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scene | 3‘Th3 B3ggar’s Op3ra”The Texas A&M Theater Department presents its fi rst-ever musical production, The Beggar’s Opera, today. The show is completely comprised of A&M students and promises to shock audiences with avant-garde themes.

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Lecture series goes global The MSC Wiley Lecture Series will present “Globalization Goes South: Cash and Corruption in the Americas” at 8 p.m. Friday in Rudder Auditorium. The student-led series features speakers with global impact: former president of Mexico Vicente Fox, and senior associate of Carnegie Endowment For International Peace Moises Naím. “We distributed surveys to see what the student body is most interested in and globalization came up a lot,” said Sarah Hall, lecture series chairwoman and a junior English major. “Students can expect to learn about the role the U.S. plays in foreign policy, state corruption and globalizing through diplomatic relations. There are so many details skipped over in headlines and classes, and the program gives the opportunity to hear insight from global experts,” Hall said.She said Fox has incredible insight to social aspects affecting Mexico and the role of business in the developing world and that Naím is a distinguished economist. Fox was also president of Coca Cola for Latin America and Naím is considered to be an expert on globalization with a background as Venezuela’s minister of trade and as an executive director of World Bank.Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the MSC Box Offi ce or online.

Christine Perrenot, staff writer

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Welcome home

Aggies lace up to save lives around world

Nearly 8 million children under 5 years of age die each year. Six million of these lives could have been saved. Compassion

International is an organization that is working toward saving the lives of children around the world. Saturday, there will be a “Run for Compassion” to raise funds for the organization.

The mission state-ment of Compassion International is: “In

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itual, economic, social and physical poverty and enable them to become responsible and fulfilled Christian adults.”

Compassion works in Asia, Africa, South America, Central America and the Carib-

Run for children Participants can

run, walk or stroll for either 5K or 10K to support

children in Ethiopia and Haiti at 8 a.m.

Saturday.

Panel to offer insight for health students

The Career Center is having an event for students interested in fields promot-ing human health through technology at the Biotechnology Career Panel. At the panel, students have the chance to listen to six professionals from around the country who will offer key advice to students interested in this career path.

The speakers will offer insight regard-ing how they started their career, what is expected from their companies and are even offering entry-level positions within their companies.

“We hope the panel will help students begin to explore a variety of biotechnol-ogy careers,” said Marilyn Yeager, se-nior life sciences career coordinator.

With three of the panelists being

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More details◗ The event will be from 5:45 to 7:30 p.m today in Koldus 110 and 111.

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Compassion International is an organization that works toward saving children like the Haitians above.

See Health on page 7See Compassion on page 4

student activities careers

After the tsunami and nuclear di-saster in Japan, the Texas A&M Uni-versity Japan Club has come together to organize relief and awareness in the community.

“People are really organized, re-sponsible and want to help out,” said Lisa Liou, a senior biology major and president of the Japan Club.

Liou said the purpose of the club is to increase awareness of the Japanese com-

munity and introduce Japanese people to organizations and places through so-cial events and activities.

Liou said the organization tries to hold meetings at the beginning of every month so members know how to get involved and what to do.

To aid in tsunami relief, the organi-zation has collected messages on their flag from students, set out donation jars on campus and around the community and also had a rummage sale Saturday at Grace Bible Church-Anderson.

“We are going to do more donation jars in different places that people can put money in, and we will collect the money after two weeks,” Liou said.

With the increasing concern for the people of Japan, the organization has collected donations for the American Red Cross to distribute to the people who need it most.

“Students need to be aware and give as much support to those people as they can,” said Fumitaka Sato, a senior engineering technology major

from Fukushima. Sato said he wishes he could tell the

people suffering in Japan to be strong and not to give up.

“A lot of people’s main concern is when they can go back to their home and lifestyle from before,” Sato said.

Liou said the organization tries to hold their meetings at the beginning of every month so members know how to get involved and what to do.

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Japan support increases on and off campus

See Japan on page 4

organizations

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Top: Texas A&M women’s basketball team saws varsity’s horns off in Reed Arena after returning to Aggieland from Indianapolis. Left: Tyra White, known as one of the quietest players on the

team, silences the crowd, takes the mic, and utters one simple phrase: “Gig ‘em.” Right: Johnnie Harris, Vic Shaefer, Gary Blair and Kelly Bond hold up the national championship trophy.

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2 Cake decorating

Aggie Nights will have a cake decorating contest with prizes beginning at 8 p.m. Friday in Studio 12.

1 Farmers market

Grab some fresh fruits and vegetables from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today in front of Sbisa.

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3 Vet school open house

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Sophomore Blanca Tovar, general studies, participates in a “Die In” to raise awareness for the student senate bill, SB6398. The Council for Minority Student Affairs is trying to protest the bill, which states that undocumented students should not receive in-state tuition.

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Calif. delegation to visit Texas, study job growth next week

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Republican-led group of California lawmakers and Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that they will head to Texas next week to hear from businesses that left the state. GOP Assemblyman Dan Logue, who is leading the delegation, said the

two-day trip is not intended to bash California, but rather examine how Texas has been able to lure companies in recent years. Texas has added 165,000 jobs during the last three years while California has lost 1.2 million jobs, he said. “We want to sit down with these businesses that could not

stay in our state and fi nd out why they left, what caused them to pick up their family, their roots, and move to another state in order to compete, in order to grow their businesses,” Logue told reporters during a Capitol news conference.

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1 War Dance

A documentary fi lm that follows the children of the Patongo Primary School from the refugee camp to the stage of the Uganda National Music Competition will be 8 to 10:30 p.m. today at Simpson Drill Field.

5 ‘Green Hornet’

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2 Nat King Cole

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3 Art Fest exhibit

Art Fest 2011 will display an exhibit of student-created works starting today through May 5 in the University Club of Rudder Tower.

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A production that has been called controversial for its avant-garde non-realist acting, violence and sexual explictness is coming to A&M, and it is going down in history as the theatre department’s first musical ever. Texas A&M students will perform Th3 B3ggar’s Op3ra today through April 17 in the Rudder Forum Theatre.

“The Beggar’s Opera has been adapted many times, most notably by Bertolt Brecht in 1929 as The Threepenny Opera,” said Kirsten Pullen, an assistant professor of performance studies and director of the production. “I originally planned to do Threepenny, but because we needed to cut some of the songs and use a smaller orchestra as well as change some of characters, we couldn’t get the rights to Brecht’s text. So we went back to the original and added in some Brechtian elements such as non-realist acting, making visible

the means of production and using projections to signify time and place. We are using music from 1920s Berlin cabaret, which influ-enced The Threepenny Opera.”

Pullen teaches the film class “The Politics of Entertainment; or, Brecht and the Movie Musi-cal.” While Pullen directs the play, junior theatre arts major Katie Elder and senior music major Cul-lan Lucas serve as assistant director and musical director, respectively. Except for Pullen and the design faculty, the students ultimately put the play together. All of the actors are Texas A&M students, and other students built and painted the set, made the costumes, hung the lights and play instruments in the orchestra.

“It’s important to me that

students understand all the research that goes into directing and per-forming a play, and the ways that performance itself can be a kind of research. We are learning by doing, and we are creating something much more than a final paper, though students are writing those as well,” Pullen said.

The cast is very excited to bring their rendition of The Beggar’s Opera to the stage and share it with the Texas A&M community. They said they expect the audience will be in for a wild ride.

“[The audience] will laugh, be made uncomfortable and confused a lot of the time. America is used to ‘realist acting’ and The Beggar’s Opera is not realist. It’s stylized and controversial. Get ready. It’s awe-some,” said Jessica Ramos, a senior theatre arts major who choreo-graphed the dances.

Ramos is an accomplished dancer herself, but this is her first attempt at musical theatre choreography.

“After the application process,

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it was a long, hard journey before teaching the cast the dances. I had to collaborate with the musicians in the production team to make sure that I had everything right, from counts to lyrics, as not to misrepresent what the songs were about,” she said.

The amount of time and effort that Ramos has put in is a good indicator of how much work the entire cast has put into making this performance a reality. This is the first time that the theatre department has put on a large-scale musical. This departure from the de-partment’s usual performances has the cast excited to see what response will greet them from the audience.

“This is the theatre department’s first musical ever, and we are doing it big. So, come because we are going down

in history and you will want to be able to say you were there,” said Christina Taylor Wood, a senior psychology ma-jor who will play the principal role Lucy Lockit, the police chief’s daughter.

Cast members said the play isn’t suitable for children or the faint of heart because it contains violence, profanity and sexually explicit situations.

“The play is amazing, funny, scary, sexy and strange. The set and costumes are incredible; there’s more going on visually in this show than in any other we’ve done. So many students and faculty have put enormous hours into the play,” Pullen said. “Everyone should come see that Aggies can excel at performance as well as things like engineering and science.”

Aggies make up the entire cast of the musical, Th3 B3ggar’s Op3ra.

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“Many people are inter-ested in Japanese things,” said Kotaro Yamafune, a graduate nautical archaeology student in the Japan club.

Aside from all the organi-zation has done to help aid tsunami relief, they also par-ticipate in the “Jaggie” soccer

club, conversation tables and food demonstrations to em-brace the Japanese culture.

“We hang out with other Japanese people, get together and keep in close contact,” Sato said.

Students can get involved by joining the Facebook group or checking the web-site at http://japanclub.tamu.edu.

“The organization is open

to whoever wants to be a member and [it] does not col-lect dues,” Liou said.

The officers said they want Aggies to know how appreciative they are of all the efforts and help made by students to aid the people of Japan at this time.

“We are very glad and thankful for the support of Aggies,” Yamafune said.

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bean. Compassion brings aid to more than 1 million chil-dren in 25 countries. Aid is given to children through programs that provide chil-dren with food, medicine, funds and schooling.

Jennifer Bacak started Run For Compassion two years ago. Her family has been in-volved with Compassion In-ternational in the past, and as they learned more, the more they were inspired to make a change.

“The more we learned, the more compelled we felt to do something,” Bacak said. “Our kids are living in plenty, and these kids are dying.”

The “Run for Compas-sion” in College Station was one of the first of its kind. Since then, runs have spread nationwide to raise money for children in need.

This weekend’s “Run for Compassion” will give money to the child survival program. The child survival program provides children

with the necessities that will keep them alive until the age of 5. After that, the children are eligible for the child spon-sorship program. In this pro-gram, people personally adopt a child in a foreign country, sending them funds, cards and birthday gifts.

“The kids can’t be spon-sored before 5 years old be-cause a lot of kids don’t make it to the age of 5,” said Jamie Klemashevich, senior recre-ation parks and tourism sci-ences major and public rela-tions coordinator for the run.

Compassion Interna-tional partners with the lo-cal churches to provide care beginning at pregnancy. Ser-vices range from prenatal care to clean birthing services.

“Sometimes they just don’t know how to take care of a baby,” Klemashevich said.

While Compassion spon-

sors countries around the world, College Station’s Run for Compassion focuses specifically on Ethiopia and Haiti.

The run begins at 8 a.m. Saturday and will go through the Emerald Forest Subdivi-sion. Participants can run, walk or stroll for either 5K or 10K. Registration will be open the day of the race.

The goal for the first com-passion run was $4,000, and it was met. The second year, the goal was $8,000, and it was surpassed with $11,000 raised. Bacak said this year’s is $15,000.

“Other people should run because then they could be a part of saving a child’s life. No one wants to see children un-der age 5 die of preventable diseases. People should run to do something greater than themselves and help save the lives of children in Ethiopia and Haiti,” said Shelby Hol-loway, a freshman general studies major. “There is no greater reason running than that of people will come to know Jesus as their Savior.”

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Sailor, 85, crosses Atlantic PHILIPSBURG, St.

Maarten — An 85-year-old British sailor who dreamed of crossing the Atlantic on a raft as a young boy completed the journey with three friends Wednesday.

The crossing to this Carib-bean island, led by Anthony Smith of London, took about two months and was general-ly smooth except for damage to two rudders on the large, sail-powered raft.

“Some people say it was mad,” he told The Associated Press when he arrived in St. Maarten. “But it wasn’t mad. What else do you do when you get on in years?”

The jovial crew said they wanted to raise awareness

about the environment and to prove the elderly are capable of embarking on adventures that are mistakenly consid-ered dangerous. They also aimed to raise money for the British nonprofit group Wa-terAid, which provides po-table water to impoverished communities.

A stroke of bad luck paid for the trip, courtesy of Smith, who was hit by a van and broke his hip.

“I got some compensation money,” he said. “So what do you blow the compensa-tion money on? You blow it on a raft.”

The crew departed from the Canary Islands after bad weather delayed their trip for

about a month. Smith deliv-ered a farewell speech — in nearly impeccable Spanish — to a crowd gathered on the dock and then waved good-bye.

The raft was loaded with food including oranges, avo-cados, potatoes, cabbages and a pumpkin. Once the store-bought bread was consumed, sailing master David Hildred began making it from scratch in a small oven.

Hildred, a civil engineer who lives in the British Virgin Islands, also was summoned to help fix the rudders that broke three days into the trip.

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“It’s a great day in Ag-gieland.” The words from Texas A&M University President R. Bowen Loftin could not have summed up the feeling Wednesday in-side Reed Arena any better. A packed house greeted the Aggies’ women’s basketball team who returned with the national championship tro-phy that they earned less than 24 hours before.

“It’s amazing,” said A&M senior guard Maryann Baker. “To come in with hopes and dreams of a national cham-pionship and on the last day of the season as an Aggie, to achieve that goal is amazing. It’s an amazing experience and to do it with 15 girls and four coaches and so many other support staff, that just makes it that much better -people we all love, people that want the best for us, be-yond the basketball court.”

The day was not only a time for celebration, but also a time for reflection. When Head Coach Gary Blair took the job in 2003, he inherited a team that had just went 3-13 in Big 12 play and hadn’t had a winning season in seven years.

“I came to the conclusion that what we needed were

some basketball coaches,” said A&M athletic director Bill Byrne. “We wanted someone that could embrace the values of Texas A&M University. In March of 2003, the first coach that I hired was Gary Blair.”

Despite doing an excellent job of building the program at Arkansas, Blair left for A&M with dreams of some-thing bigger. In eight seasons, Blair has brought success and respect to an Aggie program that lacked both.

“Eight years ago, I ac-cepted this job and left a Top 25 program with Coach [Vic] Schaefer and Coach [Kelly] Bond,” Blair said. “I said that I wasn’t interested in com-ing to A&M unless A&M was committed to building champions. We’re here to build championships.”

With all of Aggie Nation inflicted with March Madness and a sudden craze for wom-en’s basketball, Blair knows that he has done his job in attracting fans to the sport. In his first couple of seasons, only a few hundred people would be in attendance at a women’s basketball game. Tuesday’s national champi-onship game caught the at-tention of every Aggie across the state, country and globe.

“There was Aggies every-where watching that game,” Blair said. “There were pro-

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baseball | The No. 5 Aggies travel to Lubbock for a weekend series against Texas Tech beginning Friday.

tennis | The Aggie men’s and women’s tennis teams will play at the Mitchell Tennis Center this weekend.

softball | The No. 20 Aggies travel to Columbia, Mo. to take on Missouri for a two-game series beginning Saturday.

Aggies honored as national champions in return to campus

Celebration Station

Sam Virnau — THE BATTALION

Seniors Sydney Colson and Maryann Baker, along with junior Sydney Carter, speak to thousands of fans in attendance at Reed Arena to celebrate the Aggies national championship victory over Notre Dame Tuesday.

Michael TeagueThe Battalion

spective Aggies watching that game. Our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq were watching that game. This University is built so much around tradition and values. We just do things right here.”

The crowd at Wednesday’s

celebration rivaled the atten-dances for many of the Ag-gies’ home games this season. Blair made sure to capitalize on the opportunity of getting to speak to his fan base all at once.

“The ticket office opens at

2 o’clock tomorrow and I’m giving everybody the day off so you can come buy season tickets,” he said.

With the 2010-11 season over and the celebration com-ing to a close, all that is left for the Aggies to do is meet

the President. The team will travel to the White House next month to be recognized by President Barack Obama as the national champions of women’s college basketball.

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4bd/2ba house available for Sum-mer/Fall. 2miles South of campus,pet friendly. $1600/mo. Contact972-921-9826.

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“The panelists are all very experienced professionals working for well-respected biotechnology companies,” Yeager said.

In a flyer issued by the Career Center, senior scien-tist Rodney Bowling, Jr. of XBiotech USA, expressed how even though his work keeps him busy, he has not missed an Aggie football game in 10 years.

“I am always looking for ‘missionaries’ to bring their superior Texas A&M Univer-sity education to Austin and to work with me at XBiotech as we research and build the next generation of monoclonal an-tibody therapeutics,” Bowling said.

Besides former Aggies speaking at the panel, students have the opportunity to be exposed to other elite profes-sionals from across the nation and one professional who has even worked in Europe and in the Middle East.

Yeager said these repre-sentatives are from multi-na-tional companies including: Sigma-Aldrich, Cyberonics, Beckman, Millipore and Life Technologies, which might also offer careers to non-sci-ence majors.

This career panel is not limited to science or engi-neering majors. With two of the panelists being marketing managers at their companies, the biotechnology welcomes business majors and all other majors to listen as well.

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With the knowledgeable professionals speaking, stu-dents can learn more about the diverse field of a biotech-nology career and the options of working in it, as well as the companies within the field.

“If students are already interested in working in the biotechnology field, the panel will provide more insight into this industry and an opportu-nity to network with profes-sionals,” Yeager said.

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NEW YORK — Men and women will compete head-to-head, some of the more exotic awards like best Native American album and best spoken-word children’s record have been eliminated, and the number of categories has been reduced by more than 30 in the biggest over-haul in the 53-year history of the Grammys.

While no musical genres will be excluded from Gram-my contention, the changes will make the awards a lot more competitive.

“It ups the game in terms of what it takes to receive a Grammy and preserves the great esteem of with its held in the creative community, which is the most important element,” Recording Acad-emy President and CEO Neil

Portnow said in a telephone interview Wednesday.

While the Academy has adjusted its rules and adapted to industry changes over the years, these changes follow its first major examination of the awards structure, a process that took more than a year.

The biggest change will come in the number of cat-egories, cut from 109 to 78. Awards will no longer be given in such categories as rap performance by a duo or group; some of the in-strumental categories in pop, rock and country; traditional gospel; children’s spoken-word album; Zydeco or Ca-jun music album; and best classical crossover album.

Portnow said the changes will make the awards process more rigorous.

Separate male and female vocal categories in fields like pop, R&B and country are among those being dropped. Men and women will now compete in each overall field. That is already the case in the field of rock, which does not have male and female vocal categories.

“A great singer is a great singer is a great singer, and somebody that has a gift in terms of their voice, and is at the top of their game in terms of their delivery and emotion, really isn’t necessarily defined by gender,” Portnow said.

Other changes will require each category to have at least 40 entries instead of 25, and categories that receive be-tween 25 and 39 will have only three nominations in-stead of four or five.

Bristol earns $262K for pregnancy work ANCHORAGE, Alaska

— Tax documents show unwed mother Bristol Palin earned more than $262,000 for her role in helping raise awareness for teen pregnancy prevention in 2009.

The most recent data for The Candie’s Foundation that’s posted online by re-search firm GuideStar shows compensation at $262,500 for the now 20-year-old daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee.

Bristol Palin was 18 when she was appointed as a teen ambassador for the New York-based foundation in 2009, months after giving birth to son, Tripp. She and the 2-year-old’s father, Levi Johnston, are no longer together.

Foundation officials did not immediately return calls for comment Tuesday. Palin family attorney John Tiemes-sen responded in an email but wouldn’t comment about

Palin’s compensation.Palin, who still works for

the foundation, told The As-sociated Press last year that girls would think twice about having sex if they knew how tough it is to be a mother. She said she “wasn’t prepared at all” for the changes in her life since becoming a mom.

“I don’t think anyone re-alizes how difficult it really is until you actually have a screaming baby in your arms and you’re up all night,” Palin said.

When she was first named to the role, Palin said in a state-ment she felt she could be a living example of the conse-quences of teen pregnancy.

“If I can prevent even one girl from getting pregnant, I will feel a sense of accom-plishment,” she said.

Days after Sen. John Mc-Cain picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate in 2008, Bristol Palin’s pregnancy was announced. Sarah Palin has

not ruled out a run for presi-dent in 2012.

The Candie’s Foundation is a division of the apparel brand Candie’s. It has been raising awareness about teen pregnancy since 2001.

The blog Palingates first reported the compensation figure.

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