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Football player missing The University Police Department reported a missing student on Wednesday. Thomas Linze Johnson was last seen leaving his residence in College Station on Monday at 5 p.m. He was wearing a black jacket, black shorts and gray shoes.

Johnson is a black male, 18 years old, 5’11”, 180 lbs., with black hair and brown eyes. He is also a wide receiver on the Texas A&M football team. Johnson has family and friends in the Dallas area and may have traveled there, according to a news release from UPD. “All of us are obviously very concerned about the safety and wellbeing of Thomas Johnson,” said head coach Kevin Sumlin.

“Authorities are working closely with his family, friends and law-enforcement agencies to help locate him. We pray for his quick and safe return.” Anyone with information regarding the location of Johnson is asked to contact University Police immediately at 979-845-2345.

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music | 5 Red dirt roundup The alternativecountry band, Cody Canada & The Departed, will debut their first original album Friday in Downtown Bryan.

Canada returns to Aggieland from his Cross Canadian Ragweed days to rock the southern house.

inside life | 4 Ministry reaches out Healing Faith, a unique ministry started by a former student and his wife, offers physical and spiritual healing to the people in Uganda.

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Pasta party Julie Blanco shares thoughts on her vegan challenge and makes two easy, vegan pasta dinners.

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The Christian Bubble

Religious trends polarize on-campus community Joanna Raines The Battalion The concept of standing out isn’t new to Christianity. In the Bible, Jesus commanded his followers, “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” Looking at Christian Aggies, it may be reasonable to add, “and wear Chacos, TOMS and T-shirts from

Christian organizations.”

It’s a trend prevalent with many Christians on campus — identifiable by appearance alone. They look the same, talk the same and do the same things. Christians are often separated from the rest of campus by the invisible but existent “Christian Bubble.”

The Christian Bubble — slang for the population of Christian students

who share similar lifestyles — has grown so large as to be unrivaled in volume by any other faith group on campus. Of the University’s more than 800 recognized student organizations, 80 percent are affiliated with Christianity. In one particularly visible display of Christianity’s prevalence in the student body, more than 10,000 students attended the first Breakaway

Bible study of the semester.

As the spotlight on the Christian subculture grows brighter, a conflict arises. Is the bubble about faith or fashion? Are Christians at A&M recognized by their exterior appearance or personal religious beliefs?

One Twitter handle, @aggiechrisSee Christian Bubble on page 3

golf renovations

Course offers unique play experience, research Julie Blanco The Battalion The renovated Texas A&M golf course will soon join the ranks of premiere university golf courses and provide its visitors with a world-class golfing experience.

Renovation of the Texas A&M golf course is underway and will finish in fall 2013. Landscapes Unlimited is the firm overseeing the renovation.

“You can classify it as a renovation,” Kurt Huseman, branch manager at Landscapes Unlimited said.

“But in essence it will be a brand new golf course.”

The new course will offer a unique golfing experience in the heart of Aggieland.

“There [are] a lot of places people travel to play golf,” said Rene Rangel, principal of the renovation project for Sterling Golf. “They travel to the beaches, play golf courses on the coast and even play on golf courses in the mountains. We have a unique view because it’s on the setting of a worldclass university. It’s a very different experience and we feel that’s going to elevate us when people get to experience that.”

The renovated layout of the golf course will be

one that many courses cannot match, Rangel said, due in part to the location of the course.

“The setting takes it up a notch,” Rangel said.

“There’s not too many places that you can step off the golf course, put your clubs in your trunk and basically walk to Kyle Field.”

Jeff Blume, Class of 1958, designed the course for the enjoyment of golfers of all levels and utilized the natural lay of the land to add to the design’s ability and create diverse holes.

See Golf course on page 2

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A&M falls to Penn State, 63-58

Concealed carry bill passes

Chandler Smith The Battalion Youthful mistakes and missed opportunities were the story of the night for the No. 13 A&M women’s basketball team as the Aggies fell 63-58 to No. 9 Penn State at Reed Arena.

Leading for the majority of the game Wednesday night, the Aggies couldn’t generate enough separation from the Nittany Lions to come away with their first victory of the season.

A&M led Penn State by five at the half but would falter in the final six minutes, never hitting a field goal through that stretch.

Gary Blair said the A&M Achilles’ heel was the disparity in experience.

“The difference between junior and senior starters is they want the ball down the stretch,”

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Somewhere freshmen have to grow up.”

The Aggies couldn’t buy a shot at times, struggling to put points on the board in sizable

After many weeks of debate, Student Senate officially passed the “Texas A&M Personal Protection Bill,” which advocates for concealed carry in campus buildings.

The concealed carry bill passed with a vote of 38-19 at the Oct. 31 Senate meeting, but was stalled after a motion was made to reconsider the bill. At Wednesday’s meeting, the motion to reconsider the bill failed, officially passing the bill out of Senate.

Scott Bowen, senior chemical engineering major and speaker of the Senate, said the bill’s next stop is the desk of the Student Body President John Claybrook.

“At this point it comes to me and I either have the chance to sign it or veto it,” Claybrook said. “I’m going to be looking forward

See Basketball on page 6

See Senate on page 6

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Freshman guard Jordan Jones dribbles toward Penn State’s basket during Wednesday’s match at Reed Arena.

Blair said. “They don’t turn it over and they make the right plays. [Penn State] did a good job in that regard. We have too many kids that don’t know how to set offenses. We’re having to scramble and improvise all over.

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Golf course Continued from page 1

“The piece of land itself is an excellent piece of land for golf,� Huseman said. “It’s a very gently rolling site, which will then provide a lot of opportunities for the design team to create great golf holes.�

The layout will feature an 18-hole course, bigger driving range, a practice green and three extra holes for teaching and research purposes.

The three extra holes will allow students in the golf kinesiology class to play a few holes of golf, rather than just hit on the driving range and on the practice greens. “That adds another element to their education of actually learning how to play golf without having to go on the golf course and pay the

green fee and learn on an 18-hole facility,� Huseman said. “We can exclude them so that so they can have their own ‘learning to play golf area,’ which is unique.�

The three extra holes also provide research opportunities to turfgrass physiology and management professors and students.

The turfgrass physiology and management research field labs, led by Richard White, can be translated from the lab to the golf course to get a better understanding of how the grass can withstand the playing conditions. “You can change out grass on the greens,� White said. “And then ask, ‘Do people like it? How does it play?’�

Researchers also test how different turfgrasses can hold up against varying conditions. “We push grass to the limits [in the field lab],� White

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Bulldozers prepare the land at the Texas A&M course after Sterling Golf’s successful management bid. said. “We do what it takes to keep it alive, but sometimes we kill grass. We see how little water you can put on it to make it look good and play good.�

The research done at A&M will be able to help the University and other golf courses around the country, White said.

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Christian Bubble Continued from page 1

“I feel like when you tell somebody in the Christian Bubble that you don’t do these things — not intentionally — they automatically think you aren’t on their level of commitment to God and Jesus’ teachings.”

tian documents the stereotypes of the Christian Bubble on campus, tweeting with hashtags like Kevin Havis, a mechanical engineering gradu#christianpickuplines, #thingsaggiechristianssay ate student who is behind the twitter account and #aggiechristianprobs. The profile was created @mugzpianoman, said he sees the stereotypical following a conversation at the Christian fresh- trends of the Christian Bubble while at Mugwalls. men orientation camp Impact about how recog“There are a lot of people there who are havnizable the Christian subculture is. ing Bible studies openly and having spiritual dis“Starting this Twitter handle was a lightheart- cussions,” Havis said. “You kind of overhear that ed approach to the many stereotypes that do fol- a lot.” low us and there are so many stereotypes within The Christian Bubble is a symbol our University,” @Aggiechristian said. “It was a of unity that allows students to way to help students relate to one another and remain connected to their laugh together.” faith while at college. @ Dressing in the mold of the Christian Bubble Aggiechristian said it is means wearing Chacos, TOMS and attire that both biblically sound identifies with a Christian organization. The and necessary for trend of wearing Chacos — a brand of outdoor- Christians to be oriented sandles — originated with students bonded together. working at Christian summer camps and has since For many, things caught on with students who have never braved like footwear and the wilderness. study spots that Angel Miller, senior wildlife fisheries sciences may seem unremajor, said she has been a part of Christian orga- lated to religion are nizations since she was a freshman. She said she rooted in a desire to has seen trends that usually identify a Christian have Christian comon campus. munity.

“Many people joke that you can always tell if “The Christian culture someone is a Christian by the following: Chacos, at A&M is wonderful,” Miller CamelBaks, Christian organization ‘brotanks,’ said. “I became a believer my freshNike shorts and James Avery rings,” Miller said. man year of college and if it was not for the strong Distinctly Christian mannerisms often comple- community here, I may not have stayed on the ment these fashion trends. There are phrases that path toward Christ.” have stemmed out of church or Bible studies that However, Miller said she is concerned that this are referred to by some as “Christianese.” bubble could be a method of excluding outsid“Many people are not even aware of it,” said ers. As trends grow stronger, alternative lifestyle Ben Scott, sophomore communicachoices are alienated. tion major. “Phrases like ‘incred“The bubble forms when ibly blessed.’” believers become so comFor many members of fortable in the group that the Christian Bubble, it looks as if they have the appearances that stopped reaching out bond the group toto those who are desgether reflect comperate for the love mon interests stemof Christ,” Miller ming from their said. “Believers on faith. For instance, this campus need having a Breakaway to be more aware backpack tag reflects of the fact that some regular attendance at nonbelievers view the Bible study and the bubble as exclufleeces monogrammed sive, even though that is source: Pew Research with Impact camp logos not the intention.” show a desire to provide Elizabeth Rose is a selffreshmen with a sense of Chrisdescribed devout Christian who tian community. said nothing is wrong with being inside “I don’t have a problem with the Christian the Christian Bubble. But even so, because she community bonding together through the small doesn’t partake in the Christian cultural norms, things as well as the big things, both Chacos and theology, perhaps over a cup of coffee at Mug- she feels like an outsider.

“I feel like when you tell somebody in the walls,” @Aggiechristian tweeted.

Christian Bubble that you don’t do these things Dressing and speaking alike may come from — not intentionally — they automatically think time spent together. A popular hangout in the you aren’t on their level of commitment to God Christian Bubble is MugWalls coffee shop. and Jesus’ teachings,” Rose said.

— Elizabeth Rose Some students expressed growing discontent toward the Christian Bubble for not representing Christian values. Scott said as a freshman he was heavily involved in a variety of Christian organizations. He later chose to make himself an outsider because he believes that the idea of a Christian Bubble isn’t a biblical way to live.

“I look at my freshman year,” Scott said. “I was in a Christian fraternity, an Impact counselor and I worked at a church. I was spending 24/7 with believers. Who was I making an impact on?

Who was I sharing the love of Christ with? I wasn’t and I’ve felt the desire to change that.”

Scott, like Rose, doesn’t take issue with Christian organizations, but said people can get so caught up in the subculture that they forget why they are Christians in the first place.

“If who we are is defined by anything other than Jesus Christ then we’ve missed the mark,” Scott said.

Havis said he found being in the Christian Bubble to be encouraging and helpful, but that he is reaching a point where he needs to venture outside of it.

“It also kind of limits people’s interactions and people in the Christian Bubble are kind of betraying the nature of what they’re supposed to be as Christians,” Havis said. “The whole idea of being a Christian is that you have this gospel and it needs to be sent out to the ends of the Earth.

If we’re keeping it in this bubble then we’re not doing it.”

For many of those conscious of the prevalent subculture, the Christian Bubble is walking a fine line between a group of like-minded people and a clique excluding those who don’t share the same mindset.

While most agreed that being exclusive crosses the line, there were differences in opinion as to whether or not that has occurred.

“I can think of specific friends who have definitely embraced that stereotype and kind of done that,” Havis said. “And then I see other people who deliberately go against that and kind of tease other people about it.”

The bubble is defined by the students who exist within it, and it’s up to each individual to decide how their bubble will take form.

“I’m making a personal commitment to pop my own Christian Bubble. If you’re a Christian, I encourage you to do the same,” Scott said.

80% of the University’s recognized student organizations are affiliated with Christianity

79.5% of the population of the United States considers themselves to be Christian

news for you nation&world Israeli military, Gaza militants trade fire Israeli aircraft, tanks and naval gunboats pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Thursday and rocket salvoes thudded into southern Israel, as terrified residents on both sides of the frontier holed up at home in anticipation of heavy fighting on the second day of Israel’s offensive against Islamic militants. The operation, launched in response to days of rocket fire from the Palestinian territory, kicked off with the assassination of Hamas’ top military commander and deepened the instability gripping the Mideast. The air attacks continued steadily into the early hours Thursday.

Stocks slide as impasse over deficit looms Investors drew little hope Wednesday for a quick compromise in U.S. budget talks after President Barack Obama insisted that higher taxes on wealthy Americans would have to be part of any deal. Stocks fell sharply and even a signal from the Federal Reserve that it could launch a program in December to speed job growth failed to encourage investors. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 185 points. Obama made clear he would seek higher tax revenue from the wealthiest Americans, which faces opposition among some Republicans in Congress.

Obama said that a modest increase on the wealthy “is not going to break their backs.”

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Hands of faith Former students provide hope, medicine The Battalion Jason Segner held in his arms a 3-year-old girl with burns on 80 percent of her body after her family member doused her with hot cooking oil.

Segner drove the girl to a government-run hospital and returned three weeks later to find the girl fully healed, despite the burns that almost took her life.

Segner, Class of 2002, along with his wife, Kari, and four children moved to Uganda in January 2012 and started Healing Faith, a ministry that seeks to provide physical, emotional and spiritual healing to the people of Uganda.

Though Healing Faith focuses on delivering medical care to those suffering from diseases such as malaria, Segner said he and his family have felt rewarded by various experiences, such as that of the 3-year-old girl.

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Members of Healing Faith, an organization founded by a former A&M student, test children for malaria in Uganda. medical assistance that’s readily available,” Driskell said.

Noting the Aggie Network’s integral influence on his life, Segner said he was excited to connect with Aggies through the benefit, even though his family will be in Uganda.

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“We also want to bring spiritual healing for them as well,” Segner said. “That’s where we got the word healing. Where the word faith comes from — we lost a daughter and we named her Faith. And it was our faith that got us through that experience.”

The Segners are raising their four children, all under the age of 8, in Uganda and Kari homeschools them.

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Cody Canada & The Departed, a Texas alternative country band, formed in part from members of the band Cross Canadian Ragweed and will perform on Friday in Bryan.

Texas tunes Alt-country band set to rock Stafford main influence. Canada said the way Keen writes music, sings and conducts himself as a Special to The Battalion The newly formed red dirt country band, businessman has helped him achieve the sucCody Canada & The Departed, will debut cess he has now.

Just as Keen, an Aggie alumnus, intheir first original album this Friday at the spired Canada, other local musicians look Grand Stafford Theater in Downtown Bryan to Canada’s success in the music industry with Rosehill. for inspiration.

Cody Canada, a Texas native, ventured to “Cody Canada is such a motivation in the Stillwater, Okla. at the age of 16 to see where fact that he never stopped and has worked so his passion for music would take him. In hard for 16 years already,” said Joe Tiechman, 1994, Canada, along with three other hopesenior agricultural communications and jourfuls started the band Cross Canadian Ragnalism major and local musician. “This shows weed in Yukon, Okla. The band, a combisomeone, like me, that he never took no for nation of red-dirt country with an alternative an answer and that’s what you need to do in rock twist, thrived over a period of 15 years order to make it.” and was one of the first groups to introduce Cody Canada & The Departed will unveil the genre of Texas country to the rest of the their first original album titled “Adventus” South. on Friday, Nov. 16 at 9:00 In 2010, the band decided p.m at the Grand Stafford to cease production on good If you go Theater in Downtown terms as one member needBryan.

The theater has ◗ Presale tickets: $12 ed to care for personal oblibeen a music venue since gations. With the willingness ◗ At the door: $15 1926 when Morris Schulto keep going in the music ◗ Tickets are available man opened it at the Diindustry, Canada along with online at www. xie Theater. After being Ragweed bass player Jeremy grandstaffordtheater.com burned down in 1983, the Plato formed a new Texas theater changed names and country band, Cody Canada management. & The Departed.

Recently, managing partners Cody Marx As a favorite of the youthful audience in Bailey and Jose Arredondo gave the theater a College Station, Cody Canada said he was facelift and are beginning to make the Grand extremely excited to introduce The DepartStafford a unique place for artists to play. ed to Aggieland as well as release their first “I feel like there is huge opportunity in original album. this town, and we want to build this from the “Ragweed has been to College Station ground up,” Bailey said. “When the artists many times in the past and I am sure the new come to town, putting them first is what we band will continue visiting on tours,” Canada aim for to build our reputation”. said. “The energy of the fans as well as the Canada said this event will help jumpstart legendary venues makes our experience that his new band’s career. Though the album much better. We are excited to play for the took a lot of time and effort, he believes it will first time at the Grand Stafford Theater.” generate a lot of excitement among his fans.

As a veteran in the music industry, many “I want to really see the band pick up and artists have encouraged Canada in his career, go forcefully into the music industry,” Canabut Robert Earl Keen, who inspired Canada da said. “I want to be on the road with it 250 at a young age, has never stopped being his days a year instead of half of that.”

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stretches en route to posting a paltry 34.4 field goal percentage. With few veterans on the roster, six underclassmen would see playing time and the inexperienced revealed itself in the form of 23 Aggie turnovers.

Junior center Kelsey Bone said the team is learning as young players gain more experience.

“A lot of people emphasize the fact that we have six freshmen,” Bone said. “You have to understand the entire team is growing up right before everybody’s eyes. We’ve got seniors that haven’t played yet and they’re freshmen in a sense, too. We can’t let games like this work against us.”

Bone and fellow junior center Karla Gilbert were the only Aggies to score in the double digits with 16 and 10 points, respectively. The remaining players to receive playing time would combine to shoot 12 of 48 from the field. Though A&M would force 19 turnovers, Penn State outscored the Aggies in fast-break points 16-6.

Sophomore and veteran point guard Alexia Standish said freshmen aren’t always aware

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to discussing the pros and cons with my team [Thursday] and looking forward to having a decision about it in the next few days.”

Claybrook said Student Senate’s willingness to tackle controversial issues is great, saying it allows himself and the Senate the opportunity to fulfill their responsibilities of serving students.

“It’s our job and our duty to represent the voice of the students,” Claybrook said. “I want to be sure that this is something that is representative of the student body because that was what I was elected to do.”

Claybrook said he has a week to decide before the bill automatically passes.

A&M policy allows concealed carry on campus, but not inside buildings. The Senate bill calls on the University and the Texas Legislature to mandate that concealed carry by allowed on all public university property.

Bills that were presented but not voted on include “The Lone Star Showdown Bill,” which advocates for reinstating the annual football game between Texas A&M and the University of Texas.

Cary Cheshire, junior political science ma-

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“Coach Blair runs a lot of plays,” Standish said. “It can be tough on a freshman knowing where to be at the right time. They’re doing a good job, but like we keep emphasizing. They’re just freshmen in a game where there’s a lot of pressure on them. Things like that are just going to come with time and playing together.”

With No. 2 Connecticut on the docket Sunday, the schedule doesn’t get any easier for a youthful A&M squad searching for its first victory. Already faltering to two Top 10 foes in Louisville and Penn State, the Aggies have yet to face their toughest non-conference test yet.

Blair said winning the early challenges isn’t the important goal in the big picture.

“We wouldn’t be having this conversation if we played three different opening games,” Blair said. “But would we get better as a team and as a program? We were hoping for whatever we could get; we aren’t at that level yet.

We have a chance to get there and we will continue to work. I’m not going to give up on anybody out there.”

jor, is the bill’s author and argued that the annual football game between A&M and U.T. brings enormous economic benefits to the state and would be beneficial to A&M’s football program.

“With the rigor of SEC scheduling, we feel like an easy win against a weaker team would be beneficial to Texas A&M,” Cheshire said.

Another bill presented was “The Not-So Controversial Bike Rack Bill,” which advocates for more bike racks to be installed outside the Commons Lobby main entrance.

Transportation services gave a presentation before the meeting and reported that Transportation Services will install more bike racks in the area and other areas over Christmas Break.

The “Cookie Crusade Bill” was also presented, which advocates for the return of cookies to Sbisa Dining Hall.

Chris Woolsey, sophomore political science major, is the bill author and expressed disappointment that cookies have disappeared from Sbisa Dining Hall.

“As cookies are a very important tradition of on-campus living, their return is of the utmost importance,” Woolsey said.

Bills that were presented will now go through a committee revision process and be voted on in subsequent Senate meetings.

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