuscaloosa, we’ll see. Much of the expectation for A&M to win games has been filtered through Manziel. This week, I don’t think that’s the case. His isn’t the perennial behemoth program that almost let its season slip away against LSU. He’s not the redshirt junior aiming for a second straight national title. Saturday, he’s a redshirt freshman playing ball on its biggest stage one week removed from bar hopping in a Scooby-Doo costume. If I was Saban, that would terrify me.
Mark Doré is a junior English major and sports desk assistant for The Battalion
A&M strikes early and often in 38-13 road win at Starkville James Sullivan The Battalion The atmosphere surrounding Davis-Wade Stadium was quieter than usual Saturday afternoon. Mississippi State’s football team was more accustomed to the air being filled by the sound of thousands of cowbells. Instead, the aura was that of silence. A&M dominated in the division clash, taking home the 3813 win in impressive fashion against the stumbling Bulldogs. “Silence is golden,” Aggie defensive end Damontre Moore said. “At the end, people started
disappearing and the bells weren’t ringing as much. We kind of set our own tone.” Entering hostile Starkville, Miss., the Aggies weren’t to be denied a victory as the offense racked up 693 total yards on 97 plays while the defense contained MSU to 310 yards. Leading the charge for A&M was, once again, redshirt freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel, who completed 30 of 36 passes for 311 yards while rushing for 129 more and scoring twice, including a 37yard scamper to push the Aggies to a commanding 21-0 lead late in the first half.
“We’re very fortunate to have a quarterback like [Manziel],” said junior running back Ben Malena. “With him being the great athlete that he is, he can stretch the ball with his arm or his legs. It just gives us another dimension to this great offense we have.” A&M’s defense, considered a preseason liability, suppressed the Bulldog offense with ease, allowing all 13 points in the second half with the first-string on the sidelines. Efficient Bulldog junior quarterback Tyler Russell wasn’t able to find his stride, completing 19 of 30 for 212 yards with a touchdown and an interception. Meanwhile, the
conference’s second-leading rusher, junior LaDarius Perkins, was held to 42 yards on the day and no scores. “Whenever you go on the road and win, particularly in this league, it’s a team effort,” said head coach Kevin Sumlin. “It’s not one side of the ball. In the first half, we played well as a complete football team. There are a lot of things that we can continue to [improve].” With still a quarter of the season left to play, the Aggies are an imposing 5-0 on the road, a statistic that will be put to the test when the team takes on undefeated powerhouse and No. 1 Alabama in Tuscaloosa next weekend.
Despite the big-game atmosphere that’s hovering over the ranked matchup, the Aggie locker room has already begun to prevent itself from treating the top-seeded Crimson Tide like any other conference clash. “We’re college football players, they’re college football players,” said senior linebacker Sean Porter. “We put our pants on just like they do and we’re not going to treat them any different than anybody else.” Texas A&M (7-2, 3-2) picked up its first ranked victory against a Southeastern Conference program with the 25-point crushing of Mississippi State (7-2, 3-2).
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A&M seizes control Wins over Alabama and Arkansas net volleyball team first place in SEC West The Battalion On Sunday afternoon after the match against Arkansas, the tune “Takin’ Care of Business” by BTO blared throughout Reed Arena. The Aggie volleyball took care of business with a weekend sweep of Alabama and Arkansas. A&M (19-5, 11-4) opened a two game lead for first place ahead of the Razorbacks. “It was a really good win today,” senior libero Megan Pendergast said. “We got better as a team and that is what we are going to focus on.” Everything started on Friday night as the Aggies took on the Alabama Crimson Tide. The Aggies used key kills from senior outside hitter and team captain Tori Mellinger as the Aggies took the first set 25-17. The Aggies opened the set with an 8-8 tie but used an 8-2 run to give themselves breathing
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Lelei will lead an Aggie team that is ranked No. 3 in the region against No. 1 Texas and No. 2 Arkansas in Fayetteville on Friday.
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where there were sprinters and jumpers and throwers. He just didn’t want to be on a cross-country team, he wanted to be on a track team that had aspirations of being successful. Henry is one of those guys we love having in our program because he is a great competitor.� Lelei transferred to A&M in 2011 after winning several NJCAA medals including a first place and runner-up in the steeplechase. Lelei continued his success at A&M, receiving the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year award last year. Lelei had early success this season, earning a first, second and fourth place finish at invitationals. Texas A&M assistant coach Wendel McCraven said Lelei was more than ready for the SEC championship. “I think he stepped up and wanted to be a champion,� McCraven said. “He came into the meet pretty confident and has been running well all season. He smashed the previous course record here and looked really good throughout the race. It just sets him up as one of the top guys in the country.� The Vanderbilt course record was 24:10:60
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bankruptcy, but was also problematic because it changed the incentives for businesses in the future,� Taylor said. “Firms — particularly firms with large unions — may now take on more risk because they expect the government to bail them out in the future. If firms believe that they are too big to fail, either banking or manufacturing companies, then they are prone to bad decision-making. Bailing them out may be attractive in the short run, but it can lead to bigger problems in the long run.� Clean and Green Energy Obama has backed clean energy projects by providing tax credits to companies that support clean energy manufacturing. Romney wants to empower the states to control on-shore energy development on the land within their borders and also recommends opening more offshore areas for energy development. Trade Romney endorses an open-market strategy, creating a level playing field for free trade which works in favor of the country. He says minimizing barriers in cross-border commerce will increase economic growth and that this strategy will open up markets for American goods and services and create jobs. Obama’s plan is to assist American workers and businesses in the global marketplace by attacking unfair trade practices to create a level playing field. “Most economists agree that free trade is
and Lelei went into the race knowing he wanted to outlast his opponents and break the record. Lelei said he just wanted to get the win for his team. “It was a good race.� Lelei said. “I came here to win for my team. That was the main thing. I asked what the course record was here yesterday, so that when I was getting ready for the race I knew what I needed to do to break the record and win the race.� Lelei looks to defend his South Central region championship. Last year he ran the 10,000 meters in 30:09.4 to grab the win, nine seconds faster than the second place finisher. A&M finished second in the regional and Lelei went on to claim ninth at nationals. Lelei said he would like to defend his title this year and get a top-four finish and possibly win nationals. “Regionals are coming up next week,� Lelei said. “I know I’m the defending champion. I’m just going to defend my title. After that, nationals is in two weeks. Last year I finished ninth. This year I think I’m in better shape than last year. These are my friends. I’ve raced them. I’m going for top four or five or if things change, why not take the title?� Lelei will seek to defend his regional title Friday in Fayetteville, Ark.
good for the economy, but not necessarily because it creates jobs,� Taylor said. “Free trade is good because it allows domestic consumers to pay lower prices for imported goods and allows domestic firms to access new customers overseas. Free trade can lead to job losses in some domestic industries, but the gains to consumers more than offset the losses to the firms.� Adam Myers, senior lecturer at Mays Business School, said the predominant motivation of people who chose to come to America was to pursue enough wealth to attain “happiness.� The Declaration of Independence does not state happiness as a right. It states that the “pursuit of happiness� is a fundamental and “unalienable� right. “Some politicians believe the role of government is to facilitate the pursuit of happiness by protecting and helping citizens who engage in such pursuit,� Myers said. “This concept is codified in the state law governing corporations, which declares the paramount purpose of a corporation is to increase the wealth of its owners. Some politicians also believe this concept is best implemented by government policies promoting competition resulting in survival of the fittest.� Clay Martin, junior biology major, said he would like to see the candidate with the more effective policy for creating more jobs win the election. “The economic policy should benefit the common men and should not only appeal to the wealthy,� Martin said. “[The] unemployment rate needs to be cut back in the long run for better job prospects for students.�
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electoral vote did not win the popular vote. “I would say that [the race] is as close as the race in 2004, but not as close as the race in 2000,� Fulton said. “There is a possibility of the popular vote being won by Romney but the electoral vote being won by Obama.� Unlike in Texas, candidates spend much more effort campaigning in swing states. “I would say 90 percent of campaign resources are deployed in the swing states,� Fulton said. “Here in Texas we really have not seen any Romney or Obama campaign ads because they see it as a waste of money.� Fulton said the high level of exposure these swing states have to candidates is something that might be foreign to A&M students. It might take some time, but Fulton said Texas might be a swing state in the future. “Texas is one of those states that could potentially go blue again, especially with the growth of the Hispanic population,� Fulton said. “Texas was a blue state as recently as 1976 and this is really not that long ago.� Florida has been at the heart of the battlefield in this election, and with 29 electoral votes, it will contribute more votes than any other swing state. Erin Jester, editor-in-chief of The Independent Florida Alligator at the University of Florida, said politics are inescapable in Florida and on the university’s campus. “You can’t cross campus without someone talking to you about the election and usually from both sides,� Jester said. Jester said Michelle Obama, Ann Romney and Bill Clinton visited their campus recently. “It is almost overkill,� she said. “It seems like politicians are coming here almost every day at this point.� Jester said while some students complain about the constant election coverage, they
should realize that they are given a unique chance to be more educated on the issues. Wisconsin is the home of Paul Ryan, but that still does not guarantee that Romney will sweep the state and claim its 10 electoral votes. Wisconsin has been a democratic state in the last six elections, but often by narrow margins. Most polls show Wisconsin leaning toward Obama, but the outcome is not certain. Ryan Rainey, editor-inchief of The Badger Herald at Wisconsin State University at Madison, said the political climate in Wisconsin is split. “In Wisconsin, in general, it is extremely divided and at times vitriolic,� Rainey said. Rainey said it is impossible to turn on the TV without being bombarded with political advertisements. He said Obama even held a rally in the center of campus earlier this year. No state has seen more campaigning this year than Ohio, which contributes 18 electoral votes. Ohio has sided with the winner of every presidential election in the last 48 years and it could be the single deciding factor of this election. Ally Marotti, editor-inchief of The Lantern at Ohio State University, said the political climate in Ohio is as tense as ever. “Everyone knows how important Ohio is,� Marotti said. “I have had a few professors tell me that Ohio is one of the only places where your vote actually counts.� Marotti said Obama visited the Ohio State campus five times in the last two years and that Romney visited the city of Columbus. Marotti and many other analysts agree that the swing states are where the 2012 election will be won. “I think that [the election] is going to come down to Ohio and the other swing states,� Marotti said. “All eyes are on us.�
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obligation given the open environment on campus. “Why not talk about Jesus if you can talk about him?� he said. “So many people hide what they feel instead of expressing the way they feel. To live for Jesus, he wants you to live unashamed. That’s Romans 1:16, and to live unashamed, you have to be willing to share what you feel to the world. So, music is a great way to express how you feel.� Chappell said street corner preachers are often there for the wrong reasons, which could push people away from Christianity. “They get this mindset of a Christian [as] being this angry person who has a set of rules that you have to do in order to earn [God’s] grace,� Chappell said. “Nothing about [the relationship with God] is angry. The difference between that and the music that I play is that this [music]
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