Kennedy hopes Harris take the court with the gritty personality he showcased in Law-rence, Kan., on Monday.

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Joshua Bolten, former White House chief of staff, joins Andrew Card, dean of the Bush School, discussing U.S. politics.

Former chiefs of staff discuss budget crisis

Debt talks Two former White House chiefs of staff con-

vened to brainstorm solutions to the longstand-ing federal debt crisis Thursday on campus.

Joshua Bolten, who served as President George W. Bush’s chief of staff from 2006 to 2009, delivered his presentation “Political Po-larization: Its Causes and Cure” to an audience of students and faculty at the Annenberg Presi-dential Conference Center.

“There is nothing in our current politics that

is more polarizing today than the disagreements about the federal budget,” Bolten said.

Bolten, a former professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Af-fairs at Princeton University, used a pie chart to emphasize the problem areas in the nation’s $3.7 trillion annual budget.

Bolten said about half of the budget is defense spending and the other half — the non-defense category — is everything government.

“It’s transportation, it’s education, it’s the jus-tice department. What you’ll notice about it is that it’s a pretty darn small slice of the pie,” Bol-

ten said. “The big slice of the pie that’s now rov-ing out of control is over in mandatory spending and the big three are Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid … eating up a huge portion of our federal budget that is growing without end.”

Bolten said President Barack Obama’s debt solution — imposing higher taxes —will ulti-mately increase the nation’s debt burden, tri-pling from 40 percent above the national an-nual economic output in 2010 to 120 percent in 2030.

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As the track and field season gets into full swing, Texas A&M holds the Mondo Challenge on Friday and Saturday at the Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium. Texas A&M will compete against Texas Tech, Oregon, Ari-zona State, Tennessee and Florida.

University of Florida head coach Mike Holloway said the variety of competition is good for everyone.

“In terms of the competition this weekend, it’s al-ways a good meet for us,” Holloway said. “This week-end you have the Big 12, the Pac 12 and the SEC, so it’s going to be a great meet,” Holloway said.

On the men’s side, Texas A&M is currently ranked No. 9 in the nation; the competition is wide open with Florida ranked No. 2, Oregon at No. 19, Texas Tech at No. 30, Arizona State at No. 36 and Tennessee at No. 90.

The women’s competition stiffens with Oregon coming in as No. 1, Texas Tech at No. 8, Tennessee at No. 17, Arizona State at No. 21, and Florida at No. 43. Texas A&M ranks No. 11.

Texas A&M head coach Pat Henry said competi-tions like this throughout the year are the reason that Texas A&M will be ready to compete in the SEC next year and still succeed.

“From the day I got here, we have always scheduled and competed against SEC schools,” Henry said. “You learn how to compete, you learn how to step it up. We’ve never shied from the SEC.”

Although Texas A&M has won the outdoor na-tional championship the past three years, they have not claimed a national championship for the indoor season. The men’s and women’s indoor teams have finished in the Top-10 of the indoor championships in the past four years, but both are still looking for their first national indoor title.

Katelyn Arrington, sophomore biology major, said the success in the indoor and outdoor seasons increased student awareness about the track and field teams.

“I feel that track at Texas A&M has greatly spiked the interest of the student body,” Arrington said. “Win-ning national championships is not something that hap-

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Track and field set for home test

Aggies seek big home win against Cowboys

When A&M takes the court against Oklahoma State on Saturday, there is a chance the Aggies could take the floor without two of their top contributors. Junior forward Khris Middleton is still dealing with a balky knee, re-agitated in the game against Oklahoma last weekend, and senior guard Dash Harris injured the arch of his foot in Monday night’s loss at Kansas.

“We’ll know more about Khris in the next couple of days,” Kennedy said on Wednesday. “He’s getting his knee looked at again. They want to do another MRI. He feels better. He’s not us-ing it, obviously, but his situation is day-to-day.”

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A&M looks to rebound versus stuggling Iowa State

The No. 14 Texas A&M women’s basketball team (13-5, 4-3) returns home to Reed Arena, after a pair of road games, to host the Iowa State Cyclones at 1 p.m. Sunday. The Aggies hope to bounce back from a tough road loss to Oklahoma State, while the Cyclones (11-7, 2-5) surge into Sunday on a two-game winning streak after suffering five straight losses to begin the Big 12 confer-ence season.

The two teams have already met once this season, which resulted in the second-only A&M win, 59-33, in team history. The win sparked a three-game winning streak that allowed the Aggies to work

their way up to a second-place tie in the Big 12. The streak was derailed after the second-half comeback fell short against Oklahoma State, pushing the Aggies into a three-way tie for fourth place.

Senior forward Adaora Elonu and guard Skylar Collins led the way for the Aggies in the earlier meeting in Iowa with 14 and 10 points, respectively. The Aggie defense smothered the Cyclones from start to finish, allowing only 33 points — the lowest scoring total for a conference opponent in the tenure of head coach Gary Blair.

Iowa State tends to rely on low-scor-ing, defensive games. The Cyclones of-

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Senior forward David Loubeau leaps for a slam dunk in the Aggies’ debut win.

men’s basketball

weekend sports

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women’s basketball

AGGIE ATHLETICSThe Texas A&M Mondo Challenge features six teams representing three conferences.See Track on page 2

See Iowa State on page 2

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‘The Help’ Community Conversations, a diversity-driven series provided to the A&M community, is presenting “The Help: Helping or Hurting?” from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday in Rudder 401. Associate professor Kimberly Brown will lead a conversation to debate whether the best selling book and movie “The Help” does more harm than good. Students can RSVP by emailing Dianne Kraft at dkraft@tamu.edu

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“Obviously [junior guard] Elston Turner will have to handle the ball the majority of the time and get us in of-fense, which I think he can do,” Ken-nedy said, “But after that we’re just go-ing to be experimenting. Naji Hibbert may be the next best ball handler on the team, but that’s not his natural position by any means. Knowing Dash and his toughness, I think there’s a chance that he could play.”

After a long stretch of away con-tests, the Aggies will finally play a home game. Although A&M lost 64-54 to No. 5 Kansas, Kennedy said he was pleased with his team’s effort.

“I really thought our two seniors did a good job of not being afraid,” Kennedy said. “[Senior forward] David [Loubeau] took the ball strong to the basket, but unfortunately there was a seven-foot-er there blocking a lot of shots. Their length gave us problems. And, with Dash playing the second half on basically one leg, we couldn’t use our ball screen stuff to get Withey away from the basket, so it made it even more difficult for us to score in the half court.”

Senior finance major Wes Ro-manowski watched the KU game and said, while the Aggies suffered the defeat, he witnessed the gutsiest play he’d seen from the squad all season.

“Everyone was hustling,” Ro-manowski said. “Chasing down loose balls, fighting for rebounds. And when Naji is playing that well, we’re a tough team to stop.”

The Aggies will need all the firepower

they can muster to topple the Cowboys on Saturday afternoon. The Pokes are coming off one of the biggest wins in school history, a 79-72 upset of No. 2 Missouri during which freshman phe-nom Le’Bryan Nash poured in 27 points and the team shot a season-best 59.6 per-cent from the floor.

“I like their young talent,” Ken-nedy said. “They’re starting to step up. Le’Bryan Nash is getting more consistent with his effort. The kid from Louisiana, Markel Brown, was one of the top play-ers in the country. They’ve got some weapons that we’re going to have to be prepared for. They do a lot of things of-fensively. It would be really good to have Dash chasing Keiton [Paige] around a little bit.”

The key for the Aggies will be finding a consistent scoring threat behind junior guard Elston Turner, who leads the team with 14.3 points per game. Loubeau has stepped up his production in the wake of Middleton’s injury, but the bench has largely been a non-factor, which makes it increasingly difficult to win tough conference matches.

“We got six points off the bench the other day, and that’s six points more than a dead man,” Kennedy said. “We don’t get a lot of scoring off the bench, so we have to have some guys step up and make shots and get some confidence and still be good defensively.”

Saturday’s game will tip-off at 3 p.m. at Reed Arena. Eric Knight, senior fi-nance major, said he’s ready to get row-dy and yell his heart out.

“The team really responds to the crowd,” Knight said. “And I want to be there to help them out any way I can.”

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From head coach Billy Kennedy:Howdy!I would like to personally thank you for coming out to support your Aggie basketball team against Oklahoma on Saturday. Our staff and players both agreed that YOU were the difference in that game! We need the Twelfth Man to come through for us again tomorrow when we take on Oklahoma State at 3 p.m. in Reed Arena. We need YOU to bring it and WEAR WHITE! I’m buying pizza for the rowdiest students in Reed Arena, so bring your friends and let’s BTHO Oklahoma State! Gig ‘em,Billy Kennedy

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Head coach Billy Kennedy watches his Aggies from the sideline.

Senior forward Adaora Elonu attacking the basket versus Mizzou

fense ranks next-to-last in the confer-ence in scoring at 62.5 points per game but allows only 55.6, fourth among Big 12 teams.

Sunday’s game could boil down to a battle of strong rebounding. Both teams are virtually knotted in rebounding dif-ferential, and the Aggies rank first in the conference in offensive rebounding per-centage while the Cyclones rank first in defensive rebounding percentage.

Junior forward Chelsea Poppens spear-heads the Iowa State offense with 13.4 points per game. Poppens scored a team-high 10 points in the first game between the two teams. The only other Cyclone to average double-digit scoring is sopho-more forward Hallie Christofferson with 10.2 points per game.

Poppens’ greatest strength may not be her offense, but her 11.4 rebounds per

game — which is the most among all eli-gible Big 12 players. The Aggies lead the conference as a team in offensive rebound-ing percentage and offensive rebounds per game, but Poppens’ 4.88 offensive re-bounds per game leads all other players in the conference, as well.

The Aggies’ four-headed scoring threat of Elonu (11.9 points per game), senior guards Tyra White (14.4) and Sydney Carter (12.1) and junior center Kelsey Bone (11.9) look to improve upon their performance against Oklahoma State. None of the four shot better than 50 per-cent from the field, though White tallied 15 points to lead the team.

Ball control will be a key for the Aggies, having turned the ball over a season-high 26 times against Oklahoma State. The A&M defense continues to force the op-position into creating mistakes. The Ag-gies’ last three opponents have surrendered at least 23 turnovers each. If the Aggies and freshman point guard Alexia Standish can take care of their possessions, it should go a long way toward an Aggie victory.

pens regularly, and our track and field teams have made it a tradition. Many students have an extreme curiosity of what makes us so great and go to see what the hype is about.”

Texas A&M looks to continue to improve their rankings at the Mondo Challenge as the women have already climbed six spots from the beginning of the season and the men have moved up three spots. David Godinez — THE BATTALION

Sophomore thrower Jud Allen competes in the shot put at a dual meet against LSU on Saturday at the McFerrin Athletic Center. Allen took third place with a throw of 15 meters.

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“Hi, how are you?”“Hey, I’m good. How are you?”“Good.”That’s a perfunctory courtesy. To some,

such an information exchange is polite. But I can’t stand it. Giving generic answers to such generic questions only wastes fragile breaths on a dialogue lacking substance.

I sought the expertise of one of my professors on the subject of perfunctory courtesies. Jennifer Mease, assistant commu-nication professor, used another term for the practice: scripts.

“Cultures run scripts,” Mease said. “Scripts are conversations cultures know, follow and engage in competently.”

Essentially, scripts involve participants assuming roles. In order for a script to be played out, there must be continuity.

The intercultural communication profes-sor described scripts as a play, featuring characters you both know and don’t know fully. When interacting with people with whom you are not well acquainted, the roles decay into the monotonous norm — what I call perfunctory courtesies.

There is a way out, though, and it’s prob-ably less complicated than you think.

“Ruptures can occur when a script is changed,” Mease said. “There is the potential to disrupt them with a kind of genuineness.”

Mease went on to share a story from a recent trip to the grocery store in which a cashier experienced a slight change in scripts.

Accustomed to the routine script, the cashier met a customer in front of Mease who forewent the expected script. She asked, in meaningful fashion — with a warm set of nonverbal cues, a soft vocal tone and a stare in her eyes — “How is your day going?”

The cashier, surprised by the rupture in

the normal scripts, finally had the opportu-nity to share her excitement about her fam-ily’s recent approval for a mortgage they had been trying to achieve for months.

“It was a really neat moment to see this rupture and script open up,” Mease said. “It allowed her person to come through.”

As college students, when do we have the opportunity to defy the already-written scripts? Do we even want to experience rup-tures in our daily scripts? Scripts are a part of life, after all.

Personally, I love to disrupt scripts. When people ask me how I am doing in a second-nature, uncaring kind of way, I respond atypically:

“Did you really just ask me that?” Or, “I’m exhausted, irritated and nobody can

help me.” I’m joking, of course. But

I do have a favorite way to purposefully create ruptures: complimenting others’ style.

“When people don’t fol-low scripts, then we have to go into some kind of sense-making mode,” Mease said. “When people break scripts, then we have to come up with an explanation.”

Catch people you see off guard by complimenting their unique self. Be genuine. Be inquisitive. Be exciting and substantive.

Don’t follow a script that has been played over and over again: “Hi, how are you?” Instead of responding with a generic answer, surprise someone with, “Hey, I really like the scarf you’re wearing,” or even, “Hey, is that a new pair of boots?” Contribute to a dialogue that will brighten someone’s day.

This week, I surprised two people by complimenting the unique way they were fashionably dressed. I recognize that Texas A&M is no New York City runway during fashion week, but that doesn’t pardon individuals from looking as if they just got out of bed, and I took the opportunity to break script and encourage fashionable expression.

I noticed Geetika Kasula, freshman animal science major, walking away from Evans Library. She dresses well to feel fresh, clean and prepared to learn in the classroom.

“There’s no motivation for me to dress up while in campus because that’s just the way I am used to going out,” Kasula said. “Dress-ing up definitely makes me feel comfortable and confident.”

Jaehyun Ahn, an agribusiness gradu-

ate student, feels the same way. His flashy, outfit-coordinated accessories also gave him a collected look.

“I think my style tells about my identifica-tion,” Ahn said. “My wardrobe exists for the same reason.”

Remember, Aggies, when someone asks how you are, respond with substance and somehow relate their fashion sense.

“There is a way to rupture those ideas that elicits genuineness,” Mease said. “Sincerity.”

Jason Syptak is a senior marketing major and

The Battalion’s Style Spectator

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Fashion blog previewJason Syptak is The Battalion’s “Style Spectator”— highlighting those who take pride in the way they look before emerging on campus. This column is the first of his Fashion blog entries, updated every Friday at thebatt.com. Join the fashion conversation around campus by following Jason on Twitter, @BattStyle.

Style SpectatorReconsidering fashion and social courtesy

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Jaehyun Ahn sports a camel tan-colored Fossil leather ankle boots, a Ralph Lauren pair of fitted khakis and a white Abercrombie & Fitch v-neck shirt covered by a plaid Ralph Lauren polo. Ahn carried a shoe-matching, camel tan-colored Samsonite bag with a navy blue Nautica umbrella.

Freshman animal science major Geetika Kasula dresses well to feel fresh, clean and prepared to learn in the classroom.

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Andrew Card, interim dean of the Bush School, joined Bolten on stage in a more informal setting. The two former politicians sat com-fortably in leather chairs — facing each other — and discussed topics including their respective stints serv-ing in the Bush administration and the difficulties of handling congress-men on Capitol Hill.

Ben Phares and Sarah Mur-ray, graduate students at the Bush School, both received presidential management fellowships.

Phares, an international affairs graduate student, said the discussion was fair and balanced, despite Bol-ten’s open conservative stance.

“I thought it was amazing. It was really nice to have a candid discus-sion with two former chiefs of staff, both of whom emphasized how im-portant it was to build important re-lationships with people even if you don’t actually agree with them,” Phares said. “It was interesting to see

that the bi-partisan commission that actually proposes things at a greater level with an increase in Texas and economic spending.”

Murray said she agreed with both chiefs of staff and their ideas to help bolster the economy.

“It was great to see two high pro-file individuals discussing candidly how we can solve the polarization in our current political system in America,” Murray said. “The solu-tion is to cut spending and reduce taxes, and only when that is com-pleted we will see better results in the budget.”

Card ended the discussions on a

positive note, commemorating Bol-ten for his performance in the White House as well as his infallible char-acter. Bolten was presented with the Good Governance Award for his dedication to government service.

“Josh Bolten is someone who practices civil discourse all the time, and he respects people no mat-ter what kind of discourse they do have,” Card said. “I’m not sure I know what the right solution to the problem is, but I do know that Josh Bolten is the kind of person we should look to — to find the answer — because he discovered it.”

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Bolten said this was not Presi-dent Obama’s fault.

“I have policy disagreements on what was done to address it, but you can’t blame President Obama for the horrible situation he inherited,” Bolten said.

He encouraged the audience to

consider more conservative options, including the Ryan Plan and the Bowles-Simpson Plan.

“The good news to this story is that there are ways to solve these problems,” Bolten said. “Paul Ryan is very smart, and two years ago he put out a complete road map of a true plan of how to address our bud-get situation, and it involves very dramatic changes, especially in our entitlement programs.”

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The big slice of the pie that’s now roving out of control is over

in mandatory spending and the big three are

Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid … eating up a

huge portion of our federal budget that is growing without end.”

— Joshua Bolten, former chief of staff to

former President George W. Bush

Joshua Bolten speaks to students, faculty and community members about the U.S. government’s options resolving the debt crisis.

James Thompson — THE BATTALION

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