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Breakaway, meet Simpson
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Breakaway took its thousands-strong student Bible study to Simpson Drill Field on Tuesday. Jordan and Jeff Johnson (top left) led worship music and Breakaway director Ben Stuart (middle left) delivered a message.
a&m vs. alabama
Mae Jemison, the first black female astronaut, speaks to students Tuesday.
Sumlin, players preach preparation consistency For A&M, Alabama just another conference game
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The Battalion aturday’s matchup between Southeastern Conference rivals No. 6 Texas A&M and top-ranked Alabama has been under the watch of almost every college football fan around the nation. ESPN’s Saturday morning pre-game show, College GameDay, will be hosted live from Simpson Drill Field outside the stadium. “The Rematch” — a nickname the game has earned recently — was selected by CBS, which is only allowed to pick one SEC game per week as its choice for live broadcast to a national audience. Inside the Bright Complex Tuesday morning for the team’s weekly press conference, the A&M football program must have missed the memo. Each player who took the podium delivered the same simple message — Alabama is just another game, and the team is going to treat it as such. “As a player coming into a big week like this, you don’t want to blow it out of proportion,” said senior defensive back Toney Hurd Jr. “It’s just another game for us as we’re just starting out SEC conference play.” Five upperclassmen up, five down and not a
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single mention that the Crimson Tide were any more special than Auburn, Vanderbilt or even Sam Houston State. Junior cornerback Deshazor Everett, whose fourthand-goal interception last season helped clinch A&M’s 29-24 victory over the top-ranked Tide, said it was key to maintain a routine each week when preparing for opponents. “If you approach it like it’s the Super Bowl, you’re going to go out there and be nervous and do things you wouldn’t normally do,” Everett said. “We have to approach it like it’s another week, but you also have to go out there knowing you have to play football and you have to bring your ‘A’ game. It’s a big game, but we’re going to go out there and play hard and do what we do.” The A&M coaching staff, led by head coach Kevin Sumlin, has preached the importance of consistency during practice regardless of the opponent. Junior wide receiver Malcome Kennedy, who scored the winning touchdown for A&M in Tuscaloosa last season, said Sumlin remains the source of the stability within the program, particularly when See Presser on page 5
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Evolving literary magazine hits stride in second effort
Fast-growing mag open for writing, art submissions Lindsay Gawlik The Battalion
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he Eckleburg Project, a literary magazine at Texas A&M, is taking submissions for its Fall 2013 edition, the second edition in the magazine’s history. The Eckleburg Project was created in the fall of 2012 by eight students, in conjunction with the University Writing Center, who felt A&M needed a literary magazine. They named the magazine after the ever-watching eyes of the Dr. Eckleburg billboard in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” feeling this reflected how artists are constantly observing the world. Head fiction editor of The Eckleburg Project and senior English major, Taylor Wendt, said the Eckleburg Project is all about providing students with an outlet. “The Eckleburg Project is a literary magazine at A&M,” Wendt said. “It’s an outlet for creative minds to
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express their creativity and to give students a chance to have a voice at A&M since we are predominantly a math, science and business school.” The Eckleburg Project, which started as an academic endeavor, is now a quickly growing A&M organization. The project was previously funded by the University Writing Center alone, but is currently waiting on official University funding. For the sake of publishing a strong fall edition, they are taking dues from their new members
and are charging $3 per submission. Each person may make three submissions. The Eckleburg Project has several new features, including a blog which will showcase different pieces of art weekly and new positions such as the “Old Sport” Advertising Advocates and the Managing Editor. This year’s managing editor, senior English major, Amanda BlackHendrix, said The Eckleburg Project is aiming to publish once per semester and is also currently in the process of interviewing for editing positions. The editors have been taken by surprise at how quickly the organization is growing, she said. “We opened up our applications for our editorial board and got three times the applications that we thought we were going to be getting,” Hendrix-Black said. “We on The Eckleburg Project Team are in awe, just so excited and surprised by the support and interest we are getting from the community.” See Eckleburg on page 6
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n 1963, Texas A&M opened enrollment to African Americans and women. Half a century later, the University is celebrating the positive impact diversity has made on the quality of Texas A&M. “Celebrating 50 Years of Inclusion” is a semester-long program led by the Office of the Vice President and Associate Provost for Diversity. The kick-off event on Tuesday, “The Sky is Not the Limit,” brought the first African-American woman astronaut, Mae Jemison, to Rudder Auditorium to share her experiences. “Two days from now will mark the day of my 21st birthday,” Jemison said, referring to her first space flight aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. At the event, Jemison spoke on the importance of space exploration and how it can serve to bring people together despite their differences. “The most important way to encourage space exploration is to make people feel as if they are all included, as if they are all a part of something,” Jemison said. “It’s amazing to think I am a part of this universe as a tiny
speck of dust in space.” Jemison’s speech attracted a diverse crowd to campus that included university, high school and middle school students. Kathy Li, senior international studies major, said Jemison’s talk carried an important message to those in attendance. “[Jemison’s talk] was hopefully inspiring to some of the elementary and middle school kids who were here,” Li said. Lisa Thompson, associate professor of education leadership and counseling, said Jemison’s story is a testament to diversity and achievement. Jemison left NASA in 1993 and has since pursued a variety of spacerelated ventures. She is currently involved in the “100 Year Starship” collaboration, with the mission to work toward the possibility of interstellar travel within the next hundred years. The next event in “Celebrating 50 Years of Inclusion” is the Hispanic Heritage Month’s opening ceremony at 6 p.m. Monday in the MSC. Staff report
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“Seeing from when I was a freshman to now, it is so hard to find a parking spot. Even though that’s annoying, it is so great to see so many more Aggies coming out to shout the name of God.” Chelsey Evans, junior interdisciplinary studies major
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Vengeance to forgiveness Faith-based film makers from A&M announce long-awaited release Emily Thompson
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hree years ago, the work seemed almost over for Aggie filmmaker Joshua Mills, but he will finally see his first feature film, “Brother’s Keeper,” hit the big screen in November. The movie, set in Georgia during 1957, is inspired by Christian values and depicts a story of revenge and forgiveness. Mills, Class of 1998, said the process has been full of challenges and changes. He said one of the more obvious alterations might be the title change of the film from “Fishers of Men” to “Brother’s Keeper.” “The way it was first put together was with the brothers as fishermen,” Mills said. “There were some similarities in the New Testament in the book of Matthew, for people who know who Peter and Andrew are, since this is a faith-based film. However, we began to realize that it didn’t quite match what the story was doing. Over time, ‘Brother’s Keeper’ thematically fit the story much better.” While Mills calls his movie a faith-based film, he said he doesn’t want the movie to be branded with others in the genre. “Faith-based content, over time, has unfortunately adopted a negative stereotype,” Mills said. “Bad acting, bad editing, bad directing and bad story lines are distracting to an audience. They collapse the fourth wall and bring the audience back into reality. The audience is no longer engaged as an emotional participant.” Mills said his team was not content to allow this to be a possibility. “We wanted to raise the bar on faith-based films,” Mills
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David Porter, Texas railroad commissioner, speaks Tuesday regarding American energy independence. forms, especially compressed gas.” Porter said the conversion is a matter of adjusting current infrastructure, but the future is bright. “It’s basically an infrastructure issue,” Porter said. “We are encouraging more government transportation fleets — school buses, garbage trucks — to switch to natural gas. But until it’s proven to be economically viable, conversion can’t take place.” In his ending remarks, Holdritch said Texas and the United States will continue to work toward making America as energy secure as possible to keep America growing.
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have been able to communicate better with the graduate students about social events and professional development workshops. We have established better channels through the GSC president’s roundtable to collaborate with other organizations to reach a wider audience and enrich our student experience. We also foresee the ability to work with undergraduates to revive a sense of unity on campus and provide opportunities for graduate students to serve as mentors. Last, but not least, we will continue the fight for fairness on campus with research funding for graduate students. We will continue to provide travel awards for conferences, but hope to recognize and share other available resources of funding. This year, the University celebrates “50 Years of Inclusiveness,” a momentous decade that enabled students to find their voice on campus. The legacy of those student protesters was the expansion of student pride in their universities because they, for the first time, had the ability to have a say in campus affairs. In the same way, we graduate students are finding our own voice to express the pride we have as being graduate students, as well as Aggies. Thanks and Gig ‘Em!
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in a shrinking world. “Globalization is a part of our future,” Steele said. “Our students today live in a global society. The challenge that we have, specifically Bradley D’Souza with Texas A&M as a land grant institution, is Special to The Battalion our obligation to be a world leader in agriculpanel of A&M AgriLife administrators will tural research.” convene Thursday to discuss international Sams said he believes students, specifically agriculture as part of The Norman Borlaug In- those in the College of Agriculture and Life stitute’s 2013 Seminar Series. Sciences, need to participate in the global The program, “Texas A&M AgriLife’s In- community and to experience other cultures ternational Direction,” will take a look at the and countries. increasing role Texas A&M University will “The world is getting smaller,” Sams said. take in a changing world. It will be held at noon “In order for people to be successful profesin the Agriculture and Life Scisionals and leaders in the world, ences Building and is open to all The world or even just in Texas, they need students, faculty and staff. is getting to have an appreciation for differSpeakers at the event will inent cultures. They have to have a smaller. clude Douglas Steele, director of sense of international commerce, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, In order for people and the things that drive it.” Craig Nessler, director of Texas to be successful Kripa Patel, freshman mathA&M AgriLife Research and professionals and ematics major, said she believes Alan Sams, executive associate leaders in the Texas A&M students should be dean of the College of Agricul- world, or even exposed to a variety of cultures. ture and Life Sciences. “Texas A&M University needs just in Texas, they Sams said the central purpose to be involved with these proof this discussion is to clarify need to have an grams because we are able to learn AgriLife’s stance and role in the appreciation for about other cultures while they global community. different cultures.” learn about us,” Patel said. “The “One of the things The Borinformation and ideas we share — Alan Sams, executive laug Institute wanted to do was with the world can benefit many associate dean of the get the perspective of the top adCollege of Agriculture people, and not just one country.” ministrators in the AgriLife proSteele and Sams said all memgram,” Sams said. “They want bers of the University stand to us to talk about where our vision for interna- gain from going to the seminar. tional engagement is, whether it be in educa“I think it’s for students, both undergradution, research or service.” ate and graduate, who want to understand how All discussions in The Borlaug Institute for their university is reaching out to other parts of International Agriculture’s Fall 2013 series will the world,” Steele said. be focused on the agricultural economies of Sams said the event also reveals the Univerdeveloping countries and ways in which global sity’s priorities. food supplies can be increased. The institute’s “I think the staff and faculty will benefit from purpose is to bring research, training and edu- knowing where the University is going and cation to developing countries and is joined in what’s important to Texas A&M,” Sams said. their efforts by Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension and the College of Agriculture. Steele said the University’s role is expanding
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(Top) Senior defensive back Toney Hurd Jr. discussed Tuesday the way the team treats Alabama as a regular game. (Bottom) Junior wide receiver Malcome Kennedy said head coach Kevin Sumlin was the source for A&M’s approach.
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preparing for opponents throughout the season. “[Sumlin] has this strong sense of urgency every week,” Kennedy said. “It pretty much goes down the chain of command to the staff and then it trickles down to us. He just wants us to stay calm and treat it like a normal game..” Junior offensive lineman Cedric Ogbuehi said this game is no more important than the next, noting that if A&M were to defeat Alabama but lose down the line, the win would lose value. “If we win this game and
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lose the next game, it doesn’t matter anymore,” Ogbuehi said. “This is the first [conference] game in the SEC, so that’s all we’re thinking about. We have to be 1-0 [in conference play] after this game. It’s the third game of the year, so there’s a lot more games left to play.” In fact, the only player to acknowledge the game’s magnitude was senior running back Ben Malena, who said he expected Saturday’s atmosphere within Kyle Field to be unimaginable. “I’m pretty sure [Kyle Field] will be, in the whole four years I’ve been here, an experience I’ve never seen,” Malena said.
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Editor-in-chief and senior English creative writing major Madison Parker said the organization has exceeded expectations with its booming growth. With three times the number of applications expected, Parker said she was excited about the outpouring of Aggie interest and support. “I am encouraged by the responses we have received because that is just a huge testament that the Aggie art community is so much larger than we give it credit for,” Parker said. “It is encouraging to know that we have a strong backing behind our art community here, that even people who don’t contribute art can appreciate it.”
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I’m encouraged by the responses we have received because that is a huge testament that the Aggie art community is so much larger than we give it credit for.” — Madison Parker, editor-in-chief of The Eckleburg Project
Students learn network skills at the I-Global Leadership Workshop.
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he International Students Association will be hosting its third annual I-Global Leadership Workshop on Sunday in the MSC to teach students networking and leadership skills in a culturally diverse community. The event will feature guest speakers with culturally diverse backgrounds. Linda Edwards, director of community outreach in the Office of the Provost, will be presenting a seminar called “Raising Your Cultural IQ,” designed to educate students on how to improve cross-cultural interactions and avoid communication clashes. International Student adviser Lesley Vaculin and theatre arts professor Michael Greenwald will be conducting interactive team building exercises. President of the International Student Association (ISA) Sakshi Gupta said the activities and lectures led by the guest speakers will help students step out of their comfort zones and learn. “When you are from another culture, you
may feel suppressed,” Gupta said. “You may have an accent and feel unable or afraid to express yourself. The I-Global Leadership Workshop teaches you to not be scared, to be a leader wherever you go.” Graduate student Amit Ghoshal is a newcomer to both the workshop and to Texas A&M. He is working on his second doctorate, but said he is going to the event because there is always more to learn. “They say that it doesn’t matter what you know, but who you know,” Ghoshal said. “If you want to be successful, you have to network. That is key.” Attendees will receive a Certificate of Completion, get to enjoy an array of international foods and have a chance to win prizes. Yashwant Vyas, junior electrical engineering major, said the value of the program will be the education and experience it provides. “A certificate of completion may get damaged or lost,” Vyas said, “but nobody will be able to take away what you have learned.”
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