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Tuesday ushers in a holiday that is more than the gold, green and purple-themed

New Orleans extravaganza that it is commonly known for.

Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, marks the end of the Mardi Gras season. The Mardi Gras sea-son begins on what is known as King’s Day, or the Three Wise Men’s visitation to Jesus. David Williams, junior history major and New Orleans native who has worked as a tour guide in his hometown, said the holiday’s key colors are symbols of the frankincense, myrrh and gold that the Wise Men brought.

“In 1872, the grand duke of Russia visited New Orleans to see the big parade so Rex [The King of the Carnival] decided to have a big par-

ty for him and he used his house colors and his house colors were purple, green and gold. It was an honor to him,” Williams said.

Williams said the holiday was celebrated in Europe and the New World.

“The first Mardi Gras came from the carni-vals and Italy and Spain and France and Europe in the 1600s and it’s called ‘Le Boef Gras’ which means ‘fat calf’ because during Lent, you can’t eat meat,” Williams said. “So what they’d do is they’d fatten this calf up in January and De-cember and on Tuesday before Ash Wednesday you’d have this big huge party and everybody would eat this big calf.”

Mardi Gras signals the transition into the sea-son of Lent. Ann Kelson, freshman education

Piety to indulgence: ‘Fat Tuesday’ rooted in history

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World hungerKen Davies, global coordinator of the U.N’s Purchase for Progress Initiative, will visit A&M with his wife to lecture on the P4P initiative and address world hunger and disease.

The Texas A&M football team held its third spring practice Monday.

Practice was inside the McFerrin Athletic Center due to the cold weather as players suited up in full pads for the first time.

“We’ve got six or seven new guys out here that have got to get used to [wearing pads],” said Texas A&M head coach Kev-in Sumlin. “We’ve got a lot of installation in. I wish we were outside, but we’ve got a great facility here we’re able to utilize. We got a lot of snaps in. All in all, I liked the energy — I liked how it was going.”

A&M started spring practice earlier than any other SEC school this year, which Sumlin said has helped main-tain the momentum generated from the Chick-Fil-A Bowl.

“[With] the ability to have some car-ryover, I think timing was different this year,” Sumlin said. “We’re able to still get a seven or eight week cycle of strength and conditioning in and get practice go-ing. Every team’s different, but we just felt like with the guys that we have, we’re better off going early this year.”

Cold sets in, practice heats up

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Sumlin gets head start with early practice slate

The Department of Student Activities received a letter Wednesday from

Preni, a fifth grader in California, ask-ing for information on Texas for a school project. Student Activities posted online and asked for donations — and received responses in the form of anything from a copy of Aggie Bound, A&M’s prospec-tive student guide, to T-shirts, pencils and a cadet bider.

Cami Steele, social media and mar-keting intern for student activities, is in charge of collecting and organizing all of the information and donations. Steele said when she posted the information on social media sites, she didn’t expect the kind of reaction she received.

“I started receiving things the next day [Thursday],” Steele said. “I don’t work on Friday, so I came in this morning to a stack of things on my desk. Now I feel like I’m playing bridesmaid because I’m writing out everything we’ve received and where it came from.”

Daisy Enggina, communication co-ordinator for the department of student activities, said this was the first time she

Child’s letter prompts response

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Ricky Seals-Jones, redshirt freshman wide receiver, catches a pass during spring practice.

To fans of the Texas A&M women’s basketball team, names like Jordan Jones, Tori Scott, Cristina Sanchez-

Quintanar and Taylor Cooper are known for their achievements on the court. For fifth grade students in Alicia Mohundro’s class at Bohnam Elementary, they are re-vered as friends and mentors.

Jones, who graduated in the top-15 per-cent of her class at Desoto High School, said she understands the value of giving back to the community — especially to children.

“It’s very important to give back to the community because these kids look up to us,” Jones said. “They see us doing what we love to do — being our best — and we are positive role models for them. When we go to their school they are so excited to see us. It’s a great feeling — the energy they give off when we walk in the room.

It’s like we’re celebrities to them.” Jones was recently named to the SEC

Community Service Team for her impact on the students she mentors. Jones said she has a special bond with Eryn, a 10-year-old student at Bonham Elementary.

“Me and Eryn have this thing going where we call each other best friends,” Jones said. “She has a very special place in my heart and I love her. She’s a great kid.”

Every Monday at 2 p.m., Mohundro’s fourth period class expects to see “the chil-dren,” as the students refer to the players.

“Every time I walk into class they run up and give me hugs,” Sanchez-Quintanar said. “The other day, when they didn’t see me at the game, they asked the teacher, ‘Where’s Cristina?’ The teacher said, ‘She’s back home in Spain.’ They were like, ‘Oh, she’s not going to come back?’ with sad looks on their faces. They are so sweet.”

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Items collected to honor the request of a California elementary student.

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Illusionist uses tricks to heal, delight

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Intent on using his talents for more than pulling rab-bits out of hats, illusionist Kevin Spencer is bringing

his contemporary magic show and his magic-trick-based physical therapy to Bryan-College Station

Spencer will be in the community until Thursday, working with teachers in Bryan and College Station ISDs as part of the Healing of Magic and Hocus Focus programs.

Healing of Magic is a program that uses simple magic tricks as a form of rehabilitation therapy, Spen-cer said.

“Say you’ve been in a car accident and you’re in occupational therapy and you’re relearning how to use your hands,” Spencer said. “There are a lot of tra-ditional forms of therapy that you can use, like putting pegs in a board and those sorts of things, but they’re not very motivating.”

Spencer said he designed the program after being in a car accident early in his career that caused a brain and spinal cord injury, putting him in therapy for a year.

“It’s frustrating and it’s boring and it’s hard to get motivated to do the therapy you need to do,” Spencer said. “So I decided there’s got to be a better way to do this and who doesn’t get excited about a magic trick?”

The Hocus Focus program follows the same con-cept, but is education-based and student-centered, giving students with learning disabilities the chance to practice fine motor skills.

“For the smaller tricks, which are what we teach, the movements required to do those simple little tricks

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Tori Scott, junior guard, visits Bohnam Elementary in Bryan with the women’s basketball team.

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major, said Lent is time for Lenten observers to honor Jesus’ 40-day abstinence of food and water by making sacrifices themselves.

“You have to give some-thing up and by giving that up, instead of focusing on that materialistic thing in your life or whichever object was con-suming a lot of time within your life, you focus more on God or Jesus,” Kelson said.

Walter Kamphoefner, professor of history, said though Lent was origi-nally a Catholic holiday, it is still celebrated in other religious communities.

“Some Protestant denomi-nations have retained more of the Catholic heritage than others,” Kamphoefner said.

Eman Abdul-Razzak, freshman visualization major, said Mardi Gras is so sensation-alized that she was unaware of its ties to Catholicism.

“I was honestly pretty shocked when I learned that Mardi Gras was actually a reli-gious holiday,” Abdul-Razzak said. “A day dedicated to par-tying it up and letting loose is the last thing you’d expect to be holy. To me it seems like it kind of defeats the pious idea of Lent.”

Kamphoefner said even

though the holiday has been commercialized, the holiday is historically an ironic one.

“Mardi Gras is what, I guess if you were cynical, you’d say when you get all of your sinning done or all of your excesses done before Lent clamps down,” Kamphoefner said. “There was a time when Christians frowned on sex during Lent and you would see a seasonal drop in concep-tion. It’s an interesting combi-nation of doing just the oppo-site of what you’re supposed to be doing during Lent.”

Kelson said she felt the rev-erence of the holiday has been somewhat lost over the years.

“I feel the meaning used to be a lot more well-known,” Kelson said. “And nowadays people know about Mardi Gras, but they don’t know anything about it or why it’s going on.”

Williams said the parades in New Orleans are a testi-mony to the commercializa-tion and irreverence of what Fat Tuesday has morphed into over time, but it isn’t enough to distract believers from the holiday’s meaning.

“At its core, really it’s still a religious holiday,” Wil-liams said. “No matter how much you advertise it, it’ll still be that.”

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had seen something like this. She said the department’s next step is to pack everything up and send it to California.

“We first are going to send a letter to the parents or guardians letting them know that a big box is coming,” Enggina said. “We know we still have some things coming into College Station, so Friday is probably when we’ll send everything. The deadline for [Preni’s] project is the end of March, so we don’t want to send it too late.”

The letter will request that the parents take some pictures of Preni with the donations. Even if the Uni-versity does not receive pho-tographs, Steele said she is proud her post received such positive feedback.

“It feels pretty good,” Steele said. “I remember do-

ing this project in school and I never got this kind of feed-back. It’s cool to think I was in her shoes once and now we can send it off and be able to help someone.”

Junior university studies major Donald Ashburn, who sent a picture of the Corps forming the block T on Kyle Field, a Corps bider, Corps brass and RV brass, said he was interested in donating items because he knew he had certain resources other students don’t.

“I think often we claim to be ‘the most friendly universi-ty in the world’ because of our spirit to help a buddy out and traditions like saying ‘Howdy,’ but this was just another act to back up the way we already talk,” Ashburn said. “It really shows that we practice what we preach and shows we truly are one of the most, if not the most, friendly and helpful campus in the world.

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require things like opening and closing the hand, grasp and release, all these very in-tricate movements,” Spencer said. “In order to perform a magic trick, you have to be able to have fine motor skills, but beyond that you have to be able to plan and sequence the movements required.”

Spencer said while he loves being a performer, making a positive impact in the com-munity is the most rewarding part of what he does.

“When you can give some-body the ability to do some-thing that the normal, able-bodied person can’t do, and when that person has a low self-esteem or self-worth, that is such a tremendous boost to their self-esteem, and it re-ally does motivate them in so many other areas of their life,” Spencer said.

Spencer’s show, The-atre of Illusion, will be in Rudder Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

“We call the show ‘Theatre of Illusion’ because we really want to break the stereotype of what people think of when they think of a magic show,” Spencer said. “It is a combina-tion of my love for theater and my love for magic.”

In designing Theatre of Illusion, Spencer said he

didn’t want to do a typical Vegas show.

“It’s not that razzle-dazzle, Las Vegas thing at all,” Spencer said. “So if that’s what people are expecting, that’s not what they’re going to get.”

Spencer said the show com-bines all the great elements of a Broadway production with the high energy of a rock con-cert and wraps it around some phenomenal magic.

“I’m a firm believer that the art of illusion has the ability to move an audience, emotional-ly and intellectually, the same way as great dance or powerful theater or great music,” Spen-cer said. “But people don’t see magic performed that way.”

Spencer said he designed the show both as a contempo-rary, sophisticated challenge and as a portal to the audi-

ence’s sense of wonder. “You know when we’re

little kids, everything kind of fascinates us,” Spencer said. “And the older we get, we start to take for granted the wonders that happen all around us.”

Senior computer science major Andrew Rodriguez said the show is a unique ex-perience not often found on campus.

“A lot of people don’t know about magic and it’s dy-ing as a performing art in our country,” Rodriguez said. “I would really recommend and encourage them to see Spen-cer’s show, because it might not be something you would normally see.”

Rodriguez serves as the president of the Order of Ag-gie Illusionists, a teaching club that works to build people’s confidence with magic. The illusionists will attend Spen-cer’s show and have the op-portunity to meet with Spen-cer afterward.

Spencer’s show has al-ready enticed students look-ing for something different to see in College Station, like junior psychology major Brittany Perez.

“His show seems like it would be pretty interesting,” Perez said. “I like that it isn’t a typical Vegas show and brings in elements of theater.”

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— Kevin Spencer, illusionist

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The departures of Travis Labhart, Mike Evans and Derel Walker from A&M’s wide-receiving corps have opened the door for competition among this year’s crop of wide-outs. Sumlin rec-ognizes the challenge in replacing three of A&M’s most productive players and said it will take some time to get the young guns up to speed.

“Reps, reps, reps,” Sumlin said. “We’re able to do that with coaching right now and they’ve gone out and done their own seven-on-seven. Right now what you want to do is get as much video and as many reps with these guys as you can. Reps right now are as important as anything.”

Two former A&M players, Dante “X-factor” Hall, a former Pro Bowler for the Kansas City Chiefs, and Tiki Hardeman, have returned to A&M to finish their degrees and have been lending a helping hand in spring drills.

“We have a number of players who went on to play in the NFL who may or may not have finished their degree, but when you have guys like that who love football, it’s different than me and Coach Beaty yelling at them,” Sumlin said. “While they’re here, they’re giving our guys some knowledge from an aspect that can really, really help them and we’re really appreciative.”

In addition to spring practice, the foot-ball team will host its pro day on Wednes-day, where a large turnout of NFL scouts and coaches has become the norm.

“Ever since we’ve been here, every

team shows up,” Sumlin said. “A couple [of our] guys did real well at the combine. I think it’s big when you have those types of marquee players. What it does is cre-ate opportunities for other players who weren’t at the combine and I think that’s a big deal. Last year, I forgot how many guys we got into [an NFL camp.] It was a large number of guys that at least got

an opportunity that maybe they wouldn’t have had if there’s not a Luke Joeckel here, if there are not those types of guys.”

Twelve former A&M players will par-ticipate in A&M’s pro day at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, including Johnny Manziel, Mike Evans and Jake Matthews.

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Freshman Kyle Allen practices Monday as spring football — and the race to be the next A&M quarterback — heats up.

On Feb. 14, each class that came through Mohundro’s door made hand-written Val-entine’s Day cards for every member of the women’s basketball team, especially Scott — whose birthday was the following Monday.

“That was so special,” Scott said. “I got a bunch of birthday cards, too. There were maybe 30 in my locker when I got back.”

Jennifer Jones, strength coach and direc-tor of player development, said she stressed the importance of mentoring young stu-dents. That message hits close to home for Cooper, who had a similar experience with mentors growing up.

“I think it’s the impact we can make on the kids,” Cooper said. “When I was younger, I remember we used to have some of the college students that would come and visit us. You look up to people like that. The example that we set is really important.”

For many of these student-athletes, the time they spend volunteering at Bohnam is some of the only time off they have during days filled with workouts, classes and tutoring.

“It feels great to spend some time with them,” Sanchez-Quintanar said. “It’s relax-

ing for us because we get the chance to play some games with them and just help them with their homework. I look forward to go-ing to see them every week.”

Jones earned her second SEC Player of the Week honor on Monday, due in part to recording the third triple-double in A&M history with 19 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in the Aggies 77-54 victory over Ar-kansas Thursday.

With an 83-72 win over Florida on Sun-day, the team secured a tie for its best-ever conference record at 13-3. Its performance this season secured A&M a No. 3 seed in the SEC tournament, which begins Wednesday.

There are some students who may pay attention to the players’ on-court perfor-mance, but others will look forward to their return to class next Monday so they can practice their reading skills with the players — their friends and mentors.

“We just want to give credit to the teach-ers at Bohnam because they’re doing a great job with those kids,” Jones said. “They seem to have a fun time learning in the classes that we’ve been in. They are very supportive of their kids and they are very welcoming of us when we go into the schools. We just want to thank them, the principals and the vice-principals for allowing us to come.”

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A&M, UT faculty senates hold annual meetingTexas A&M’s Faculty Senate met with its counterpart from UT-Austin on Monday for the annual meeting between the two bodies. Amber Muenzenberger, director for remote learning and outreach education in A&M’s College of Engineering, said her group discussed the possibility of bringing Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, to A&M after their success at UT. “MOOCs are alive and happening on the UT campus,” Muenzenberger said. “[We are checking if] A&M and UT might partner together to come up with some content … that we can share.”

John Rangel, city desk assistant

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