Noor Mobeen was work-ing for Exxon Mobil as an engineer and making a “hand-some salary” after he gradu-ated from A&M in 2006. But soon, he received a phone call from one of his undergraduate professors, encouraging and challenging him to pursue a graduate degree.
Mobeen enrolled as a doc-toral student in the agricul-tural leadership, education, and communications program under the mentorship of Al-
vin Larke, the first full-time African-American professor at A&M, who Mobeen consid-ers a father-figure, friend and colleague.
After 32 years, Larke is re-tiring from his position in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. An advocate of peaceful dialogue surrounding topics of diversity, Larke has impacted many over his 48 years of educating students.
“Mentoring young people — when they become suc-cessful it’s like I become suc-cessful,” Larke said. “You take a student where you find that student and you watch them grow.”
Before he made his mark at A&M, Larke spent 12 years
in South Carolina’s public school system and four years teaching in Missouri, where he received his doctorate in agricultural education.
Larke said engaging with students has been a defining moment of his career as a pro-fessor. He said he has seen his tenacity create drive in stu-dents throughout the years.
“Working with a person that somebody else has prob-ably said, ‘This person can’t do this,’ and I agree to take them on and they finish that work — that’s excellent,” Larke said.
To commemorate Larke’s influential leadership, Mobeen
service | 2Aggie VisionA forum and educational program on service for those interested in nonprofi t work will be held Saturday.
sports | 4BaseballInclement weather suspended the Aggie baseball game in the sixth inning against Mississippi State. Play resumes Friday.
For the first time ever, Aggie Relay for Life will be hosted at Simpson Drill Field.
Victoria Staniszewski, 2014 event coordinator, said the Relay has been hosted for the last eight years at the Penberthy Rec Sports Complex, but considering the approximate $2,000 the relay was charged to use the field, organizers decided the team could use Simpson Drill Field for free.
“Essentially, the money that we save this year can be donated somewhere else like the American Cancer Associa-tion, and that’s the whole point of this event,” Staniszewski said.
Included in the night’s events will be performances by Fade 2 Black and the Singing Cadets as well as a Midnight Yell and a visit from Reveille.
“It feels like it’s closer for everyone, which can have an impact on atten-dance,” Staniszewski said.
Setup starts at 1 p.m. Friday. Af-ter the opening ceremony at 7 p.m., events will continue until 7 a.m. Sat-urday.
Relay for Life to be held Friday on SimpsonJennifer ReileyThe Battalion
Transporting students into the world of cinema, A&M’s 79th an-nual Ring Dance will let seniors and fellow ring holders celebrate across four rooms of the MSC on Saturday, each one corresponding to a familiar movie title.
Kayleigh Wiggins, Ring Dance director and senior psychology ma-jor, said this year’s “Lights! Camera! Action!” theme will bring a Hol-lywood feel to campus, complete with a red carpet.
Hoping to cater to a variety of tastes, Class Councils has designed rooms that will model the “The Wizard of Oz,” “Inception,” “Ti-tanic” and “James Bond.” Siatta Massaquoi, senior biomedical sci-ences major and Class Councils member, said the rooms will have unique games that match the dif-ferent atmosphere from room to room.
Each room will hold decorations unique to each movie, including a set of train tracks running up the
ceiling and a Leonardo Di Caprio cutout in the “Inception” room and a yellow brick road in the “Wizard of Oz” room.
“There’s lots of candy, and they’ve built signs that say ‘Munch-kin land this way,’ and ‘Emerald City that way,’” said Rachel Norman, senior health major and senior class president. “There’s a possibility that there’s go-ing to be freshmen dressed up like Wizard of Oz characters, so people can take pictures with them.”
Norman said the Rocket Brothers band will provide entertain-ment and that another photo opportunity will be Titanic themed.
“They built the front part of the boat for photo ops,” Norman said. “You know, when Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet are do-ing the whole ‘king of the world’ thing.”
Wiggins said this year’s Ring Dance is a considerable evolution
from the first one in 1936.“[Ring Dance] was created by
a group of seniors in the Corps of Cadets to celebrate their time at A&M,” Wiggins said. “It was origi-nally where turning the ring to face the outside world started. What
would happen is the men would take their dates under the ring, and the dates would turn it for them and they’d steal a kiss.”
MSC ballroom doors will be open from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., and for Norman and other event organiz-ers, the walk down the red carpet can’t come
soon enough.“We’ve all got like five tests
this week, so we’re all ready to get dressed up for ‘prom on steroids,’” Norman said.
Profit from the event goes to-ward purchasing the Class of 2014 gift for the university.
Lights. Camera. Dance — Ring Dance to showcase the world of popular cinema
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Red carpet to roll out for graduating seniors
When & whereRing Dance will be held in the Memorial Student Center from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday.
A rare event will take place in the Catholic community Sunday—Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII will be declared saints. It is believed that this is the first time two popes have been canonized on one day, and some Aggies decided they didn’t want to miss out on such an occasion.
Timothy Walker, Class of 2012, and Annie Salinas, junior history major, joined with Aggie Catho-lic friends and supporters to raise enough money for a trip to Rome to see the event live alongside fellow Catholics from around the world.
After a year of fundraising, they were able to reach their goal and left for Italy on Thursday.
As a sponsor and close friend of Walker and Salinas, Daniel Kaufman, sophomore chemical en-gineering major, said the two were ecstatic to be able to go.
“Annie considers herself John Paul II’s biggest fan, so she was just thrilled,” Kaufman said.
Other groups of Catholic Aggies will gather for a viewing party of the canonization at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, said Madeline Hill, sopho-more psychology major.
Hill works as a student worker at St. Mary’s and said the canonization is very exciting, but most Catholic Aggies will probably celebrate the occasion by going to their regular weekly masses at St. Mary’s, where the congregation will most likely say a special prayer in honor of the new saints.
Robert Mackin, assistant profes-sor of sociology, said this event is very meaningful to Catholics every-where.
“I think it is very significant,” Mackin said. “In both cases — both for Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII — Pope Francis has decided to advance them in the process so that they can be canonized on the same day.”
It is very rare for two popes to be canonized at the same time on the same day, and Mackin said what makes the event even more rare is that Pope Francis pushed for the
Aggie Catholics visit Rome
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Pope canonizations to take place Sunday
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First black full-time professor retires
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Father-figure says goodbye
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Alvin Larke, professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is honored in front of his class Thursday.
See Larke on page 3
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Bill Moran, Class of 2010 and former Mic Check president, performs a poem Thursday at Music, Metaphors and Meals!, a philanthropy event hosted by KYX, Mic Check and Revolution bar in Bryan.
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As the population of Col-lege Station increases, so do public needs — one of which is meeting the needs of chil-dren with disabilities.
Noting that no play-grounds in College Station currently accommodate the specific needs of children with various disabilities, the Rotary Club of College Sta-tion sought out the A&M College of Architecture to help create a “great escape” for these kids.
As of Thursday, the plan, developed in part by land-scape architecture students, was endorsed by College Sta-tion City Council.
At the Thursday hearing of the proposal, district gov-ernor of Lions Club Danny Stribling said the project has many more steps to it, but that the University’s work is excellent.
David Schmitz, director of parks and recreation, said stu-dents working on the project specifically considered a vari-ety of special needs.
“Everything from kids that are paraplegic, quadriplegic, have autism, Down Syn-drome, you name it, we’re try-ing to be all-inclusive for this facility,” Schmitz said. “One of the things that’s so unique about this is that even though this is designed for these spe-cific things, siblings, friends, parents can all enjoy this park also, so that’s where we get that ‘play-for-all’ concept.”
Throughout the initial stages of planning, the title of Great Escape was thrown around in reference to the project, and Eric Barden-hagen, assistant professor of landscape architecture and
urban planning, said the name just stuck.
“Working in the College Station community gives them something to work on that’s in their own backyard and an opportunity to give to future Aggies,” Bardenhagen said. “We do this all the time. It’s part of our DNA as ar-chitects at A&M to reach out to the community and do the best we can.”
Landscape architecture students began the planning process last semester, Barden-hagen said, researching the play needs of children with disabilities to better design a playground to meet those specific needs. From there, they created several concep-tual aspects for park designs and selected three sufficient locations as candidates for the building process.
“It’s a great opportunity for students to interact with a client and take on a proj-ect that will potentially be a reality,” Bardenhagen said. “We usually wouldn’t take a project like this if it were just a traditional park. However,
this is meant to be a destina-tion for the community.”
To remove restrictions and initiate a welcoming atmo-sphere for special needs chil-dren, the park will include various amenities to benefit any child that comes through it. From wheelchair-accessi-ble swings and specially de-signed slides to sensory items for children with autism, the playground will collaborate educational aspects with in-teractive elements to serve various ability levels in a uni-versally accessible environ-ment for all children, accord-ing to the blog of Schmitz.
“One of the issues we face here is that we surpassed the population of 100,000 and at the same time, the special needs is growing as well,” said Colin Killian, com-munications and marketing specialist for the City of Col-lege Station. “College Sta-tion school district alone has enrolled over 1,400 students with disabilities, yet we don’t have any play-for-all parks. In fact there’s none in this en-tire area. The closest one is in
Round Rock.”Early last December,
Bardenhagen said six design concepts for each location were presented to College Station Mayor Nancy Berry and members of the Col-lege Station Rotary Club and College Station Lions Club.
Bardenhagen said the Rotary Club president had contacted the architecture department, and indicated Central Park on Krenek Tap was the top candidate for the project.
“This signature park would be seen as a commu-nity draw and will set College Station apart from any other surrounding communities,” Bardenhagen said.
Due to the $2 million dol-lar price tag on the project, Killian said fundraising ef-forts for the playground have already begun. Killian said if everything goes smoothly, construction could begin in the summer of 2015.
Students help design playground for special needs youth
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Plan approved Thursday at council meeting
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David Schmitz, College Station director of parks and recreation, presents the “Play for All Inclusive Park” Thursday in the city council chambers.
Showing Aggies how to give back, MSC Lead’s first Aggie Vision program will focus on educating students on nonprofit organizations.
Leslyn Felder, executive director of MSC Lead’s com-munity service subcommittee and senior communication major, said the idea for Aggie Vision originated with their advisor who wanted to cre-ate a forum and educational program on service.
Felder said the committee wanted to focus on one area this year, and they chose non-profit awareness.
“A lot of people want to get into nonprofits and a lot of people don’t actually know how to go in that route and don’t have the right resources to,” Felder said. “So we basi-cally wanted to give students the opportunity to not only get more information about how other people are in-volved in nonprofits, but also to give them hands-on expe-rience in it.”
As tax-exempt organiza-tions, William Brown, asso-ciate professor and director of the nonprofit management certificate program at the Bush school, said nonprofits have an advantage over other organizations, but are limited in what they can do with proceeds generated. Brown said these proceeds can come from a variety of sources such as donations, government funding and service fees.
“Why would we grant a tax exemption has to do with the fact that we believe that these organizations are doing something that will benefit our society,” Brown said. “We want to encourage them and support them.”
The event will feature two speakers during a catered breakfast and in the after-noon, attendees will travel to different nonprofits in the area to learn more about their individual missions.
Speaker Gabriella Medina, public service graduate stu-dent and chairwoman of the George Bush School Public Service Organization, will in-struct students on how they can get involved in nonprofits and her personal plans to pursue a career involving nonprofits.
The second speaker, Ed-ward Tarlton, founded Help Consulting, Inc., an organi-
zation that helps students find a path to college. Tarlton will be speaking on his own expe-riences in a nonprofit.
Jessica Lochte, director of the Aggie Vision community service subcommittee and junior interdisciplinary stud-ies major, said the event will provide students information on how to give back now and after graduation.
Felder said the goal is to make Aggie Vision an annual event. Registration is closed for this year’s event, but Felder said interested students should keep looking out for next year’s Aggie Vision.
“We really want to give the opportunity to a lot of students,” Felder said. “Hopefully it’ll be morphed into this almost Big Event-like event, where it started small and now look at it.”
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Featuring titles such as “Seventh-Gay Adventists” and “Alaska is a Drag,” the films making an appear-ance in the Pride Film Festival will offer Bryan-College Station residents a viewing opportunity including both quirk and purpose.
Brad Dressler, director of the Pride Film Festival, said Pride Community Center in Bryan is hosting the festival for the second year.
The films will feature a variety of topics of particular interest to the LG-BTQ community, said Pride Com-munity Center president Judy LeUnes. Several of the films will focus specifi-cally on the issue of bullying. LeUnes said she hopes the festival can shed light on real problems that members of the
community are experiencing.“The films help educate the more
conservative side of the community on the views of other people out there and the topics they need to know,” LeUnes said.
In addition to viewing the films, LeUnes said festival attendees will also have the opportunity to eat, mingle and participate in a silent auction through-out the day. The festival is open for all audiences, she said, but a parent should accompany children if they are worried about any of the subjects involved in the films.
The festival will begin with an open reception with the filmmakers at 4:30 p.m. Friday at Four Points by Shera-ton. Films will be shown later that eve-ning and throughout Saturday at Stage-Center Community Theatre in Bryan.
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canonizations out of usual guidelines. Pope John Paul II is technically being canonized early, foregoing the usual five-year waiting period, and Pope John XXIII is being can-onized with only one miracle being attrib-uted to him rather than the traditional two.
For a miracle to be attributed to the saint in question, Mackin said there is usually a formal, debate-like process that involves both Catholics and non-Catholics, along with the exhibition of what seems to be in-disputable evidence of a miracle and often involved mysterious healing.
Mackin said he has heard many of his own Catholic students say they are very excited about the event, especially to see the pope of their childhood become can-onized.
The canonization will take place at 2:30 a.m. central time this “Divine Mercy Sun-day” — a term coined by Pope John Paul as the Sunday following Easter.
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influential leadership, Mobeen and other former students gathered Thursday morning to surprise and honor Larke’s influential tenure on his final day of class.
Mobeen said he had to visit A&M when he heard about Larke’s retirement. He said he wanted to thank Larke for his professional work and the influence Larke had over Mobeen’s decision to pursue higher education.
“Teaching is an art,” Mobeen said. “It’s not really if you’re gifted — you can only
know it if you’re a professor like him and teach in such a way where you teach with passion.”
Mobeen is a professor at NYU Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. He said those in higher education need to promote messages he felt Larke exemplified and that he tried to convey while he was a visiting professor at Quaid-I-Azam University in Pakistan in 2013.
“People in higher educa-tion really need to go and promote the message of peace and prosperity, and the only way you do that is take a risk or a chance, and I’ve done that,” Mobeen said. “I used to not promote myself like
this because of security issues. It’s just how much you can do because of one person in your life.”
Taylor Turner, junior ag-riculture communications and journalism major, took Larke’s cultural pluralism class this semester. She said his classes opened up healthy dis-cussion on controversial topics like gun control and bullying.
“Before college, you might
be closed-minded,” Turner said. “But you come to his class and hear everything and all the topics that people have to talk about and getting open mind-ed and learning what everyone else has to think and knowing that your opinion isn’t the only way of thinking.”
A supporter of the LGBTQ community, Larke said lov-ing and accepting people, not merely tolerating them, are
subjects that he always tried to convey to his students.
“You ought to just try to encourage them to love and accept differences, and that is what I’ve always tried to do in all of my classes,” Larke said. “Love people who are not like you physically. You don’t have to learn to like them but you have to learn to love them.”
Larke, who is also a pastor
in Brenham, will continue to preach after his retirement from the university. He said he is appreciative of his time at A&M.
“I’ve done a lot of things since I’ve been here. I’ve been recognized for some things,” Larke said. “I want to keep these things and be available to this institution as long I stay in this community.”
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Outfielder Cassie
Tysarczyk is second on the
team in batting average (.363),
doubles (7), home runs (10) and RBIs (44).
The Texas A&M baseball team got through just six innings before rain suspended its game against the No. 20 Mississippi State Bulldogs Thursday.
Play will resume in the seventh inning at 5 p.m. Friday with the Bulldogs leading 4-1.
A&M freshman starting pitcher Ty-ler Stubblefield faced 10 batters in his Fri-day night appearance for the Aggies before he was pulled by head coach Rob Childress in the second inning be-fore recording an out.. He allowed four runs with three walks on 38 pitches.
The Bulldogs saw RBIs from Seth Heck, Derrick Armstrong and Gavin Collins, who had
a two-RBI single to left centerfield.
Senior left fielder Jace Statum, who capi-talized on a wild pitch thrown by Trevor Fitts and scored from third base during the fifth in-ning, scored the only Aggie run thus far.
Cole Lankford was on a 2-for-3 perfor-mance at the plate before the game was called.
Sophomore south-paw Matt Kent relieved Stubblefield in the sec-ond inning. He went five innings and surren-dered two hits,
Freshman second baseman Ryne Birk is due up for the Aggies when play resumes.
The second of the three-game series will begin at 6:35 PM, pro-viding the first game has been concluded.
Rain delay nixes game in 6th, play to continue FridayBrandon WheelandThe Battalion
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The No. 23 Texas A&M softball team travels to Alabama to take on the Auburn Tigers for a weekend series that will conclude regular sea-son SEC action for the Aggies.
Head coach Jo Evans said she looks forward to finishing strong in the SEC to boost her club’s seed-ing. The team (31-17, 9-12 SEC) was ranked in the top 10 of many preseason polls and is expected to do well in the SEC.
“We didn’t think we would be in this position and having to battle for seeding in the SEC tourna-ment,” Evans said. “We really need to make sure that we got our ‘A’ game this weekend. It’s a chance to separate ourselves from Auburn go-ing into the tournament.”
The Aggies are coming off a doubleheader victory against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Tuesday, scoring a combined 25 runs. Senior outfielder Cassie Tysarczyk had a team-high seven RBIs on the day, with one home run and three runs scored.
Emily Albus led the Aggies with a .667 batting average in the doubleheader, going 6-for-9 at the plate, with three runs scored and a double. The senior had four straight infield hits in game one of the dou-
bleheader. Senior third baseman Amber
Garza, who enters this weekend tied for third on the team with nine home runs, said the midweek game settled the club down.
“It was definitely one of those games where everyone had a lot of fun,” Garza said. “Everyone did their job and that was great about it.”
The Tigers (34-14-1, 7-11 SEC) rank just below the Aggies in the SEC standings. Auburn’s overall record is highlighted by series wins over Kentucky, LSU and Missis-sippi State and a midweek victory over Alabama last week.
The Tigers defeated Alabama State 5-3 on Wednesday night. Branndi Melero and Kasey Cooper are each hitting above .400 to lead the team on the season.
“It’s pretty tough to play Flor-ida and Tennessee back to back,” Tysarczyk said. “We’re going to go into Auburn and not play in fear. We’re not intimidated by anyone we play.”
The teams will face off in the first game of the series at 6 p.m. Friday at Jane B. Moore Field. The Aggies continue play Wednesday against Lamar in another doubleheader at the Aggie Softball Complex.
SEC tournament seeding in jeopardy as A&M hits AuburnMilkyas GashawThe Battalion
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Danielle Adams wins Israeli championshipDanielle Adams, Class of 2011 and member of the 2011 Texas A&M team that won an NCAA championship, scored 19 points for Maccabi Ashdod Thursday as her team clinched the Israeli Championship over Elizur Ramla in overtime, 78-76. Adams holds the A&M record for single-season (22.3) and career (19.5) per-game scoring. She will soon rejoin the WNBA’s San Antonio Stars where Karla Gilbert is in camp after the end of A&M’s season.
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w. basketballA&M inks top JuCo guardThe Texas A&M women’s basketball team announced the signing of Shlonte Allen, the No. 2 ranked junior college recruit in the nation, Thursday. Allen was a two-time All-American at Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas. Head coach Gary Blair said he was excited about the guard’s commitment.
“We feel like she is similar to a lot of our players who have had success at Texas A&M,” Blair said. “She is one more person who will make us very competitive in the SEC and national stages. Amy Wright and our entire coaching staff did a great job recruiting her.”
According to an A&M press release, Allen is the cousin of Aggie men’s basketball player Kourtney Roberson.
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