A&M’s oldest tradition comes in new form

From Bonfire, to Yell Leaders, to “Howdy!” traditions are the heart and soul of Texas A&M. Tonight the basket-ball team begins a tradition with the first Military Appreciation Night. Veterans and active servicemen and women will be honored. The Corps drum line will lead

the basketball team out before the game and the evening will have many ways to honor veterans and active servicemen and women.

“The basketball team will enter the sta-dium behind the Corps drum line, similar to how the football team takes the field,” said Brad Knotts, director of marketing for men’s basketball.

The veterans and active servicemen and women will be honored at the game by the team wearing custom-made camouflaged jerseys designed by Adidas.

“The team will have a camo jer-sey signed by the players and it will be auctioned off on aggieathletics.com and all proceeds will be donated to the USO,”

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Many Aggies who are future health care or nursing students find it overwhelming to find information regarding top nurs-ing programs, survive the ap-plication process and decide on a field of nursing. Future Aggie Nurses at Texas A&M Univer-sity is an organization designed to help ease the stress of picking and applying to various nursing programs.

With many events coming up this spring, the club’s of-ficers have their work cut out for them. The organization has been around a few years, but continues to grow and get bet-ter with time.

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campus

What do the Statue of Lib-erty, Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium have in common with this year’s hous-ing fair? The theme for this year’s housing fair is the bright lights of New York.

The 27 annual Housing Fair, Bright Lights-Big Aggieland Dreams, will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today in the Student Rec-reational Center. The Housing Fair is one of the programs the Adult, Graduate and Off Cam-pus Student Services, AGOSS, coordinates each year. It is an opportunity for students con-sidering living off campus the following school year.

Katie Swift, a graduate assistant for AGOSS and co-ordinator for this year’s Hous-ing Fair, says the fair has about 50 vendors from apart-

Raising the roof in CS

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community

Future Aggie Nurses prepares students for medical world

Housing Fair to help students living off campus

Brice Milliorn Class of 2002 is the creator of these popular apps, is not your typical program-mer. With no prior technological experience, Milliorn taught himself the basics of program-ming through books and online resources, and sells 670,000 apps.

The full-time financial adviser for Edward Jones published his first application for the Apple iPhone less than two years ago. The creator of such celebrated apps such as “Prank Me” and “iSpy” never expected to be the owner of his own business, JBMJBM, LLC.

He credits part of his success to his time at A&M and his degree in agribusiness. Though he

took no programming classes, he uses the busi-ness skills he picked up in classes to assist him in designing and marketing apps.

“Having a business degree certainly helps when trying to sell apps,” Milliron said. “Texas A&M taught me how to run a business, and having classmates who’ve started their own businesses helps, too.”

Milliorn’s success has inspired students with dreams of entrepreneurship, such as John Tee, sophomore anthropology ma-jor and creator of several T-shirt designs sold on Zazzle.com.

“His story teaches me I can do something I like and actually make money. For example, I

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App-etite forsuccess

Apps by JBMJBM ◗ Prank Me!◗ iSpy◗GeoLert◗ Gas Genie◗ iZones◗ Hurt Booth◗ Golf Fan◗ Shake 2 Count◗ Friday Night Lights◗ ANTZ

Want to turn your whimsical hobbies into successful businesses? There’s an app for that —141, to be exact.

Aggie turns app development into side job

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The team will be wearing custom-made jerseys at the game, one of which will be signed and auctioned online.

election coverageThe Battalion will be profi ling each of the SBP candidates on Monday, February 21, and will endorse one candidate the following day.

In late F ebruary, Aggieland is gear ing up for campaign season. Yell Leader , student senator and Student Body President candidates ar e making e very eff ort to win the v ote of the major ity as they vie for positions. For two SBP candidates tr ying to make campaign Web sites, ther e w as a problem: their domains w ere not available.

On October 17, 2010, more than four months befor e elections, Blak e Ma yhall, a junior ag ribusiness major , purchased and r egistered the domains pickpickering.com and hilaryalbrecht.com through godaddy.com.

“It was disheartening at fi rst,” said Hilar y Albrecht, a junior political science major and SBP candidate. “I r eally hope this was not another campaign’ s supporter acting maliciously , but regardless, all w e can do is stay positive and move forward.”

Junior communication major and fello w SBP hopeful J eff Pickering shar ed Albrecht’s sentiments.

“I str uggled with that, I wanted to fi gure out who and wh y,” J eff Pick ering said. “So early on in that semester , it r eally confused me . We just decided to move on with ‘.org’, forget it and lead by example.”

The thr ee other SBP candidates w ere unaff ected by Mayhall’s pur chases. Mar shall Bowen, J ustin Pulliam and Chris Tucker each r egistered their r espective campaign domain names months later.

Mayhall is not par t of an y of the candidates’ campaign staff s. On his Facebook profi le, Mayhall “likes” only Bo wen’s campaign page.

According to the Texas A&M Election Regulations, intentional campaign sabotage is a tier thr ee off ense, with fi nes rang ing fr om $25 to the maximum amount allowable or disqualifi cation.

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Student, SBP supporter purchases other campaign’s domain names

Voting dates◗ General election is February 28-March 1◗ Runoff election, if necessary, is March 3

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2 Film showing

A documentary showcasing media manipulation on public opinion will be presented from 11:30 a.m to 12:30 p.m. Friay in Koldus.

1 Art workshop

exhibitionFigurative paintings and drawings by students in Artist in Residence Ron Cheek’s workshop will

take place from 4 to 5 p.m. Friday through Feb. 25 at

the Langford Architecture Center.

3 Career fair

The Liberal Arts career fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in Rudder Exhibit Hall and is open to all majors.

correctionIn Tuesday’s Battalion, the concealed carry bill in 2009, SB 1164, was not voted on because of a fi libuster. SB 354 is the current bill being addressed.

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Jory Hamilton, a sophomore business administration major, passes out pennies for students to place on Sully as a part of the “random acts of kindness” service project through MSC Fish, Freshmen in Service and Hosting.

WASHINGTON — Warily watching protests ripple across the Middle East, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that governments in the vi-tal, volatile region are figuring out that they “can’t maintain power through coercion.” He slammed Iran as an exception, accusing the U.S. foe of beating and shooting protesters.

The public uprisings that toppled the leaders of Egypt and Tunisia have ignited protests and violent clashes in Bahrain, Yemen and Iran. With strategic U.S. interests in each of those countries, Obama conceded he is concerned about the region’s stability.

In his most expansive com-ments yet about the unrest spill-ing across the Middle East and north Africa, Obama signaled that he would stick with his Egyptian model: Prod govern-ments to allow peaceful pro-tests and to respond to griev-ances, but stay silent about who should run the countries or what change should look like.

The Egyptian experience has cemented Obama’s doctrine of dealing with countries grap-pling with upheaval: direction that falls short of dictates.

He said the lesson for all the nations is that they will only see lasting change, and gain both international and internal support for it, when it comes through “moral force.”

“These are sovereign coun-tries that are going to have to make their own decisions,” Obama said at his first full news conference of the year. “What we can do is lend moral support to those who are seeking a bet-ter life for themselves.”

Whether moral support is enough is often the issue as the United States tries to help shape events in the Middle East that are out of its control.

Obama singled out Iran, where hardline lawmakers are calling for the country’s oppo-sition leaders to face trial and be put to death.

Tens of thousands of people turned out for an opposition rally Monday in solidarity with Egypt’s revolt, the first such demonstration since a crack-

down on protesters in 2009.“I find it ironic that you’ve

got the Iranian regime pretend-ing to celebrate what happened in Egypt when, in fact, they have acted in direct contrast to what happened in Egypt by gunning down and beating people who were trying to ex-press themselves peacefully in Iran,” Obama said.

What began with an uprising in Tunisia emboldened massive protests in Egypt, mobilized in part by the social media net-works Facebook and Twitter.In less than three weeks, au-tocratic Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down under enormous pressure, and the makings of a democracy are under way.

“You have a young, vibrant generation within the Middle East that is looking for greater opportunity,” he said. “And if you are governing these coun-tries, you’ve got to get out ahead of change. You can’t be behind the curve.”

The president suggested that authoritarian rule is giving way to fundamental desires by peo-ple to get good jobs, an educa-

tion and a better life.“You can’t maintain power

through coercion,” Obama said. ”At some level in any society, there has to be consent.”

And then he added: “My belief is that, as a consequence of what’s happening in Tunisia and Egypt, governments in that region are starting to under-stand this.”

Once the outcome became clear, with Mubarak forced out of power and a peaceful, initial transition to democracy, the White House spoke with a vin-dicated tone.

“I think history will end up recording that at every junc-ture in the situation in Egypt, that we were on the right side of history,” he said. “What we didn’t do was pretend that we could dictate the outcome in Egypt, because we can’t.”

As for other protesters across the region, Obama said he sup-ported their aspirations, but in-sisted that the outcomes will be up to them.

“We do want to make sure that transitions do not degener-ate into chaos,” he said. “That’s good for those countries.”

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5 Are you smarter

than a freshman?Honors Student Council will have the event “Are You Smarter Than a Freshman?,” based off the television game show Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?, in which professors test their knowledge of freshmen level subjects, from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Thursday in Rudder 301.

4 Aggie African

AmericansContributions and the history of African Americans at Texas A&M will be highlighted at “The Unspoken First” 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday in Koldus 110.

3 Plants in space

Professor of horticulture Fred Davies will explain his research in producing crops in space from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday in the Horticulture-Forest Science Building.

1 Patrick Burkart

coff ee hourPatrick Burkart, professor of communication, published “Music and Cyberliberties” and will discuss the article with students over coffee from 9 to 10 a.m. today in the Glasscock Building.

2 Career fair

The Liberal Arts Career Fair, which is open to all majors, will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in the Rudder Exhibit Hall.

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The dinosaur is an unusually popular subject in pop culture, considering it hasn’t been seen alive for 65 million years. The prehistoric beasts have been a sci-fi staple for decades, and while they have appeared in countless films, novels and video games, none of them have achieved the runaway success of Jurassic Park.

The novel by Michael Crichton and subsequent blockbuster film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, became a cultural phenomenon in the early ‘90s and inspired a rabid fan base that is still going strong today. Two such fans, Ryan Cortez and Max Brown of Denton, decided to pay tribute to the dinosaur drama with a stage musical adapted from the film and novel. Now, after a series of sell-out performances in their hometown, the unlikely musical is coming to Aggieland at 7 p.m. Saturday in Wehner 113.

“Jurassic Park is my favorite movie, no question,” Cortez said. “I love science and genetics, and the concept is just so great. A theme park full of dinosaurs? That’s every kid’s dream.”

Jurassic Park: The Musical features all original music performed live by Cor-tez and Brown, who are students at the

University of North Texas in Denton. While the script is new apart from a few memorable quotes from the iconic film, the plot and cast of characters remains mostly unchanged.

The show’s biggest departure is the replacement of realistic CGI dinosaurs with a chorus of crooning carnivores. The prehistoric predators are played by cast members in costumes that fit in with the production’s charming DIY aesthetic, including velociraptors wearing what looks to be toothy purple pajamas and a T-Rex with a huge head operated by the performer’s arms.

“[Brown] is like a catchy melody ma-chine, so he handled a lot of the songwrit-ing. We have a song to introduce every main character, and almost every scene with a dinosaur is set to song because those are the most iconic and memorable parts of the movie,” Cortez said.

Cortez and Brown, who have been performing together for nearly two years under the band name “Savage and the Big Beat,” finished writing the musical in the fall of 2010 and began perform-ing it shortly after. The play’s reception received a great turnout in Denton, selling out multiple shows and earning glowing reviews from local critics. Word of mouth

eventually reached Jen Taphorn, a senior animal science major at A&M and music education executive for MSC Town Hall.

“I heard about the music from our chair, who is a huge Jurassic Park enthusiast, and she convinced me to get in touch with the students who created it,” Ta-phorn said. “Since the musical is completely student-written and run, we thought it would be cool to invite them to perform and talk about the creation of the musical.”

While they’re eager to perform in front of a new audi-ence, taking the show on the road has presented a challenge for the produc-tion’s cast and crew.

“It’s hard to get people and props from one place to another with little to no bud-get, one crew member for both lights and sound and just a few cars, but we manage with what we have,” Cortez said. “We

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‘Jurassic Park: The Musical’ to come to A&MPrehistoric performers

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A cast member dressed as a velociraptor sends a text after a rehearsal of Jurassic Park: The Musical.

Show info◗ Students who bring a fl yer printed off of the musical’s Facebook page or the MSC Town Hall website to Jurassic Park: The Musical’s College Station debut can enter at 6 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 for those without fl yers. Entrance is free.

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did computer graphics in high school and was able to sell the designs online,” Tee said.

Tee first learned about Mil-liorn when using “Prank Me.” The app, once ranked 94th on iTune’s top downloads list, fea-tures voices of characters such as a police dispatcher and debt collector, and lets users construct humorous situations, which are then sent on to friends.

“I found it very, very amus-ing,” Tee recalls. “It literally made me ‘laugh out loud.’”

But despite achieving nation-al recognition, Milliorn has even higher aspirations.

“My goal is to be listed in the Aggie 100,” he said.

The Aggie 100 is an annual list which documents the 100 fast-

est-growing and most successful businesses owned or operated by graduates of Texas A&M. Published by the Mays Business School, it requires a company to demonstrate continued success for at least five years. Though Milliorn’s two-year old business has a way to go, he is optimistic.

“With Verizon starting to carry the iPhone, I expect busi-ness to go up significantly,” he said.

Milliorn expects to adjust to the expansion of the app market by creating new apps. He re-leases new apps once per month, and is on the lookout for new opportunities to make an app.

“Sometimes an idea just pops into my mind, like when I’m driving on the highway,” Mil-liorn explained. “But usually, I see an app on the market that I think lacks some important ele-ments, so I improve it.”

One of the products of this method is Milliorn’s iPhone application Geolerts. Geolerts, which allows users to program notifications to come up at vari-ous landmarks tracked by a GPS signal, was born out of Millio-rn’s frustration with similar but inferior apps.

As long as Milliorn contin-ues to have ideas for new apps, he hopes to continue publish-ing them. Milliorn has refused several offers from people seek-ing to buy JBMJBM, though he plans to eventually sell the company to devote more time to his family and career at Edward Jones.

To those at A&M hoping to develop a business, Milliorn has one recommendation.

“If you put your mind to it, you can figure out anything. Just follow your passion.”

professional organization which focuses on providing an easier and less stressful nursing school application process for our members,” said Heather Mur-ray, president of Future Aggie Nurses. “Every nursing school is different in what they require and how their application pro-cess works so it can become very overwhelming.”

The Future Aggie Nurses plan to volunteer for the Health Science Center’s Disaster Day as well as participating in The Big Event later this semester.

“Because of the need, the of-ficers this semester are helping to bring community involve-ment to the organization,” Murray said.

Future Aggie Nurses brings in officials from nurs-ing schools to talk about their

institution’s requirements. “The organization brings

in representatives from vari-ous nursing schools who ex-plain to our members all about their program, how their ap-plication process works and what prerequisites are needed,” Murray said.

Chelsea Hart, vice president of Future Aggie Nurses is re-sponsible for finding organiza-tion speakers.

“We expose our organiza-tion to the various programs and options that exist beyond Texas A&M, what they look for in an applicant, how to pre-pare ourselves for the profession and what options exist once we graduate,” she said.

The organization also helps to keep prospective nurses on track.

“There is so much to do to prove yourself as a nurse. This organization keeps you in check and taking initiative,” said Julie

Roman, the organization’s pub-lic relations officer.

The organization is unique in the fact that their education is different than an everyday de-gree seeker.

Anyone interested in a nursing degree can come to the meetings, and the mem-bers look forward to hearing about more nursing programs at upcoming meetings.

“Given [that] Future Aggie Nurses is a fairly new organiza-tion, we have just started get-ting our name out in the com-munity. We want to focus on areas where we can volunteer and help others while attending the best university in Texas,” Hart said.

Gaining the knowledge and experience from Future Aggie Nurses will be beneficial and helpful in the future for all stu-dents who wish to someday be a healthcare professional.

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ment complexes, management and leasing companies in the Bryan-College Station area. The vendors at the Housing Fair will pass out brochures, pamphlets and other information about their property.

“The main focus [for the Housing Fair] is to be able to represent their complex or com-pany and talk to students about considering them for their off campus housing,” Swift said.

There are between 1,000 and the Housing Fair. One of those students is Traci Viscarra, a ju-nior sociology major. Viscarra said people should consider go-ing because plenty of things can go wrong with renting.

“I expect to get all my ques-tions answered and find out

about the myths of renting an apartment or condo,” Viscarra said. “Getting some information beforehand can save someone money and a heartache.”

Margaret Langford, assistant coordinator for AGOSS and supervisor for this year’s Hous-ing Fair, said each year there is a theme that properties use to decorate, dress up, design dis-plays and offer giveaways for students. The AGOSS gives out three awards for the vendors that participate at the Housing Fair for best use of the theme, most informative vendor and best costumes.

“All AGOSS staff members will be at the Housing Fair to coordinate various areas of vol-unteers or responsibilities such as vendor check-in, headquarters and survival manual stuffing,” Langford said. “This is Katie’s event and she’s worked very hard planning it. I’m there in

case Katie has questions or needs support in anything.”

The AGOSS offers differ-ent services to nontraditional students, graduate students and students living off campus. These services include leasing appointments, helping with the search for off campus room-mates and AggieSearch, the online resource to look for off campus housing. A major publi-cation that the AGOSS puts out for students is the “Off Campus Survival Manual”.

“The manual is a step-by-step guide to living off cam-pus,” Langford said. “It starts with finding a place to live and ends with moving out cor-rectly and getting your security deposit back.”

“It is a really fun event,” Swift said. “There will be a lot of fun giveaway items that students can enjoy.”

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soccer | Head Coach G Guerrieri agreed to a contract extension with the University Tuesday that will keep him in Aggieland through the 2016 season.

men’s golf | The Aggies begin the spring season with the John A. Burns Intercollegiate today in Hawaii.

softball | The women will continue their season with a doubleheader on the road against Stephen F. Austin today.

Iowa State vs. No. 17 Texas A&MMilitary Appreciation Night

7 p.m. today, Reed Arena

Aggies welcome Cyclones for Military Appreciation Night

Saluting troops at ReedFile photos — THE BATTALION

The school with the most military history of any non-service academy is gathering its ducks in a row on the night it will honor the nation’s heroes.

No. 17 A&M welcomes Iowa State at 7 p.m. Wednesday to Reed Arena with a chance to extend its revitalizing win-ning streak to three after a ner-vous run of four losses in five games. The three-game losing streak left the Aggies’ Big 12 and NCAA Tournament posi-tioning very much up in the air, but close road wins against Col-orado and Texas Tech served to calm the waters. Once danger-ously close to a free fall, A&M sits alone in third place in the conference standings.

The Aggies (19-5, 6-4 Big 12) will commemorate the occasion with Military Appre-ciation Night, a salute to active duty personnel and veterans.

The Cylones (14-11, 1-9), making the transition under first-year coach and program hero Fred Hoiberg, lost four of its 10 conference games by single digits and two in over-

time, but still find themselves in last place in a competitive Big 12. Iowa State’s one confer-ence win came at home against Baylor — an accomplishment A&M failed to achieve.

“We played better,” said Head Coach Mark Turgeon of the road trip. “I thought we played really well at Colorado. Colorado played well. We were more committed ... we all felt like we had our backs against the wall and we played that way. Hopefully we’ll continue to play that way. We didn’t play well at home [against Texas and Baylor in losses]. I just think we played with a little more toughness, a little more fight, last week.”

The two home defeats to Texas and Baylor constituted more than A&M suffered in all of 2009-2010, when its only loss in Reed was to No. 1 Kansas. Iowa State is winless on the road in Big 12 play and 2-6 overall, perhaps making the Cylones the tonic the Ag-gies need.

ISU has lost seven straight, and more lopsided of late — a 26-point loss at Colorado and

33-point beating at Kansas sandwich a one-point home loss to Kansas State in the team’s last three games. Point guard Diante Garrett leads the Cy-clones in scoring at 17.7 points per game and assists with a 5.8 per-contest mark. Junior guard Scott Christopherson follows at 14.3 points per game.

As of Tuesday, it was specu-lated that Cyclones center James Vanderbeken would be unable to play due to the high ankle sprain he suffered against Kan-sas on Saturday. The senior aids the Iowa State 3-point shoot-ing attack where he shoots his 43 percent. His absence could hinder ISU’s ability to space the floor, something it bases its of-fense on.

The team ranks second in the Big 12 in free-throw percentage, but its ability to force the issue inside and cre-ate fouls without Vanderbeken will be tested by a deep A&M frontcourt that also continues to lead the conference in re-bounding margin.

“We’re getting really good leadership now, because we’ve been humbled,” Turgeon said.

“I think the guys are doing great. We’ll see what happens in the next six games in the league, but hopefully they’ll continue to do great. We weren’t picked

to win it but we’re fighting, we’re up there. We’ll just keep plugging. It’s not easy for us, but you know what? I think we’re playing well. But us play-

ing well doesn’t mean we’re going to roll over somebody. It means we’re going to have a chance to win the game.”

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Senior Nate Walkup (top) and junior David Loubeau (bottom) lead the third-place Aggies against Iowa State a 7 p.m. today at Reed Arena.

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tried looking for places in Austin, Hous-ton and San Antonio, but we haven’t found a venue that could house us yet.”

While the musical has kept them busy for the last few months, Brown and Cortez have still found time to continue to work on new material for their band, Savage and the Big Beat, which took something of a backseat to new respon-sibilities as stage producers once the musical production got off the ground. The band’s latest release is an album called The Comet Cometh, described by the songwriters as “short sing-song tales from a cozy town as the impending doom of a comet sits over the town-folk’s shoulders.” The band also has a

new album in the works.“The next Savage and the Big Beat

album will probably be called Wings of a Man. It’s about a man with wings coming from the sky and bringing grave news, and the songs cover humorous stories of people’s reactions around the world,” the duo said.

In the meantime, Cortez and Brown will keep working on the musical, but whether or not the show will go back on the road after the College Station perfor-mance remains to be seen.

“We’ll continue to book shows in Denton as long as our cast is willing and the audience wants to see it,” Cortez said. “We’ll keep looking for out of town shows too, but they’re much more difficult since we have no budget and 15 different work schedules to work around.”

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said Delaney Elliott, marketing coordinator. “This is the first time in NCAA collegiate history for the team to have a camo jersey.”

Veterans and active servicemen and women will receive up to two free tickets and be allowed to pur-chase additional tickets for $10.

“This is the first time we’ve done Military Appreciation Night with the jersey since I’ve been here,” Head Coach Mark Turgeon said. “We

should seize any chance we get to honor the military and recognize all that they’ve done for us.”

No identification will be re-quired to purchase the ticket; vet-erans and active servicemen and women will go to the ticket win-dow and claim their status.

“We have been working on this for some time, and believe it has the potential to be a lasting tradi-tion for Texas A&M Basketball. We will be honoring the veterans of our nation’s armed forces, as well as all active service men and women,” Knotts said.

Mexico ranks Mays 43rd For the fourth year, Texas A&M’s business school has been recognized by Mexico’s leading business magazine Expansión in its “Best MBAs for Mexicans” category. The ranking of 43 globally is an increase from the program’s 45 rank in 2010. Mays also ranked 24 out of programs in the U.S. and seventh among programs at U.S. public universities. Kelli Kilpatrick, director of Mays Business School’s full-time MBA program, said the ranking refl ects the program’s impact on a global level. Complete results from the 2011 Expansión magazine “Best MBAs for Mexicans” ranking are available online at http://www.cnnexpansion.com/rankings.

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For more information◗ The Aggies will honor members of the U.S. Armed Forces tonight with more details available on http://aggieathletics.com.

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License to killPIERE, S.D. — Efforts to expand South Dakota’s defi nition of justifi able homicide to include killings that protect unborn children ran into opposition Tuesday, when one critic argued that recently added language could provide a “license to kill” abortion providers. The bill’s main sponsor, Rep. Phil Jensen, said the measure merely seeks to make self-defense laws consistent with other South Dakota laws that allow murder or manslaughter charges for the death of an unborn child. The bill originally sought to allow a pregnant woman to use force to protect her unborn child without being prosecuted for homicide or assault.

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The Texas A&M Study Abroad Program provides Aggies with travel-ing opportunities and experiences that can affect a student’s education and career choices. Many students want to get involved in studying abroad, but they do not always have the informa-tion or means to do so.

With the pending deadlines for ad-mission to the program, students and advisers look forward to the opportu-nities to come and reflect on memories from previous trips.

Olga Catalena, a senior study abroad adviser meets with students before they apply for the program. Catalena sees all the preparation in applying to study abroad.

“We have in depth discussions about the program. The faculty reviews the application and if the professor accepts,

the office does soon after. The student gets 10 days to think over the offer and confirm their decision,” she said.

There are three different kinds of study abroad programs that students can get involved at A&M.

“There are faculty lead programs, where most students are involved be-cause credits can be transferred and is good for their major, the recipro-cal exchange program in which you would need to know the language and the transfer credit program that is best for students that are mature or have traveled a lot,” she said.”

Brandi Pustka, a senior and early childhood education major, visited Costa Rica and Nicaragua summer 2010, with the education department.

“We learned Spanish and visited schools to observe and teach the stu-dents,” Pustka said.

Traveling to Costa Rica and Nicara-

gua greatly affected Pustka’s education and memories of college. Experiences out of the country and in new working environments often draw attention to the cultural differences within similar career choices.

“Being a teacher comes with many tasks and one of those is to make sure every student feels comfortable in their own skin,” Pustka said.

Madeline Mignano, also an early education major, taught in a foreign country through her involvement with the study abroad program as well.

“I went to Texas A&M’s Study Abroad website to see where would be the best place for me and my studies,” Mignano said.

Many students who have traveled with the study abroad program urge other Aggies to take interest and get involved.

“It really was the experience of a

lifetime. I made such great friends, got to experience a totally different culture and take part in some insane adven-tures,” Mignano said.

“Studying abroad was definitely one of the highlights of my college career. I traveled to another country knowing I was safe and well-off being with Texas A&M. I made friends that will always be special,” Pustka said.

Students should not hesitate to get information or get involved as they might miss the chance of a lifetime.

“Studying abroad can broaden your thinking and understanding,” Catalena said. “It can make you a well rounded person.”

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The Supreme Court decision District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), states that the Second Amendment of the United States Con-stitution provides individuals with the right to “possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.”

As a qualifier I think it is important to note that I do not own a CHL (concealed handgun license), but I am considering applying for the license as I live in an area in College Station with a high crime rate, including violent crime. I also fully support the Supreme Court decision men-tioned above.

However, later in that same decision (Section 2), the court states “The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on…laws forbid-ding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings,” essentially stating that the Second Amendment does not protect concealed carry on campus.

There seems to be a con-cern, even at the highest levels, for allowing armed individuals on campus. While there are

many concerns about the potential impact of legislation allowing concealed weapons on

campus, a few ring very true to me.

I am very aware of the chances for an accidental dis-charge or misuse of weapons, especially with the decision blurring presence of

alcohol in the college experi-ence. Students go through a great deal of personal develop-ment including dealing with emotions, stress and conflict and adding the proximity of a weapon could increase the risk of incidents, including suicide.

I foresee that the presence of weapons also provides logis-tical concerns for the Univer-sity and it’s students, faculty, staff and law enforcement. In the event of a situation requir-

ing law enforcement presence, having multiple armed students on the scene could add to con-fusion and accidental incident. Not to mention the liability and legal ramifications after an incident related to a lethal exchange.

Concern also arises related to the rights of students who do not wish to be in the pres-ence of firearms. Students of-ten do not get to choose their roommate, residence hall or other relationships on campus, which may be more sensitive when firearms are involved.

Students’ rights, safety and voice are all very important in this issue, as are those of faculty and staff. I think the arguments on both sides of the issue are strong, however, I think we must be aware of the impact of an expansion of concealed carry legislation on a college campus.

Last week Student Senate approved a referendum to gauge the interest from the student body on the issue of concealed carry of firearms on campus, a referendum that has sparked a debate. The group “Texas A&M Students for Concealed Carry” has

been representing the opinion to support concealed carry, but not much has been done to articulate the argument against and I thought it impor-tant to do so.

Robert Cimminosenior computer

science major

Concealed issues

From Victor L. Willson, Head and Professor, Department of Educational PsychologyThe Student Senate voted to put a concealed carry referendum for student vote, but concealed carry affects more than just students on campus, however, and the student discussion seems not to have thought that faculty and staff also are concerned and affected. I have a simple proposal related to concealed carry, that it be permitted for students when their auto insurance rate drops to adult levels. There is overwhelming evidence that frontal lobe activity associated with judgment and evaluation does not completely mature until the mid-twenties, which auto insurers have long known and accounted for by their rate structure, a reasonable indicator of maturity. As a combat platoon leader in Vietnam and the second oldest man in my platoon at age 24, I saw fi rsthand what lots of guns in the hands of young men could lead to when in base camp, and it was not pretty.

A comment was made in The Battalion that thousands of students carry on campuses with no incidents — if so, why carry at all? This is like the analogy of using elephant repellant in your home. See? No elephants. As a professor I do not wish to be in a classroom with students with concealed weapons, mostly because they are unlikely to know how or when to use them properly and concealed carry classes are not going to give them adequate training. The concealed carry proposal has the familiar ring of legislating to extreme conditions that have occurred in total only a handful of times on campus in the last 50 years. The same logic would lead us to carry gas masks for anthrax attacks or body armor for potential gunfi ghts.If you are so scared to be on campus because of a potential attack, don’t come. You are much more likely to be struck by lightning, or one of your fellow students in a car, than any sort of gun attack. Let’s get on to meaningful issues, like the effects of budget cuts on students.

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