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Junior political science major Levi Bohanan will share his experiences with “pray the gay away” therapy on Thursday at the weekly LGBT Aggies meeting.

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(From left) Junior forward Tavarsha Scott-Williams, sophomore forward Courtney Williams and sophomore guard Jordan Jones celebrate Tuesday following the win over James Madison.

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Women’s basketball brushes aside James Madison, jets into NCAA Sweet 16 Tyler Stafford The Battalion

ed by its trio of star sophomores, the 3-seed Texas A&M basketball team defeated the 11-seed James Madison Dukes 85-69 before a rowdy Tuesday night crowd of 7,095 at Reed Arena. The second-round victory grants the Aggies a pass to the Sweet 16, where they will face 7-seed Depaul in Lincoln, Neb., on Saturday. This is the sixth time an A&M team has advanced to the NCAA Division I Tournament third round. Sophomore Jordan Jones, who

broke the school’s single season assists record Sunday, dished out 16 assists and added nine points. Jones now has 253 assists for the 2013-14 season. “This team really thrives on transition,” Jones said. “Once we get to pushing transition it really gives us the look that we want out of secondary — and then eventually setting up our offense.” Courtney Williams led all players with 23 points. The sophomore has now scored double-digit points in 11 straight games and 29 overall this year. “I just tried to take what the defense gave me and find the open layups,” Williams said. “When I did get

the ball in transition, I just tried to find my teammates also because I’m not a selfish player.” Sophomore guard Courtney Walker added 18 points of her own as well as seven rebounds and two steals. Playing in her final home game, senior center Karla Gilbert — a graduate of A&M Consolidated High School — scored 20 points and pulled down a game-high 15 rebounds. Gilbert also added two blocks Sunday, adding to her school single season record and giving her 64 on the year. “She’s got the heart of gold,” head See Tournament on page 3

Conflict, conservation mesh in photographer’s work Howard Buffett uses photos for education Bradley D’Souza The Battalion

rom a blood diamond conflict in Sierra Leone to the Mount Hagen Festival in Papua New Guinea, Howard G. Buffett has captured stories from across the globe. Already given the opportunity to interact with his photography, students were able to hear these accounts when Buffett spoke on campus Tuesday. Buffett discussed the inspiration and motivation behind his photos, which are on display on the fourth floor of the Agriculture and Life Sciences Building. Students enrolled in a Methods of Environmental Interpretation course will use the stories behind Buffett’s photos to create interpretive webpages for each photo. Buffett said he got his start in photojournalism after borrowing his daughter’s camera, and his newfound hobby soon developed into a love of photography. “I used to borrow her camera all the time,” Buffett said. “My wife finally bought me a camera. I just started taking pictures on the farm. Then I got interested in wildlife and that’s when I started to buy better cameras. I worked into it.” Depicting scenes of conflict and wildlife, Buffett said his photography reflects

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his interests in conflict and conservation. Describing his interest in the connection between poverty, wildlife and conflict as one of necessity, Buffett said people rarely try to solve problems by addressing all aspects of the issue. “You find out that people won’t try

certain things in conflict areas,” Buffett said. “For us, it became an area where there was a lack of resources and a lack of interest. Someone said to me, ‘You have to separate hunger from conflict,’ and it just blew me away. You can’t, See Buffett on page 2

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Howard Buffett speaks on campus Tuesday regarding his exhibit in the Agriculture and Life Sciences Building and says his work reflects his interests.

Club president shares ‘pray away the gay’ story Aimee Breaux The Battalion

hen Levi Bohanan, junior political science major, came out to his parents in eighth grade, his parents began sending him to retreats and local Christian therapy sessions designed to encourage young individuals to reject a homosexual orientation. The sessions continued through high school until Bohanan’s parents, unable to come to terms with his sexuality, kicked him out of their house. Bohanan said describing the experience is difficult to this day, but Thursday in Koldus 111 he will do just that as he attempts to explain the situation that was, at times, too

complex to accurately express with words. Bohanan said group members at the sessions were told every week that they should hate their gay identities, and he and his fellow attendees often took the message to heart. Due to the depression many of his peers suffered from, Bohanan said one of his friends committed suicide and another was hospitalized after an attempted suicide. “It’s like if you tell someone they are stupid for long enough, they will believe it,” Bohanan said. “People began to believe it.” Despite this, Bohanan said his presentation in Koldus is not meant to be a sob story. Bohanan said that in a twisted way, he wants to turn the experience into something he can use to his advantage one day. “I don’t want this to be a See Bohanan on page 4

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A&M professors respond in wake of Texas oil spill Buoys used to prevent spread near the Port of Houston Alexander Nelowet The Battalion

exas A&M system professors have answered the call to action following Saturday’s oil spill in Galveston Bay, helping locate spilled oil and gauge environmental effects. A collision between a barge and tanker in the Houston Ship Channel Saturday led up to 170,000 gallons of oil being spilled into the water, effectively shutting down the channel until Tuesday. Steve DiMarco, oceanography professor and lead for the Ocean Observing Systems, said the spill has had many negative effects in the area, blocking traffic in the ship channel and resulting in multiple environmental impacts. DiMarco said the Texas General Land Office has been in contact with A&M professors about their Texas Automated Buoy System, which

assists in monitoring currents and can be used to predict where the oil might end up. “We have been very busy providing information to the state of Texas, to local and state responders that are going out and needing information on where to put booms [floating barriers] and where the impact is going to be on the ocean side,” DiMarco said. The state of Texas has provided funding for A&M to gather information in the event of an oil spill for almost 20 years, DiMarco said, though most oil spills have not been this large. “Oil spills happen fairly often, maybe not this big, but they actually happen often,” DiMarco said. “Usually the spills are just a barrel or two. It has to be over a certain threshold for it to be considered an actual spill. This size of an oil spill doesn’t happen very often.” Mary Wicksten, biology professor, said the primary goal of the cleanup should be to protect the salt marshes from being infiltrated by the oil. Wicksten said the booms See Oil spill on page 4

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he Woodson Black Awareness Committee and the Committee for the Awareness of MexicanAmerican Culture have teamed to host this year’s Hunger Banquet to increase awareness of poverty in the U.S. Attendees will draw a color to represent an ethnicity and class and be served a meal relative to that status. During the event, there will be presentations from professors on health and poverty in the U.S. OxFam, a collection of international organizations, works to address and solve poverty and related issues. As the creators and sponsors of The Hunger Banquet, it provides resources online so organizations like WBAC and CAMAC may host their own hunger banquets.

“[The WBAC] puts on events that not necessarily shocks people, but puts perspective in people’s views,” said Diamilatou Sow, event director and senior international studies major. “We focus on issues that are not tapped into.” Aja Holston, WBAC chair and senior political science major, said the WBAC has previously addressed the hunger crisis in the U.S. “It started at the beginning of the year with our can and school supply drive called Brain Food, and we addressed economic disparity then,” Holston said. “Then, Hunger Banquet was brought up and the subcommittees wanted to make it something from an international scale to a more localized scale.” Although poverty in foreign countries is addressed in the media, Sow said people

often forget that there are problems domestically. “It breaks my heart that at times we forget that Americans may not have enough to eat and we need to focus a little bit more here at home and start at home,” Sow said. Holston said she hopes students leave the event with more knowledge of economic disparity in the U.S. “I just want people to start having curiosity, and there’s not a lot we can cover in an hour or so about how race and ethnicity play an important role, so I’d hope people dive more into that [once they leave],” Holston said. The Hunger Banquet will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday in MSC 2400. The banquet ticket is $1 and can be purchased at the MSC Box Office.

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After Student Research Week, what impact do you think your research will have?

“I study colon cancer, so the model I designed could also be applied to other intestinal diseases because I’m using intestinal cells. This could be very useful for understanding cancer as well as drug testing. I’m going to attend medical school, so this experience has opened my eyes to the field I’m going into and what it takes to be in it.” Kendra Kelly, senior biochemistry and genetics major

“Student Research Week gave me a test run for my study, since it was all new work. I work in atmospheric chemistry, so actually talking to someone outside my field was very useful. Getting used to using new vernacular was very interesting.” Misti Levy, atmospheric science graduate student

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but people want to because it’s messy. And hard.” In addition to their beauty, Edwin Price, the Howard G. Buffett Chair on Conflict and Development, said Buffett’s photographs provide an excellent educational resource for students. “They are an excellent tool for training students in how to interpret works of art or nature for others to understand,” Price said. “For those that are involved in parks, recreation and nature, it gives us an opportunity to see that nature and environment are very vulnerable to people’s need to survive, and we see poverty and conflict as a threat to this natural wildlife.” Buffett also sat down to talk with the recipients of the Student Media Grants Program, an endowment funded by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation that enables students to chronicle and research issues in conflicted nations around the world.

2013 SMGP awardee Michael Petriello was present to discuss his upcoming project, which will research the connection between conflict and ecological knowledge and its transmission through generations. “The main mechanism for that will be using disposable cameras and interviewing people and just focus on the story behind how existing conflict is affecting how people interact with the ecosystem,” Petriello said. Buffett’s photography is an extremely powerful way of communicating both the emotion and reality of conflicted nations, Petriello said, as well as beauty in natural life. “I think his photos really captured the different elements of the human end of ecological conditions that are pretty important to ecological issues,” Petriello said. “Some of the photos were focused on animals that really define what conservation is and are really important to parks and protection issues. In that sense, he’s not only capturing the ecological side, but the biological side of political issues like food security.”

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“This is the first major research project I’ve done, so it opens the door for later projects. I think this experience has given me more confidence and I was fortunate to have nice and clean data that allowed me to present concise conclusions.” Andrew Roark, geology graduate student David Cohen — THE BATTALION

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The Battalion four-run second inning put the game out of reach early as the Texas A&M baseball team fell to the Sam Houston State Bearkats, 8-1. The Bearkats (17-8, 3-3 Southland), despite three errors, prevented the Aggies (17-9, 3-3 SEC) from cutting into the lead throughout the game. Sam’s defense came up with multiple double plays and diving stops while the pitching staff held A&M to just four hits. In the bottom of the seventh inning, senior A&M catcher Troy Stein came to the plate with the bases loaded against freshman pitcher Sam Odom. Stein sent a pitch deep into left field, but the ball died at the warning track, short of exiting Olsen Field by just a few feet, to end the inning.

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Freshman pitcher Ryan Hendrix gave up three earned runs in less than two innings of work Tuesday. gave up four runs, three earned, in 1.1 innings pitched.

Freshman Ryan Hendrix (0-2, 6.35 ERA) got the first start of his collegiate career Tuesday night and

coach Gary Blair said of Gilbert. “Nothing rattles her. This is why she’s going to be one of the best teachers — because you have to have patience to be a great teacher. I just love that kid to death and she takes control of our team. She’s the mama of our team. I’m proud to say I was her coach.” The Dukes came out of the gate shooting 5-for-9 from the field and jumped to a 10-6 lead over the Aggies. A&M trailed for more than 10 minutes and by as many as six points before a layup by Gilbert gave the Aggies a 2422 advantage. A jumper by Williams with 7:59 to go in the first half gave A&M a lead that it would not surrender again. The Aggies came out of the locker room in the second half, and after one miss made four

straight shots to build on their four-point halftime lead. Foul trouble doomed the Dukes in the second half when star senior guard Kirby Burkholder — who had 28 points and 18 rebounds in JMU’s upset victory over 5-seed Gonzaga Sunday — was forced to sit on the bench due to her four fouls. Burkholder had a team-high 20 points and 10 rebounds, but her collegiate basketball career ended when she fouled out with just under two minutes to go. JMU wound up with 27 fouls called against them, leading to 37 free throw attempts for the Aggies. A&M shot 50 percent from the field as a team and held JMU to 37 percent on its shots. “Maybe we’ve got one of those magical teams this year,” Blair said. “Who knows? We’re just taking this one game [at a time]. We’re ready for DePaul. Bring on the Blue Demons.”

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7:30 PM RUDDER THEATRE One of the most revered novels of the 20th century, Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian tale of a bleak future where literature and knowledge

Homeless LGBT youth is a real thing and the rates are high, so I was lucky. But not everyone else is and I want people to understand.” — Levi Bohanan, junior political science major personal experience. I believe it is for that reason that some students are more impacted — and also, I might add, produce incredible work — by the subject they chose.” Curtis said Bohanan’s work was so impressive that he had Bohanan present the work to a freshman class last fall. Bohanan said his parents’ and the pastors’ intentions were good — they simply wanted Bohanan to be a good Christian — but in the process they caused pain in Bohanan’s life that left marks that lasted into college. “When I was first approached to tell my story and asked by other individuals to tell my story, my very first response was, ‘No,’” Bohanan said. “I did not want to tell my story. It was something that was very personal, it was something that is kind of painful, so I didn’t really want to have that out for the whole student body to hear.” After speaking with friends within the LGBT community, however, Bohanan said he began to consider the possibility of good coming from telling his story. “Eventually I came to the realization that if me telling my story convinced one future parent not to do this

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victim story under any circumstances,” Bohanan said. “I do want people to know that [this] is an experience that other people have been through and not everybody ends up as well as I did.” Texas A&M was not Bohanan’s first choice of schools. Bohanan said when his parents kicked him out, he wasn’t even considering college, much less the university his parents went to. But just a few years later, Bohanan found himself a student and president of LGBT Aggies, surrounded by friends who empower him. “I was incredibly lucky that I had teachers and a resource center and friends, and not everyone has all that,” Bohanan said. “Homeless LGBT youth is a real thing and the rates are high, so I was lucky. But not everyone else is and I want people to understand that.” As a part of his presentation, Bohanan will present his findings from a Cornerstone Program learning community class, where he was asked to define evil in religious, political, sociological or psychological terms. Bohanan was reminded of his experiences with a pastor in the therapy sessions, defining evil as sin masquerading as good. “Levi [Bohanan] chose a topic that was very personal to him, given his experiences with ‘pray away the gay,’” said Donald Curtis, assistant dean for high impact programs and professor for the “Nature of Evil” class Bohanan was in. “So I know that had an immense impact on him. Those are the topics that most affect our students, when they examine events that happened to them, rather than it being just an academic exercise over a topic where they have no

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are being used to keep the oil away from the beaches to prevent the problem from worsening. “The oil that they are picking up is quite a gelatinous stuff, stuff that’s sort of semi-solidified instead of being like gasoline,” Wicksten said “The problem there is that the tar-like substance will float up on the beach and it will accumulate with sand and mud and getting it out is very difficult. Trying to get it out of the salt marshes is even worse because it will sink into the mud and then you will have to dig it out from in between the roots or the plants and the crab burrows and you might never get it out at all.” Anna Armitage, marine biology professor at Texas A&M Galveston, said professors in Galveston are working to determine what ef-

or to help one student who had been through this, then I wanted to,” Bohanan said. Bohanan said he has since measured some success. “The very first time I did this presentation, I had two or three people come up to me afterward and say, ‘Hi, I identify as a Christian and I always thought that being gay was the worst thing that you could ever do. You doing this really changed the way I feel about that,’” Bohanan said. “And that is the best feeling I could ever hope to describe — to know that in the future this person will have different interactions that will help LGBT people. It was an amazing experience.” For students like Edmar Ruano, sophomore meteorology major, Bohanan’s story is particularly interesting because of the psychological factors that influenced Bohanan’s view of self-worth. Ruano, a Catholic, said he finds sexual orientation and sexual expression to be a large part of who one is. “To be told to suppress or change it is psychologically unhealthy,” Ruano said. “These ministries teach people that they are wrong for something that they did not choose to be, and then task them with getting rid of it like a disease. To me, this damages a person’s selfworth and if that’s the price for praying away the gay, it’s not worth it.” Lakaya Williams, freshman microbiology major, said Bohanan’s story stands out to her because it touches on an element of one’s life that some take for granted — parents. “I think parents should support their children no matter what,” Williams said. “Parents are where anyone should be able to go for unconditional love, and you can really destroy a person’s confidence and self-security.”

fects this oil spill is having on the local ecosystems. Their main focus is on the impact of the spill rather than the cleanup, she said. “With this kind of oil, birds are mainly affected — it is the kind of oil that sticks,” Armitage said. “If birds land on it or walk through it, it gets stuck on them, but the oil doesn’t sink very much so it won’t affect the fish below it too much. The most immediate effects are felt by the birds, but possibly the marine mammals as well since they have to come up to the surface to breathe.” Armitage said the oil has ended up in many places, but much of it has been blown out of the bay and into the Gulf of Mexico. “Some of the oil got washed up on the beaches, some got washed up on the Texas City dikes, but whatever was still floating got kind of pushed out of the bay on the outlying tide by the wind,” Armitage said. “So there is a pool of oil in the Gulf of Mexico now.”