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Basetball preview A&M men’s basketball kicks off its season Wednesday against Liberty in the 2K Sports Classic benefitting Coaches vs. Cancer. Check out the basketball preview issue covering the upcoming 20112012 basketball campaign as the No. 6 women’s team looks to defend its national championship.
inside trends | 3 App streams video A&M students can exclusively download a live video streaming app. Read more on page 3.
sports | 6 Michael tears ACL Junior running back Christine Michael is out for the season. Read about his injury on page 6.
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Aggie soldier dies in combat The Battalion The life of David E. Cabrera, psychology major class of 1992, was taken on Saturday. The Lt. Col., who was a licensed clinical social worker and assistant professor of family medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, was stationed in Afghanistan’s capitol city, Kabul, when his NATO convoy was attacked. According to The Department of Defense, “enemy forces attacked their vehicle with a vehicleborne improvised explosive device,” killing four
soldiers, including Cabrera. “Lt. Col. Cabrera was a soldier’s soldier. He was professionally happiest when in the field with his troops. His sense of service, love of God, family and country are an inspiration to us all,” said Navy Capt. Mark Stephens, Cabrera chairman for the USU Department of Family Medicine in a press release. Patrick Reeves, Corp of Cadets commander and senior biomedical sciences major, said that members of the Corp were asked by Cabrera’s family to be
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Catholic Mass changing translations Barrett House The Battalion The Catholic Church is not known for change. Catholic traditions are an integral aspect of followers’ faith and religious practices. Parishioners born as early as the 1960s have known the same Mass liturgy for their entire lives. However, with the Vatican’s blessing, Englishspeaking Catholics will adjust to an altered liturgy, beginning this month. “What’s not changing is the heart of the Mass,” said Marcel LeJeune, assistant director of campus ministry at St. Mary’s Catholic Church on Northgate. “What is changing is in the English speaking countries, we’re having a new translation of the Mass from the original Latin translation.” When the Mass first changed from Latin to vernacular languages, LeJeune said the English translation was hurried. In comparison to other languages, the resulting English Mass was not translated to reflect the Latin origin entirely. “If you go to a Korean or Spanish Mass, and translate them into English, they’d be more alike compared to the Latin,” LeJeune said. The overall structure of the Mass will not change. Instead, worshipers will notice changes in the prayers and the manner in which they are used during Mass. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Liturgy Committee aimed for the prayers to better reflect not only the original Latin text, but also the bibli-
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Father David Konderla is holding the English version of the Catholic Mass book “The Roman Missal” that will be undergoing numerous changes at the end of November. cal texts. “A lot of the biblical background of what’s in our Mass and prayers is going to come out a little more for the English speaking people in the English speaking countries,” LeJeune said. “So they’re going to have more meat on the bone in a sense.” The prayers have new responses. For example, instead of responding, “And also with you,” when the priest says, “The Lord be with you,” the congregation will respond with, “And with your spirit.” According to LeJeune, this change has a much deeper theological meaning with scriptural background. And while he believes this is a great opportunity for Catholics to relearn their religion, it will be awkward until they do.
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After two hours and three weeks worth of my mother’s Sunday Chronicles, plus a couple of student coupon books, I’ve managed to clip 73 coupons. My fingers are black from the ink and I’m sick of checking expiration dates. So far, the trickiest part of coupon clipping is picking out the coupons I’ll use and passing up ones that don’t apply to me, like “35 cents off of string cheese” because I’m lactose intolerant, or “$1 off Saltine Crackers” because I just don’t eat crackers very often. It’s hard not to get caught up in the excitement of a great deal, but I know I’ll only lose money if I use coupons for items I never use. Yeah...I’ve already gained 2 pounds. I’m guessing it has a lot to do with the fact that I’ve eaten canned soup for dinner every evening and pepperoni slices for breakfast. But hey, I bought them cheap. Still no produce coupons. I don’t think my roommate is okay with me jacking her fruit. Living off of coupon-food is making me lethargic, greasy and larger. Yes, I’ve gained three more pounds. The month isn’t even over.
Today I went to HEB to check out the in-store super savings deals. I left getting a one-pound package of Oscar Meyer lunchmeat, a bag of potato chips, Easy Mac and six mini-yogurt drinks for free. This is a great deal because I saved around $8, but all of the items are fattening. I’m still looking for produce coupons, but with little success.
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“It’s going to be odd for Catholics, and we’ll probably be stumbling over stuff and there’ll be some giggling,” LeJeune said. “But what a great opportunity to have to really dive into it and figure out what’s going on. Each adult Catholic should take this on their own and say, ‘Now I have an opportunity to learn more.’” Students aware of the approaching changes said they are enthusiastic for their native language to be closer to the original text. “I’m very pleased that they are offering us this better translation because I’ve gone to Mass in Spanish and French and have been able to observe how much closer those are to the original Latin,” said Eddie See Mass on page 2
Jennifer DuBose: Saving money comes with a cost
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To celebrate the end of the month, I went out for a spa pedicure at Super Nails and saved $5 with a coupon from a student coupon book, available at most book stores in town. I only had to spend $17 (not including the tip) when the normal price is $21. Good day, I’d say.
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in attendance at the funeral and show their support for the fallen Aggie. Ten to 12 cadets will provide a color guard ensemble and usher services at the midday funeral on Friday in Spring, Texas, at Spring Baptist Church. It will be a closed memorial service for close friends and family members only. Cabrera is leaving a wife and four children. “He actually was not in the Corp when he went to Texas A&M,” Reeves said. “His family gave myself and my commandant a call to help support him
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For my first shopping trip, I chose to go to Kroger because it’s cheaper than HEB and I wanted to try out my Kroger Plus card. It’s a free in-store savings card that usually saves customers around $5 per visit without coupons. After cruising the aisles for about two hours, my total at checkout came to $56.83 after savings of $19.28. $9.13 of the savings came from my Kroger Plus card and the rest was from coupons. Not too shabby. The downside is that most of my cart consisted of soups and packaged foods because there are almost never coupons available for produce and fresh foods. I don’t know how my body is going to handle a month of this, but I’m happy about saving so much.
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The month is officially over, and in total I saved $44.57. Okay, so I didn’t save as much as I thought I would, but for a college kid, it’s a fair amount. With $44, I could buy a tank of gas, or a few books at Barnes & Noble, or I could put it all away for Christmas spending. My savings would probably be bigger if I were buying for more than one person. Then I could use a lot more of the coupons I clipped (I only used about half of them). Throughout the month, I’ve discovered there is no way to live off of coupons and be healthy. This is because most coupon-food is packaged and fattening. In the past 31 days, I’ve gained six pounds, a ton of acne and through it all I don’t remember not being sleepy. Bottom line: I absolutely endorse the use of coupons, but I don’t advise living on coupons alone. Saving money is not as important as being healthy.
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Carlin, junior international studies major and head of the group Ask a Catholic a Question. “Since it’s the language of our church and having a better translation means we’re all more united.� Another student said Catholics should recognize the significance of what these changes mean for worshipers. “A lot of people will be like, ‘What’s the big deal?’ But sometimes, semantics can make a big difference,� senior industrial distributions major George Gagnon said. “I’m excited that this is happening and I’m hoping people will appreciate it.� The changes take effect at the beginning of the Advent season, toward the end of the month. Some of the changes have already been instituted at St. Mary’s, such as adjustments to the text of The Gloria and other musical components of Mass. “All the call and response stuff and the other prayers, we’re going to have to read and learn,� LeJeune said. “So it is going to be a big change, but it’s also a good opportunity for Catholics to learn.�
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Color installation To install the Color application, iPhone and Android users can call **COLOR (26567). already taken off; it’s kind of fun to see.” Streich said the company has worked closely with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg to enhance the social networking website. With the help of the app, Streich said she believes it will engage interactions and make Facebook more versatile. “They want people to spend time on their site and they want their users to be able to have ways to create content and Color works perfectly with that,” Streich said. “I was never really a Facebook user, but it’s kind of where everything is going with all of this social media.” Madeline Streich, Megan’s sister and campus marketing director for Color, said the app has taken off since its release date on Oct. 27 at the Corner Bar and Grill. More than 200 Aggies participated in utilizing the application at the event – that number has since grown to more than 40,000. “The reason we came to A&M campus was we were looking for a very well socially-connected school, and A&M is the perfect example of that because there is such a close-knit community of kids,” Madeline said. “The feedback has been very positive, they love seeing the live Color broadcasts.” Alex Brown, junior biol-
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because it proved to me that the Aggie family and the Aggie network is not just about the Corp and the nonregs — there should be no divider line — we are just one big family.� Reeves said he can sympathize with the family and friends of Cabrera and thinks his death is a reminder of the destruction caused by war. “Obviously any death, no matter if it’s military or civilian, is a tragic one. But I think in this instance, since it was a fallen solider, it is a reminder for our country that this is an ongoing battle until we finally leave Afghanistan,� Reeves said. “What’s very important is that we maintain support for our armed forces because they fight for our freedom each and every morning.� As a member of Corp and future member of the armed forces, Reeves said while he has doubts on sharing a fate similar to Cabrera’s, anyone in pursuit of a military career is aware of the risks when applying for the profession. “I have never been in combat before so I am not going to say that I am not scared — anybody who has absolutely zero fear of going into combat doesn’t know what they are getting themselves into,� Reeves said. “But every morning before I wake up and until I go to sleep, I run my life in such a way that if it was going to be my last day, I would be proud of it.�
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Junior running back Christine Michael’s ACL tear marks his second consecutive season-ending injury.
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Texas Tech in 2010, running back Cyrus Gray took over the full-time gig and averaged 134 rushing yards over the final seven games of the season. Sherman said he is hopeful that Gray can have a similar impact while writing the final chapters of his senior season. “I know that Cyrus is as disappointed as the rest of us that Christine is hurt, but Cyrus probably plays better when he gets more carries in the game and tries to find his niche,� Sherman said. “Hopefully that will be the case and he can stay healthy and we can move forward. Ben Malena, who played in the game the other day, will also have to contribute and I’m confident that he will.� Sherman said Michael’s injury will remind his teammates of the significance of scholastics. “It’s a just a great lesson for all of our guys how important that academics are,� Sherman said. “You just never know, and he’ll certainly be able to come back from this, but you just never know when your last game is going to be. So it’s important that they get their degrees and graduate and have options.�
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