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How Johnny Manziel has spent his offseason making public appearances and undermining the concept of the “student athlete.”
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The Battalion he Kyle Field poll presented by the A&M administration last Wednesday showed that 55 percent of responding students favor an increase in the University Advancement Fee and student sports passes to fund a $75 million portion of the planned $425 million renovations. The survey asked students whether they did or did not support an increase in the UAF of $2.42 per semester credit hour and sports passes by $11.48 per game. The UAF was established last spring as a streamlining of the then-13 mandatory student fees into a single fee. In the separate SGA referendum, which allowed students the choice between sports pass and fee increases or drawing from existing UAF funds, 65 percent of students opposed the increases. Whereas the administration proposal involved covering 60 percent of renovations with the UAF, the option in the SGA referendum presented a 40 percent cover by the UAF. University spokesman Jason Cook said neither survey was a vote ‘for’ or ‘against’ Kyle Field renovations and neither was binding. The issue, Cook said, is how to fund renovations, not whether they should be made. “There is a shared sentiment on campus that we need to do something about Kyle Field and a shared vision that we want it to be the best college football stadium in the country,” Cook said. University President R. Bowen Loftin will review results from both surveys, Cook said. Loftin said in an email Wednesday that A&M will “certainly proceed” with its renovation plans.
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Sophomore business administration honors student Ty Dunlap maintains top-notch grades while playing the best golf of his collegiate career.
Dunlap scores low on course, high in classroom James Sullivan
The Battalion egarding the balance between athletics and academics, the popular verdict is that many collegiate athletes are incapable of handling the rigors of university academics. That’s why sophomore business administration honors student Ty Dunlap stood out among the country’s collegiate talent — dropping birdies for the
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Senior mechanical engineering major Travis Schott demonstrates the “CoolBike” project.
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The Battalion hat started as a class project grew into a more effective way to refrigerate and transport vaccines to remote villages in developing countries. Four students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering turned heads with a mobile refrigeration system called the “Coolbike.” Devesh Ranjan, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, assigned his thermal fluids class with a hands-on project in order to equip them with a better understanding of the concepts studied in class. “I wanted to give them a different perspective,” Ranjan said. “I tell them now that they are ready to go out in the industry. Let’s try to do something that you will be proud of after leaving. All the while, I keep the project aimed at the benefit of developing countries.” The four students teamed up with the intention to construct a mobile refrigeration unit that would allow vaccines to be transported from distribution sites in developing countries to remote villages that normally would not have easy access to such aid. The cooling system is fastened to the back of a bicycle and is powered solely by pedaling. Travis Schott, senior mechanical engineering major
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Texas A&M golf team last postseason while maintaining top-notch grades. “He’s just an all-around athlete, but he’s still a great student,” said A&M head golf coach J.T. Higgins. “He was our ‘low-man’ at every tournament in the postseason. He was our best player at the conference tournament and nationals.” While Dunlap’s balancing act between golf and honors academics may
seem routine now, the sophomore braved rough stretches at Mays Business School last year as a freshman. Entering the golf program in the fall of 2011, Dunlap immediately matched stride with heavyweights on the team, taking up a contributing role early and holding it. The quick assimilation into his sport, however, came at a price in See Dunlap on page 2
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The Battalion nvested in the knowledge of kids half their age, members of the Sigma Chi and Chi Phi fraternities at A&M tutor children at College Hills Missionary Baptist Church every week. Each fraternity dedicates a day per week toward mentoring and supplementing the education of children from elementary school to high school, tutoring in subjects from math and English to science. The two fraternities began a partnership with 99 Tutors, whose founder and president Detrick Eaton described it as tutoring “for students by students.” “[Eaton] saw a need for a tutoring and mentoring program here because he’s a member of the church,” said Parker Lachowsky, senior biology major and president of Sigma Chi Fraternity. Lachowsky said this has been the most successful year so far, and that tu-
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Bradley Williamson, junior business administration major, tutors children from the community with his fellow fraternity members. toring has been a way for him to take his mind off of stresses, while still doing something productive. “Honestly — getting to work with these kids and getting to know them – they come up with some stuff you would never think they would come
out and say,” Lachowsky said. “It takes me back to elementary days when you talk about warm fuzzies. [Tutoring] is something where the benefit to you is really intrinsic in the actual work, not See Tutors on page 6
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the classroom during his freshman year. “I think it was pretty tough for him last year as a freshman when it came to balancing academics with golf,” Higgins said. “He had a lot of demands on him — he played in every tournament. He missed a lot of school and he had to learn the skills to balance both of those things.” With the golf team traversing the country during the course of each semester — from the Florida coasts to the shores of Hawai’i — Dunlap’s time focusing on schoolwork was limited to short spans between tournaments. Instead of falling into the stereotypical college athlete mold, he worked with coaches, academic advisers and professors to develop a routine to assist him in equalizing his on-the-course golf skills and academic pursuits. “I just want to excel at both — academics and golf,” Dunlap said. “I don’t want to be the kid that’s a good student and just a so-so golfer, or vice versa. I try to work hard at both. I go to class when I’m in town, but, otherwise, I’m out here on the course. As long as you let the teachers know that you take school seriously, they’re more than willing to work with you.” The new regime paid off. Dunlap maintained the required 3.5 business honors GPA while also playing the best golf of his collegiate career. During the three-tournament 2012 postseason stretch, the sophomore proceeded to lead the Aggies to their first conference title in a quarter century, draining a crucial two-foot putt to seal the victory. Rooted behind Dunlap’s ability to balance his academic and athletic prowess has been the evolution of his independence and self-regulation. According to principles expressed by Eric Newman, a business honors academic adviser, this development has led to the sophomore fitting in well with the demanding program. “A majority of our [business honors] students don’t need a ton of guidance,
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Men’s, women’s teams look to recover after tough conference losses the season is a grind and we’ve got to cord. According to Wright, traveling to continue to fight through it.” Knoxville, Tenn. to match up with the The Battalion Women’s basketball assistant coach legendary program will provide multiple ead coach Billy Kennedy summa- Amy Wright, filling in for absent head challenges at every position. rized the Texas A&M men’s bas- coach Gary Blair who travelled to Ar“It’s going to be another tough one,” ketball season as he discussed the Aggies’ kansas for the birth of his third grand- Wright said. “They have an All-Confer93-84 quadruple home overtime loss to child, noted the frustration of her team ence kid in Meighan Simmons. They Tennessee this past Saturday. following a 61-51 loss at unranked have a kid who is probably going to be “That loss was disappointing, proba- Vanderbilt. The No. 13 Aggies — third on the All-Freshmen in Bashaara Graves, bly more so to me than any other loss we place in the SEC standings — remain and they have another kid that I have have had this year because we had op- a few close losses away from tying for watched for years from Alabama, [Jasportunities and our guys fought first, a fact not lost on mine] Jones, so they are a solid hard,” Kennedy said. “We just the squad. team.” ran into Trae Golden and Jarnell “We need to get As for the men, they look to Stokes who just dominated us back to what Texas keep their pattern alive with a physically.” A&M does well defenvictory on the road against Ole Ever since the Aggies’ Dec. sively and offensively,” Miss. The Aggies upset the 29 home victory over Army — Wright said. “As a team Rebels 69-67 in College Station two games before conference we didn’t shoot the ball on Feb. 13 and look to knock play — the squad has earned an well. The freshmen obtheir conference foes from pos8-8 record. For the past eight viously want to make sible postseason contention with Kennedy Wright games, A&M has alternated a their first mark, SEC another victory. win with a loss. champions their fresh“They’re a different team at For Kennedy, though, optimism con- man year. Who wouldn’t want that? home like most teams and they’re in a tinues to surface during the weekly press The seniors want to go out with a bang, position where if they want to get to conference. but you have to give credit to Vander- postseason play they’ve got to win some “We fought hard against Tennessee bilt.” games,” Kennedy said. “We just have and look forward to bouncing back,” Looking forward, though, the Ag- to have a lot of poise on the road and Kennedy said. “I saw our guys yester- gies (11-3 SEC) will face their toughest shorten the game a little bit, and maybe day; the good part about our team is they test of the year in No. 8 Tennessee, the control the tempo some, more so on the stayed at even keel. This time of the year, conference leader with a 13-1 league re- road than we would have at home.”
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Bryan-College Station residents flock to downtown Bryan for the semiweekly farmer’s market, which supplies fresh locally grown produce as well as other items made by local vendors.
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armers markets all across the nation encourage customers to eat organically and buy locally. From fruits and veggies, to eggs and meat, to handmade soaps and lotions, these markets are creating opportunities for customers to look beyond the aisles of big name grocery stores. Farmers markets promote a healthier lifestyle free of preservatives, pesticides and processed foods. The Brazos Valley Farmers Market has been up-and-running since 1997 in its current downtown Bryan locations. More than 40 vendors are registered with the market, selling produce and other food grown and made in the local area. Richard Schubert, a local farmer who specializes in cage-free eggs, has been part of the Brazos Valley Farmers Market for about four years. “I’ve always had chickens and I’ve always had a garden, but never this many chickens or this much gardening,” Schubert said.
Schubert was involved in the mobile home business prior to commercial farming. When his business, which made him a living for more than 20 years, began to fail, he turned his pastime into a career. “I wasn’t going to get rich doing that and I’m surely not getting rich doing this, but I enjoy it. I get up every morning and I’m happy. I go to bed and I’m happy,” Schubert said. Amy Decker, the owner of Jammin’ Granny, a local business that specializes in organic jams, said she is excited that farmers markets are gaining such popularity in today’s culture. “I think the Brazos Valley Farmers Market does a fantastic job because you know what you’re getting is fresh. I enjoy being a part of it,” Decker said. Stacie Grange, Class of 2001 and a former horticulture major, owns Brazos Turnings, a wood turning company that produces pens, bowls and other wooden crafts. She also sells fresh eggs and vegetables from her own backyard.
“I use local wood for the larger bowls and exotic wood for the pens because of the coloring,” Grange said. “It generally takes me half an hour to 40 minutes to finish one piece.” She has been selling eggs from her chickens for about a year now.
Fresh from the garden The Brazos Family Farmer’s Market meets from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesdays in the Village Foods parking lot and from 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays across from the Brazos County Court House. Grange likes the idea of free-range chickens and fresh products but understands the overwhelming demand for chickens and their eggs by Americans. “There is no way right now to use free range chickens to supply the nation, it’s too expensive. But if you look at the color of the yolk
in free range, it is so much brighter than store bought, almost orange,” Grange said. “It is just much healthier and more natural. There are extra nutrients in the free range eggs too.” The Brazos Family Famers Market is governed by volunteers, and receives funds from the Texas Department of Agriculture. The organization also partners with Texas A&M for its “Howdy! Farm” program, which offers students internships and volunteer positions associated with local agricultural businesses Emma Frost, a junior nutritional science major, said she likes the farmers market because of the fresh produce and her professional interest in organic food. “It is kind of what my career is going to be involved with,” Frost said “The reason I started eating organically is because it interested me.” Frost said she looks for specific products and produce when she goes to the market. “Normally I look for veggies I wouldn’t be able to find at a regular grocery store, like I look for home grown tomatoes because they are
so much better than store bought,” Frost said. “I trust that the [vendors at the markets] aren’t spraying fertilizers or pesticides on their vegetables, or at least not as much as a grocery store.” Frost said that while paying for fresh produce and farmers market goods can be expensive, the quality and health they provide are worth the cost. “I guess I see it like this, eating is a fuel for your body so I don’t mind spending extra on something that makes you feel good and look good because remember, you are what you eat,” Frost said, Lizzie Bruins, senior physical education major said she likes how the farmers market is local, selling products grown in the area. “I like the markets not only because of the atmosphere but you just feel like you are buying fresher products,” Bruins said. “I really appreciate them because of their ability to localize. I feel like I am supporting College Station when I get to buy fresh fruit and veggies from the farmers market.”
Harlem shake has Aggieland dancing Emily Villani
The Battalion nly through YouTube can a dance move that originated in the gritty backstreets of New York be outsourced to Australia, repackaged as “trap-rave,” and then reclaimed by the goofy youth of America. The dance craze began when a few kids in Australia — inspired by video blogger Filthy Frank — uploaded their dance moves to YouTube with the song “Harlem Shake” by Baauer. Spinoffs ensued, and the song is now topping charts in the U.S. and the U.K. Perhaps more notably, the song marks a turning point for how Billboard’s Hot 100 are decided. According to a blog posted by Sasha Frere-Jones, pop music critic for The New Yorker magazine, Billboard
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and one of the four students involved in the production of the Coolbike, said the mechanics of the device were based on familiar appliances. “The prototype is based on the vapor compression cycle, which is found in your refrigerator at home, industrial freezers and the AC unit in your car,” Travis said. “We actually pulled our unit out
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“added YouTube streaming data to the numbers that determine whether or not a song is the hottest of all the Hot 100 better reflecting how people are actually consuming pop music.” Because so many people use YouTube to listen to music, Billboard is finally giving YouTube data a say in determining which songs are the most popular. Many of Harlem’s actual inhabitants who performed the dance in its original style and context say the videos are not doing “the real Harlem Shake.” The original shake is similar to the arm-swinging shoulder dips of the “Bernie,” another recent dance craze. As the craze grew groups from all over got together to make their own rendition of the dance. The Aggies, of course, were no exception. Junior political science ma-
of an ‘89 Honda from Bryan Auto Recycling.” Travis and the team felt this was the most efficient approach to the project after much analysis. “Professor Ranjan actually had a group work on [the mobile refrigeration system] in a previous semester,” Schott said. “They used more of an electric approach, using a small generator on the back wheel which generated a current that ran to a thermoelectric device. It got to their target temperature in close to an hour. We
jor Kevin Bean and sophomore computer science major Alex Hasen created an event for a Harlem Shake, A&M edition, through their page, Texas A&Memes. Their goal was to organize and execute the largest Harlem Shake in the world so far. Bean said he and Hasen got the idea to plan an A&Mspecific shake from watching YouTube videos earlier in February. “We like to have fun and make things fun for students,” Bean said. “The number one complaint you hear with college students is that there’s nothing to do. We hope to change that.” Nearly 4,500 people signed up to participate in the Harlem Shake at the MSC Fountain. Bean estimated that about 2,500 people would show up. Senior electrical engi-
wanted to do that faster.” The group not only wanted to make a self-sustaining cooling system, but also had to make sure it was time efficient. Vaccines spoil if they aren’t stored at a certain temperature. The vaccine needs to be transported to a remote village without power 20 miles away from the distribution center. Because of this, Travis said, the current loss percentage is between 50 and 60 percent. The Coolbike achieved a temperature difference of 10 to 15 degrees Celsius in a
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Hundreds of students gather to be a part of the latest Internet craze, the Harlem Shake, on Sunday afternoon at Rudder fountain plaza. neering major Michael Cantú said he was drawn to participate in the Harlem Shake on campus because he wanted to experience another school-wide event. “What I like about these events is the Aggie family feel, especially when we all come together,” Cantú said. “The energy and passion of fellow students, the pride of being
10-minute time frame, pedaling the bike at an average speed of five miles per hour, a reasonable speed for a bike. Another member of the team, senior mechanical engineering major Kathryn Aymond, said the project allowed her to apply her career skills to better the lives of others. “A lot of times we go through our engineering classes or technical classes learning a variety of concepts that we plan to apply once we start our career,” Aymond said. “This project allows us to begin ap-
an Aggie — these are experiences I want to remember for a lifetime.” Virginia Kaye, junior psychology major, said she signed up to participate in the event as a way to release some silliness in a society that can be very judgmental. “The first time I saw the Harlem Shake video I laughed so hard, it reminded me of when I
plying those concepts now to affect the lives of other people who need our knowledge and expertise.” After improving the original prototype, the mechanical engineering students were not finished. Aymond and Schott established a new class so that they could continue perfecting the prototype. “Mechanical Engineering 491 counts as a technical elective toward our degree, but we are the only two students enrolled in the course,” Schott said.
go out with my friends and act like a goofball to get them to dance with me,” Kaye said. Kaye said the reason people come together for things like the Harlem Shake is the feeling that you are a part of something. “I love how Aggies get together and become one, even when it is something as goofy as the Harlem Shake,” Kaye said.
Methods of improvement are being evaluated and implemented to improve efficiency. Some of the enhancements of the new device include a lighter system, more flexible hoses and standardized construction materials. Upon these improvements the team will arrive closer to mass production. “Once this gets going, I would like to target the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for funding,” Ranjan said. “That is when we will focus on mass production.”
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’ve long been tired of the “student-athlete” moniker and the notions it implies. So has Johnny Manziel, apparently, because it took him a month to permanently compromise the idea. His on-field play is as scintillating as it comes, but who could have predicted the business acumen and savvy Manziel would flash this offseason? Don’t be fooled by the Twitter feed stuffed with Mardi Gras beads, talk of “haters” and celebrity photos —Manziel and his circle know what they’re doing. In comments made at the acceptance dinner for his Davey O’Brien Award, Manziel confirmed something A&M fans have taken for granted for some time: the quarterback is taking an online-only course load. The joke that athletes don’t actually go to class is a longstanding one, but now it’s reality. The athlete with the highest profile in the nation — the one who brought a dash of youthful, maroon brashness to the fraternity of Heisman winners — doesn’t attend classes on A&M soil. Don’t overlook the significance of this announcement. At surface level, the question has to be asked whether it is even possible to graduate with a business degree taking only online courses. Doesn’t this cement the idea that he’ll bounce after another year in Aggieland for the NFL? Digging deeper, this represents an about-face in the way we look at college athletes. He’s not a student-athlete because he’s only a student in the loosest possible sense. He hasn’t stopped there. Last week, Manziel’s corporation (JMAN2 Enterprises — not making this up) filed suit against a man who sold “Keep Calm and Johnny Football” shirts in violation of Manziel’s 2012 licensing of the nickname. The result of the lawsuit won’t be the important part. Manziel can’t directly profit on his name and accomplishments (even while the NCAA and A&M make millions on the No. 2 jersey and the quarterback who wears it), but the NCAA informed A&M that “a student-athlete can keep financial earnings as a result of a legal action.” If he wins this suit and the ones that could follow, the money is his own. Trademark infringement lawsuits are the only way for him to see the benefits A&M currently reaps. In the past month, Manziel has peeled the skin off the NCAA’s bureaucratic nonsense and opened a loophole to (legally) make a profit off his own name and (legally) exempt himself from attending class. He’s not a student anymore, and he’s not an amateur. He’s an athlete.
Fans are peddled artificial constructions every day, and the ability to sift through them is crucial for this discussion. We’ll start with Manziel himself. Johnny Football — the most down-South American nickname that has ever been and will ever be — is “Jonathon Manziel of Kerrville, Texas,” as he called himself in his first-ever addressing of the media, because he wants to be. Kerrville kids that want to remain Kerrville kids don’t have things like “JMAN2 Enterprises” attached to their names. His small-town image is as much a construction as the “Heismanziel” marketing campaign that launched him into the public, which is as much a construction as the NCAA’s glorification of amateurism. Athletes have a shelf life. They don’t last long. The average NFL career, according to the Player’s Association, is a shade over three years. Elite athleticism is a marketable skill, and the NCAA knows it, which is why it cashes in on these skills for millions every year. The players are expected to be content with a scholarship for a degree many of them won’t stay around long enough to see. Team spirit, loyalty — when will we stop forcing these buzz words on eighteen-year-olds? The only amateur competition that can hold up in a comparison to its professional counterpart is SEC football. And even in that case, the product is so similar in fanfare and monetary exchange that squeezing SEC football (with Manziel as the face) into a onesize-fits-all lens of viewing athlete compensation is ridiculous. A third-party study found that Manziel’s Heisman win generated $37 million in media impressions (read: free, valuable advertising). Speculative ticket pricing has Alabama’s Sept. 14 trip to College Station in the thousands of dollars per seat. What’s Manziel’s cut? The student-athlete moniker is an anachronistic, almost-funny joke. Haven’t we known it all along? Apparently, all we needed was an athlete with a little free time to topple the NCAA’s ideas of “student” and “amateur.” His online-only schedule must have bought him more time than anyone imagined, because somewhere between Duck Dynasty meet-and-greets, Wale concerts and the NBA All-Star Game, Manziel managed to undermine everything on which college football’s governing body stood. Mark Doré is a junior English major and sports editor for The Battalion
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Bryan police are investigating an auto-pedestrian accident near downtown Bryan. According to police, a woman was struck by a four-door vehicle around 10 p.m. Sunday. She is in critical condition at St. Joseph Hospital. The vehicle was traveling south in the 1200 block of Palasota Drive, police said.
HSC to aid Alzheimer’s research The Texas A&M Health Science Center was accepted into the Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium, an organization with roots in Baylor and the University of Texas dedicated to finding early recognition and treatment techniques.
Spending cuts could harm border security and trade T
he automatic cuts in federal spending set to go into effect at the end of this week could result in “the equivalent” of thousands of border agents and customs officers being cut, according to the White House. The news worries businessmen in South Texas, who say it could be a blow to cross-border trade. It also has raised the ire of Border Patrol agents, who say they’re bearing an unfair portion of the cuts. Mirroring testimony earlier this month from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, the White House released a fact sheet over the weekend warning of cuts to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the nation’s ports of entry and to the Border Patrol. “Beginning April 1, CBP would have to reduce its work hours by the equivalent of over 5,000 Border Patrol agents and the equivalent of over 2,750 CBP Officers,” Napolitano said
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