The Texas A&M softball team bat-tled through a hostile road crowd
to secure a 2-1 series victory over Ole Miss in a three-game Friday through Sunday series. The Aggies, who had been swept by Georgia the week-end prior, dominated the Rebels in the final two games to earn their first SEC series win since the March 15-17 sweep over Arkansas.
During Sunday’s series decider, No. 15 A&M (37-13, 8-12) subdued Ole Miss early, scoring twice the top of the second inning off a RBI double by junior Taran Tyler. The Rebels responded in the bottom of the third inning with a run, putting the score
at 2-1.The Aggies launched a counterat-
tack in the fourth inning behind senior Meagan May’s solo home run, taking a 3-1 lead, before clinching the victory in the sixth with juniors Cassie Tysarc-zyk’s RBI single and Jenna Stark’s sole home run, earning A&M the 5-1 win.
During Saturday’s bout with Ole Miss (23-31, 3-21), A&M was able to break its four-game losing streak with an 8-4 victory. Freshman Cali Lan-phear highlighted the start of the game with a two-run home run, giving the Aggies a 2-0 advantage.
In Friday’s series opener, home runs by Lanphear and junior Nicole Morgan were unable to slow down the Rebel offense, which secured Ole Miss the 8-4 victory.
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Simpson, 48, collapsed at his home while doing yard work and was taken to College Sta-tion Medical Center, College Station Mayor Nancy Berry said.
Simpson, Class of 1986, had served as College Station city manager for less than a month. He previously worked as the city’s deputy city manager for two years before being named interim city manager in Janu-ary.
Before coming to Texas A&M, Simpson served as city manager of Missouri City and Webster, and as assistant city manager of La Marque.
“His long-term desire was to get back to College Station as a city manager,” said Allen Owen, Missouri City mayor and friend of Simpson. “He got just what he wanted out of life, and that was to finish his career at A&M.”
Owen said Simpson was a dedicated family man and a very caring person.
“The thing I remember most about him is his laughter, just joy for life,” Owen said.
Simpson is survived by his wife Kelly and three children.
“We are all deeply shocked and saddened by the news of Frank’s passing,” Berry said in a press release. “While he had only recently started his tenure as city manager, Frank’s passion for this community was evident every day. He will be sorely missed by our council, city staff and all who knew and worked with him.”
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Forty-seven percent of Texas A&M students are female, but the classrooms in the Zachry Engineering Center and other familiar cam-
pus math and science destinations remain predom-inantly male.
To this day, the trend of underrepresentation of women in fields of science, technology, engineer-
ing and mathematics (STEM) endures. Women currently compose around 20 percent of STEM and around 18 percent in engineering, according to Chris Kaunas of the Texas A&M Advance Cen-ter for Women Faculty.
Efforts from The Dwight Look College of En-gineering and its female leadership, outreach pro-grams aimed at sparking science and math interest in young girls and a movement to change percep-tions surrounding the fields seek to push against
disproportionate gender representations and meet the demand for engineers in the job market.
25 by 25 The 25 by 25 initiative, announced in Janu-
ary, has the stated goal of increasing the college of engineering’s student population from 11,281 to 25,000, partially by utilizing the historically un-derrepresented female population in STEM fields
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Katharine Banks, A&M vice chancellor and dean of the Dwight Look Collge of Engineering, said the 25 by 15 initiative and an effort to “change the conversation” could help with current gender underrepresentation in STEM fields.
Teammates congratulate Texas A&M’s Jenna Stark after a home run.
Three A&M professors, one high school teach-er and one artistic director spoke Saturday for
TEDxTAMU — a student-organized Technology, Entertainment and Design conference with an A&M twist.
Event organizers from MSC ALOT, the freshman leadership organization that orchestrated the event, said the speakers for the sold-out event were “phe-nomenal.”
“Their talks were incredible,” said Dillon Thomi-son, junior engineering technology major and a di-rector of TEDxTAMU. “It was diverse and multi-disciplinary like we had planned.”
Jenna Ingram, junior accounting major and a di-rector of TEDxTAMU, said every speaker was an exceptional part of the first-ever TEDx at A&M.
“I could not have asked for a better group of speakers, much less a better first group of speakers for the first TEDx event like this,” Ingram said.
Ingram said nearly all of the speakers have some connection to A&M, making this TEDx unique from others. Three are current A&M professors while John
Story, management and marketing chair at the Uni-versity of St. Thomas, is Class of 1991.
“We tried to stick with some kind of connection with A&M [when choosing speakers],” Ingram said. “We’ll continue to make that a tradition to keep it
within not only A&M but the A&M community that can be extended to bring that spotlight to A&M.”
Ingram said the timing of the conference was im-portant.
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insidetrends | 3Chicken and SweatThe Layne’s challenge tested both the cardio and stomach of capacities of participants.
sports | 5Casting a line Ben Paschal, class of 2010, began his career as a fishing guide after his freshman year and has since opened his own business.
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TEDx will keep academics in spotlight, director saysJeffery Musser gives a TED talk titled “The Influence of Milk on Developing Countries” at the inaugural TEDxTAMU event organized by MSC ALOT.
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While many may consider fishing a hobby, Ben Paschal has made it
a career.Paschal, Class of 2010, discovered his
love for fly-fishing at the age of 11 after receiving a fly-fishing rod for Christ-mas. Throughout high school, Paschal worked in fly shops, and the summer af-ter his freshman year at Texas A&M he received his first guide job.
While at Texas A&M, Paschal took a class under Ed Rister, a professor of rural entrepreneurship. Throughout the course, Paschal focused on developing a business plan for a fly-fishing lodge in Colorado, which would be open only four months of the year.
Though the original model was not successful, Rister said it was apparent Paschal was not going to let this obstacle prevent him from reaching his ultimate goal.
“Success does not find you, you must make your own success,” Rister said. “[Paschal] has always had a passion for fly-fishing, and when his final proj-ect did not work out he didn’t let that
stop him.”After graduating with a degree in ag-
ricultural economics, Paschal split his guiding time between Alaska, Chile and Argentina because of their “endless sum-mers,” spending the rest of the year ex-ploring new fishing destinations such as Baja and British Columbia.
Paschal said the area around Bristol Bay southwest Alaska, is one of the most interesting places he visits.
“The amount of activity around you can be somewhat overwhelming, es-pecially if you are not used to fishing around bears,” Paschal said. “Some days you could see upwards of 30 or 40 bears that are sharing the stream with you, not to mention thousands upon thousands of sockeye salmon in the stream.”
The Alaskan Bush is just one of the many undiscovered regions that Paschal has visited.
“Working in the Alaskan Bush is an experience,” Paschal said. “With a fly in, fly out, off the road system, and the only communication being satellite internet and radio, [it] can take a little getting used to.”
Paschal said fishing at the Chilean Pa-tagonia took him “back in time” into a
simpler way of life.“Wood burning stoves and horseback
milk delivery each morning was rou-tine,” Paschal said. “We got our cheese from our neighbor. One day my truck got stuck in the sand where I was launch-ing a boat and we got a team of oxen to pull it out. A lot more of the road traffic consisted of gauchos on horseback more so than other trucks.”
Paschal said the scenery of Patagonia created a captivating view each day he finished.
“Casting big dry flies to trout in a tur-quoise river in a rainforest with glaciers above us was a fun way to fish,” Paschal said. “One time we hired a gaucho to pack us and a raft into a river valley that had never been floated or fly fished in before.”
After years of travel, Paschal decided to start exploring closer to home.
“Instead of traveling during my months off, I started exploring waters closer to home and eventually began to guide my clients from other destinations to where I am located in south Texas,” Paschal said.
Paschal recently opened his own guiding service called “Laguna Madre Outfitters” on the Lower Laguna Madre in south Texas. He said the waters there hold some of the best fishing in Texas.
“It is a unique fishery in the state of Texas because we enjoy a lot of clear water, which allows for sight fishing,” Paschal said. “We also enjoy a healthy population of snook, which is unique to the Texas coast.”
John Pilmer, Class of 1976, said he met Paschal a year ago in a chance en-counter. Pilmer, who also runs a fly- fishing business, said good salesmanship is critical for a successful business, a skill which Paschal exemplifies.
“He has a remarkable amount of ex-perience for his age,” Pilmer said. “He has passion and infectious zeal for fishing. You have to sell people on the fact that they should choose you as a guide.”
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Every year since 2010, Kappa Upsilon Chi, KYX, has purchased raw ma-
terials from the nonprofit organization Feed My Starving Children, FMSC, to produce thousands of sealed and pack-aged meals to help feed hungry children around the globe.
Members of KYX and other volun-teers will come together Thursday to package the meals — made up of soy, dried vegetables and protein-enriched rice — at the Central Baptist Church in College Station. Their goal is to produce more than 100,000 meals.
“These meals have the potential to feed over 300 starving children for an entire year,” said Brett Dossey, senior business major and member of KYX who helped with fundraising and coor-dination of the mobile pack events.
Dossey said the partnership between KYX and FMSC has grown consider-ably since it was formed in 2010.
“[The event has] changed over the years,” Dossey said. “At first it was just
17 cents per meal and we raised $17,000. This year it’s 22 cents per meal and we have raised $22,000. It’s a lot more or-ganized and there’s more fundraising.”
Some members of KYX said they par-ticularly enjoy the hands-on atmosphere the mobile pack events create.
“Rather than just throwing money at a charity to help feed the kids, we pur-chase the ingredients ourselves and pack the food by hand,” said Brad Baxter, ju-nior finance major and member of KYX. “This helps us feed more people for less money. We also get to bring a bunch of people together with the event which helps create more brotherhood through-out the community.”
Baxter said the coordination of the food packaging events is a team effort.
“There aren’t a select few people who are designated to organize the event themselves,” Baxter said. “It takes more than one person to make the event work, which helps bring us even closer.”
Zac Wiltz, sophomore university studies major and member of KYX, said he looks forward to the difference he
will be able to make through the mobile pack event.
“When you get to actually pack the food yourself, you feel like you’re physi-cally making a difference and you’re do-ing the work of God,” Wiltz said. “It’s very different than simply making a do-nation to a hunger charity.”
Daniel Mullins, president of KYX and junior recreation, parks and tourism sci-ences major, said he believes the event perfectly communicates the message of KYX.
“Obviously, it’s a group effort,” Mul-lins said. “We’re able to bring together different people to share the gospel. It’s an extraordinary experience as a college student to be able to do this. We simply want to look as much like Jesus as pos-sible.”
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Fisherman launches guide business
COURTESYPaschal recently opened his own guide business, “Laguna Madre Outfitters,” in the Laguna Madre area of south Texas.
Fraternity to host meal-packing event How to helpThe event will take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 2 at Central Baptist Church. Volunteers can sign up on FMSC.org.
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those students that this is a great profession,” Banks said. “It is cer-tainly as impactful as being a phy-sician, attorney, politician or other areas. So the question is: How do you convert what we do into a mes-sage that will appeal to a broad range of potential students?”
For women in particular Banks said a vital factor in presentation is that the message must effectively convey the beneficial impacts en-gineering has and can have on the world.
“There have been studies that have shown that particularly wom-en students become more engaged or have more positive impressions of engineering if you present it as more impactful,” Banks said.
Lainy Dromgoole, senior radio-logical health engineering major and president of Society of Women Engineers, SWE, said she was lean-ing toward a career in medicine in the hopes of helping people. In the end, though, she said she found a way to aid others in radiological health engineering.
“As a radiological health engi-neer, I would be responsible for keeping people safe from radiation and by using those technologies to keep people safe,” she said. “I would be making a difference.”
Outreach & perceptionMagdalina Lagoudas, director of
engineering student services and academic programs, said there are many outreach programs that may also function as potential recruit-ment programs.
Lagoudas said several programs designed specifically for females have been successful in in-creasing the number of female students applying and being admit-ted to the col-lege. These p r o g r a m s are held for middle school and high school students.
“We have seen our number of females coming into the college grow significantly,” Lagoudas said. “In the fall of 2011, 338 females entered engineering. This coming fall, we don’t have all the students signed up yet, but we have 502 females. So this is a signifi-cant change in female recruitment.”
Lagoudas said each program serves to present younger students with role models in the form of suc-
cessful and happy female engineer-ing students.
“It’s not the money only, it’s be-ing happy with your life. I think it makes an impact on a 17-year-old that is trying to decide, ‘Do I really want to work that hard?’” Lagoudas said.
An additional marker of these programs’ success is the number of students who enter, or attempt to enter, the Texas A&M engineering pathway.
Lagoudas said 80 percent of the students who attended a high school program hosted by Women Explor-ing Engineering have been admitted to the college for the fall semester.
When members of SWE ap-proached Banks expressing worry about which applicants to accept for its SWE Summer Camp for Girls, Banks said it was a simple choice.
“Let them all in,” Banks said. “If we miss one student like that, it would just be a horrible shame. If we miss one opportunity to inspire a young woman to move into this field, than we’ve missed a great op-portunity.”
Another part of changing the conversation is clarifying the pre-requisites for becoming an engineer.
Banks said people often fixate on the idea that in order to succeed in becoming an engineer, one must be outstandingly brilliant in mathemat-ics and science.
“Quite frankly, counselors in in-stitutions in high schools and grade schools often state that if you’re not excellent and outstanding in math and science then don’t even think about going to be an engineer,” Banks said. “It’s incorrect to state it
in that way.”Endeavoring to ad-dress the lack of en-
gineering aware-ness among high school students, Lagoudas said a program called Teachers Sum-mit, offered
every year to 100 high school
STEM teachers, is designed to pres-
ent high school teachers with new ways of explaining
and promoting engineering. “What we’re trying to push with
this is for the teachers themselves to start changing their thoughts about ‘what is engineering.’ It’s not cars and airplanes and bridges, it’s more than that,” Lagoudas said.
Banks said the 100 teachers who attended the program this year edu-cate more than 76,000 students in
Texas.Although these programs have
shown success, Banks said, in the case of women and minority stu-dents, efforts to frame positive views may need support from an extra di-mension — timing.
“Studies have shown that if women and minority students don’t have a positive view of engineer-ing by third and fourth grade, they won’t come into the discipline,” Banks said. “Most people think of recruiting in the high school years but women and minorities have to have a positive view of our disci-pline earlier. And if they do, they will come.”
Retention Rhoads said doubling the num-
ber of female students in the college is dependent on not only recruit-ment efforts, but also on ensuring that women who enter the college will stay in the college.
Dromgoole said SWE is one of the organizations that could help in-crease retention rates. Upperclass-men in the organization try to assist underclassmen with these transitions through their “big sis-little sis” pro-gram.
“[Upperclassmen] also talk about internship opportunities, things we’ve done in our major and where we’re thinking of going, just to get the freshmen started thinking about it early,” Dromgoole said.
Rhoads said favorable trends ap-pear after students reach their junior year. This, she said, is an example of why retention must be examined in a focused fashion.
“Freshmen and sophomore re-tention are big issues in engineering, but once we get a student to junior year, we’ll lose very few of them,” she said.
Banks said to address retention issues action must be taken to not only cultivate interest and enthusi-asm, but also to maintain it through the years.
Although she would like to dou-ble the number of women, Banks said one of the main ideas behind 25 by 25 is to improve the engineering program and the value of the educa-tion it provides.
“I contend in 2025, we will have a better educational experience for our students than we do today, even though we’re twice the size,” Banks said. “It’s important to note though that if our minority and women percentages in engineering were the same as the percentage in the gen-eral population — we’ve solved the STEM issue.”
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‘Iron Man 3” was the heavy-lifter at theaters with a colossal
overseas debut that overshadowed a gang of mercenary bodybuilders in a sleepy pre-summer weekend at the domestic box office.
The Marvel Studios superhero se-quel starring Robert Downey Jr. got a head-start on its domestic launch next Friday with a $195.3 million opening in 42 overseas markets, dis-tributor Disney reported Sunday.
That topped the $185.1 million start for Marvel’s “The Avengers,” which opened in 39 markets over the same weekend last year a week ahead of its record-breaking domes-tic debut of $207.4 million.
“You don’t know that you could ever repeat the kind of experience we had a year ago, and here the Marvel team brought together an-other incredible movie,” said Dave Hollis, head of distribution for Dis-ney. “We’ve had this as a pattern for Marvel films to kind of let momen-tum internationally help signal to the domestic audience that the film is coming, something big is coming.”
Director Michael Bay’s “Pain & Gain,” a true-crime tale of body-builders on the make, muscled into first-place domestically with a $20 million debut.
Paramount, which distributed the earlier “Iron Man” movies and still has a financial stake in the comic-book flicks after Disney bought Mar-vel, had a small-scale success with “Pain & Gain.”
A passion project for Bay, who has made Paramount a fortune with his “Transformers” franchise, “Pain & Gain” was shot for a modest $26 million, spare change compared to the director’s usual budgets.
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‘Vizzers’ to show works at Queen
Instead of sitting at desks, visualization stu-dents hurriedly move across the plaster-and-
dust-covered floor of the Langford architecture building, putting last minute touches on their soon-to-be showcased visualization projects.
Students from the Texas A&M Depart-ment of Visualization will launch the 20th an-nual project showcase Tuesday in Downtown Bryan. Titled Viz-a-GoGo, the event will commence with an exhibition, featuring both physical and interactive work.
Fellow students and the general public can admire digital and traditional still life, painting, sculpture, photography and game designs be-ginning at 12 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
Visualization students, or “vizzers,” are
anticipating the exhibition portion of Viz-a-GoGo, due to its prime location in the, newly restored Queen Theatre, which has not hosted a public event in more than 40 years.
“It’s exciting to be a part of bringing the Queen back to life,” said Jeff Gustafson, head of the interstitial committee.
Jack Eggebrecht, visualization graduate stu-dent and exhibition chair, said the location is a “blessing” and the Downtown Bryan Associa-tion has been helpful throughout the planning process. Despite last minute building code is-sues, Eggebrecht said Richard Davison, Bryan native and visualization professor, was instru-mental in securing the Queen.
The second portion, held Friday evening at The Palace Theater, is a screening of digital 3-D work fragmented into short movie-like “interstitials.” Davison said the event features students’ best “juried work.”
This year’s theme is “Viz to the Future,” a take on the 1985 film “Back to the Future.” Highlighting the 20th anniversary, the plot be-gins in 2013 and then travels back to 1993, the year Viz-a-GoGo was first organized.
Another key change for this year’s event is the inclusion of undergraduate work. Gener-ally a graduate-only event, Viz-a-GoGo will allow undergraduates the opportunity to in-corporate their work.
Both groups of students have been working diligently all semester on these projects. John Schmitz, junior visualization major, said the construction of his robot took more than 75 hours of labor.
Undergraduate work will be presented sepa-rately Wednesday to Saturday at the Federal Building. Viz-a-GoGo will also coincide with Downtown Bryan’s First Friday of the month.
(Top left) The Queen Theatre in Downtown Bryan will host Viz-a-GoGo for its first public event in more than 40 years. (Top center) John Schmitz will show his sculpture of a robot at the event.
Given the strong demand for engineers nationally and statewide, there are currently more positions that need to be filled than there are engineers in the U.S.
“Of course we have some excel-lent international students that come into the U.S. to study and stay, but on the other hand, we also have to rely on the people that are here,” she said. “And we just don’t have enough.”
Banks said although the demand for engineers is already great, an-ticipated economic growth and the workforce’s natural fluctuations will further increase the need for engi-neers.
“There will be growth in the economy, therefore we will need more engineers and there’s a drain of the workforce, so not only do we have to accommodate the growth due to the economic growth but we also have to fill those positions that will be vacated by retirements,” she said.
Banks said women and minority students each make up 18-20 per-cent of the engineering college.
“Our goal is to double the num-ber of women and minorities,” Banks said. “So we’d like to be at 36 percent in both categories by 2025.”
When comparing historical pro-gressions in the representation of men and women in fields such as medicine, law, veterinary science and biology to those in engineer-ing, Banks said the comparison is unsettling.
“When I graduated in 1982, the percentage [of men to women in engineering] wasn’t that different than it is now,” Banks said. “We haven’t seen that drastic rise that you have in other disciplines and that is of grave concern.”
Banks said bringing women into engineering is not only an overdue pursuit, but it is also crucial to meet-ing the goals of 25 by 25.
“It’s an important aspect of 25 by 25 because to actually meet our numbers, we’ll need to engage ev-eryone — many more women and minorities than we do now,” Banks said. “We aren’t going to hit our numbers if we don’t.”
Pathway discussion Terri Reed-Rhoads, assistant
dean of academic affairs for the Col-lege of Engineering, said the college is evaluating potential problems in recruitment and retention to in-crease the number of women gradu-ating with engineering degrees.
Rhoads said “pathways” are metaphorical representations of the paths students could take on the way to becoming an engineer. These pathways also give the college a means of finding problems by sec-toring and examining the sections thereof.
In order to get more women into the pathway of engineering, Banks said they need an informative and updated pathway map.
Banks said this updated informa-tion is part of a current movement called “changing the conversation,” which involves altering the way en-gineering is presently advertised to the general population.
“You somehow have to convince
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“The past semester and year, [A&M] has been under the spotlight more,” Ingram said. “The program and potential growth of the program will keep A&M in the spotlight not only in athletics, but also in academics.”
The coordinators plan to make TEDx an annual event in the community.
“This is the start of something great for A&M,” Thomison said. “The [conference] has set something incredible in motion. A&M has so much potential with the Tier I research going on along with the world class professors and speakers we have on campus.”
TED conferences inform global audiences about “ideas worth spreading” and have been held since 1990. In 2009, TED began provid-ing licenses to communities to provide their
own independent TEDx events. Allie Mock, freshman English major and
member of the speaker committee for TEDx-TAMU, said Saturday’s conference held true to the original TED mission.
“It really embraced TED’s ideal of spread-ing new ideas and innovation,” Mock said. “TEDx is a brand-new thing, while A&M is a school known for its traditions. We are re-ally just continuing the tradition of academic excellence.”
Topics of discussion ranged from the influ-ence of milk on developing countries to the need for art.
Jane Weiner, president of Hope Stone Inc., an arts outreach program for children in Houston, demonstrated the importance of art in education by acting out a fairy tale.
“We need creative, problem-solving, critical thinking people, an army of artists to invade society,” Weiner said.
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As the population increas-es, and with it comes a
rise in demand of world food supplies, one group of Texas A&M students has met the re-sulting challenge head-on.
BioPhilia, a group of four students “united by the com-mon cause of global hunger,” entered a global competi-tion known as “Thought for Food” meant to mobilize the next generation of leaders to introduce sustainable methods that could potentially solve is-sues related to world hunger.
College students around the world participate in the competition by submitting their personal innovations and solutions to Syngenta, the ag-ricultural company funding the competition. The top five finalists will receive $1,000 to put toward their project as well as a trip to Berlin where they will have the opportunity to pitch their idea to a panel of judges and the first place $10,000 prize winner will be announced.
Michelle Curiel, team member and junior interna-tional studies major, said she heard about the event online and quickly assembled a team to begin working against a problem she said is solvable.
“Right now we have enough food to supply to ev-eryone in the world but yet about one billion people go hungry every night,” Curiel said. “We are working on ways to improve this system so that in 50 or so years all these people that will be here still have food.”
Through local collabora-tion with the A&M Office of Sustainability as well as men-toring from A&M architec-ture professor Rodney Hill, BioPhilia, which translates into “love of life,” plans to go to local high schools through-out the Bryan-College Station community to form gardens.
“Education has a huge part
of this,” said Sydney Beckner, team member and freshman environmental geosciences major. “We want to educate people to the problems of the current unjust food system that this world has adapted to. We chose the youth because they’re our future and are far more open to this idea.”
The team said the solution would not necessarily stem from the gardens themselves, but rather from the forma-tion of a community based on empathy, understanding and love.
“We’ve seen that when you connect yourself to plants and the dirt, there’s a healing as-pect,” said David Smith, team member and junior biology major. “If you can integrate that healing aspect to diverse crowds that come together, then they will have a common ground to express themselves and connect with each other through bonds that may not have been there before hand. It’s building community by allowing the life that you see grow, build life amongst the community you want to gen-erate.”
The team plans to imple-ment agro-ecological science into the formation of the lo-cal gardens in order to “mimic nature.” By using this system which incorporates all aspects of nature, the gardens will have a sense of interconnect-edness.
“Nature is very diverse and our current agriculture system does not always emphasize that,” Smith said. “If you use ecological principles to build your garden, you have this interconnectedness. For ex-
ample, you have a flower that brings a certain type of insect that is a predator to another insect that preys upon one specific plant. This system al-lows you to better replicate nature.”
In order to remain as sus-tainable as possible, the gar-dens will be designed around the “keyhole method.” This means that the gardens, which are made up of differ-ent recycled materials, will be structured in a circular fashion with an opening to the center, similar to a keyhole. A com-post wastebasket will be placed in the center for students to throw away their unfinished food, which would then feed the plants.
“Food scraps are very high in moisture, so you’re water-ing the plants as well as giv-ing it nutrients,” Beckner said. “It takes the guesswork out of gardening. All you have to do is throw food into the basket and nature does the rest.”
The team said it believes the simple building and main-tenance of the project, as well as the extremely low cost of production, will attract many people to the idea.
“This isn’t a cookie-cutter plan for every school,” Curiel said. “The whole point is to be adaptable and to create a feedback system. Every school will create a plan that adapts to their specific needs and en-vironment.”
People will have the oppor-tunity to vote for BioPhilia on the “Thought for Food” web-site starting May 1 until the polls close May 10.
“We want our plan to reach the world, but we are starting in America because of the influence we have across the globe,” Beckner said. “If we begin local then it could even-tually spread to a larger sphere and lead to a planet that can create their own independent food supply.”
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Darcy Jacoby, senior agricultural communications and journalism major, makes her first stop at the Layne’s on Texas Avenue as part of the Layne’s Challenge.
“Ready. Set. Layne’s!”With this yell and a
whoop of encouragement, the 20-or-so participants of the 2013 Layne’s Challenge set off on Saturday. Their goal — to see who could run and bike six miles the fastest using an uncommon set of rules.
The course itself is sim-ple: run from Sul Ross to the Layne’s on Texas Av-enue, bike to the Layne’s on Southwest Parkway, then run to the finish line at Kyle Field. An otherwise straight-forward challenge, except that each contestant is ex-pected to eat a box of Layne’s Chicken at each location.
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While small and still form-ing, the group is growing. Like most other Aggie tradi-tions, founders of the event said what may seem strange now just might become the next big campus event.
“This is the fourth year we’ve done it,” said Mi-chael Bass, senior electrical engineering and computer science double major and co-founder of the Chal-lenge. “Eventually, I hope to make it into a student organization.”
Sam Ford, sophomore kinesiology major, said she noticed a poster advertising the Challenge while eat-ing at Layne’s and thought it sounded fun. Her friends, however, had mixed reac-tions when she told them about her decision to participate.
“My friends either wanted to do it with me, or thought it was crazy and gross,” Ford said.
Ford advertised the event on Facebook to find others willing to combine Layne’s and exercise, and in one post she tagged Justin Ledoux, freshman biomedical engi-neering major, who under-took the Challenge.
“At first I made a joke of it and said ‘I can’t do it,’ but then I thought it [might] be fun. We joked ourselves into it,” Ledoux said.
Ledoux went on to invite many of his own friends. Before the run, he and sev-eral others gathered around Sul Ross, stretching and lis-tening to music in mental preparation.
“I hope I don’t puke. I’m pretty hungry,” Ledoux said before the race.
The Layne’s Challenge began with a few friends looking for something else to occupy their time. Bass and a few of his friends came up with the idea during their freshman year as a friendly
competition. This is the first year they’ve made it a public competition.
“[We’re trying] to foster the idea of just being able to compete,” Bass said. “After the first box of Layne’s it’s really just about finishing the race.”
The Layne’s Challenge public debut gathered a mod-est number of contestants willing to meet the physical exertion required, but Bass said he has high hopes for the future.
“I’m hoping to make it into a fundraiser eventually,” Bass said.
Bass said the course starts out like any other run, and downing the first box of chicken fingers and bread is easy.
“The first box is good, it’s just good Layne’s chicken,” Bass said. “But the second box hits you like a wall, and it’s a real challenge to keep going. It kind of hurts.”
And as for the final mile, Bass said nothing compares.
“It’s impossible to describe the last mile. It’s by far one of the most challenging things I’ve done athletically,” Bass said.
“It’s impossible to describe the last mile [of the Layne’s Challenge]. It’s by far one of the most challenging things I’ve done athletically.”
— Michael Bass,
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Lawmakers may open voting on gun lawsOLYMPIA, Wash. — After struggling to sway both state and federal lawmakers, proponents of expanding background checks for gun sales are now exploring whether they will have more success by taking the issue directly to voters. Washington state advocates believe polls show that the public is sufficiently on the side of expanding background checks further — 79 percent of registered voters in Washington state supported background checks on all gun sales, including private transactions.
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FBI arrests suspect in poison letter caseBRANDON, Miss. — The arrest of a 41-year-old Mississippi man in a case of poison-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and others capped a week in which investigators initially zeroed in on one suspect, then decided they had the wrong man. Authorities arrested Dutschke early Saturday at his home in Tupelo. He was charged with “knowingly developing, producing, stockpiling, transferring, acquiring, retaining and possessing a biological agent, toxin and delivery system, for use as a weapon, to wit: ricin.” Dutschke is expected to appear Monday in U.S. District Court in Oxford.
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nfl draft12 Aggies go to prosw OT Luke Joeckel, 1st round (No. 2), Jacksonville Jaguars
w RB Christine Michael, 2nd (62) Seattle Seahawks
w DE Damontre Moore, 3rd (81), New York Giants
w LB Sean Porter, 4th (118), Cincinnati Bengals
w WR Ryan Swope, 6th (174), Arizona Cardinals
Undrafted free agents: OL Patrick Lewis, Green Bay; Uzoma Nwachukwu, Houston Texans; Steven Terrell, Jacksonville Jaguars; Spencer Nealy, New York Jets; Dustin Harris, Dallas Cowboys; Jonathan Stewart, St. Louis Rams; CJ Jones, Kansas City Chiefs
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Offensive tackle Luke Joeckel was one of five Aggies to be drafted to NFL teams.
