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Members of the Venezuelan community form the letters “SOS” as a gesture of support for Venezuelan protestors.
CALL FOR HELP Students seek awareness for Venezuelan political unrest
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they feel their movement needs most — international attention. Dozens of students and other supporters led by the Venezuelan Student Association gathered near the Liberal Arts Building on Saturday to bring attention to the
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Esteban Garcia (from left), Rafael Paz and Suzanne Schweitzer, VSA officers, showcase Twitter hashtags for the SOS Venezuela movement.
current political situation in Venezuela. Clad in flags and hoisting protest signs denouncing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government, the participants organized a demonstration in which they spelled out an SOS distress
signal in support of the individuals currently experiencing a drawnout social conflict in Venezuela. This demonstration, which was organized on the same day in several other cities around the world with the same purpose, served as a
unifying moment for the Venezuelan community at Texas A&M. Rafael Paz, senior petroleum engineering major and president of the Venezuelan Student AssoSee Venezuela on page 6
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Laura Farris, sophomore meteorology major, finds her balance during Saturday’s Rebel Run.
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(Above) Kyle Kelly (third from left) celebrates the news of his election as student body president. (Below) Members of 5 for Yell huddle in prayer before the announcement of their win Friday.
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he second annual Rebel Run, sponsored by Grace Bible Church’s Youth Impact ministry, kicked off at 10 a.m. Saturday with the 8K race, followed by the 5K race at 10:30 a.m. The Rebel Run, complete with water slides, obstacle courses, and hill climbing, was organized by Youth Impact volunteers. Erin Christian, Youth Impact coordi-
nator and Class of 2011, said some of the volunteers even ran in the race. “We have about 120 college volunteers who run a program for students in Bryan-College Station ages 5-18,” Christian said. “We wanted to mentor them and connect with them and inspire them to be Christ-like leaders in our community.” See Rebel Run on page 5
riday evening it was announced that Kyle Kelly was elected Texas A&M University’s student body president for the 2014–2015 academic year. With 6,067 votes, Kelly amassed over 60 percent of the total votes cast for all four candidates. “It’s an out of body experience,” Kelly said. “I’m so thankful, probably more than anything, for the team behind me.” 5 for Yell won all five yell leader positions for 2014-2015. Homer Segovia, city reporter For the full story, visit thebatt.com
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he Texas A&M Naval ROTC hosted the Area 10 Texas NJROTC State Championship Friday and Saturday for high school programs across the state. Friday’s competitions took place on Simpson Drill Field and included physical training and academic testing. Saturday held a variety of events from color guard to armed and unarmed drill and exhibitions at the Student Recreation Center. Lt. Doug Trask, naval science instructor and event organizer, said more than 700 students from 17 high schools across Texas participated in the competitions. “This is a good way for the Navy ROTC program to reach out and recruit people for the Navy, for Navy ROTC and for Texas A&M,” Trask said. Veronica Bentley, senior environmental geoscience major, said the competitions are meant to test the body and said the event was a good opportunity for A&M to show students what the University is all about.
“It’s a really good recruiting event for Texas A&M,” Bentley said. “When the schools come here they see the Aggie spirit and how strong of a community we are here, and it promotes the military and the University as a whole.” Bentley said she participated in similar competitions when she was in high school and saw it as a good lead-in to NROTC at Texas A&M and beyond. “It gave me a step in the door to what it would be like to be in the military, prepared me with drill and knowledge of the service and was a good learning experience,” Bentley said. “It doesn’t completely prepare you but it gives you a good taste of what it would be like.” Eitze Huisman, senior industrial distribution major, said cadets preparing to enter the military after their time at Texas A&M helped evaluate the high school cadets. “All the Navy and Marine Corps contracted for shipment, that will be commissioned into the military, are staffing the events to help put it on,” Huisman said.
Duy Tran, a high school student from West Brook High School in Beaumont, Texas, said his team started working in the summer to prepare for the competition. He said his favorite event is color guard because it’s one of the few times he gets to work with a rifle. He plans to attend Texas A&M after high school and will possibly join the Corps of Cadets. “[The competition was] fantastic,” Tran said. “I came here last year but it’s even better this year.” Trask said he liked getting to see the programs’ end product — a year’s worth of work coming to a head at the state competition. “I just like reaching out, the recruiting aspect,” Trask said. “It’s fun to work with all these teams that have worked so hard to come here, to see what they do and go and watch some of these teams. It’s very precise and obviously took a lot of practice so it’s cool to see all of their hard work come out to play.”
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Special to The Battalion o. 21 Texas A&M followed up its walk-off win Saturday night with a 5-0 victory over the Sacramento State Hornets (4-4, 0-0 WAC) Sunday afternoon at Olsen Field. Junior Cole Lankford had two RBI’s and scored two runs of his own in the Aggies (6-1, 0-0 SEC) sixth win of the season. Lankford also had a stolen base on the day. Junior Logan Nottebrok scored two runs as well to aid in the victory. Sophomore Grayson Long was on the mound for the Aggies, giving up five hits in seven innings of work on 97 pitches. Long induced 15 fly ball outs on the way to his first win of the season. “In the fifth and sixth inning I started to feel a lot stronger,” Long said. “They hit the ball really well. Teams are going to get better and better from here on out.” The Aggie lineup worked pitch counts and managed to get Hornets freshman Jared Paderez off the mound after four innings. Paderez had a final line of four
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innings pitched, four hits and three runs given up. Junior Mitchell Nau had an RBI double to put A&M up 5-0, where the score would remain. Nau said he was able to step up Sunday but said anyone in the lineup could do the same. “We are so deep this year offensively,” Nau said. “We probably have the deepest offense in the whole country. It’s got to be hard to write out [this] lineup. You can put any player in at any given time and [he] could be very successful.” A&M head coach Rob Childress said he would rather be 7-0 but is happy with the series win. “I feel like we’ve played pretty good baseball for the seven games we have played so far,” Childress said. “I think offensively the thing I’m most impressed with is that the guys who have gotten the opportunity to play, they’ve made the most of it. They are all competitive.” Senior RHP Jason Jester came in to pitch the ninth inning for A&M. After two hits put runners on the corners for Sacramento State, Jester worked his way out of the inning to give the Aggies the series victory over the Hornets. “I’m glad it wasn’t a clean inning for Jester and he had runners on and had to pitch out of
Swimming and diving place 2nd in SEC championships Following another recordsetting and gold medal performance by Breeja Larson, the Aggies finished the SEC Championships in second place Saturday in Athens, Ga. A&M’s 1,204 points fell short to Georgia’s 1,589 for the second straight year. Larson was named the SEC Women’s Swimmer of the Meet for the second straight year after posting victories in the 100- and 200-meter backstroke as well as swimming the breaststroke leg in the 400-medley relay. some jams,” Childress said. “I’m glad that it went that way for him and for us.” The game lasted for two hours and 25 minutes in front of a crowd of 3,947. A&M next hits Olsen Field on Tuesday against Houston Baptist with the first pitch scheduled for 6:35 p.m.
espite a 26-point performance from sophomore guard Courtney Walker, the No. 16 Texas A&M women’s basketball team (21-7, 11-3 SEC) fell to the No. 15 Kentucky Wildcats Sunday, 83-74. The loss is just A&M’s second at home all season. “I am really proud of our players. They played a heck of a game today against a really good A&M team,” said Kentucky head coach Matthew Mitchell. “They are so tough, well coached and a really good team.” Kentucky (20-7, 8-6 SEC) was able to jump out to a 21-13 lead at the 10-minute mark of the first half. The Aggies were resurrected by Courtney Walker’s 17 first half points, which is a career high for the sophomore guard. Despite Walker’s hot hand, A&M went into the half trailing 39-34. The Wildcats out-rebounded the Aggies 25-12 in the first half. “The first half, they played a whole lot harder than us and killed us on the boards,” said Texas A&M head coach Gary Blair. “Walker kept us in the ballgame the first half.” After the break, the Aggies were able to get the Wildcats into foul trouble early, getting into the bonus only six minutes into the second half. However, the Aggies were unable to capitalize and never managed to overtake the Wildcats at any point in the second frame. “Ultimately, when we had our opportunities, we just couldn’t come up with stops,” said sophomore point guard Jordon Jones. “They just kept on building their lead from our mistakes. We just have to buckle down and get stops in crucial moments like those.” Walker finished the game with her first career double-double and posted her seventh game this season with 20 or more points. The Kentucky bench outscored the A&M bench 53-10, and Blair said he was displeased with his team’s play down the stretch of the game. “I’m disappointed,” Blair said. “What we’ve got to do is not win games, but get better when we’re playing games. Make the good decisions. We had a lot of good things happen in this game just like Kentucky did. But at the same time, you’ve got to finish it out. When you’re at home, you’re supposed to win. We needed to bring it home.” The Aggies will host the Arkansas Razorbacks at 7 p.m. Thursday for their final home game of the season. The game will be televised on Fox Sports Southwest.
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eing a part of history can be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and for students interested in a career in television broadcasting — 12th Man Productions is knocking at the door. Texas A&M Athletic Department’s 12th Man Productions will hold informationals at 6:30 p.m. Monday and Wednesday in the Burkhart Auditorium on the northwest side of Kyle Field to give additional information to students interested in joining 12th Man Productions in its August debut with the SEC Network. “A Texas A&M degree is extremely valuable, but just that degree alone is not going to get you a job in broadcast television, particularly in sports,” said Jason Cook, senior associate athletics director. “You need to have some tangible experience, so what we’re hoping is that an [A&M] degree, plus working for Texas A&M Athletics, plus
working for the SEC Network, will position people to be a very attractive candidate for jobs that are out there.” With an increasing number of sporting events taking place around Aggie Athletics combined with the upcoming premiere of the SEC Network, 12th Man Productions is looking to employ and help as many students as it can to become more proficient in what it does, as well as provide opportunities to cross-train as much as possible while providing students with vital experience in the broadcasting field. “The more we can get the better,” Cook said. “These are paid positions. If you look at last weekend, we had baseball, softball, we had women’s basketball, we had track and field — all these things happening at the same time, and then we also had a videographer traveling with women’s golf, for example. So you look at all these events happening at the same time, we need a large workforce because we can’t have the same people work every event.” Applications will be available at the informationals along with an overview of 12th Man Productions and its affiliation with the SEC Network.
Steven Funke, director of event presentation for the Kansas City Royals, worked at 12th Man Productions in 2006 as a graduate student at A&M prior to being hired as a full-time employee in 2008. He said the opportunities presented by 12th Man Productions are endless. “12th Man Productions gives you the opportunity to learn anything and everything — from a live productions standpoint to an editing standpoint to a finishing house,” Funke said. “There are so many different ways you can go with the experiences you learn there.” Funke, like many students, said he had no previous experience in the television broadcasting industry and no plans to make it a career, but being involved in 12th Man Productions for two years sparked his interest and prepared him for a career. “They give you the opportunities and equipment to put on your résumé that allow you to make the next step when you graduate college, and you can’t ask for anything more than that,” Funke said. Cook described 12th Man Productions as a “learning laboratory in the world of sports video” and said there is a wide spectrum of op-
portunities that exist at 12th Man Productions. “We need people who are going to shoot cameras — from a live event standpoint, but also to produce content for our video boards or to produce packages, like student athlete features,” Cook said. “And then I think there is going to be a limited opportunity for people who want to be on-air talent as well.” 12th Man Productions began in the mid-2000s following the installation of the video screen at Kyle Field and has evolved into one of the biggest video groups in the conference. Cook said the commitment A&M is making to the SEC Network is unlike any other school in the conference and will hopefully add to the exposure and visibility of the University. “Every school has some component of video, but there’s no other SEC school that is making the commitment to the SEC Network like Texas A&M is,” Cook said. “We’re investing about $12 million in a brand new television production studio that’s going to be a part of the new Kyle Field. One of the primary reasons for our move to the SEC was to increase exposure and the visibility of Texas A&M. I think
[12th Man Productions] give[s] you the opportunities and equipment to put on your résumé that allow you to make the next step when you graduate college, and you can’t ask for anything more than that.” — Steven Funke, director of event presentation for the Kansas City Royals and former employee of 12th Man Productions
that we’ve seen that so far, but this is phase two. The SEC Network is going to provide an even greater platform and we want to make sure that Texas A&M is best positioned.” As of now, the SEC Network will only be provided through AT&T U-verse, and the A&M administration has urged students to register their interest via www.GetSECNetwork.com. The first football game scheduled to air on the SEC Network is Aug. 28, between A&M and South Carolina, and will be the only place to view the game on television.
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raduate Student Council will meet Friday with University Interim President Mark Hussey as a follow up on a proposal to extend graduation ceremonies to Sunday in addition to Saturday. GSC voted Feb. 4 on a proposal to accommodate the ever-increasing number of graduates. The proposal consisted of three options: add more venues to the graduation process, make the Thursday before graduation an additional graduation day or make the Sunday another graduation day. Brittany Bounds, GSC president and history graduate student, said GSC voted on the third option because it was the least intrusive to the standing conditions. Bounds said making Thursday a graduation day would prove problematic to families coming from out of town because many of them wouldn’t be able to get off work during the week. Amanda Hatheway, senior business honors major and Student Government Association chief of staff, said graduation classes are drastically increasing in size with the rising student population. “Several of the larger colleges, like agricul-
ture and liberal arts, have such high numbers of students graduating that the fire marshall has expressed concerns,� Hatheway said. Leslyn Felder, senior communication major, said she is relieved that the council opted for making Sunday another graduation day instead of Thursday, especially since she is planning to graduate in May. “Making graduation on a Thursday would just kill the whole experience because a lot of people wouldn’t be able to go,� Felder said. “My family lives four hours away, so they make my graduation a weekend-long event.� Bounds said adding more venues would have neglected graduates who would miss the experience of graduating in Reed Arena. Students graduating at a venue outside of Reed also would not be given the opportunity to shake the University president’s hand when receiving their diploma. “[Adding Sunday as a graduation day] seemed to us to be the least painful option because it wouldn’t take away from the whole experience,� Bounds said. “We didn’t want to make it a huge transition for the graduates and their families to have to adapt to.� Hatheway said although nothing has been decided at the University level, SGA and GSC are working to solicit student opinion on what changes will occur. After Friday’s meeting, Hatheway said SGA plans to send out a survey through Student Life to solicit student input on the matter. \
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exas A&M’s Student Senate is considering the installation of two scantron vending machines on campus through a partnership with Barnes & Noble. Fernando Sosa, southside student senator and rules and regulations chair, said there would be no student fees used in the purchase of any scantron vending machines if the idea moves forward. “Barnes & Noble will purchase the machines so we don’t have to use any student fees, and student government decides where they will go on campus,� Sosa said. “Student government will also be responsible for collecting the money from the machines.� Sosa said the money collected by the vending machines would go to the SGA endowment fund. The money would also be used to buy the scantrons and supplies needed to stock the machines from Barnes & Noble at a discounted price.
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Dani Kline, sophomore biomedical sciences major, said Youth Impact benefits the future of the Bryan-College Station community. “The youth are the ones that are going to grow up to be the people who are reaching out to people more so it’s just growing generations to continue spreading the faith and disciplining others,� Kline said. Kline said events hosted by Youth Impact succeed in unifying people of all ages. “It’s really good because it has a very wide range of age groups,� Kline said. “There’s older people who can help mentor the younger people and then also there’s that good basis of leadership to keep the church stable. Good community, good leadership.� Hannah Gribble, junior animal science major, said Grace Bible Church and the college ministry are doing a good job of integrating the college population into the church’s activities. “I think it’s good, I mean, they’re really catering to kind of a college atmosphere,� Gribble said. “They’re very much trying to get college students involved into their community. So the younger kids can be like, ‘Oh hey, I can talk to this college student, I can kind of get a feel for what it’s going to be like.’ The college students can help the younger ones and the younger ones can look up to the college students.� April Gill, 5K runner and mother of two, said Rebel
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Several locations for the two machines are under consideration. Sosa said a building with 24-hour access such as the Koldus Building lobby or the machine kiosk by the Pavilion would be ideal, and that Student Senate is seeking student input on possible locations. Junior university studies major Donald Ashburn said scantrons can be hard to come by during test or finals week but are otherwise fairly easy to find. “I would use [a scantron vending machine] if it was not any more expensive and it would be useful in the Commons, where I always get mine now, but also if they were in the lobby of the big academic buildings like Wehner, Blocker and Heldenfels,� Ashburn said.
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Run attracted so many people because of its accommodation to the younger crowds. “It’s fun and, especially with this new generation, as far as what’s attracting a lot of people is these kinds of races,� Gill said. “So not just running but having obstacle courses and challenges and something that’s really close to the drive is it appeals to old and young crowds.� Gill said the race focused on the youth of the community and reminded her of what kind of future she wanted for her children.
“It’s bringing us back to remembering to think about our kids and to do what’s right for them,� Gill said. Laura Farris, sophomore meteorology major, said Rebel Run was a good way to reinforce how a true community operates. “Community is really important because that’s how God intended it to be,� Farris said. “You need to have that community of love but also people who can point you in the right direction when you’re going the wrong way.�
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DNA discovery bridges Asians and Americans these findings are tremendously important because they can help people understand who the first Americans really were and where they originated from. “I think that it is important because it really narrows down who the first people to coloAlexander Nelowet nize the Americas were,” Allen said. “Some The Battalion people used to think that they came from orking with a geneticist from Den- Europe but now we know that’s not true. It mark, Texas A&M professor Michael really puts science in motion and helps us get Waters, director for the Center of the Study of closer and closer to what actually happened the First Americans, has analyzed the DNA of back then.” a one-year-old child’s remains found in westWaters said dealing with ancient DNA is a ern Montana. The remains are 12,500 years difficult process. Analyzing the DNA is time old and show direct ancestry to all Native consuming and took Waters’ team five years Americans, a discovery that affects modern to complete, and the technology necessary theories about Native American origins. many times has to be designed for the indiKelly Graf, a professor at the Center for the vidual project’s purpose. Study of the First Americans, also has done “It’s one thing to [process] modern DNA research in the same area and it’s another thing to but with a different set of do ancient DNA that is DNA from Siberia. She poorly preserved and you said if there were other have to piece some of it migrations from other together,” Waters said. parts of the world, then “It took a lot longer than there would be more gewe had hoped because netic diversity instead of new technologies were the direct ancestry of all being developed and new Native Americans to this methods for extracting one set of DNA. ancient DNA so that’s “The results are showwhy it took five years to ing that this individual get it out.” is ancestral to all Native Graf said this project Michael Waters Americans and that means was lucky in that researchthat all Native Americans ers were able to extract a came from that populaviable sample of DNA for analysis. tion, that prehistoric 13,000-year-old popula“Skeletons from the Ice Age are few and tion and the ultimate ramifications of that is far between,” Graf said. “They are very prethat the individual was a member potentially cious commodities and in archeology there the first group of people that came here,” Graf aren’t very many of those that exist. You don’t said. know when you go and sample the skeleton if Waters said this confounds recently sug- there is going to be enough DNA for the gegested theories that some of the first Ameri- neticists to capture the signatures and luckily cans might have migrated over from the Ibe- for both of these instances there was.” rian Peninsula in Europe. Annie Melton, vice president of the An“Some of the key results are that it basi- thropological Society, said the research that cally confirms very clearly that the first people Waters has conducted is a groundbreaking feat that came to the Americas came from Asia.” and a game changer for forthcoming research Waters said. “There was an idea that people and projects in his field. maybe came from the Iberian Peninsula and “His research is another step, or maybe Western Europe and that they populated the leap, toward better understanding the first continent and became Clovis, but it is clear Americans,” Melton said. “It has substantiat the genomic level that the first Ameri- ated the long thought theory of early humans cans came from Asia across the Bering Land migrating across Beringia from Asia. This new Bridge.” data will have huge impacts on future excavaRyan Allen, experimental archeology liai- tions, particularly those with human remains.” son for A&M’s Anthropological Society and junior anthropology major, said he thinks
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Students gathered Saturday in front of the Liberal Arts building to protest media censoring in Venezuela.
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ciation, said while the organization usually deals with cultural exposure and integration into the Texas A&M community, they felt this was an appropriate way to complement the efforts of students in Venezuela. “This is the first time that we have an event that has such an important social impact,” Paz said. “We felt like this would be an appropriate home for a movement such as this one.” Citing a lack of freedom of speech in Venezuela, the demonstrators expressed their frustration at the actions of what they consider to be a totalitarian and oppressive government. “We want to bring to light the press censorship that Venezuela is currently going through,” said Esteban Garcia, senior civil engineering major. “We think it’s crazy that there’s a situation where 10 people have [reportedly] died, violence is widespread and they are telling us that nothing is going on.” With the immediate fu-
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ture of Venezuela in a state of uncertainty, Garcia said he is frustrated with those in power and with their attitude toward the protests and the international exposure they bring. “They do things like kicking CNN out of the country because they are supposedly inciting civil unrest,” Garcia said. “Which is completely true, there is civil unrest. However, the government doesn’t want that to be seen. That’s the problem.” With the Venezuelan government placing restrictions on media, students in Venezuela and abroad have found a tool to gain awareness through the use of social media. Suzanne Schweitzer, senior industrial distribution major, said services like Twitter and Facebook have already proven their worth to the movement. “Venezuela is currently going through a massive media blackout,” Schweitzer said. “So it’s very important that we use these tools in a positive way to spread our message.” Drawing from the social and cultural responsibilities of being a student in Venezuela, students compared their efforts to those of their counterparts.
“In Venezuela, the students protest because it’s their future that is at risk,” said Ricardo Lugo, senior sport management major. “In general, students in the U.S. don’t have to worry about the same things because there is a government that allows them to have a stable future.” Schweitzer said despite the significant differences between their role and that of the Venezuelan students, they still share a unified goal. “We all want a better country, regardless of political inclination,” Schweitzer said. “We want to battle the lack of freedom of speech, the lack of basic goods and corruption.” Urging those present to display their support in whichever way they could, Paz told attendees that despite them not being able to influence the conflict directly, students at A&M would continue to push their message. “I can honestly say that if any of us were in Venezuela, we would be fighting the same battles that they are,” Paz said. “Since we are not, we are doing the best we can to support them.”
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