Eight days remain for studententrepreneurs to submit proposals for the Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship Ideas Challenge. Students from all majors and graduate programs are eligible to participate, with $1,000 - $3,000 cash prizes awarded for the top six original business ideas. David Flint, a marketing professor and Ideas Challenge judge, said successful proposals show potential to create value, capture the judges’ interest, and are welldefended. “We try to get students to think entrepreneurially, trying something they’ve not tried before,” Flint said. A workshop for interested students will take place at 6:30 p.m. today in Wehner Building, room 161. Additional information is available online at http://cnve.tamu. edu/programs/ ideas-challenge. Robert Carpenter, staff writer
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FROM PRACTICE TO PHILANTHROPY A&M football team serves Twin City Mission profit organization aimed at meeting the needs of the less fortunate, about getting his players involved in servTexas A&M football players said ing. Twin City Mission Director of they hope to show the Bryan-College Community Relations Ron Crozier Station community that they can do said Sherman thought the team had more than play the game of football as become wrapped up in football and student athletes this Saturday. needed to be more involved in outOf the 15,000 Aggies serving at side activities. The Big Event this weekend, the “[Sherman] thought his playfootball team will be among the ers were given so much in terms of masses, per Head Football Coach notoriety as athletes in college that Mike Sherman’s request. they needed to see how the other This past fall, Sherman aphalf lived,” he said. proached Twin City Mission, a non-
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Crozier said Sherman and his wife developed compassion for the homeless community when he coached in Green Bay and began working with shelters there. “When he was coaching up there when the economy was really bad, he and his wife were well-settled, they felt like they had been so blessed. [They] have a deep heart for homeless people,” he said. Sherman decided when he took
Get involved Big Event will be allowing students to register on Saturday in Lot 100c of Reed Arena during kick-off ceremonies. Email questions about registration to signups@ bigevent.tamu.edu
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sports | 5 Spring practice The Aggie football team began spring drills Tuesday with two practice sessions. They will continue practices Thursday and for the next three weeks.
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The Battalion The word “Shalom” means “Peace” in Hebrew, and the Shalom Project at A&M is committed to bringing this peace to those in need. The Shalom Project, through Breakaway Ministries, raised $119,000 in four weeks to rescue hundreds of children in India and Haiti from becoming victims of human trafficking.
The goal set by the Breakaway staff was $27,000, but the giving hearts of many students at A&M helped to exceed that goal by a quadruple amount. With the donations received, 19 girls in India will be set free from a life of sex trafficking and 165 children in Haiti will have freedom from slavery. “The heartbeat behind the project is that we have to have more than the moment of wor-
shiping the Lord; we’re meant to be changed during worship and move out and be a force for change out there in the world,” said Ben Stuart, lead speaker for Breakaway Ministries. “ One of us can’t change the world, but if all of us leaned together toward a File photo cause we could make a difference. We are going to set children free Students worship during Breakaway at Kyle by the grace of God in the name Field. The event is at 9 p.m. Tuesday nights in Reed Arena. See Shalom on page 4
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In 1996, Seliger published a book of photographs of survivors Holocaust. A word that evokes along with their statements. The Holocaust Museum in Houston sympathy for those persecuted, disgust for those involved and re- extracted the original photographs and created a traveling ality for those who survived. exhibition that is now on display “When They Came to Take at the Forsyth Gallery. My Father Away” is an exhibit Each photograph in the exat the MSC Forsyth Gallery hibit has a panel next to it with sponsored by Texas A&M Hila quote detailing either the sublel and the Bryan Rotary Club. ject’s experiences during the The exhibit displays photographs Holocaust or sentiments about of Holocaust survivors taken by world-renowned photographer See Holocaust on page 4 Mark Seliger.
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Special to The Battalion On Wednesday mornings, the Glasscock center presents “Morning Coffee Hour,” an informal discussion centered around current research by professors in the history department. This week, Professor Angela Pulley Hudson led a discussion over her most recent book, “Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South.” In addition to an abundance of coffee and pastries, conversation flowed from all who were present. Those in attendance included noted faculty members such as the director of t he
Glasscock Center for Humanities Research James Rosenheim, associate professor in the department of history, Andrew Kirkendall and doctoral student Brian Franklin. “Morning Coffee Hour is a very informal place,” Franklin said. “It’s a good opportunity to learn about a subject you wouldn’t normally seek out on your own. People from all other disciplines who are interested in learning attend.” Conversation centered on Hudson’s work of unearthing the reality faced by Native Americans in the 19th century. “I hope students will learn that Indian people were dispossessed of their homelands in nearly every region that now See Coffee on page 7
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