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exas took another step toward the stars earlier this month when University of Texas System Regents met on March 7 to approve a $50 million commitment to funding the world’s largest telescope, a project in which Texas A&M has a stake. The Giant Magellan Telescope Project is a collaboration between nine international partners to build an observatory in Chile capable of producing images 10 times sharper than the Hubble Space telescope. UT and A&M are individual partners in the effort, and UT’s recent monetary pledge is the latest development in a race to start construction before the year is out. David Lambert, director of UT’s McDonald Observatory and astronomy professor, said the $50 million pledge constitutes half of UT’s planned commitment. “It’s a five percent contribution to the construction costs and it brings the project closer to being able to make a decision on construction,” Lambert said. UT’s pledge will come from research reserves held by UT Austin. Lambert said UT is currently working on raising another $50 million from multiple private sources in order to fulfill UT’s commitment of funding 10 percent of the

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Senior Karla Gilbert (second from left) celebrates with head coach Gary Blair (third from left) after it was announced that A&M will be a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament.

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The Battalion he No. 15 Texas A&M women’s basketball team hosted a party inside the Cox-McFerrin Athletic Center Monday to celebrate the team’s selection to the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament, marking the ninth-consecutive season the team will appear in the tournament. A&M (24-8, 13-3 SEC) was selected as a 3-seed in the Lincoln Regional of the NCAA Tournament. The Aggies will face the 14-seed North Dakota on Sunday after 6-seed Gonzaga and 11-seed James Madison play. The winners of each matchup will battle for a spot in the Sweet 16 on Tuesday. “I feel really good [about

the matchup],” said senior center Karla Gilbert. “We’ve made a lot of improvements, we’ve grown individually and you know what? I think it’s about time we just stepped up to the plate and get ready to go.” Texas A&M head coach Gary Blair has played nearly every team in the NCAA during his coaching career, but Sunday will be the first time he has ever faced North Dakota. “Having a chance to play North Dakota, that’s going to be fun,” Blair said. Despite the team’s unfamiliarity with its first opponent, the Aggies realize they cannot afford to take any team for granted. “I know it’s going to be a very, very tough battle for us, but I feel like this team is very

capable of [overcoming] anything,” said sophomore point guard Jordan Jones. “[We can’t] take anybody for granted, no matter what their seed is, because Nebraska did knock us off last year on our home court.” The Aggies were dealt a tough hand as the undefeated and defending national champion Connecticut Huskies (340, 18-0 AAC) were named the 1-seed in their region. A&M is aware that the road to a national championship may go through the Huskies, but Blair is focusing his team on the game at hand before looking ahead. “We will play every team just like they’re Connecticut,” Blair said. “You cannot get to Connecticut, or get to Lincoln, See Tournament on page 3

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exas A&M baseball will look to build on its 12-2 home record Tuesday as it hosts Columbia University (5-7, 0-0 Ivy League), with the first pitch slated for 6:35 p.m. College Station marks Columbia’s second destination on its ninegame road trip after beginning its trip with losses in three of four games at UT-San Antonio. After Tuesday’s game against the Aggies, Columbia will head to UT-Arlington for a single game before heading to Austin to take on the University of Texas in a three-game set. Tanner Garza — THE BATTALION The Aggies post a team ERA of 2.29 — including two players Freshman Tyler Stubblefield is tied for the team lead with a 0.35 ERA.

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Participants tend to a patient during last year’s Disaster Day event.

isasters are unexpected, but that doesn’t mean students in medical fields can’t be prepared for any incident thrown their way. In 2009, the Health Science Center College of Nursing hosted its first Disaster Day, an event to prepare students in the medical field for real life disaster scenarios. Jerry Livingston, lead faculty coordinator of the event, said the project started after Hurricane Ike in 2008 and evacuees from south Texas and south Louisiana came to Reed Arena for shelter. “It was the first year we had our nursing program here and our nursing students had literally only been here about two or three weeks,” Jerry said. “People were needed to help man the temporary shelters and our students basically knew nothing. They had a really steep learning curve as far as getting caught up on what to do. It was at that point that Dr. Nancy Dickey decided that we needed to put together some kind of mini course.” In the first Disaster Day, only the college of nursing was involved and included 33 nursing students who took turns playing patient and nurse. Laura Livingston, assistant director of the Clinical Learning Resource Center, said the program quickly began to gain participants — and it has grown each year since. The program is now in its seventh year and Laura said Thursday’s event involves about 276 students from seven disciplines in the health sciences and more than 500 volunteers playing patients, making this year’s event the largest so far. The nature of the disaster will not be revealed to students until the day of the event to make the simulation as real as possible. Jerry said the type of simulation has varied over the years, but tends to have a relevant angle. “In the past, we have used hurricanes, wildfires, an explosion at a local sporting event and a chemical explosion,” Jerry said. “Basically what we’re going to start doing, because this thing does keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger, we have our cases from those four scenarios and we’re going to

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allowing less than one earned run — and will face a Columbia squad that has yet to hit a home run this season. Freshman left handed pitcher Tyler Stubblefield will get the start on the mound for the Aggies. Stubblefield will take the hill Tuesday sporting a 3-1 record on four starts and is tied for a team-best ERA of 0.35 with sophomore Grayson Long. The Aggies (14-7, 1-2 SEC) enter Tuesday’s matchup with six players with batting averages over .300. A&M has sent eight balls over the fence this year, but will face a Columbia pitching staff that has only surrendered two home runs on the year. Following its game against Columbia, A&M will continue SEC play against Florida with a threegame set beginning at 6:35 p.m. Friday at Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park.

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cuisine | 2 Wafology Former student creates culturally infused waffle recipes at his local food truck.

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art | 11 Global conditions A photography exhibit, opening Wednesday, will recognize the work of Howard G. Buffett and graduate student Christopher Bielecki.

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anif Maredia, Class of 2011, ventured into the “real world” when he began working for an energy company in Houston. After quickly coming to the realization that an office job was not for him, he began his journey to opening and operating Wafology, a food truck in College Station. Maredia said his brother was a source of inspiration, as he pushed him to follow his dream of opening a food truck. “I went to NYU with my brother and saw all the food trucks and it sparked some interest and got me inspired to try something on my own,” Maredia said. “Back in July, I started looking for food trucks and I couldn’t find something I wanted. I had a lot of ideas, so I picked an idea and had a food truck custom built.” Maredia recruited his friend Noureen Hashim, senior women and gender studies major, to work on the truck. “I was really excited because we don’t

have that many food trucks in College Station, and on top that, unique ones,” Hashim said. “Waffles are my favorite breakfast and [Maredia] was always experimenting and even took a chocolatemaking class and it just seemed like the perfect step for him.” When Hashim was asked to join the team, she was ready to help. “[Maredia] is actually one of my really close friends and we clicked automatically,” Hashim said. “He was always a familiar face on campus and he’s always been there for me so when he asked me, I wanted to help out.” Maredia said deciding to keep the food truck in College Station was a “nobrainer.” “I’ve lived here since 1997 and I wanted to bring something to College Station because growing up I knew what was lacking — a delicious waffle place and a really cool food truck,” Maredia said. Hashim said the menu consists of specialty waffles that are culturally infused. One of the items on the menu is the Kebab Burger, a favorite of Maredia and Hashim’s. “[Wafology is] very unique and along the lines of hipster,” Hashim said. “It

appeals to everyone. It has chicken and waffles, but it also caters to everyone trying new experiences.” Kelsey Munoz, freshman biomedical sciences major, said she applauded the innovative selections on the menu. “I ordered the cheesecake waffles and oh, I liked it,” Munoz said. “They were delicious and I definitely would come back for seconds. I like how different it is compared to the average restaurant menu. I would crave this on Saturday mornings after Northgate.” Munoz, who is a resident at The Stack apartments, said she appreciates the convenience of a food truck that comes to her. “My roommate raved about it so I got it,” Munoz said. I live right next door at The Stack. Great location.” Hashim said she hopes Wafology becomes a tradition at A&M, something that current and future students consider a College Station staple. Maredia said it was too soon to tell the future of Wafology. “It would be nice to possibly expand to a casual restaurant,” Maredia said. “Right now, I’m just having so much fun feeding Aggies.”

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fter dropping two games in Saturday’s double header with South Carolina, the No. 13 Texas A&M softball team (217, 3-3 SEC) will host the Northwestern State Lady Demons (12-11, 4-2 SLC) in a single game Tuesday before continuing SEC play next weekend. The first pitch will mark the 12th meeting between the two programs as A&M leads the all-time series 12-0. The Lady Demons will put

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until you take care of business at home and last year we let ourselves down.” The Aggies advanced past the first round in the last seven NCAA tournaments, and join a list of 11 schools to have qualified for at least nine consecutive NCAA postseason appearances. Blair said he’s ready to embrace the challenge of the “big dance” and is confident that his team is ready to continue to play at a high level. “When it comes to dancing, you better have your shoes on, and you better keep them laced and be able to go as long as you can,” Blair said.

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The Battalion omen from across campus came together Monday to celebrate Women’s History Month and to feature current research that will help light the path of success for others. The first Women’s Research on Women Symposium, held by the College of Education and Human Development’s Office of Organization Development and Diversity Initiatives, hosted Texas A&M faculty whose research focuses on women and gender issues. Beverly Irby, associate department head of the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development, said she wanted the symposium to focus on women who strive to bring attention to women’s issues not often discussed. “We wanted to have a program that would capture some of the wonderful work our researchers from campus are doing in that part, specifically the area of research on women,” Irby said. “We’re showcasing women doing research on women.” The symposium began with a panel for researchers to discuss their work. A gallery tour followed in which attendees could speak directly with researchers and learn more about their area of study. “It’s sort of like a smorgasbord of research,” Irby said. “They’re really great and this is just the tip of the iceberg with what is happening with research by women.” Gwen Webb-Hasan, educational leadership and human resource development professor, was one of the women who presented at the symposium. She said her and her partner’s research focuses on young women of color — elementary through high school — and what paths they may take to get accepted to and thrive in college. “We’ve found there’s a lot of info about African-American males and very little research done on girls of color,” Webb-Hasan said. “Our concern was, ‘How do we get them to go to college?’” Webb-Hasan said she hopes women

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The first Women’s Research on Women Symposium featured a panel for researchers to discuss their work. who teach sciences at A&M can apply her research in their classrooms and for recruiting. “We want to generate that interest because people forget that to be successful in college they have to be successful in high school [and earlier],” Webb-Hasan said. “Our hope is that as people come, they’ll look at women’s issues but also issues for women of color.” Webb-Hasan said young women on the Texas A&M campus and on campuses around the country should be able to walk around and know they are seen as scholars and not someone looking to get an “Mrs. degree.” “We have to get beyond that and the only way to do that is to be purposeful,” Webb-Hasan said. Melissa Ochoa, sociology graduate student, said she attended the symposium because she was familiar with the work of several researchers and it applied to her own study of gender equality. She said events that focus on women’s issues connect to greater issues that are prevalent around the world. “I think it’s especially important because so many people think that women’s issues are completely separate from men’s issues, when in reality these are human issues and one greatly affects the other,” Ochoa said. “When one isn’t get-

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start rotating those, assuming that there’s not something that comes up in the community. What got us started with wildfires was the fires in Bastrop.” Along with students from the college of nursing, Laura said Disaster Day will also include students from EMS, radiology, physical therapy, Blinn nursing students and College of Pharmacy and College of Medicine students. “Each component has different expectations for their students based on the patient and each component is acting in their professional role,” Laura said. “One of the main purposes of the professional aspect of Disaster Day is to create an interprofessional simulation where all of these students have to communicate with each other and work as a health care team so that they’re more familiar with that concept when they go into their professions.”

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ting equal attention, whether it’s rights or opportunities, then the other one suffers, even though that’s not really what people see all the time.” Ochoa said she found something important in every presentation and would like to implement them in her desired career as a professor. “These are topics that I would like to have in my classroom at some point and I think these are important, especially for majors that don’t really look at gender or racism,” Ochoa said. “The real world is all gender and racism and I think we don’t prepare students enough for that real-world experience.” Irby said the timing of the symposium meant everything, as it may draw even more attention to a month celebrating the successes of women and point out where women can go in the future. “It’s really critical to do [the symposium] this month and bring the focus on women’s issues and the need for research on women,” Irby said. “The whole point of Women’s History Month is to bring attention to these issues and try to ensure that we don’t forget the importance that women who have gone before us, how important they are to us today. It’s because of other women who have gone before us that we are here today.”

This is the first year that the physical therapy assist program from Blinn will be involved in Disaster Day. “Every year we add something else,” Laura said. “This year, we’ve added physical therapy because it’s very important for students to understand their body mechanics and how they can cause themselves injury by stopping, not lifting properly, etc.” Laura said students should walk away from Disaster Day with a better understanding of how to manage and prioritize health care in a crisis situation, as well as enhance team building skills. Even though Disaster Day 2014 hasn’t happened yet, Laura said there are already signs that the event will grow once more next year. “This year, we’ve got students and faculty from the School of Rural Public Health as well as students and faculty from the veterinary medicine program who are going to be observing and proposing their involvement for next year because truly an event like this, for real, in this community would require people from many different fields to come together and make it work,” Laura said. Elise Bockoven, senior nursing student, was on the planning committee last year. The simulated disaster was an explosion at Kyle Field. Because she was on the committee, she was informed of the simulation beforehand, but she said that still didn’t completely prepare her for the event. “They threw in a lot of surprises,” Bockoven said. “You never really know what to expect. It’s stressful, but I learned so much in an hour and a half.” Bockoven said being involved in Disaster Day provides students with valuable skills that can be directly applied in student’s future occupations. “I think it’s incredibly important for students studying to be in a healthcare profession to be a part of a simulated disaster experience,” Bockoven said. “We need to experience the chaos, practice our skills under pressure and work together

as a health care team to save these patients.” Laura said this year’s Disaster Day will be held at Central Baptist Church, which will act as a temporary shelter for the duration of the event. “Central Baptist church has gone above and beyond in providing us complete and total access to their facility and we cannot say enough how appreciative we are of the cooperation and collaboration that we have gotten,” Laura said. “They are actually identified as a temporary shelter. If a true disaster happens that brings people to Brazos County, [the church] is identified as one of the places that refugees and evacuees would be brought. That did happen during Katrina and other disasters.” Planning for Disaster Day begins in August and is made at the student level — students develop the simulation from start to finish. While there is a core group of faculty who assist in creating Disaster Day every year, Laura said it’s the students who run the show. “This entire event is planned from start to finish by studentled committees from the different disciplines,” Laura said. “Each discipline has a single faculty representative that helps to guide them and can answer questions. But by and large, the entire event is planned and executed by students. Jerry and I both believe that is what we can attribute the success of this event to is the fact that students own it. They have a stake in how it plays out and the success in the event.” Jerry said being able to be fully involved in the event is what he believes has made Disaster Day such a success for students. “It’s been one of the most successful events that this school has put on, and I think it goes back to our ability to empower students to use their imagination,” Jerry said. “I try very hard to pick students that I know are motivated, have leadership qualities and that’s what I contribute to the success. If you look at how it’s grown, it’s just incredible.”

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apturing both the beauty and strife of the world through the lens, an event on campus seeks to display and raise awareness of the human condition around the globe. The Conflict and Development Center will open a photography exhibit Wednesday featuring the work of Howard G. Buffett, philanthropist and president of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. The exhibit, “Wildlife, Food Production and the Human Condition,” will be housed in the AGLS Building. Edwin Price, the Howard G. Buffett Chair on Conflict and Development, said Buffett’s love of wildlife inspired the photographs. Price said Buffett views wildlife conservation as inextricably linked to the human condition and those views are reflected in the photographs on display. “[Buffett] was really into

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wildlife and he did wonderful work in wildlife photography, but in the process he came to the conclusion that wildlife cannot be conserved or preserved if you don’t help people feed themselves,” Price said. “He came upon many instances in Africa where, for their own livelihood, people were killing wildlife to eat, for trophies or for the habitat. He came to the conclusion that if he really wanted to preserve wildlife, you need to look at and do something about the human condition.” The Conflict and Development center will announce this year’s recipients of the Student Media Grant Program on Wednesday. The program awards $5,000 grants to encourage careers in photojournalism. The program, open to both undergraduate and graduate students, allows students to travel to and document the conditions of conflicted nations through photography. Next year’s competition will open and photos from a previous winner will be displayed. Christopher Bielecki, agri-

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total telescope, which is estimated to cost $1.05 billion. Texas A&M has raised $25 million to date with an additional $5 million contribution from the College Station campus almost finalized. Lambert said the funding commitment began last fall when UT Austin submitted a proposal to the UT System on possible financial contributions to the GMT, and credits this monthâ€™s pledge to the backing of UT Austin President Bill Powers and Linda Hicke, dean of UTâ€™s College of Natural Sciences. â€œThe key thing is getting your dean involved, and then the provost and then the president,â€? Lambert said. Gary Susswein, director of media relations at UT, said Powers and UT Austin made the $50 million commitment because they view the GMT as a way to ensure that UT continues to offer a world-class astronomy program. â€œThe main factor here was UT having the ability to do world-changing scientific research,â€? Susswein said. â€œBy being involved in the GMT and having some days when we are able to do research there, it allows us to further our scientific research and our work in astronomy and to continue to be an international leader in that field.â€? H. Joseph Newton, dean of Texas A&Mâ€™s College of Science, said A&M is seeking financial donations from a variety of sources to fulfill its five percent, or $50 million, financial commitment toward the telescope. â€œIâ€™m hoping [UTâ€™s contribution] will help,â€? Newton said. â€œA&M and UT are kind of competitive with each other, so maybe this will help us with donors to catch up with them.â€? The majority of Texas A&Mâ€™s commitment thus far has come from the late George

P. Mitchell, who donated close to $25 million to Texas A&M for GMT funding before he died last year. Newton said closing the gap between raised capital and the five percent target would boost A&Mâ€™s astronomy program to new heights. â€œThereâ€™s a real advantage to getting to $50 million,â€? Newton said. â€œThat gives us a five percent share of the use of the telescope and that would be a significant accomplishment for our astronomy program.â€? Texas A&M and UT seek to pay five and 10 percent, respectively, of the GMTâ€™s total cost because such a commitment will result in exclusive viewing rights for each institutionâ€™s science programs. However, as designs are finalized and staff is hired in anticipation for future construction, the nine GMT partners have about a year to deliver the required funding before further delays become costly. The momentum may be increasing in the GMTâ€™s favor, however. Michael Long, vice president of the GMTO Corporation, said as more development milestones are passed, the telescope becomes more attractive to potential partners and donors. â€œDuring the last 10 to 12 months thereâ€™s been a steady increase in inquiries as to whether weâ€™re interested in getting a partner, and a lot of that has to do with the momentum,â€? Long said. â€œOther institutions around the world see the progress that has been made and passing the design review is a good example of a major step, and we get more inquiries.â€? Long said more than 75 percent of the funding has been reached to begin stage one construction, and that the only two major steps that remain to be taken before breaking ground are the approval of a construction proposal and the securement of remaining monetary commitments.

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