Saturday’s matchup between Southeastern Confer-ence rivals No. 6 Texas A&M and top-ranked Ala-
bama has been under the watch of almost every college football fan around the nation.
ESPN’s Saturday morning pre-game show, College GameDay, will be hosted live from Simpson Drill Field outside the stadium. “The Rematch” — a nickname the game has earned recently — was selected by CBS, which is only allowed to pick one SEC game per week as its choice for live broadcast to a national audience.
Inside the Bright Complex Tuesday morning for the team’s weekly press conference, the A&M football pro-gram must have missed the memo.
Each player who took the podium de-livered the same simple message — Ala-bama is just another game, and the team is going to treat it as such.
“As a player coming into a big week like this, you don’t want to blow it out of proportion,” said senior defensive back Toney Hurd Jr. “It’s just another game for us as we’re just starting out SEC conference play.”
Five upperclassmen up, five down and not a
single mention that the Crimson Tide were any more special than Auburn, Vanderbilt or even Sam Houston State.
Junior cornerback Deshazor Everett, whose fourth-and-goal interception last season helped clinch A&M’s
29-24 victory over the top-ranked Tide, said it was key to maintain a routine
each week when preparing for op-ponents.
“If you approach it like it’s the Super Bowl, you’re going to go out there and be nervous and do
things you wouldn’t normally do,” Everett said. “We have to approach it like it’s another week, but you also have to go out there knowing you have
to play football and you have to bring your ‘A’ game. It’s a big game, but we’re going to go out
there and play hard and do what we do.”The A&M coaching staff, led by
head coach Kevin Sumlin, has preached the importance of consistency during practice regardless of the opponent.
Junior wide receiver Malcome Kennedy, who scored the winning
touchdown for A&M in Tuscaloo-sa last season, said Sumlin remains the source of the stability within the program, particularly when
Campus Bible study shifts locale
Breakaway, meet Simpson
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In 1963, Texas A&M opened en-rollment to African Americans
and women. Half a century later, the University is celebrating the positive impact diversity has made on the quality of Texas A&M.
“Celebrating 50 Years of Inclu-sion” is a semester-long program led by the Office of the Vice President and Associate Provost for Diver-sity. The kick-off event on Tues-day, “The Sky is Not the Limit,” brought the first African-American woman astronaut, Mae Jemison, to Rudder Auditorium to share her experiences.
“Two days from now will mark the day of my 21st birthday,” Jemi-son said, referring to her first space flight aboard Space Shuttle Endeav-our in 1992.
At the event, Jemison spoke on the importance of space exploration and how it can serve to bring people together despite their differences.
“The most important way to en-courage space exploration is to make people feel as if they are all included, as if they are all a part of something,” Jemison said. “It’s amazing to think I am a part of this universe as a tiny
speck of dust in space.”Jemison’s speech attracted a di-
verse crowd to campus that included university, high school and middle school students. Kathy Li, senior in-ternational studies major, said Jemi-son’s talk carried an important mes-sage to those in attendance.
“[Jemison’s talk] was hopefully inspiring to some of the elementary and middle school kids who were here,” Li said.
Lisa Thompson, associate pro-fessor of education leadership and counseling, said Jemison’s story is a testament to diversity and achieve-ment.
Jemison left NASA in 1993 and has since pursued a variety of space-related ventures. She is currently involved in the “100 Year Starship” collaboration, with the mission to work toward the possibility of inter-stellar travel within the next hundred years.
The next event in “Celebrating 50 Years of Inclusion” is the His-panic Heritage Month’s opening ceremony at 6 p.m. Monday in the MSC.
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The Eckleburg Project, a liter-ary magazine at Texas A&M, is
taking submissions for its Fall 2013 edition, the second edition in the magazine’s history.
The Eckleburg Project was cre-ated in the fall of 2012 by eight students, in conjunction with the University Writing Center, who felt A&M needed a literary maga-zine. They named the magazine after the ever-watching eyes of the Dr. Eckleburg billboard in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” feeling this reflected how artists are constantly observing the world.
Head fiction editor of The Eck-leburg Project and senior English major, Taylor Wendt, said the Eck-leburg Project is all about providing students with an outlet.
“The Eckleburg Project is a liter-ary magazine at A&M,” Wendt said. “It’s an outlet for creative minds to
express their creativity and to give students a chance to have a voice at A&M since we are predominantly a math, science and business school.”
The Eckleburg Project, which started as an academic endeavor, is now a quickly growing A&M organization. The project was pre-viously funded by the University Writing Center alone, but is cur-rently waiting on official University funding. For the sake of publishing a strong fall edition, they are tak-ing dues from their new members
and are charging $3 per submission. Each person may make three sub-missions.
The Eckleburg Project has sev-eral new features, including a blog which will showcase different piec-es of art weekly and new positions such as the “Old Sport” Advertis-ing Advocates and the Managing Editor.
This year’s managing editor, se-nior English major, Amanda Black-Hendrix, said The Eckleburg Proj-ect is aiming to publish once per semester and is also currently in the process of interviewing for editing positions. The editors have been taken by surprise at how quickly the organization is growing, she said.
“We opened up our applications for our editorial board and got three times the applications that we thought we were going to be get-ting,” Hendrix-Black said. “We on The Eckleburg Project Team are in awe, just so excited and surprised by the support and interest we are get-ting from the community.”
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Breakaway took its thousands-strong student Bible study to Simpson Drill Field on Tuesday. Jordan and Jeff Johnson (top left) led worship music and Breakaway director Ben Stuart (middle left) delivered a message.
Never forgetWednesday marks the 12th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11.
The 112th edition of Texas A&M University’s official yearbook will chronicle traditions, academics, the other education, sports, the Corps, Greeks, ResLife, and campus organizations, and will feature student portraits. Distribution will be during Fall 2014.
Go to http://aggieland.tamu.edu or call 979-845-2696 to order by credit card. Or drop by the Student Media office, Suite L400 in the Memorial Student Center. Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday–Friday. Pre-order your 2014 Aggieland yearbook and save more than $10.
The BaTTalion is published daily, Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer session (except University holidays and exam periods) at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843. Offices are in Suite L400 of the Memorial Student Center.News: The Battalion news department is managed by students at Texas A&M University in Student Media, a unit of the Division of Student Affairs. Newsroom phone: 979-845-3315; E-mail: [email protected]; website: http://www.thebatt.com.Advertising: Publication of advertising does not imply sponsorship or endorsement by The Battalion. For campus, local, and national display advertising, call 979-845-2687. For classified advertising, call 979-845-0569. Office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Email: [email protected]: A part of the Student Services Fee entitles each Texas A&M student to pick up a single copy of The Battalion. First copy free, additional copies $1.
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“I think Breakaway is going to keep growing because more and more people keep finding out about it.”
John Friedrich, sophomore Blinn student
Q:thebattasks How do you feel about
the growth of Breakaway?
“I feel like the growth shows how much the students are craving the
ministry and its message.”
Jordan Heine, senior health major
“We were forced out of Reed but we’re looking forward to see what God is doing with Breakaway and how he will use us to
impact this campus.” Aaron Mohammed, junior electrical engineering major
“I think it’s really cool how
it is growing. Especially this
week being outside, being able to reach
more students can be a really
good thing.”Brittanie Hignight,
freshman sociology major
“Seeing from when I was a freshman to now, it is so hard to find a parking
spot. Even though that’s annoying, it is so great to see so many more Aggies
coming out to shout the name of God.”Chelsey Evans, junior interdisciplinary
studies major
“I think we [Breakaway] are going into uncharted waters. God is taking us out of our comfort zone and bringing us to a point where
we are breaking down walls.”Justin Hicks, junior political science major
“I love how the growth
of Breakway keeps
going ... [it] encourages more work and to keep
reaching out to more students.”
Kyle Davis, senior construction science major
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“It’s making a huge impact on everyone including myself. It is
definitely changing how I view God and that’s a great thing.”
Diego Velasco, freshman business major
“I love how far the word of mouth about this travels, and how everyone falls in love with it and how much good it does with
social media and everything.” Hannah Stasny, junior kinesiology major
“I mean, you couldn’t ask for a better student-led organization,
especially one that’s Christ-
centered. Especially
when they are spreading the gospel further than they ever intended to.”
Alyssa Bourquein, freshman general
studies major
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Three years ago, the work seemed almost over for Aggie filmmaker Joshua Mills, but he will finally see his first fea-
ture film, “Brother’s Keeper,” hit the big screen in November. The movie, set in Georgia during 1957, is inspired by
Christian values and depicts a story of revenge and forgive-ness. Mills, Class of 1998, said the process has been full of challenges and changes.
He said one of the more obvious alterations might be the title change of the film from “Fishers of Men” to “Brother’s Keeper.”
“The way it was first put together was with the brothers as fishermen,” Mills said. “There were some similarities in the New Testament in the book of Matthew, for people who know who Peter and Andrew are, since this is a faith-based film. However, we began to realize that it didn’t quite match what the story was doing. Over time, ‘Brother’s Keeper’ the-matically fit the story much better.”
While Mills calls his movie a faith-based film, he said he doesn’t want the movie to be branded with others in the genre.
“Faith-based content, over time, has unfortunately adopted a negative stereotype,” Mills said. “Bad acting, bad editing, bad directing and bad story lines are distracting to an audience. They collapse the fourth wall and bring the audience back into reality. The audience is no longer engaged as an emotional participant.”
Mills said his team was not content to allow this to be a possibility.
“We wanted to raise the bar on faith-based films,” Mills
said. “We wanted the audience to realize that as soon as they sat down. We wanted to tell a story, a beautiful story that would reso-nate with the audience.”
Alex Miller plays the movie’s lead, Pete Goodwyn. “Brother’s Keeper” was his first feature-length film to star in, and he said he regarded the experience as a personal milestone.
“I don’t want to sound cliché, but it really did grow me as an individual,” Alex said. “Some-thing very cool about being my character is that he’s a generally good and truly compassionate person. He’s very admirable. He has horrible things happen to him and the way he deals with it all is very noble.”
“Brother’s Keeper” was filmed in Bainbridge, Ga., a town heavily influenced by the Flint River that flows on the western side of the town.
“Bainbridge is no longer real-ly a barge town,” Mills said. “It’s more focused on agriculture and crops now, but as we walked around the town, we began to realize that it hasn’t changed since 1955. From the filmmaker’s standpoint it was fantastic, because we didn’t have to do any set-dressing.”
Alex said being in Bainbridge felt like stepping back in time. Fellow actor and stuntman, Andrew Miller, said he was simi-larly affected by the experience.
“The film is definitely a period piece, from the classic cars to the wardrobe, to just the way people behave,” Andrew said. “When you take it back that many years, there are defi-nitely significant differences in behaviors, even in the way men and women treat each other, and of course the racial aspect. There’s a lot to take in if you want to represent that time period correctly.”
Andrew said to acquaint himself with the culture he would spend time at the local Wal-Mart to hear the accents.
Actors can sometimes spend weeks or even months living
and breathing a film, but when filming wrapped, Mills and the rest of the crew were the ones to put on the finishing touches.
“We edited, and we edited, and we edited and it’s almost like Tetris,” he said, laughing. “The film was originally 2:25, and we got it down to 1:55. It’s really difficult to cut half an hour out of your film, because you’re personally attached — you don’t want to lose that,”
The process was an uphill battle, Mills said, but the final product was worth it.
“Honestly, it’s been a long road,” Mills said. “We’ve had to persevere through many kinds of obstacles, but it’s truly the beginning for us. This is our baby, our flagship project. If it wasn’t a labor of love, I would’ve given up forever ago. But I knew there was so much more that the film could offer, so I held on and gave it time.”
“Brother’s Keeper” will hit select theaters Nov. 1.
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COURTESY
Writer/director Joshua Mills (left), Class of 1998, talks with actor Daniel Samonas behind the scenes of “Brother’s Keeper.”
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Experts reflected on America’s path to a shale revolution at the
MSC SCONA sponsored event held Tuesday night in the MSC.
The event, “Serving the Pipe-line: American Energy Indepen-dence,” included remarks from two speakers, Texas Railroad Commissioner David J. Porter and former professor for the Har-old Vance Department of Petro-leum Engineering at Texas A&M Stephen A. Holditch.
The first issue addressed was how the United States and the world are fairing regarding the amount of oil and natural gas left.
Holdritch said running out of natural gas is not the issue — the is-sue pertains to how to obtain the gas.
“In North America, there is 18,318 trillion cubic feet of natu-ral gas supply,” Holdritch said. “That’s about 269 years of natural gas. We know where it is, we have the technology to get it, but it may not be economically available.”
New technology like hydrau-lic fracturing, or hydrofracturing, is the key to reaching this natural gas as well as oil supplies, Hold-ritch said. Holdritch said hydraulic fracturing is the process of fractur-ing rock by using a compressed liquid, clearing a path for a well to be drilled.
Despite the negative publicity of this method in the press, Hold-ritch said the claims that hydraulic fracturing harms the environment are not backed by credible evi-dence.
“Hydrofracturing uses recycled water, and the chemical used is 90 percent water, eight percent sand
and the rest is chemicals that can be found in homes,” Holdritch said.
For Porter’s presentation, he said he drew on his experience as the Railroad Commission, which is the primary state regulator of oil and gas industry. Porter’s presen-tation emphasized steps Texas and the United States are taking to be-come more energy independent.
Porter said the energy and eco-nomic independence of Texas and the United States depends on hy-drofracturing, and resources out-side of the oil market.
“Energy independence is de-fined [by the media] to only in-clude oil,” Porter said. “But if we look at it from such a narrow view, we are never going to be energy independent. It is impos-sible to overemphasize the impor-tance of hydrofracturing. Without it, increase in production will not happen. The economic benefits will not exist. Energy indepen-dence will not exist.”
After their presentations, both speakers were asked questions by moderator John Pappas, interim associate director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute.
Speakers also answered ques-tions regarding converting the main natural resource in America from oil to natural gas. To these questions, Holdritch said the switch would provide more long-term benefits, and the process of converting these natural resources is being enabled by current tech-nology.
“Fifty percent of the oil we import is used in transportation,” Holdritch said. “We can replace this with natural gas in various
forms, especially compressed gas.”Porter said the conversion is a
matter of adjusting current infra-structure, but the future is bright.
“It’s basically an infrastruc-ture issue,” Porter said. “We are encouraging more government transportation fleets — school buses, garbage trucks — to switch to natural gas. But until it’s proven to be economically viable, con-version can’t take place.”
In his ending remarks, Hold-ritch said Texas and the United States will continue to work to-ward making America as energy secure as possible to keep America growing.
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Letter from GSC president
I am honored and privileged to serve as this year’s Graduate Student Council President. Although I,
like many graduate students, am not a native Texan, I have fierce pride in my University.
In years past, the graduate stu-dents may have been seen as a type of second-class citizen: second-class to the faculty and second-class to the “true” Aggies (undergrads). I am working to bring graduate students up to their aspired level of pride within this University and work against the negative stereotype of the grad student as a “two-percenter.”
This will require a strengthen-ing of the leadership and voice of both the GSC and graduate students through all channels available to us, including University committees, undergraduate leaders and offices on campus like the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies.
Through the teamwork of both graduate and undergraduate leaders, we can begin to heal the divisions between the two student bodies and ensure the graduate voice is heard.
We also have planned the inaugural Texas A&M Graduate Student Bill of Rights. We have researched our Vision 2020 peers and have found that many of them have an operable document that we would like to replicate. By bringing forth established University poli-cies already in place, and procedures already followed, we can improve transparency in the University and allow graduate students to feel com-fortable in their role. We are always reminded of our responsibilities, but it is time for us to know our rights as well.
The GSC is also emphasizing community building, both within the graduate body and undergradu-ates. With a marketing team and a new Nth Degree Newsletter, we
have been able to communicate better with the graduate students about social events and professional development workshops. We have established better channels through the GSC president’s roundtable to collaborate with other organiza-tions to reach a wider audience and enrich our student experience. We also foresee the ability to work with undergraduates to revive a sense of unity on campus and provide op-portunities for graduate students to serve as mentors.
Last, but not least, we will con-tinue the fight for fairness on campus with research funding for graduate students. We will continue to pro-vide travel awards for conferences, but hope to recognize and share other available resources of funding.
This year, the University cele-brates “50 Years of Inclusiveness,” a momentous decade that enabled stu-dents to find their voice on campus. The legacy of those student protest-ers was the expansion of student pride in their universities because they, for the first time, had the abil-ity to have a say in campus affairs. In the same way, we graduate students are finding our own voice to express the pride we have as being graduate students, as well as Aggies.
Thanks and Gig ‘Em!
Brittany Bounds is president of Gradu-ate Student Council and a doctorate student in history
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David Porter, Texas railroad commissioner, speaks Tuesday regarding American energy independence.
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A panel of A&M AgriLife administrators will convene Thursday to discuss international
agriculture as part of The Norman Borlaug In-stitute’s 2013 Seminar Series.
The program, “Texas A&M AgriLife’s In-ternational Direction,” will take a look at the increasing role Texas A&M University will take in a changing world. It will be held at noon in the Agriculture and Life Sci-ences Building and is open to all students, faculty and staff.
Speakers at the event will in-clude Douglas Steele, director of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, Craig Nessler, director of Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Alan Sams, executive associate dean of the College of Agricul-ture and Life Sciences.
Sams said the central purpose of this discussion is to clarify AgriLife’s stance and role in the global community.
“One of the things The Bor-laug Institute wanted to do was get the perspective of the top ad-ministrators in the AgriLife pro-gram,” Sams said. “They want us to talk about where our vision for interna-tional engagement is, whether it be in educa-tion, research or service.”
All discussions in The Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture’s Fall 2013 series will be focused on the agricultural economies of developing countries and ways in which global food supplies can be increased. The institute’s purpose is to bring research, training and edu-cation to developing countries and is joined in their efforts by Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension and the Col-lege of Agriculture.
Steele said the University’s role is expanding
in a shrinking world.“Globalization is a part of our future,” Steele
said. “Our students today live in a global so-ciety. The challenge that we have, specifically with Texas A&M as a land grant institution, is our obligation to be a world leader in agricul-tural research.”
Sams said he believes students, specifically those in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, need to participate in the global community and to experience other cultures and countries.
“The world is getting smaller,” Sams said. “In order for people to be successful profes-
sionals and leaders in the world, or even just in Texas, they need to have an appreciation for differ-ent cultures. They have to have a sense of international commerce, and the things that drive it.”
Kripa Patel, freshman math-ematics major, said she believes Texas A&M students should be exposed to a variety of cultures.
“Texas A&M University needs to be involved with these pro-grams because we are able to learn about other cultures while they learn about us,” Patel said. “The information and ideas we share with the world can benefit many people, and not just one country.”
Steele and Sams said all mem-bers of the University stand to
gain from going to the seminar.“I think it’s for students, both undergradu-
ate and graduate, who want to understand how their university is reaching out to other parts of the world,” Steele said.
Sams said the event also reveals the Univer-sity’s priorities.
“I think the staff and faculty will benefit from knowing where the University is going and what’s important to Texas A&M,” Sams said.
preparing for opponents throughout the season.
“[Sumlin] has this strong sense of urgency every week,” Kennedy said. “It pretty much goes down the chain of com-mand to the staff and then it trickles down to us. He just wants us to stay calm and treat it like a normal game..”
Junior offensive lineman Cedric Ogbuehi said this game is no more important than the next, noting that if A&M were to defeat Alabama but lose down the line, the win would lose value.
“If we win this game and
lose the next game, it doesn’t matter anymore,” Ogbuehi said. “This is the first [con-ference] game in the SEC, so that’s all we’re thinking about. We have to be 1-0 [in confer-ence play] after this game. It’s the third game of the year, so there’s a lot more games left to play.”
In fact, the only player to acknowledge the game’s mag-nitude was senior running back Ben Malena, who said he expected Saturday’s atmo-sphere within Kyle Field to be unimaginable.
“I’m pretty sure [Kyle Field] will be, in the whole four years I’ve been here, an experience I’ve never seen,” Malena said.
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In order for people to be successful professionals and leaders in the world, or even just in Texas, they need to have an appreciation for different cultures.”
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Globalization discussion to take place Thursday
(Top) Senior defensive back Toney Hurd Jr. discussed Tuesday the way the team treats Alabama as a regular game. (Bottom) Junior wide receiver Malcome Kennedy said head coach Kevin Sumlin was the source for A&M’s approach.
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The International Students Association will be hosting its third annual I-Global Lead-
ership Workshop on Sunday in the MSC to teach students networking and leadership skills in a culturally diverse community.
The event will feature guest speakers with culturally diverse backgrounds. Linda Edwards, director of community outreach in the Office of the Provost, will be presenting a seminar called “Raising Your Cultural IQ,” designed to edu-cate students on how to improve cross-cultural interactions and avoid communication clashes.
International Student adviser Lesley Vaculin and theatre arts professor Michael Greenwald will be conducting interactive team building exercises.
President of the International Student Asso-ciation (ISA) Sakshi Gupta said the activities and lectures led by the guest speakers will help stu-dents step out of their comfort zones and learn.
“When you are from another culture, you
may feel suppressed,” Gupta said. “You may have an accent and feel unable or afraid to ex-press yourself. The I-Global Leadership Work-shop teaches you to not be scared, to be a leader wherever you go.”
Graduate student Amit Ghoshal is a new-comer to both the workshop and to Texas A&M. He is working on his second doctorate, but said he is going to the event because there is always more to learn.
“They say that it doesn’t matter what you know, but who you know,” Ghoshal said. “If you want to be successful, you have to net-work. That is key.”
Attendees will receive a Certificate of Com-pletion, get to enjoy an array of international foods and have a chance to win prizes. Yash-want Vyas, junior electrical engineering major, said the value of the program will be the educa-tion and experience it provides.
“A certificate of completion may get dam-aged or lost,” Vyas said, “but nobody will be able to take away what you have learned.”
Editor-in-chief and senior English creative writing major Madison Parker said the orga-nization has exceeded expectations with its booming growth. With three times the number of applications expected, Parker said she was excited about the outpouring of Aggie interest and support.
“I am encouraged by the responses we have received because that is just a huge testament that the Aggie art community is so much larger than we give it credit for,” Parker said. “It is encouraging to know that we have a strong backing behind our art community here, that even people who don’t contribute art can ap-preciate it.”
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I’m encouraged by the responses
we have received because that is a huge testament that the Aggie art community is so much larger than we give it credit for.”
— Madison Parker, editor-in-chief of The Eckleburg Project
Event displays global network
Homero SegoviaSpecial to The Battalion
Workshop aims to create diverse leaders
Students learn network skills at the I-Global Leadership Workshop.
