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Patty de Veyra, senior allied health major, donated her Aggie ring fund to Philippines relief.
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cross the Pacific on an island country, homes and belongings lay damaged and farms are destroyed. Distributing food remains a priority. This was on Patty de Veyra’s mind when she made a commitment to donate money she had saved for her Aggie ring to support her family, which was affected
by Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. De Veyra, senior allied health major, said after she saw photos of and heard about the destruction caused by the Nov. 8 typhoon, she knew she wanted to find a way to help her family. She knew she would be applying for her ring in January and had money saved. “To me it’s not like I’m giving it up,” de Veyra said. “It’s like I’m getting my
ring, but it’s going to people who actually need it, so that was the very first thing that popped into my head when I wanted to figure out a way to help them out.” De Veyra said the knowledge that her parents and grandparents watched the places where they created memories be torn apart catalyzed her decision to start a fundraiser and donate her ring money. She and her siblings wanted to show her parents that they were not alone in their
relief efforts. “It’s kind of like the marriage thing, ‘What’s mine is yours,’” de Veyra said. “It’s kind of like that for our family. Especially in the Philippines … everybody shares everything and you’re not just providing for yourself.” Lindsay Davenport, senior biomedical science major and de Veyra’s roommate, See Typhoon on page 3
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nfidelity has always proved a controversial topic. From women’s magazines to serious research, statistics tend to show that men are more likely to cheat. Noting this trend, psychology graduate student Natasha Tidwell wanted to find out why this seems to be the case. Tidwell and her research partner Paul Eastwick, a UT psychology assistant professor, decided to conduct research after finding gaps in the literary claims made about infidelity. “I have always been interested in self-regulation as well as sex differences and this was an
important gap in the literature that I thought needed to be addressed,” Eastwick said. “Researchers would often make claims about men having stronger impulses than women or women having stronger inhibitory control than men, but these claims largely had gone untested.” The study consisted of two experiments conducted on A&M students. In the first study, the subjects were asked to think of a time that they were attracted to somebody who it was wrong for them to be attracted to. “We asked them to think about that time, See Cheating on page 3
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MIDDLE OF THE PACK Sean Lester: Lost in the SEC gauntlet, Sumlin’s extension means bright future
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he fluidity of sports, and more specifically college football, was on full display Saturday with Texas A&M finding itself somewhere in the middle. On a day that saw top-ranked Alabama fall at the hands of Auburn in one of the most spectacular finishes in sports history, a resurgent Missouri team continued its strong play hours later against the Aggies in a 28-21 win. I have a theory that, like many things in history, sports repeats itself. The worstto-first stories are few and far between, but in the world of sports there is a cycle. It may take years, decades even, but no one team will forever be the worst and
the best teams can’t peak forever. A season ago, Missouri and Auburn were cellar dwellers combining for a 2-14 conference record. Auburn didn’t win a single SEC game all season. Fast-forward and the two teams will be the only SEC teams playing next weekend in Atlanta, vying for the conference championship. In both of the past two seasons, A&M See Sumlin on page 2
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Whether students want to display personal pieces or submit an essay from a previous course, written or video entries can be submitted on any topic for the chance to win a $100 gift card. “The reason [the writing center] is holding this contest is because we want to encourage students on campus to write and we want them
to think about writing in a broader way,” said Valerie Balester, writing center executive director and Texas A&M English professor. Students can send in any piece ranging from a creative essay to an old lab report as long as it meets the desired length guidelines. The contest criteria was made with students in mind and requires no specific topic
for entry. “In an entry, the most important thing we would be looking for is a message that comes through clearly, lets us know what it’s really about and addresses an audience we’re familiar with,” Balester said. “We want to know what its been written for and it will be judged according to what it was trying to accomplish and
if it succeeded.” Nancy Vazquez, a writing consultant with the writing center, said the center hopes to make students aware of writing center resources and encourage them to think in a way that opens their minds to different forms of expression, and potentially gain See Contest on page 4
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had the league’s “hottest team” and the “best player,” but both of those intangibles combined for a 10-6 SEC record, leaving them somewhere in the middle of the pack. Many believe the loss to Missouri was the tipping point. They are wrong. This season of Aggie football had the life sucked out of it a long time ago at the hands of several Tiger foes (see: Auburn Tigers, LSU Tigers and Missouri Tigers). But the real problem was false hope all along. Upon giving up substantial yardage to Rice and Sam Houston State, few red flags went up simply because the Aggies won and Johnny Manziel was still the A&M quarterback, so what could possibly go wrong? This year’s team was never going to the BCS National Championship, not with this defense. But in the last two weeks of the sea-
son, there was a shift in direction. A shift toward the future. Saturday’s most notable news had nothing to do with the “carmouflage” the Aggies wore on their cleats. It had nothing to do with the disappointing loss to a Top-5 opponent. The biggest news of the day was the signing of Kevin Sumlin to a new sixyear contract that is rumored to be worth $5 million a year. Players will come and go, but for now Sumlin remains in Aggieland where he insists on making A&M a national power. “I am humbled and very appreciative of the commitment that Texas A&M has extended not only to me and my family, but to our football program overall,” Sumlin said in an A&M release. “We have only just begun to lay the foundation for sustained, long-term success here at Texas A&M, and we will work hard every day to make this great institution and the 12th Man proud.” The 2013 football season isn’t a lost cause, but it is all but over. The attention now shifts to the recruiting class Sumlin is assembling that is competing for the
best in the nation, again. As he constructs what will surely become a bigger, faster defensive front, the Aggies will have a chance to decide where they belong in the daunting SEC, which finds a way to eat its own, week in and week out. They won’t be battling their way from the bottom to the top like Missouri and Auburn did this season. But they also won’t have the pleasure of starting at the top like Alabama or LSU. Like a young animal in the jungle, A&M is finding where it belongs among the SEC food chain. The good news is, there’s still plenty of time under the direction of Sumlin to watch the sporting hands of time come full circle and put A&M truly on top. Sean Lester is a senior agricultural journalism major and sports desk assistant for The Battalion
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said she became curious when de Veyra began asking her questions about Aggie ring information. “I just think that it’s so inspiring,� Davenport said. “I couldn’t believe it when she told me. I think as Aggies, the Aggie ring is something you look forward to since day one and you just want that thing on your finger.� De Veyra said she was born in the Philippines but moved with her parents to the United States when she was six months old. De Veyra said the house her mother grew up in is the same house in which her aunt lives. She said the roof is now gone and there are holes in the exterior, making the conditions barely livable. “I’m just hoping that this will kind of start up their life again,� de Veyra said. “If they need food, clothing — we want to make sure they can get anything they need to.� Rebecca McKee, senior bilingual education major and friend of de Veyra, said she was not surprised at all when she found out about de Veyra’s intentions. She said that it was in de Veyra’s character to be a “selfless lover.� “In general, she just inspires people to be better people,� McKee said. “She’s just such an example for Aggies everywhere, I feel like.� De Veyra’s money will benefit four of her related families through a fundraising website, youcaring.com. In addition, de Veyra’s family will raise money to rebuild two churches and the seminary school her father attended. She
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kind of retrospect on it,� Tidwell said. “Then we asked them to say how strong of an impulse they felt in trying to act in that situation, how much did they try to resist that behavior, and finally how much did they actually act on that behavior.� Tidwell said the results showed that there wasn’t a difference in how much control strength men and women were reporting, but men reported stronger impulses than women and engaged in the behavior more often than women. Tidwell said that when men and women reported trying to resist the behavior, they successfully did so equally, which means while both genders exhibit strong self control, men have stronger infidelity impulses. “It’s not saying that men can’t control their selves or
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Patty de Veyra says she hopes fundraising efforts will allow people in the Philippines to restart their lives. also referenced other relief websites so people would be able to choose different organizations to give to. “It definitely surprised me that people were willing to give that much, I think that within three days it was already over my goal,� de Veyra said. “I haven’t been more proud to be part of my Aggie family and my actual family until now after all this has happened.�
anything, instead it’s saying that men have stronger impulses in this case, but if people try to control themselves both men and women do a really good job of that,� Tidwell said. “Humans as a whole are pretty good at self-control.� The second study put subjects in front of a computer and showed pictures of people who were captioned as either desirable or undesirable as a potential partner. The pictures also had a symbol to show if these people were on or off limits to participants. Tidwell said sometimes photos of people with a desirable caption would also be labeled available and sometimes unavailable, but participants still had to choose if they would pursue a relationship. “In that case what we found is that men tend to perform worse on this task than women did,� Tidwell said. “The underlying reason for it was because of impulse differences not
because of control differences.� Eastwick said the results of this study could be applied to help address sex differences by preventing cheating, which entails knowing the cause of infidelity. “If one has the goal of reducing sex differences in engaging in inappropriate sexual behaviors — such as cheating — it would make more sense to design interventions that reduce the strength of sexual impulses,� Eastwick said. “For example, keeping people out of tempting situations might do a lot to reduce sex differences.� Eastwick said he looks forward to conducting further studies on this topic in the future. “I imagine we’ll continue looking at the intersection of sexual impulses and sexual control, although we don’t have any ongoing studies on this exact topic at the moment,� Eastwick said.
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some well-deserved recognition for it. Balester said winning the competition could open many doors for students as they seek employment. “It’s a great resume builder to be able to say that you won a contest at a place as big as A&M, so we really want people to think about that because it could be an asset that could help someone get a job or get into grad school,” Balester said. Trent Tate, engineering technology major and 2013 video division winner, said winning the contest last year encouraged him to continue shooting videos. “I’m here at A&M studying electronic systems engineering, which surprises people because I’m not that stereotypical hipster filmmaker,” Tate said. “I just carry around a camera with the passion to help people tell their stories.”
I just carry around a camera with the passion to help people tell their stories.” — Trent Tate, 2013 video division contest winner
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Tate said his submission last year was a video encouraging his hometown community to donate money for teachers to use for improving class programs. Tate said he wanted to ensure that the students after him received a better education than he received and the video ultimately raised $43,000 for his hometown schools. Entries are due Feb. 4 and can be submitted to uwc.tamu. edu.
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