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Chase Krumholz — THE BATTALION

Units in the Corps of Cadets “dress right dress” to align with the cadets farthest to the right Tuesday afternoon on Simpson Drill Field as staff sergeants grade the cadets’ drill precision.

Students commit to day-long worshipcampus

After a morning of nearly freezing tem-peratures, a group of students com-

pleted a 24-hour worship session at Rud-der Fountain Plaza.

Heart of Worship — held from 8 p.m. Monday to 8 p.m. Tuesday — was orga-nized by students who encouraged others to join in public worship, professed the Christian faith and took prayer requests.

“It’s what God calls us to do,” said Brandon Shirk, freshman business admin-istration major. “It’s a way that we grow in faith and sharpen other believers in Christ.”

Jack Stephenson, junior university studies major, and his collaborator Con-ner Wright, junior information and op-erations management major, put the event together. The two were inspired to orga-nize the event after witnessing a 72-hour complete Bible reading.

“I think it is good just to publically de-clare your faith,” Stephenson said. “We have the ability to worship openly on campus and so we want to take advantage of that.”

Stephenson said the appeal of the event lies in its simplicity, explaining that during some of the larger-scale worship concerts the event becomes more about the partici-pant’s experience than about the worship.

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Heart of Worship aimed to make worship the primary focus by keeping the experi-ence simple but uplifting.

“Proclaiming your faith in public is a hard thing to do,” said Thai Ho, freshman biomedical sciences major. “The ability to do that is one of the greatest forms of wor-ship.”

Students were given the opportunity to sign up as worship leaders and perform

during the event. The performances lasted from 30 minutes to an hour while other students interacted with passers-by.

“We have experienced joy in Christ and we cannot help but to worship him,” Stephenson said. “It’s this overflow of joy we have in having a relationship with him and it has presented a lot of opportunities to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with people.”

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Students gather during a 24-hour worship session organized by two Christians who wanted to encourage students in public worship.

insidesports | 2A&M earns shutout victorySenior Rafael Pineda and the A&M pitching staff threw a shutout game while the offense scored early and often, garnering A&M the weekday victory.

arts | 4GIs of ComedyRead about the four veterans who visited A&M Tuesday on a comedy tour aimed at giving back to fellow soldiers and military supporters.

campus newsFuneral set for cadetFuneral arrangements have been made for Miguel Hernandez, a Texas A&M Corps of Cadets member killed in a car accident earlier this month. Visitation will be at 6:30 p.m. April 5 and the funeral service will be at 2 p.m. April 6, both at Houston Spanish Spring Branch Seventh-day Adventist Church.

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Research week plumbs student innovations

campus

Student researchers and research enthu-siasts are coming together from labs and

academic haunts scattered across A&M to highlight breakthroughs made this year by the student body.

More than 600 students will present and compete in a variety of research topics at the 16th annual Student Research Week, SRW. With its Tuesday kickoff, SRW runs through Thursday, when students will be awarded rec-ognition for their work by a group of judges.

Held in the MSC ballroom and surround-ing space, the program aims to recognize and celebrate student research at A&M by foster-ing an environment for students, faculty, and staff to learn about ongoing research con-ducted on campus.

Erica Gacasan, freshman biomedical en-gineering major and student volunteer for SRW, said bringing recognition to the work done on campus is important to all students, regardless of academic background.

“A&M is an innovative campus,” Gacasan said. “There are groundbreaking things go-ing on here. It’s important to know what [is

being researched] because eventually you will be faced by its implications.”

This year’s theme is “Where Curiosity Speaks.” Inspired by Steve Jobs — who once said, “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, everything else is secondary” — SRW aims this year to provide students a chance to showcase their discoveries.

For Michelle Ramsey, A&M biology doc-toral student, curiosity led her to discover a new method for potentially understanding the way certain diseases are caused and thus how they can be prevented and cured.

“A lot of cells [in the body] function based on their orientation towards the cells around them,” Ramsey said. “When these cell pat-terns are disrupted, it can cause things such as developmental disorders and polycystic kidneys.”

Ramsey said her research focused on the way photoreceptors in the human eye are arranged, and how these cell patterns in the cornea show possible similarity to structures found elsewhere in the body. She said while it was well understood that their genetic path-

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La. man pleads not guilty to extortion

A Louisiana man pleaded not guilty to a charge of using an underage girl to extort money

from an A&M professor, who jumped to his death from a campus building in January.

A judge in Houston on Tuesday ordered Dan-iel Timothy Duplaisir of Metairie, La., to remain in jail without bond. His trial is scheduled for May 28.

Authorities allege that Duplaisir used the girl to lure James Aune, professor and head of the Communication Department, into a sexually explicit online relationship and then contacted Aune, acting as an outraged father, to demand money.

Court records show text messages between Duplaisir and Aune that indicate the threats to publicize the relation-ship contributed to the communication profes-sor’s decision to jump from Northside parking garage.

FBI investigators used text and email conversa-tions found on Aune’s campus computer and iPhone to determine that Duplaisir had been threatening to call police and Aune’s employers if he did not send him “some-thing like $5,000,” according to the affidavit.

Aune transferred Duplaisir $1,000 initially and promised to send more money in January, accord-ing to the FBI document.

Aune texted Duplaisir the morning of Jan. 8: “Killing myself now. And u will be prosecuted for black mail,” according to the affidavit.

The widow of Aune, Miriam Aune, said her husband was a good man who was “very human with flaws, just like all of us.”

She said Tuesday she’s not excusing her hus-band’s actions but that he was duped by Duplaisir, who she says orchestrated the scheme for money.

She said her husband had been depressed for several years before his suicide.

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Professor’s widow says husband was ‘good man’

Daniel Duplaisir

James Aune

University police search for missing A&M studentThe University police seek assistance and infor-

mation regarding the whereabouts of a miss-ing Texas A&M student.

Andersen Oldham Puckett, junior computer science major, was last seen leaving the University Apartments at 10 p.m. Sunday wearing a jacket and dark colored jeans, according to University police.

Puckett is a white male, 19 years old, 6’0”, 140 lbs., with brown hair and hazel eyes. He drives a 1997 white Ford Explorer with a Texas license plate, VDG655.

Puckett was reported missing by his parents, and those with information regarding his location are asked to contact Univer-sity police at 979-845-2345.

There were no updates on Andersen at the time of press.

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track & field Two Aggies win league honorsAmeer Webb and Shelbi Vaughn were selected SEC Athletes of the Week on Tuesday.

track & field | The No. 1 men and No. 6 women teams travel to Austin to compete in the Texas Relays on Wednesday.

w. golf | No. 20 A&M takes on UTSA on Wednesday at the Miramont Country Club in Bryan, Texas.

Pineda, bullpen shut down UTA

Fans gave Rafeal Pineda a standing ovation as the junior walked off the

pitching mound midway through the eighth inning. After allowing no runs on three hits, the ace pitcher left the game with a 6-0 lead.

Pineda said everything worked well for the Aggies the whole night, credit-ing his offense for the victory.

“We were on point tonight. We did a great job,” Pineda said.

Behind Pineda’s performance, the Texas A&M baseball team recorded its second consecutive midweek shutout Tuesday in a 7-0 rout of the University of Texas at Arlington on Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park.

A&M scoring started in the second inning after junior catcher Troy Stein tripled to center field and took advantage of a UTA error to take a 1-0 lead.

From that point on, the Aggies never looked back as eight different players earned hits while juniors, center fielder Krey Bratsen and second baseman Char-lie Curl, each recorded two hits. Curl hit his first home run of the season.

All focus was on Pineda as the senior dominated the Maverick batting order.

“I’m excited about Pineda,” Bratsen

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ways orient many types of cells, her breakthrough came because nobody had bothered to look for the same arrangements in photoreceptors before.

“By understanding [the cell patterns], it gives us clues as to what can go wrong when they do not develop properly,” Ramsey said. “With this understanding, we are closer to solv-ing health issues such as why cysts develop throughout the body, such as in the kidneys.”

Students who are an academic degree above the competitor will judge research. In addition to student judges, there are several professional members of industry in attendance to view the student work.

“We’re always interested in the latest and greatest ideas,” said Tony Ragucci, chief technology officer for the Lynntech Company and SRW judge. “We see the value [in student re-search] and give an industrial perspective on the research show-cased, especially on how it can be commercialized.”

SRW will conclude Thursday evening with awards and a closing ceremony. Poster presentations will take place in the MSC ballroom, with topic-specific presentations taking place in the MSC rooms around it. The presentations are open to the public.

Garza, A&M rout Texas State, 9-1Junior Amber Garza led the Texas

A&M offense with her two home runs, including one grand slam, in the Aggies’ run-rule 9-1 victory over Texas State (5-26) on Tuesday eve-ning at the Aggie Softball Complex.

For the game, Garza accounted for six of A&M’s eight RBIs, clear-ing the fence in both the second and third innings. Prior to Tuesday, Garza had only three home runs and 13 RBIs for the season.

The ninth-ranked Aggies, a weekend removed from being swept by No. 6 Tennessee, dominated the Bobcats throughout the game, al-lowing the lone run during the top of the third inning.

A&M was active early, scoring

in the second, third and fourth in-nings. Besides Garza, who went 2-2, junior second baseman Jenna Stark and senior catcher Meagan May each earned an RBI.

On the mound, sophomore pitch-er Lauren Ainsley (9-2) threw a com-plete game, allowing only four hits and one run. Texas State sophomore pitcher Rayn House (2-12) was saddled with the loss, giving up two earned runs on four hits in three and one third innings.

Texas A&M (27-5, 4-4 SEC) re-turns to action Friday through Sun-day for a three-game home series against No. 4 Alabama.

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Junior Amber Garza celebrates with the team after her grand slam.

Senior pitcher Rafael Pineda threw seven and one-third innings in A&M’s 7-0 shutout victory over UT-Arlington on Tuesday evening.

footballManziel leaves Twitter due to its ‘distractions’Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Johnny Manziel decided to shut down his Twitter account.Manziel, who has made headlines recently as photos of his spring break trip to Cabo surfaced, told ESPN’s Mark Schlabach the social media outlet is “fun to have, but it can get distracting at points.” Manziel further said he was “surprised” by the amount of attention he continued to receive into the offseason and thought it would “die off and slow down a little bit, but it really hasn’t.”

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said. “He threw a heck of a game, we really needed that from him tonight. We need him to help us out anyway he can.”

With one out and the bases loaded in the top of the seventh inning, freshman pitcher A.J. Minter came in with a 3-0 count to relieve Pineda. Minter struck out the next two batters, leaving the Mavericks scoreless.

Over the course of the season, the Ag-gies have outscored opponents 121-85, holding them to a a little more than three

runs per game, on average.Childress said he was very proud of

the team effort on Tuesday night, espe-cially after recent success in a 2-1 road series win over No. 6 Ole Miss.

“You couldn’t ask for more,” Chil-dress said. “We had seven runs on 10 hits and no errors. We shut them out on three or four hits. It’s just a total complete team effort. It’s good we were able to put last week behind us and look forward at what we had and that was today.”

m. golfA&M scores seventh place finish at Bulls BayBehind senior Cameron Peck and his 17th career Top 10 finish, Texas A&M placed seventh at the Bulls Bay Intercollegiate. A&M improved its overall team score each day of the three-day tournament, ending with a total of 26 over-par. Individually, Peck closed out the tournament at three over-par, good for a tie at seventh place.

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The “GIs of Comedy” tour entertained a Rudder Auditorium audience Tuesday

evening with its brand of military-influenced humor.

The troupe helps heal its fellow soldiers through comedy and brings laughter to sup-porters of the U.S. Armed Forces, according to its website.

The event began when Jody Fuller, a captain in the Alabama National Guard, an-nounced himself as the master of ceremonies, energizing the crowd with jokes and com-paring himself to Johnny Football.

“When people told me I couldn’t be an officer in the military because I stuttered, it is kind of like when people told y’all A&M wouldn’t be good in the SEC this year,” Fuller said. “Guess we both proved them wrong.”

All four comedians touched on the Corps of Cadets and the rich military history at Texas A&M, and reflected on their time in the Armed Forces.

The audience was largely composed of members of the Corps of Cadets and older

men and women — a demographic that troupe member Tom Irwin, former Army private first class, made light of.

“Y’all are some old looking college stu-dents,” Irwin said. “I mean, you are all defi-nitely seniors. It kind of makes me miss my parents.”

Mariah Stanley, sophomore international studies major and member of the Corps of Cadets, said she appreciated the veterans’ military references, considering the history at A&M.

“I think it is cool that their comedy is mili-tary oriented, because we can relate to it,” Stanley said.

Troy Franklin, junior biological and ag-ricultural engineering major and member of the Corps of Cadets, said he came to the on-campus event to relax and enjoy a laugh.

“It’s been a busy couple of weeks and my buddies and I thought it would be fun to have a break and a laugh,” Franklin said.

The group of four veterans began touring in 2010 to provide entertainment for service members who have returned from a com-bat deployment, are preparing to deploy and those who support the military.

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What are the facts?Israel is a tiny country, with fewer than eight

million inhabitants (1.6 million of whom are Arabs). Itis surrounded by 22 Arab countries with 400 millionpeople. Nonetheless, Arab propaganda has convincedthe world that Israel is an aggressive invader in theMiddle East—a mighty Goliath compared to helplessArab states. It is a supremeirony that tiny Israel, thesize of New Jersey,outnumbered 50 to 1 andencircled by implacableenemies obsessed with itsdestruction, is considered amortal danger to Muslimsand to peace on earth. The linkage theory is that ifIsrael would make peace with the Palestinians, peacewould descend upon the world and Islamist terrorwould cease.

But Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict are clearlynot the root cause of the strife and turmoil in theMiddle East. Israel was not involved in the deaths ofthe millions who perished in the Iraq-Iran war, nor inthe current Sunni-Shiite civil war in Iraq. Peacebetween Israel and the Palestinians would do nothingto stop Iran’s headlong development of nuclearweapons and its goal to achieve Middle Easthegemony. Israel has no part in the Syrian civil war,which has so far killed more than 60,000 people, norhas it played any role in the chaotic “Arab Spring” thatis still roiling Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Tunisia.Neither does Israel have any influence over theintractable conflict between warring Palestinianfactions—Fatah in the West Bank and the terroristgroup Hamas in Gaza.

Is Israel an intruder in the Middle East? The stateof Israel resulted from the same process that created adozen or more nations in Europe and the Middle Eastfrom the remnants of the Austro-Hungarian andOttoman Empires by Western democracies and theUnited Nations. For three thousand years Jews havecontinually inhabited what is today Israel and Judeaand Samaria, the so-called “West Bank.” In short, fewcountries born in the 20th century have a strongerclaim to national self-determination than doesIsrael—and certainly not the Arabs, who have neverhad a state in Palestine nor a capital in Jerusalem. Yetit has been Arab nations, unable to countenance a

Jewish state, that have waged numerous unprovokedwars against Israel.

And how about terror? Many believe that Israel isthe root cause of the terror that Islamists havevisited—and visit to this day—upon the world. Butconsider the attack on the United States on September11, 2001, murderous attacks on the London subway

system and in Mumbai,India, as well as theassassination of a U.S.diplomat in Sudan andmost recently the U.S.Ambassador and three otherconsular officials inBenghazi, Libya. These and

dozens of other acts of cowardly terror would havetaken place even if there were no Israel. Rather, theyare a reflection of the hatred that radical Islamistsharbor against the West and its institutions. Thathatred has nothing to do with Israel. Yet many believethat if only the United States would withhold itssupport of Israel—or “force” Israel to make peace withthe Palestinians—Middle East terror would cease andwe would no longer have to fear the scourge of suicidebombings, a uniquely Arab invention. Israel’s role andresponsibility in Arab discontent is an illusion. Araband Islamist hatred toward the West and their deadlyinternal struggles would continue even if Israel ceasedto exist.

Many claim that Arab and Islamist terror is theresult of despair, hopelessness and poverty. But thefacts prove otherwise. While Middle East Arabs aresome of the richest people in the world, instead ofusing their enormous wealth to benefit their people,they squander it in luxurious excesses for a privilegedfew. The nineteen 9/11 hijackers were not poor ordesperate. They were, without exception, well-educated people, members of upper-middle classfamilies. The leaders of such Arab-Muslim terrororganizations as Hamas, Hezbollah, al Qaeda andIslamic Jihad are educated people, from the upperreaches of their societies. No, terror is not a responseof Arab-Muslims to alleged injustice by Israel, but israther a customary strategy used by Arabs andIslamists to express their grievances against anyenemy, even their own brethren. This pattern wouldnot be any different if Israel had never existed or wouldcease to exist.

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were resolved?Many are convinced that the conflict between Israel and its neighbors in the predominantly Muslim Middle Eastis the “root cause” of the ongoing violence in the region and of worldwide acts of terror. Some leading politiciansand many pundits have attempted to establish linkage between the Arab-Israeli conflict and the turmoil prevalentthroughout the Middle East. But does this linkage really exist?

The cause of violent revolution and attacks on the U.S., Israel and other Western states is dysfunctional Arab-Muslim governments and the exploding influence of radical Islamism. This lust for war and terror will not endwith an Israeli-Palestinian peace, but rather will cease when Arab-Muslims come to terms with the Jewish state’sright to exist and the West’s leadership role in the fight for human and democratic rights.

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66th Student Senate to elect speakerThe 66th session of the Student Senate will meet Wednesday in the Koldus Governance Room at 7 p.m. to elect the next Speaker of the Senate, Speaker Pro Tempore and Rules and Regulations Committee Chair. All candidates to these three positions will be nominated during the meeting and are required to have experience in at least one previous senate session. Candidates will give a presentation and have an advocate speak on their behalf. Positions will be determined by a majority vote of all members in the 66th session.

UTEP evacuates after bomb threatThe University of Texas in El Paso was evacuated Tuesday after officials received word of a bomb threat. UTEP students and staff got a text message warning of a bomb threat and telling them to leave campus. UTEP Police Chief Cliff Walsh declined to say whether police had a suspect, citing their ongoing investigation, but said there was no immediate danger.

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The Texas A&M University System an-nounced it will join with a pharmaceu-

tical company to enhance preparedness for pandemic influenza.

A&M and GlaxoSmithKline, GSK, an-nounced Wednesday the approval of the establishment of a $91 million influenza-vaccines manufacturing facility as the anchor of its Center for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing, CIADM.

In a ceremony at the State Capitol in Austin — with Gov. Rick Perry and A&M System Chancellor John Sharp in attendance — the U.S. Department of Health and Hu-man Services announced the approval of the partnership.

“The Texas A&M Center, anchored by this facility, is expected to bring more than $41 billion in expenditures within the state of Texas over the next 25 years, and will add more than 6,800 direct and related jobs to Texas,” Perry said in a System press release.

One of three such disease prevention cen-ters in the U.S., the A&M Center is at the vanguard of U.S. pandemic-preparedness ef-

forts, the System press release stated. Once constructed and operational, the center’s influenza manufacturing facility will be able to supply 50 million doses of pandemic in-fluenza vaccine within four months of an outbreak.

The U.S. Department of Health and Hu-man Services established the center in June to enhance the nation’s emergency prepared-ness against emerging infectious diseases, in-cluding pandemic influenza, and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats.

GSK produces 30 types of vaccines world-wide and the company provided more than 20 million flu shots for the U.S. market in 2012.

“In Texas A&M we have found a part-ner with a rich tradition of service, and with pioneering technologies that will benefit the entire pharmaceutical industry in mak-ing vaccines available and accessible to all in need,” GSK senior vice president Antoon Loomans said.

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Tom Irwin, one of the performers of the “GIs of Comedy” tour and military veteran, performs his skit in Rudder Auditorium on Tuesday.

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