The 2012-2013 sports season at Tex-as A&M came to a close with much
buzz still surrounding the excitement of a first season in the Southeastern Con-ference.
But as the focus turned to the offsea-son for varsity sports, another group of A&M athletes were celebrating national championships of their own.
The Texas A&M Sport Clubs Pro-gram claimed 23 national champion teams and individuals this year among the program’s 34 sports.
“To have 23 [championships] this
year, that’s a high end for us,” said Keith Joseph, Sport Clubs director in the De-partment of Recreational Sports. “Since our Sport Clubs Association started in 1974 we have 208 national champion-ships and it’s because of the dedication and the passion of the sport that all these athletes play in.”
Some of the championships this year included gymnastics, fencing, trap and skeet, powerlifting, taekwondo and ar-chery.
Joseph said the accomplishments by these athletes come in sports that some-
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In support of a protest in Brazil that began as a demonstration against in-creased bus fares and escalated into a
fight against political repression, Brazil-ian Texas A&M students will organize in front of the Memorial Student Cen-ter on Thursday in their own form of protest.
Nickollas Nunes, junior civil engi-neering major, said the group’s main purpose for protesting in College Sta-
tion is to support their fellow Brazilians.“It will allow us to show our support
for them and bring awareness to this is-sue,” he said. “They are citizens who are fighting for their rights and that is something to be proud of. We believe they are heroic for what they are doing. People need to be aware of what is going on in the world and in other countries. We are calling students to come protest for democracy — for a better Brazil.”
Protests in multiple Brazilian cities as well as protests around the world in sup-port of Brazil have increased in recent
days. Citizens are crying out about the injustice of the government, which they say refuses to solve problems in its in-frastructure including education, health-care and transportation.
The protests began in Sao Paulo on June 13 after police clashed with dem-onstrators over increased bus fares. Pro-test organizers said more than 100 dem-onstrators were injured. Police said 12 officers were hurt and more than 230 people were detained and later released.
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Nickollas Nunes, junior civil engineering major, and Danielle Bressiani, environmental engineering graduate student, show protest signs in both Portuguese and English outside the Memorial Student Center.
The ordinary farm cow has roused excitement through-out the scientific community from findings on their
remarkable potential for future human immunology use.On June 6, The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla,
Calif., released an 18-month investigation involving cattle and humans. The study debuted on the cover of “Cell,” a leading academic journal among biology and biomedi-cal journals, and was coauthored by three Texas A&M researchers from the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Titled, “Reshaping Antibody Diversity,” the study ex-amines the unique antibodies cows produce. With Texas A&M’s accessibility to cattle, it made a suitable fit as a sec-ondary research location needed for collaboration.
“It was fortuitous through a mutual collaborator of mine at Scripps, down the hall from the guys who started the structural work on these cow antibodies,” said Michael Criscitiello, a co-author of the paper who had originally been working on shark antibodies in California. “We were brought into the project due to our expertise in immunol-ogy, bovine vaccine development and genetics.”
Described by Criscitiello, antibodies are proteins that have the ability to “neutralize viruses.” The research un-covered that the molecular structure of some cow antibod-ies are considerably longer and project much farther than human antibodies, allowing for them to successfully rid the body of the substance being harbored.
Waithaka Mwangi, an assistant professor at A&M and co-author on the paper, noted how the molecular structure of an antibody bares resemblance to a lobster, with two “arms” reaching up in order to bind with substances called “antigens.” The antigens are often hidden by the pathogen.
“These antibodies have great potential to effectively im-mobilize these pathogens. These antibodies are rare in a sense,” said Mwangi, describing how the longer structures bind more conveniently.
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ACNN/ORC poll shows a 17-point decline in President Barack
Obama’s approval ratings among the 18-34 age group.
A youth advocacy group, Genera-tion Opportunity, released a statement Monday with a possible explanation to the decline.
“CNN confirmed a trend we have been noticing on the ground for quite some time now,” said Generation Op-portunity President Evan Feinberg. “Young people are very concerned about a government that they see as bloated, inefficient and in some cases,
threatening to its citizens.”The poll was conducted by CNN/
ORC via phone interviews from June 11-13 of 1,014 adults. Of the respon-dents, 31 percent described themselves as Democrats, 25 percent as Republicans and 44 percent as independent or mem-bers of another party.
Highlights from the poll included a 3 percent increase in disapproval with the president’s handling of the economy and a 9 percent increase in disapproval of the way Obama is handling his job as president.
It also showed that 62 percent of those interviewed believed the federal govern-ment has become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the
rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. Texas A&M students gave their own
views on these poll results.Emily Brockelman, a kinesiology
graduate student, said she disapproved of President’s Obama’s decisions and that young people are sometimes unaware about current events.
“Young people can often be stu-pid and blind to the issues,” Brockel-man said. “They voted with the trend: let’s change history. People think that the government will take care of them and therefore they do trust the govern-ment, but people have had cause in the last month to worry about ‘big brother
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Chart reflects data collected by a CNN/ORC poll conducted via telephone to adults aged 18-34.
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The Texas A&M Trap and Skeet Team finished runner-up in division one of the Association of College Unions International championships.
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times are lesser-known compared some of the varsity sports on campus, leaving them unrecognized at times.
Joseph noted the success of both ar-chery and paintball in recent years as well as the gymnastics team and rugby.
Each sport is part of a long list of suc-cess that Joseph said he could read “every single one and we’ve been successful in them.”
“It’s great to see them achieve their goals in a lot of lesser-known sports that a majority of folks don’t even know exist on campus,” he said. “This number of 23 is getting some folks’ attention, which is ultimately good for all of our student athletes.”
Hayden Pritchard, senior chemical engineering major, is a member of the ice hockey club team at A&M and serves as a member on the Sport Club Asso-ciation Executive Committee. He said the success is a chance to show off some unique talent that A&M students have to offer.
“I am proud to represent my school and Sport Clubs as a member of the Texas A&M ice hockey team,” Pritchard said. “I think the success of Sport Clubs as a whole shows the amount of talent that A&M has that often goes unnoticed. I am so glad to be a part of such a strong and successful organization.”
He also said the students competing in Sport Clubs deserve just as much recog-nition as NCAA student athletes.
“As a Sport Clubs Executive Com-mittee member, I love to see this kind of success coming from so many different teams,” Pritchard said. “Sport club stu-dent athletes balance their time between the classroom and the playing field just like any NCAA student athlete. These student athletes train every day, on top of their course load, to compete in a sport that they truly love.”
Though the sports are not scholar-ship driven, Joseph said student-athletes can receive scholarships to compete on club teams. The scholarships are funded through fundraising efforts by individual teams.
The program also supports the clubs through financial allocations provided by the Department of Recreational Sports as well as additional funding opportuni-ties directly to the club for their overall operations and travel.
The department and program sup-ports the clubs with more than $400,000
of facilities, services and staff that do not show up in team budgets each year, while the clubs themselves collectively fundraise close to $1 million each year to offset travel and operation costs.
Brandy Drozd is a junior biology major and national champion in several categories for the Trap and Skeet team. Her accomplishments this season includ-ed championships in Women’s Interna-tional Skeet, Women’s International Combined Events, Women’s American Skeet and Women’s Combined Skeet (American and International).
“Performing in the A&M Trap and Skeet club has allowed me create friend-ships while still competing in the sport I love,” she said. “While shooting is nor-mally an individual sport, the collegiate competition allows for a team experi-ence not normally seen in the shooting world.
After her successful season, she said representing and winning awards for A&M has always been a dream of hers.
“Winning several events at nationals was a great feeling,” Drozd said. “I al-ways want to win when I compete, and
seeing my hard work and practice pay off was extremely rewarding.”
Joseph said that for many teams like paintball and archery, the club level is as high as it gets, so the best athletes in their respective sport will flock to A&M at times. The Sport Clubs Program in-cludes sports such as baseball, in which A&M also has an NCAA team.
For Joseph though, in his 15 years at A&M and eight years with the Sport Clubs Program, he said he’s found most of his joy from watching student-ath-letes mature and accomplish their goals. Things he says are what his job is all about.
“Whether the teams win or lose, in my position, it’s really not the most im-portant thing,” he said. “If a team were to lose every game, I don’t get upset about that. I want to make sure they had a good experience and some kind of developing opportunity. We are here to make the clubs as successful as they can be. That’s the great thing I enjoy is seeing students enjoy it and want to do more. They are growing as people.”
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Captains from the 34 teams in the Sport Clubs Program pose for a picture on the staircase in the Student Recreation Center.
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“The protests in San Paolo last Thursday over the 20-cent increase in bus fare, which had a lot of police bru-tality, provided a spark that turned into a huge fire,” Nunes said. “It changed from a protest over a fare increase to a protest over basic rights.”
Danielle Bressiani, environmental engineering graduate student, placed the blame for police brutality on the politicians in Brazil. She also said there should be policies in place to help po-lice better handle mass demonstrations.
“People have the right to protest and not be repressed by the police,” she said. “They are being held for not valid reasons. Repression like this should not be in a democracy. The re-pression does not come from the po-lice, but from above — the politicians. Also, the police are not well prepared to deal with protests effectively with-out violence. Things need to change to fix these problems.”
Pointing out another cause of the protests, Marcia Franco, an animal sci-
ence graduate student, said the Brazil-ian government will spend billions on the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the 2016 Rio Olympics, with less funding going to what citizens believe are more important issues of society.
“The cost of this World Cup is more than the last three combined,” Franco said. “They are spending bil-lions on building stadiums. Yet, noth-ing is going toward our basic rights. They are forcing people out of their homes for these stadiums — violating their rights.”
Bressiani also discussed the different views of the protestors and their main goals.
“The government is unable to pro-vide us our basic rights: education, healthcare and mobility,” she said. “Despite all of these different issues, our main goal is to better democracy and better Brazil.”
The group will march from the MSC to Sbisa dining hall at 6 p.m. on Thursday, in conjunction with 200 other cities doing the same — 50 of them outside of Brazil, Nunes said.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
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I’m a “sip,” but I have to feel for guys like Johnny M., who don’t look ahead when they say something or do something. He’s a good guy, not a bad guy. He just can’t see what reaction some people will have. You have to understand that sports writers and pundits have to write something, so they watch people in the public eye continuously. So, any little thing they do or say can be blown way higher than it is really worth.
When A&M bolted the Big 12, I couldn’t wait for the dregs of the SEC to show the Aggies the error of ignoring reality. “You know those rubes at A&M don’t have a lick of sense.” “They think they can whip Alabama?” “What do you think — a 1-12 season?”
Oh boy, it would be fun to watch, but it didn’t happen, largely because of the coach and the luck of having Johnny Manziel waiting in the wings. Let me tell you that the good things you’ve done haven’t gone unnoticed by people in Texas, even by some of us “sips.” So now I’m proud that A&M is showing the SEC that maybe some pretty good football is
played by Texas schools. And I’m proud to say I’m a full-blooded fan of Johnny M. and Kevin Sumlin and the Texas Aggies.
I wouldn’t put too much stock in what Johnny said about wanting out of College Station. He’d want out of Dallas, or San Francisco, or New York City if he had to live the life he’s living now. He can’t do anything fun or say anything without a whole bunch of sports fans shaking their heads and talking about what a bad guy he is. Would you want to live that life?
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if he stuck around through his senior year of eligibility. Like I say, he’s a good guy, and even if next year or the year after his NFL stock has gone through the roof, he’ll still want to stay with his teammates as long as he can.
Good luck on next year’s season. I’m rooting for an SEC championship and, with a little bit of luck, a national championship.
You make me proud.
From Roger Blair, senior engineering technology major.
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Michelle Dawes, genetics graduate student, talked about what she saw as a corruption of the government and how young people must be vigilant to protect their rights.
“The government is corrupt and doesn’t have the public’s best interests at heart,” Dawes said. “It’s all about the money. People think that we will always have a democracy, but that’s not true. The government is trying to take full control. If we aren’t careful, we will lose our rights. Our government will take them away — not outside forces — if we are not careful.”
Yndalecia Ojeda, an incoming freshman in
chemical engineering, said it’s the fault of the voters if corrupt political officials make it into office.
“We elect who’s in office,” Ojeda said. “So, it’s our fault if the people in positions of authority don’t have our best interests in heart. You have to elect the people who will have your best interests at heart.”
Walt Whitaker, a freshman general studies major, said there could be a few things that ac-count for the recent drop in Obama’s approval ratings among young people.
“Presidents usually get less popular as time goes on,” Whitaker said. “It’s not what I would do or what I would have voted for, but he’s doing an OK job. I think that the protests internationally over rights being taken away from the citizens could have played a part in helping people look at out government more critically.”
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Criscitiello said earlier research had pro-posed that there might be two separate areas on the chromosome that “normal” antibodies and unique ones were to be found.
“We wanted to know where in the cow chromosome are the genes located to encode the specific antibodies,” said Terje Raudsepp, a co-author and cytogeneticist who researched the DNA sequences of the antibodies.
Through a process called “Fluorescenct In Situ Hybridization,” the investigators were able to provide evidence that the two genes did in fact exist in the same location.
Researchers are eager for future study be-cause of its conceivable impact on improving human medicines.
“The idea is that we should be able to en-gineer cow antibodies that would be safe to use with human antibodies,” Criscitiello said.
According to the Texas A&M researchers, future pharmaceuticals, such as HIV therapies, could be less expensive than in the past due to the gene already being present in cows, rather than having to be chemically created, as they are now.
“Cow antibodies are more compatible and able to be manipulated to make more proteins over and over again,” Criscitiello said.
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Cows used in the antibody research stand in a field.
