John Claybrook’s campaign will appeal its last-minute disqualification from the student body president election in a judicial court hearing Monday night.

Claybrook was disqualified by the Elec-tion Commission Friday evening because of inconsistencies in his expense report. Vio-lations and alterations involved the cost of Claybrook’s website, tax levels and shipping costs for campaign supplies, eventually adding almost $300 to the candidate’s total expenses. This addition put him over the $1,800 budget

allotted to student body president candidates.The Excel spreadsheet provided by the

Election Commission was formulated to au-tomatically incorporate taxes. In Claybrook’s expense re-port, the final total for items purchased outside the Bryan-College Station area did not include taxes, meaning the spreadsheet was likely altered.

“Because this rule required intentional alteration of the

spreadsheet provided by the Election Com-mission, this should constitute falsification of

a finance report, which the Election Com-mission has set as a precedent by ruling as a major campaign violation,” read the violation submission against the Claybrook campaign, obtained by The Battalion.

The cost of items purchased outside the B-CS area is determined by the Election Commission’s interpretation of “fair market value,” which already incorporates tax, per the election regulations. Because of this, a Claybrook campaign representative said the spreadsheet’s imbedded formula counts tax twice on each item that has already been as-sessed at fair market value.

The Claybrook campaign was also accused of prorating its website, which is prohibited by the election rules and regulations. The Claybrook budget report only expensed one month of use of the domain, giving the impression that time was prorated.

“Taking one bite out of an apple does not leave you with a fraction of unused apple,” read a second violation submission regarding the domain dispute. “If Claybrook had bought twelve separate months of web domain for, say, $5 each, then the unused months could be left out under this rule. However, an

On a sunny and breezy Sunday afternoon, the No. 5 Texas A&M baseball team completed the weekend sweep of Big 10 champion Michigan State, 9-8, in front of 4,528 at Blue Bell Park.

The Aggies extend their winning streak to five games after a hard-fought battle Sunday, despite fall-ing into a 4-0 early deficit in the first inning of the ballgame. The Aggies needed resilience and intensity on the base paths, building a come-back in the sixth and seventh innings to solidify the victory and sweep

against the Big 10 Conference favorite.The game began with two errors in the Aggie

infield, setting the stage for four Spartan runs in-cluding a two-run homer from freshman outfielder Jimmy Pickens. A&M sophomore right-hander Ra-fael Pineda struggled in the first inning, surrendering four runs — none earned — on two hits. His defense three errors put the Aggies in an early hole.

A&M head coach Rob Childress said he was im-pressed by the way his team continued to fight all game long.

“It was probably my fault,” Childress said. “I

don’t know if I didn’t have them ready to play. By the time the first punch was thrown, they got ready to play and played well.”

The Aggies (11-1) answered the Spartans’ (4-6) early offensive spark by scoring a run in the second and fourth innings, but were unable to add more despite bases-loaded opportunities in both at-bats. Junior shortstop Mikey Reynolds was hit by a pitch in the second and junior right fielder Tyler Naquin reached on an error in the fourth, giving the team a fighting chance to come back.

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A&M falls to Texas in season finale, 79-64

In A&M’s last trip through the Big 12 Conference gauntlet, the defend-ing national champions found no mercy from their in-state rival.

The No. 17 Aggies dropped their second game of the season against a Texas Longhorns team that has struggled in conference play, fall-ing in Austin Sunday in their regular season finale.

A&M head coach Gary Blair said

Texas was motivated by the prospect of missing the NCAA tournament.

“Texas played with a sense of ur-gency tonight,” Blair said. “If they would have lost the game they would have been out of the NCAA tourna-ment. It’s simple.”

Three-point shooting was the dif-ference maker in the contest: The Aggies made just one of four attempts from beyond the arc while the Long-horns tied a season-high with nine made three-pointers on 15 attempts.

On a day when the Longhorns

honored their seniors, senior Yvonne Anderson rocked the scoreboard for a career-high 25 points to go with nine assists. Fellow senior Chassidy Fus-sell made five of seven attempts from three-point range for 19 points.

Blair said Anderson’s play was the deciding factor in the contest.

“[Anderson] was the biggest key in the ball game,” Blair said. “Fussell is going to get hers. We tried to play Tyra White, have a taller player on

Churches protest contraceptive mandate

Seven states, including Texas, have joined a lawsuit suing President Barack Obama for passing a new Health and Hu-man Services contraceptive mandate.

The mandate requires employers to provide abortion-inducing drugs, steriliza-tions and contraceptives free of charge to their employees. The problem comes with religious-affiliated establishments that are against the use of contraceptives. The Ro-

man Catholic Church is one of these estab-lishments, and spokespersons have said this mandate is an infringement on its rights of religious freedom.

Since the mandate, Obama has released a compromise applying to churches and em-ployers, but the churches are still not happy.

“There cannot be a compromise to something that the government has no right to do in the first place,” said the Rev. David Konderla of St. Mary’s Catholic Church.

The compromise is meant to exempt faith-based employers from covering the

cost of contraceptives, but requires that insurance agencies cover the cost instead. This raises implications in the case where there are some self-insuring religious em-ployers and religious insurance agencies that may be against the use of contraceptives, but would still be required to provide them.

“The compromise is, unfortunately, not acceptable. I believe it is a threat to the very religious freedom our founding fathers died to protect,” said Kristine Cranley, student minister at St. Mary’s.

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Senior first baseman Jacob House drives in two game-tying RBIs in a two-out at bat Sunday to swing momentum in the Aggies’ favor.

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Physician with women’s clinic dies at 61

After serving the A&M community for 11 years, Dr. Janice Butchee died Feb. 28 at the age of 61. Butchee

graduated from Lamar University and Texas A&M-Galveston, and received her medical degree from the University of North Texas Health Science Center’s Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. She became certifi ed in Family Practice, and served in her hometown of Buna, Texas, until she began working

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Putin wins Russian electionMOSCOW — Vladimir Putin scored a decisive victory in Russia’s presidential election Sunday to return to the Kremlin and extend his hold on power for six more years. His eyes brimming with tears, he defi antly proclaimed to a sea of supporters that they had triumphed over opponents.

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Those who support the contraceptive mandate say that it is an issue of women’s health, not religious freedom. Supporters say contraceptives should be available to any woman who wants them.

Taylor Beaty, a sophomore business management major, had mixed feelings on the is-sue, but ultimately sided with the churches.

“I would say that, overall, I do not support the HHS mandate because of the lack of clear protection for some religiously-affiliated institu-tions,” Beaty said.

The Obama administra-tion has extended the effec-tive date of the mandate to August 2013, giving religious employers time to make nec-essary adjustments, but the mandate, at least for now, re-

mains as written.The opposition to this

mandate does not exist only within the Catholic Church. Many religious organizations see this extension of the effec-tive date as having one year to reject their beliefs and follow the law.

The National Clergy Council, which represents leaders of Catholic, Evangeli-cal, Orthodox, and Protestant churches, declared a “State of

Emergency” for the churches as a response to the mandate. A coalition of more than 40 non-Catholic religious orga-nizations also expressed their disapproval, sending a let-ter to the White House de-manding protection from the mandate.

The National Committee for a Human Life Amend-ment, in conjunction with the Catholic Bishops, and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo.,

drafted a “Respect for Rights of Conscience Act.” Ac-cording to the NCHLA, this measure is meant to ensure that those who are part of the health care system will be able to “provide, purchase or enroll in” whatever health coverage complies with their religious beliefs.

The U.S. Senate voted against the amendment on March 1, 51-48.

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John Claybrook is angry he was disquali-fied. Thomas McNutt is angry he was almost disqualified. The other candidates are angry McNutt wasn’t disqualified.

Students involved in campaigns are angry because they’re convinced the other candidate is a lying, cheating scumbag.

Even students not involved in campaigns are angry because the election season from hell just won’t end.

At least the conspiracy theorists are happy.Shortly after Claybrook was disqualified

on Friday, I held conversations with multiple people who voiced the same sentiment.

“The election commission is the villain.”That’s the view I’m afraid students have

adopted: The drama, the miscalculations, the

general confusion is the commission’s fault, so that is where many have directed their anger.

One source in SGA said the election com-missioner received multiple threats last week before ruling on violation submissions.

Wait … what? These are campus elections. It’s

not exactly Bush v. Gore.Set aside the fact that the

commissioner is a student. Set aside any token respect we think our community holds for mem-bers of the Aggie family. It’s ap-palling and disgusting that individuals would resort to blatant physical intimidation to influence a democratic process.

Has the election commission been perfect? No. Even our editorial board disagreed with one of the commission’s decisions last week. But there are misunderstandings that have exacerbated the situation and it has grown out of control.

For one, the miscalculations in the yell leader, RHA president and sophomore class president races were not made by the election commission. A University employee in charge of the online voting system made a tabulation error that led to the mistakes. The Election

Commissioner didn’t have access to the numbers before announcing

winners to safeguard the election’s integrity.

But the bigger issue lies with the process.

As of this weekend, the Elec-tion Commission has received 109

violation reports against candidates. There were 60 last year. Sixty. The election commissioner is the most-sued student in the history of SGA.

Personally, I don’t know how some of the candidates had time to campaign while taking photos of petty infractions, drafting complaints and generally trying to get the other guy disqualified. It’s obvious that for

some candidates, this was not a student-first election. It was a win-at-all-costs election, and when the election commissioner made controversial rulings in which at least one party was going to cry ‘foul,’ the commission became the popular scapegoat.

Before the appeal on Monday, let’s take a deep breath and holster our guns. It’s easy and trendy to blame the election commis-sion, but pointing fingers is not going to fix the problem. The student body and Student Senate need to take a long, hard look at the election regulations, weeding out what is unnecessary and keeping only what is required to maintain order.

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Taylor Wolken: Election regulations have rendered SBP race comicalBuried under rulesT he SBP race has become heated with a flurry of action from the Election Commission. First, Thomas McNutt’s candidacy was

questioned and now John Claybrook has been disqualified after winning SBP with 60 percent of the vote. With all the absurd

controversy, I want to know, “Where is the long-form birth certificate?”

I don’t really care if you sup-port John Claybrook, Thomas McNutt, Drew Barber or Satan’s starfish, our University’s electoral process is hilarious, stupid and hilariously stupid.

SGA, to put it politely, is the most worthless group of résumé padders at our University, and thanks to their burdensome rules and regulations, students’ frivolous votes for a frivolous position are being cast aside.

For the majority of Aggies who didn’t vote in the election, I want you to learn about the Aggie elec-tion system.

After a little work, I found the SGA election rules and as an avid supporter for write-in candidate “SGA is a waste of life,” I want you to know the SGA rules are pedestrian.

Voters in the election had to go to a simple website to cast their vote. What they didn’t know is that under election law, “An election official shall be present at each polling place throughout the official election time as defined by these regulations.”

There was no election official present while I voted on my luxu-rious porcelain throne, so my vote, as well as any who voted outside the scrutinizing watch of an elec-tion official, shouldn’t count.

Another fantastic rule is, “The Election Commission will submit a list of Fair Market Values for generic and commonly used cam-paign items.”

Yup, the Election Commission will determine the value of things purchased on the free market. They know bet-ter than the person who sold you things.

Then we find, “The term ‘flyer’ is defined as a single piece of paper with a surface area no larger than 93.5 square inches (equal to that of an 8 ½ inch by 11 inch piece of paper).”

If only paper could be made slightly larger, this rule may be obsolete.

Then we have “Campaign materials may be distributed with a maximum of one flyer per bulletin board and three

per kiosk for each candidate.”SGA rules are clearly the only

thing standing between A&M and anarchy.

“The term ‘bulletin boards’ shall be defined as the cork board and the surrounding frame.”

So put stuff on the walls and you are golden.

“Residents of cam-pus housing may affix

materials inside their respective dorm room, but materials may not be affixed facing out of windows or on the hallway or balcony side of doors.”

SGA wants to mandate what you do in your own bedroom.

“Only four (4) people work-ing for one candidate or

any mutually supportive group of candidates may

campaign in one place at a time.”Heaven forbid a can-

didate have active support-ers willing to campaign for them. Four people is fine but five, oh no, that’s too much free speech. If I can get the Aggie Band to throw a parade for me, then I shouldn’t be punished for being awesome. But what do I know? We don’t want to discriminate against candidates who don’t have supporters, at least not until voting begins.

These ridiculous rules have put the “micro” in “micromanage-ment” and undermined the actual electoral process.

Rather than campaigning and winning support, candidates were

spending more time finding reasons to disqualify one another.

Thanks to these glorious rules, the Election Commission spent Tuesday night determining if a candidate’s website cost was suf-ficient to merit disqualification.

Thanks to these rules, the candidate who won the runoff has been disqualified.

Thanks to these rules and the stupidity of SGA, we can’t even have our votes count regarding which worthless candidate’s résumé we want to pad.

In this new runoff, I would like to register a vote of no confidence in SGA. It’s a waste of student fees that, in practice, has done abso-lutely nothing but embarrass our University.

Taylor Wolken is a senior economics major.

Robert Carpenter: Address the real source of election turbulence

Holster your guns

I t was a perfectly pleasant

spring semester at A&M,

then this campaign season

arrived. Now everyone’s upset.

Robert Carpenter is a senior applied math major and editor in chief of The Battalion.

Jorge Montalvo — THE BATTALION

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I was only told that they were going to come find me in the crowd, and that the act was going to involve paint in some way. Before the performance began, a staff member pulled me aside and asked if I wanted to be a part of the show. I was only told that they were going to come find me in the crowd, and that the act was going to involve paint in some way.

I was given a special black pair of shoes (which were two sizes too big, but I didn’t complain), led back to my seat and my row was marked with a special piece of tape. I was one of two people lucky enough to be chosen to go on stage during the show.

Then the auditorium lights went out, and the stage lit-up in a sea of neon colors. Three men with blue faces appeared from behind a thin screen, and the performance began.

“I really liked it. It was unlike anything I’ve ever seen,” said Brandon Dupy, sophomore construction management major. “It’s a mixture of a rock concert and a theatrical perfor-mance.”

When one of the blue men finally made his way to my seat, he took me by the hand and led me through the crowd and onto the stage where he helped me put on a white jumpsuit. I was then turned to face the audience one last time before they placed my head into a large,

thick helmet.From there I was robbed

of my senses. I could only hear the “oohs” and “ahhs” of the crowd as my body was pulled and swung in every direc-tion. I vaguely remember being laid flat against a surface at one point, though it was hard to tell with the thick jumpsuit on. The hel-met was rather disorienting.

I ended up inside a small wooden box, which was opened up before the crowd who was bursting with ap-plause.

Afterwards I was escorted down the aisle; the man behind me was holding a

large painting appeared to feature the outline of my body. I reached the end of the aisle, returned the shoes

and jumpsuit, and made my way back to my seat.

The blue men made several pieces of tangible art throughout the show. Amy Brown, sophomore political sci-ence major, asked one of the blue men in the lobby

to sign a piece of artwork that she was given. The man stopped, looked at Brown, touched his face with his thumb, and smeared a small amount of his blue paint on the canvas.

Brown understood his

action immediately, and smiled.

“That’s actually fitting,” Brown said.

Sadly I did not get to keep the painting of me, it was later sold at the merchandise stand after the performance.

The show ended in a finale of red, green, and blue flashing lights and lasers. When the curtains closed, the crowd stood to their feet and roared with applause for an encore. It’s request was granted as the blue men went back on stage to perform their famous paint bucket trick once more for the crowd; this time with even more flare.

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entire year was bought and used, so that entire year must be expensed.”

Mark Womack, an inter-national affairs graduate stu-dent and member of Clay-brook’s campaign team, said there was a misunderstanding.

“Our counter to that is that it’s not prorating because pro-rating only applies to things that you purchase. We didn’t purchase it, it was donated to us and the only thing that was donated to us was one month of time,” Womack said. “If a year had been donated to us then we would have ex-pensed a year, but that wasn’t the case.”

The Claybrook campaign was charged with the cost of a “premium Vimeo account,” but Womack said the Elec-tion Commission previously ruled that Vimeo is social media. The election rules and

regulations state that social media is not regulated.

The Claybrook campaign was charged an additional $87.09 for shipping charg-es. Womack said the word “shipping” does not appear in the election rules and regula-tions, therefore the Election Commission should have no jurisdiction to regulate shipping.

“The purposes of the bud-get is not to regulate how you get the material, it’s to keep the election fair so that some-body doesn’t have surplus materials,” Womack said.

A third violation submis-sion — submitted anony-mously, like the other two — claims that shipping costs should fall under the term “services,” which does appear in the regulations.

“Had money for shipping and handling not been spent, the items would not have been delivered to College Station and they could not have been used for campaign-

ing,” the submission reads.The SGA Judicial Court

will make a decision on the appeal Monday night at a time and place as yet unde-termined. If Claybrook wins his appeal, he will become the student body president-elect. If he loses, Drew Bar-ber will face Thomas Mc-Nutt in another runoff, with voting from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Claybrook said he was dis-appointed with how this elec-tion turned out, but was con-fident in his campaign’s case.

“We are very hopeful with the case we are going to be presenting tomorrow and we’re very confident that come tomorrow night, I’ll get to be student body president-elect,” Claybrook said.

McNutt declined to com-ment on the issue, and mem-bers of the Election Commis-sion could not be reached.

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It was unlike anything

I’ve ever seen.

It’s a mixture of a

rock concert and a theatrical performance.

— sophomore construction major

Brandon Dupy

B efore the

performance

began, a staff

member pulled me

aside and asked if I

wanted to be a part

of the show.

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Childress called left-hand-er Estevan Uriegas from the bullpen in the fifth inning and was rewarded with two solid innings of relief. The senior allowed no hits, no walks and registered a strikeout on 31 pitches.

Uriegas, the winning pitcher of Sunday’s contest, said whenever he gets the opportunity to go out to the mound, he wants to go out there and do his job.

“Coming from the bull-pen, it’s always about throw-ing strikes, getting the ball over the zones and putting in the spots where, if the oppos-ing batter hits the ball, my de-fense will make plays for me,” Uriegas said.

While Uriegas carved a nearly-flawless performance, the offense came alive in the sixth and seventh innings, us-ing six hits, two hit-by-pitch-es, one walk and an error to add 7 runs.

During the onslaught of runs, senior first baseman Jacob House delivered his only hit at a crucial time as he drove in two runners to tie the game at four apiece in the sixth. Junior left-fielder Bran-don Wood followed House’s game-changing hit with one of his own as his only hit of the ballgame gave the Aggies the lead at 5-4.

Childress said House’s clutch hit greatly shifted mo-mentum toward his ball club.

“That was a huge run,” Childress said. “Our first five runs were all from two outs and we were able to get some big hits late and Jacob was

definitely a big part of that.”In the seventh, it was an

error on Spartan junior left-fielder Jordan Keur that al-lowed two Aggies to score while the bats of Naquin and senior third baseman Matt Juengel gave the team an ad-ditional two runs, extending the lead to 9-4.

Wood suffered an injury in the eighth inning after try-ing to catch a ball in left field heading toward the warning track and colliding into the wall. The Spartans took ad-vantage of the injury, as they were able to score three runs and trim their deficit to two.

Childress said Wood might have a broken nose and was taken to the hospital after the game.

“We surely appreciated his efforts in playing the game the way we all expect each other to play,” Childress said. “He plays as hard as anybody

on our team, he’ll be OK. Hopefully we get him back by the weekend.”

In the ninth inning, the Spartans gave right-hander Daniel Mengden some prob-lems as they were able to scrap off three hits, including an RBI single by second base-man Ryan Jones. The last-minute effort wasn’t enough, though, as sophomore center fielder Krey Bratsen was able to collect the final out for an Aggie victory.

Childress said he expects to face a well-coached team on Tuesday, as the Aggies wel-come Prairie View A&M.

“[Waskyla] Cullivan does a great job [as a head coach]. He’s a good friend of mine, and he continues to grow that program,” Childress said. “They’ve been here before. This is nothing new to him and his team. I’ll have my team ready to play.”

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Senior pitcher Estevan Uriegas earned the win Sunday after allowing no hits or walks in 31 pitches.

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her to extend, but she’s just got a great shot, she plays with no fear.”

Blair said that the diver-sity in the Longhorns’ offense was key.

“When they have two of three cooking at all times and then [senior guard Ashleigh] Fontennette threw in that last dagger near the end of the game, you just pat them on the back and give them credit,” Blair said.

Four Aggies notched more than 10 points in the losing effort, including 13 points each from senior guard Tyra White, senior forward Ada-ora Elonu and junior center Kelsey Bone.

Blair declined to bring any of his players to the post-game

press conference, saying they didn’t “deserve to be here.”

“I always bring the players in and I always answer every question, but today I don’t think they deserved to be in here and I don’t deserve to be in here,” Blair said.

Momentum shifted back and forth for the duration of the first half, but Ander-son knocked down a three from the top of the key with the clock winding down to give her team a 39-34 lead before intermission.

The Longhorns came out of halftime firing, and the Aggies couldn’t overcome the perimeter barrage away from home.

Blair said the Longhorns — who have now won three in a row — will carry their recent success into the up-coming Big 12 Conference tournament.

“As well as they played against A&M the last two ball games, they could win the conference tournament,” Blair said. “It all starts with guard play and their guards were just a lot better than ours today.”

The Aggies, meanwhile, limp into the tournament, having lost two in a row to close the season.

Blair said his team isn’t ready for the tournament.

“Right now we’re going to go back to the drawing board,” Blair said. “We’re not ready for the Big 12 tournament because right now we’re not good enough. I’ve used this adage all year that everybody was giving us their best shot, but what are we supposed to do. We’re not paying like defending national champions. We’re too inconsistent.”

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