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Lifting of combat ban grants opportunities for female cadets Jennifer Keith

The Battalion Since Judith Crews was nine years old, she has asked her parents why women weren’t allowed to serve in combat roles in the military. Now a member of the Corps of Cadets’ Squadron 6, Crews, sophomore international studies major, was pleased to hear that Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta had lifted of the 19-year-old Pentagon rule that restricted women from serving in the artillery, armory, infantry and other such combat roles — a ban she saw as an offense to womens’ potential. “I think it’s insulting to the capabilities of women, by setting the physical training standards lower,” Crews said. “People just assume that [women] will not perform as well. I think that women who are interested in being in Special Forces should be able to prove

themselves.” Though the Pentagon did order the services to open combat jobs to women, the process of achieving gender neutrality will be a long process. In his first interview since the lifting of the ban, the Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James Amos said the opening of certain combat jobs to women might depend on the number of women who qualify for physical and other standards. While women make up 15 percent of the armed forces, according to Panetta, the 200 women in the Corps make up almost 10 percent of A&M’s Corps of Cadets. Considering that 35 percent of the 200 women in the Corps will continue in ROTC to receive a position in one of the military branches, according to the Corps of Cadets’ website, it is worth discussing the See Women on page 3

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The Battalion For the fourth time this season, the No. 16 women’s basketball team was behind at the half, but riding the hot hand of freshman guard Courtney Walker, the Aggies stormed back for the home victory over the Vanderbilt Commodores (14-7, 4-4). A&M (17-5, 7-1) pulled away late thanks to a three-pointer rally in the 60-52 win. The Aggies trailed 8-2 early in the game as the Commodores sunk two threes to pull them ahead.

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Furry circus This Saturday, cats, dogs and a barrage of feathered friends will take to the stage as Rudder Theatre welcomes the Popovich Comedy Pet Theater. The show, featuring worldrenowned circus performer Gregory Popovich and his cast of rescued stars, is filled with various fun and amusing acts that are sure to charm audiences.

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Midseason review After a strong showing in nonconference play and two early SEC wins, head coach Billy Kennedy’s men’s basketball team has struggled on offense. Prior to Wednesday’s overtime win at Mississippi State, it had lost four games in a row.

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Vanderbilt led by as much as seven in the first half but Walker hit backto-back jumpers to put the Aggies within three points. Junior All-American candidate Kelsey Bone struggled to score and the team reflected her performance, shooting just 35 percent in the first half. In the second half, however, A&M shot a scorching 71 percent to regain the lead and eventually seal the win. Senior forward Kristi Bellock said the rest of the team needs to help Bone during games such as this one. “Kelsey is our leader and go-to

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player,” Bellock said. “We feed on her energy. If she doesn’t score then we aren’t doing our job by getting her the ball. We need to attack the rim more and help her out.” The Aggies had to make a change in the second half and Walker came in on fire. Walker was 10 for 13 from the field, matching a careerhigh of 20 points and was the only player to reach double digits. Walker said in the second half she knew she had to start being more aggressive.

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The Battalion Nearly a year after the Bastrop wildfires — the worst wildfire in Texas history — Aggie Replant is calling for 720 volunteers for their Lost Pines Recovery Campaign, a fourday project to plant 30,000 seedlings in the recovering park. The September 2011 fire, reportedly caused by dry weather conditions and a faulty power line, raged through 32,000 acres, destroyed more than 1,600 homes and 90 percent of the Bastrop State Park before finally being extinguished the following month. Yet, long after the fire’s end, the park still faces problems in the form of soil erosion caused by a lack of vegetative root system to hold the soil in place. According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, even light rain sweeps soil away. Therefore, the first steps to recovery are to stop erosion through the planting of “drought-hardy” loblolly pine trees. To do so, Texas Parks and Wildlife partnered with the Arbor Day Foundation and the Texas A&M Forest Service to form the Lost Pines Recovery Campaign. The campaign looks to plant four million loblolly pines on about 16,000 acres of land during the next five years. “Replant has always had a de-

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The 2011 Bastrop wildfires propelled by dry weather conditions, raged through 32,000 acres, destroyed more than 1,600 homes and 90 percent of the Bastrop State Park.

Registration Information Registration will be open until Feb. 2 at replant.tamu.edu. Volunteers may register for any of the four days planting will take place, Feb. 16, 17, 23, and 24. Efforts will begin at 7 a.m. each day and last until 3:30 p.m., and lunch will be provided for all volunteers. sire to help other communities outside of the Bryan and College Station area,” said Andrea Fonseca, Lost Pines Recovery Campaign project coordinator. “So when Texas A&M forester Pete Smith asked us to head the first student-led university organization, Lost Pines Recovery efforts, we were more than

excited to accept.” Fonseca also said they are calling on a greater tradition by asking for volunteers. “Our main goal is to bring Aggies together again under our strong tradition of selfless-service, leadership and respect for the environment for the Bastrop community,” Fonseca said.

The Battalion After an inaugural season riddled with highlights such as a toppling of No. 1 Alabama on the road, a 41-13 win in the Cotton Bowl, a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback and a Top 5 finish, an ample reward is expected for head coach Kevin Sumlin and his assistants. The A&M football coaches find themselves in line for new contracts after the Board of Regents authorized University President R. Bowen Loftin to execute the deals. Director of Athletics Eric Hyman referenced Sumlin’s 2012 success in a statement released after the meeting. “Coach Sumlin and the Aggie football coaching staff accomplished a great deal in our first year in the Southeastern Conference,” Hyman said. “They are laying the foundation for continued success in the most challenging conference in the country.” Hyman said the contracts’ approval came in the interest of preserving the program’s current head of steam. “There is a lot of positive momentum across the campus and this will help us continue in that forward direction,” Hyman said. Certain details regarding the contracts are still under review, but the University has reached an agreement on key aspects of the new deals, including compensation. Sumlin voiced his thanks in a statement. “I am very appreciative of the support of our administration toward our football program,” Sumlin said. Prior to last season, A&M signed Sumlin to a fiveyear deal worth about $2 million annually, which placed him among the lowest earners of SEC coaches. By comparison, Alabama’s Nick Saban, winner of three national championships in the past four years, makes more than $5 million per year. Only Kentucky’s Joker Philips earned less than Sumlin did under his 2012 contract before incentives. Exact figures for contract extensions and raises have not yet been released.

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on their dietary habits. He then followed up with the participants 10 years later to find what, if any, cancers they had developed. “By having a large enough sample size, they had enough statistical power to detect dietary effects,” Carroll said. Researchers also tested animals, giving one group a diet of cornmeal and another a diet of fish, and then exposed both groups to a carcinogen. They found the animals that had consumed the fish diet had fared much better. However, this doesn’t mean that a fish diet will grant immunity. “We’re really tying to reduce your risk of getting the disease,” Turner said. “I really don’t know at this point in time if we can prevent it, because if you’re lucky enough to live long enough, you’re still at risk for it.” Research on the effects of diet and cancer doesn’t come cheap. According to Robert Chapkin, a professor of nutrition and food science, much of the economy in the medical field is drug driven. “Everything is drug targeted currently in the United States,” Chapkin said. “It’s all about money. If you have drugs and you sell them to combat something long-term, you’re making billions of dollars.” Chapkin said much of the money needed to research things such as the link between diet and cancer has been cut due to the profits that lie in investing

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affect that this decision concerning womens’ roles in combat could have on the Corps. Col. Sam Hawes, assistant commandant for the Corps of Cadets, said that he does not foresee the Pentagon’s ruling on women in combat changing the dynamics of the Corps. “We are having huge success recruiting overall for the Corps, and our numbers of young women joining the Corps are continuing to go up,” Hawes said. “The topic [of women in combat] has not come up in the recruiting process; it hasn’t been an issue.” With this in mind, females in the Corps of Cadets voiced their opinions about what the recent lifting of the ban means for them as individuals, and for the military as a whole. “They haven’t talked to us about [the ban being lifted],” said Mariah Stanley, sophomore international studies and anthropology double major in outfit S2, referring to the Corps administration. “But they don’t train the females very differently from the males here. In a way, they are already preparing us to be able to do a

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job like that if the opportunity presents itself.” The number of opposing reactions in the news to Panetta’s decision speaks to the subject’s relation to the issue of gender equality. Many circulating opinions against women fighting alongside men in combat appeal to its potentially negative consequences on unit cohesion due to natural differences between males and females. Some argue that the innate male tendency to protect women could create distracting tensions in a setting involving life and death decisions. While Stanley recognizes the grounds for this argument, she noted that precautions could be taken in regard to training to avoid such negative consequences. “I think some of [these concerns] are valid because it’s in males’ natures to protect females,” Stanley said. “It has the potential to be a problem, but if they spend time training together, which they will, I think it will help smooth that over.” Crews dismissed the argument that males’ natural tendencies could create tension, disapproving of its relevance to the issue at hand. “I know that some people

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out what direction I want to go in because these are areas that have not been explored by women,” Toney said. “I am so excited about this movement.” Stanley had been considering a future in the Marine Corps for quite some time, and the ruling that spots may now be allotted for women has caused her to look more seriously into the option. Crews said she doesn’t foresee a career in the military, as other classes caught her interest, and she has more of a passion for traveling and going abroad. In the end, Crews suspects that the buzz about the Pentagon’s ruling will soon resolve in peace. “I think it’s going to be a controversial issue for a while,” Crews said. “But the military has undergone a lot of changes [in the past], and I think that people are going to get over it. I think in the long run it will do great things for the military.”

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The 111th edition of Texas A&M’s official yearbook will chronicle the 2012-2013 school year — traditions, academics, the other education, sports, the Corps, Greeks, ResLife, campus organizations and seniors and graduate students. Distribution of the 2013 Aggieland will be during Fall 2013.

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Follow the conference Follow @TBEConference on Twitter to see what the delegates are learning at Saturday’s Conference. sizing the outcomes resulting from an organized means of contacting schools. “At the first conference, maybe just a couple of schools came,” McNew said. “This year, we had a high goal of between 100 and 120 delegates to come. We thought we were a little crazy for shooting that high, but we are hosting 23 schools and 112 delegates are coming.” Nereson said The Big Event’s hope for national influence is rooted in knowing that the scope of impact extends far beyond the city limits of Bryan-College Station. “Because this idea that we are doing – this tradition that we hold at such high value at A&M – is being done in other places, we should be excited about it and want to know how we can help spread it,” McNew said. “We would love for this to be a tradition at every school.”

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The Big Event staff will welcome universities from across the U.S. to discuss how each of their one-day service projects operate and can grow. Saturday will mark the seventh annual Big Event Conference at A&M. Ashley McNew, outreach executive for The Big Event and senior communication major, helped organize this year’s conference, and emphasized The Big Event’s newly implemented vision for this national collaboration of schools: “The One Big Day.” “For a long time, Big Event has had this underlying, bigger vision of what we want The Big Event to ultimately look like, not just at A&M, but for all of the nation,” McNew said. “Basically, it’s a vision of everyone and every school coming together on ‘The One Big Day,’ doing a service project and saying thank you to the community that they are a part of.” McNew noted the significant steps forward that the conference has taken this year, empha-

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“I really just started looking to attack,” Walker said. “Either the help went inside to [Bone] and I took the jump shot or it didn’t come and I dumped it in to [Bone].” With just under 12 minutes in the game, A&M began to make its move despite the Commodores 39-38 lead. The Aggies went on a 10-0 run with the help of senior guard Adrienne Pratcher, who sunk a three-pointer and converted a three-point play to give the Aggies a 48-39 lead. Vanderbilt still trailed but started to come back with just under five minutes remaining in the half, making the score 50-47. But A&M would go on yet another 10-0 run to secure the win. During the run, the defense forced two turnovers and four missed shots. A&M head coach Gary Blair said the win was because of the Aggies’ second-half execution. “We did everything well in the second half to win this ballgame,” Blair said. “We will take the win. Chase Krumholz — THE BATTALION We executed better in the second half. It all started in the first 5 min- Freshman guard Courtney Walker scored 10 utes with our defensive pressure.” points in the first 7 minutes of the second half.

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