The Battalion: September 18, 2013 by The Battalion

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Fish spurs and thier iconic sound are a daily reminder on campus of traditions surrounding the Corps of Cadets and football.

Sumlin, A&M refocus after loss Aggies move past Alabama defeat, target visiting SMU

Bottle cap tradition unites freshmen cadets

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The Battalion uesday’s press conference with Sumlin and company revealed that Saturday’s 49-42 loss to topranked Alabama has already been forgotten by the Texas A&M football program. Texas A&M’s formerly perfect record (2-1, 0-1 SEC) may have been tarnished with an 0-1 SEC stain, but head coach Kevin Sumlin said the team has already moved past the loss and is instead focusing on Saturday’s home matchup against Southern Methodist University. “[Monday], we had a chance to watch the video — [by positions] and as a team,” Sumlin said. “My message was, ‘After we’re done with that, we’re not talking about it anymore.’ That was the message, win or lose. We’ve got nine more games. That’s been my approach wherever I’ve been, whether they’re big games or what. It doesn’t matter whether you’re mad or you’re ecstatic, the next week you’ve got to move on,

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‘SPUR THE PONIES’ Jennifer Reiley

Special to The Battalion reshmen cadets are sporting fish spurs for their original purpose this year in preparation to “spur the hell outta the Ponies” at Saturday’s football game against Southern Methodist University. Fish spurs have been embedded in freshmen cadet tradition at Texas A&M since the 1960s, but few “non-regs” know about the tradition behind fish spurs or why it is a part of the Corps.

Corps Commander Eric Gil, senior industrial distribution major, said fish spurs began in the heyday of the Southwest Conference when A&M’s rivals were the University of Texas and SMU. Gil said the Corps wanted a good rallying cry for the game against SMU, whose mascot is a mustang. “At the time, the students were predominately farmers,” Gil said. “So the motto for the fish spurs was ‘Spur the Ponies.’” Gil said the purpose of making fish spurs and honoring the tradition is to bring the freshmen

cadets closer to their outfits. The current freshmen have known each other for about a month, so the experience is good opportunity for the cadets to get to know each other, Gil said. “It’s a good chance to build bonds among the class,” Gil said. “It creates memories for years and links different classes across time.” Mary Godwin, sophomore philosophy major, said the late night spent making the spurs with her unit last year was a way to learn See Fish spurs on page 5

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Student Senate to meet Wednesday Student Senate will convene at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Koldus 144 for a general meeting. During this time, senators will either confirm or reject SBP Reid Joseph’s nomination for chief justice as well as his nominations for associate justices to the SGA Judicial Court. Any student may attend and an open forum will be held at the start of the meeting.

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Ceremony to recognize Hullabaloo Hall

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The Battalion ceremony will be held Friday to dedicate Hullabaloo Hall, the newest residence hall on campus. The ceremony will also honor the three residence halls that Hullabaloo replaced. Kasey Kram, president of the Residence Hall Association, said the dedication will commemorate the building itself and the buildings there before it. “It’s basically to recognize the building and honor

the three residence halls that were there before,” Kram said. Three residence halls — Crocker, McInnis and Moore — were demolished to make way for Hullabaloo Hall. As a tribute, three small memorials were constructed in the courtyard from the bricks of these buildings. The first floor also houses a fireplace built using bricks from the buildings. The ceremony will in-

Hullabaloo Hall, located on the north side of campus, gives students the opportunity to live near Northgate while being only walking distance from their classes.

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Ronald Sievert speaks on the constitutionality of drone warfare at the Wiley Lecture series Tuesday night in the MSC.

Drones and the Constitution

tudents and community members were given constitutional food for thought Tuesday in the MSC at the Wiley Lecture Series forum, “Drone Warfare and the Constitution.” The event strategically took place on the 226th anniversary of the adoption of the U.S. Constitution and featured remarks from Ronald Sievert; professor of law and director of the Center for Military Law and Policy at Texas Tech; and Richard Rosen, director of the Advanced International Affairs Program at the Bush School. In their

speeches, both professors prompted students to consider whether drone warfare violates the due process clause of the Constitution. “The question here tonight that I have been asked to answer is whether the drone warfare that we’re conducting implicates the due process clause of the constitution, and the simple answer is no,” Rosen said. “The people we are attacking, especially those who are alien enemy combatants, have no constitutional rights at all.” For the full story, visit thebatt.com

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football | Texas A&M kicks off against former Southwest Conference rival SMU at 6 p.m. on Saturday at Kyle Field.

volleyball | The Aggies take a road trip to soccer | A&M looks to improve its 5-2-1 record as it travels to Tennesse to Colorado for Saturday and Sunday matches against Colorado State and Northern Colorado. open SEC play Friday evening.

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exas A&M released its 56-game 2014 regular season schedule Tuesday, featuring 36 home games on Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park and including series against Southeastern Conference powerhouses Florida and LSU. Throughout the course of the season, the Aggies will match up against 10 programs that reached last year’s NCAA Tournament, including World Series participant LSU and runner-up Mississippi State. “We will have plenty of challenges presented to us with this season’s schedule and we’re looking forward to it,” A&M head coach Rob Childress said in a press release. “We’re excited about the teams that will be coming into Blue Bell Park this season. Florida, Alabama, Ole Miss, Ken-

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and that’s what we’ve done.” Despite the concentrated mindset with which Sumlin set the tone of the press conference, the A&M defense was forced to address many of

tucky and LSU will provide a lot of competition against elite SEC baseball teams.” Texas A&M opens the season Feb. 14 with an eight-game home stand, facing off against Northeastern and Sacramento State in a three-game series at Olsen Field and Stephen F. Austin and Houston Baptist in mid-week matchups. The Aggies will battle UT-Arlington at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington on March 4 before a three-game home series against Louisiana Tech to segue into SEC league play. A&M will open its conference slate on the road against Auburn in a three-game series on March 14-16, and then will face off against Florida at home on March 21-23. A&M will play series against Vanderbilt,

its struggles against Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron and the Crimson Tide offense, which posted 42 points and 568 total yards Saturday. Senior defensive back Toney Hurd Jr. emphasized the need for the A&M defense to become independent, relying less on the production of Johnny Manziel and the potent

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Texas A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin spoke with the media on the upcoming SMU game during Tuesday’s weekly press conference.

Mississippi State and Arkansas on the road, while visits from Kentucky and LSU will highlight the home slate. Childress said both players and fans will have an opportunity to see history and tradition when they take to the road against many of the conference’s top programs. “This schedule provides a little bit of everything for the fans,” Childress said. “On the road, we’ll be playing in a major league park and we’ll be playing in four or five stadiums that are ranked among the best in college baseball as far as atmosphere and facilities.”

Aggie offensive attack. “Our offense is one of the best in the country, but as a defensive player, you can’t depend on the offense,” Hurd said. “As a defense, you should go out there and pitch shutouts. We’re getting closer to our goal, but it’ll take time. That was our first time with the starting 11 out there, and I feel like we’re getting better and we’ll be hungry in the coming games.” Against SMU (1-1, 0-0 AAC), A&M will face two of the nation’s top offensive minds in head coach June Jones and offensive coordinator Hal Mumme. Jones, an offensive innovator with ties to the first run-and-shoot schemes, and Mumme, who introduced Division I college football to the first air raid system, have sought to implement a hybrid approach at SMU. Despite the on-the-field battle, Sumlin and his staff share a healthy respect for the coaching legends on the opposite sideline, especially considering many branched off the coaching trees of Mumme or Jones. “[Jones] has been a winner and was one of the first guys that took a non-BCS team to a BCS bowl

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game,” Sumlin said. “He’s been around the NFL game at the highest level. He has really impacted a number of coaches that I have hired, including myself.”

It doesn’t matter whether you’re made or you’re ecstatic, the next week we’ve got to move on, and that’s what we’ve done” — Kevin Sumlin, Texas A&M head football coach The Mustangs enter Kyle Field in a similar fashion to Alabama — off a bye week — and a close 31-30 victory over Montana State two weeks ago. Sumlin and A&M defensive coordinator Mark Snyder expect to see new formations and schemes

designed to confuse the young Aggie unit. “We’ll see some new stuff,” Sumlin said. “We’re playing at home, not complaining about that. It’ll be a new challenge for our defense because we’ll see some new stuff and we’ll have to defend the field sideline-tosideline and vertically because they’ll try to space us out.” As for the A&M offense, which gained 628 yards for 42 points against Alabama — a record high against the Crimson Tide — Manziel and company will be back at full strength with true freshman wide receiver Ricky Seals-Jones and sophomore running back Trey Williams returning after limited time against Alabama. Running back Ben Malena said the Aggies anticipate a ball-hawking Mustang defense with a focus on creating turnovers, a factor the senior said A&M must eliminate throughout the matchup. “They play ball very well,” Malena said. “One thing they do is have all 11 guys … run to the ball. They force turnovers, they have really good linebacker play and they come downhill.”

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A religious app for that Grad students probe purpose of mobile apps rooted in faith Linley McCord

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n today’s society, there seems to be an app for everything. While some of the most pointless apps seem to garner the most attention, three communication graduate students are researching apps that carry a different meaning. Wendi Bellar, Brian Altenhofen and James Cho have spent the last year gathering and organizing 472 religionthemed smartphone apps to evaluate the purpose of the apps and how they are utilized. “It’s important to look at these apps in general and to see how society uses them in daily life,” Bellar said. “It allows us to get a sense of how religion is mediated through technology.” The team spent the first six months of the project of gathering all the apps they could find on the market. “We just went to iTunes and Google, searching key words to find apps,” Bellar said. Altenhofen said iTunes does not have a categorization process for religious apps like

it does for music and books, which made the gathering process significantly more difficult. The students were awarded a grant from the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture, which provided them with around $100 to purchase the apps for either an iPad or iTouch. The apps were taken from the five major religions of the world — Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. The first three had roughly 100 apps each, while Hinduism and Buddhism had about 50 each. “Most of the apps were free,” Bellar said. “But we did come across a $200 one for Judaism where the user could project images onto a screen. That was very unusual.” Now that the research team has finished gathering the apps, the project is now focused on organizing and analyzing the data they have. The project, which will end in late 2014, is under the supervision of Heidi Campbell, an associate professor of communication. Campbell started the proj-

ect to further her own research on the role of media within religion. Campbell is currently the director for an online forum — Network for New Media, Religion, and Digital Culture Studies — where scholars can share research and converse with each other on similar subjects of study. Bellar said this research comes at a time when technology and religion are not studied in partnership with each other. Campbell said the research will answer questions about the current usage of technology and the implications for future usage in the religious worlds. “One of the top apps downloaded worldwide is the U-Verse Bible app,” Campbell said. “We wanted to know the why and how.” After analysis of the data, articles will be put on Campbell’s forum. Beyond that, the students plan to continue to study the apps.

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clude speeches from members of the Texas A&M Board of Regents and Kram. A time capsule will also be placed to commemorate the many developments in recent Texas A&M history. Hullabaloo is only a temporary name for the residence hall, and the permenant name has yet to be announced — a detail officials are hoping to have taken care of by the dedication. However, Kram said the process of naming the building could take up to a few months depending on approval. “The process is pretty high up in the University,” Kram said. “Various people on the Board of Regents decide it.” Hullabaloo opened its

doors to students in August, making it the first residence hall to be built on campus since Rudder Hall in 1989. Hullabaloo Hall has community spaces on the second through fifth floors, which include lounges and kitchens. It is the first residence hall on campus to include elevators. The hall is currently operating at maximum capacity, housing 658 students. Josh Ortiz, freshman nuclear engineering major and Hullabaloo Hall resident, said he enjoyed the new building, especially the design. “I like that the building is nice and up to date with modern architecture,” Ortiz said. “I like the convenience store and the people you meet playing pingpong and pool.” The first floor functions as a living area for all A&M students, which includes ar-

eas for games, conference rooms, a green screen room dedicated to video media and a community learning center. Jamie Cooper, sophomore general studies major, said the residence hall offers a communal area not previously available to those on the north side of campus. “Students who live on Northside finally have a common ground to relax, study, grow in the Aggie spirit and network — just as the Commons has been available for the south side,” Cooper said. The ceremony will take place at 10:30 a.m. in the Hullabaloo courtyard. System Chancellor John Sharp, members of the Board of Regents and representatives from the Residence Hall Association will be in attendance.

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[Fish spurs are] a new sound to students. Some students start to get sick of the sound by Wednesday, but we are just showing our Fightin’ Texas Aggie Spirit.” — Eric Gil, Corps commander and senior industrial distribution major

sound by Wednesday, but we are just showing our Fightin’ Texas Aggie Spirit.” Although some students may get annoyed with the sound, Theiss said he enjoyed making and wearing his fish spurs. It is something new the freshmen get to wear to

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