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Several differences I noted were that the French eat much later in the evening around 10 p.m., because the sun goes down sooner. Another key difference is that the French do not smile, and even avoid eye contact with strangers. As an Aggie who was taught to smile and say “Howdy� to anyone walking across the street, this practice took some getting used to. Still, I was well aware of the wonderful opportunities that studying abroad had to offer, as well as its obstacles. I’ve realized that the beauty and diversity of the city certainly outweigh these challenges, it just takes the right attitude and way of thinking to push through and persevere. The first moment of awe was my visit to the Notre Dame Cathedral, situated in the middle of the Seine River, and just a short walk from my homestay house. Its immense, statuesque presence is almost overwhelming, with its arches and vaulted ceilings. Upon entering the sanctuary, a calming yet chilling aura encircled me.
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I attended Mass there, where again, hundreds of people from across the world came together in unity. Together, in our own native tongues we prayed together. It will forever be kept in my mind as one of the most beautiful and universal moments of my life. It’s beautiful moments like this that I hold onto when I experience moments of discomfort with cultural differences. After all, it’s the differences between us all that make this world colorful and beautiful.
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The Battalion Kyle Field’s face-lift is on schedule as construction continues around the clock to finish the first phase of the $450 million dollar renovation by the first home game of the 2014-2015 season, said Steve Moore, vice chancellor for marketing and communications of the Texas A&M University System. “We’re on time, and on budget,” said Board of Regents member Jim Schwertner in the May 9 press conference update on renovations for summer and the months proceeding. Schwertner went on to say the student government had voted to increase the student fees to help pay for the renovation. “You start with a good plan, and the only thing you know for sure about it is that it’s going to change, and change frequently,” said Fred Heldenfels,
President and CEO of Heldenfels Enterprises and representative of subcontractors for Kyle Field at the May 9 press conference. “But ManhattanVaughn has kept the project on schedule.” Moore said the renovation was split into two phases. Phase One was to include the demolition and replacement of the lower east stand, the addition of suites between the first and second decks, adding a complete south end zone section, two new scoreboards and the lowering of the field by seven feet. “Phase Two will begin after the last home game in November of 2014 and will include the demolition of the entire west stands and their rebuilding,” Moore said. “With a closed south end and 106,000 plus fans in attendance, it should be the loudest 12th Man experience ever.” Even so, the 12th Man has mixed opinions on the renovation of the iconic football field. Jacob Arnett, junior economics major, said he thinks the renovation has come too
soon since the stadium has only started selling out in the last four years. “I think it’ll boost school spirit, I have no doubt of that, but the fact is that costs for college increase exponentially faster than inflation, and what does the school do?” Arnett said. “Ask for money from alumni for football stadiums rather than for education.” Shauna Dublin, senior psychology major, said she felt that, on the whole, the impact of the new Kyle Field would be positive. “I can’t wait till it’s done,” Dublin said. “Not that the towering cranes you can see from anywhere in College Station aren’t beautiful.” Dublin said she is looking forward to the day when the university will make money on the field instead of spending money on it. “Aggie football is a huge part of our culture,” Dublin said. “We’ll still pack the stadium. People will be excited about the improvements, even though it’s not the old Kyle Field.”
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Current and incoming students lined up early Monday morning at Aggieland Outfitters for the unveiling of the 2014 Maroon Out T-shirt design. The first 100 students received a free Tshirt. Aggieland Outfitters and Class Councils worked with graphic designer Keely Gibson to narrow down the design. “We did over 40 different designs,”said Gibson. “Some were very ornate, some were very simple.The final design keeps it simple. A&M and
Maroon Out is the focus.” Every year, Class Councils accepts bids from local companies for a partnership to create the Maroon Out Shirts. This year, Class Councils chose Aggieland Outfitters as its partner to help design, create and distribute the shirts. “We did a bid presentation where we got to meet the people we’d be working with and do a personal interview,” said Rachel Luschen, junior nutritional science major and a member of Class Councils. “In the past it’s been where we see this bid, and it’s a piece of paper and we don’t fully know who we’re working with.” Luschen said 2014 is the first year for Class Councils to partner with a retailer. Emily Canales, market-
ing director for Maroon Out T-shirts, said Class Councils wanted to reach more people not only in College Station, but across the globe. “Usually the sales do not begin until the first day of school in the Fall,” Canales said. “We decided to do sales earlier in the summer to have a three month period where we could be expanding on the Maroon Out exposure and really getting it out there.” Canales said in their collaboration, Class Councils and Aggieland Outfitters wanted to focus on a more simplified T-shirt design this year. “A lot of people are saying that they like this year’s design because it’s simple and it
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Before SEC labels donned A&M merchandise, the uncertain and controversial transition from the Big 12 began simply as an unlikely idea. To document the behindthe-scenes transition into the SEC, the University Press will be releasing “The 100-Year Decision: Texas A&M and the SEC” by Former University President R. Bowen Loftin. The book, written with the help of Rusty Burson, a vice president at the 12th Man
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Accomodations made for growing number of incoming students Allison Rubenak The Battalion
New Student Conferences are in full swing. This summer, Texas A&M is expected to welcome over 10,000 new freshmen including Gateway and Blinn TEAM students. Meredith Malnar, coordinator for New Student and Family Programs, said in addition to these students, A&M also expects approximately 2,000 new transfer students. Malnar said in order to accommodate the growing number of incoming students, there will be three conferences a week instead of the two that the university has hosted in previous years. In order to make the three conferences per week feasible, Malnar said it was necessary to “revamp” the NSC schedule. Students and families will now spend the entirety of Day 1 in general University sessions, Malnar said, where they will receive an ample amount of University information regarding campus services, financial resources, housing options and insight into what it means to be an Aggie. “The entire Day 2 of the conference is spent with their academic college, beginning with the dean’s meeting, followed by departmental meetings and course registration,” Malnar said. Samantha Mott, senior biomedical sciences major and Aggie Orientation Leadership Program executive co-director, said although the conferences have been altered from previous years,
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she thought the changes would better meet the needs of the incoming students. “There will just be quite a few people on campus as usual and in addition to all the students who are on campus for the summer, so it will probably be a little hectic,” Mott said, “But, I think with the rearrangement of the schedule of the conferences — it will make it a little bit — it will make it go smoother.” Malnar and Mott said enhancements have been made to the conference programs, including a new Welcome Session and improvements to the “Family Track” program, a time where families have the opportunity to meet with orientation leaders to have their questions answered. Mott said she felt like the enhancements made the experience with the families more personal. “We’ve really tried to meet their needs so they feel as important as the students do, because in the past, it’s been a little bit more focus on the students,” Mott said. “But now we’re trying to raise the level with the family members as well, so they get more interaction with the orientation leaders and they get student panels and just things like that, so they feel more in tune with Texas A&M and can see what the students are going through.” Rashard Harris, sophomore civil engineering major and orientation leader, worked the first conference of the summer and said helping the new students prepare for the coming months was an “eye-opening” experience. Harris chose to concentrate his efforts on students as the NSC programs now require their orientation leaders to pick either a student concentration or fam-
ily concentration, according to Mott. “I felt that it was my job to give other students as much information as possible before they got here to A&M, such as what they need to bring, what websites [to use.] Like, I didn’t know about myedu.com and ratemyprofessor.com,” Harris said. “That way I could give them the kind of insight I might not have had.” Malnar noted that campus construction has not impacted the venue where morning and afternoon check-ins take place — the Zone Club at Kyle Field. However, Howdy lunches have now been moved from Sbisa to Duncan dining center due to renovations. “Construction on campus is constant,” Malnar said. “This is
my 10th summer working New Student Conferences and I don’t remember a year in which we had no construction or renovation projects to contend with. We are flexible and make it work no matter where our programs take place.”
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(Top) Incoming freshman James Amdor tries on a Class of 2018 ring in the Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center (Bottom) Future students line up to experience the Aggie Ring tradition during their NSC evening social.
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encompasses everything Maroon Out is,” Canales said. “It has Texas A&M on it, it has the state of Texas, it has the date and on the back it has ‘there’s a spirit can ne’er be told’ and the A&M logo.” Canales said their goal was to show the public that Maroon Out is more than just a shirt, but a tradition. The Maroon Out game against Ole Miss is set for October 11. Luschen said selling shirts earlier in the summer could give students who are busy in the fall a better opportunity to purchase a shirt. “It allows us to get the shirts out to Aggies all over the world, and especially New Student Conferences,”Luschen said. “We’re trying to get to a lot of the freshmen. I think we really want to continue early sales.” Dallas Shipp, Class of 2003 and director of marketing at Aggieland Outfitters, said they were trying to reach a new market. “We have a ton of freshmen — especially all summer long,” Shipp said. “They come in during new student conferences and we talked to [Class Councils] and said why not have them available in stores for the new student conferences.” Shipp shared the same excitement as Class Councils over this year’s partnership. “We love working with current students,” Shipp said. “I’m a former student, and I love giving current students the opportunity to get some real world experience.” Anthony Foote, an incoming freshman, said he was in town for his New Student Conference and attended the Maroon Out T-shirt revealing. Foote said he liked the idea of people wearing maroon outside of football games. “It shows a lot of pride,” Foote said. “I really want to be a part of this Maroon Out, showing my pride, going to A&M.”
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For the third time in four days, old rivals Texas A&M and Texas squared off at Reckling Park – home of the Rice Owls and the 2014 NCAA Baseball Houston Regional Tournament. Having forced a winner-takeall game with a 3-2 victory Sunday night, the Aggies fell short Monday night – losing 4-1. With that loss, the Aggies (36-26) season is over. A&M got on the board in the top of the first inning when junior shortstop Blake Allemand – who had walked – scored on a sacrifice fly to center field by junior first baseman Cole Lankford. The Aggies loaded
the bases later in the inning, but couldn’t push another run across. Texas answered back in the bottom half of the frame. Horns leadoff hitter Brooks Marlow reached on an error by Lankford and then moved to second on a sacrifice bunt. Marlow would cross the plate one batter later on a Tres Barrera RBI single. The score would remain knotted until the bottom of the fourth inning when Texas scored another unearned run off of A&M starting pitcher Corey Ray. Shortstop Blake Allemand’s error allowed Collin Shaw to reach first and Madison Carter to come around to third. After a fly-out to right, an error by third baseman Logan Nottebrok – the team’s third of the day – let Carter score, giving the Horns 2-1 lead. Ray would pitch a scoreless fifth
inning, before being relieved by Matt Kent to start the sixth inning. Ray allowed two unearned runs in his five innings. “I was going out there throwing strikes, you know just pound the strike zone,” Ray said. “They got a couple key hits during the game, and they capitalized on the mistakes we made.” Texas loaded the bases in the sixth inning, but Kent got Longhorn left fielder Ben Johnson to lineout to shortstop to end the threat. After walking the first batter in the seventh inning, Kent was relieved by sophomore Andrew Vinson. After he struck out and then walked a batter, Vinson surrendered an RBI double to Hinojosa – who finished the day 3-for-3 – that scored center fielder Mark Payton. Texas added another
run in the frame on a sacrifice fly from Shaw off of Aggie sophomore Ty Schlottmen, on in relief of Vinson. Down by three in the ninth inning, the Aggies got a runner to third, but he was stranded when Allemand popped out to end A&M’s season. Texas starting pitcher Chad Hollingsworth, who said after the game that he had texted head coach Augie Garrido the night before asking to pitch on Monday, threw a complete game. Hollingsworth allowed just two hits – both infield singles – on 129 pitches. A&M head coach Rob Childress talked about his team’s disappointing end to the season. “I felt we were a step slow on the dirt defensively, only because we emptied our tank yesterday,” Childress said. “I thought our guys competed very hard, maybe a little revved up on both sides early. But give Texas credit they played better than we did, and it all started with and ended with Chad Hollingsworth on the mound.” A&M had three players named to the All-Houston Regional Team after Monday’s game. Allemand, who had seven hits over the weekend, senior center fielder Krey Bratsen,
who led all players with 11 hits, and freshman Tyler Stubblefield, whose complete game Sunday lifted the Aggies over the Longhorns in order to force Monday’s game, were given the honor. With their season now over, an emotional Lankford talked about why the loss hurt so much after the game. “It’s definitely about the season being over,” Lankford said. “Some of the seniors have been together for three years now, and just the falls we’ve gone through and the hard work we’ve done together – it’s that stuff that everyone doesn’t see. It’s just heartbreaking when you lose a game. It’s heartbreaking when the season is over.” Texas (41-19) advances to the Super Regional where it will face either LSU or UH. This was the eighth straight season in which the Aggies reached the postseason, but Childress said he was still not satisfied with where the program is. “This definitely was not the destination for our program – finishing runner-up in a regional – our ultimate goal is to get to Omaha and to play for a national championship.”
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