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Students gather at the Bonfire Memorial at 2:42 a.m. Sunday, the exact time stack collapsed, to remember the tragedy that took the lives of 12 Aggies in 1999. The Aggie Bonfire was built and burned on campus for 90 years. The first bonfire was built in 1907 and fueled by trash and debris. Bonfire grew more elaborate after the first, towering several stories high with flames that could be seen for miles. Since the collapse, the University has not sanctioned an on-campus Bonfire. Instead a student-run bonfire takes place off campus to continue the tradition. See the remembrance ceremony video at thebatt.com.
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Freshman guard Courtney Walker defends against UCONN’s guard Breanna Stewart.
The Battalion A stretch of three non-conference, top-10 matchups to begin the season ended as the No. 16 Aggies fell behind early to No. 2 UConn and never threatened. The Huskies used a 41-22 second half to bury A&M at Reed, 81-50. A&M dropped to 0-3 with the loss after falling to top-10 ranked Louisville and Penn State. Freshman guard Courtney Walker paced the Aggies with a career-best 20 points to go with seven rebounds, three assists and two steals. “My shot was just falling today,”
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Johnny Manziel stiff-arms a Sam Houston State player Saturday afternoon at Kyle Field. Manziel became the first freshman and first SEC player ever with 3,000 yards passing and 1,000 yards rushing during Saturday’s game. Turn to page 4 for the reaction. Courtesy
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for the Huskies — 20 in the first half, including a jumper to beat the halftime buzzer. UConn had four players in double figures and shot 56.1 percent from the field. UConn head coach Geno Auriemma said Dolson’s style of play mirrors that of his program. “In the first half, Stefanie carried us,” Auriemma said. “She was unbelievable. She’s the personality of our team. The way she played, that’s our team. With her footwork and her mobility and where she’s at mentally, if we throw it to her something good is going to happen.” The success of the interior game opened the wings for the Huskies and their three-point shooters, who made 7-16 from behind the arc. Dolson said the outside shooting paved the way for her success. “The last couple of games, we’ve shown we can shoot the ball, which spreads the floor and makes my job a lot easier in the paint,” Dolson said. Junior center Kelsey Bone strug-
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campus — currently has no living establishment for students. There are plans for the University to build dorm and apartment-style living for students right behind the School of Rural and Public Health. “The plans are all conceptual at this point,” said Chareny Rydl, director of residence life. “Once there has been an official approval then we will have to go and put it on the capital plan and that would outline a time frame.” In the case that a plan is approved, it is estimated that construction would be a two-year process, with a conceptual budget of $150 million. The dorms would hold up to 3,100 students and would accommodate parking and dining as well.
gled to find her rhythm, finishing with eight points and three rebounds. At times, head coach Gary Blair went with lineups featuring as many as four freshmen, but the Aggies couldn’t close the gap no matter how creative the lineup. UConn established Dolson on the way to an 11-2 lead they wouldn’t relinquish. Bone missed a pair from the field, two layups were wiped away for traveling violations and Bone was relegated to the bench after being called for an intentional foul that put the momentum firmly in the hands of the visitors. Blair said the losses could help shape the team in a positive manner moving forward. “Sometimes you have to take a little butt-kicking to figure out who you are and find your identity,” Blair said. “If we play the blame game, we won’t get better as a basketball team.” A&M takes the court next against Liberty on Tuesday. “My thought right now is give me Liberty or give me death on Tuesday,” Blair said. “We’re pretty close to death right now.”
Rydl said ideas were taken from both traditional residence halls and off-campus apartments during the planning process. “It would be similar to the Commons and like what is happening on Northside, and our hopes would be that it would target freshman,” Rydl said. “Statistics show that if students live on campus their first year, they have better GPRs, remain at the University and continue to go on to get advanced degrees. This would be supporting A&M’s goal to work on getting students out and retention at the University.” The location for the new dorms spans over the location of the Howdy! Farm, a student run and operated organic farm, whose goal is to enrich students’ time and resources through organic, sustainable and environmental farming. This means the dorms would ei-
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Freshman guard Jordan Jones attempts a layup in Sunday’s game against the University of Connecticut.
ther have to integrate the farm with the location or the Howdy! Farm would have to relocate. “We would appreciate the farm being integrated with the planned structures,” said Matthew Weintrub, senior horticulture major and Howdy! Farm field director. “Student Senate even passed a bill requiring best efforts be made to integrate the farm into any planned structures.” Student Senate’s bill regarding the Howdy! Farm congratulated the farm on its success and requests that future buildings on West Campus do not negatively affect it. Mark Womack, international affairs graduate student and executive vice president for the Student Government Association, said the bill’s purpose is to help sustain the Howdy! Farm and better integrate into campus life. “The hope is to not just build
around it, but to find ways to integrate the Howdy! Farm into the living and learning environment on West Campus,” Womack said. “I am excited that campus is growing and have an understanding that construction might need to take place on the current location. So relocation [of the Howdy Farm] to another on-campus location is acceptable.” The ideas for the dorms are dependent on the approval process of the plans, but officials are hoping these West Campus dorms will feel just like the Commons on Main Campus. “We do not want to make these dorms feel isolated,” Rydl said. “We are hoping to do some things, as we build it, to make it feel a part of A&M and that they are connected. It is just an extension of campus, but we will not be able to do anything until it is approved.”
An Israeli missile ripped through a two-story home in a residential area of Gaza City on Sunday, killing at least 11 civilians, including four young children and an 81-year-old woman, in the single deadliest attack of Israel’s offensive against Islamic militants. The bloodshed was likely to raise pressure on Israel to end the fighting, even as it pledged to intensify the offensive by striking the homes of wanted militants. High numbers of civilian casualties in an offensive four years ago led to fierce criticism and condemnation of Israel. President Barack Obama said he was in touch with players across the region in hopes of halting the fighting, while also warning of the risks of Israel expanding its air assault into a ground war.
Twinkies likely to survive sale of Hostess Twinkie lovers, relax. The tasty cream-filled golden spongecakes are likely to survive, even though their maker will be sold in bankruptcy court. Hostess Brands Inc, baker of Wonder Bread as well as Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Ho Ho’s, will be in a New York bankruptcy courtroom Monday to start the process of selling itself. The company, weighed down by debt, management turmoil, rising labor costs and the changing tastes of America, decided Friday that it no longer could make it through a conventional Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring. Instead, it’s asking the court for permission to sell assets and go out of business. News of the decision caused a run on Hostess snacks at many stores around the country, and the snacks started appearing on the Internet at inflated prices.
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volleyball | A&M beat Missouri 3-1 at home to clinch the SEC West regular season title.
w. basketball | No. 2 UConn shelled the Aggies 81-50 in Reed Arena for A&M’s third straight loss.
equestrian | Taking on No. 1 South Carolina, A&M came up shy, 8-11.
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Cleveland Jones, junior wildlife and fisheries major, uses a water filling station to refill his water bottle Sunday evening in the MSC.
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Filling stations add up on campus John Rangel The Battalion Amid the much-anticipated reopening of the Memorial Student Center this past year was the quiet addition of a simple and ecofriendly system: the water bottle filling station. Easy to install and wide-reaching in impact, these stations are increasingly in high demand as the their popularity among students prompts a widening growth around campus. “Students are really clamoring for [the stations],” said Carol Binzer, director of administrative and support systems at Texas A&M’s Department of Residence Life. “The MSC reopening sparked a lot of interest and we’ve been trying to keep up with demand ever since.” The first eight water bottle filling stations — seen as water fountain attachments in buildings such as the MSC and the Student Recreation Center — opened on campus during the fall 2011 semester and interest began to gather as students realized their value. “I think they’re fantastic” said Ana Chang, freshman biomedical engineering major. “It’s so much more convenient to use them than water fountains. I personally don’t like the tap water taste [in College Station], so being able to drink filtered water without having to go out and buy bottled water is great.” While the filling stations have existed in several campus buildings for almost a year, their debut in on-campus housing has received a lot of support. “Mosher was the first [residence hall] to put one in last summer,” Binzer said. “There was no advertisement, yet the station performed 30,000 fills in just two months.”
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This popularity and the positive impact these stations have on the environment has caused the Department of Residence Life to make an effort to install a filling station in as many residence halls as possible. “Our goal is to get at least one station in each building,” Binzer said. One of the ways a residence hall can have a station installed is through the Sustainability Challenge. Started five years ago, the challenge gives residence halls the opportunity to earn points through utility conservation, namely through efficient use of laundry, recycling and other initiatives. Water bottle filling stations are paid for by the Aggie Green Fund, a student-run conservation fund approved by the student body in the spring of 2010. Stations are installed on existing water fountains. It costs about $1,200 to install and each $100 filter is good for 30,000 refills. Users can see how much waste has been avoided from plastic bottle consumption by looking at the display screen above the filter. In addition to environmental conservation, a filling station holds importance in other areas as well. “[Filling stations] have really cut down on the amount of money spent on refilling the vending machines with new water bottles, saving both the school and students money by offering a reusable option instead of having to buy new every single time,” said Bradley Gaulden, member of the Aggie Green Fund Advisory Board. “It has brought a sense of awareness that water bottles are a huge contributor to waste and that by refilling your own bottle, you are doing a small task that really has a huge benefit.”
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Organic cherries are sold at the farmer’s market on campus. The USDA defines organic food as produce grown without the use of pesticides or other chemicals.
Organic benefits weigh students’ decisions John Rangel The Battalion Besides the various brandname foods and flashy packaging that influences many students’ spending decisions when grocery shopping, a different preference is beginning to make or break the choice between one food or the other: organic, or not? Organic foods have slowly assimilated into mainstream culture during the past decades as both public and private sectors have responded to the growing interest. The movement is most visibly seen in the wide variety now available in grocery stores, the emergence of self-professed organic suppliers such as Whole Foods and the passing of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act in 2010. The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines organic food as produce grown on land without the use of pesticides, fertilizers or chemicals. In addition to these guidelines, the farmers who produce organic food must emphasize the use of renewable resources and the conservation of soil and water. Many students go organic because it seems like the healthier option. “I buy organic food when I’m able to,� said Taylor Walling, senior mathematics major. “It doesn’t necessarily taste better than [con-
ventionally] produced foods, but I feel better about eating it because I don’t like the thought of putting man-made or synthesized foods into my body.� But does eating organic actually have a positive health impact? “Eating organic is a consumer preference,� said Linda Talley, lecturer at Texas A&M’s Department of Nutrition and Food Science. “[Science] is unable to prove whether foods popularly defined as organic are nutritionally any different than food produced through conventional means. Consumers view pesticides as a huge problem, but when was the last time you heard of a pesticide poisoning case?� A more significant determinant for food health is not whether the food is organic, but how consumers handle it after purchase. Talley said there are 48 million cases of foodborne illness in the U.S. every year, primarily from bacteria. She said the number could be cut drastically if consumers handled their food properly by storing it at the designated temperatures or washing it before consumption. However, the current scientific consensus does not completely undermine the possible health aspect of organic foods.
“There’s a lot of controversy on the topic,� said Weston Porter, associate professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. “It’s a healthy argument. [Mass-produced foods] can introduce compounds not normally made by the body, which could affect reproduction and cause cancer. However, cancer rates have actually been going down and there haven’t been any population changes.� Some students said eating organic foods is not about nutritional value, but about a lifestyle choice. “I eat organic food whenever I can,� said Berkay Basagaoglu, freshman biomedical engineering major. “It’s mostly for psychological benefit. I consider eating organic as a part of an overall healthy lifestyle to put my body in the best shape possible.� Porter said using organic production techniques does not have the ability to maintain high-yield to feed the U.S. population. The benefits of mass-produced food outweigh the risks by far and without them, we would not be able to feed the world. “It isn’t cost [efficient] for me,� Walling said. “Organic foods are usually too expensive to buy on a regular basis, especially since I have no regular source of income as a college student.�
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