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To the dismay of many students and Brazos County residents, an iconic dance hall officially closed its doors.

Texas Hall of Fame, the place where avid two-steppers gathered in boots and jeans, shut down Dec. 22, 2011. As per owner Johnny Lyon’s request, the Hall closed nearly 13 months after his death. Lyon struggled with lung cancer before he died in No-vember 2010.

“It killed me,” said Blair Jones, senior communi-cation major, when he heard about the closing.

Jones, who prefers to wear his signature beige cowboy hat to class, said he has always embraced his country roots and said the Hall was an outlet for him to unwind. From two-stepping on college night to spending a Sunday at an Aaron Watson concert, he said the Hall was truly a legend.

“I was upset because — out of all the places in College Station — that’s the one place I liked danc-ing at the most. It has a lot of history and the concerts there were fantastic,” Jones said. “There’s no place like it.”

Texas Hall of Fame was a popular dance hall and bar for more than 33 years. A place full of rich histo-ry, the large dance hall was equipped with a polished wooden floor, a full service bar and a stage crafted for big name bands such as Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. The Hall’s closing is a loss to many B-CS residents, as well.

After attempts to contact Bryan city officials, the

future of the Hall and the land it occupies remains uncertain.

One Bryan resident and former dance instructor at the Hall, Susan Quiring, said it was sold to Walmart.

Quiring also said Walmart was pursuing Lyon for several years to buy and renovate the Hall into a distribution center.

“The Johnny Lyon I knew would have never sold out to Walmart, at least not while he was still alive,” Quiring said.

Quiring said that she remembered Lyon as some-

one who put his heart and soul into the famous bar. She said it was a place to preserve traditional coun-try western music — from songs such as “Suds in a Bucket” to “Men Don’t Change” and “Pickin’ Wildflowers.”

“He really tried to keep it true to the country western music,” Quiring said. “Johnny really want-ed to keep the country western spirit alive.”

Quiring said she witnessed history unfold after spending nearly two decades at the famous saloon

Students, B-CS residents mourn the Hall’s closingNatalee BlanchatThe Battalion

Following the death of Johnny “The Colonel” Lyon, founding owner of the Texas Hall of Fame, the dance hall was closed prior to the planned-but-cancelled concert by Aaron Watson.

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The No. 18 Texas A&M men’s swimming and diving team will be hosting No. 2 Texas this Saturday at the Student Recreation Natato-rium for the last time as a confer-ence foe.

A&M, 4-1 in dual meets this season, is also celebrating Senior Night in what will be their final home event. Five graduating se-niors, John Ariens, Amini Fonua, Grant Nel, Paul Xiques and Boris Loncaric, will be honored before the meet.

“Anytime you graduate seniors,

they mean a lot to you,” A&M head coach Jay Holmes said. “These men have been through a lot of things that weren’t easy. It’s going to be hard to replace them.”

Nel, the A&M school-record holder in all three diving events, has just won his second Big 12 Diver of the Week award and re-cently set the pool record at SMU for his score of 400.95 on the 1-meter springboard.

A&M and Texas are both com-ing off tough losses, with A&M losing 128-115 to SMU, and Texas losing to No. 1 Arizona, 155-88, extending their season record to

4-2. A&M expects to bounce back this weekend, losing the SMU meet by just a second-and-a-half in the 400-yard freestyle relay.

Junior John Wagner rallied the Aggies from a 36-point deficit in that SMU match, and his first place time, the first of four consecutive event victories that put A&M back in the game, was nearly three sec-onds ahead of the next swimmer.

“We were in a slugfest out there,” Holmes said. “We were down concentrating on the meet, but the atmosphere on deck and in

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Dominant forward Elonu could see herself nowhere but Aggieland Fan First

The first time senior forward Adaora Elonu took in Reed Arena — the raucous yells, the swaying stu-dent section, the lineage of success — she did so not as a prospective student-athlete, but as a member of the Twelfth Man. Having seen the Aggie experience firsthand, Elonu said that she couldn’t imagine going anywhere else.

“I came here as a fan first, so I guess the student body and the fans here sold me,” Elonu said.

Four years, one national championship, more than 1,000 points — Elonu became the 25th player in school history to cross this threshold earlier this season — and almost 100 career starts later, Elonu has made her mark on this school. What led her to Reed in the first place was her brother, Chinemulu, drafted out of A&M by the Los Angeles Lakers after taking the court for the men’s team from 2006-2009.

Chinemulu and Elonu adopted the game of basket-ball at roughly the same time. Elonu was in middle school, Chinemulu in high school, and after much time spent playing tennis and soccer, she said her fam-ily realized they could find more success on the bas-ketball court. Elonu credits Chinemulu for providing an example of what work ethic can achieve.

“We work out together, so if you could say that I work as hard as him, I’d be golden,” Elonu said. “He’s the hardest working person that I’ve ever seen.”

Elonu’s training paid off last season as she helped the Aggies surge to a victory in the NCAA national championship game. Then, everything changed for A&M. The team was undervalued and relatively un-noticed compared to the like of the University of Connecticut and Baylor, they had now painted a tar-get on their backs.

“Our coaches tell us: ‘You’re the defending na-tional champions, everyone is going to give us their

best,’” Elonu said. “We can’t take a game off. It’s tough on us, but, at the same time, we asked for it. We won the championship, and it’s not something we want to back down from.”

Elonu may notice the attention paid to her by other teams, but she places no stock in the media coverage that surrounds the team.

“I’m oblivious to it,” Elonu said. “The coaches hear stuff and let us know so we can prove people wrong, and I think we did a lot of that last year when we weren’t being noticed and came from underneath and stole the spotlight.”

Likewise, Elonu said she cares little for rankings, so long as the team lands a spot in the NCAA tournament.

“It’s not something I’m focused on because, at the end of the day, rankings don’t mean anything

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Texas visits A&M for final lap

The No. 18 men’s swimming and diving team saws “Varsity’s” horns off as they sing the Aggie Warhymn.

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Roger Zhang — THE BATTALIONSenior forward Adaora Elonu has been a force for Gary Blair and the Aggie women’s basketball team, averaging 12.5 points and 6.9 rebounds per game.

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Wildcats up nextThe A&M men’s basketball team travels to Manhattan Saturday to take on Kansas State. A win would move the Aggies to 4-6 in Big 12 play before Monday’s showdown with Texas.

Awards and honors◗ 2011 Academic All-Big 12 Second Team

◗ 2009-10, 2010-11 Team Co-Captain

◗ Three-time Big 12 Freshman of the Week selection (Nov. 24, 2008, Dec. 8, 2008 and Dec. 22, 2008)

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Among the many-recorded cases of human rights violations throughout the world, one is often overlooked. The Baha’i faith, a religious minority of roughly 300,000 that hails from Iran, has faced persecution since its inception in 1844. While Baha’is have faced perse-cution throughout Iran’s history, it has been particularly extreme during the years following the Iranian Revolution.

Persecution against Baha’i followers has historically ranged from people of the faith not being able to hold any elect-ed office to segregation in school. Some of the more recent and extreme human rights violations involve the Baha’i Insti-tute of Higher Education, BIHE.

The BIHE was formed in 1987 as a semi-underground institution in re-sponse to Iranian law denying Baha’is access to higher education. Since then, it has undergone many police raids because not only was the BIHE’s very existence illegal, the majority of professors were Muslim and forbidden to help Baha’is. This persecution, culminating in the May 2011 raid, is the subject of the doc-umentary film “Education Under Fire.”

“This is a campaign that a group of Baha’i entrepreneurs and musicians start-ed to raise awareness about the denial of higher education of Baha’is in Iran,” said Taraz Nosrat, a senior biomedical engi-neering major and president of the Texas A&M Baha’i Club.

The “Education Under Fire” cam-paign has gained the support of many no-table individuals including Nobel Peace Prize winner and actor Rainn Wilson. It has also received support from human rights organizations such as Amnesty International. Now, this campaign has reached Texas A&M University thanks to the efforts of the Baha’i Club. The documentary is receiving attention na-tionwide by various universities.

“This theme applies to everyone,” said Genevieve Fenway, a senior envi-ronmental geosciences major. “Educa-tion is the best tool that you can have. This documentary really drives that home and it doesn’t have any other underlying angle other than to present the point.”

The students feel that “Education Under Fire” is a big step in the direc-tion of educating the public about the treatment their countrymen face in Iran.

“Most people don’t know who the Baha’is are, but I think it’s important to pay attention when any group gets per-secuted,” said Morgan Suhm, a junior environmental geosciences major.

The Baha’i students also feel that if their cause gets enough support, the Iranian government will start to feel the heat to change its policies.

“The Iranians really sit up when peo-ple start to pay attention,” Suhm said on the human rights violations.

“Education Under Fire” will take place on Feb. 3 at 6:30 p.m. in Rud-der 601. The event will start out with 20 minutes of live Persian music. Fol-lowing the documentary, the majority of the event will be a Q-and-A session with a panel of experts that includes Rola el-Husseini, assistant professor of Middle Eastern politics at the Bush School, Baha’i Club president Taraz Nosrat, and former BIHE student Terisa Soroutean.

“This is a human rights issue, not a political nor a religious one,” Nosrat said. “We are all college students. We should be able to study what we want without fear of persecution.”

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watching feminine trends of long flowing skirts shift in the 90s to a more contemporary style of blue jeans worn by both sexes. The memories of funky polka bands play-ing live concerts in the sum-mer months are images that still ring true for Quiring, a unique tradition that was “typical Johnny.”

Jennifer Wilkenson, Class of 2009, said that she spent almost every week at the Hall since she was a freshman. After taking classes from the Aggie Wranglers in 2006 she, similar to Quiring, started teaching free dance classes on Thursday nights.

“We would take these people who could barely hold a beat and, week after week, we would see people getting better, which was probably the best part of teaching —

watching these people who couldn’t carry a beat in the beginning and build up the confidence to ask people to dance and have a fantastic time,” Wilkenson said.

From meeting her best friends, to eyeing her future husband from a table nearby, Wilkenson said some of her best memories from College Station came from nights two-stepping at the Hall. She said she couldn’t believe a place with so much history

may never see another pair of boots scuff the floor.

“If someone could reopen the hall I think that it would have life — forever. There will always be a demand for original country western dance halls, and there are so many people who are up-set about the Hall because they want that to continue,” Wilkenson said. “Nothing will ever rival the hall.”

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A strong 67-55 road victory over No. 25 Texas Tech catapulted the No. 18 Aggies into a two-game home stand, which will begin Sat-urday against the Kansas Jayhawks.

A&M (15-5, 6-3) currently finds itself locked in a three-way tie for second place in the Big 12 con-ference, along with Kansas State and Oklahoma — both of whom also play Saturday. Should each of these teams lose, the Aggies could find themselves in sole possession of second place behind undefeated Baylor.

After dropping the first two conference matches, A&M won five of the last six games. A&M is currently riding a two-game win-ning streak — a 66-64 nail-biter at home against Iowa State on Sunday and the Tech win in Lubbock.

The Jayhawks snuck into the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll this week at No. 25, but have dropped back-to-back games. Af-ter being throttled by Baylor by a 74-46 margin in Waco, Kansas re-turned home to lose to Oklahoma

in overtime, 74-68. Junior guard Angel Goodrich led the confer-ence’s third-best offense in the Oklahoma loss in points (18), re-bounds (nine), and assists (six).

This is the second meeting be-tween Kansas and A&M this sea-son. On Jan. 21, the Aggies trav-eled to Lawrence and bested the Jayhawks with a score of 76-65. Ju-nior guard Angel Goodrich’s career night wasn’t enough for the Jay-hawks in that game, as the Aggies overcame Goodrich’s 28 points by harassing her into committing 11 of her team’s 23 turnovers.

Junior center Kelsey Bone and senior forward Adaora Elonu led the Aggies in the previous meeting with 18 and 17 points, respectively. Elonu has been on a scoring tear of late, netting 14 points or more in six of the team’s last seven games. The run has ballooned Elonu’s scoring average to 12.3 points per game, making her the team’s sec-ond leading scorer.

A significant bright spot for the Aggies in the win over Tech — along with shooting 48 percent and holding the Lady Raiders to just 30

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percent — was the resurgence of se-nior guard Sydney Carter. Despite struggling with her shot this season and coming off of the game against Iowa State, in which she failed to score until making the game-win-ning free throws with 2.8 seconds left, Carter led the team with 17 points and made 6 of 12 field goal attempts.

Junior forward Carolyn Davis leads the Jayhawks in scoring, and her 18.1 points per game average is second among all eligible confer-ence players. The team has two other scorers ranked in the Top-15 in the conference in per-game output — senior forward Aishah Sutherland (12.7) and Goodrich (12.5). Suther-land’s 9.2 rebounds per game ranks third in the conference, and Go-odrich’s 7.67 assists per game leads all Big 12 players.

Kansas to seek redemption in Aggieland

Tyler Hosea — THE BATTALION

Senior guard Sydney Carter fires off a shot from beyond the arch in A&M’s home loss to Texas.

What’s next◗ Tipoff against Kansas will be at 7 p.m. Saturday at Reed Arena

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the stands was really a fight.” A&M faces stiff

competition from two Texas seniors, Matthew Cooper and Drew Liv-ingston, who to-gether have won first place in the 1-meter, 3-meter and platform events for the Longhorns nine times this past season.

Texas also sports Jimmy Feigen, No. 2 in the 100-me-ter freestyle and No. 4 in the 50-meter freestyle, and have No. 2 Dax Hill and No. 5 Clay Youngquist in the

200-meter freestyle. Texas is also No. 1 in the 800-me-

ter freestyle relay — a feat achieved in December at the Texas Invitational.

“The guys are really look-ing forward to racing,” Hol-mes said. “We’ll be challenged

by Texas — they’re very good this year, and they usu-ally are. Hope-fully everyone will be able to make it out and add to a great

atmosphere and enjoy a great dual meet.”

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because you can beat any team,” Elonu said. “What’s important is getting into the NCAA tournament.”

One thing Elonu does pay attention to? Her game. After hovering around eight points per game as a sophomore and junior, her scoring has spiked by 30 percent to 12.3 points per game this season — the second highest on the team. Elonu said that her in-creased production is due to a new mindset.

“Coming into my senior year, I hold myself up to a different standard, and most of the time if I make a mis-take I tell myself, ‘I’m a se-nior, I should know better,’” Elonu said. “‘It’s a layup, I should make it. It’s a drop-step, I should know it. I have experience so I need to play like it.”

Elonu emphasizes that, while she and her teammates are the defending national champions, this year’s squad is a new team and some ad-justments had to be made out of the gate.

“We had to find our new identity, and I think that’s what we’re doing now,” Elonu said. “We’re still working on it. We don’t give up, and that’s something we take pride in.”

Ranked No. 18 nationally and boasting an overall record of 15-5, Elonu and the Aggies have transitioned nicely. One

of four A&M players averag-ing double-digits in scoring, Elonu says that her team is a nightmare for opposing coaches.

“It’s hard for other teams to focus on who to guard when they’re going through their practices and their de-fensive schemes,” Elonu said. “If I have a bad game, Tyra [White], Kelsey [Bone] and Sydney [Carter] are there to step up along with the rest of the team.”

Her eligibility may label her a senior, but Elonu has already earned her degree in

health. As a health educa-tion graduate student, Elonu calls it a “toss-up” whether she will immediately enroll in medical school or whether she will pursue a future in professional basketball. For now, Elonu has her sights set on something else entirely — a second consecutive trip to the NCAA national champi-onship.

“More decisions,” Elonu said. “I’m going to wait un-til the season is over and pray on it and see where God takes me.”

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We’ll be challenged by Texas — they’re very good

this year, and they usually are.

— swimming head coach Jay Holmes

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Roger Zhang — THE BATTALION

Senior foward Adaora Elonu has increased her scoring to an average of 12.3 points per game.

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