The Battalion: January 18, 2017

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Sophomore guard Admon Gilder led the Aggies with 16 points against Arkansas.

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Ruby Bridges, a civil rights activist who became a civil rights icon at only 6 years old, will speak at the 10th Annual MLK Breakfast Thursday to honor Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy and impact on the Civil Rights Movement.

Hosted by the MSC Woodson Black Awareness Committee, the event will begin at 9:30 a.m. Thursday in the MSC Bethancourt Ballroom. The morning will consist of a breakfast banquet, two special guests — spoken word performer Prentice Powell and Bridges — and a Q&A session for the audience with the speaker.

Bridges was the first black student to attend William Frantz Public School in New Orleans in 1960 at 6 years old. As she walked the halls on her first day of school, she was met with angry protesters and a year-long boycott as students’ parents pulled their children from the school. Today, Bridges chairs the Ruby Bridges Foundation, which works to promote tolerance and respect.

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AGGIES IN THE RAINFOREST Undergrad, grad students study abroad in 2-week Costa Rica program encouraging conservation In the first two weeks of January, 32 undergraduate and graduate students ventured to the Costa Rican rainforest for a winter study abroad program that focused on conservation-based initiatives at the Soltis Center.

Students accepted to the study abroad program specialize in agriculture and conservation. Faculty leader and agriculture professor Gary Wingenbach specifically designed the course to share the importance of conservation of natural resources with A&M students.

Soltis Center in San Isidro de Penas Blancas — the Costa Rican rainforest — aims to support Texas A&M research, education and outreach efforts in Costa Rica and the remaining Central American region. The facility also strives to promote sustainability and conservation of tropical biodiversity, according to an online statement by Eugenio Gonzalez, Soltis Center Director.

Along with diverse organic farms, among the students’ destinations was the Nectandra Institute, a preservation center established in 1999 that promotes the conservation and restoration of the cloud forest ecosystems of Costa Rica, which are comprised of 2,000 species of trees, 2,000 orchids and 20,000 butterflies and moths.

Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges will be the guest speaker at the 10th annual MLK Breakfast.

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he Texas A&M men’s basketball team finally met its turnover goal — only giving away the ball 12 times — but the Aggies’ latest bug came from their inability to make a field goal in the final seven minutes of Tuesday’s game against Arkansas. The Aggies shot 48 percent from the field in the second half, but missed their final six attempts, dooming their chances of earning a needed win over the Razorbacks.

“Another missed opportunity with finishing games off and making tough plays when we had to. We’re not very disciplined offensively when we needed to be,” said Texas A&M head coach Billy Kennedy. “We played like an immature, undisciplined team and that’s my fault. It’s my responsibility.”

Admon Gilder heaved a desperate threepoint attempt at the buzzer, but there was too much heat on the shot that bounced off the backboard, sealing the Razorbacks’ (14-4, 3-3 SEC) 62-60 win over the Aggies (9-8, 1-5 SEC).

“We’re just a little undisciplined at the wrong times and it shows and it hurts us,” sophomore Tyler Davis said. “This game felt a lot better. I felt like we took care of the ball more, but we still have work to do.”

On “Throw Back Night,” Arkansas went old-school in the final 20 minutes of the game by dialing up their full-court press that truly gave A&M 40 minutes of hell — which the Aggies could not preserve through.

“The difference in the game was our defense,” said Arkansas head coach Mike Anderson. “I thought our defense was good all the way through, especially in the second half.”

A&M was on fire to begin the second half, making six of its first eight shots to build a 4836 lead with 12:40 remaining in the game — the Aggies’ largest lead of the game which forced Anderson to call timeout. Dusty Hannahs drained a three-pointer on the next Razorback possession, however, and the race was on.

As they did in the first half, the Razorbacks climbed their way back and the Aggies hit a cold spell with Arkansas pulling within 54-50 with 7:26 to go. Arkansas continued to tune in, while A&M continued to fade, cashing in on a string of Aggie

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Thirty-two graduate and undergraduate students ventured into the rainforest of Costa Rica over the break to study conservation efforts.

Through public education, scientific research and watershed stewardship, Nectandra teaches the importance of cloud forest conservation. Through pop-

A&M University President Michael K. Young sent out a campus-wide statement Jan. 10 announcing that Mark Hussey, vice chancellor and dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will resign from his position to transition and faculty.

Hussey attended Texas A&M as a graduate student 34 years ago and has since continued to serve the university in multiple ways. In December 2008, he was appointed to vice chancellor and dean, then interim president in 2014 following former A&M president R. Bowen Loftin.

As dean, Hussey has been committed to the development of the AGLS department and has been involved in various agencies including Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, Texas A&M Forest Service and the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory.

During his time at A&M, Hussey initiated statewide construction campaigns to create new facilities for faculty and students, including the new AGLS Complex on West Campus. Across 14 academic departments, his led 140 staff members and roughly 8,000 students.

Because of his leadership, the department has “attracted best-in-class faculty and students reflected in excellence in teaching, research, extension engagement and service,” according to Young’s email.

Hussey will remain in his current position until the university determines and announces his successor.

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Texas A&M associate professor Rebecca Hankins has been appointed to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission by President Barack Obama.

Hankins is a curator and archivist for African Studies, Womens and Gender Studies and Arabic language and has worked at the A&M libraries for 14 years.

The NHPRC is responsible for tasks including implementing policies, oversees the grant program for National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and advises applicants and grantees concerning proposals.

“It’s a real honor for me,” Hankins said of the appointment. “I’m humbled that my long career as an archivist has been acknowledged, and it’s only because of the generous support of my colleagues and my institution that I’m allowed to do all these things.”

As Hankins steps into this new position she will continue her work of overseeing collections housed in Cushing Memorial Library and Archives.

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University studies sophomore and MLK Breakfast executive director Kameron Turner said the central purpose behind the event is to honor Martin Luther King and remember his impact on society.

“We wanted to do something to honor MLK and let everyone know that he is important to society today,” Turner said. “This is the only program that A&M does for MLK, so this is a campus-wide program.”

Turner said anyone is welcome to attend and the organization hopes for a diverse audience.

“We try to get as many people as possible and as much diversity as possible, so it’s available to anyone who wants to come,” Turner said. “Some people travel from different states just to come to this breakfast. It’s available to the community as well as A&M faculty and students.”

Compared to last year’s breakfast, this year’s event will be smaller in order to maintain quality, and so far more than 500 people have signed up to come, Turner said.

“Last year, it was a crowd of 900 plus, and this year we capped it at 750 just because we wanted to bring back that banquet style breakfast, and we prefer quality over quantity,” Turner said.

In addition to the Thursday breakfast, Turner invited anyone interested to come to the pre-program, a showing of the Disney film “Ruby Bridges: A True American Hero,” which will take place Wednesday in the MSC 2405 at noon and again at 7 p.m.

Turner said Bridges was selected as a guest speaker for the breakfast because of the similarities between her challenges and those King faced at the time. “[Bridges] is an advocate for integration,” Turner said. “At 6 years old, she integrated a public school in Louisiana … and she also went through a lot of the same hardships [as King]. So the discrimination factor, the psychological problems of ‘Am I good enough?’ — similar things that MLK went through.”

Turner said each year the event has a different theme chosen by the committee, and this year the theme is “Let Your Light Shine.”

“I just want to get the message out there that no matter how old you are, no matter how insignificant you think you are, you have the power to do something great,” Turner said. “That’s kind of where our theme ‘Let Your Light Shine’ comes from.”

Marquette Pradia, kinesiology senior and chair of MSC WBAC, hopes people will walk away from the event with a broadened understanding of the values King believed in and promoted.

“I’m hoping that people will understand what exactly Martin Luther King stood for and understand what’s needed to actually fulfill the dream,” Pradia said. “And move forward to ensure that the rights are maintained no matter who’s in office

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“Natures provides us with diverse services, free of charge,” said Luis Villa, Nectandra Institute administrator. “If you were to put a price tag on it, you’re talking about billions and billions of dollars, but [nature] doesn’t charge us. So if we protect nature, we’re protecting our own well-being.”

Lennette said conservation efforts are most effective on an individual level.

“Conservation should not be institutionalized,” Lennette said. “Every single individual can do something. We shouldn’t depend on government or big, large organizations to do the conservation.”

Villa said conservation efforts are

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A young Ruby Bridges is escorted down the stairs on her first day at an otherwise all-white school in 1960.

and no matter what events happen on campus.”

Pradia said she is looking forward to hearing Bridges speak because of the way her courage and hope for integration still positively impacts people’s lives today, even at A&M. “Hearing her speak and giving us her perspective of being the first African American child to be integrated into an all white school system — I really value that because she took that step and I’m now able to go A&M as a black woman because of her movement to be integrated into a white school system,” Pradia said.

Economics junior and vice chair of MSC WBAC Sade Hill said the annual MLK breakfast is the biggest event of the year for her organization.

“I think with all the current events that are happening, I think it’s perfect timing for Ruby to be here,” Hill said. “She set the pace for integration in the South, and with Texas A&M being a very predominantly white institution, very southern, conservative university, it’s a really remarkable experience.”

Hill said she encourages attendees to use the event to try and learn something new.

“Get out of your mind frame, try to look at it from someone else’s perspective — anything, not necessarily race relations,” Hill said. “Just take a step and try to hear someone else’s story; it will be well worth it. You definitely are always going to leave with something that you didn’t have in the first place; that’s a guarantee.”

important in Costa Rica specifically because of the country’s high biodiversity and dependence on natural, ecological and environmental services.

“I’ve discovered how dependent we are on nature,” Villa said. “I think all of us have a sense of it from the time we’re little, but as you grow and pay attention to some of the challenges we’re facing as a global society, you realize just how dependent we are.”

Proper management of natural resources is vital to conservation for future generations, Wingenbach said.

“It is so important to practice conservation to preserve our earth. In Costa Rica, I saw the importance of rainforests, cloud forests and organic farms, because they preserve wildlife and create food for us,” said program attendee Julianne

Percy, agricultural communications and journalism senior. “It is important for us to take care of our land so we can continue to make healthy food and keep our earth stable so it can take care of us in the future.”

Wingenbach said it is difficult to discuss these issues in a classroom environment, so he hopes to create more opportunities for Aggies to travel abroad to share in the experience.

“It’s really important for us to see how our actions and decisions in one part of the world, whether that be industrial production that can cause harm to the natural environment, also affect the people living in Costa Rica,” Wingenbach said. “If we all did a better job, maybe we can have more properly managed natural resources.”

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[Clockwise beginning at top] Tonny Trocha-Morelos, DJ Hogg, JC Hampton and Tyler Davis all played during in games which took place over the break, contributing to a team record of 1-5 in the SEC.

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After starting 7-2 with a pair of tight losses to high-end Pac-12 teams — UCLA and USC — the Aggies did not fare as well as they may have hoped in the past month, going 2-5 since the start of winter break.

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comeback over Arizona at the Toyota Center in Houston to tip-off the holiday season, but fell short 67-63. The close loss to the Wildcats marked the beginning of one area that has cost the Aggies mightily in the games since — turnovers.

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The Aggies finally got back in the win column when they defeated LSU 92-62 on Jan. 11. The Aggies opened the game with a 17-3 lead and never looked back, turning on the jets in the second half scoring 49 points

in the final 20 minutes, while shooting 69 percent for the half.

A&M’s turnover ratio increased in their last game against Mississippi State, giving the ball away 22 times in a frustrating 67-59 loss to the Bulldogs.

The Aggies’ tough times continued Tuesday night with a 62-60 loss to Arkansas.

Now, sitting at 9-8 overall and 1-5 in SEC play, A&M’s hope to return to the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season is beginning to firmly slip away A&M returns to action Saturday when it hosts Georgia with tip-off slated for 11 a.m.

Alex Miller is a journalism freshman and sports reporter for The Battalion.

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Sophomore guard Chris Collins had a difficult game, scoring no points and missing the two attempts he made.

turnovers to take a 57-56 lead — an advantage the Razorbacks never relinquished for the remainder of the game.

“We lost the game during the stretch where we were up eight to 10 [points] and they got some second-chance points,” Kennedy said. “We had eight turnovers in the second half and those led to transition points.”

Despite shooting just 31 percent from the field in the first half, the Aggies had held onto a tight 32-30 lead at the intermission, in large part due to limiting the number of turnovers in the first half to just four.

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The Razorbacks tusked their way back, as the Aggies went ice-cold shooting and Arkansas made five of six straight shots to retake a slim 20-19 lead with 5:57 remaining in the period. The Aggies went on a 10-2 run to stretch out a 31-24 advantage with 1:54 to go, but the Razorbacks closed the half on a quick 6-1 mark that trimmed A&M’s halftime lead to just two.

A&M’s loss cuts the Aggies’ NCAA Tournament hopes down even further, but Davis said it won’t stop the team from working toward its goal of making the Big Dance.

“We’re going to keep working,” Davis concluded. “The season’s still got games left so we’ve got work to do.”

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University studies sophomore and MLK Breakfast executive director Kameron Turner said the central purpose behind the event is to honor Martin Luther King and remember his impact on society.

“We wanted to do something to honor MLK and let everyone know that he is important to society today,” Turner said. “This is the only program that A&M does for MLK, so this is a campus-wide program.”

Turner said anyone is welcome to attend and the organization hopes for a diverse audience.

“We try to get as many people as possible and as much diversity as possible, so it’s available to anyone who wants to come,” Turner said. “Some people travel from different states just to come to this breakfast. It’s available to the community as well as A&M faculty and students.”

Compared to last year’s breakfast, this year’s event will be smaller in order to maintain quality, and so far more than 500 people have signed up to come, Turner said.

“Last year, it was a crowd of 900 plus, and this year we capped it at 750 just because we wanted to bring back that banquet style breakfast, and we prefer quality over quantity,” Turner said.

In addition to the Thursday breakfast, Turner invited anyone interested to come to the pre-program, a showing of the Disney film “Ruby Bridges: A True American Hero,” which will take place Wednesday in the MSC 2405 at noon and again at 7 p.m.

Turner said Bridges was selected as a guest speaker for the breakfast because of the similarities between her challenges and those King faced at the time. “[Bridges] is an advocate for integration,” Turner said. “At 6 years old, she integrated a public school in Louisiana … and she also went through a lot of the same hardships [as King]. So the discrimination factor, the psychological problems of ‘Am I good enough?’ — similar things that MLK went through.”

Turner said each year the event has a different theme chosen by the committee, and this year the theme is “Let Your Light Shine.”

“I just want to get the message out there that no matter how old you are, no matter how insignificant you think you are, you have the power to do something great,” Turner said. “That’s kind of where our theme ‘Let Your Light Shine’ comes from.”

Marquette Pradia, kinesiology senior and chair of MSC WBAC, hopes people will walk away from the event with a broadened understanding of the values King believed in and promoted.

“I’m hoping that people will understand what exactly Martin Luther King stood for and understand what’s needed to actually fulfill the dream,” Pradia said. “And move forward to ensure that the rights are maintained no matter who’s in office

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“Natures provides us with diverse services, free of charge,” said Luis Villa, Nectandra Institute administrator. “If you were to put a price tag on it, you’re talking about billions and billions of dollars, but [nature] doesn’t charge us. So if we protect nature, we’re protecting our own well-being.”

Lennette said conservation efforts are most effective on an individual level.

“Conservation should not be institutionalized,” Lennette said. “Every single individual can do something. We shouldn’t depend on government or big, large organizations to do the conservation.”

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and no matter what events happen on campus.”

Pradia said she is looking forward to hearing Bridges speak because of the way her courage and hope for integration still positively impacts people’s lives today, even at A&M. “Hearing her speak and giving us her perspective of being the first African American child to be integrated into an all white school system — I really value that because she took that step and I’m now able to go A&M as a black woman because of her movement to be integrated into a white school system,” Pradia said.

Economics junior and vice chair of MSC WBAC Sade Hill said the annual MLK breakfast is the biggest event of the year for her organization.

“I think with all the current events that are happening, I think it’s perfect timing for Ruby to be here,” Hill said. “She set the pace for integration in the South, and with Texas A&M being a very predominantly white institution, very southern, conservative university, it’s a really remarkable experience.”

Hill said she encourages attendees to use the event to try and learn something new.

“Get out of your mind frame, try to look at it from someone else’s perspective — anything, not necessarily race relations,” Hill said. “Just take a step and try to hear someone else’s story; it will be well worth it. You definitely are always going to leave with something that you didn’t have in the first place; that’s a guarantee.”

important in Costa Rica specifically because of the country’s high biodiversity and dependence on natural, ecological and environmental services.

“I’ve discovered how dependent we are on nature,” Villa said. “I think all of us have a sense of it from the time we’re little, but as you grow and pay attention to some of the challenges we’re facing as a global society, you realize just how dependent we are.”

Proper management of natural resources is vital to conservation for future generations, Wingenbach said.

“It is so important to practice conservation to preserve our earth. In Costa Rica, I saw the importance of rainforests, cloud forests and organic farms, because they preserve wildlife and create food for us,” said program attendee Julianne

Percy, agricultural communications and journalism senior. “It is important for us to take care of our land so we can continue to make healthy food and keep our earth stable so it can take care of us in the future.”

Wingenbach said it is difficult to discuss these issues in a classroom environment, so he hopes to create more opportunities for Aggies to travel abroad to share in the experience.

“It’s really important for us to see how our actions and decisions in one part of the world, whether that be industrial production that can cause harm to the natural environment, also affect the people living in Costa Rica,” Wingenbach said. “If we all did a better job, maybe we can have more properly managed natural resources.”

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Collins was challenged in his first start against Kentucky, but improved over the next few games and has started every game since the loss at Reed Arena.

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Sophomore guard Chris Collins had a difficult game, scoring no points and missing the two attempts he made.

turnovers to take a 57-56 lead — an advantage the Razorbacks never relinquished for the remainder of the game.

“We lost the game during the stretch where we were up eight to 10 [points] and they got some second-chance points,” Kennedy said. “We had eight turnovers in the second half and those led to transition points.”

Despite shooting just 31 percent from the field in the first half, the Aggies had held onto a tight 32-30 lead at the intermission, in large part due to limiting the number of turnovers in the first half to just four.

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The Razorbacks tusked their way back, as the Aggies went ice-cold shooting and Arkansas made five of six straight shots to retake a slim 20-19 lead with 5:57 remaining in the period. The Aggies went on a 10-2 run to stretch out a 31-24 advantage with 1:54 to go, but the Razorbacks closed the half on a quick 6-1 mark that trimmed A&M’s halftime lead to just two.

A&M’s loss cuts the Aggies’ NCAA Tournament hopes down even further, but Davis said it won’t stop the team from working toward its goal of making the Big Dance.

“We’re going to keep working,” Davis concluded. “The season’s still got games left so we’ve got work to do.”

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