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The season came to a halt for the Texas A&M
women’s basketball team Monday night as it became the 38th team to fall to the undefeated Connecticut Huskies, losing 69-54 in the fourth round of the NCAA
Division I Tournament in Lincoln, Neb.
Seniors Karla Gilbert and Kristen Grant — the two re-maining members from the 2011 National Champion-ship team — finished their collegiate careers 12-3 in NCAA tournament play.
The 15-point defeat was UConn’s second closest game of the season. UConn, the No. 1 overall seed, has won its matchups by an average of 28.2 points this season.
A&M jumped out to an 11-4 advantage early in the game. The seven-point lead was the largest deficit UCo-nn has faced this season. The Huskies would go on a 9-0 run to take a 13-11 lead on the strength of junior for-ward Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis.
Mosqueda-Lewis hit 2-of-4 three-pointers in the first half and finished 3-of-9. Her 12 points in the first half were tied with Aggie sophomore
guard Courtney Walker for the most at the break.
Playing in her last col-legiate game, senior center Karla Gilbert was held score-less in the first half and ended the game with one point to go along with her five rebounds and two blocked shots. Gil-bert’s 68 blocks in the 2013-14 season set a single-season record for A&M.
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With rings, yell leaders and Sil-ver Taps, the traditions of
Texas A&M shape student experi-ences from the inside, as well as the outside world’s perception of the University.
Traditions Week, conducted by Traditions Council, will celebrate some of the traditions at Texas A&M. Each day during the week of April 7-11 will have a different tradi-tion assigned to it, with Traditions Council members handing out but-tons with pictures and slogans relat-ing to the tradition of the day.
Andrew Sibal, Traditions Coun-cil outreach and awareness executive chair and senior industrial distribu-tion major, said these traditions have shaped the culture of Texas A&M and fostered a welcoming atmo-sphere for generations of Aggies.
“I think it’s changed the Texas A&M culture,” Sibal said. “We wouldn’t be recognized as the friendliest campus on earth if we didn’t ‘Howdy.’ We wouldn’t be as respectful if we didn’t have Muster
or Silver Taps. It really distinguishes us from other universities because who else stands out at 10:30 at night to honor their fallen Aggies? Tradi-tions signify what Texas A&M stands for and you can’t explain it, as cliche as that sounds.”
Traditions Council is a 60-mem-ber committee of the Student Gov-ernment Association. Sibal said the council participates in a variety of ac-tivities meant to honor and preserve what makes Texas A&M unique.
“Our mission is to promote and protect the traditions of Texas A&M through education and awareness,” Sibal said. “We do this mainly through speaking engagements throughout the state of Texas and on campus — to student organizations, Aggie Mothers’ Club.”
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Council to involve students in campus history
A small MSC meeting room was overflow-
ing Monday evening as international students provided attendees with information and perspec-tives on their own cul-tures at the International Student Association’s I-History event.
As part of I-Week, presenters did their best to sum up one aspect of their culture for the audi-ence. Bowen Pan, atmo-spheric sciences graduate student, explained the history behind several common items of Chi-nese cuisine.
Beginning with the dumpling, Pan said the dough covered meat-veggie mixtures that have long been a staple of the American-Chi-
nese restaurant actually got their start as a more appealing means of con-suming medicine in an-cient China.
“For around 500 years it was actually medicine placed in the dumpling,” Pan said. “These were boiled into a soup and [the patient] would eat the soup.”
In Chinese culture, Pan said the dumpling has a romantic meaning of family, fortune and the New Year.
“It is a symbol of change and fortune,” Pan said. “We have a willingness in saying goodbye to the old year and looking forward to the switch into the new year. That’s why [in Chi-na] we eat them exactly at midnight.”
I-Week will continue until Friday. The next event, I-Henna, will be from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday at Rudder Fountain.
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Speaking points range from food to war
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Azhi Qaradaghi dresses in traditional Iraqi-Kurdish garb at the I-History event Monday.
insidebaseball | 4A&M to host HoustonMatt Kent will take the mound for the Aggies as they host the No. 10 Houston Cougars in a mid-week matchup Tuesday.
city | 2Search and rescueTx-TF1, an urban search and rescue team, will host a workshop with fi rst responders from across the nation.
Texas A&M is growing and it’s important
that we do keep knowledge of where we’ve come from. It’s important to help keep the spirit that we have at A&M, but also keep the culture, because that is what makes A&M so unique. That’s why I came to A&M, because of the culture that we have here.”
— Kelsey McKechnie, Traditions Council executive chair and senior
business major
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Sophomore guard Jordan Jones scored 12 points and gathered seven rebounds in a loss Monday against UConn.
From wildfires to hur-ricanes and floods, the Hazard Reduction and
Recovery Center has spent the last quarter century preparing communities to better respond to disasters.
Phil Berke, professor in the Department of Landscape Ar-chitecture and Urban Planning, founded the HRRC when he was a new assistant profes-sor at A&M. He said the cen-ter’s research addresses the two main issues surrounding natu-ral disasters — city design and climate change.
“The biggest reasons the [hazard] risks are growing is because of the way we design our communities and cities,” Berke said. “We locate them in riskier and dangerous areas and the population and urbaniza-tion is expanding dramatically throughout the world in dan-gerous locations. That’s why we see the geometrical rise in damage impacts.”
Adding to this trend of locat-
ing cities in riskier areas, Berke said climate change is making climate-related hazards all the more dangerous. Berke said this climate shift is manifested in changes in the intensity of rain-fall and the movement of hur-ricanes further north because of the warming of the ocean.
Walter Peacock, director of the HRRC, said the research performed by the center goes beyond purely academic studies by delving into practical plans for developing city layouts.
“We are and remain proba-bly one of the most unique nat-ural hazard or disaster centers at a university in this country in that we do focus on how our communities should be devel-oping to increase sustainability and reduce our vulnerabilities to disasters as well as long-term recovery issues,” Peacock said. “In that way, we are very unique in the academic world in terms of the kinds of target areas we do research on.”
Peacock said he has seen real changes as a result of the
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significance for Sibal is the Aggie Ring, as he said it represents both his personal achievement and the tradi-tions of Texas A&M that he holds dear.
“Whether it’s the number of stars on the ring, the shield and crest or the saber and gun, there’s so much meaning behind [the Aggie ring] and it signifies what traditions mean
to Texas A&M,” Sibal said.Noel Handy, sophomore
geography major, said he par-ticipates in A&M traditions as an act of devotion to the school he loves.
“Honoring the traditions at Texas A&M is showing appreciation and love for the school and its incredible his-tory,” Handy said. “It’s what makes A&M unique and it’s important to preserve every-thing from Midnight Yell to Silver Taps.”
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Emergency first respond-ers nationwide will gather
Tuesday and Wednesday at the Brayton Fire Training Field in College Station to learn from the nation’s most active urban search and rescue team — Texas Task Force 1.
TX-TF1, an urban search and rescue team sponsored by Texas A&M Engineering Extension Services, will host a two-day helicopter search and rescue workshop that high-light’s its relationship with the Texas Army National Guard. TX-TF1 responds to a variety of search and rescue missions in Texas and around the U.S. every year. TX-TF1 spent its last deployment in Moore, Okla., in response to a tornado that devastated the city in May.
Brett Dickson, helicopter search and rescue program manager, said TX-TF1 is host-ing the workshop to share in-formation on how their civil-ian-military relationship with the National Guard works to enhance both organizations’ rescue capabilities.
“We put helicopter search and rescue technicians on-board national guard helicop-ters,” Dickson said. “They basically become part of the air crew and they go out for rescues, for recon and assist, for humanitarian work.”
Dickson said other state agencies were sending first responders to the TX-TF1 conference and would leave the conference with an un-derstanding of how a civilian-military relationship between search and rescue organizations could work in their states.
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example in evacuation policy, we’ve seen changes in terms of the way communities are plan-ning to reduce their vulner-ability,” Peacock said. “They’re using [web-based tools] to help them better understand where the most hazardous areas are and use that to shape their de-velopment process to stay out of those areas.”
The center also offers a cer-tificate program for students in-terested in researching hazards and disasters alongside research-ers.
Marccus Hendricks, an ur-ban and regional science gradu-ate student finishing his first year at the HRRC, said Houston is a prime example of HRRC focus. The city was originally developed without active con-sideration of the possibility of city expansion toward the coast, he said.
“We can’t necessarily con-trol how big cities get or where they build, but what we can do is set up cities to where we plan for hazard mitigation,” Hen-
dricks said. “We plan for the re-duction of hazards so that when cities do grow and expand, we have an idea of what needs to be in place to make people less exposed to different hazardous conditions whether it be flood-ing, tornadoes, chemical plants — you name it.”
By sharing studies with the public, Hendricks said com-munities can become more informed about disasters and hazards that are happening ev-ery day.
“When you talk about how does, you know, planning for infrastructure and storm water management and gutters, water run-off — a lot of times people don’t think about those types of things,” Hendricks said. “We expect it to be there. We have a general idea of what it means, but to actually understand that if those things aren’t there, your house can flood, your commu-nity or neighborhood can flood — and that leads to all types of different things. It may force you to have to relocate or take physical damages. It may affect your health.”
Hendricks said the U.S. tends to be a reactive society, making disaster preparation re-search important.
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“Unfortunately, [natural disas-ters] do cause a loss of life and loss of property, but I think because it’s beginning to happen more and more, politicians, govern-ment officials, communities, are now starting to pay more and more attention to the importance of disaster and emergency man-agement and hazard mitigation and recovery,” Hendricks said.
While the community answers questions and provides the center with data for their research, Hen-dricks said a rewarding part of the job is the ability to give back.
“Not only are we out in the field doing interviews and getting data about what happened, we’re also engaging with the commu-nity and just doing anything that we can to help out,” Hendricks said. “We work with Habitat for Humanity, we work with some of the community centers to just go out and help out and help rebuild and just do some of the small things that give back.”
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tuesday 4.1.2014
After a three-game series in Georgia, the Texas A&M
baseball team returns home Tuesday for an in-state match-up with the No. 10 Houston Cougars at 6:35 p.m. at Olsen Field.
A&M (18-11) is looking for a midweek win after drop-ping its first two games against Georgia before avoiding the sweep with a late-game rally on Sunday.
Matt Kent is the expected starting pitcher for A&M, and is tasked with shutting down a Cougars team that has won seven of its last eight games.
Kent sports a 2-0 record with a 3.10 ERA in 20.1 in-nings and has appeared in nine games with two starts.
Part of Kent’s responsibility will be to shut down Cougars sophomore outfielder Kyle Survance, who was named Player of the Week by the American Athletic Confer-ence.
Survance hit safely in his midweek matchup against Rice and in all three games of the team’s series with Mem-phis this weekend. Survance hit .467 with three multi-hit games and was successful in all seven of his stolen base at-tempts this week.
Houston (22-5) features
a bullpen that includes Tyler Ford (4-0, 0.68 ERA) and Chase Wellbrock (1-0, 6 SV, 0.00 ERA). Ford has yet to allow a walk in 12 appear-ances and Wellbrock has not allowed a run in 17 innings of work.
The Cougars have played all but four of their 27 games at home. They own a 3-1 record in road contests and are 5-1 in midweek games.
The Aggies are hitting .276 as a team with Patrick McLen-don leading the team average at .350. Mitchell Nau, Cole Lankford and Nick Banks are all batting above the .300 mark.
A&M, which is one walk shy of 100 for the year, will face a Houston squad that has drawn a free base 129 times. The Cougars pitching staff walked only 39 opposing hit-ters this year.
After Tuesday’s game, the Aggies will prepare to face Alabama at home. Head coach Rob Childress recently adjust-ed the weekend pitching rota-tion and Daniel Mengden is expected to receive the Friday nod. Grayson Long will carry the load on Saturday for the Aggies as Tyler Stubblefield will take the mound in the se-ries finale.
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Sophomore pitcher Matt Kent, who will start Tuesday, is 2-0 with a 3.10 ERA in 12 appearances.
40 rebounds as a team — three more than the Huskies — and did not allow UConn to re-cord an offensive rebound until 6:42 remained in the first half.
The second half was full of streaks. Down 34-23 at halftime, the Aggies came out of the locker room and hit their first six shots — including two three-pointers by sophomore point guard Jordan Jones. After going 6-6 to start the half, A&M missed its next eight shots before Jones put in a fast-break layup.
A&M got within three points of the Huskies — trailing 40-37 with just over 15 minutes to go. After a missed a free throw by Jones, UCo-nn rattled off a 10-0 run to push its lead back up to 50-37. The Huskies held a double-digit lead for the remainder of the game.
Jones, Courtney Walker and Courtney Williams, A&M’s trio of sophomore stars, scored 37 of the Aggie’s 54 points.
Jones finished with 12 points, seven re-bounds and 2 assists, breaking A&M’s single season assist record in the Aggies second round victory over James Madison, and finished the 2013-14 season with 261 assists.
Williams, who was named second team All-SEC at the end of the regular season, finished with 13 points and six assists.
Walker led the Aggies with 14 points and took 21 (31 percent) of her team’s 68 shots Monday night. Walker also added five re-bounds and two assists.
Both Williams and Walker were named to the Lincoln Regional All-Tournament team.
With the victory, the Huskies advance to the Final Four, where with two games remain-ing they look to become the first 40-0 team in women’s basketball history.
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