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Replant helps restore Bastrop Students reforest park destroyed by 2010 wildfires Aimee Breaux
The Battalion ore than a year after a fire engulfed nearly 96 percent of Bastrop State Park, destroying the current ecosystem and leaving the land prone to erosion, volunteers with Aggie Replant helped the Texas Parks and Wildlife Association take another step on the road to recovery. More than 700 volunteers partic-
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More than 700 volunteers travel to Bastrop State Park to help replant trees in an effort to reverse the effects of the 2010 forest fires.
ipated in the Lost Pines Campaign during the last two weekends. According to senior engineering technology major and Replant board of directors member Bradford Wettig, the summation of all the volunteers’ work amounts to around 12,000 to 15,000 newly planted saplings and trees. “It was unprecendented,” Wettig said. “It’s not something we’ve ever done before, but I think it went great and we had lots of volunteers show up.” Not only was a significant impact made on the environment, Wettig said, but students also generally held
positive attitudes and a good work ethic throughout the weekends. “When we had to be back to meet the deadline to get the buses back, we had to actually pull some people away from planting,” Wettig said. Replant member and sophomore general studies major Austin Allen said students initially got into the spirit of the campaign after hearing the speakers talk to volunteers on the first day. “I attended the first day of it and I think a lot of [volunteers] didn’t really know what they were getting See Replant on page 2
Students elect representatives Student body votes Reid Joseph, Five for Yell
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(Top) Five for Yell huddles in anticipation of yell leader election results Friday night in Academic Plaza. (Bottom) Reid Joseph shouts in celebration of being named the next student body president.
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Records fall at SEC meet Krishnan Seshadrinathan
The Battalion fter a weekend in which she broke SEC, NCAA, American and U.S. Open records, Breeja Larson found satisfaction in improving just one mark: her own personal best. “It’s special, but I kind of see it as ‘I broke my best time’ just like Cammile [Adams] and Paige [Miller] broke their best times,” the Olympian Larson said. “It is still special, but to me it’s kind of like you want to do your best time every time. If it happens to break the record, it’s a bonus. Racing is fun and going fast is fun, so this was a fun night for me.” Larson, Adams and more broke records at the A&M Recreation Center and Natatorium as the women’s and men’s swimming and diving teams finished second and seventh, respectively, at the first-ever SEC championship meet in A&M history. The first place in the men’s team competition went to Florida, which managed to break Auburn’s 16-year winning streak while Georgia won its fourth straight women’s team title. The A&M women were in contention for first place until the last day. Larson, who also won the SEC Female Swimmer of the Year, led the way for the Aggies with wins in the 400-medley, 100-breaststroke and the 200-breaststroke. “It’s her best by a little bit, but it’s the fastest anybody’s ever gone so that’s outstanding,” said head coach Steve Bultman of Larson’s record-setting 100yard breaststroke final. “I think the fact that she and [Auburn sophomore Molly Hannis] had tied in the prelims definitely got them both fired up. I think that helped push her to the record.” Larson and Georgia’s Annie Zhu broke the SEC
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undreds of students swarmed around Sully to hear the results of the 2013 student body elections. The Election Commissioner’s pronouncement of each elected candidate was heard only through the crowd’s offered silence between cheers for a fellow student’s election. For next year’s positions of student body president and yell leaders, the Corps of Cadets walked away with a shutout win. At 7,865 votes, Reid Joseph received more than 62 percent of the vote for student body president. “[Reid] was born to the Aggie War Hymn,” said Reid’s father and Class of 1983 head yell leader Tom Joseph after he led the crowd in singing the Aggie War Hymn. “Reid told me at the beginning of this campaign that he is running for SBP because this University has given him so much and it was time for him to give back to this great University.” Five for Yell was elected to serve as 2013-2014 yell leaders and includes senior yell leaders Chris Powell, Ryan Crawford and Hunter Cook and junior yell leaders Roy May and Patrick McGinty. Other positions filled, including those for RHA, Class Councils and Student Senate, are viewable at vote. tamu.edu.
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Breeja Larson, after a gold medal in the 2012 London Olympics, won three events at the SEC Championships Friday through Sunday at the A&M natatorium.
s a part of the Student Conference on National Affairs, 125 student delegates from universities across the nation came together to learn about and discuss U.S. relations in the Pacific from Thursday to Saturday. The delegates formed 15 round table discussion groups and developed their own policy proposals to deal with a variety of subtopics related to U.S. involvement in Pacific nations. Ross Brady, SCONA vice chair and senior urban and regional science major said part of the conference’s intention was to be an intellectual exercise in addressing the Obama administration’s shift in foreign policy toward the Pacific. Each round table developed a policy devoted to a specific subtopic of the conference’s goal to evaluate interactions with the Pacific. In addition to Brady’s quick list, the topics ranged from how to tackle cyber warfare, seeking space supremacy, seizing contested land and how to balance rights versus profit. A policy to promote the U.S. goal of mutual economic benefit with Pacific nations through strategic free trade agreements with specific countries is being considered for publishing. “It’s not a concrete thing,” Brady said. “We are just working with [the Bush School of Government and Public Service] for the potential to publish.” The resolution outlines a plan of action that involves first seeking ties with Indonesia, then Malaysia and Thailand, in hopes that these connections would open more doors. The policy outlines the possible difficulties in such trade agreements, including tension on the U.S. side of the market resulting from an influx of goods from foreign countries. See SCONA on page 4
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said. “I can’t wait to go back in a many years to see the huge difference that was started by just a few days’ worth of work by Aggies who saw a problem, and set their minds to fixing it.” Wettig said representatives from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Association were present to go over safety procedures at the beginning of each day and stayed to act as a resource for volunteers, making the project a combined effort between Aggies and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Association. Despite the thousands of trees planted, Wetting said Bastrop will need greater repair, beyond the three sections that volunteers filled in the past two weekends. He asked for students to be on the lookout for a revival of the project next year. “This is the first step in a long process,” Wettig said. “There is a huge, vast amount of land that needs to be reforested.”
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Minor quakes shake Texas Two minor earthquakes have caused small tremors, but no reported damage in North Texas. The U.S. Geological Survey reported one earthquake at 4:35 a.m. Sunday about four miles north of Waxahachie, south of Dallas, that had a magnitude of 2.4. The second occurred at 6:56 a.m., two miles south of nearby DeSoto and had a magnitude of 2.5. A quake of magnitude 2.5 to 3 is typically the smallest that can be felt by people. The Associated Press
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he kids on Jennifer Madu’s street would scream a familiar, “Ready, set, go!” as she and the children from the houses lining the sidewalk would push their feet against the concrete. At an early age, Madu would find herself outside racing the kids in her neighborhood, the people riding by on bicycles and even the cars driving past. Running came naturally to her. Madu, a freshman on the A&M track team, said her childhood friends would tell her she was talented beyond the norm. “They were like ‘Hey, you should definitely run track,’” Madu said. “But I really didn’t think anything of it.” Madu’s young talent grew during her middle school days when she officially began running track. “The girls and boys were out at practice and I was keeping up with the boys. People were like ‘What the heck, what are you doing?’” Madu said with a laugh. Everyone around her was astonished at how naturally fast she was. Madu became one of the fastest teenagers in her city, state and the world. When it seemed her coaches could ask for no more, Madu still had more
talents hidden up her sleeve. Madu was a pinch runner her senior year for the Plano East high school softball team — at the time ranked No. 13 nationally. Madu said she was simply being spontaneous her senior year when track season was over and decided to join the softball team. “The softball girls told me that I should be a pinch runner for them when the track season was over,” Madu said. “So I got done with state, and when the softball team made state they told me to suit up.” Madu was accustomed to running through the finish line and not having to come to a sudden halt, so her coach, Karen Kalhoefer, gave her a few pointers: if she ever overruns a base, don’t turn back — just beat the throw to the next one. “I told her if she ran through a bag — since she’s used to running through things — to just go to the next one,” Kalhoefer said. After being widely recruited, Madu had to choose where to take her talents for the 2012-2013 collegiate season. Madu said she chose A&M over the other schools because she knew she could trust the coaches. “A&M was just a good balance for me,” Madu said. “It wasn’t too far from home, and they have good
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academics. I knew they had coaches I could trust, and I already knew a lot of people coming here so I knew I would feel comfortable. I just trusted that and went with it.” Madu has not only excelled on the track at A&M, but in the classroom as well. She said her parents always remind her that she is a student first. “It’s nothing different from high school, they just say, ‘Stick with it, but remember that you’re a student first,’” Madu said. “I have to stay on top of the grades so I can participate in athletics.” Madu finished third in the 60-meter final at the 2013 SEC Championships held Feb. 22-24 in Arkansas to help the women’s team match the men with a third-place finish.
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Freshman Jennifer Madu finished third at the Aggies’ firstever SEC championship in Fayetteville, Ark. in the 60-meter.
Men’s hoops falls in fourth overtime
Women’s basketball loses at Vanderbilt
Despite a game-high 38 points from senior guard Elston Turner on 16-33 shooting, a lack of depth cost A&M in the 93-85 four-overtime loss to Tennessee. Four Aggies had fouled out by the start of the fourth overtime, while no Tennessee player had.
Junior center Kelsey Bone (17 points) and senior forward Kristi Bellock (12 points, 10 rebounds) were not enough to prevent a second straight loss for No. 10 A&M, a 61-51 road loss at Vanderbilt. A&M fell to 21-7 overall and 11-3 in conference play. Courtesy of Aggie Athletics
Freshman outfielder Jonathon Maroney records a hit on Sunday.
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Senior pitcher Mel Dumezich followed a Monday no-hitter with another in an 8-0 run-ruling of SELU on Sunday. Senior pitcher Mel Dumezich threw her first career no-hitter on Monday against Stephen F. Austin. Her second came less than one week later in an 8-0 Sunday win over Southeastern Louisiana. The weekend pushed No. 9 A&M softball into uncharted territory—the 17-0 start dwarfs the next-best start in program history, a 12-0 opening to the 2007 season.
The Aggies sandwiched two wins over UTSA on Friday and Saturday with two wins over Purdue, before capping the weekend with the Dumezich no-hitter against SELU. Dumezich improves to 11-0 with a 0.43 ERA and just four earned runs in 57 innings. At the plate, Dumezich hits .304 with three homeruns and 14 RBIs. Staff report
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Senior guard Elston Turner took 33 A&M shots in 58 minutes.
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meet record in the 200-yard breaststroke, touching the wall with times of 2:05.71 and 2:05.99, respectively, each breaking the previous record. Adams also secured wins for the Aggies in the 200yard butterfly, and along with Larson, Miller and
An unearned run in the ninth inning allowed Pepperdine to squeeze by with a 2-1 Sunday win to net a 2-1 series win for Pepperdine. A&M won 3-1 on Saturday, but Pepperdine took the series opener on Friday 3-5. A&M is now 5-3 overall this season.
Liliana Ibanez-Lopez won the 400-medley relay. Ibanez also won the consolation final in the 100-freestyle while Miller won the 100-backstroke. In the men’s competition, John Dalton led the way for the Aggies, breaking the 100-freestyle record twice. Diver Ford McLiney finished joint second in the platform diving event and put himself in the third spot in the team’s all-time Top Ten.
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Junior center Kelsey Bone led A&M with 17 points in the loss.
“We rely on him for so many things,” A&M head coach Jay Holmes said of Dalton. “He’s in the water more than anyone else. We expect a lot out of him, and I expect him to keep getting better. He broke the 100free record today and he already has the 50-free record. He hasn’t broken the 200-free record, but I really believe he will.” Holmes said he was disappointed in his team’s finish.
“I think my guys raced really well,” Holmes said. “We had some really good swims in there. I’m disappointed in the team finish, but there are several events that we’re going to have to get a whole lot better in and those key events cost us. We’ve historically gotten better as the season goes on and we’re continuing to do that.”
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thing and learn from him. We are going to make the most of this time before April 22, because there is a big learning curve. Obviously that is a challenge, but we look forward to challenges.
REIDJOSEPH RJ: I am very, very humbled to be in this position and absolutely all the credit, like we’ve said from day one, goes to Christ in this process. He is my personal Lord and Savior, and I am not ashamed by that. We are very humbled, but very excited as well. What’s something new you have learned more about the position of SBP?
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Other notable policy papers included the plan to change the U.S. broadcasting system to support better relations. “I was host, and the proposal that my table had was about changing our broadcasting system that we use in America to get news to the world and making it more internet-friendly and making it less radio-dependent,” said Jordan Harris, SCONA chief of staff. Marshal Rankin, junior history major, was a part of the round table whose policy paper is being considered for publication. Rankin said the whole event gives future leaders the chance to build the skills that will help create a better world. “My hope in being so nerdy about all of this stuff is to help our country and spread peace,” Rankin said. “To be honest, I really hope I am able to make a good lasting impact on our country for the better.”
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t was the first announcement of Friday evening, quickly forgotten by the few hundred students waiting around Sul Ross for election results. That Kyle Field Renovation Fee Referendum — let’s talk about it. With more than 12,000 students weighing in: 65.16 percent oppose, 34.84 percent support. But what exactly does this result mean? At face value, it means almost two-thirds of the student body is “[against] increasing sports pass prices and fees, and support funding the renovations out of funds currently generated by the University Advancement Fee [UAF].� The remaining third support increasing the UAF by $23.25 per semester for a full-time student and sports passes by $139.20. If only things were so simple. The background to the referendum is an elaborate, $450 million overhaul of Kyle Field. Students have been asked to provide $75 million, with other funds coming from donors and the cities of Bryan-College Station. The referendum was intended to gauge how students wanted to afford this obligation. Students were presented a choice: Pay extra for a better football stadium, or receive the same better football stadium without paying a penny more. It is a manipulative dichotomy that was camouflaged on the ballot by complex explanations. The costs of increasing student fees and sports passes were clear, quantifiable and explicitly communicated — namely, $185.70 per year for a full-time student with a sports pass. Contrastingly, the cost of not increasing student fees was insidiously hidden in the clause, “funding the renovations out of funds currently generated by the University Advancement Fee.� Everyone who is surprised that students would rather keep their money than give it to A&M, please raise your hand. For those with their hands raised, refer to the referendum results, which confirm this principle and little else. I can almost hear my microeconomics professor lecturing about this situation: “There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Someone has to pay.� A little background about the mysterious UAF: University President R. Bowen Loftin introduced the fee last spring as a band-aid meant to take money from some departments and distribute to others according to prioritized need. In essence, the fee was created to make the student’s tuition dollar go farther, out of necessity. It helps fund academic and student-support operations including libraries, the Department of Student Life, IT services
and many other University operations that play roles in our education. With this in mind, consider once more the first option offered by Student Senate on the referendum: Do not increase student fees, but take $5 million from the UAF every year to pay for the football stadium renovation. As one senator flippantly wrote about the issue, “You’re saying we really can’t find less than $5 million worth of bureaucracy to cut for a few years?� Replace the term “$5 million worth of bureaucracy� with “$5 million worth of staff/technology/library hours,� and the term “a few years� with “three decades.� Now we have appropriate context. Although the senator was within his liberty to argue with whatever rhetoric for whatever result he desired, it was inappropriate to allow this sentiment to creep into the referendum itself. Students were funneled toward a conclusion by the manner in which the referendum was worded, a fact about which University administrators are aware. Why do you think the administration released its own, simultaneous poll last week concerning the exact same Kyle Field topic as the SGA referendum? If the administration decides to ignore the referendum and impose fee and sports pass increases next year, student senators will inevitably throw their hands up, crying that student voice is being ignored. I am even willing to concede for the sake of argument that Loftin and others may very well have already planned to move forward with fee increases, regardless of student feedback and regardless of how the question was worded. But the thing is — we will never know. By outlining the cost of one option and ignoring the costs of the other — by stacking the deck — Senate sacrificed the best opportunity we had to gauge student opinion. In what context other than student elections will SGA solicit 12,000 student responses in a two-day period? Look as you may, there isn’t one. I am not disappointed in this referendum because of the result. Truth be told, I believe that the $200-per-student increase would be better spent retaining faculty than erecting a gaudy sanctuary to our football obsession. But I am disappointed because the referendum writers in Student Senate did not trust the student body to make the right decision on its own. Robert Carpenter is a senior applied mathematical sciences major and former editor-inchief of The Battalion.
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of this increasing fame has resulted from the style he’s developed. “My biggest thing is doing an open-forhen most eighth graders were wormat sort of style, mixing anything that sounds rying about who they would take to good together and not necessarily keeping to the school dance or wondering where they the same genre,” Farmer said. “My favorite would go to high school, Tim Farmer was mixes are multi-genre mixes. Rock, hip-hop, dreaming of brighter lights and faster beats. rap, electronic, whatever you like, especially Farmer, known locally as DJ Roughneck, if it’s mixed with something that’s familiar.” said it has always been his dream to get inAndrew Reimherr, sophomore business volved in music. administration major said Farmer is good at “I got my first set in eighth grade — a startmixing a wide variety of music together. er kit,” said Farmer, “He is a great DJ in sophomore petroleum the fact that he knows engineering major. “It the audience he is walkwas really horrible, acing into,” Reimherr said. tually.” “If he’s doing a frat party, Growing up, Farmbirthday, gig for a friend, er’s musical choices he can adjust really well and interests were into that crowd. The style fluenced by his DJ unis obviously more hipcles in New York and hop oriented from the by his pianist father few times I’ve heard him and guitarist mother. play, but he definitely “They were all a redoesn’t just rely on that.” ally big influence, my Florence Pickup, a uncles especially with sophomore in the reciptheir music selection,” rocal education exchange Farmer said. “They’re program said Farmer is really big on me lisgood at understanding tening to all different Caleb Stewart — THE BATTALION what the crowd wants. genres of music.” “I’d say that that’s Sophomore petroleum engineer Farmer began by an important part of a Tim Farmer, otherwise known playing parties at his good DJ,” Pickup said. as DJ roughneck, sets up mixing high school. His first “They have to know major performance equipment. how to read the crowd— occurred during his pick it up if they’re freshman year, when a friend invited him to slowing down, that sort play at a house party. of thing.” “I was expecting it to be a really small Farmer said a big part of why he DJs is party—it was huge! I didn’t know that. This crowd reaction—being able to lift a crowd’s guy had a massive house, I borrowed a few spirits as well as getting them moving. He said of my buddies’ speakers and amps, we set a he wants to make their experiences memofew up inside and a few out around the pool rable ones. and stuff, and it was crazy,” Farmer said. “It “I roughneck during the summer—that’s was one of those dream parties—the kind you why they call me DJ Roughneck—and I imagine every time you think about throwmake way more money working on the oil ing a party.” rigs than I do with my DJing, but my favorFarmer said he was in love with mixing ite thing is, if I can get a bunch of people music from that moment on. together and get them really excited, not just “I was really surprised, and it really stuck about the music but about their lives in genin my head,” Farmer said. “I think if my first eral. That’s a good night,” Farmer said. gig had been something really small and stuFarmer said he wants his music to be about pid I wouldn’t have gone after it as much. I motivating and inspiring people. wasn’t bad. I was pretty good, but I didn’t “When you think of music, it’s a huge have a lot of recognition around the town. I part of life,” Farmer said. “Everybody listens couldn’t go to clubs or anything—I couldn’t to the radio, when they’re walking around get in, but it went on from there.” And it certainly has continued—DJ campus they have their earphones in, listenRoughneck has played at different ven- ing to whatever, and they’re just looking for ues around Bryan and College Station, to a something to motivate them to do the next crowd that is continuously increasing. A lot big thing in their life. I want to bring that to people.”
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