The Texas A&M football team began its fall practices amid plenty of allegations, but
among that old news, new football stars were forming.
Just one day before camp, news broke that quarterback Johnny Manziel reportedly took thousands of dollars for signing autographs.
The reports have stolen headlines for much of the week, but the first week of football prac-tices have brought clarity to the team.
If Manziel was at all distracted because of the allegations, he didn’t show it on the football field. Manziel was seen joking with teammates
and coaches during multiple practices. During Friday’s practice he showed the mo-
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Also on display was A&M’s influx of young talent. Head coach Kevin Sumlin set out on the recruiting trail a year ago looking to make the A&M football team bigger and faster.
The most impressive of them all has been freshman wide receiver Ricky Seals-Jones who reported to camp at 6-6, 240 pounds. He could play a number of positions on the field and has shown why he was one of the most highly
Texas A&M is expected to graduate nearly 1,800 students Friday during the summer semester commencement ceremonies. A&M head softball coach Jo Evans will give the Commencement Convocation speech Thursday in Rudder Auditorium.
A&M softball coach prepares convocation speech as students ready to walk stage
Driving down I-10 on Monday en route from one recruit’s house to the next, Texas A&M head softball coach
Jo Evans began to talk aloud in her car. Instead of rambling about coach speak, Ev-
ans was reciting the speech she will give at the Commencement Convocation on Thursday in Rudder Auditorium.
“My biggest thing is, it’s important to me that I can convey a clear message,” Evans said. “Obviously it’s important for me to be pre-pared so right now what better time than four hours in the car to work on my preparation.”
Nearly 1,800 Aggies will graduate the fol-lowing day at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Evans was sent a letter by University Presi-
dent R. Bowen Loftin, asking if she would accept the honor of speaking to the summer semester graduates.
“I initially was surprised to get the invi-tation and certainly felt somewhat over-whelmed, but I’m just hoping that I can say
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Fall practice showcases new players, brings clarity
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insidescience | 2Sea gliders help researchTexas A&M researchers are using autonomous gliders to study the Gulf of Mexico, and eventually, the rest of the world.
tech | 3Scientists aim to prevent wildfiresStudies by A&M professors on plant growth and weather patterns are helping predict and prevent wildfires in Texas.
opinion | 5Honor Code?Guest column: “An Aggie does not lie, cheat or steal or tolerate those who do.” Why isn’t the Code of Honor being applied to the Johnny Manziel allegations?
campus newsCollege Colors Day competition Aggies will have the opportunity to show their Aggie Spirit with the College Colors Day Spirit Cup competition. The Facebook-based competition opened Monday and the winning school will be awarded $10,000. Users can pledge support online at tx.ag/SpiritCup2013.
Preparations come together for move-in day
campus
Incoming students expect-ing to call the Texas A&M
campus home in the coming months will move in to resi-dence halls beginning Sunday, and the Aggie family will be there to help.
From 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., there will be teams of vol-unteers dispersed throughout campus assisting new students and family members.
Incoming freshman and biomedical sciences major, Viona Vraniqi, said move-in day is the culmination of all her college preparations.
“After going through the housing application, receiving room assignments, and just the pure anticipation of school starting, move in day will be like the cherry on top,” Vra-niqi said.
Ruth Ann Wolfe, senior administrative coordinator with the Department of Resi-dence Life, said the volunteer teams helping with move-in day consist of current students, different student organization groups, residence life staff, fac-ulty, and a “variety of com-munity involvement,” includ-ing church groups.
The Department of Resi-dence Life spends months organizing a “Residence Hall Move-In Assistance Day.”
Wolfe said Residence Life organizes a training session to inform volunteers of use-ful information, such as ways to efficiently unload students’ belongings.
Wolfe also said preparations have been made to ensure that volunteers are placed in loca-tions that they have knowl-edge of.
“Since those volunteers are familiar with that area, it will be easier for parents to ask
questions,” she said. “That’s what will make it more smooth.”
Water tents will be set up for students as well as the vol-unteers to help fight the Texas heat that accompanies move-in day.
John Logan, senior civil en-gineering major and resident advisor, suggested that an early morning arrival time might be beneficial, because of the heat.
“Move-in starts at 8 a.m., but try to get there and get in line as early as 7:45,” Logan said.
Logan gave an additional piece of advice about the days following move-in day.
“Meet the other people in your hall. You never know who you may meet,” Logan said. “My first week in the dorm my freshman year, I met my future wife.”
Students such as Evan Bak-kal, freshman aerospace engi-neering major, expect to use the move-in period to meet other students and begin those relationships.
“Move-in day will be per-fect for starting my time at A&M because not only will I be the new kid on the block, but so will everyone else,” Bakkal said. “Although it may be awkward at first I think that once I finish unpacking and everything I will try to help some other people with moving in and that should also help break the ice with meet-ing new people.”
Wolfe said that a large part of organizing move-in day is many of the student volun-teers’ willingness to help.
“The majority of them have lived on campus and they just want to be ready to give back and put back what they were given to the Uni-versity,” Wolfe said.
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Quarterback Johnny Manziel and running back Ben Malena await the whistle of head coach Kevin Sumlin during the first week of fall practices.
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New rabbi embraces Aggielandreligion
West coast native, Rabbi Matt Rosen-berg, will soon be a familiar face to
students as he fulfills his new role as campus rabbi and executive director to Texas A&M Hillel Foundation, a chapter of the nation-wide network and organization for Jewish students.
Rosenberg was ordained in May after studying at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles, Calif. Rosenberg said while in seminary, visiting representa-tives from Hillel Headquarters in Washing-ton inspired him, and rather than pursue a
position as “pulpit rabbi,” he decided to become in-volved with Hillel.
“I was really moved by what they had to say, most notably the impact the Hillel has on Jewish and non-Jewish students,” Rosenberg said.
In February, Rosenberg accepted his offer to be part of the Texas A&M chapter.
“When I came for interviews, I fell in love with the campus and its traditions,”
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I initially was surprised to get the invitation and
certainly felt somewhat overwhelmed, but I’m just hoping that I can say something meaningful to these graduates.”
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Heather Zimmerle, a graduate research assistant in oceanography working on the project, said the initial research in the Gulf of Mexico will be important, but the glid-ers can be used across the world.
“Right now, deploying the gliders in the Gulf of Mexico will allow us to moni-tor various known hazards in the region, such as oil spills and hypoxia,” Zimmerle said. “Because the gliders are so versa-tile, researchers at Texas A&M will be able to use the gliders in other areas in the world.”
Mullins said the glider can be altered for optimal use by scientists depending on their research and region.
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Mullins said the gliders will bring Tex-as A&M and the field of oceanography into the 21st century and benefit students and the community.
“Having an operational glider center will further improve students’ working knowledge of ocean observing systems and make our students competitive in the field of oceanography,” Mullins said. “Gliders are also a great tool to connect K-12 students and the local community to the field of oceanography as students. The community can follow the progress of the gliders during missions in near real-time and experience first-hand ocean ob-serving technology at work.”
Knap said although the devices are beginning their journey in the Gulf of Mexico, the goal is to eventually have a fleet of 10 gliders operating globally.
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something meaningful to these graduates,” Evans said.
Evans, who has coached Aggie softball since 1996, is one of the longest ten-ured coaches at A&M. In a prepared statement, Lof-tin said he is sure Evans will have a resounding message among graduates.
“Coach Evans has served our student athletes in many ways — coach, mentor and motivator — with a high de-gree of success, both on and off the field of play,” Loftin said in a statement. “On a wider scale she is an exemplary role model for all Aggies, especially the scores of young women who have had the opportunity to play under her tutelage and learn from her. She will bring a message that will be highly rel-evant for our degree candidates and well received by everyone in attendance.”
In previous years the sum-mer ceremony has been re-served for coaches, as women’s basketball coach Gary Blair spoke in 2012 and former football coach Mike Sherman in 2011.
Both Blair and Sherman told graduates to use what they’ve learned at A&M to further themselves in their fu-ture endeavors.
For graduating senior com-munication major, Carson Wyatt, the convocation and her walk across the stage will represent a journey that in-cluded starting school at the
University of Oklahoma for a year then University of Tex-as-Tyler before calling Texas A&M home.
“I have cherished the past two years I have spent at Tex-as A&M,” Wyatt said. “Al-though I had a very different road to get where I am now, I wouldn’t choose any other school to walk across the stage and receive my diploma. Tex-as A&M has prepared me not only with the classes, but also the relationships made along the way.”
Wyatt called the summer graduation different than the one she saw friends experience in other semesters. Having fin-ished classes on July 3, there’s been anticipation looming ever since.
“I think graduating in Au-gust gives a different mix of emotions than May gradu-ation,” she said. “I finished classes on July 3 so I’ve been waiting for this day for six weeks, but I still feel the bitter-sweet sensation of leaving col-lege behind. Although I have a mix of emotions going into graduation, I am ready for the beginning of a new chapter.”
Wyatt plans to start a career in commercial real estate and property management after she graduates.
As Evans makes her way
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back to College Station for Thursday’s speech, she has found a sense of calm after being nervous initially. She has received countless mes-sages of support including one from athletic director Eric Hyman who even sent videos of other athletes and coaches who have spoke at graduation ceremonies.
“My talent is, as a coach, to inspire and motivate college kids to go out there and per-form at their best,” Evans said. “Initially I was sort of hung up on, ‘What in the world do I have to say that is meaning-ful to these students who have just graduated.’ When I kind of turned it around and looked at it like, ‘Wait a minute, I’ve been surrounded by these same people for 28 years.’ I remind myself, I know who these peo-ple are and I’ve been coach-ing students just like them, which puts me sort of at ease that I can possibly share some of my experiences with them and give them something that maybe can be helpful to them in their next journey.”
Researchers are using the study of plant growth with weather patterns to help predict potential wildfires.
help streamline the process, reduce the subjectivity. Also if it works, then we are able to get that information out to the folks in the field, and help make our citizens safer, and our firefighters safer.”
Hamilton said the mod-eling system has two com-ponents. The first is the PHYGROW model, which simulates above-ground plant growth, forage consumption and hydrological processes. The other is a modified Risk Assessment Support System, which provides support to decisions related to prescribed burning and the risk of wild-fire by utilizing near real-time weather conditions and fuel loads.
“The uniqueness about our model is the PHYGROW component,” Hamilton said. “Our model takes a count of multiple species associated with the range land, which we think does a good job of pre-dicting [plant growth] given the soils, the weather and the grazing component.”
In order to use the PHY-GROW model, the research-ers first need to go to different
counties to set up monitoring points and collect vegetation data, such as what type of plant and how much of that plant is in the area. Once the data is collected, researchers use it to-gether with weather data from the National Weather Service and other data to run the sim-ulation model.
“We are essentially growing the plants in our model,” said Jay Angerer, assistant professor at the Blacklands Research and Extension Center in Temple and member of the research team. “We also look at differ-ent conditions that may cause the plant to catch on fire.”
Another purpose of this research is to determine the resolution needed for sam-pling in order to provide ac-curate information on fire danger with the least amount of manpower and expense, Hamilton said.
Right now, the researchers are collecting the field data in three North Texas counties: Stephens, Palo Pinto and Jack, all of which have the most fre-quent and damaging wildfires in Texas, Hamilton said.
I’ve been waiting for [graduation] for six weeks, but I still feel the bittersweet
sensation of leaving college behind. — Carson Wyatt,
graduating senior communication major
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Ladies & Gentlemen,
I’d like to begin by saying that Darren Rovell and other report-ers like him do NOT speak for me or any of the many Aggies I know. Most of the Aggies I know are tired of the media focusing on Mr. Manziel’s personal life as a means of distracting from the Aggie football program’s recent success. Aggies don’t shoot their wounded; we support and stand by one another and that is why Aggies make good soldiers, good friends and good businessmen. If there is any truth to any of this media frenzy it will be dealt with at the appropriate time and through the appropriate avenues. It is time for the students, the Former Students, the players and the staff to ignore these blatant attempts to distract us and focus on another amazing season.
Mr. Manziel is a young man with a lot of potential and with all of his talent, he is still just one man on a team of greatness. The Aggie Football program has made us proud and the 2012 sea-son was one of the most exciting seasons to watch in my almost 58 years of watching Aggie Football. I believe I speak for many proud Aggies when I say that we stand behind Coach Sumlin, Mr. Manziel and the entire football program 110%.
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I am not an Aggie. I am a Texan, however, and I am very familiar with A&M. I can also tell you that some of my best friends, relatives, co-workers and, perhaps most important, adversaries, are Aggies.
Because of that familiarity I, like most people, have a high regard for the ethical stan-dards I see when I deal with A&M graduates. I have never once felt uneasy when reaching an agreement on an unwritten promise or a handshake with an Aggie. That quality is what makes your school the fine institution it is and what makes you, as an Aggie, proud to be a student or an alumni.
These positive feelings I and so many non-Aggies feel toward A&M are also the feelings that make this Johnny Manziel debate so con-fusing to us. As I watch ESPN and read the many accounts of this imbroglio all I see and hear are “there is a witch hunt to get Johnny Football,” and most troubling, “they have no case because they cannot show money chang-ing hands.” The one question I have rarely heard asked is, “what is the truth?”
I went to UT School of Law where the Honor Code was sacrosanct. I have read the A&M Code of Honor and the comments in the student handbook concerning that Code. I can honestly tell you that I know from ex-perience that Aggie alumni follow that Code. It is rightly a great source of pride.
This gets to my concern. Surely someone
has asked Manziel if he signed autographs for either payment or the expectation of pay-ment. And when he was asked that question I assume that all of Aggie Nation expected him to tell the truth. If the answer was “yes” (and I expect that is the truthful response) then I would further expect all of Aggie Nation to accept the consequences. If the answer is “no” then I expect him to be defended to the hilt. Am I missing something here?
A&M was a great and proud University long before Johnny Football and it will remain so long after he is gone. Great institutions remain so by doing the right and honorable thing even when the timing is inopportune. The outcome of the Alabama game will not define A&M. Whether A&M stays true to its values at this moment just may, however.
Contributed by Brent Howard, Tyler, Texas
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recruited players in Sumlin’s signing class.“Ricky Seals-Jones looks outstanding,” wide
receivers coach David Beaty said. “That guy, he looks at weights and he grows another muscle somewhere in his body. He’s a big kid.”
Seals-Jones has benefited from strength coach Larry Jackson, who has developed a reputation for working players into the ground during the offseason. In exchange, players have noted their development in size and weight.
Sophomore defensive back De’Vante Har-ris was giddy describing his 14-pound jump to 175-pounds following Jackson’s schedule. But that wasn’t the only thing he worked on dur-ing the offseason, dedicating time to improve his tackling.
“I’ve worked on my aggressiveness and coming to balance,” Harris said. “[Defensive backs coach Marcel Yates] really worked with me, because we all know I had trouble tackling last year.”
Harris, along with sophomore defensive lineman Julien Obioha, quickly became media favorites during the week as young players who made their media debuts.
Speaking of favorites, the job for Johnny
Manziel’s backup appears undecided. Both ju-nior Matt Joeckel and redshirt freshman Matt Davis took second-team reps during practices with no clear-cut favorite yet. Freshman Kenny Hill hasn’t seen second team playing time but has impressed some coaches. That success hasn’t come with its fair share of learning curves.
“Things are happening faster,” Sumlin said. “He threw a field comeback the other day that got picked off and I said, ‘Things happen a little bit faster out here don’t they?’ He said, ‘Yeah coach, they are. Normally in high school I could make that.”
The first week of practices served as a time for coaches to get players on the same page and move past any off-the-field news. As they inched one week closer to the season opener against Rice on Aug. 31, practice began sepa-rating the men from the boys and leaders from the followers.
“Everybody’s talking about the look of our team, it looks different,” Sumlin said. “A lot of those young guys help, they walk in 6-3, 6-4, 225 [pounds]. That changes the look of your team. We had a great summer, which says a lot about your team. For those guys to come in, in the summer, that takes leadership from within. It’s a culture and it takes some time, but I’m happy. I think you can see the difference in a lot of different people.”
Rosenberg said. “I knew this is where I wanted to be.”
Since his official arrival July 1, Rosenberg has met with current and former stu-dents, donors and faculty at Texas A&M.
Before rabbinical school, Rosenberg attended the Uni-versity of California, Davis, and California State Univer-sity, where he received both a bachelor’s and master’s de-gree in geography. As an un-dergraduate, he was an active volunteer with the Red Cross where he was an emergency responder and taught disaster and CPR classes.
After he graduated, Rosen-berg continued to serve within Red Cross. He was sent to di-saster sites across the country. In 2001, he traveled to New York during the aftermath of 9/11, where he counseled vic-tims and their families.
“It was great work and very rewarding,” Rosenberg said. “I felt like the skills I learned at Red Cross could really be well suited as being rabbi.”
Rosenberg described his ap-
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pointment as an opportunity to “revitalize” Hillel, with plans for new educational pro-grams, Friday night services and social gatherings to attract more Jewish students.
“There are not many Jew-ish kids coming to A&M, because there [are] other campuses with larger commu-nities,” said Riley Greenberg, senior agriculture leadership and development major and member of the Texas A&M Hillel student board.
Sarah Herstein, senior chemistry major, said Rosen-berg would be an excellent fit for Texas A&M students.
“I think having a new rabbi with a clear vision will help the students want to get in-volved,” Herstein said.
Rosenberg will be replacing
recently retired Peter Tarlow, who served as Hillel rabbi and executive director for thirty years. Rosenberg said Tarlow would still be active within the Hillel and Jewish community.
Rosenberg also said he will be promoting a future Jew-ish studies program at Texas A&M.
Last November, Hillel was able to move into its new building after two years of construction and displacement in a temporary location.
Greenberg and Herstein both said the upcoming changes should positively im-pact Hillel.
“I want students to be aware that I’m here for them and Hillel is here to be a home away from home,” Rosenberg said.
Rabbi Matt Rosenberg will take over as Texas A&M Hillel rabbi to replace recently retired Peter Tarlow.
