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Students to honor fallen veterans Emily Davis The Battalion The Texas A&M community honors fallen Aggies during Muster every year with the Roll Call for the Absent. On Friday, students and community members will honor fallen veterans with the National Roll Call. A&M is one of approximately 180 schools participating in National Roll Call this Veterans Day. Students and volunteers will read the names of the 6,200 U.S. casualties of the wars of the last decade. The roll call starts at 8 a.m. and will continue un-

til 5 p.m., located at the end of Military Walk near Rudder Tower. At 1 p.m., A&M will join other universities in a moment of silence. Otis McGresham, student assistance services coordinator in the Division of Student Affairs, organized A&M’s participation in the event. “I’d like to have a pretty consistent crowd for the roll call,” McGresham said. “The purpose is to have people be there to hear the roll call.” McGresham said 25 Aggies’ names will be called. Most of the veterans on the list served in Afghanistan with Operation Enduring Freedom and in Iraq

with Operation Iraqi Freedom and, more recently, Operation New Dawn. “It’s a way to honor those who have sacrificed all for our freedoms,” McGresham said. “We should show a little bit of respect for what they have given us.” Madeleine Faubert, junior political science major, is volunteering to read names during the roll call. She said it’s important for students to actively honor veterans. “It’s a great opportunity to remember and, in some little way, give back See Veterans on page 4

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Olsen overhaul Jay Kapadia — THE BATTALION

The Aggie baseball team will open its 2012 season on Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park. Construction began immediately following A&M’s final 2011 home game.

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reparing for Texas A&M’s newest athletic facility — Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park — has been a team effort. “The team took the visiting locker room and made that into a weight room,” A&M athletic director Bill Byrne.

“The head coach’s wife designed and upgraded the locker room and the kids went in and painted it.” Spearheaded by a $7 million pledge from Blue Bell Creameries in nearby Brenham, Texas, baseball sports information director Adam Quisenberry called the $24 million stadium “one of the sweetest spots in all of college athletics.” “It’s going to give us a first-class facility to showcase the tradition of our program,” Quisenberry said. “We’ve always had rich tradition here and now we’re going to have the facilities to match it.” Olsen Field housed many conference champions

and All-Americans since it was built in 1978, but has reached the end of its useful life, Byrne said. “We were just way behind,” Byrne said. Byrne said the old Olsen Field stadium needed to upgrade concourses, add additional restrooms and install vertical lifts, to name a few of Blue Bell Park’s additions. “When it was built, it met code,” Byrne said. “Now it doesn’t come close.” A&M’s baseball team has won the Big 12 conference tournament the past two seasons. Associate athletic director of facilities Kevin Hurley said the upgraded stadium befits a champion squad.

“We believe we are adding tremendously better event venues,” Hurley said. “There will be a club that will serve both the baseball team while it’s having a game and then will also serve outside functions, much like the Zone Club.” The stadium includes features that Hurley said recruits will not be able to ignore. “It really gives baseball an upgrade to be able to recruit, to be able to compete with any stadium at any university in the country,” Hurley said. After the renovations, only the stadiums of Louisiana State and Arkansas will offer more seating See Olsen on page 2

Olsen Field facts, stats ◗ Olsen Field was built in 1978 ◗ The Blue Bell Park project costs $24 million ◗ Blue Bell Creameries contributed $7 million to the renovation project ◗ Seating capacity at Olsen was 7,053 before the upgrades ◗ The largest crowd in Olsen history was 11,052 versus Texas in 1999

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James Solano The Battalion The No. 11 Texas A&M soccer team (15-5-2) plays in the first round of the NCAA tournament at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Ellis Field. The No. 3 seeded Aggies head into their seventh-straight NCAA Tournament appearance against Louisiana State (13-7-1). Head coach G Guerrieri said LSU is a tough Free game opening opponent that has established Friday itself with big wins A&M students get this season. “This is the third in free at Friday’s year in a row that home match against LSU. If the we have probably the hardest firstAggies win, they and-second round will play the winner possibilities, as far of West Virginia as games,” Guerand Virginia Tech rieri said. “[LSU at a time and has] beaten some of location to be the teams that are announced Nov. 18. seeded in this tournament. It’s a game that, for us, has to be circled and really studied. We played them two years ago and prevailed in penalty kicks.” The Aggies enter the NCAA Tournament with the top scoring offense in the nation — averaging 3.23 goals a game — led by a pair of freshmen forwards. Kelley Monogue has scored 18 goals, 45 points and nine assists, while Annie Kunz has scored 13 goals, 33 points and seven assists. LSU was the runner-up in the Southeastern Conference this season, advancing to its fourth NCAA appearance. The Aggies and Tigers will meet for only the

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second time ever, with the last meeting resulting in a narrow 4-2 penalty kick decision in A&M’s favor. The Tigers ended the regular season with a 3–0 shutout against Arkansas but are coming off a 0–3 blanking in their last outing against Auburn in the SEC Championship game. LSU is led offensively by its Canadian senior midfielder Taryne Boudreau’s 12 goals, 30 points and six assists on the season. At goal, LSU’s Mo Isom has compiled 57 saves and eight shutouts, allowing 20 goals in route to a 13-5 record. With a young team comprised of 10 freshmen, the Aggies are poised for the

NCAA Tournament with a healthy roster. A&M received an automatic bid to the tournament after beating Oklahoma State to win its 12th Big 12 Tournament on Sunday, and finished second in the conference at the end of the regular season. In the first round of the 2010 NCAA Tournament, A&M traveled to Minneapolis, Minn., where the team played through snow and freezing temperatures to tie North Dakota State, 1–1, in double overtime. The Aggies were then eliminated by Minnesota in a 2–0 shutout. The Aggies will look for a different result this year at home with favorable weather conditions against the Tigers.

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Freshman midfielder Meghan Streight winds up for a pass across field. A&M’s record is 15-5-2 for the 2011 season.

Robby Smith The Battalion Inhale, exhale. Inhale, exhale. For most, breathing is a simple, subconscious function of the body occurring every moment of every day. Seldom do people contemplate the air that flows in and out of the body, or the other contaminants along for the ride. A Texas A&M professor brought students, scientists and politicians together in Washington D.C. this week to address environmental issues. Renyi Zhang, professor of atmospheric sciences, was responsible for the 2011 International Year of Chemistry Symposium on Stratospheric Ozone and Climate. Students and professors from the College of Geosciences and the George Bush School of Government and Public Service also contributed to and attended the symposium. “Because this is the International Year of Chemistry, we hope to raise public awareness of how clean-air issues affect atmospheric conditions all over the world, and how billions of people can be adversely impacted,” Zhang said in a media release. One theme of the event was the impact of the 1987 Montreal Protocol, an international treaty during the Ronald Reagan administration that addressed ozonedepleting substances in the atmosphere. Fittingly, the symposium was held at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. Yuan Wang, atmospheric sciences doctoral student, presented research at the Young Scientist Forum during the symposium. She said the diversity of backgrounds in the group made the event valuable. “Without talking to policy-makers and congressSee Clean air on page 2

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men, it’s hard to see the significant relevance between sciences and social problems,� Wang said. Eric Chan, chemical oceanography doctoral student, said the symposium was about finding answers, not arguing politics. “[Sharing research] is important due to the state of the global warming debate being a partisan issue, while it truly is not,� Chan said. “Global warming is a real issue that is affecting all of humankind around the world.� The symposium convened five days before the signing of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990’s 21st anniversary. The amendments reformed the original Clean Air Act and targeted acid rain, urban air pollution and toxic air emissions, and established emissions trading and banking. Zhang said former President George H. W. Bush’s climate policies have reaped lasting benefits. “There is increasing evidence that the benefits of the Montreal Protocol and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 extend also to climate protection because the industrially produced chemicals responsible for depleting the ozone layer are also important greenhouse gases, which potentially contribute to global warming,� Zhang said. Republican politicians have discussed restructuring climate policies in the federal government, including the role of the Environmental Protection Agency. Andrew

Card, acting dean of the Bush School who served as secretary of transportation for the 41st president, defended the 1990 legislation and said the symposium came at a time when the public is concerned about climate issues. “I believe that a look back at the impact of these key amendments will help clarify some of the issues now under discussion,� Card said. Bush shared a similar message via video at the symposium, urging attendees to look to the bipartisan efforts of the past when dealing with the problems of today. “Working together with Democrats in Congress, we enacted a sweeping revision to federal law based on market principles and performance standards that addressed air pollution, acid rain and ozone protection in an innovative way,� Bush said. Ann Bowman, Bush School professor who teaches environmental policy and management, said Bush’s bipartisan environmental policies made positive change possible and cost effective. “The bill passed overwhelmingly with Democratic and Republican support,� Bowman said. “But most importantly, the air is cleaner and it didn’t cost as much as people thought.� Jeryl Mumpower, director of the Bush School’s masters of public service and administration program, spoke highly of the event and the legislation it honored. “We had extraordinarily talented persons who were responsible for a most important piece of environmental legislation,� Mumpower said.

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Blue Bell Park will include luxury boxes, club suites and added accommodation seats for fans with special needs. Fans will also be closer to the action because designers decreased the distance between home plate and the first seating row. Berms were added along the first and third base lines, allowing fans to watch the game from these elevated grassy knolls or take the traditional route of chair seating. With the construction and stadium enhancements, Hurley said fans shouldn’t worry that general admission ticket prices will increase. Box reservations, he said, would pay more for the stadium’s luxuries. The team currently uses portables to

study and conduct team meetings, but will move into the completed areas prior to the season’s February start. “They have temporary facilities out there, they have the batting cages — they’ll be able to start practicing and do all that kind of stuff and then eventually move into their various facilities,� Hurley said. When February rolls around, Quisenberry said the Aggies hope to put a product on the field consummate with the grandeur and beauty of the team’s home. “It’s going to be a really great place to showcase our facility, our worldclass coaching staff and support staff,� Quisenberry said. “They’re going to have a home that’s unrivaled in all of college baseball.�

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or many years, an unassuming volunteer organization known as the National Memorial Ladies has attended veterans’ funerals, young and old — as many as 60 services per week — to ensure that no soldier is buried alone. Their only aim is to honor those Americans who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. Some of the women dedicate their time in memory of their own loved ones; others simply seek to express the condolences of a grateful nation. All pay their respects to our fallen soldiers — even when no one else is present to do the same. While watching the news this past summer, I was surprised to see a family friend, Marilyn Koepp — longtime neighbor in my hometown of Spring, Texas, and mother of two Aggies — interviewed on national television regarding an incident involving the Department of Veterans Affairs. The director of the Houston National Cemetery, Arleen Ocasio, instructed Marilyn that she and the Memorial Ladies could no longer say, “God bless you” in their condolences to the families of deceased veterans. Furthermore, Ocasio removed a Bible, cross and Star of David from the building. This was yet another warning sign along the dangerous road our country is navigating. The First Amendment states that Congress cannot make laws “respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting free exercise thereof.” Ocasio, like others, had taken this ban of an official religion to mean supporting the absence of religion itself. In the most fundamental sense, atheism is a religion — a set of values and beliefs which comprise a worldview — insofar as any other doctrine. Whenever government seeks to

Retired Lt. Col. Carl Weinschenk Jr., U.S. Army, salutes during a Veterans Day ceremony on Thursday at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

censor traditional faiths, it necessarily imposes state-sponsored In a time of widespread political apathy, they have proven atheism on unwilling citizens. that our ultimate course as a nation remains in the hands of Religious freedom is protected by allowing — within the the American people. By refusing to allow their freedom to constructs of law — the free and open practice of any faith. It be restricted, the National Memorial Ladies demonstrated is not achieved by the eradication of all faiths. that we can preserve the sanctity of our laws and the openDirector Cheryl Whitfield of the Naness of our democracy. tional Memorial Ladies, felt compelled to But more than anything, they have We have a to stand up not only for the veterans’ famireminded us that the rule of law itself remember the fallen is predicated on the sacrifices of our lies, but also for her belief in God and the freedom to exercise that belief without soldiers; that as citizens, we have a duty and an to government interference. to remember the fallen and an obligaAttorneys from the Dallas-based tion to exercise the liberties for which exercise the liberties for Liberty Institute argued that the VA they fought. unequivocally violated the First AmendOn this Veterans Day, as we reflect which they fought. ment in allowing Ocasio’s orders to on our nation’s soldiers and the sacstand. The parties arrived upon a settlement in which the rifices of those serving, let us not forget Lincoln’s timeless VA agreed “not to ban, regulate or otherwise interfere with words spoken at Gettysburg. prayers, recitations, or words of religious expression, absent “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task family objection.” remaining before us; that we here highly resolve that these The Bible, cross, and Star of David have been returned to dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under the chapel, where they sit on an open shelf to the side of God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that governthe room. ment of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not The National Memorial Ladies have exemplified true citiperish from the earth.” zenship. Whitfield, Koepp and their fellow volunteers spoke for both our veterans and our Constitution to achieve this Kevin Markowski is a senior political science major desirable result. and opinion columnist for The Battalion

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Wildcats to test Aggies Austin Meek The Battalion Immediately after falling 41-25 to Oklahoma last weekend, Texas A&M head football coach Mike Sherman started looking to this weekend’s matchup, a battle in Manhattan against No. 14 Kansas State. “I think they’ll bounce back,� Sherman said. “There’s still a lot out there in front of us that we need to accomplish. Certainly our expectations from the start of the season compared to where we are right now don’t coexist but we’ve just got to win one ball game and try to get the best of an opponent that really hasn’t made a lot of mistakes.� Mistakes are the reason the Wildcats are ranked and the Aggies are not. Texas A&M’s season has been marked by productive first halves and the surrendering of double-digit leads in second halves; head coach Bill Snyder’s Wildcats have minimized their errors, as evidenced by their plus-11 turnover margin. The Aggies’ last trip to the Little Apple came two seasons ago, and the away team left with a big bruise from the 6214 thrashing. “I just remember everything that could’ve gone wrong went wrong,� junior linebacker Jonathan Stewart said. “They were on fire. They were playing like the best team in the nation that day.� Senior quarterback Ryan Tannehill said the script is simple for the Aggies to return home unscathed. “Don’t turn the ball over,� Tannehill said. “That’s the key that we have to focus on this week. Being clean, focusing on the details, and not turning the ball over.�

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Senior running back Cyrus Gray will be expected to produce once again in Christine Michael’s stead. Sherman will have to get creative with the play calling in the absence of Christine Michael. The junior running back tore his ACL against Oklahoma and is out for the remainder of the season for the second consecutive year. After Michael broke his leg in 2010’s game against Texas Tech, senior running back Cyrus Gray took full-time backfield duties and averaged 134 rushing yards over the final seven games, helping the Aggies earn a Cotton Bowl berth. Sherman said he is hopeful he can reproduce his stellar 2010 season. “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.� The Wildcats started off the season a perfect 7-0 before dropping their last two, including last week’s near-win against Oklahoma State that went down to the wire but eventually saw K-State as the 52-45 losers. Their success can be attributed to one of the country’s best rushing attacks, ranked 19th in the nation while averaging 217.2 yards per game. KSU dual-threat quarterback Collin

Klein has 1,223 yards and 9 touchdowns passing as well as 906 rushing yards and 19 ground scores. Sherman said that if they can contain Klein, the Aggies have a good chance at winning the ball game. “It starts with the quarterback,� Sherman said. “They have a dual threat in the backfield, not unlike Missouri in that regard. We’re gonna have to do a good job of keeping things in front of us and wrapping up and tackling. They’re gonna run the football, there’s no question about that.� Sherman said A&M will need to be prepared for the pass as well. “When you’re that effective running the ball, play action becomes a factor,� Sherman said. “You get your linebackers stepping up leaning towards the running game and then they take their shots in the passing game. They will be a challenge for us.� Stewart said he is looking forward to the chance to showcase the mettle that makes up these Aggies on national television against the 7-2 Wildcats. “It lets us see what kind of team we are,� Stewart said. “We’re gonna hit you in the mouth and see if you can handle it for four quarters.�

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The Battalion Continuing the pace toward a national title, Texas A&M men’s and women’s cross country teams run in the NCAA South Central region meet Saturday at the Cottonwood Creek Golf Course in Waco, Texas. The men race on a 10,000-meter course starting at 10 a.m. and the women start on a 6,000-meter course at 11:15 a.m. The top two teams from each meet qualify for the NCAA Championships, something the No. 24 Aggie men could do for the first time since 2008. “The men have been racing consistently well all season, with our best team performance coming at the Big 12 meet,� said A&M assistant coach Wendel McRaven. “At this point all we need to do is to continue to race like we have all season. Doing that, I am confident that we will put ourselves in a great position to qualify for nationals.� A&M looks to edge No. 11 Texas and No. 15 Arkansas for one of the automatic berths but is predicted to finish third in the regional and receive one of 13 at-large bids to the title meet. The Aggies trail Arkansas and top-ranked Texas in the South Central rankings. However, head track coach Pat Henry said he is expecting a trip to nationals later this month in Terre Haute, Ind. “We’ve beaten a lot of the teams that are ranked nationally at other meets we’ve gone to, and that’s a real positive,� Henry said. “I think you have to get in the top two to say that ‘we’re going to go to the national championships’.� Junior transfer Henry Lelei is an early favorite with Arkansas junior Eric Fernandez, Houston’s Wesley Ruttoh and Texas freshman Craig Lutz. Ruttoh won the Ohio Valley Conference Cross Country Championships last season at Eastern Kentucky and Fernandez is the reigning SEC individual champion. Lelei finished third in the Big 12 Championships last Saturday to lead A&M’s fourth-place finish. He said the men are prepared for the stiff competition in the

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to the veterans who have given so much to us,� Faubert said. “We should honor them every day, but the least we can do is give them that one day to appreciate their efforts.� Faubert said the roll call is a good way to honor veterans because it humanizes the people who served in the U.S. armed forces, giving names to the statistics. “It’s more personal and it hits home a little bit more,� Faubert said. “A lot of these kids who have died are our age.� Roy May understands first-hand the sacrifice that many veterans have made for America’s freedoms. The freshman general studies major spent 12 years in the Army. In

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Junior transfer Henry Lelei receives the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year award. regional meet. “When you know people are talking about [qualifying for NCAAs], you just have to do it,� Lelei said. “The team is very good, everybody’s ready to go to Indiana next week.� The women’s side also has No. 14 Texas and No. 17 Arkansas taking the two automatic spots to the NCAA Championships. The Aggie women enter the meet ranked sixth in the South Central led by junior Natosha Rogers’ twelfth-place finish at the Big 12 Championships. Two Aggie women qualified as individuals for the national title meet after Tara Upshaw finished tenth and Rogers finished eleventh. Rogers said training is important but production matters most in races like the upcoming regional. “It’s about what you can do on the day [of the meet] that matters,� Rogers said. “Obviously regionals matter because it leads to nationals so it takes a lot of mental toughness and it definitely defines the sport.�

2009, he was deployed to Iraq. “Unfortunately there are names that get called each year that I know and served with,� May said. “It’s incredibly important that people take time to honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice to your country.� May volunteered to read the names during the roll call and is also speaking to a Navasota school Friday afternoon about the importance of Veterans Day. May is glad A&M is participating in the roll call, and feels that A&M does a good job honoring veterans every day. “The greatest thing about A&M is that it doesn’t require a national holiday for this university to recognize military sacrifice,� May said. “That’s what I’ve always loved about A&M. That’s why I’m proud to be a part of Texas A&M University.�

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