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s tensions in Ukraine have captured international attention over the last few months, A&M professors analyze and interpret the conflict and its implications. Protests in Ukraine began in November when the recently ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych rejected a trade deal with the European Union due to pressure from Russia. The conflict turned deadly when the Ukrainian government cracked down on protestors, resulting in up to 100 deaths. Since then, the Ukrainian president has fled the capital after his security forces refused to repel protestors and the Ukrainian Parliament removed him from power. Gabriela Thornton, senior lecturer at the Bush School, said the biggest mistake Yanukovych made was authorizing the use of force against protestors. “When you start cracking on
Understanding the Eastern Europe culture crisis people in daylight, that is a mistake,” Thornton said. “In my interpretation, maybe if [Yanujovych] would have stayed away, that protest would have died away.” Larry Napper, former ambassador and senior lecturer at the Bush School, said the heart of the conflict lies between those who wish to increase their ties with the European Union and those who want to keep their historical connection with Russia. “Ukraine is what we call a classically divided state,” Napper said. “It is divided along lines of ethnicity and language and culture. The eastern part of the country is where the majority identify themselves as
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ethnically Russian, prefer Russian as their first language and watch Russian TV. In the more western parts of the country, it is exactly the opposite.” Although most of the protestors are assumed to be pro-European, Thornton said they represent many different ideologies, including radical and nationalist parties that are not considered pro-European. Napper said Ukraine is struggling with creating an interim government because three conflicting political parties are vying for the position.
Thornton said Ukraine is a long way from establishing a responsible democracy that is able to successfully manage the problems Ukraine is facing. “Western media portrays constantly this as a democratic movement or a democratic revolution, but I myself have some doubts,” Thornton said. “Ukraine is not going to become a democracy overnight. Americans are very enthusiastic about this movement — we all
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wo Aggies have ever recorded a triple-double — Jordan Jones makes three. The sophomore point guard had a career night with 19 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists as a crowd of 6,631 — including hundreds of Corps members — watched the No. 18 Texas A&M women’s basketball team defeat the Arkansas Razorbacks 77-54 on senior night at Reed Arena on Wednesday. Jones came into the game shooting just 8-of-46 from behind the arc on the season, but made 4-of-5 attempts Thursday.
In their last regular season home game, the Aggies jumped out to an early lead, opening the game with a 13-0 run including two threepointers from Jones. A&M led by as many as 15 points in the first half and would go to halftime up 43-32. Sophomore forward Courtney Williams led both teams with 14 points at halftime and would finish the game with 18. A 10-0 Aggie run in the second half opened the lead to 25 points and the Razorbacks never recovered. Senior center and College Station native Karla Gilbert scored seven points in her last scheduled game at Reed Arena. Cristina Sanchez-Quintanar, who is an SEC champion in both soccer and tennis, is the only other senior on the 2013-14 A&M squad. For the full story, visit thebatt.com
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Sophomore guard Jordan Jones recorded the third triple-double in A&M history Thursday in Reed Arena.
are enthusiastic about movements like this, but democracies entail a lot.” In the meantime, Napper said Ukraine is facing huge economic problems. “Meanwhile, the country is in economic free fall,” Napper said. “They are facing imminent default and the collapse of the Ukrainian currency. The estimate for what they need just to get to the end of
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s a big finish in its weeklong campaign, Howdy Farm is launching its own fundraising page Friday on a new website, AggieFunding.com. Members of Howdy Farm have “planted” seeds in the hands of students on campus this week with the hopes of watching them grow and turn into positive, agricultural action on the behalf of students. The 5,500 seeds passed out were part of the Howdy Farm’s campaign “Plant a Seed, Watch it Grow!”— a project to raise awareness of the farm, what it does for the campus and community and where it wants to go with the help of Bryan-College Station. Jessica Newman, public relations officer for Howdy Farm, said the campaign wanted to get Howdy Farm’s name and purpose out to more people. “The Howdy Farm just does great things and it goes unnoticed,” Newman said. “We’re very small-scale right now so this is super important for us to expand. Bigger land means a bigger impact and reaching more people.” Matt Rogers, senior recreation, park and tourism sciences major and founder of the AggieFunding.com, said the website was created to help various student organizations like Howdy Farm in their fundraising efforts, putting them all together on one site. “[AggieFunding.com] is a kick-starter for the Aggie network — we help stu-
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dents raise money without limits,” Rogers said. “Howdy Farm is one of the most beautiful places on the Texas A&M campus. It is one of the most serene places you can go. It’s like a hidden gem on campus that people need to know about.” The Howdy Farm’s goal is to raise $45,000 through its page on the Aggie Funding website. The funds will go toward a number of projects the Howdy Farm would like to begin, Newman said, including four gardens and a sustainability building that will begin construction in May. Newman said the sustainability building would host educational workshops, such as a compost class. Corey Wahl, head field manager for Howdy Farm, said plans for student hous-
ing on West Campus forced the farm to relocate in the fall, but the members of Howdy Farm are ready to build the farm up to where it can fully support itself again. Howdy Farm will use area behind the Horticulture Building, Walh said. The field behind the Horticulture Building will be used to host the planned gardens and sustainability building. The gardens include a zen garden of sand and tropical plants and a flagpole garden, used to support a local brewpub, Blackwater Draw Brew Company. Wahl said Howdy Farm wants to honor A&M’s background in agriculture in everything it does as well as bring a fresh concept of farming to the campus and surrounding community.
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will discuss the insight they gained from their trip to Turkey in January. The presentation “Current Perspectives on Turkey” will focus on research conducted on the DIMER acronym — diplomacy, information and media, military, economy and religion and culture — during their 11 day visit to the Republic of Turkey. This is one of the three International Excursions that the Corps conducts
throughout the year to allow cadets to learn about the various diplomatic, military, informational economic, religious and cultural issues that affect foreign countries and how those issues are of importance to the U.S. Andrew Abbott, senior petroleum engineering major, will open the presentation with an overview of the research the group of cadets conducted. He said the most interesting part of his experience in
Turkey was seeing how it remains a secular republic despite religion permeating through every part of Turkish culture. “Religion has so much influence on the rest of the culture because religion permeates through the way you do politics, the way PROVIDED your economics and business work, the way you do education, Andrew Abbott, senior petroleum the way you view other people,” engineering major, and Taylor Rammrath, senior construction science major, view See Turkey on page 3 the Bosphorous Strait in Turkey.
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he No. 13 Texas A&M softball team will host the Texas A&M Invitational this weekend. The Aggies (12-4) will play at 3 p.m. Friday against Connecticut (0-5) and at 5:15 against Wisconsin. On Saturday, the Aggies will play these two teams again and conclude the weekend against Texas A&M Corpus Christi (3-11) at 12:15 p.m. Sunday. The Aggies had narrow losses against No. 14 Arizona and No. 11 Nebraska at the Mary Nutter Classic last weekend and finished with a 12-0 victory against Cal State Northridge. Aggie softball head coach Jo Evans is only two wins away from her 1,000th career victory. Although Evans isn’t focused on this milestone, she said it would be great to achieve it at home. “Anytime you get 1,000 wins, I’d be perfectly happy to do it, but to do it [at home] is certainly meaningful,” Evans said. “[Texas A&M] is a place where I have fallen in love with and have had lots of fond memories here.” Evans said the tournament will be an opportunity for her team to improve on last weekends’s performance. “I expect us to win [the Texas A&M Invitational],” Evans said. “I expect us to shore up a few things defensively and offensively. I thought we had some bright spots in the [Mary Nutter Classic] and had opportunities to win [all] five games.” Senior outfielder Cassie Tysarczyk went 1-2 with an RBI against Arizona in the
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tournament and catcher Nicole Morgan was 3-3 with a run scored and an RBI. Morgan said she was ready to play with home-field support. “I feel that the venue doesn’t matter, but the one thing that matters the most is probably the 12th Man,” Morgan said. Tysarczyk said she is excited to play teams that the Aggies don’t customarily play.
“I feel that this invitational is going to be really fun for us because we’re playing teams we haven’t played since I’ve been here,” Tysarczyk said. “Wisconsin probably has some pretty cold weather up there, so I know that they travel a lot in the beginning of their season — same thing with UConn as well.”
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he Texas A&M men’s basketball team tips off against Marshall Henderson and the Ole Miss Rebels at 5 p.m. Saturday in Reed Arena. Ole Miss beat the Alabama Crimson Tide 79-67 on Wednesday, despite a 27-point and nine rebound performance by Alabama freshman Shannon Hale. Junior Jarvis Sum-
mers scored a team-high 20 points for the Rebels and made 9-of-10 free throws from the line. Henderson is ranked fourth among the scoring leaders in the SEC, averaging 19.3 points per game. Last season, Henderson was honored as the SEC Newcomer of the Year, elected to the second team ALL-SEC squad and was the SEC Tournament MVP. This season, Marshall was named SEC Player of the Week on Jan. 20. Junior Aaron Jones ranks third in the SEC in blocked shots per game and has become the defensive anchor for the Rebels. Texas A&M (16-12, 7-8 SEC) is coming
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off a 68-49 loss to LSU on Wednesday, in which the Aggies were held to only 31 percent shooting from the field. LSU freshman Jarell Martin led all scorers with 20 points and seven rebounds. Junior guard Jordan Green came off the bench to lead the Aggies in scoring with a 12-point performance. Sophomore Alex Caruso filled the stat sheets against LSU, scoring seven points, dishing out five assists, and grabbing five steals. Caruso is the current SEC leader in assists (130) and assists per game (4.6). He also ranks third in steals per game. Ole Miss is ranked fourth in the SEC in both scoring and three-point shots, while A&M is ranked last in both categories. On defense, the Rebels ranked fourth in steals and third in blocked shots per game. The last time the two programs met, Ole Miss defeated A&M 82-73 at Reed Arena, thanks to an off-the-bench, 18-point performance by Henderson. Graduated senior Elston Turner scored a game-high 25 points in an attempt to move the Aggies out in front and junior forward Kourtney Roberson had a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds. Texas A&M holds the 2-1 advantage in the all-time series with Ole Miss. Head coach Billy Kennedy is 1-6 in previous matchups against the Rebels. The Rebels are 2-5 on the road in conference play, while the Aggies are 6-1 at home.
fter winning seven of its first eight games of the season at home, the No. 18 Texas A&M baseball team will head to Fresno, Calif., for a three-game series against Fresno State starting Friday. Daniel Mengden, Parker Ray, Grayson Long and Tyler Stubblefield have combined for a 4-1 record and 1.09 ERA in eight starts for the Aggies. Head coach Rob Childress said he was pleased with the performances of his four starting pitchers thus far. “They have just been fantastic,” Childress said. “They have the ability to throw a breaking ball or change-up in hitters counts. They are all very competitive. They field their positions well and are good athletes.” The Aggies outscored their opponents 51-14 in their eight-game home stand at Olsen Field. At 8:35 p.m. Friday, A&M will face an unwelcoming crowd for the first time in 2014. “It’s going to be a challenge,” Childress said. “[Fresno State head coach] Mike Batesole does a great job. There is a lot of tradition there at Fresno State. It’s a great facility and has great fan support. They are off to a great start and they have some very talented guys on the mound.” Sophomore infielder Hunter Melton, who had two hits and an RBI in A&M’s 5-1 win over Houston Baptist on Tuesday, said the team recognizes how difficult a road series can be. “Road games are always going to be tough,” Melton said. “This is going to be a big jump for us and a key to the rest of the season as we go out and try to sweep Fresno State. The first series is always tough on the road, but you hope to overcome it and get three wins out of it.” Fresno State will send junior Jordan Brink (1-0, 0.61) to the mound Friday to take on Mengden (1-1, 1.38). On Saturday, senior Parker Ray (1-0, 2.31) will face Fresno State freshman Jimmy Lambert (0-1, 3.48). In Sunday’s final matchup, A&M will put sophomore Grayson Long (1-0, 0.00) on the mound to take on sophomore Tim Borst (0-0, 3.86). Junior third baseman Logan Nottebrok, who transferred from Temple College during the offseason, has powered the Aggies through the first eight games of the season, leading the team in home runs (3), doubles (3), runs (10), hits (9) and RBIs (11). Fresno State sophomore catcher Taylor Ward enters Friday’s game with a .375 batting average and a team-leading 10 RBIs. Friday’s meeting will be the first between the two schools since 1997, with Fresno State holding a 3-0 advantage alltime. The Aggies (7-1) will return to Texas on Tuesday when they play UT Arlington (2-5) at the Globe Life Park in Arlington, home of the Texas Rangers.
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Abbott said. “Because of that, being almost entirely of a different religion than what we have here, it’s extremely different in every aspect.” Ross Brady, senior urban and regional planning major, is in charge of the military aspect of the presentation and will cover the military history of Turkey from the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1923 to present day. Brady said the Turkish military is a regional powerhouse similar to that of the U.S., but bears some structural differences. “They have mandatory conscription in their nation so every man between the ages of 18 to 30 has to serve for a year in the military,” Brady said. “Structurally that makes their military a little different because that means the NCOs are not trained as well because they are just serving for a year, so they serve more secretarial roles than our NCO’s do. But it’s a great, highly trained military and they’re one of the only other nations besides the U.S. that fulfill this military requirement for NATO.” Brady said the presentation will show that the globalization of today cannot go overlooked. “It truly is a global world that we’re living in today and anybody who thinks that they can just be focused on America, that America doesn’t need to be involved in world affairs, in my opinion is wrong,” Brady said. “There is so much interconnectedness in the world today and having the opportunity as a student to travel like this is invaluable.” Junior political science major Adel Hussain will cover the information and media section of the presentation, focusing on how Turkey deals with Internet freedom, press freedom and how Turkey uses information as it attempts to reform itself closer to a European-style democracy.
Hussain said what struck him was the differing ways Turkish youth and American youth utilize social media. “The millennial generation that we were talking to, all college kids, they’re on Twitter, they’re on Tumblr, they’re on Facebook, they make their own memes over current events that are happening and they use social media as a catalyst for some of the demonstrations that occurred back in July, similar to the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations that happened within the states,” Hussain said. “Over there the youth culture, they’re incredibly vocal about how they feel about different issues that are impacting the country.” Hussain said the trip to Turkey had a particularly huge impact on him because of his Muslim background, having never before visited a country that was predominantly Muslim in faith yet still secular in government. “It really impacted me because as a westernized Muslim, I had never seen a full nation of people that embraced Western style with the Islamic religion,” Hussain said. “In terms of what I believe an Islamic democracy should be, Turkey is the perfect example of that type of nation.” Abbott said the entire process, from going on the trip to being a part of the closing presentation of the Turkey conference, has been an honor. “The trip was sponsored through the Corps of Cadets and fortunately, as far as finances go, it was very, very easy on us and so I’m just so thankful for the opportunity to not only go on the trip but to also be able to share my experience,” Abbott said. “It really just opened my mind to international travel, to being able to know how beneficial and educational a trip overseas is.” The presentation will at 2 p.m. in the General Services Complex.
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ith energy and fluidity, dance is brought to life through timeless movements, but also through new images and media. The Texas A&M dance program will present its second night of dance performances Friday for its annual show, Perpetual Motion. A mix of 16 classic ballet and modern pieces, the show gives students an opportunity to showcase their talent and skill. Christine Bergeron, director of dance programs and initiatives, said this particular performance is their largest of the year, with most choreographies by faculty and guests. The dances presented will feature classic works, but will also incorporate different media and technology. Bergeron said one of the students produced a video featuring the Corps of Cadets movements to play in the background as a motif for the dance. “She used their movements that they already do kind of in their daily regiment and she choreographed based on their movements,” Bergeron said. “So now what she’s done with that dance is she took it outside and in various places, she worked with this student in the VizLab and they videoed it and they edited it.” Perpetual Motion puts a spotlight on the dance sciences program that the general student
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this year, they would need $35 billion — with a ‘B’ — in foreign assistance … and where is that money going to come from?” Russia and the International Monetary Fund may offer aid, but Thornton said the offers come with conditions. Russia will only give aid if Ukraine has a pro-Russian government, and the IMF will only give aid if Ukraine implements austerity measures on its economy, which would be unpopular with the Ukrainian public. Vladislav Steere, graduate student in public service and administration at the Bush School, has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Russia. Steere said pro-European activists and the Western world see the removal of the Ukrainian president as the will of the people prevailing. However, Steere said pro-Russian Ukrainians and Russians view the removal of Yanukovych
population may not be aware of, Bergeron said. She said what makes the program unique is the merging of the arts and sciences. “Dance sciences is relatively new to the U.S.,” Bergeron said. “We are probably one of two, now, degrees in the United States that offers a degree in dance science. So it’s much more popular in the U.K., but it’s slowly kind of building here, so I feel like we’re kind of in front of the trend.” Evelyn Fontana, senior health and kinesiology major, said Perpetual Motion gives the audience an opportunity to “look inside a dancer’s mind.” Fontana’s choreography, titled “Rays of Road,” will be showcased by five dancers during Friday’s performance and at the American College Dance Festival. “I just love the aspect of performing because this is something I am passionate about and want to dedicate my life to and dedicate this as a career,” Fontana said. “I just love getting to share this with my friends and family and those in the community and see why I believe in this so much.” Perpetual Motion will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in Room 207 of the Physical Education Activity Program Building. Student admission is $6 and general and senior admission is $10.
as an illegitimate coup by radical protestors. “[The Russian media sources] are pretty much calling this a coup by terrorists,” Steere said. “They are saying this is not a rightful change in power … They are saying it is illegitimate and that the Ukraine has pretty much become a Europe and U.S. puppet.” Steere said the economic and military effects of the Ukrainian conflict are particularly of interest to A&M students and to the U.S. “Another thing I think really has an effect is the possibility of the instability, and heaven forbid that it comes down to an armed conflict,” Steere said. “Especially since A&M has such a rich history in the military that could have really negative effects on a lot of things.” Thornton said conflicts such as these always makes students and Americans question the role the U.S. should play in the world. “Internationally, if we still consider ourselves the leaders of the world, we have all the interest to have a much more peaceful world,” Thornton said.
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