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The Batt’s endorsee The Battalion editorial board interviewed candidates and chose to endorse Hilary Albrecht for student body president. Reasons for this endorsement can be found on thebatt.com.
Campaigns began for the 2011-2012 yell leaders, student senate and student body president positions. Voting will be Monday through Tuesday; runoffs, if necessary, will be March 3-4.
thebattalion ● thursday,
february 24, 2011
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campus
Unstoppable
Bike polo shifts into gear Student returns from Spain with spin on old game
former students
Haley Lawson
Aggie plane designer dies Leland Snow, former student and founder of Air Tractor Inc., took his last stride on Feb. 20 while jogging near his home in Wichita Falls, Texas. Snow was born on May 31, 1930, in Brownsville, Texas. Snow designed his first plane, the S-1, in 1951, dusting crops from the Rio Grande Valley to Nicaragua. Following with two other models, the S-2A and the S-2B in 1958, he opened his company in Olney, Texas. In 1965, he sold his company to Rockwell-Standard and was appointed vice president of the Aero Commander division. While serving in this position he developed the Air Tractor. Air Tractor produces the most expensive product line of agricultural aircraft in the world. It is used for spraying, seeding, fertilizing and firefighting. In addition to being used as crop dusters, Air Tractor’s planes are outfitted with weapons and advanced electronics for use as warplanes.
Courtesy photo
The scan of Steinhuble’s brain shows where he was shot. The bullet remains lodged in his head.
See Polo on page 7
health&fitness
Camp shapes girls for break
Luz Moreno-Lozano, staff writer
Fitness fad forms Greek physiques on sorority row
basketball
Free admission
Alex Lotz
Students will be given free admission to Saturday’s men’s basketball game against Texas Tech. Guest passes for nonstudents will be $5.
inside sports | 3 Five straight The No. 17 Aggies defeated Oklahoma 61-47 Wednesday at Reed Arena for its fifth consecutive win.
yell leaders | 7 Nelson Ingram Look inside for information about yell leader candidate Nelson Ingram.
The Battalion Texas A&M students don’t need horses to play polo anymore. Some have decided a bike still makes for a good polo match. A group of students play bike polo every Monday at 10 p.m. in the George Bush Library parking lot. Kevin Parks, class of 2009, introduced the game to his friends after he returned home from studying abroad in Spain. “I had no idea bike polo existed until I saw it at a bicycle festival in Barcelona during my study abroad trip,” Parks said. Bike polo is just like polo on horses except that it is on bicycles. Players use mallets and hockey balls. “We play three-on-three games on a hard-court with a street hockey ball, homemade mallets and of course, we are on bikes,” said Will Jarvis, a junior recreation, parks and tourism science major. When Parks returned to the states he saw another bike polo game in San Marcos. He joined the game and began to practice. When he returned to College
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Mark Steinhubl is attending Texas A&M after surviving a gunshot wound to the head and said he understands the therapy U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is going through, because he went through the same
Like injured U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, student survives shot to the head Angela Washeck
The Battalion When sophomore chemical engineering major Mark Steinhubl heard the national headline that broke Jan. 8, he began to pray. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat from Arizona, had been shot in the head, and her life was in jeopardy. Steinhubl understood the seriousness of the situation since he suffered an eerily similar injury two
years ago. The bullet that hit Steinhubl pierced his skull above his right eye and cut through the right side of his brain. Steinhubl’s auditory functioning was lost on the right side, and the bullet took out his right eye. Steinhubl’s roommate and friend, senior civil engineering major Matthew Megally, said he could not believe Steinhubl survived the accident once he
heard the story. “When we were getting to know each other, I asked what happened to him because I was under the impression that he had a lazy eye,” he said. “If someone is shot in the head, where the bullet enters the right side and exits left or vice versa, it crosses the central barrier between the right and left lobes See Steinhubl on page 6
The Battalion In an effort to stay healthy, many Texas A&M students rely on the Student Recreation Center in hopes of finding an exercise machine. Since October 2009, Fitness Forever has been going house to house on sorority row and training young women in boot camp sessions to help tone bodies, teach proper eating habits and spread the news about healthy body image issues. “My favorite age group to train is between 18 and 24, because it is when young women look the best but feel the worst, and I want to change that. I want them to feel confident in who they are today,” said Brandi Reichert, co-owner and certified personal trainer of Fitness Forever. Reichert and her business partner and certified personal trainer, William Hurst, started Fitness Forever through personal training sessions with memSee Bootcamp on page 8
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