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he NCAA Football 14 cover vote campaign arrived at its final stage with only two contestants remaining on the ballot: Texas A&M wide receiver Ryan Swope and Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson. With the opportunity to grace this year’s cover of EA Sports’ annual NCAA Football video game, Swope and Robinson have ascended through five rounds and two months of non-cumulative voting to one decisive ballot. During the semifinals, which ran Feb. 18-25, Swope and Robinson knocked out Alabama’s Eddie Lacy and Oregon’s Kenjon Barner. The final voting period runs through March 8. Students can vote at the Facebook page, EA SPORTS NCAA Football.

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he unsung artists of A&M have a new outlet with which to share their creative works in The Eckleburg Project, A&M’s newest literary magazine. The magazine was created by eight students, who say the purpose of the project is to open the door for a greater appreciation of the arts. The new student-run and written magazine, sponsored by the University Writing Center, is accepting submissions from creative writers, photographers and artists for its first issue. “The Eckleburg Project will be important for A&M students because right now there are few mediums on campus through which authors and artists alike have the opportunity to express themselves,” said Amanda Yanes, senior psychology and English double major and editor-in-chief of the magazine. “I think that art, in all its forms, is important. Not only because it is beautiful, but because it contains answers or poses questions that only the artist has. In short, art teaches.” The Eckleburg Project takes its name from the pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” where the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg look down from a billboard at the world. “We took this symbol and put our own spin on it,” Yanes said. “Part of the job of writers is to examine their surroundings — to see the world around them, and then, through art, tell a truth about what

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Sharp named Mr. South Texas Texas A&M System Chancellor John Sharp was selected as Mr. South Texas 2013 for the 116th Washington’s Birthday Celebration. The Mr. South Texas designation is presented to a deserving individual who has made a significant and lasting contribution

inside life | 3 Showtime at Rudder HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD, a live performance featuring renditions of various film and theatre scenes, will be presented Friday and Saturday in Rudder Auditorium.

sports | 4 A&M visits Ole Miss

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niversity of Texas graduates brandished “Hook ‘em Horns” while members of the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band blared the Aggie War Hymn during Texas legislators’ annual flag football game. Legislators from districts across Texas unloaded a charter bus Tuesday at Kyle Field to take part in the not-so-conventional tradition decked out in maroon and white jerseys: senior legislators in maroon vs. freshman legislators in white. Before the game started, members of the Aggie band marched onto the field and started a pick-up football game of their own. When they arrived, freshman legislator Rep. Trent Ashby, Class of 1995 senior yell leader, ran from the bus straight to the field to join cadets in their pick-up game. “I don’t know how they decided to bring it here, but I’m glad they did,” Ashby said. “It’s a fun way for the freshmen to bond outside the capitol and to get to know our senior legislators.” Legislators wore numbers that represented the district of Texas they serve, with one notable exception. Ashby represents district 57 but wore No. 2 in honor of his favorite A&M football player, Johnny Manziel.

“[Freshmen legislators] are really thrown into a whole new environment,” Ashby said. “There are so many new rules and precedents to learn. It’s really neat to get out here with these senior legislators and not talk about serious issues, but just really focus on camaraderie.” Rep. Ed Thompson, freshman legislator from district 29, stood as one of several wearing burnt orange beneath their maroon jerseys. Thompson said the teams don’t really practice or have plays. “It’s kind of like sandlot football,” Thompson said. “I didn’t graduate from U.T., but I did go there for my first few years of college. It’s quite an honor to get to play on Kyle Field, though.” Chancellor John Sharp said he wanted to bring the game here to draw the legislators closer to A&M so that they could better understand what the University is all about. “It has always been in Austin, but this year Chancellor Sharp got them to come here,” said Steve Moore, A&M System vice chancellor of marketing and communications. The flag football games come during the 83rd Texas Legislative Session, during which Texas A&M among other Texas universities is asking the state for Jenna Rabel — THE BATTALION more financial support after significant Freshman and senior Texas legislators meet to compete in a friendly cuts to higher education in 2011. game of flag football Tuesday evening at Kyle Field.

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Researchers seek evidence of earlier human presence Chris Scoggins

The Battalion omplete and utter darkness surrounds her. Postdoctoral student Jessi Halligan might as well be swimming through tar as she attempts to navigate the cold darkness of the Aucilla River in Florida. Halligan is a research associate on a team excavating fossil evidence of 14,000-year-old early humans. Halligan collaborated with A&M anthropology professor Michael Waters and other researchers at the University’s Center for the Studies of First Americans in a search for archaeological evidence to suggest that early men crossed over into the Americas more than 1,000 years earlier than was previously thought. Similar expeditions were conducted by the Florida Museum of Natural History at the same site 25 years before Halligan’s team, but no concrete evidence was recovered from these earlier expeditions. “Basically we were going out there to see if we can find anything in that older layer,” Halligan said. Waters said the most commonly accepted theory regarding the first groups of early man — a group of prehistoric people called the Clovis — arrived in the Americas about 13,500 years ago. Waters, Halligan and the other researchers are looking for archeological evidence to prove that an earlier culture may have arrived around

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Jessi Halligan, a postdoctoral research associate, dives into the Aucilla River in Florida to search for archaeological evidence of early humans in North America.

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The men’s basketball team will travel to Oxford, Miss., to match up with the Rebels on the hardwood. A&M will be looking for a sweep over the conference’s fourth ranked team.

The baseball team kicked off a two-game series against Northwestern State with a 9-5 victory Tuesday night.

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2,500 years earlier. Halligan said previous digs around the Aucilla River were questionable because the area was an underwater dig site. “It’s a really big deal that they found this, but it was found at a time when scientists were absolutely positive that there was nothing here besides Clovis,” Halligan said. “So basically everybody said ‘It’s an underwater site, they just messed up while digging it.’” Matthew Renfro, sophomore history major, said this research is good for academia because it challenges ideas previously accepted by the scientific community. “I think one major [lesson] would be never to accept what you believe is true to be completely for certain,” Renfro said. “Here at A&M, we do question — we always question and make sure we can confirm what we’ve heard or give good basis for believing that.” Halligan excavates the underwater fossils in full scuba gear and digs the fossils through layers of debris with a pinpoint laser, while using flashlights to penetrate the Florida waters. Underwater sites like these provide archeologists with superior preservation not found in aboveground dig sites. “Everywhere that is dry in North America has a lot of artifacts from that time period, but all you have left is stone because of the See Archaeology on page 3

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news for you nation & world Stocks drop as Italy heads for political disarray Stocks are having a flashback to last spring, when fears about the European debt crisis sent the market spiraling lower. On Monday, election results in Italy showed a race too close to call, leaving investors fearful that the country will struggle to form a government that can move forward with reforms to revive the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average posted its worst drop in more than three months. The Standard & Poor’s 500, which had its first weekly decline of the year last week, piled on more losses Monday. Investors worry about the outcome of Italy’s election because it could set off another crisis of confidence in the region’s shared currency, the euro. The Dow started the day gaining as much as 81 points on early optimism that Italian elections would produce a government willing to stay the course with reforms. The index drifted lower and then slumped, giving up about 150 points in the last hour of trading.

Obama, civil rights groups defend votingrights law The Obama administration and civil rights groups are defending a key section of the landmark voting rights law at the Supreme Court by pointing reformed state, county and local governments to an escape hatch from the law’s strictest provision. The Voting Rights Act effectively attacked persistent discrimination at the polls by keeping close watch, when it comes to holding elections,

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on those places with a history of preventing minorities from voting. Any changes, from moving a polling place to redrawing electoral districts, can’t take effect without approval from the Justice Department or federal judges in Washington. But the Voting Rights Act allows governments that have changed their ways to get out from under this humbling need to get permission through a “bailout provision.” Nearly 250 counties and local jurisdictions have done so; thousands more could be eligible based on the absence of recent discriminatory efforts in voting.

Looming cuts threaten economic gains, governors say Washington’s protracted budget stalemate could seriously undermine the economy and stall gains made since the recession, exasperated governors said Saturday as they tried to gauge the fallout from impending federal spending cuts. At the annual National Governors Association meeting, both Democrat and Republican chief executives expressed pessimism that both sides could find a way to avoid the massive, automatic spending cuts set to begin Friday, pointing to the impasse as another crisis between the White House and Congress that hampers their ability to construct state spending plans and spooks local businesses from hiring. The budget fight came as many states say they are on the cusp of an economic comeback from the financial upheaval in 2008 and 2009. States expect their general fund revenues this year to surpass the amounts collected before the Great Recession kicked in. An estimated $693 billion in revenues is expected for the 2013 budget year, nearly a 4 percent increase over the previous year. The Associated Press

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they see. We picked Dr. Eckleburg’s eyes as our namesake because we want the authors of A&M to tell us what they see.” The staff is composed of Yanes, as editorin-chief, two fiction editors, two poetry editors, a head of design and two publicists. “A&M is a great University, but one that lacks in opportunities for creative majors to think and express themselves,” said Madison Parker, senior English major and publicist. “The magazine is a great tool to allow creative Aggies to express themselves and provide a more well-rounded experience to all those who pick up the magazine, even if they

See the show HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Rudder Auditorium. Ticket are on sale at the MSC Box Office. Prices range from $29 to $76 with discounts available for students. like ‘Hairspray,’” Baptist said. “The dancers change movement and have mental changes as the scenes move through different time periods. A lot is learned through these quick changes in just an hour and a half.” Baptist said her favorite productions are those taken from classic hits released in the 80s. “I enjoy the 80s section of the performance,” Baptist said. “‘Footloose’ and ‘Flashdance,’ are my favorites. It was just a great period for dance and costume.” Theatre sets, backgrounds and costume production are made to showcase close replicas of classic musical scenes. Some special effects will also be incorporated into the performance. For a musical scene from ‘Singing in the Rain,’ artificial rain will be used on stage to bring the classic film to life. “It is hard to beat the rain on the stage in ‘Singing in the Rain,’” Black said. “It’s one of the all-time wonderful musicals.” Baptist said memorable film props will be used throughout the performance. “During ‘Jailhouse Rock,’ jail bars will fly on stage, disco balls will be used during ‘Saturday Night Fever,’ and ‘Singing in The Rain’ will have the famous bench and lamp post,” Baptist said. Dawkins said each scene is intricately brought to life by different on-stage aspects. “They try ultimately to bring the scene to life,” Dawkins said. “That goes beyond the scene itself, it goes with the props and the costume changes. There are over 300 costume changes.” are not artistically minded.” Shannon Bump, senior psychology major and head of design said she knew she wanted to get involved as soon as she heard about The Eckleburg Project. “I knew I’d found people that thought the way I do, felt the way I do and immersed themselves in words the way I do,” Bump said. “The Project isn’t just a bunch of words on paper, it’s the souls of our Aggies, written down, put in print and exposed for all the world to see.” Allison Mock, freshman English major and poetry editor said the liberal arts are a much bigger part of the world than some people realize. “We are the basis of our culture,” Mock said. “One day we will become the Shake-

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HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD will feature live performances of scenes from hit films and musicals, such as “Grease,” “Footloose” and “Chicago.”

speares, the Austens, the Brontes, the Fitzgeralds. We could be the Dalis, the Warhols, the DaVincis. Whatever we may be, we are history in the making.” The goal of the magazine is to give a voice to an otherwise almost unheard group on campus. “I want to stand up for the creative writers, the artists, the photographers and all the people that often fly under the radar on campus,” said Amanda Hendrix-Black, senior English major and fiction editor. “The Eckleburg Project is a force of creative freedom, and I’m so proud to be a part of making it all happen.”

Submit to Eckleburg The Eckleburg Project is accepting submissions for the first issue until March 8 and everything from short stories to poetry to photographs and paintings are being accepted. Submission guidelines are on the website: theeckleburgproject.org.

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Researchers, including post doctoral anthropology research associate Jessi Halligan, sort through silt and debris in the Aucilla River for evidence of early humans in North America.

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preservation, which means if we do find evidence of people living down there, we’ll probably have almost everything they left behind.” At this point, the expedition has found remains of mastodons and other fossilized animals of the period, but the human artifacts the team has been searching for have not yet been uncovered. “There have been questions raised about if the artifacts they found 25 years

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ago were definitely coming from that older deposit,” Waters said. “So we wanted to back and excavate the area to see if we could duplicate what was found 25 years ago.” The Clovis people were hunter-gatherers who used stone tools distinctive to their people. If Waters and his team could find early human artifacts that are different than these tools, the evidence could help to disprove this model. “If we find an unambiguous artifact down there, or something that was definitely made by people, we can reconfirm what the earlier people said: it is definitely a site that is more than a 1,000 years

older than Clovis,” Halligan said. Waters and his team have additionally gathered evidence across the U.S. that further supports this idea and that may end up revising the dominant Clovis model. “It does take a long time to kind of revise that model,” Waters said. “We have to figure out how these early people fit into what is Clovis. There’s going to be some resistance, but eventually as data accumulates from one site at a time, you have to stand up and take note that these aren’t anomalies — people were here before Clovis.”

An Australian billionaire is getting ready to build a new version of the Titanic that could set sail in late 2016. Clive Palmer unveiled blueprints for the famously doomed ship’s namesake Tuesday at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. He said construction is scheduled to start soon in China.Palmer said 40,000 people have expressed interest in tickets for the maiden voyage, taking the original course from Southampton, England, to New York.The original Titanic was the world’s largest and most luxurious ocean liner when it hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank on April 15, 1912. Only 700 people of the more than 2,200 on board survived the most famous maritime disaster in history.Palmer said an unknown when the original ship sailed — climate change — may play into a positive for the new ship’s fate. “One of the benefits of global warming is there hasn’t been as many icebergs in the North Atlantic these days,” Palmer said. Passengers on board the replica will dress in the fashion of that period and eat dishes from the original menu, in dining rooms copied from the ill-fated predecessor. In addition, plans call for a new “safety deck” featuring state-of-the-art lifeboats, safety chutes and slides. The new ship will also have amenities unknown a century ago, like air conditioning. Palmer, who is funding construction of the ship himself, built his fortune in real estate and coal. Australia’s BRW magazine estimated his net worth last year at $4 billion, although Forbes puts it at $895 million. The Associated Press

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ally unbelievable game. They’re a different team at home, like most teams, and they’re in a position where if they want to get to postseason play they’ve got to win some games.” Elston has been more consistent, recording his first backto-back 20-plus scoring performances of the season. Since his bout with the Rebels at Reed Arena on Feb. 13, the senior guard has found a rhythm on the hardwood. Elston noted his shooting troubles after the win over Ole Miss. “I have just been in a shooting slump,” Turner said. “I started hitting shots and my teammates did a great job of finding me. It was a fun game to play.” After early struggles, including a four-game losing streak during conference play, the Aggies have traded wins and losses

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over the last eight games and sport a 6-8 conference record — good for tenth in the SEC. The Rebels rank fourth in the conference behind their 9-5 league record. During the Aggies’ home win over the Rebels, the A&M defense stood its ground, holding Ole Miss to 45 percent from the floor and seven points lower than their season average. Currently, the Rebels rank sixth in the nation and lead the SEC in points per game with 79.1. Kennedy said freshman guard Alex Caruso is a key matchup for the Rebels’ Marshall Henderson. “[Last time] we started Alex Caruso on him,” Kennedy said. “Alex set the tone, our team was really locked in and we had guys that wanted to guard him.” Henderson’s 10 points re-

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w. tennis | The No. 6 ranked Aggies achieved their highest ranking in program history after defeating No. 13 Michigan on Feb. 16. Texas A&M will host No. 24 Baylor on Wednesday.

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Aggies shed weekend blues, drop Northwestern State Drew Chambers The Battalion

ophomores Corey Ray and Mitchell Nau — the Aggies’ pitcher and catcher, respectively — enjoy a familiarity that dates back to high school. Starting opposite one another for Texas A&M during the Tuesday night matchup against Northwestern State, the two noted the connection that stretched from the mound to the plate.

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Sophomore pitcher Corey Ray prepares to throw a strike during A&M’s 9-5 win.

“Corey’s Corey,” Nau said. “I’ve been catching him since I was 15, so it’s kind of a brotherly thing out there.” Working off this brotherly relationship, Texas A&M surged to a 9-5 victory over the Demons on Tuesday night at Olsen Field. Ray (2-0) earned the victory over six and one-third innings, striking out four while allowing only five hits with two runs. Nau led the Aggies in their scoring rampage, notching one double and three RBIs on a 2-for-3 night, after a drought in the 1-2 series loss against Pepperdine this past weekend. Texas A&M scored more runs in Tuesday’s game than they did during the entirety of the three-game series. Head coach Rob Childress said it was a great turnaround. “They rose to the challenge,” Childress said. “We were able to grab the lead early in the third inning. We had a lot of hitters step up and show some courage with big two-out hits.” During the second inning, Ray’s pitching truly came into focus. The sophomore started off rough, walking three Demons to load the bases. Two outs later and the batter holding a 0-2 count, Ray pitched a strike to help keep the game tied up at 0-0. He said his defense deserves a lot of credit. “The defense played great,” Ray said. “They played great and showed a lot of toughness.” Texas A&M looked to be in a little trouble in the eighth inning with runners on first and second and no outs. Working off a strong bullpen, the Aggies escaped the inning with only three runs scored. The offense added an insurance run in the bottom of the inning to seal the victory. Childress said overall he was impressed with the pitching performance. “Corey gave us a good start,” Childress said. “[Freshman pitcher] A.J. Minter blew out a couple of good batters. [Sophomore] Zach Brashear came in and kind of settled things down a bit and [junior] Jason Jester finished things in the ninth.”

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Freshman infielder Logan Taylor avoids a pickoff attempt by the Demons.

Texas A&M will face Northwestern State at 3:05 p.m. on Thursday afternoon

Aggies win National Athlete of the Week honors Mel Dumezich softball FILE

Texas A&M senior pitcher Mel Dumezich was named the USA National Softball Player of the Week following her two no-hitters in her past five appearances for the undefeated 17-0 Aggies. Dumezich threw her first no-hitter of her career in a double-header against Stephen F. Austin. She followed with a second against Southeastern Louisiana. The senior struck out 22 batters while allowing only five hits over the course of her 25 innings on the mound.

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Deon Lendore Texas A&M sophomore sprinter Deon Lendore earned his second National Athlete of the Week honor from the United States Track & Field Cross Country Coaches Association following his performance at the SEC Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. on Feb. 22-24. At the meet, Lendore won the 400 meter dash in addition to anchoring the Aggies at the 4x400 meter relay. Lendore entered the championships with the worldleading 400 meter time of 45.91, but broke his own record in the semis with a 45.15 posting. He won the event with a 45.23 time. During the 4x400 meter relay, Lendore improved A&M from third to first place off his 44.50 time.

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