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We lost a terrific young man. Polo was loved by his teammates and coaches. Anyone who came in contact with him was struck by his sense of humor and smile. My heart aches for his mom and family members.” — Kevin Sumlin, A&M head football coach

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There’s definitely going to be a little less sunshine around the Bright Football Complex.”

— Amini Fonua, former A&M swimmer and Olympian

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Redshirt freshman defensive end Polo Manukainiu was entering his second season with the A&M football team. Manukainiu was killed in a car crash Monday in New Mexico at the age of 19.

he people who had the opportunity to meet Texas A&M student and football player Polo Manukainiu before his death described him as genuine, friendly, an ambassador and a gentle giant. While on a return road-trip from Utah to Texas Monday night, Manukainiu was one of five occupants in a 2002 Toyota Seqoia. The driver of the vehicle drifted off a New Mexico roadway and overcorrected, rolling the vehicle several times, according to police reports. Manukainiu was ejected from the vehicle and died on the scene. None of the four passengers were wearing seatbelts at the time of the incident. “We lost a terrific young man,” Texas A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin said in a statement released by the A&M athletic department. “Polo was loved by his teammates and coaches. Anyone who came in contact with him was struck by his sense of humor and smile. My heart aches for his mom and family members.” At A&M Manukainiu struck many people as a virtual giant. Upon meeting him for the first time, former Texas A&M football player Damontre Moore said he was caught off guard by the 6-foot-5, 275 pound Manukainiu. “He was this huge kid,” Moore told The Associated Press. “I’d been in college already for like two years and he was this huge monster who had at least two inches over me and he was so intimidating. And when he talked he was the kindest person in the world. He was like the gentle giant.” Moore told The Associated Press that Manukainiu “never complained” as a redshirt freshman and was like a brother to everyone on the team. Manukainiu came from a tight-knit Tongan community in Euless, Texas. Tonga, a set of Polynesian islands, is known as the “Friendly Island” with a heritage that brought Manukainiu and Texas A&M swimmer and Olympian Amini Fonua together

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Texas A&M senior Cammile Adams could make history Thursday by medaling in the 200-meter butterfly finals at the FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.

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The Battalion enior Aggie swimmers Cammile Adams and Breeja Larson packed their bags to travel overseas this week as they compete in the FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Adams will have the chance Thursday to make A&M swimming history. On Wednesday she qualified second in the women’s 200-meter butterfly semifinals. With a strong showing in the final she could become the first Aggie medalist at the World Championships. Winning would mean adding to an already accomplished season after titles in the 200 fly at the Southeastern Conference Championships, the NCAA Championships and U.S. National Championships. The 200 fly is arguably Adams’ best event, as she placed fifth at the London Olympic Games a year ago. It was the highest ever finish by an Aggie swimmer at the Olympics. Larson competed Tuesday in the 100-meter breaststroke placing fifth. Joining the two women’s swimmers in Spain was former A&M All-American diver Grant Nel who finished 11th Friday in the three-meter springboard diving final. While the competition will be over for Nel, Larson will compete in the women’s 50m and 200m

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breaststroke. Adams will compete in three more events — the 100m butterfly as well as the 200m and 400m individual medley. Also in world competition, Texas A&M javelin thrower Sam Humphreys was forced to withdraw from the IAAF World Championships after being injured in competition. Humphreys suffered a broken rib and torn abdominal muscles on one of his throws at a meet in Finland. He will now miss the trip to Moscow, Russia where the Championships will be held. “It’s a tough, tough break for Sam,” Aggie head track and field coach Pat Henry said in a press release from the A&M athletic department. “He will bounce back from this injury, but it won’t be in time for the World Championships. It just proves that the javelin is the toughest event in track and field.” The setback is a familiar tale for Humphreys, who won the Olympic Trials a year ago but missed the standard to make it to the Olympics with a throw that came up just five inches short. Humphreys broke his own school record to qualify for the World Championships after becoming an NCAA Champion in the javelin in June when Henry and the Aggie men won their fourth team championship in five years.

as the only Tongan athletes at A&M. “The likelihood of two guys going to A&M, both being athletes and — being Polynesian is rare, but being Tongan is rarer — so both being Tongan, we connected on that,” Fonua said. “We would walk past each other at (Netum) Steed and we would joke with each other or speak Tongan to each other. There was a commonality between us because of our background.” Fonua said he received text messages early Tuesday informing him of Manukainiu’s accident, which eventually drove him to an early departure from work. “It hit me on so many different levels,” Fonua said. “There are so few Polynesian sports stars out there. He was someone who I think could have been a really great role model not just as a Tongan but as an Aggie. Everyone that knew him on the football team loved him.” Fonua told stories of walking through the Bright Football Complex with Manukainiu only to be stopped countless times by teammates or friends, guys and girls, yelling his name. Manukainiu was described by Fonua as humble, family-oriented and the opposite of the untouchable celebrity athlete, talking to anyone and everyone in his path. “He was one of those guys that when you go to study hall there are people you hope to see and I know he was one of those guys,” Fonua said. Senior agricultural leadership & development major Jerron Reese spent last year working as an intern for Student Athlete Services and Career Coordinator Zerick Rollins. During his time at the Bright Football Complex he would sign Manukainiu into study hall, making casual conversation. “It wasn’t just a ‘hello’ and ‘thanks’ when he would stop,” Reese said. “I would sign him in for study hall See Manukainiu on page 3

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The Battalion he Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences broke ground Friday on a new Exotic & Wild Bird Aviary that is scheduled for completion in May. The 11,000-square-foot building will hold a hospital, a receiving area with quarantine capabilities, two isolation rooms, a Biosafety Level 2 laboratory for infectious disease research, teaching and classroom space and four offices. The building will be located off of F and B road near the General Services Complex. Second year veterinary medicine student Anastasia Koinis was asked to speak at the ground breaking ceremony. “It’s going to bring a great facility for our vet students to learn on our in-house avian population as well as enhance the research being done, giving us a better facility and giving the birds a better environment to live in,” Koinis said. The current aviary uses fans during the hot summer months to cool the birds while heaters try to keep

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Faculty from the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences breaks ground Friday on an 11,000-square-foot exotic bird aviary. The new facility will be able to hold 200-250 birds. up with the winter. The new facility will be climate-controlled and capable of holding a population of 200-250 birds. “This is a beautiful facility that exemplifies the College’s commitment to exotic species and to conservation in general,” said Ian Tizard, Professor of Exotic Bird Health, in a statement. “It enhances our programs in environmental health and will be a

magnificent resource for the whole college.” The aviary will be able to separate infected and healthy birds, something the current facility cannot do. Sharman M. Hoppes, clinical associate professor in the department of small animal clinical sciences, is a specialist in avian See Aviary on page 4

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The Battalion uke Urbanovsky died in a car accident on June 16, 2012, at the age of 19, but his family — both biological and Aggie — has ensured his memory will live on. The “Luke Urbanovsky MSC FISH Endowment,” formed after Luke’s death, has now raised $35,000 — $10,000 more than the original goal — with donations from friends, relatives and Aggies. The money raised for the endowment fund will go to support MSC FISH (Freshmen in Service and Housing), a freshman leadership organization with an emphasizes on community service that Luke was a member of. Luke was one of 80 freshmen chosen to participate in MSC FISH his freshman year. His girlfriend Charley Taggart, a junior psychology major and the current executive director

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MSC FISH (Freshmen in Service and Housing) is a community service freshman leadership organization that completes more than 5,000 service hours each year. of MSC FISH, said the organization changed Luke into a more serviceminded individual, an occurrence common for many members of the organization. “They come in, and they end up

learning how to serve others without receiving in return, and that’s pretty much what our goal is — to give back to this community and See Urbanovsky on page 4

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The Battalion ggies have traveled across the globe to study abroad, gain new experiences and learn about other cultures. Summer is often a popular time to study abroad because it works better with many students’ degree plans. “Over 3,300 students are going abroad this academic year, which is a 13 percent increase from last year,” said Jane Flaherty, study abroad director. “As part of Vision 20/20, the study abroad office helps to globalize the A&M community and to make Texans more aware of other cultures.” Jessica Jewell-Elliott, a junior psychology major who studied abroad in Santa Chiara, Italy, for the spring semester, said a desire for an enhanced perspective on a different culture from her own motivated her decision to study abroad. “I studied abroad to broaden my perspective of knowledge and culture so that I could bring those experiences to what I study, psychology,” said Jewell-Elliott. “But I also went for my own personal reasons. I wanted to let go of life here for a little while and send more time discovering things myself without the distractions I seem to run into a lot here.” Jewell-Elliott said she misses her personal experience in Italy. “The friends I made will last a lifetime and Italy itself opened my eyes to a wide range of issues,” she said. “I never got homesick. In fact, I think I’m more homesick for Italy now that I’m back.” Dustin Ritter, a biomedical engineering graduate student, studied abroad in Rwanda this summer as a teaching assistant and said his time in Rwanda provided real world experiences. “It was a very rewarding, eye-opening and nontraditional educational experience,” he said. “Our first month consisted of courses while we worked in hospitals, repairing medical equipment during the second month. It provided real world immersive application of the engineering skills we learned during our undergraduate years.” Flaherty said studying abroad provides a unique learning opportunity to experience new cultures especially because of Texas’ presence in international markets. “[The program] allows students to get out of their comfort zones,” she said. “They learn not just academically, but they learn how to navigate in another culture. Texas itself is the leading state for export revenue and is therefore tied to international markets and students need to understand other cultures in order to prepare them for their future careers.”

Alexandria Liquez, a senior international studies and Spanish double major who has studied abroad more than once and is now a study abroad ambassador, said students need to understand their neighbors of the world. “We are not only American citizens but global citizens,” she said. “The world has become more globalized and we shouldn’t see the world as a matter of us and them. They are our neighbors and although I started out thinking that I would learn about their differences from us, I actually realized how similar they are to us. It’s a worthwhile and inspiring experience.” Jewell-Elliott said she encouraged other students to study abroad, but also gave some tips for how to have the best experience. “Everyone should go,” she said. “But make sure you’re open to the experience. Don’t go if you just want to tell people you did it. Go to understand and participate in a different art of our world. Get to know the people of the country you go to. They are the ones that really show you how they live. Don’t be a tourist. Go to learn and grow as an individual and incorporate that into your life when you come back. It’s a beautiful thing, to be exposed to something new, and can be the greatest experience of your life if you let it.” Ritter said the study abroad office helps to overcome different barriers that students might face. “Go for it,” he said. “It can be very affordable due to funding, scholarships and online fundraising. It can be hard to make the commitment to decide to study abroad and there may be different barriers like finding the money and navigating paperwork, but the study abroad office provides so much information as well as resources and funding that help the process go smoother.” Emily Drastata, a sophomore environmental geosciences major, said her experience this June in Costa Rica and Nicaragua allowed her a new perspective on her own lifestyle. “I was interested in having a hands-on learning experience, and I ended up having a blast doing field work,” she said. “One highlight was doing research projects at Texas A&M’s property in Costa Rica called The Soltis Center. It was unique to learn in a non-lecture based environment.” Christina Berger, a senior international studies major, said she is excited to experience Italian culture in her upcoming study abroad trip to Rome. “Studying abroad is built into my major, International Studies, which is partly why I chose the major,” she said. “I am blown away by the beauty of diversity and culture in other regions of the world.”

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and he’d hang around the desk talking to me and whoever was sitting up there with me at the time. He would ask about classes, how the year was going, or would talk about football, or any games that had gone on in the past week. He would also ask the lady who I shared the front desk with, Mrs. Janice, about her children and how her day was going as well.” For Reese, Manukainiu’s interest in other people’s everyday lives showed how much he cared for everyone. “It says a lot about his character for him to stop and talk to me without necessarily knowing me,” Reese said. “He genuinely seemed to care about how I was doing. He was a great Aggie, outstanding football player, and an overall phenomenal human being.” A member of A&M’s 2012 recruiting class, Manukainiu was traveling with friends from Euless Trinity High School when the accident happened. Also killed in the wreck was incoming freshman for the Utah football team, Gaius “Keio” Vaenuku. Manukainiu helped Trinity High School to an undefeated regular season and the state playoffs in 2011 as an alldistrict defensive end and was a four-star recruit according to ESPN. “Not only were they physically bigger than life, but so were their personalities,” Trinity principal Mike Harris said

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in a statement. “They were loved and adored. They were kids you loved to send out as ambassadors for Trinity High School. We took as much pride in their being Trinity graduates as they did from being Trinity grads.” On Tuesday, around 2,000 people gathered at the indoor facility of Trinity High School to honor Manukainiu and the others killed in the wreck. The school set up a “Memories & Messages” page on its website on which more than 80 comments have been posted remembering the young men. Economics teachers, lunch ladies, classmates, parents of friends, Macy’s employees, coaches and nurses all have written personal accounts of interactions with Manukainiu on the page. With only a year of school under his belt at A&M, Manukainiu was already beginning to make a similar impact at the university, most apparent in encounters experienced by individuals like Reese. On Tuesday, many Aggie football players took to Twitter to express their condolences in addition to former coaches Kliff Kingsbury and Tim DeRuyter. Texas head coach Mack Brown tweeted his thoughts and prayers along with former Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III. Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel tweeted his sorrow Tuesday morning saying, “Heart hurts waking up to news about Polo.. I think I speak for everyone on our team when I say we love you

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brother you will be missed.” Manukainiu, 19, was a recreation, parks and tourism sciences major and he is survived by his mother, Lima Uhatafe of Euless. Manukainiu is the second Aggie football player killed in an auto accident in less than two years as senior offensive lineman Joseph Villavisencio, 22, was killed in a December 2011 car accident. Manziel mentioned Villavisencio during the Heisman Trophy ceremony last year. While Texas A&M has not yet decided on wearing patches with Manukainiu’s No. 90 for games, his legacy will continue to live on as more and more accounts like Reese’s come up. “It seems he really made an impact on a large number of people’s lives during his short time on campus,” Reese said. “We were lucky to have had Polo.” Fonua too hopes that the legacy of Manukainiu can live on and “galvanize” the football team. But things will certainly be different around the A&M football team without their gentle giant around, Fonua said. “There’s definitely going to be a little less sunshine around the Bright Football Complex,” Fonua said.

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this university without receiving in return,” Taggart said. Luke’s mother Connie Urbanovsky said the outpouring of “love and support” from the university, especially the members of MSC FISH, was vital after Luke’s death, and that the family “couldn’t have gone through this without them.” Sixty to 65 members of MSC FISH attended the funeral, she said. “One night, they were all in Luke’s room,” Connie said. “Probably 15 of them all spent the night in the room. Just wonderful kids. I can’t say enough about the type of friends that Luke was associated with, but he was that type of kid too.” This is her “Aggie family,” Connie said. William Muessig, a sophomore kinesiology major and friend of Luke’s, said though Connie lost a son, she has gained many of what she calls “Aggie kids.” “They really encompass the Aggie spirit and they call us their Aggie family,” Muessig said. “Whenever Connie texts us, she calls us her ‘Aggie kids.’ It really makes us feel so good to know she wants us to be involved and to keep us in the know.” Immediately after the accident, Connie said her oldest son, Josh, wanted a way to memorialize his brother. After making a few phone calls and much discussion, family and friends decided to create an endowment fund to benefit MSC FISH, an organization Luke was not only passionate about, but that Connie said held a “special place” in the family’s hearts. The family originally set the

Founded in 1987 thanks to an endowment by Richard M. Schubot, the center is already helping improve the health of birds kept by zoos, activulturists and individual pet owners. The center also helps to conserve threatened avian species in the wild. The new facility will help glorify those numerous accomplishments, Hoppes said. “Although the Schubot Exotic Bird Health Center is already known internationally in the avian world, many in our own university and community are unaware that we are here and what we have done or are doing in terms of both avian conservation and clinical diagnosis and treatment,” Hoppes said. “This new and improved aviary will increase our exposure and hopefully excite the community and encourage them to support our work in avian research and the care and management of our birds.”

funding goal for $25,000, unsure that there would be a way to reach it. Through donations and a benefit concert put on by Josh, the goal was met and exceeded. “To tell you the truth, when we looked at $25,000 we thought that was an impossible goal,” Connie said. “We really were l i k e , ‘There is no way we’re going to Luke do this,’ Urbanovsky and we did it in a year. That speaks a lot. It speaks a lot of Luke, but it also speaks a lot of College Station and A&M and the kids who attend.” Childhood friend and junior petroleum engineering major Kirk Wallace said the creation of the endowment fund was the perfect way to memorialize his best friend. Luke was passionate about many things at A&M, he said, but MSC FISH stood out among the rest. “I felt like it was a really cool way to carry on his legacy, especially because it was an organization that he was very passionate about,” Wallace said. “Every time I was with him he would say something about MSC FISH.” Taggart said this would not only benefit incoming freshman, but also the community and University the organization provides more than 5,000 service hours for each year. She said she believed Luke “would be so proud” of the endowment fund’s outcomes. By helping fund a service organization, Connie said she hoped this would not only honor her son, but also help create individuals committed to volunteerism.

“My whole take on this is if you can teach the kids to want to give and volunteer, then that’s what they’ll do,” Connie said. “It’s almost like we’re developing kids who are going to go out and help in the future. Instead of just helping the people who need help, we’re actually trying to provide a foundation for people to learn to do that.” Connie said this caring spirit was inherent in her son, along with his constant smile and unflagging optimism. Both she and Muessig said Luke was a presence that could be felt every time he entered a room. “He was funny, he was outgoing, he was loud, he could make you laugh, he could make you want to punch him, he was all the above,” Muessig said. “He was everybody’s friend.” Taggart said he had more confidence than anyone she had ever met. “He just kind of bounced up the stairs,” Taggart said, on first meeting Luke on the steps of the Rudder Tower. “The kid literally acts like he had it all together all the time. He was on top of the world. He is the definition of not caring what people thought.” Whether he was delivering oranges and juice as the selfdeclared “soccer mom” for a friend’s intramural soccer team or completing service projects, Taggart said Luke cared about making a positive difference much more than creating an “image.” “I know people exaggerate things after people die,” Taggart said. “A lot of people do that, but I really feel like nobody has in this situation. He truly had a heart for people. He loved everybody — he gave everybody the benefit of the doubt.”

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