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Jeff Pickering won the student body president runoff election with 62.88 percent of the votes.

Candidate wins student body president runoff election

Pickering picked

Teams rolled up their banners and headed home after a long week of campaigning and voting Friday. Candidates were eager to learn who would be the winner for student body president.

At 8 p.m., as the teams held their breath, Jeff Pickering’s name was called as Texas A&M’s next student body president. He is looking forward to serving the Aggies.

“Going into runoff interviews was really just a dream. It was amazing, and I didn’t

believe it was happening,” Pickering said.He said he appreciated the support he re-

ceived from groups.“I was honored to be trusted by the student

body. It was great to get last minute help from the Corps and the MSC as well,” Pickering said.

Pickering, his management team and his family enjoyed some time together before the winner was named.

“Going into the night I just got together with my managers and my family and family friends at a house that my parents rented and

my managers and I went off and had some alone time and prayed over whatever was go-ing to happen next,” Pickering said.

After a night with family and friends, Pick-ering and his team headed to Sul Ross statue.

“We went over and walked over to Sully, and when I heard my name called I felt a huge weight lifted off my shoulders, and I felt that we could run the race and we did it well and did it with integrity, and it was so good to know that we had done it, it had been com-

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tech talk | 3Aggie creates phone puzzleChris Cantero, class of 2007, has created a mobile device game for iPhone, iPad and Android.

voices | 4Working students, better studentsStudies have shown that students with part-time jobs actually have higher GPRs than those without.

Concealed carry vote inStudents vote 57 percent against concealed carry on campus but faculty members have opinions, too.

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Eating disordersWith spring break approaching, some students feel pressured to look a certain way. However, some methods of dieting can be unhealthy and even life-threatening.

campus newsMays accounting program recognizedThe Department of Accounting at Mays Business School has been ranked favorably for undergraduate and graduate program quality and quality and productivity of faculty research. Authors of a Brigham Young University paper analyzing research quality and productivity ranked the departmentNo. 6 in the country when topics and methods were considered. Spanning the past 12 years, the program is ranked No. 4 and for the past 20 years, No. 6 using the same metric. This is an improvement over the department’s already notable 2009 ranks of No. 12,No. 8 and No. 8 in the country for its “all topics – all methods” overall ranking using the last six years, 12 years and 20 years of publications.

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Let’s explore a few of many cul-tures that can be found on campus. International Week allows Aggies to experience part of the diverse culture at A&M.

From March 4 to March 10, the International Student Association, in conjunction with other internation-al organizations, will be putting on events to bring students together and provide a chance to make the rest of the world a little more tangible.

I-week will include cultural activi-ties and a buffet.

“Food is one of the centerpieces,” said Zachary Gibson, a senior human resources development major and president of the association. “Organi-zations volunteer recipes, and the Sbisa chefs choose which ones to make.”

The idea is to make a full meal, in-corporating dishes from a variety of countries, though the main course fo-cuses on cuisine from South America. The cost of the buffet is the normal cost of eating at Sbisa, Gibson said.

Jesus Sanchez, a junior telecommu-nications major and vice president of operations for the association, said he is looking forward to the buffet most because they are doing something dif-

ferent this year. Other days will include a cultural

and art exhibit, language dinner for Corps members, and a talent show to end the week. Students can buy tick-ets for the talent show at the MSC box office for $4.

“Columbia and India are the largest organizations involved, and they have some awesome things planned for the talent show,” Gibson said.

The language dinner is for the Corps of Cadets to practice the language they are learning with international stu-dents. Gibson, who was in the Corps as an undergraduate, wants to make it a regular occurrence and potentially

include other students. They have conversation nights once a month, Sanchez said, with languages such as Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese; they get as many as possible.

“It’s a testing ground for Corps members to overcome fears and speak the language, and a chance for inter-national students to make friends with English speakers. It’s a two-fold op-portunity to use real conversation and learn dinner etiquette. Food and man-ners are the most important things,” Gibson said.

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Aggies celebrate International WeekRebecca Hutchinson The Battalion

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Following a challenging campaign season, Nelson Ingram and Josh Light were elected to spur the Aggies to their feet as junior yell leaders for the 2011-2012 school year. The A&M student body selected the two candidates in last week’s runoff election.

Ingram, a sophomore business major, and Light, a junior chemical engineering major ran as part of 5 for Yell, a group of candidates selected by the Corps of Cadets. The two said they were excited to hear the election results at Sul Ross in front of Academic Plaza Friday night.

“I’m proud to represent the student body next year,” Light said.

Ingram thanked students who cam-paigned for 5 for Yell and those who voted for the group. He said he is thank-ful for all the support and looks forward to stepping in as a junior yell leader.

“It is an honor, and I can’t wait to

serve this University. I can’t wait to be the best I can to represent A&M,” In-gram said. “Thank you for the opportu-nity to serve this University.”

Ingram and Light were two of four final junior candidates along with Ster-ling Bennett, a sophomore international studies major, and Drew Nelson, a soph-omore accounting major.

David Benac, a senior business major, Patrick Ivey, a senior economics major, and Austin Walker, a junior industrial distribution major, will represent A&M as senior yell leaders alongside the junior elects. Although the group campaigned together, each candidate was selected individually for the yell leader position.

“This was a great campaign season in general,” said Benac, who served as ju-nior yell leader this past year. “We had a great opportunity to meet everyone else but it was exciting to hear the results and to see the hard work paid off when the names were announced.”

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Josh Light and Nelson Ingram kneel while awaiting the announcement from Friday’s runoff elections. The two cadets were members of 5 for Yell. All members of 5 for Yell were selected.

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Students gather for Pillow Project, a fundraiser to raise money for the Boys & Girls Club of Brazos Valley.

pleted. The best word I can describe is completion,” Pickering said.

Pickering said this weekend was simply about celebrating with his team. They had a celebration party after the announcement.

“We ate together and danced and there were managers from other teams there. It was good to come together as Aggies, my vision as campus unity is starting to come true,” Pickering said.

Many students supported Pickering and were happy to see him win.

“I loved it. I am a dear friend of Marshall Bowen’s and I have a lot of friends that wanted Jeff to win. Whenever Marshall jumped on board for Jeff to win, so did I,” said Bailee Brown, a sophomore sports manage-ment major.

Some students knew Pickering per-sonally or had classes with him and be-lieved he will serve the student body well.

“I’m happy for Jeff and his victory. I’ve had classes with him for a couple of years now, he is a great guy and will serve the Aggie student body very well,” said Matt McCullar, a junior communication major.

PickeringContinued from page 1

Samantha Virnau — THE BATTALION

Jeff Pickering gives a gig ’em after winning the runoff election for student body president.

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“The casual gamer includes people outside of the typical gaming genre — Halo, Starcraft 2 — the casual gamer is someone who plays games to pass the time while they’re waiting for a bus or at the airport,” Cantero said.

DoorWays transports the user from ancient Greece to the modern trailer park in search of keys to open a myriad of doors. Players are challenged to bend their minds around difficult puzzles that can keep anyone en-gaged for hours on end.

“Casual games are a fast growing division in the game industry that is made possible with all the new small handheld devices such as the iPhone, iPod touch, Android and iPad,” Cantero said. “The iTunes store is a

big part of the suc-cess of mobile games because the distribution is made incredibly easy over the iTunes store. It’s a pretty fantastic number of people that have instant access to your game.”

The game was devel-oped by Blind Squirrel Digital. The founder, Michael Neely, is a prolific veteran, with work on such movies as Spiderman 3, Pirates of the Caribbean 3 and The Fantastic Four under his belt. DoorWays is the first of many potential games from the company and Neely said he hopes to engage players and open up games to a whole new category of people.

The inspiration for DoorWays came from Neely and his experience with the game Zork, a text-based game that requires players to solve puzzles at doors. He took the con-cept to implement it in a game of his own.

The game utilizes a puzzle environment to draw players into a world based on clues and strategy.

“Each level has a different themed door in which players have to solve the puzzle to move on to the next door. Some examples of doors you will encounter are an Egyptian door, submarine door, time machine door and many more of the world’s hallmarks. You receive points based on how fast you

can get to the final door. There are also some fun references that the player will come across. For example, for the time machine door, part of the clue comes from H. G. Wells The Time Machine book cover,” Cantero said.

The art style of the game is reminiscent of classic cartoons of our generation and PC games that gamers have grown up with.

“We spent a lot of time to make sure the art was very appealing and fun to experience,” Cantero said.

No game can be created without running into its own share of complications, and in this regard, DoorWays is no different.

“Technical problems included optimiza-tion. After I was done modeling and textur-ing my levels in 3D, we had to do a process of converting the high-polygon models into sprites,” Cantero said. “Sprites consider-ably reduce the file size but the conversion process is where the problems lie.”

Hard work pays off though, and DoorWays has brought new ideas and innovations to the forefront of gaming.

“We used a game engine called Unity, which is a revolutionary new way to make games. Unity has an integrated graphical en-

vironment, so making games is a lot more of a visual process instead of being mostly just code,” Cantero said.

Student reactions to the game DoorWays has been generally approving with gamers seeming to enjoy the intricacies of the game but with a few exceptions.

“The game is an intellectual mind bender, but its main downfalls are its slowness and obliqueness of some of the puzzles,” said Dylan Hillard, a freshman English major.

DoorWays can be found in the iTunes App store under its name or in the puzzle game section. Those wanting to see more of the game before purchasing can check out the trailer on YouTube.

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In this modern day, enter-tainment follows individuals everywhere. You can watch

television shows or movies, listen to music, and of course, play games on your phone. Chris Cantero, class of 2007, has contributed to this mobile gaming trend with his work on the development of a “mobile device puzzle” for iPad, iPod and Android catered for a casual gaming audience.

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1 Teacher workshop

Students with an interest in becoming a teacher after graduation can attend a wokshop about teacher certifi cation at 4 p.m. today in Koldus, room 111.

5 Variety show

International Week presents the International Variety Show, which will showcase performances from different cultures represented on campus at 7 p.m. Thursday in Rudder Theater.

4 Zulu fi lm

The International Film Series presents Yesterday about a Zulu woman’s struggle with AIDS at 11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in Koldus, room 227.

2 Musical show

Kevin Patton, guitarist and composer, will perform with Carmen Montoya, a visual and performance artist at 7:30 p.m. today in Rudder Theater. Tickets can be purchased at the MSC Box Offi ce.

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However, students do not need to abstain from all economic endeavors while they’re clois-tered in college. In fact, having a part-time job can prove to be one of the most benefi cial decisions someone makes.

One of the great-est fears about getting a job in college is that there won’t be time to do anything else. This is what I thought my freshman year. I decided to fi rst get acclimated to college life and focus on my grades. What happened was that I wasted a whole lot of time doing a whole lot of nothing. A 2009 Harris Interactive survey found that the average student spends 2.5 hours a day watching TV and fi ve hours on the computer. Such is the life of the stereotypical, or maybe just typical, Joe College.

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part-time jobs averaged a 3.13 GPR. while students who didn’t averaged a 3.04 GPR. Again, it goes back to time management.

Besides grades, possibly a stronger incentive to have a job during college is money. While a part-time job doesn’t mean any-one is going to live high on the hog, drawing a paycheck can help off set the continually increasing costs of attending college. Work-ing while in school could also allow you to alleviate or avoid student loans. That’s something many people with college degrees wish they had done. According to The College Board, from 2000 to 2007, 60 percent of graduates had student loans with an average debt of $12,400.

Last year, after I realized I couldn’t live by hoarding Saltine crackers from the Underground, I got an on-campus job. I certainly didn’t make bank, but it helped buy food and was a good experi-ence. While the type of job you have might or might not help prepare you for your future ca-reer, at the very least it will look better on a résumé than nothing.

During college you don’t have to live a life of complete eco-nomic celibacy. Although you won’t get rich with a part-time job, you won’t die trying to cover some expenses either. You might even gain experience you never would have just sitting in front of the TV surfi ng on your laptop.

For many students college is like a temporary mon-

astery where they are isolated from fi nancial luxuries for four or fi ve years. The ultimate goal is that these years of sacrifi ce will help stu-dents live a future life of pecuniary comfort.

Concealed carry vote shows 57 percent of students uninformed

The results are in for the con-cealed carry referendum and 57 percent of Texas A&M students opposed concealed carry on cam-pus. This is a somewhat shocking result coming from a historically conservative school.

Students aren’t the only ones who will be aff ected by con-cealed carry on campus. Faculty and staff also have a vested inter-est in the debate, and Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost

Antonio Cepeda-Benito has lead an eff ort to get faculty to weigh in.

Operating on the assumption that the best arguments against concealed carry will come from the smart-est folks with a vested interest in the debate, let’s see what arguments members of our faculty are making.

One of my personal favorites is the argument — and I use that term loosely — made by Cepeda-Benito in his letter to faculty requesting their feedback.

“I am wholeheartedly against allowing guns in classrooms. To sum it up, I have little doubt that concealed weapons may make those carrying them feel safer. However, I am also certain that those of us who now feel safe without guns will no longer

feel safe if these laws are passed.”

I might be wrong but when consider-ing concealed carry on campus I care a lot more whether we are actually safer or not. Bullets from a madman don’t care whether you feel safe or not. Would Cepeda-Benito still feel safer locked in a classroom with a gun-

man knowing there weren’t any other guns? I don’t see any logical reason why feeling safer should trump actually being safer.

David Brooks, professor of oceanography, hits the popular “rise in suicides” theory.

“The gun suicide last Monday at Consol is an example of what guns in the hands of despondent students can do.”

Brooks is clearly unaware that

whether or not concealed carry passes students will still have guns. You don’t need concealed carry license to own a gun. You certainly don’t need the license to take your own life. This argument and line of reasoning is irrelevant to concealed carry.

Robert Chapkin, professor of nutrition and food science likes the wild, wild west myth.

“Imagine this: an ‘assassin’ enters my classroom and begins shooting (his/her gun as opposed to mouth). Six pistol-packing ‘students’ begin fi ring back. In the process, they ‘accidently’ shoot and kill six innocent students. Eventually, the assassin is killed.When the police enter, how do they identify the perpetrator?”

This situation is beyond un-likely. Only a portion of students own a handgun. A smaller por-tion is over 21 and eligible for a concealed carry license. An even

smaller portion of those have concealed carry license but let’s assume this situation occurs.

How many would have died if the gunman was the only one with a gun and intent on killing? I am going to go out on a limb and say more than six.

How do the police identify the perpetrator? Well in the scenario he is dead. The concealed carri-ers would know to empty and disarm their weapon and wait for the police to take them away. Then the police would investigate what happened and identify the perpetrator.

Winston Churchill once said: “The best argument against de-mocracy is a fi ve-minute conver-sation with the average voter.”

The best argument for con-cealed carry is a fi ve-minute con-versation with a person opposed to concealed carry on campus.

Caleb Wilsonsenior history

major

Taylor Wolken

junior economics major

There are two eas-ily defi ned sides to the concealed

carry debate. There are those who support con-cealed carry on campus and those who have no idea what they are talk-ing about.

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monday 3.7.2011

MSC OPAS Presents: Bus Stop

Tue Mar 22, 7:30Rudder Theatre

When They Came for My Father Exhibit

Through Mar 26, MSC Forsyth

Student Conference on Latino Affairs:

Latinos in Politics

Fri-Sat Apr 1-2Register online at scola.tamu.edu

Growing in Wellness

MSC LEAF Annual Spring Conference

Sat Apr 2Register online at leaf.tamu.edu

Globalization Goes South

Cash and Corruption in the Americas

Save the DateFri Apr 8, 8:00pm

act with locals through meals; learning about the cuisine and proper dining etiquette can be a helpful way to bring down barriers. Having knowledge about customs can decrease the chance of offending any-one.

I-Week is a chance for students to partake in the international experience if they do not study abroad, or as a preparation before they leave, the ISA presi-dent said.

“In the real world we have to deal with all races and different views, wheth-er we agree or not,” San-chez said. “This is a way to promote diversity and be friendly and open to all races.”

Gibson said it is not only about representing diversity and sharing it with other Aggies, but about providing a platform for the interna-tional community to show-case who they are.

On its Facebook page I-Week has nearly 500 con-firmed participants. Gibson is hoping 2,000 show up to various events or at least to view the exhibits in Rud-der Hall.

“Not all the Aggie com-munity knows what an Ag-gie is now. We’re diverse, it’s a huge place; most col-leges don’t get that. It’s about seeing all the different shades of maroon,” he said.

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Paul Mezier — THE BATTALION

Members of the Hindu Student Association celebrate Holi, a Hindu spring festival.Tiffany Cornelius — THE BATTALION

Hindu students present festival

Many students heard faint music permeating from Simp-son Drill Field Sunday. They might have stumbled upon a Hindu festival underway known as Holi. Colored pow-der whizzed past faces as the drill field briefly turned into a dance floor filled with partici-pants covered head to toe in green, pink, yellow and blue

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hues.“I came out to see what

was going on, and I ended up having a lot of fun and surpris-ingly learning a lot about this festival that I’ve never heard of before,” said Paul Adams, a sophomore communication major. “It was nice dirty fun to be had by all.”

This year’s celebration was a huge success with a conservative estimate of 500 students coming out between the hours of 12 and 5 p.m. Those who attended were given free food, as well as powder to throw. They were also treated to DJ Chani from Houston with live traditional Indian Dholi drum perfor-mances and a foam machine that was a special surprise for those in the audience. At the end of the day, more than 200 pounds of powdered paint had been used.

“I was soaked in all sorts of colors,” said Robert Nel-son, a freshman agricultural communication and journal-ism major. “Everyone was in such a good mood. We had so much fun dancing, but the best part was walking back to my dorm and getting looks from everyone.”

The festival was a celebra-tion of life and is thrown at the beginning of spring, generally in late February or early March to exult in the end of the cold winter. Holi

is known as the festival of col-ors and many similar events are presented around the world wherever the Hindu faith is practiced. Along with Holi in the spring, the Hindu Students Association, HSA, throws Dandiya Night in the fall semester which is another celebration of Hindu faith.

“The events aren’t just for Hindus or Indians,” said Anish Patel, a junior electrical engi-neering major. “The HSA has these events for everyone, our big mission at HSA is to pro-mote awareness of the Hindi faith by coming out and hav-ing these festivals.”

This year the HSA joined forces with the Indian Grad-uate Students Association, IGSA, as well as Child Rights and You, CRY, to present the event. Through the sale of T-shirts and corporate spon-sorship, the event was offered to students free of charge and also managed to raise money that through CRY went to help children around the world.

“We put in a lot of effort for it, you cant measure the amount of stress involved,” said Harsh Junega, a junior electrical engineering major. “Planning this event along with tests all last week I’ve had less than two hours of sleep, I’m so happy it all came together and the event turned out how it did.”

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entertainmentSheen fi les: A crazy week for NBC’s Rossen NEW YORK — Is being called a “rock star” by Charlie Sheen good or bad for his career in television journalism? Jeff Rossen, an NBC News correspondent who works chiefl y for the “Today” show, played a prominent role in the actor’s bizarre media tour to bash his bosses for suspending “Two and a Half Men,” and explain a lifestyle of drugs and “goddesses.” It was Rossen whom Sheen later described as a “rock star” whose interview was “pure gold.” Sheen told Morgan live on CNN that Rossen was awesome and should be a guest on his show.

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