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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.

campus news Harrington loses air conditioning With perfect timing for the Texas heat wave, the air conditioner went out in Harrington Tower as students and faculty were left to brace the heat.

As the humidity increased throughout the day and showers fell, so did the heat index in the building.

Tempers flared as distraught students said they could not understand why the air conditioner had not been fixed yet.

One student, senior bilingual education major Jasmin Peraza had been in and out of the building all day and had yet to see any improvements in the air condition. In addition to the heat there was also a rancid smell lingering in the building.

“Everyone is hot and cranky and it smells like feet,” Peraza said.

Students and faculty did their best to adapt to the uncomfortable conditions by having portable fans in some rooms. The left hoping it would be fixed.

Hockey team skates to victories

Aggie reaches for the sky

Aggie ice hockey team finds itself ranked as 10th in the west region Jared Baxter The Battalion Take a look at the locker room door of the Texas A&M hockey team, and you’ll see a poster that reads, “Our Goal: Nationals in San Jose.”

The Aggies, who have a 21-9 record on the season, are ranked 10th in the west region and qualified for the regional tournament on Feb. 25-26. This marks the second consecutive season for the squad to reach the playoffs after becoming the first team in Texas to reach that goal last year.

Head Coach Sean Boyle has been instrumental since arriving two years ago, bringing with him years of experience as both player and coach at Weber State.

“The guys have done a good job the last two years of working hard. All season long they’ve put themselves in position to fight and make the playoffs. The team See Hockey on page 6

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scene | 3 Oscars

Lifestyles columnists offer their opinions on which of the 10 nominees for Best Picture at the Academy Awards should take home the famous gold statue.

sports | 4 Weekend preview The No. 5 A&M women’s basketball team travels to Austin to face off with Texas, while the Aggie track and field team competes in the Big 12 Indoor Championships.

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The Burj Khalifa is the tallest man-made structure in the world. The Burj Khalifa was designed by Adrian Smith, class of 1966. The building is more than half a mile tall.

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Adrian Smith, class of 1966, designs world’s tallest structure April Baltensperger The Battalion Adrian Smith, class of 1966, designed the tallest structure in world.

“Study hard and follow your dreams.” This is the advice Smith, internationally successful architect, gave to students pursuing architecture when he made a visit to the A&M campus last week. Smith spoke to students at the Rowlett 2011 conference this past Friday in Rudder

Theatre about achieving their goals.

He has designed some of the world’s most recognizable structures, including the Burj Khalifa in the United Arab Emirates, the world’s tallest structure. More important than designing internationally renowned buildings, however, Smith’s main goal is to help others and to protect the environment.

“My goal is to in some way contribute to society with the work that

I do,” Smith said. “Now it’s morphing into a role of not just architecture but bringing awareness to the people about sustainability. Architecture can be very influential to others. We have a voice to help inform developers of issues that affect their daily lives. I try to foster that.”

The A&M College of Architecture was honored to have Adrian See Smith on page 5

The Battalion Marvin Rowe, professor emeritus of chemistry was honored in the January 2011 issue of Archaeology Magazine for the “Top 10 Discoveries of 2010”; before that, he was honored at the annual meeting of the American Rock Art Research Association in March 2010.

Rowe’s discovery created a nondestructive technique that permits scientists to date valuable, rare and unique perishable organic archaeological artifacts without visible change to the artifact. The ordinary radiocarbon dating is a three-step process that results in the destruction of the artifact.

“Hopefully his technique will be adopted by more archaeologists and the knowledge of our past can be expanded, without sacrificing artifacts,” said Elmo Mawk, senior lecturer for the Department of Chemistry.

The two strong acid washes are necessary to remove carbonates that would yield an incorrect radiocarbon date if included, and strong base washes to remove organic contamination of humic acids that if not removed would also yield incorrect radiocarbon dates and total burning of the artifact sample to produce the carbon (carbon dioxide) that is to be dated.

“We have developed two different techniques that eliminate the need for these very destructive steps and replacing them with nondestructive steps,” Marvin said. “It can provide See Rowe on page 6

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Going for gold Columnists defend choices for top film The King’s Speech The King’s Speech has been wrecking shop as of late, taking home all the “insider” industry top awards, The Producers Guild (Best Motion Picture), The Directors Guild (Best Director) and The Screen Actors Guild (Best Ensemble) awards. While the Globes is determined by a group of 90 journalists and critics who cover the industry, the Oscars are voted on by more than 6,000 active members of the Academy, consisting of motion picture professionals — meaning the same people who vote for the guild awards.

Awards given out by insiders are much more predictive of Oscars than those garnered on the opinions of outsiders like critics. The Directors Guild Awards has the best track record with matching the Oscar winner, having done so 76 percent of the time since 1985, The Producers Guild 67 percent of the time, and the Golden Globes with 64 percent.

Colin Firth, who stammers through The King’s Speech as the humble King George VI who has glory unwillingly thrust upon him is sure to take home the little gold man for Best Actor. The only true competitions that will have any tension behind them on Oscar night seem to be in the Best Director and Best Picture race between the fan and critic favorite, The Social Network, and the industry and festival darling, The King’s Speech.

While David Fincher’s stunning visuals, intricate editing and intense attention to detail will likely take the Oscar in the directing category and The Social Network might be everyone else’s favorite movie of the year, it is clear that when the 83rd sign for Best Motion Picture takes its place lining the golden staircases of the Kodak Theater off Hollywood Blvd, the Academy will have chosen The King’s Speech.

Alex Welch, junior business major

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127 Hours 127 Hours’ director Danny Boyle – who also helmed 2008’s Best Picture winner Slumdog Millionaire — approaches the narrative with a distinct yet restrained filmmaking style. The fact this film wasn’t also nominated for a Best Cinematography Oscar is a crime unto itself. Boyle places the audience directly into the claustrophobic slot canyon Ralston finds himself trapped in, which is radically juxtaposed with wide sweeping of vistas of the Utah desert.

The sound design is also top notch, from the subtle whistle of wind coursing through a narrow crevasse to the jarring crack of a broken bone reverberating through the canyon walls like shotgun blasts.

One might be leery of sitting through a movie that is primarily focused on watching another person sit, but James Franco, who portrays Ralston, delivers one of the best performances of the year, creating a dynamic character whom you actually care about. Franco delivers a subtle and convincing portrayal of the young adventurers. Through him you see his pass through all the stages of desperation: from anger, confusion, patience to repressed sexual desire, hallucination and finally, violence of action.

The final montage, scored to the Oscar nominated song “If I Rise,” is compiled of video clips of the real Ralston interspersed with scenes of James Franco in various stages of recovery, is simply one of best final four minutes of any film in the past decade.

The Social Network In writing his script, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin chose to play fast and loose with the truth, and the final result was something special: a film that turned what was in reality a rather mundane story about computer programmers and business transactions into a tightly-wound drama with fascinating characters and interesting commentary on human relationships in the age of the Internet. Sorkin’s razor-sharp dialogue and superb sense of pacing are what makes him one of the best screenwriters around, but it takes an equally talented cast to bring a script like his to life.

As the film’s focal point, the young founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg overcomes his past typecasting as a Michael Cera-lite type figure in films like Zombieland and Adventureland by bringing a sinister coldness to the geeky-but-ruthless programming genius. Zuckerberg is presented as

an endlessly complicated character, both the film’s hero and its villain, and it is difficult to see anyone but Eisenberg pulling off the role so effortlessly. The rest of the cast, including Andrew Garfield as the naïve Eduardo Saverin, Armie Hammer as both of the imposing but ultimately incompetent Winklevoss twins and Justin Timberlake, in a brilliantly ironic bit of casting, as Napster founder Sean Parker, offer excellent performances as well, managing to be as equally impressive as the film’s writing.

Ultimately, 127 Hours is raw filmmaking at its finest. A simple story, based off true events, a strong lead and brilliant audio and visual design make it one of the best movies of the year. This is not a movie you see, it’s a movie that you experience.

Joe Terrell, sophomore telecommunication media studies major

Combined with an eerie electronic soundtrack from Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Rezor, Fincher’s direction lends the film an undercurrent of tension and darkness that, when combined with Sorkin’s script and a stunning ensemble cast, make The Social Network the best film of 2010.

Alec Goetz, junior English major

True Grit The story True Grit tells is outdone only by the way it tells the story. An aged Mattie remembers the drunk middle-aged Rooster, who guides her through Indian Territory to revenge her father’s murder. Mattie’s memory seems fantastic but not romanticized, and her caddy-but-realistic attitude brings the story to home.

Cogburn, a U.S. Marshal with a penchant for gunplay and whiskey, reluctantly takes Mattie under his wing. Cogburn is a great anti-hero with a soft spot for Mattie. Jeff Bridges’ performance earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actor, an award he won at last year’s Academy Awards for his part in Crazy Heart.

Inception Inception took a huge leap by making people think when watching a movie, to bend and strain everyday ideas and concepts into something masterful. The movie accomplished a lot through powerful visuals and twisted realities.

The action involved in Inception is enough to make anybody happy, but not so over-the-top as to create a rift between the viewer and the story. You have all your classic gun fights, chase scenes and explosions, but they are worked into the movie without seeming too obvious or cliché.

As for the story, when the credits rolled and everyone groaned at the spinning top, I stood up and wondered what book this masterpiece had come from. No book,

simply a fantastic screenplay that grasps enough elements of fiction to make Stephen King take notes.

I still stand with bated breath when watching the final scenes of the film. The storytelling is so real and intense, and the writing and directing should be commended. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we see a bunch of copycat writers delving into the world of Inception with all of its depth and greatness.

There’s no doubt Inception will have to face serious competition for the Oscar, but originality should be the guide on who will go home with the golden award.

Movies like Toy Story 3 and 127 Hours can’t touch the supreme design and flawless implementation of elements that Inception brings to the table.

The direction is amazing too, but what else would you expected from the Coen brothers? The Coen brothers are known for their genre spoofs, but have stayed true to the classic western form in True Grit. The Coen brothers, have been nominated for Oscars in Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for True Grit.

The movie itself is beautiful, with long scenery pans and perspective-lending camera angles. Along with the direction, the cinematography places the viewer straight into the old west. The cinematography also received a nod from the Academy with an Oscar nomination.

Along with Best Picture, True Grit is nominated for 10 Academy Awards. The Best Picture won’t be decided until Sunday, but True Grit has already won Best Picture in the hearts of many.

Josh Harms, senior telecommunication media studies major, special to The Battalion

Matt Bizzell, freshman English major

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men’s basketball | The No. 17 Aggies travel to Waco to avenge an earlier loss to Baylor at 8 p.m. Saturday.

baseball | The Aggies, 4-0 on the season, welcome in Gonzaga for a three-game set starting at 6:35 p.m. Friday.

swimming | The men’s and women’s teams are in Austin this weekend competing in the Big 12 Championships.

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Aggies travel to Austin for showdown Adding to the intensity that is expected from the Longhorns, Texas (17-10, 6-7) is seventh in the conference standings and is in a dead heat with several Big 12 teams trying to earn a spot in the NCAA Tournament. “Their backs are against the wall, but I think they’ll make it,� Blair said. “I think all they’ll have to do is win one of their last three and at 7-9 with their RPI, they’ll get in. I just hope that it’s not at the expense of us.�

Despite losing three of their last four games, the Longhorns are coming off a 66-57 overtime loss to No. 24 Iowa State. Blair was impressed with Texas’ performance and the play of junior forward Ashley Gayle. “Texas got hurt because Ashley Gayle couldn’t stay out of foul trouble in that last ball game,� he said.

Gayle will have her hands full with A&M senior center Danielle Adams who is the Big 12’s leadingscorer and ranks fifth in the nation with 23.3 points per game. Adams has turned up the volume in conference play averaging 24.1 points and a team-high 9.1 rebounds per game.

Having her coming out party in the Longhorns’ last meeting with A&M, Texas freshman guard Chassidy Fussell lit up the Aggies for 26 points and four assists. Fussell leads the Longhorns in scoring averaging 17.2 points per game.

The game will tip at 2 p.m.

Mike Teague The Battalion Shooting for their tenth consecutive win over their arch-rival, No. 5 Texas A&M heads to Austin Sunday for a showdown with the Texas Longhorns for game two of the Lone Star Showdown.

Texas A&M (23-3, 11-2) is second in the Big 12 standings and has already clinched a first-round bye in the conference tournament. The Aggies trail conference-leader Baylor by two games with only three games remaining but can clinch second with a win.

In the first meeting of the 20102011 season, the Aggies cruised to an 80-65 win over visiting Texas.

The Longhorns haven’t beat A&M since 2007 and a loss Sunday would mark the fourth-consecutive season that they have been swept in the series. Despite all of the odds stacking in the Aggies’ favor, Head Coach Gary Blair expects anything but an easy trip. “Don’t worry, they will be loaded up for us,� Blair said.

Although the Aggies will come into Austin heavy favorites, history has shown that there are no gimmies in Big 12 basketball. In the past four seasons, A&M has been upset on the road at Iowa State in 2007 and at Texas Tech in 2009 and 2010. “That’s what it’s like playing for an NCAA [Tournament] team,�

Blair said. “Somebody has to lose but both teams can feel that they played well.�

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Senior center Danielle Adams, the leading scorer in the Big 12, looks to lead A&M past Texas for the second time this season.

The Battalion If you ask anyone affiliated with the Texas A&M track team about the goal for the Big 12 Championship meet this weekend at the Devaney Center in Lincoln, Neb., they will explain the importance of having everyone doing their best and staying healthy on the same day, at the same time to ensure a team victory. Head Coach Pat Henry emphasized the importance of the return of injured athletes and the preparation for highly-competitive meets as vital to the team’s success. “We’ve prepared all year long for one of the meets that have huge significance and this is one of them,� Henry said. “Some meets are individual but this is one where it’s what you do as a team and this is a great challenge.�

Health was also a factor for the Aggies last year, as the women won their fourthstraight conference title and the men placed third. This year, Henry said competition is heating up with Texas and Nebraska being the teams to beat.

Jessica Beard, senior sprinter and Big 12 record holder in the women’s 400-meters, has high expectations for herself and the team, as the Aggies plan to continue the construction of a dynasty. “We’re coming in looking to defend our title,� Beard said. “There’s no doubt in my mind we can do it, but everybody needs to give their best performance. We want to improve off last year but it will be a meet of surprises, and we just have to go take it.�

Tabarie Henry, senior sprinter, said this meet is extremely significant to himself and his teammates because the men have not won a Big 12 title. “We stepped up the intensity this week in practice because this one is very important to us,� Henry said. “I’ve been through the big stuff, so I know how to step up when its time. The men haven’t won in a while so going out [with a title] as a senior would be great.�

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of Architecture at Texas A&M University. “His outstanding career and the superb excellence of the buildings he has created are an inspiration to our students and faculty, and to the profession at large. He embodies the spirit of design, but never forgetting that what he designs is for people.”

Smith has designed structures all over the globe, won more than 110 major awards for design excellence and is a forerunner in designing environmentally sustainable buildings.

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“Develop a philosophy to live by, pursue it, and for the right reasons,” Smith said. “Inherently if people follow their gut about what they’re doing, they’ll do the right thing. If you’re following a dream because that’s where the money is, where the glory is, it is probably not the right reason.”

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cal environment. Pearl River Tower, the world’s first net-zero energy skyscraper that he designed with Gordon Gill, is currently under construction in Guangzhou China. Smith creates highly sustainable projects, integrating energy-efficient systems and technologies into his designs.

“One of the projects we’ve started is the decarbonization of the central area of Chicago,” Smith said. “Roughly 1 percent of building stock gets rebuilt every year, and there are problems of waste and carbon emissions in the older buildings because they are built between the ’50s and ’80s; that is a hazard. So we did research into all buildings in downtown Chicago, about how to reduce carbon emissions for the United States. We’re asking what does it take to get this area to carbon reduction of 80 percent by 2020. That is our challenge.”

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TAKE A PIECE OF A&M HISTORY WITH YOU Reserve your 2011 Aggieland yearbook

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was in order before I came here.

They just need to started believing in themselves and winning some big games last year really helped,” Boyle said.

With two games left against Baylor at home, Boyle’s squad is preparing for No. 2 ranked Utah State, their first playoff opponent.

Nathan Banks, the team president and senior captain, is confident in his team’s chances against a familiar foe.

“They’re really tough. We actually played them back in the summer at a showcase in Colorado, and we kept the game really close until the end. I’m really excited about having a shot to beat them again,” Banks said.

And he wasn’t alone in his determination to take on a highly ranked team. Aubrey Berkowitz, a junior forward and team officer, likes the David vs.

Goliath matchup.

“Our team is definitely not afraid of being the underdog.

We’re comfortable with that.

We’re familiar with being in that role. This year we actually beat

top ranked Colorado State,” Berkowitz said.

There will be more at play than just playoff implications and underdog motivation for the Aggies, as Coach Boyle has an old rivalry he would like to settle.

Nick Xenakis, senior captain, knows the atmosphere at Utah State, a crowd which should have more than 2,000 screaming fans, goes beyond just the ice and into the coaching box.

“Weber State is in Utah, and [Boyle] played there when he was young like us. His biggest rival by far was Utah State. The first team we’re going to see at Regionals is his biggest rival, so you can bet that it’s going to be nuts,” Xenakis said.

Banks and his teammates admitted they have never played in front of such a large crowd, even with many of their recent home games selling out routinely.

However, Boyle was adamant that it could play into his team’s favor with Utah State possibly being too riled up in front of their home crowd.

“It could work in our favor, too. I’ve seen our own guys get jazzed up playing against the University of Texas when

we’ve got four, five, six hundred people here. And you’ve got them playing against 2,000 of their own fans in the playoffs.

That could get their energy going too much. I’ve personally seen teams take dumb penalties right off the bat because they’re so jazzed up,” Boyle said.

The A&M hockey team will be looking to win both games at the regional tournament and qualify for Nationals, an accomplishment that would mark yet another first for the state of Texas. It would also cap off what has been a stellar career for the seniors who have transformed a sub- .500 team into a playoff competitor.

“It will be hard to replace the guys we’re losing this year. Some have been here for two, three, four and even five years. We’ve got some guys who have gone through the pain of having a losing team. For them to have this success is pretty cool for those guys. Whether we make it to Nationals or not, they will have the chance for their hard work to pay off. Win or lose they get to go out on top,” Boyle said.

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dates on rock paintings, even ones that do not contain charcoal or other visible organic pigment.”

This process is used to provide radiocarbon dates on valuable artifacts that are too rare to take even the small samples necessary for an ordinary radiocarbon date.

“Our technique can provide the date without change to the artifact,” Rowe said.

In addition to the two recognitions this year, Rowe was also honored for finding experimental evidence of the presence of the transuranium element, plutonium-244 that was present in the solar system when the solid bodies, that is, the earth, planets and meteorites were formed. In addition, he also found the presence of cosmic-ray produced xenon isotopes in meteorites.

“Dr. Rowe is an excellent example of academic researchers,” said David Russell, head of the Department of Chemistry. “His interest in one area, chemistry, especially analytical chemistry, was directed toward a problem in a remote discipline.”

Beginning his teaching career in 1968 at the University of Washington in Seattle, Rowe moved to Texas A&M University in 1969 and has remained here ever since. The plan is to set up this nondestructive radiocarbon dating laboratory in the Conservation Laboratory of the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe, where he volunteers his time since his retirement. If that is finished, they will radiocarbon date some of the more valuable artifacts around the world.

This has been used in the training of several Ph.D. students in chemistry since 1992.

He has also incorporated it in an archaeological chemistry course taught numerous times on campus at A&M and three times at the Texas A&M University campus at Santa Chiara in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy.

“Archaeologists can expand our knowledge of our past without destroying cultural artifacts,” Mawk said.

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