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ith the announcement earlier this month that the Texas Emerging Technologies Fund, TETF, will invest $3 million to support the creation of the Center for Cell and Organ Biotechnology, Texas A&M is poised to explore the potential of regenerative medicine. The Center for Cell and Organ Biotechnology, CCOB, will be a joint venture between the Houston-based Texas Heart Institute and Texas A&M’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences with labs in both Houston and College Station that will conduct research on chronic medical conditions found in humans and animals. Frank Michel, director of public relations at the THI, said the CCOB’s main goal is to research the potential of regenerative medicine. “The CCOB is a collaboration between the Texas Heart Institute and Texas A&M’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to, among other things, look at the possibilities for regenerative medicine in addressing some of the chronic diseases that both human and animals face, and try to meet this huge, unmet medical need,” Michel said. See Biotechnology on page 2
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he issue of permanent residents and student residents coexisting in College Station will be discussed at the College Station City Council meeting Thursday, as major changes to parking and housing regulations in the South Knoll area may soon be on the way. The South Knoll Neighborhood Plan includes changes to parking and the number of unrelated residents renting a house, both of which will impact temporary student residents in the area surrounded by Holleman Drive, Texas Avenue, Harvey Mitchell Parkway, Wellborn Road, Southwest Parkway and Welsh Avenue. The South Knoll Neighborhood Plan is the last topic on the agenda and will include a public presentation of the plan, and its possible implementation. The plan allows for the regulation of the number of unrelated persons living in one house. If approved by a majority of homeowners, this change would result in houses that previously held four to five students only being allowed to house two unrelated persons. The plan would also prohibit street parking between 2 and 6 a.m., allowing residents to only park on their property between these hours
with an option for the majority of residents to remove on-street parking entirely. Councilwoman Blanche Brick said the plan stems from the fact that the neighborhood, which surrounds South Knoll Elementary School, was not originally constructed with college students in mind. “We’re trying to work with the fact that the neighborhood was built as a single-family neighborhood back in the ’70s,” Brick said. “The homes were designed for one family, and probably two cars at most, and they didn’t anticipate the kind of issues that would arise as A&M grew and more students began to move off campus.” Brick said that with the influx of college renters, residences originally meant to house a family with a maximum of two cars suddenly had to accomodate four or five cars per household. The ensuing street parking has led to congestion on the street to the point where navigation has become difficult. Additionally, Brick said homeowners in the neighborhood feel the lifestyle attached to a family-oriented area has deteriorated with the influx of renters in the area. “We’ve had huge amounts of correspondents saying that many people who had bought into that neighborhood had felt that they had lost their investment,” Brick said. Work on what has become the South Knoll Neighborhood Plan began in the fall of 2012, with the meetings of Neighborhood Resource Teams to address issues such as neighborhood
integrity and character, mobility and public facilities and services. Salim Malik, junior biology major, said price is a huge draw in renting a house with four to five roommates. “It’s money better spent,” Malik said. “You end up spending less for the same utilities.” When asked if the proposed regulations would affect her decision to rent a house in the future, freshman biochemistry major Hyunjin Lee said that the ability to spread out and the level of comfort that comes with that is worth the increased cost. “While the increase in the amount of money it would take to rent is not a positive, I feel like my personal preference would outweigh the costs,” Lee said. College Station City Council will take action on the plan at 7 p.m. Thursday at College Station City Hall.
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he Residence Hall Association, RHA, will host a meeting with the University Dining Services 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Hullabaloo Hall Multipurpose Room to express student concerns about the current meal plans on campus. At the meeting, a University Dining Services representative will be present to respond to concerns from students about the dining plan changes for the 2013-2014 school year. Amanda Woodrow, secretary for the Clements Hall RHA and junior mechanical engineering major, said a representative from Dining Services would attend the meeting to explain the meal plan and answer questions. “We want not only information for our residents, [but] to voice complaints commonly brought up by students,” Woodrow said. Collin Lamar, president of Clements Hall and freshman business major, said the RHA hopes to walk away from the meeting with more insight for its residents on the status of the meal plan and to See Dining on page 4
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hey had been playing together most of their sophomore year, but Jack Thweatt, lead vocals and guitar, and Travis Thompson, pianist and keyboardist, never could settle on a name. With their first official gig quickly approaching, they needed to decide fast. “We had about a billion ideas, some good, some bad, and some really bad. I decided that if we couldn’t think of one an hour before the application was due, we would go to Dictionary.com and name our band the word of the day,” said Travis Thompson, senior mechanical engineering major. The word of the day happened to be “votary.” “A votary is a passionate or devout follower of someone or something,” Thompson said. “We were like, ‘Well, it’s a nice word and it has a cool meaning. Let’s do it.’ And it kind of pertains to us because we’re all followers of Jesus.” Now, this Votary is not to be confused with the Russian melodic, death-metal
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(From left) Jack Thweatt, Travis Thompson, Conner Wright, and Michael Burgess form the band Votary, a blend of pop and indie music. band that recently took the same name. And the name is not “The Votary,” “The Voltary” or “Jack Thweatt and the Votary,” though they have been mistakenly listed as each. “It had a cool double meaning for us because it reflects that we’re really passionate about everything that we do with this band,” said Thweatt, senior aerospace
engineering major. “It’s about the music and that’s why we’re doing it. And on the other side it reflects who we are and what our character is. What’s important to us is our relationships with Christ and how we’re passionate about that.” Thweatt and Thompson met in the Commons Lobby, and even though See Votary on page 3
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Michel said there are about 6 million people in the U.S. with heart failure, with half a million of those patients dying a year, and about the same number newly diagnosed. “That number is always creeping up a little,” Michel said. The routine medical treatment for patients suffering from severe forms of many chronic conditions — including heart, liver and kidney disease — is an organ transplant. However, the demand for organs far outweighs the supply. Additionally, organ transplants come with their own risks, including potential rejection of the transplanted organ by a patient’s body. The CCOB’s goal is to research methods of healing that use a patient’s own cells as the source. Methods currently being looked in to include personalized transplants that use a patient’s stem cells to help create organs, which could lower the risk of rejection.
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Eleanor Green, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, said the partnership between THI and the College of Veterinary Medicine sprung from a history of accomplishment in medical advancement from both institutions. “The CCOB is where excellence meets excellence,” Green said. “The renowned Texas Heart Institute has a proven history of excellence in reducing the devastating toll of cardiovascular disease through innovative programs in research, education and patient care. The CVM is among the most highly regarded
colleges of veterinary medicine nationally and internationally, and is dedicated to advancing animal, human and environmental health through research, education, patient care and outreach.” The veterinary college, a renowned center for animal medicine, is in position to provide the CCOB with resources that the THI alone cannot supply. While the Texas Heart Institute, at the heart of the Houston Medical Center, has the ability to see human patients, the veterinary college has the capability to see animal patients with chronic conditions similar to those in humans, providing clinical trials with unique insights. Green said the physiological similarities among animals and humans increases the medical potential for the collaboration between Texas A&M and THI. “Animal and human disease is very linked,” Green said. “We have animals that have heart disease. If we can see patients in our hospitals and use some of these techniques there, the lives of animals are benefitted. But that information can be transposed and translated to humans. It truly provides synergy.” Leading the partnership will be Dr. Doris Taylor, director of regenerative medicine at THI. She will be based in Houston at the THI, with a partial appointment at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Taylor is best known for creating the first beating heart in a laboratory, a feat for which she was featured in “Time” magazine and granted the “Popular Science” Grand Award for Health Discovery in 2008.
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The process of creating the center required members of both the College of Veterinary Medicine and THI to write a proposal to the state of Texas and present the ways in which the CCOB fulfilled
the goals of the Emerging Technologies Fund to the TETF advisory committee in Austin. The TETF was created by the Texas Legislature in 2005 with the specific goal of providing Texas with an advantage in research, development and eventual commercialization of emerging technologies. Specifically, the grant provided to the Texas Heart Institute and Texas A&M qualifies as a research superiority fund, meant to provide Texas’s higher education institutions the ability to recruit the best researchers available. Texas A&M and THI were required to match the TETF’s $3 million investment, for a total of $9 million. However, both institutions contributed more than the required sum, for a total investment of $14 million. The large scope of the CCOB promises to provide students of Texas A&M with increased opportunities for research involvement. “As this thing matures, it will engage the whole campus,” Green said. “There’ll be faculty researchers, they’ll be working with clinicians and graduate researchers, as well as providing opportunities for undergraduate research. The benefits will reach all corners of our campus, from faculty to students.” Erica Seward, freshman biomedical sciences major, said the center will allow students a better appreciation and understanding of how medical treatments are developed. “Students that are planning to enter the medical field will have a better awareness of the possibilities that may be available to them in the future, as well as a respect for the efforts gone into the research that makes advancement of medicine possible,” Seward said.
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“The hardest part, I would say, is just the time commitment,� Thweatt said. “We’re all in extremely difficult majors and also involved Continued from page 1 on campus in organizations.� While balancing classes, organizations and Thweatt was playing with another band at the time, the duo began to casually play music to- a social life, these four students have taken on the additional pressure of creating and progether. “I met [Thompson], and he was just this moting their own music. “It’s harder to be in a band when you’re a killer pianist,� Thweatt said. “So we started to bounce ideas off each other when we saw each full-time student, and it’s harder to be a student when you’re in a band,� Wright said. other in the Commons.� The two were roommates their sopho- “But there’s a reason that we’re doing both, more year and started playing gigs around the and it’s because we’re passionate about it.� All four members work hard to balance Bryan-College Station area. They tried out a their work in the band with being involved few other members before finally settling on on campus. Conner Wright “It’s cool as a drummer and It’s a hard industry and because being Michael Burgess in this band is as a bassist, both it’s hard to generate a great experiof whom had ence and a lot been counsel- enough revenue to keep of fun,� said ors in the same something like this going. Burgess, seImpact camp as nior nutrition We’re aware of that, but Thweatt. major. “But “The first time we’re working as hard as we all of us are so I played with involved with Votary, [Thwe- can at it.� A&M that it’s att] just asked — Jack Thweatt, lead singer of Votary not like it’s me to fill in for something we a show, so I got do on the side. It’s almost like we have two to hear the music really objectively. When different lives that are independent of each I was rehearsing with them, I remember the music being a lot better than I expected from other, but at the same time they mesh really a friend’s band,� said Wright, junior supply well.� Despite the challenges involved in beginchain management major. ning a music career while in college, Thweatt The four first played together as a full band at MSC Town Hall’s Battle of the Bands last said College Station has been a good place to year, which they went on to win. Not only start. “There’s not an easier place to promote did the cash prize help Votary record its first music as a new band than a college town and album, the publicity from winning and their subsequent connections in Town Hall helped the college scene,� Tweatt said. Votary released its first album, “Ground to get their name out, Thweatt said. Beneath Us,� in April 2013 and has plans to Votary plays a unique brand of acoustic release more music. They are hoping to repop, which stands out in an area dominated lease some EPs this year, Thweatt said, and see by country music. “You just have a natural product differen- where they can go from there. “It’s a hard industry and it’s hard to genertiation, if you look at it that way,� Wright ate enough revenue to keep something like said. “If music is a product, almost everyone around here is either country or blues rock, so this going,� Thweatt said. “We’re aware of that, but we’re working as hard as we can at that makes it easier.� Votary has managed to continue to play in it. We’ll see what doors are open when we’re venues around B-CS, while its members have done.� maintained their status as full-time students.
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