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Funding for Kyle Field renovation gains clarity B-CS hotels expected to share cost, benefits Jennifer Keith

The Battalion Texas A&M administrators and B-CS community leaders announced an agreement in principle to financially support the Kyle Field Redevelopment Project. Such an agreement would generate $36 million of the $420 million needed to renovate and expand Kyle Field, as well as keep football games in College Station. The administration has been working with Brazos Valley community leaders over the past year to develop a “mutually beneficial solution,” according to A&M System Chancellor John Sharp. University President R. Bowen Loftin said from the Wednesday press conference at The Zone Club in Kyle

Field that he was grateful for the support from “our community.” “Texas A&M is a close partner with our local community, and it has been important to us from the beginning to ensure that the Kyle Field renovations do not impair the local economy nor our ongoing operations during the construction process,” Loftin said. The A&M System Twitter account tweeted a quote from Sharp about the expected location where A&M football games will be played in College Station during Kyle Field renovations. “@Aggiechancellor: ‘Kyle Field games will be played here and not anywhere else,’” the tweet read. “It is definitely a good thing that [football] is staying. I know the possibility of playing in Houston was being discussed, and honestly that would be awful for Aggies everywhere,” said exercise physiology graduate student See Kyle field on page 2

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A Brazos County-wide hotel tax will generate $36 million to partially fund the Kyle Field Redevelopment Project.

You want to see people with an eating disorder? Look around you, because it could be anyone. — Caitlyn Moore, Ag. Comm. Journalism major

Miss-measure Students wage war against self-perceived body image Jessica Smarr

People struggle to fit the idealized female image that is represented by media, such as the image of the manufactured children’s doll, Barbie.

The Battalion She was holding it all together with a smile. As long as she kept her lips perfectly curved, they would never suspect a thing. They would never know the girl with the perfect life was dying by her own hand. They would never know the person they saw was not the same person she saw in the mirror. “I was living a double life,” said Caitlyn Moore, a sophomore agriculture communications and journalism major. “One was filled with this ‘perfect’ girl who had the good grades, the boyfriend, the friends — life was great. And then there was the other part of me who was crying herself to sleep every night and would spend nights throwing up in the toilet.” Eating disorders affect up to 24 million people in the U.S. and particularly affect college-aged individuals. Students at colleges nationwide fight with their reflections in the mirror every morning, waging war with what they should look like. Body image research Marisol Perez, a professor in Texas A&M’s psychology department, focuses her research on eating disorders and body image. She said within American culture it is common, to a certain degree, for a woman to be dissatisfied with her physical body. Within

the academic community this “certain degree” of dissatisfaction with ones’ self has been termed “normative discontent.” Those with body image disorders experience a dissatisfaction that surpasses normative discontent. “When we’re working with individuals with body image ismillion people in the U.S. sues or eating disorder issues, are affected by eating disorders the goal is not to get them to zero, because that’s not possible,” Perez said. “The goal is to get them to normative discontent.” Though the battle against negative body image is most impactful on a personal level, Perez said the problem exists on a societal level. “Our current society is contributing to women’s poor body image,” Perez said. “The weight loss, plastic surgery, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and media industries all profit from women being dissatisfied with the way they look. They are the ones driving the constant pressure to look a certain way.”

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The Battalion Texas A&M basketball players have taken to Twitter to sound off on a high-profile Aggie who will be in Reed Arena for Thursday’s matchup of Southeastern Conference leaders A&M and No. 10 Florida: “Johnny Basketball.” Johnny Manziel will be on hand to watch the follow-up to the defining win of secondyear head coach Billy Kennedy’s stint with the men’s basketball team — an 83-71 win over defending national champion Kentucky in Lexington, Ky. He’ll look to top it at home against Florida, the top-ranked team in the SEC. Senior guard Elston Turner hit Kentucky with every facet of his game, making six three-pointers on 14-19 shooting for 40 points. His team’s game-ending 11-0 run sealed the win. The performance garnered him national attention as the ESPN.com National Player of the Week and in-conference respect with an SEC Player of the Week nod. Elston said he valued the win more than his own performance. “It didn’t feel as good as coming away with the win,” Elston said. “It was a team win, and fortunately, I was able to contrib-

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Conference advances student leadership, celebrates 25 years Joseph Puente

and tell you that these habits just changed all of a sudden. Our energy level has been better.”

Special to The Battalion For some Aggies, leadership is an important characteristic — not only because it is an Aggie core value, but because it is a way of life. Leadership conferences are held at many universities every year, but in Aggieland, a particular conference has allowed many students to develop leadership skills through stimulating workshops, career-fair networking opportunities and motivational speakers. This year, the Southwestern Black Student Leadership Conference will celebrate 25 years of service as they hold their annual conference, beginning Thursday and continuing through Sunday in the Memorial Student Center. This will be the first time the conference has visited the MSC since the building’s renovations. “This year is our 25th anniversary,” said Kerry Omughelli, senior electrical engineering major and conference chair. “As we fearlessly approach the future armed with lessons from the past, we want to challenge our participants to use their past experiences as a blueprint for success in an uncertain future.” The conference was formed as a yearly forum where black students across the coun-

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Senior guard Elston Turner leads a fast break in the home opener against Louisiana Tech that the Aggies won by a margin of 71-59. ute some shots. My teammates do a great job of looking for me. All in all, it was a great team win.” The Kentucky win followed a 69-51 thumping of former Southwest Conference rival Arkansas. Kennedy said the beginning of conference games played a role in his team’s effort and focus during the previous two wins. “I think it was just the urgency of conference play,” Kennedy said. “I can’t sit here

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could assemble to engage in personal and professional development while addressing problems and concerns that affected the black community. More than 1,000 students from across the country will be spending their weekend on the campus of Texas A&M University as they continue to learn, develop and celebrate this year’s theme: “Embrace the Unknown.” Throughout the conference, participants are given the opportunity to continue to develop as leaders, gain business experience and broaden their professional network. During the conference, the majority of the participants will be enjoying the daily itinerary, but a select few will have the opportunity to participate in a valued part of the conference known as the Charles E. Williams Advanced Leadership Institute. Charles E. Williams was a leader on campus, when he attended A&M in 1996. Two years later, Williams was diagnosed with leukemia and began to learn more of his illness. After his remission, he organized and presented a forum on cancer awareness to the students of Texas A&M. Though Williams died in March 2000 after a fatal automobile accident, his legacy lives on through the Charles

E. Williams Advanced Leadership Institute — established in his honor shortly after his death. According to the leadership conference’s website, Williams leaves a legacy of determination, conviction and immeasurable faith. Through the Advanced Leadership Institute, his legacy as a leader and servant continues. “A.L.I. is an institute designed for already seasoned leaders — those who have held or currently hold leadership positions within their respective university and community,” said Geron Fuller, junior sports management major and director of A.L.I. “This is an opportunity to gather all the leaders to continue to develop while also discussing current issues affecting their community.” For students who did not receive the opportunity to be chosen as a participant of the leadership institute, opportunities to showcase certain merchandise or impress a job recruiter may be possible if he or she is willing to embrace the unknown. The career fair is a campuswide event held for the conference participants and the rest of the A&M student body. Students will have the opportunity to visit more than 30 booths from places such as John Marshall Law School, HEB, diverse graduate schools and many more companies. The vendor fair allows entrepreneurs to showcase their merchandise while also expanding their brand and providing business opportunities. Each year, a variety of different vendors participate in the fair. “The vendor and career fair is important to the conference because it’s a great opportunity to network, and [it] allows students to develop professional skills,” Kathy Stilwell-Brown said, director of auxiliary ser-

vices and Class of 2012. “When they get out into the real world, they are able to handle themselves and adapt to real world experiences. Ultimately, the fairs are meant to shape the future leaders of tomorrow.” Participants in the Advanced Leadership Institute will also be invited to attend the leadership conference’s first entertainment night, courtesy of MSC Town Hall. The conference has opened the doors for the entire student body to take part in the festivities tonight from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium. For the executive staff, planning began immediately after the 2012 conference. With the 25th anniversary comes a well-known keynote speaker. This year, ESPN personality, journalist and talk show host, Stephen A. Smith, will have the honor of serving as the keynote speaker. “This year I became interested in bringing Stephen A. Smith because of his success as a black male in the media industry and his message behind what leadership means in every aspect,” said Natalie Dunn, junior international studies major and director of programs. Twenty-five years isn’t just a celebration or an accomplishment, but it’s the service and leadership development the conference has provided to many underrepresented students throughout the years. “When I think about SBSLC, I think about a group that helped me settle at Texas A&M University and discover my purpose in life,” Omughelli said. “It taught me the importance of professionalism and service to the greater good. Basically, it took a young boy with some leadership potential and turned him into a confident man ready to make a difference in the global community.”

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need to take all the responsibility of paying that much. As a student, you enjoy the facilities even if you don’t go to the football games … probably they could raise it in different ways,” said Kun Qian, sophomore nutrition and genetics double major. “I personally don’t care, I don’t go to football games, and that’s not fair for me to have to pay part of that.” Stadium renovations will pause during the football season. A&M officials anticipate that Kyle Field renovations will be completed in 2015. Kyle Field has served as the home of A&M football and the 12th Man since it was built in 1927. Kyle Field seats — or stands — more than 82,000 people, with a stadium record of 90,079 during the 2010 Nebraska game. The number of seats that the renovated stadium will hold has not yet been announced. The number could fall between 95,000 and 102,500. In 1999, a $32.9 million expansion of the north end zone was completed, bringing visitors and fans 65 feet closer to the action on the field. The Zone, as it was called, opened at full capacity for the first time for the annual Texas A&MUT rivalry game in 1999. According to the Texas A&M Athletic website, the opening of The Zone propelled A&M’s season home attendance to consecutive record-breaking seasons in 1999, 2000 and 2001. Texas A&M drew over a half-million fans to Kyle Field in 2002, easily the biggest attendance in school history.

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David Castille. Proposed funding for the agreement would be generated through existing unallocated College Station hotel taxes and an additional three-quarter of one percent countywide hotel tax. The combined revenue would generate a total of $36 million over 30 years, or about $1.2 million per year. In exchange, University facilities and meeting spaces — such as Reed Arena and the Zone Club — will be made accessible to organization not directly affiliated with the University. College Station Mayor Nancy Berry said that not a dime to fund the Kyle Field expansion project will come from residents of the community, but rather from tourists who stay in B-CS hotels. “More destinations mean more people will come to our community,” Berry said. “They’ll stay in our hotels, they’ll eat in our restaurants, buy alcohol in our bars and buy gasoline on their way out of town.” The total cost of the expansion and renovation of Kyle Field is projected to be $430 million. Students will be expected to raise $75 million to renovate the east side, or student section. The project will be paid for over a span of 30 years, which equates to about $5 million per year. Students have various opinions concerning the student body’s contribution, including student fees, sports passes and increased ticket prices. “I don’t think that students

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What do you think of the discussion created by Obama’s executive action regarding gun control?

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“It could get to the point where you have to go through so much just to get a gun, it can hurt my security. In my home, I can’t protect my family if I don’t have a gun.” Catie Hoehner, Soph. General Studies Major

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to gain playing time. The Battalion “You want to go with your scholarship guys Senior walk-on Jarod Jahns, averaging just 9.5 as long as you can,” Kennedy said. “He’s in the minutes per game, had little reason to suspect gym here more than anybody we have. He’s a a matchup at Kentucky against the defending tough kid who loves basketball and loves to play national champions to yield exceptional play- the game.” ing time. Three minutes into one of the biggest Aggies who saw the game were impressed games of the season, however, senior forward and with the walk-on’s performance against arguably starter Ray Turner got into foul trouble. the best player in the nation. Jahns, an industrial engineering major, was “He played defense really well,” said Dakota suddenly called on by the coaching staff to step Thompson, junior kinesiology major. “He boxed up and fill the role of guarding one of last year’s out Noel several times and took him out of the top high school recruits in the Wildcats’ fresh- play. He just provided energy. I think he played man center Nerlens Noel. 30 minutes, which for a walk-on is ludicrous.” One upset road victory later, Jahns celebrated Jahns has played as many games and more minwith his teammates after contributing 30 minutes utes this season alone, as he has in his entire on the hardwood. career with the A&M. His four rebounds equaled The A&M men’s basketball team went into just under half of his career total of 11. Kentucky on Jahns looks Saturday night for any opand faced a portunity he He’s in the gym here more than anybody John Caliparican to help the we have. He’s a tough kid who loves basketball coached team team succeed. and loves to play the game.” a year removed Playing mostly — Texas A&M head coach Billy Kennedy scout team, he from a national title. After 40 has learned the minutes and 40 system A&M points from senior guard Elston Turner, A&M uses as well as the scout team system to give the earned national recognition for one of the biggest Aggies the best chance to win. wins in recent history. Kennedy said Jahns is a great contributor to the With Elston’s big game, Jahns’ play can be eas- basketball team. ily overlooked. With his career-high 30 minutes “He’s probably the main leader on our team on the court, Jahns grabbed four rebounds and off the court,” Kennedy said. “[Jahns] is good contained a player projected by some to be the in practice and investing in other guys. He has a No. 1 pick in the upcoming NBA draft to 15 great basketball IQ. He does scout team and our points in the team effort to defeat the defending team. You see those things and are like, ‘man.’” national champions. Jahns had only praise for the big men of KenJahns said when Ray got into foul trouble early tucky and simply enjoyed being able to play. in the game, fulfilling his duty to the team was an Jahns said playing with players of that caliber after experience of a lifetime. not even getting offered a scholarship to play col“It’s a dream come true,” Jahns said. “Ray got lege ball is an amazing opportunity and he knew in foul trouble and you have to answer the call at he couldn’t get a shot blocked. that point. Coach said go in and I kind of knew it “It was fun for sure,” Jahns said. “They’re the was going to have to be for the rest of the game.” biggest and the best and I didn’t even have ofJahns walked on the A&M team as a junior and fers to play in college, so it’s a dream come true. has recently received more playing time than the Coach Keller is my biggest critic and he said, ‘if usual walk-ons. [Noel] blocks your shot, you’re coming back Head coach Billy Kennedy said Jahns’ hard out.’ So I focused on reversing the ball and getwork and patience is why he received a chance ting Elston the ball.”

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Senior walk-on Jarod Jahns has earned his playing time for Texas A&M this season and contributed 30 minutes in the Aggies’ 83-71 upset over Kentucky. After a game like Saturday’s, with career moments from Elston and Jahns, Elston said the whole team’s confidence is up and they are looking ahead to such matchups as Thursday’s against No. 10 Florida and the remainder of the conference schedule. “We can play with anybody,” Elston said. “You can just see a difference from the beginning of the season to where we are now.”

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Junior guard Fabyon Harris, the Aggies’ third leading scorer, looks to find his rhythm against a star-studded Gator backcourt headed by senior Kenny Boynton.

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Florida (12-2, 2-0) and A&M are knotted at the top of the SEC along with three other teams. The Gators feature a balanced offensive approach with four players averaging better than 10 points per game — led by senior guard Kenny Boynton’s 13.8 — and seven players averaging more than 6.5. Kennedy said Florida shapes up as a team capable of going deep in the NCAA tournament. “They are very good, experienced and really good defensively,” Kennedy said. “I’ve been really impressed with their defense. Everybody knows Florida can shoot the ball. I think they made 13 three-point shots against us last year and they have all those guys back. This is a team that is capable of getting to the Final Four. They were really good last year and they are an experienced veteran club.” Beyond Elston’s team-leading 17.1 points per game, senior forward Ray Turner (11.4 points per game) and junior guard Fabyon Harris (10.5) supply a bulk of the remaining Aggie offense.

Jahns said the team gained valuable experience in Lexington against Kentucky. “Florida is a heck of a team,” Jahns said. “They have great guard-play and great post-play. I think it will give us a little bit of momentum going into the game on Thursday. We need to stay strong, keep rebounding and keep having a team effort all around.”

Florida enters the contest coming off conference blowouts of Georgia (77-44) and LSU (74-52). Elston said A&M looks to maintain momentum against Florida. He impressed national spectators with his performance, but it seems he impressed one additional person: his dad. “Normally, if I do have a good game, he will still find something bad to say about it,” Elston said. “He said there was something different about that game. He told me that whatever I did in that game needed to happen again. He said I needed to take the same approach to every game that I took to that game.”

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Though both men and women are affected by the pressure to look a certain way, 85 to 95 percent of those struggling with an eating disorder are women. Perez said though the ideal male body is beginning to appear in the media, the ideal female has been an image that has been perpetuated for a far greater amount of time. Her research suggests this message is negatively impacting girls as young as four years old. “The female ideal has been around for a long time,” Perez said. “I think over time, it’s gotten more and more concrete.” Kristin Clemens, a psychologist with the Student Counseling Services on campus, coordinates the Eating Disorder Services. She said an implicit — and false — link between happiness and a certain body type is a very prevalent idea in modern society. “The media promotes the idea that we will be happy and successful if we fit a particular stereotype,” Clemens said. This implied connection between thinness and happiness is what first attracted Moore to her eating disorder in the fifth grade. “I remember being extremely self-conscious when I was in fifth grade,” Moore said. “I felt like everyone else was skinnier, prettier and smarter than me. I felt like I wasn’t good enough and my thoughts just got worse from there. I felt like an outsider and I thought that to be popular you had to be skinny. So that’s what I did; I tried to get skinnier.” Moore said her freshman year was completely consumed by her eating disorder. “I came in my freshman year with the mindset, ‘I can act on symptoms any time I want,’” Moore said. “My freshman year was extremely difficult. I never went to classes and almost failed. I ended up in the ER twice because I had blacked out and stopped breathing.” Moore pushed her body to the limits by over-exercising. “I would cry myself to sleep every night and would have panic and anxiety attacks all the time,” Moore said. “If you ask me about my freshman year, all I can tell you about is my eating disorder. I don’t remember anything else. I was isolated, miserable and dying.” Kate Fuller, senior recreation, parks and tourism sciences major, had also struggled with an eating disorder. She said she believed her eating disorder would bring her happiness, though in reality it was accomplishing the exact opposite. “It’s not something that is going to make you happy,” Fuller said. “It’s not worth the depression. It’s not making you happy, it’s making you miserable and it’s hurting your friendships and your relationship with your family.”

Recovery proved ‘most difficult’ Both Moore and Fuller fought their eating disorders aggressively through treatment, though it was by no means an easy battle. Fuller said her recovery process was the most difficult part of her journey. “You struggle with this mindset that, ‘I need to be this way’ for so long that when it’s different and it’s not what you want CLIENT: McDonald’s BCS it to be, it’s hard to accept that you’re still valuable and you’re NUMBER: stillJOB pretty,” she said. 38882 ELEMENT: Battalion Ad disorder by entering into a Moore confronted her eating residential treatment facility for a month. LIVE: “I went to residential for one month and then did two TRIM: 10”w X 10.5”h months of outpatient work,” Moore said. “I went to countless

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The Eastern Sea (above) will co-headline Thursday at the Grand Stafford Theater. The band has performed in festivals such as SXSW and Free Press Houston Summerfest.

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In a blend of indie rock and folkinspired tunes, Thursday’s lineup at the Grand Stafford Theater in Bryan will bring something new and different to the stage. The show features everything from hard rock beats to orchestral themes and is the fourth stop in a cross-country tour for co-headliners The Eastern Sea and Kopecky Family Band. The bands will play along with Buxton, a folk group from Houston. Jose Arredondo, a managing partner for the Stafford, said he’s excited for the variety of music coming to the theater on Thursday night. “The Eastern Sea, Kopecky Family Band and Buxton are three very eclectic bands in what they will be bringing to the show,” Arredondo said. “I think this town hasn’t seen shows like these in a while.” Alexandra Galewsky, senior sociology major and student intern for the Stafford, said the line-up for the concert is strong. “I’m so excited that we’re starting off the semester with such a

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The concert is Thursday at the Grand Stafford Theater in Downton Bryan. is not what The Eastern Sea is after. “I write pop music to try and be the sugar around the pill — to help people swallow really hard things,” Hines said. “That is art. That is the function of art: to help people swallow difficult concepts in easy-toswallow form.” Co-headlining with The Eastern Sea is Kopecky Family Band from Nashville. With a track record that includes multiple EPs, tours and co-headlining with the Lumineers, the band has been playing non-stop since their inception in 2007. “The band members came from all over the place, but we met up in Nashville,” said Gabe Simon, lead

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“Based off those early songs, we were just trying to find something that fit and felt good,” Chris Wise, bassist said. “It was kind of all over the place stylistically, then we kind of found a groove and started doing folkier music.” Because they have a banjo in a couple of their tracks, many people compare them to Mumford & Sons. But perhaps Wise’s favorite comparison was to the Flying Burrito Brothers. Wise said the band is happy to be back in Bryan, where they’ve previously played at the Stafford, the Palace and Revolution. They’re also excited to be crossing paths with their friends, The Eastern Sea. “We’re really good friends with the Eastern Sea,” Wise said. “So it’s really cool that we get to share the bill with them.”

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