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Practice. Hinckley said they were then pitted against an Aggie crowd who were ready to hump it and see what they could do. But not only did Will and Ravi lead the group in yells, they were also carried to Fish Pond and thrown in like actual Yell Leaders.

Hinckley said the call for Aggie extras was put out three hours be-fore the shooting for the commer-cial began.

“They didn’t announce where they were going to be until Sunday

night,” Hinckley said. “The fact that we were able to pull off what we just did was awesome.”

Students said they heard about the commercial through social me-dia outlets such as Twitter and Face-book.

“I found out on Facebook earlier today,” said junior psychology ma-jor Wesley Carrera. “They said they were shooting a commercial and I wasn’t planning on coming, but one

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Matteo Barbarino laughs as he thinks about the time his buddy woke him up in the middle of the night, claiming there had been a fight that night. His buddy, soph-omore economics major Luca Bonasera, had failed to tell him it was him in a fight, and that he hadn’t come out on top.

Barbarino, a physics graduate student, said Luca’s character was one of bravery.

Luca was a sophomore econom-ics major. He died in a car accident June 2.

Maggie Bonasera, Luca’s moth-er, said he was very involved with his family.

“He was always very attentive, protective of his younger broth-ers,” she said.

Brave, caring, lovingBarrett House The Battalion

See Bonasera on page 7

March 19, 1992 - June 2, 2012

Luca Bonasera

“He was always ready to help the underdog.”Luca, sophomore economics major

Respect fallen, their

family

EDITORIAL

In preparation for our Silver

Taps edition of The Battalion,

our reporters interview friends

and family members of those

being honored during that

month’s ceremony. We learn

their stories. We learn about

their childhood, their hobbies,

their passions and their un-

requited plans for the future.

More often than not, these

legacies are relayed to us over

tear-filled phone interviews.

During Silver Taps, it can

be easy to allow a name to

pass through you without res-

onation. As you stand in the

stillness tonight, as the crack

of the rifles and mournful

tones of the bugles reverber-

ate through Academic Plaza,

keep in mind that behind

each name there is the life of

a student just like you. And

remember, it could just as eas-

ily be your name echoing out

into the dark.

We are a University known

for its adherence to tradition.

Be it Midnight Yell, the Ag-

gie Ring, the Century Tree

or the MSC, every Aggie is

bound together by a unique

sense of place, language and

practice. But as a family, the

characteristic that sets us apart

the most is our acceptance and

respect of our own mortality.

Silver Taps is meant to

honor and remember our

fellow Aggies, but it is also

an opportunity to offer a sign

of respect to the family and

friends of the deceased. It is

important for students — on

and off campus — to attend

the ceremony.

This is what Silver Taps

and, to a larger extent,

Muster, is all about — the

celebration of life through the

acknowledgment of its finite

nature. There is nothing like it

in any other university in the

country.

See Ticket on page 4

insidenews | 3Back in actionAfter a brief stall due to fl ooding, the newly renovated YMCA building has been opened to the student body.

sports | 5Soccer in reviewThe Aggies clinched the Texas A&M Invitational this past weekend, defeating a ranked Rutgers squad in the process.

sports | 4GameDay at A&MTexas A&M hosts ESPN’s premier college football pregame show for the fi rst time since 2006. A&M will face off against Florida on Saturday.

Students were called on yet again to assemble at the YMCA building on Monday to partake in another commercial filmed on campus. This time, it was AT&T Inc. behind the Yell Practice.

The commercial, another in-stallment of publicity with College GameDay, which is coming to Col-lege Station for the A&M-Flori-da game on Saturday is part of an AT&T promotion for the show.

“This is part of our sponsorship with AT&T and related to College GameDay coming on Saturday,” said Shane Hinckley, vice president and business development of Texas A&M. “AT&T is filming a national commercial to promote their spon-sorship of College GameDay.”

Hinckley said the premise behind the AT&T commercial is follow-ing two people, Will and Ravi, as they travel across the country and perform various tasks at different schools assigned by viewers.

“One of the tasks assigned to us was to lead an impromptu Yell Practice on the steps of the YMCA building, where it all started,” Hinckley said.

Will and Ravi practiced with the Yell Leaders prior to the Yell

AT&T films commercial on campus

See Commercial on page 3

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Tanner Garza — THE BATTALION

EDITORIALBOARD

Trevor Stevens editor in chiefsenior English major

Joe Terrell managing editorsenior Telecommunications major

whereAcademic Plaza

when10:30 p.m. Tuesday

howAn honor guard from the Ross Volunteers will march across campus from the Corps of Cadets area to the plaza, where its members will fi re three rifl e volleys to honor the memory of these students. Buglers from the Aggie Band will play a special arrangement of “Taps.” The tolling of the Albritton Tower bells will signal the end of the ceremony.

Nigel Hart, formerly Reginald Sean Hartfield, will be one of the Aggies honored at Silver Taps on Tuesday. He died June 2 after battling an unexpected case of lung cancer.

Hart was a driven and accom-plished person. He was working on his doctorate in psychology at Texas A&M, but not before serv-ing in the U.S. military. Before at-tending college, Hart had been a member of the U.S. Marine Corps for six years. He served in the Gulf War.

“Nigel had worked as an un-dergraduate research assistant and then proceeded to enter into a master’s program at the Univer-sity of California,” said Paul Well-man, professor and interim head of

Marine, published scholarCamryn FordThe Battalion

See Hart on page 7

1970 - June 2, 2012Nigel Hart

Hart was working on his doctorate in psychology.

Nigel Hart, psychology doctoral student

Luke Urbanovsky was a friend to many and a true Aggie at heart.

Luke was a freshman chemical engineering major and member of the freshman leadership organiza-tion MSC FISH. He spent numer-ous hours volunteering in Bryan-College Station at various local businesses and organizations, in-cluding the Waldenbrooke Retire-ment Home, Boys and Girls Club and a project called Tiger Friends. Luke set apart time to spend with special needs children at a local high school.

“He loved to laugh and smile and make people feel good,”, said Con-nie Urbanovsky, Luke’s mother. “He was really smart, really helpful and was really looking forward to his sophomore year.”

Helpful, true AggieJake Walker The Battalion

See Urbanovsky on page 7

October 26, 1992 - June 16, 2012Luke Thomas Urbanovsky

“Luke loved everything about Texas A&M.”Luke Thomas Urbanovsky, freshman chemical engineering major

Blake Matthew Schoenrock grew up in Mesquite, but made his way to College Station as soon as he could.

“From the time Blake started looking for a college to go to, A&M was his first choice,” said Randy Schoenrock, Blake’s father,. “When he got accepted, he was ex-tremely excited.”

While at Texas A&M, Blake at-tended Grace Bible Church.

“Blake was a Christian and ex-tremely proud of his faith,” said Garrett Chapman his friend of 15 years and junior finance major. “He was always willing to tell about God and loved him very much.”

Chapman said Blake was prob-ably one of the funniest people he ever met.

Funny, hard workingRobby Smith The Battalion

See Shoenrock on page 7

September 17, 1991 - May 15, 2012

Blake Matthew Schoenrock

“He was always willing to tell about

God.”

Blake Matthew Schoenrock, sophomore petroleum engineering major

Pulling days were set to begin Mon-day morning for the Texas A&M-Florida game, and it has been a longstanding tra-dition that students camp out in front of Kyle Field before ticket windows open. However, this year campers were pitch-ing tents without the possibility of pulling a ticket based off their placement in line.

An email was sent Saturday afternoon by the Division of Marketing and Com-munication stating that the system for pulling tickets would return to its origi-nally intended format. The updated sys-tem randomizes how tickets are distrib-uted to students.

Tickets are being distributed randomly by sections — four sections at a time — starting with the best section. Tickets are being assigned beginning with the seats between the 40-yard lines, according to 12th Man Foundation senior vice presi-dent Carole Dollins.

It is unclear to the extent of involve-

Ticket pulling randomized, student input unclearMichael RodriguezThe Battalion

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Aggie yell leaders practice yells with hundreds of students on camera Monday afternoon outside of the YMCA building for the AT&T commercial to be aired during ESPN College GameDay.

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Students dress as their “future selves” Monday afternoon in the MSC Flag Room for the MSC Grand Opening Celebration: Academic Day. Future selves included various costumes like doctors, football players and actresses.

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of buddies grabbed me and said, ‘hey, you’re go-ing to this.’”

The commercial is another mark of A&M’s transition to the SEC and the opportunity for na-tional publicity.

“It’s just another association with our move to the SEC,” Hinckley said. “It’s an opportunity for our brand to be on the forefront of the national scene, which is where a school of our size and reputation should be.”

Jennifer Martin, director of marketing for the athletic department, said the commercial show-cases the A&M brand and what A&M represents.

“This is a great opportunity for Texas A&M University to get our name out there and to get a partnership with one of our sponsors and continue that national brand that is Texas A&M and show everyone what the Aggies are about,” Martin said.

Martin said she was impressed with the stu-dent turnouts, who were obviously eager to participate.

“It’s amazing when we put anything out through Aggie athletics, the Aggies show up,” Martin said. “They were hoping for 50 but we gave 100.”

Students who participated, such as senior hu-man resources development major Katy Buckner, said it was an opportunity that couldn’t be passed up.

“It was awesome. The crowd was wild and it was a great experience. Buckner said. “I am recording it and telling my parents about it.”

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The lyrics of “Y-M-C-A” usu-ally create a cacophony of large arm motions trying to mimic the shape of the actual letters, but neglected is the meaning of the letters. Newly renovated but masked by mystery to most students, the YMCA building on campus stands renewed and ready for use.

YMCA stands for Young Men’s Christian Association. Unless given a specific reason to enter the build-ing on campus, most students tend to just admire its beauty from the side-walk as they walk by, subconsciously wondering why the building is there in the first place.

“The YMCA is one of my favor-ite buildings on campus, and shows how a good design can retain the best of the past for the benefit of the future,” said David Woodcock, Professor Emeritus of Architecture at Texas A&M.

Woodcock said that it was the first building on campus with a social, rather than an academic or residential, use. The YMCA had buildings on many campuses and in many towns and cities, and combined rooms for formal meetings and informal gather-ings, with special purpose rooms for physical and spiritual well-being.

The original YMCA building on campus was equipped with a swim-ming pool, bowling alley and cha-pel. All of those features have been changed and renovated over time to create office space in the building.

Over the years, the many renova-tions caused the entire building to become structurally unsound. The only pool on campus is now located at the Recreation Center and the chapel was closed when the All Faiths Chapel opened across the street.

Parts of the old building can actu-ally be found throughout the renova-tions, including tiles from the swim-ming pool on the elevator floor signs.

The building was flooded last Feb-ruary, which caused severe damages.

“It destroyed the 41 brand new computers in the lab. Obviously there was a lot of cleaning up to do,” said Gary Varner, head of the Department of Philosophy. The cleanup began immediately after the flood, but all of the repairs were not completed until the middle of the summer.”

Since the building has undergone changes to better prepare it for other extreme weather conditions, it hous-es several new offices. It is now oc-cupied by the Department of Philos-ophy and Humanities, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Student Learning Center, Student Success Center, Office of Faculties/Associate Provost, the Faculty Sen-ate, and the International Faculty and Scholars Services.

Communications manager in the division of administration, Karen Bigley, said that the YMCA is a his-torically significant building on cam-pus and prominently featured along military walk.

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YMCA building back in all its glory

Tanner Garza — THE BATTALION

The original YMCA building included a swimming pool, bowling alley and a chapel. Over time, the YMCA was renovated to the current status – office space to house multiple departments and class rooms.

torically been used on A&M’s cam-pus for one more traditional purpose.

“Since the YMCA was the social center of the campus and backed onto Military Walk where most of the cadets lived, the tradition of prac-ticing ‘yells’ would naturally have begun on the steps of the building,” Woodcock said.

Woodcock also said this took place as a tradition from the late 1880s to the 1950s. He said that it remains in his hopes that the Corps of Cadets will add an annual march from south to north to recall the daily tradition from so long ago.

Although the building has lost its original purpose, it still maintains a lifetime of history to offer students and is a true part of the University.

Woodcock said the renovations of

both the building and Military Walk were made possible through the sup-port of others.

“Thanks to the support of the administration and the generosity of alumni, Military Walk and the YMCA represent the best of that past,” Woodcock said.

Traditionally, before the YMCA was closed, yell practices were held on its steps after an Aggie football win at home. With the reopening of the YMCA building, that tradition is re-turning to where it originated.

“It is a part of tradition to do post-game yell practices on the steps of the YMCA building,” said Geral Harris, assistant director of student activities and Yell Leader adviser. “We will be doing yell practices there like they have in the past.”

Aaron Cranford — THE BATTALION

AT&T film crews record students and yell leaders as they practice yells for game day Monday afternoon outside of the YMCA building.

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ment the student body had when the change was made, but according to Senior As-sociate Athletic Director Jeff Schmahl, student input was considered.

“It is the student’s ticket pull system and so the chang-es, tweaks, the improvements that we make are based on the comments that we get back from the students on how they want the system run,” Schmahl said. “We’re not try-ing to shove something down the throats of the students. We feel that it’s fair. There are schools across the country that marvel at how well our ticket system works.”

Dollins said Student Gov-ernment Association was met with over the changes with the band and adjustments made in accordance with SEC rules, but had no specific involvement with the ticket pull system.

“The rules were placed by the student body prior to my arrival. We felt like we were able to go back and closely ad-here to those [rules] with the

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changes we made this year,” Dollins said. “We felt that the approval of the process was already there so we didn’t feel like we were making changes that were outside the structure that already existed. We felt that we were just improving them and putting them back the way they had been before.”

Despite the fact the sys-tem was designed to be fully randomized, many students still have a problem with not being able to wake up early and pull tickets based on their placement in line.

“Someone who has been here for a while like [Delta Company], we have been here since Saturday at 10 in the morning, and we don’t know if we’re going to get our normal seats,” said James McGoldrick, junior agricul-ture and life sciences major. “We were always first row.”

Dollins said, according to how the ticket pulling system was originally intended to op-erate, being first in line didn’t guarantee a front row seat.

“There’s no more rush to be the first in line,” Dollins said. “It was supposed to be random and now we are go-

ing back to that.”A student pull system

has been in place since the 1970s, Dollins said. Over time, the system transformed from pulling tickets out of a basket at random to the more modern computer software system.

“We changed systems in 2006 but no randomization was available,” Dollins said. “Now we have managed to put in a seesaw order. We could have let that be random from the start.”

During last year’s Texas game, issues arose when a high volume of students camped out in hopes of get-ting the best tickets available.

“As the demand has gotten high, it has caused some chal-lenges and it’s put an empha-sis on camping that isn’t in the best interest of the students,” Dollins said.

By the end of Monday, Dollins said 14,000 tickets were pulled. The number of tickets pulled for the Florida game ranks second behind the game versus Texas in 2011, in which 16,000 tickets were pulled.

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very in-season Saturday morning, the popular pregame show

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I always wanted to be one of those crazed fanatics wearing my team colors, holding a sign saying, “Hi Mom…Uh, I need Money” and being part of something that really set the tone for my team to perform at a premier level.

After a six-year stint, the time has come for Aggies to deck themselves out in all maroon, make their signs and create a mas-sive crowd behind the College GameDay set. Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Desmond Howard and Chris Fowler have finally made their way to College Station, hosting their signature analysis show this coming Saturday prior to the Florida Gators facing off against Texas A&M in the latter’s inaugural SEC matchup.

When word of their appearance hit me, I was ecstatic to know that our great Univer-sity, our team, and, most of all, the spirit of Aggieland, has the opportunity to show not only the SEC, but also the entire country, how top-notch Aggieland’s fans and gameday atmosphere is within the confines of the legendary Kyle Field.

I thought that, by now, College Game-Day would have shown up on campus a few more times over the past four years, espe-cially when Kyle Field has boasted distin-guished matchups such as Nebraska in 2010. Additionally, there was also the times when we faced our old rival from Austin, the Texas Longhorns. However, weekends would fly by without so much as a whisper from ESPN, killing my hopes that the Primetime

show would ever revisit our storied University.

Now that Texas A&M has been se-lected and the matchup against Florida will be nationally broadcasted, the excitement will continue to build up as if I were a kid entering a department-sized candy store. I look forward to the detailed analysis pre-sented by GameDay residents Chris Fowler and Desmond Howard. I want to hear Kirk Herbstreit tell the nation, once again, that Texas A&M is home to the greatest student section in the country. Finally, I would like to see Lee Corso, but in some wacky A&M apparel, signifying that he predicts the Aggies to pull off the stunning upset.

This Saturday, it’s now my turn, as it will be for many Aggies, to throw myself into the frenzy. As A&M makes their long awaited SEC debut in front of the nation, the entire country will be around to see it happen. Right now, I can only imagine the maroon and white draped around campus, the BBQ pits firing up the mouth watering, succulent meats, and, of course, everyone getting ready to beat the hell out of Florida.

In a matter of days, however, it will be a reality. Our reality.

Michael Rodriguez is a senior industrial engineering major and sports desk assistant for The Battalion.

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Aggies take invitational, prep for Long Beach

Chase Krumholz — THE BATTALION

James Sullivan The Battalion

The Aggies celebrate after a score against St. Mary’s Sunday at Ellis Field. The Aggie will play Long Beach at 7 p.m. on Friday.

Working off an edgy start to the season, the No. 17 ranked Aggie soccer team was able to hit their stride with two critical vic-tories over No. 16 Rutgers and St. Mary’s en route to securing the Texas A&M Invitational this past weekend.

Hosting the four-team tourna-ment at Ellis Field, A&M knocked off the Scarlet Knights 4-1 on Fri-day evening and finished off the Gaels 1-0 on Sunday afternoon, showing continued improvement after an early season upset loss at San Diego.

“We’re getting close to where we need to be,” said head coach G Guerrieri. “We’re getting used to winning which is a good charac-teristic to have on this team.”

Despite falling behind Rutgers early, the Aggies’ consistent offen-sive pressure netted four consecu-tive goals, two in each half. Stand-out sophomore Kelley Monogue, working off summer ACL surgery, garnered both the tying and lead-

ing scores for Texas A&M after immediately coming off the bench following the Scarlet Knights’ ini-tial point.

The Aggies made a statement with the large margin of victory, restoring some of the respect lost after kicking off the year with a 2-1 record. With a tough St. Mary’s team upcoming days later, though, A&M was forced to stay on its toes.

In opposite fashion to Rutgers, however, the Aggies and Gaels remained deadlocked through 82 minutes. A&M broke the stale-mate late off sophomore Allie Bai-ley’s redirected shot from junior Jayne Eadie, leading the team to a stunning victory. The Aggies’ airtight defense held St. Mary’s to no shots through an impressive 61 minutes.

During the weekend event, A&M’s dominance on both ends of the pitch was statistically trans-parent. The Aggies owned all of-fensive categories, leading in shots (48-15), shots on goal (19-6) and corner kicks (13-6). Furthermore,

the host university captured six of the 11 all-tournament team slots, including Allie Bailey’s vaunted MVP position.

“We’re getting better in all phas-es of the game,” Eadie said of the weekend’s play. “We’re control-ling the game. We’re passing better. We’re getting our shots on goal. We just want to win.”

The Aggies (4-1) finish off their non-conference slate next weekend against No. 11 Long Beach State (4-1) and Central Michigan (3-1-1).

“We’ve still got two very big games before we start SEC play,” Guerrieri said. “Those are going to be two very tough games. I thought Rutgers was a good challenge on Friday, but we have two more good opportunities coming into town this weekend.”

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As part of the MSC Grand Open-ing Celebration, Jorge Cham gave a lighthearted and interesting look into the life of the average graduate student, and some of the challenges they face along the way.

Cham earned his doctorate from Stanford in mechanical engineering. While in school at Stanford, Cham responded to an advertisement in the campus newspaper and began drawing and writing comics, which he jokingly referred to as a global misery phenomenon.

“The underlying theme [of the comics] was always about asking the real question about grad school, the big question,” Cham said. “Which is — why? Why do you put up with all that?”

Cham described the challenges a graduate student might face, from scrubbing lab floors to dealing with pre-thesis stress, then began describ-ing his thoughts on procrastination.

“Why can’t we just do the things

we’re supposed to do?” Cham said. “I thought about this one for a long time and I think the answer to this question has something to do with the fact that: We just don’t want to do them.”

In an audience made up almost entirely of graduate students, many of them agreed with Cham and en-joyed his humorous take on the life of a graduate student.

“It’s good to always have a sense of humor about your field, about what you’re doing,” said Kevin An-drews, agricultural leadership, edu-cation and communication doctoral student. “No matter what you’re going through, to kind of keep that perspective and then just to be able to laugh at yourself, be able to laugh at your co-workers, your colleagues — everyone else is going through the same thing.”

Austin Cox, aerospace engineer-ing graduate student, said he was introduced to Cham’s comics by fellow graduate students and said he thought Cham did a good job with

nationActor Michael Clarke Duncan dead at 54LOS ANGELES — Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, prolifi c character actor whose dozens of fi lms included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row inmate in “The Green Mile” and such other box offi ce hits as “Armageddon,” ‘’Planet of the Apes” and “Kung Fu Panda,” is dead at age 54. Duncan died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was being treated for a heart attack, said his fi ancée, reality TV personality Rev. Omarosa Manigault, in a statement. The muscular, 6-foot-4 Duncan, a former bodyguard who turned to acting in his 30s, “suffered a myocardial infarction on July 13 and never fully recovered,” the statement said. “Manigault is grateful for all of your prayers and asks for privacy at this time. Celebrations of his life, both private and public, will be announced at a later date.”


Popular comic artist provides insight into graduate student life

To the last minuteArtist Jorge Cham talks about his work and experiences with students and faculty.

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Students laugh at jokes told by Jorge Cham as he talks about his art and personal graduate school experiences as a part of the MSC Grand Opening Academic Day.

the presentation, but maintained a degree of skepticism about Cham’s points on procrastination.

“He works hard, obviously,” Cox said. “Procrastination is good, occasionally, but you can’t procras-tinate all the time. He says ‘Oh I

procrastinate, Oh I procrastinate,’ but then he makes an hour-long speech. You can joke about it how-ever much you want, but you still have to do the work.”

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Connie said Luke loved MSC FISH, where he made a lot of friends, who supported him well. Fifty-eight of the 80 total members of MSC FISH attended Luke’s funeral.

Connie said that in high school Luke visited College Station for a football game at Kyle Field and fell in love with it.

“Luke loved everything about Texas A&M — loved everything,” Connie said. “He loved the football games, he loved the sports, the whole campus, the traditions. Every-thing.”

Luke participated in the Big Event and was also active in the Tiny Hands, an organiza-tion dedicated to empowering the Body of Christ in the de-veloping world to fight against

poverty and social injustice.“He was a true Aggie,”

Connie said. “I mean, every-thing: the traditions, every-thing about A&M. He was right in the middle of it.”

Luke told his mother, af-ter returning home from his freshman year, how much he cared about A&M.

“I wish I knew in high school,” Luke said. “This past year was the best year of my life.”

Luke’s brother Josh Ur-banovsky set up a website in memory his brother. The website contains a blog filled with letters from friends, fam-ily and all those who knew and loved Luke. The website also provides a place to donate to an endowment program in Luke’s name. The endowment program, set up by Luke’s family, seeks to raise $25,000 in support of MSC FISH.

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psychology at A&M. “Before doing so, Nigel had gone to a fine arts high school as an adolescent and was very musically talented.”

Hart originally received a full scholarship to Berkley, but instead decided to enter the Marine Corps.

Wellman said his interest in graduate research was mostly in the field of drug addiction. He had a strong interest in club drugs, specifically. Hart did several studies on rats to test how animals became sensitized to the drugs.

By the time Hart finished his research on the study, he had about 10 publications to show for them.

After the many years Hart dedicated to pursuing his education and contributing to the world of science, he made it a personal goal to impact drug usage and contrib-ute useful studies and research to the field of psychology.

Hart’s research covered an array of topics. His work continues to be published in September, an article dis-cussing the “optimal preservation of the shark retina for ultra-structural analysis.”

“He was a very private guy… [but] a great co-worker,” Wellman said.

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Luca always wanted to make sure his brothers looked cool and felt comfortable at school.

“I would give them a shirt or fix their hair in a kind of nerdy way and he would com-plain and say, ‘Mama, what are you doing?” Maggie said.

Maggie said her son liked to clown around and play with his younger siblings, but always knew where to draw the line.

“He had a super relation-ship with his little brothers,” Barbarino said. “The way he used to play with his brothers was super cool. They loved him.”

Luca was also very protec-tive of his sisters.

“He was very careful about his sister,” Barbarino said. “As all Sicilians are Italians, we take care of our family.”

Maggie said Luca was very sensitive to people’s needs.

“He was always ready to help out the underdog,” Mag-gie said. “When he was little, my husband used to say he was a lawyer, because he would defend somebody getting in trouble even if he wasn’t in-volved.”

Barbarino, who is also from Sicily, said he was very similar to Luca, which created a close relationship between the two.

“When you’re far away from home and there’s some-one from your place, you just need a few days to get really close,” Barbarino said. “We were very similar in a lot of things: behaviors, personality, he was as friendly as I am.”

Luca originally began his college career at Texas A&M-Galveston but transferred to College Station to study fi-nance. Maggie said he really put himself into what he was studying.

“He’d gotten interested in current events, politics and economics, and different mar-kets around the world,” Mag-gie said. “And it wasn’t just

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“He was so easy to get along with. People who met him for the first time would instantly be captivated by his personality and humor,” Chapman said.

Chapman said the most memorable experience he had with Blake while at A&M was at the A&M-Nebraska game at Kyle Field on Nov. 20, 2010.

“Our seats were on the field level, row 1, on about the 5 yard line. During the game President Loftin came by and shook our hands and took a picture with Blake,” Chap-man said. “When the Aggies won, Blake and I went out on the field, did the ‘War Hymn’ with the football players, and afterwards, Blake did a chest bump with Ozoma Nwa-chukwu. We talked about that night being one of our favorite Aggie experiences.”

Another friend of Blake’s, junior fellow petroleum engi-neering major Carter Hender-son, remembers Blake’s hard work and motivation at A&M.

“Blake was one of my three roommates last semester and there wasn’t a day that went by without laughing,” Hen-derson said. “Some of my best memories with Blake were go-ing to the A&M football games

last year.”Henderson said Blake gave

his all in everything he did, whether it was sports, school, family or friends.

“My friendship with Blake was unique because we were so similar. We were always working toward our goals,” Henderson said. “We both worked very hard in school and we had big dreams of mak-ing an impact in this world.”

It was two weeks before Blake had a heart attack that he completed his first triathlon.

“After last summer, he started swimming a lot. He en-joyed doing that,” Randy said. “He raced down in Kema right before finals.”

Randy said one of the things that helped them through this time is the Aggie saying, “Gig ‘em.”

“For us, that has come to mean God is God every mo-ment. While we were in the hospital that was just some-thing we said a lot. When you go through something like that, for us, God was who we leaned on,” Randy said.

Randy said they have a very strong church family and that Blake demonstrated that well.

“He had a go for it attitude. He was a godly man. And, he just brought a lot of joy to our lives,” Randy said.

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To save a life

Jade Bedell — THE BATTALION

A nurse gives Senior Autumn Rutherford a band aide after she donates blood at G. Rollie White Plaza as a part of the MSC Grand Re-opening. The blood drive will continue throughout the rest of the week.

because he was studying it, it was something he was inter-ested in.”

Maggie also said Bonasera was very proud of his heri-tage, regardless of where he was living.

“When he was little and lived in Italy he was very proud of his American heritage. And he loved McDonalds and the icons of the United States,” Maggie said. “When he lived here he turned around and was very proud of his Sicilian heritage.”

Barbarino said he is very close with the Bonasera fam-ily. Aldo Bonasera, Luca’s father, is Barbarino’s adviser. Aldo and Barbarino still share a love for Bonasera because of who he was.

“He was fair with people and he was good to his broth-ers and sisters. We share a lot of love for this guy,” Barba-rino said, wiping away a tear. “He was my little brother. I was always dreaming about having a little brother.”

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