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Receiver Mike Evans, shown celebrating his 95-yard touchdown catch, hauled in 279 yards Saturday, but downplayed his performance, saying it “wasn’t enough.”
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Freshman forward Liz Keester scored A&M’s opening goal Sunday against Cal Poly.
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exas A&M wide receiver Mike Evans departed Kyle Field Saturday exhausted, requiring intravenous fluids and oxygen just to make a late appearance at the post-game press conference. Evans’ effort, though, paid off in his stat line, as he completed the biggest day from any Aggie wide receiver in program history. “I gave it all I had,” Evans said. “I caught cramps at the end of the fourth. I feel kind of beat up, like I played a whole season.” Finishing with a school record 279 receiving yards, Evans did it all against the top-ranked Crimson Tide. Combined with a former career-best 155 yards receiving last week against Sam Houston State, Evans has emerged as the nation’s leading wide receiver, accumulating 518 yards over three games. See Evans on page 1
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Syrian student shares conflict perspective Family among millions forced to relocate due to violence
While his father still lives and works in Damascus, Syria’s capital, his mother and sister moved to Lebanon to escape from the violence in the region. “Because of the situation and security, it is not
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hile most A&M students have watched news on the Syrian conflict unfold on their TV screens, an international student from Syria gets a firsthand account of the crisis every time he speaks to his family late at night. The Student — who requested to remain anonymous for personal reasons — and his family have a firsthand experience with the conflict, which has been waging for over two years between the Syrian government and the civilian opposition. The United Nations estimate that more than 100,000 have been killed in the conflict and about two million have fled from the country because of the violence. The Student said he left Syria before the revolution began to study engineering at A&M. His main concern has not been whether or not the United States will intervene, but about his family and the lives of his fellow Syrians.
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Graph indicates the approximate apportionment of Syrian refugees to neighboring areas, based on UN data.
safe to live in Syria anymore so they moved to Lebanon,” he said. “All of my family left. Everyone left.” More than this, he said the conflict has relocated many all over the globe. “I don’t have any friends in Syria anymore,” he said. “They went everywhere from Cyprus, Canada, London and Turkey.” The Student said his father, who recently found out a manager at his job was kidnapped and held for ransom, now works at home to avoid the threat of violence. Even so, he said his family is doing well, especially in relation to the two million refugees who have fled Syria and the thousands who have been internally displaced within the country’s borders. “I’ve heard stories about middle class people that lost their houses when one missile came to the building,” he said. “Thank God they were not in the building. But in like one minute, everything was gone and they were refugees. They went from middle class to nothing.” The Student said he is able to keep in contact with his family regularly, with some exceptions. See Syria on page 3
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A&M thrashes Cal Poly, UMass Monogue scores twice in 4-0 Sunday romp over Cal Poly Clay Koepke
Special to The Battalion fter a strong start to the weekend with a 3-1 Friday win over UMass, No. 20 A&M passed its final weekend test with a 4-0 win Sunday against Cal Poly. Rachel Lenz and the Aggie defense were all but unaware of the challenges they would face when taking on the nation’s No. 1 attacking team and leading scorer, Elise Krieghoff. “We’d seen film, and we knew that [Krieghoff] was their leading scorer,” Lenz said. “I mean, she is the nation’s leading scorer — ten goals in four games, which is awesome for her. So we had to give her respect and know that she was good and force her to play to our advantages, so we just knew that we weren’t going to let her have a sniff at the goal.” Following a 0-0 defensive bout in the first half, the Aggies came out on fire in the second half when freshman forward Liz Keester scorched the nylon with an upper-90 shot from inside the 18. The 54th-minute goal set the pace for the Aggies, and the goals started rolling in. After the ignition goal from Keester, junior Kelly Monogue found the back of the net, giving the Aggies a 2-0 edge over the Mustangs with 35:12 remaining in the second half, but she wouldn’t be finished. Following a red card in the box, junior forward Shea Groom stepped up once again, tucking the ball into the side netting to give A&M a 3-0 lead. In the 68th minute of action, Monogue put the dagger in the coffin with her sixth goal of the season, putting the Aggies on top for what would be the final score of 4-0. “The keeper had been bobbling a lot of balls, so she hit the ball out and I was there to tap it in,” Monogue said. For some Aggies, Friday night was full of anticipation for what would come on the gridiron the follow-
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File period for fall SGA election opens Monday Runoff-free system enters second year Homer Segovia
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he opportunity to choose student senators for the 66th session will return with the opening of a filing period for the fall election cycle. Filing begins at 10 a.m. on Monday and will continue until Friday. A mandatory candidates’ meeting will then be held Sept. 22, followed by a week of campaigning. Voting will open on Sept. 26 and continue to Sept 27. Results will be announced that Friday night. Allison Krenzien, election commissioner and senior biomedical sciences major, said the election process is designed to avoid runoff elections that take place when there is no majority between candidates. Krenzien
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said candidates are ranked from most preferred to least preferred. “Those with the least amount of No. 1 votes will be eliminated and their ballots are then recounted, with their vote being reassigned to the number two choice on those ballots,” Krenzien said. “This process essentially eliminates runoff.” A total of 13 seats are vacant for this election cycle, including two seats reserved for freshmen at the start of each year. Former student senator and senior agricultural leadership and development major ,Robbie Cimmino, gave some insight as to why seats may be vacant. “The most common reason is due to absences, in which case they’re removed from the senate. Graduation is another,” Cimmino said. “One extremely uncommon reason is that students would run for senate, vote on whatever issue they wanted to vote on and then leave.” Campaigning begins Sept. 23 and a period of modified campaigning
and voting begins Sept. 26. During the general campaigning period, students can pass out fliers and make themselves known, but during the modified campaigning period, students will no longer be able to hand out fliers, and signs will have to explicitly state voting is open. Cimmino said the experience of campaigning for Student Senate was unique. “When you campaign, there are people that desperately want you to win,” Cimmino said. “It was interesting to talk to complete strangers and get them motivated to vote for you. It was cool to see.” This is the second year fall Student Senate vacancy seats are filled through an election process, as the previous method was through an application. Christopher Russo, speaker of Student Senate and aerospace engineering graduate student, explained how senate responded to student feedback on the application process.
“There were a lot of accusations that these processes were not carried out correctly or thoroughly enough, so it was decided in the 64th session that it would be easier to fill vacancies through fall elections,” Russo said. Russo said students with the desire to serve and gain exposure to the way campus, city and state government works should run for a vacancy spot. “The Student Senate is a very good leadership opportunity and an opportunity to change our campus for the better,” Russo said. Students interested in filling a vacancy for the Student Senate or any other position must go online at election.tamu.edu and pay a $10 filing fee.
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“For example, two days ago, I called [my father] and he had eight hours without electricity,” he said. “I lost contact with him, but he called me the next morning.” The Student was able to visit his family in Lebanon last year, and he spent some of that time fundraising to build a soccer field for the children in a refugee camp. The conflict grabbed international attention in late August when a chemical weapons attack killed an estimated 1,000 civilians. Since then, the nation watched as the U.S. debated using military force and then pursued diplomacy to address the issue. On Saturday, the U.S. and Russia, a key ally of Syria, announced that an agreement had been reached for removing and destroying Syria’s chemical weapons. Larry Napper, former U.S. ambassador and senior lecturer at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, said the conflict pertains to the United States on the basis of humanitarian and security concerns. “What you have here is a brutal civil war that has descended into greater chaos and confusion,” Napper said. “It has drawn in international players and has also tended to expand beyond Syria’s borders in destabilizing neighboring countries such as Lebanon [and] Iraq, and threatening to destabilize Turkey and Jordan, who are allies of the U.S.” Khaldoun AbouAssi, assistant professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, said the longer the conflict continues, the more problems neighboring countries will face. “The longer these refugees stay outside of their country, the more pressure will be on the economies and societies of the host countries, putting Lebanon for example — which is already unstable and still managing political turmoil and security concerns — at risk of internal conflict,” AbouAssi said. The fighting in Syria has been characterized by the ethnic tensions within the country. Napper said these ethnic tensions complicate the conflict. Napper said Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian President, is a part of a minority group, the Alawites. The majority of the country belongs to the Sunni Muslim sect, which have historically had tense relations with Assad and his family’s rule. The Student said he and the rest of his generation want to live in a Syria where all religions and sects can live peacefully.
“We have Christians, Jews and Muslims and we all lived in the same neighborhood with no problem,” he said. “We are not against the Alawites, we want to live with them. But we are against everyone with the regime who killed people.” The Student said he does not support either side of the conflict because of the indiscriminate killing. “I am against killing,” he said. “Although I am against the regime, I am against killing anyone. We don’t want war. This is not the way to communicate in 2013.” The Student said although chemical weapons may be removed from Syria, the fighting will continue. “A thousand people have been killed from the chemical weapons, but you forgot about the 100,000 that have been killed in the past two years,” he said. In addressing the lengthy debate on foreign intervention in Syria, he said intervention should come in the form of assistance. “Assistance must be in feeding the hungry, sheltering the shelter-less and facilitating the political solution that will preserve what is left in the country,” he said. He said he and his friends support a political solution where Assad will step down and there will be a civil exchange of power resulting in a moderate Syrian government. The Student said he was most worried about what would happen if there was not a political solution. He said if Assad is removed by force, then chaos would ensue, and war might continue for years. “If we have a political solution, this will save whatever is left in Syria now,” he said. With all of the attention on the conflict, The Student said it is extremely hard for him to watch the news because of the atrocities taking place in his home country. “Sometimes I would rather isolate myself from it to not get depressed,” he said. “I try not to watch the news anymore because I gave up on it — because I am not going to be able to study, I am not going to be able to focus on getting my degree.” The Student said he does not foresee the conflict ending any time soon, but that he hopes he can one day go back to help rebuild what is left of his country. “It is my duty to get the best education I can in order to, one day, go back and help the people,” he said. “I need to be ready to go back and rebuild.”
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he scoreboard failed to shine in Texas A&M’s favor Saturday afternoon as the final seconds ticked off the game clock. A massive 87,596 fans, all of whom had created a deafening on-the-field atmosphere from start to finish, filed toward the Kyle Field exits as the two teams exchanged polite remarks on the turf. The hype surrounding top-ranked Alabama’s early-season visit to then-No. 6 Texas A&M had generated a façade of finality, and the 49-42 gut-wrenching loss did exactly that — it stung to the core. However, starting A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel spoke differently during the post-game press conference. As questions bombarded the sophomore along the lines of, “Where do you go from here,” the reigning Heisman Trophy winner looked taken aback, confidently stating a week-three loss to the Crimson Tide was in no way a season-ending loss. “For us, this isn’t the end of our season,” Manziel said. “This wasn’t the Super Bowl, this wasn’t the last game of the season. Alabama lost a game last year and still went on to win a national championship. Our season isn’t over, anything could happen.” Despite a 21-point deficit entering the fourth quarter, Texas A&M fought back, closing the score to within a mere touchdown before time ran out. The Aggie defense, which had failed to stop the Tide offense on five consecutive drives, produced a fumble while the offense closed the game with four straight scoring series. Junior offensive tackle Cedric Ogbuehi said the team’s grit and determination to close the game was admirable, and despite the loss, the game provided a solid learning experience for the recently added youth. “I’m just proud we kept fighting,” Ogbuehi said. “We could have easily given up and not scored, but Johnny kept telling us to keep playing, keep fighting. We’re disappointed we lost, but we did some good things we can take over to next week.” A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin’s message to the team after the game fol-
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Texas A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin said his team could learn how to deal with one loss from last year’s Alabama squad.
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come on the gridiron the following day. But for junior forward Shea Groom, Friday was another day on the pitch as the Aggies played host to the University of Massachusetts Minutewomen. Groom and the Aggies gave the Minutewomen all they could handle, outshooting them by a 32-8 margin, including 13 shots on goal. Groom registered her first career hat-trick — two of which came off assists from Bianca Brinson — leading the maroon and white to a 3-1 victory over UMass, moving the Aggies to 2-1 all-time against the Minutewomen. “I was lucky enough to be in the right position at the right time,” Groom said. “The coaches made a good decision of putting me at center-mid and I think I got a lot of opportunities.” The weekend’s two matchups marked the end of the Aggies opening eight-game home stand at Ellis Field, which finished as a 5-2-1 start to the season. A&M next takes the pitch Friday on the road against conference opponent Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn., in its 2013 SEC opener.
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lowed similar lines, citing the attempted comeback as evidence that, “Nobody can say this team quit.” Looking forward, Sumlin said the lone loss on the Aggies’ record was not a death sentence, using Alabama’s previous two seasons as examples of teams that won national championships despite a loss earlier in the season. The key, Sumlin said, was reacting to and learning from mistakes, especially against a squad as talented as the Crimson Tide. “It’s not what happens to you right now, it’s how you deal with it from here on out,” Sumlin said. “You have no greater example of how to handle one game than the team in the other locker room. They went on to have an extremely successful season [last year], and we’ve got a lot of football ahead of us.” Due to the volatility of the sport, many players remained confident A&M would have an opportunity down the stretch of the season to push themselves
back into title contention, both within the conference and on the national scale. Following last year’s upset-lined November, during which each of the nation’s top teams — Alabama, Kansas State and Oregon — all lost, Manziel said college football’s unpredictability would take care of any one-loss squad. All A&M has to do is take care of its own business. “This is college football, some of the craziest things happen every week, so you never know,” Manziel said. “All we can do is take care of ourselves, take care of what’s in this locker room and continue to get better as a team.”
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Junior forward Shea Groom netted three goals against UMass and added another against Cal Poly over the weekend.
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Special to The Battalion exas A&M will celebrate the 226th anniversary of the United States Constitution with a week of planned activities all across campus. The week will include an exhibit on the Constitution at Evans Library, a Constitution Day display at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum and the Wiley Lecture Series Constitution Day Forum “Drone Warfare and the Constitution.” Pursuant to legislation passed by Congress, any educational institutions receiving federal funding are required to hold an educational program on the U.S. Constitution annually on Sept. 17, the date the Constitution was signed in 1787. Nancy Sawtelle, director of public relations at the Office of the Provost, said the Office will hold a whole week of great opportunities to read, study and reflect on the document. “The Provost’s office convenes a committee that represents campus and community organizations that have expressed an interest in participating in the observance of Constitution Week,” Sawtelle said. “The Provost’s office then coordinates publicity about the events that these organizations have planned.” On the official Constitution
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Day, exhibits will be opened in Evans, Medical Sciences, West Campus and the Policy Science and Economics Libraries that will continue through Sept. 23. Sawtelle said she recommended dropping by any of the exhibits or venues to pick up a free pocket Constitution. “It’s not a long document, but it is important to know what it says,” Sawtelle said. Augmenting the week of events, the MSC Wiley Lecture Series will host a forum relevant to the Constitution as it does nearly every year, said Tucker Pope, junior business honors major and director of symposia for the MSC Wiley Lecture Series. The event, titled “Drone Warfare and the Constitution,” will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday in room 2406A of the Memorial Student Center. “This year the lecture will focus on the constitutionality of drone strikes on U.S citizens that have been deemed enemy combatants, which takes away those citizens’ Fifth Amendment rights to due process,” Pope said. Speakers Richard Rosen, professor of law and director of the Center for Military Law and Policy at Texas Tech University; and Ronald Sievert, director of the Advanced International Affairs Program at The Bush School at
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The constitutionality of drone strikes on U.S. citizens will be discussed Tuesday at the Wiley Lecture Series forum. Texas A&M, will raise unbiased discussion of the topic, said Reid Geissen, director of Main Program with the Wiley Lecture Series and sophomore philosophy major. “This program is not seeking to convince people that one side of the issue is better than the other,” Geissen said. “We want people to either come to their own conclusion or to the conclusion that there is no one side that is totally correct.” According to the Office of the Provost, the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band will pay tribute to the Constitution during the halftime show at the A&M-SMU game Saturday and the University will take part in the nationwide initiative, “Bells Across America,” by playing patriotic music at 3 p.m from the Albritton Tower.
rganizations across campus are gearing up for a month of celebrating Hispanic culture and the contributions Hispanics have made to the University. While Hispanic Heritage Month begins Monday, opening ceremonies for the celebration will kick off on campus at 6 p.m. Tuesday in room 2300 of the Memorial Student Center. Bonnie Bustos-Rios, president of the Professional Hispanic Network at Texas A&M — the organization responsible for planning the opening event — said the event will feature speakers such as University President R. Bowen Loftin and English professor Marco Portales, in addition to spoken-word performances. Bustos-Rios said that with Portalos speaking on the topic of inclusion, the event is centered around the idea of how the Hispanic community can move forward. Hispanic Heritage Month will also include a two-day festival of music, food and dance called Fiestas Patrias, a program featuring the published poet Mayda del Valle, along with many more activities. One such program, Comprehensive Immigration Reform Event, is put on by the Council for Minority Student Affairs (CMSA) to raise support for legislation. This event will take place from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday in room 2505 of the MSC, and will include a showing of “The Dream is Now,” a documentary on the struggles
of undocumented students. “The idea of the documentary is to show the lives of undocumented workers so the student population here at Texas A&M can see from their experiences what it means to be undocumented, what it means to not have a social security number, and the idea behind that is to get support for comprehensive immigration reform,” said Alfredo Garcia, president of CMSA. In addition to the documentary, Garcia said the event hosts will educate audience members on the issue of comprehensive immigration reform and tell about a phone bank that will take place next week. “We are going to be having a phone bank next week, which is an event where we are going to phone our representatives in the Senate and the House and pressure them to vote for comprehensive immigration reform,” Garcia said. Garcia said Student Counseling Services representatives will be present at the event to talk about current and future options for undocumented students to receive counseling. Another event, called “Caliente!”, seeks to celebrate international Latino culture with free food, dancing, a jalapeno-eating competition and more, according to Hispanic organizations coordinating the event. This event will take place from 6-8 p.m. Sept. 25 in the Rudder Fountain Plaza and will feature a Mariachi band, Fade 2 Black and an improvisation group.
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Managing to put it all in perspective, the sophomore couldn’t help but see the negatives after the final whistle sounded, handing A&M its first loss of the season in the form of a 49-42 nail-biter to defending national champion Alabama. “I just tried to play as hard as I could,” Evans said. “Johnny [Manziel] found me on a few big plays, but it wasn’t enough.” In the first two drives of the game, Manziel connected with Evans for throws of 32, 35 and 34 yards, setting up consecutive touchdowns and giving A&M an early 14-0 lead. After one quarter of play, the sophomore receiver had already accounted for four catches and 135 yards, marking his first back-to-back 100yard receiving games. Late in the fourth quarter on a third-and-nine, Manziel found Evans for a 95-yard touchdown — the secondlongest scoring pass in A&M history — to reignite the Aggies’ momentum. “In my eyes, Mike Evans is the best receiver in college football,” Manziel said. “I see him every day and every week I get to see how he works against defenders and it’s just amazing. A big guy like that who can really run and gives it his all every game is a great player.” Despite the negatives surrounding the loss, Evans’ performance remained a bright topic among players and coaches at the press conference. Manziel, who Evans called “one of his best friends,” said his fellow sophomore’s performance was the difference in the game. “I couldn’t be more proud of him,” Manziel said. “I was roommates with him last night in the hotel and we were just talking about how the game would turn out. I knew he was going to come out and play re-
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In my eyes, Mike Evans is the best receiver in college football. I see him every day and every week. I get to see how he works against defenders and it’s just amazing.” — Johnny Manziel ally well.” Evans’ deep-threat ability allowed the A&M offense to create a second dimension to its attack, as Alabama was forced to remove defenders from the box to cover Evans. The schematic change opened up the Aggie run game, which garnered 172 yards on the day. Head coach Kevin Sumlin said Evans’ effect on the Crimson Tide defense provided opportunities for A&M to create space and run the ball. “You look at some of the situations where basically he was doubled, and we were able to run the ball effectively because of that,” Sumlin said. “We were able to run the ball effectively because of some of the things he created schematically.” Despite his record-shattering yardage that marked the fourth-best performance all-time among Southeastern Conference receivers, Evans remained humble after the game. “I practice my butt off and try my best every day,” Evans said. “If [my teammates] want to say [I’m the best] then I love them for that. I didn’t block as well as I’m capable of, I know that. I did some things, made some big plays, but wasn’t enough in the end.”
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