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Junior linebacker Caleb Russell greets fans as he runs onto Kyle Field before the start of A&M’s game against SMU on Sept. 4.

Twelfth Man shares story of perseverance

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Ohio State President Gordan Gee tackles the future of higher education

The Ohio State University Pres-ident E. Gordon Gee opened the fall 2011 Commitment to Excel-lence Dialogues Thursday evening in Rudder Theater.

The Commitment to Excellence Dialogues are a series of lectures, divided into two segments: “Our Shared Responsibilities,” which focuses on the University’s respon-

sibility to advance Texas A&M’s role as a leader in higher education, and “Our Shared Accountability,” which focuses on how Texas A&M can continue to improve and dem-onstrate the University’s success.

Time magazine named Gee one of the nation’s Top-10 university presidents in 2009. Gee has served as president or chancellor at sev-eral universities, both public and

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Students take off in Marine Corps aircraft

Flying high above Kyle Field and circling the stadium with the G-forces pulling up and down and from side to side, Marine recruiters made their sales-pitch to students.

For the past three days, the Marine Corps has been recruiting potential pi-lots at the College Station Eastwood Airport. At the event, Texas A&M stu-dents and prospective marines were able

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Dr. E. Gordon Gee, president of Ohio State University, speaks Thursday in Rudder Theatre.

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Four undocumented students stepped behind a podium and tearfully shared their fears, hopes and experiences Thursday.

“I was born in Mexico and was brought to the United States when I was eight-

years-old,” said Adan Torres, senior ac-counting major.

Torres, who has been active in the Corps of Cadet and Aggie Band, was one of the four panelist “dreamers” who shared their experiences during the “Meet an Aggie DREAMer” event organized by The Coun-cil for Minority Student Affairs (CMSA).

Torres said he was eight when he and his family fled from Mexico. They were forced to live in a three-bedroom house with three other families — with multiple family

members living in a single room. “I just remember my mom saying to pack

my bags because we were going on a vaca-tion. When I asked her how long, she said she didn’t know, and then one night we crossed,” Torres said.

Jose Luis, senior education major, de-scribed a “dreamer” as a person who qualifies for the Dream Act, federal leg-islation that would grant citizenship to

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Undocumented students publicly discuss life in the U.S.

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sports | 5Football gears up for IdahoSenior quarterback Ryan Tannehill and head coach Mike Sherman talk about the team’s level of preparation for the upcoming Idaho game.

campus | 3Packed like sardinesFreshman general studies major Brittany Perez tells her experience living in a converted study carrel. The recent destruction of some Northside residence halls, coupled with an increase in enrollment, have contributed to overcrowded on-campus living situations like Brittany’s.

campus | 7Aggie lends a handThe fi res in and around Bastrop have left thousands of people homeless. Eduardo Sanchez, a senior ocean engineering major from Houston, resolved to help the victims of the fi res when he witnessed the devastation fi rsthand.

Films | 2Star Wars going Blu-rayThe multi-billion dollar franchise Star Wars releases today in HD Blu-ray. Fans can enjoy the entire triology, along with a number of special features spread across 11 discs.

Caleb played tight end at Midlothian High School, enjoying the highlights associated with skill positions. He said he wasn’t the biggest or the fastest athlete com-ing out of high school, but knew he wanted to play for a Division 1

football program.Russell’s older brother, Josh,

walked on at A&M in 2006 but did not try to recruit Caleb for the Aggies. Instead, Caleb went to football camps at various Division 1 schools under the guidance of his

parents. Caleb’s mother, Andrea, admitted that the recruiting process was difficult but they kept strong faith during the process.

“We were behind in the process from the get go,” Andrea said. “It seemed like the recruiting process was left up to the parents so we took him places to get him exposed and kept praying.”

After many football camps and a rogue recruit advisor, scholarship offers came from a list of schools that Russell narrowed to SMU, Air Force and Texas A&M.

The list was further-shortened after SMU hired a new head coach

who wanted to utilize Caleb on the offensive line, which was not to his liking. Then, A&M was nearly eliminated from the list when Ca-leb’s recruitment file was lost dur-ing a coaching change. Bad news piled-on when the Russells were told that A&M could no longer honor the scholarship offer.

Next on the list was a visit to Air Force, where his father, Ronnie, said Caleb became enamored with the thought of becoming a fighter pilot. The mountainous scenery of Colorado Springs, Colo., made

See Gee on page 4

Former walk-on Caleb Russell earned

scholarship and Twelfth Man status

this summer after three years of blue-

collared determination.

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Star Wars — one of the most revered movie franchises of all time — releases in high definition Blu-ray Friday.

The multi-billion dollar franchise, which started as an idea no one wanted, has ex-tended beyond the reach of the original trilogy of films in video games, books and an animated TV series.

Though director George Lucas has revised the series in years past, he offered a differ-ent opinion when speaking to Congress in 1988 on the issue of outside parties alter-ing films.

“People who alter or de-stroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians,” Lucas said.

Changes include a dif-ference in the sound Obi-Wan makes to scare off the Tusken Raiders in A New Hope; inserting Darth Vader’s “NOOOO” from Revenge of the Sith into the emperor-killing scene in Return of the Jedi; adding blinking eyes to the Ewoks and Yoda’s CGI makeover.

“I’ve been a Star Wars fan since I was four years old and it has been very frustrating to see Mr. Lucas change his movies in this nit-picky fash-ion,” said Brandon Wainerdi,

a sophomore business major. From a more technological

standpoint, other students said that Blu-Ray was not really necessary for Star Wars, since the older films cannot make a significant jump in picture quality.

“I thought the audio actu-ally seemed off on the Blu-Ray clips I’ve seen,” said Martin Hinojosa, senior tele-communications media stud-ies major.

Star Wars will contain a number of special features spread across 11 discs, most of which are behind-the-scenes documentaries like “Star Wars Tech” and “The Mak-ing of Star Wars.” There are two whole discs filled with archival footage of deleted, extended and alternate scenes.

The special features also include a 91-minute section devoted to Star Wars spoofs from TV shows such as Family Guy and Robot Chicken.

“I’ve had these Blu-Rays pre-ordered since January and I’m not canceling just yet,” said Wainerdi. “Unless they digitally add Jar Jar in The Empire Strikes Back.”

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A freshman eagerly an-ticipates the moment she has been waiting for all summer as she walks to her dorm room in Underwood Hall. After a few attempts, she fi-nally gets her door open and holds her breath. The sounds of her roommates trying to unpack greet her — all three of them.

Exacerbated by the re-cent destruction of North-side residence halls and en-rollment increases in recent years, living situations like this have become common across campus.

“Residence Life is current-ly building a new Northside hall on the site of the recently demolished Crocker, Moore and McInnis Halls,” said Jeff Wilson, assistant director of the division of student affairs. “The new hall is planned to [house] about 650 beds and will open in August 2013.”

Underwood Hall is hous-ing three or four students in some rooms that are built for two. Study carrels in other dorms have been convert-ed into “temporary hous-ing.” Due to a large recruit-ment class, there is no longer room for non-Corps stu-dents in the corps dorms on the Quadrangle.

Freshman general studies major Brittany Perez has lived for four weeks in a converted study carrel in Aston Hall. Many students like Perez who requested modular dorms or units in the Commons were assigned to converted rooms. The former study area now contains a bed, a set of drawers and a clothing rack. Perez said a study carrel is a poor substi-tute for a dorm room.

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Gerson Mejia, freshman general studies major, lives in a converted study carrel in Dunn Hall. Mejia is still on the waiting list for an actual room.

room with four other girls living in study carrels down the hall,” Perez said. “It is re-ally inconvenient when I need to use the restroom but five other people may be using it, taking a shower, or the custo-dians are cleaning.”

Carol Binzer, director of administrative and support services for the Department of Residence Life, said the unfortunate situation is un-avoidable while the Universi-ty constructs new dormitories.

“Plans have been ongoing for years to build new dorms,” Binzer said.

Binzer added that her de-partment tried to create room for students by giving a penal-ty-free exit alternative.

“This is the first time in approximately five years that there have been over-assign-ments,” Binzer said. “Resi-dence Life offered to let ap-plicants out of their contracts at no penalty to create room.”

She also said the University sent e-mails notifying students who would be placed in tem-porary housing.

In order to accommodate the destruction of dorms, Residence Life created new ways to house students who want to live on campus — or at least within dorm prices.

“Residence life [compen-sated for] the demolition by opening The Gardens Two at University Apartments for [older] undergraduates — apartment style living at mod-ular prices,” Binzer said. “Ad-ditionally, a record number of [juniors and seniors] elected to stay living in residence halls; more new students accepted offers of admission than in past years and applied to on-cam-pus housing; and the Corps of Cadets grew to a record num-ber and took back two halls on the Quad to accommodate both their growth and the clo-

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“I applied for housing the day before the deadline,” Perez said. “It was pretty late, mostly because I was trying to decide which college to go to. I have a roommate and she doesn’t really like living in the study carrel either, but we saw some of the other study carrels and ours is much bigger, so it could have been worse.”

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President R. Bowen Lof-tin initiated the lecture by introducing Gee to the au-dience, which included stu-dents, several system regents, Chancellor Sharp and faculty from both Texas A&M and Ohio State.

“[Gee] has proclaimed far and wide that we [institutions of higher education] must fundamentally reinvent our-selves in order to be able to survive,” Loftin said.

In Gee’s address about the future of higher education, he said educators and institu-

tions of higher education must change because the nation cannot afford universities that are irrelevant.

“Irreversible forward mo-mentum, to me, in essence is not what we can do but what we must do,” Gee said. “Positive change and expand-ing and improving what we know and who we reach is the physics of academic mo-mentum that forwards from the University to students to research departments and to all constituents.”

Gee also said the catalyst of virtually all economic progress will be new ideas.

“I’ve spent some time in India and China,” Gee said. “The 1.3 billion Chinese overwhelm almost every task, and they do it well. The 1.2 billion Indians will grow to

be 2 billion by 2050. There is no way for us to compete in simple scale, because there are 307 million Americans. But there is a way for us to compete; we take what we do and we out-think in order to perform.”

Throughout his lecture, Gee continually returned to his point that for institutions of higher education to be ef-fective and fruitful for the na-tion, they must be relevant to the community around them.

“The internet has opened a virtual door to crowdsourc-ing, and our far-flung minds are being marshaled to find unconventional solutions, and universities must not be left behind, trapped in the old ways of thinking,” Gee said.

John Leask, a junior indus-trial distribution major, said he

thinks A&M does a good job of being relevant to the Col-lege Station community.

“We have lots of events that reach out to the commu-nity and I think they typically appreciate our involvement with them.” Leask said.

Gee said he actively en-gages the citizens of Ohio, whether it is at fairs or at the state capital, to be connected with the community.

Leask said Gee’s speech on the future of higher education left him more satisfied with the degree he is receiving.

“The value of a degree is worth a good bit more than a million dollars,” Gee said. “The value of a college degree is truth and beauty and depth and purpose and hope and meaning and connection and sustenance and possibility.”

to fly in one of the planes used by the United States military.

Participants of this event had the chance to hear about the program and to experi-ence a Marines tact takeoff. They even had the oppor-tunity to fly the plane under close supervision. Captain David Mathes of the United States Marine Corps em-phasized the effort necessary for the Marines to find quali-fied pilots.

“The Marine Corps does not have its own service acad-emy,” Mathes said. “The Air Force has one, [along with] the Army, Navy and Coast Guard. The bulk of their pilots — 90 percent of them — come from their ser-vice academy, so they don’t have to actively recruit across the U.S.”

Mathes said that the tim-ing of the event was meant to coincide with the Engineer-ing Career Fair, as the Marine Corps has often pulled some of their most qualified indi-viduals from engineering col-

leges. The goal of the event was to recruit the most com-petent applicants and to edu-cate students on the Marine Corps aviation program.

“They developed this pro-gram to spread the word about Marine aviation,” Mathes said. “You’d be surprised how many kids don’t even know the Marine Corps has an air force. Did you know that that Marine Corps, percentage-wise, has a larger air force than the Air Force?”

Doug Melde, a recent A&M graduate, said that the reputation, history and values of the Marine Corps attracted him to the program over those offered by other divisions of the armed forces. Melde said he had applied to the Marine Corps aviation program be-fore the recruiting event, but jumped at the opportunity to go up in the plane.

“I absolutely love being in the air,” Melde said. “The ability to move in any direc-tion, and the view from be-ing up there is awesome. I also love the feeling of in-creased G-force as we turn, it inexplicably makes me in-stantly exuberant.”

Aaron Cranford, a junior

member of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets, explained why joining the Marines, Corps was a future goal of his.

“I believe the thing that made me personally attracted to the Marines is the sense of camaraderie that the Ma-rines share with each other that I believe no other branch achieves,” Cranford said. “While there was a lot of in-fluence from having a father and a brother serve as Marines it was also the level of training that the Marines have. The Marines have been proven to have the most difficult and longest basic training than any

other branch.”Capt. Charlie Stocker, who

is currently stationed in Col-lege Station, works to recruit A&M students year round and is himself an Aggie.

“Our biggest responsibil-ity is getting exposure around campus,” Stocker said.

Stocker also said that what makes the Marine Corps avia-tion program different from others is that its participants are guaranteed spots in the aviation school before being committed to the program. This adds an extra incentive for those interested in being pilots.

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playing for the Falcons a top priority.

Dinner table conversation at the Russell house often

turned toward Russell’s inter-est in playing for the Falcons but something kept drawing him back to A&M. He said the Lord was

calling him toward the tradi-tions and values of Aggieland.

His parents said they knew Russell would eventually pick A&M because of its location and family atmosphere, but they wanted him to make his own decision. The decision was difficult. Making the team as a walk-on meant no schol-arship to help with payment of tuition and fees. Ronnie Russell said he knew Russell would still be determined to make a statement on the foot-ball team as the Twelfth Man.

“He’s always been one to rise to the challenge,” Ronnie Russell said. “When he chose

A&M, I knew he was going to use that same fighter pilot pas-sion to do great things there.”

Russell redshirted his fresh-man year, the team’s first un-der head coach Mike Sher-man, but continued to lift and review film in order to earn a spot on the team the follow-ing season. Russel said his de-sire to wear the Twelfth Man jersey supplied him with the energy to maintain a rigor-ous work routine. He reached that goal the following year in a 59-19 victory against UAB.

Russell never recorded a tackle in 2009, but focused on little aspects to improve his chances and help the team reach its goals.

Again in 2010, Russell’s hard work paid off as he was promoted to top backup at the “joker” position, behind future second-overall NFL draft pick Von Miller. Russell recorded four tackles in eight games, and received offsea-son hype as A&M’s preseason breakout player of the year in Texas Football Magazine.

Coach Sherman said at the Big 12 Media Days that in some ways, Russell is more athletic than Von Miller.

“He’s big and strong and

he’s probably stronger than Von,” Sherman said. “He’s starting to come into his own as a football player now and I’m kind of excited to see that. He can get to be a little too emotional sometimes and do some things I don’t like him to do.”

Even with the high expec-tations that come with Russell replacing an All-American, Russell said he has worked to remain level-headed and has focused on performing to the best of his ability in spring and summer practices.

The Russells said they were ecstatic to hear that their son’s efforts in the Maroon and White Game earned him the fan vote as the Twelfth Man for the season opener. They received more good news when they learned Russell earned the starting position at “joker.” But the best news of all came when head coach Mike Sherman informed Ca-leb that his improvement also earned him a scholarship.

“We are blown away by God’s way of making this all work out,” Ronnie Rus-sell said. “We’re thankful for Coach Sherman’s vision of giving Caleb a chance.”

Before the SMU game, that came with Russell ran out of the tunnel wearing No. 12 and waving a Twelfth Man towel, igniting the student section into a series of loud, whoops. He said it was exciting to fi-nally realize his dream of start-ing at a Division 1 school but he remained focused on the task at hand.

“When I get in the game, you really don’t hear or see anything else besides the play. It’s kind of like tunnel vision because you’re focused on the play and focused on doing your job right.”

The Aggies won against the Mustangs 46-14, with the de-fense allowing 348 yards and forcing two turnovers.

Although the maroon and white emerged victori-ous, Russell said the work is just beginning.

“We have to strive for ex-cellence,” Russell said. “If you feel like something has paid off, you got to keep working past that. You can’t settle, you can’t take a step back and say ‘oh, wow, this is cool.’ You got to keep grinding.”

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Russell

Recruitment Marine Captain David Mathes and Captain Charlie Stocker stand in front of a TC-12 plane.

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After a well-deserved bye week fol-lowing its 46-14 drumming of SMU in the first game of the season, the No. 8 Texas A&M football team is itching to get on the field and start a string of eleven games in 11 weeks.

“It’s gonna be a long stretch but I think we can use that to our advantage,” senior quarterback Ryan Tannehill said. “If we can get on a streak and just start winning games then it’ll play out to our benefit.”

Tannehill knows something about momentum. Last year, he led the Aggies to six consecutive wins after taking the quarterbacking helm from incumbent Jerrod Johnson, and opened the 2011 season with a two-touchdown, 246-yard performance.

Senior defensive lineman Tony Jerod-Eddie also turned heads in his season debut, earning Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week honors for his career-high 3-sack effort. He spearheaded a defensive assault that downed SMU quarterbacks 8 times, marking the most sacks in a game since 2002 against Pittsburgh.

“This year I’m really counting on him to be a staple on our defense — to be the enforcer, so to speak, to give us a sense of toughness within that front seven,” head coach Mike Sherman said. “We have some new people playing there, and he’s someone who has played a lot of football for us. I’m really counting on his leader-ship ability to step forward, and I think he’s done a really good job of that.”

One of the brightest spots in the Ag-gies’ game against the Mustangs was the play of the secondary, a question mark at the beginning of last season.

Junior cornerback Steven Campbell and safety Trent Hunter both picked off SMU’s highly touted Kyle Padron in the first quarter. Padron didn’t return after SMU’s third possession.

“We push each other every day in practice,” senior cornerback Terrence

Frederick said. “We want the best for each other. We have four that start but we have six or seven guys that rotate in all the time and it’s no different them go-ing in from us and that’s good to have.”

A strong secondary will prove espe-cially important to succeed in the Big 12, a conference teeming with argu-ably the best wideouts in the nation. And while it’s easy to look ahead to All-American wide receiver Justin Black-mon and Oklahoma State’s visit to Ag-gieland in two weeks, Tannehill said he is making sure his guys are focused on this Saturday’s matchup against the Idaho Vandals.

“They’re a good team,” Tannehill said. “Had a tough game the first week but then came back and got a big win last week, so I think they’re gonna come in on a high and look to upset us. We realize that and we definitely don’t want to overlook them. They’re gonna give us their best fight and we’re gonna have to be ready for them.”

Idaho quarterback Brian Reader has thrown six touchdowns for 476 yards this season, many of them to playmak-ing pass-catcher Armauni Johnson. Sher-man said he realizes that football is a crazy game where anything can happen.

“We really and truly focus on this ballgame and will stay focused on this ballgame, and when we go out there and play, I hope we play to the very best of our ability at all times,” Sherman said. “I think our players know well enough, if they watch college football, that cer-tain things happen on Saturday — if you watch the NFL, certain things happen on Sunday — that, you know, every-body has a chance to win every game. So you better be prepared and ready to go and we’ll treat this game absolutely no differently than any other game on our schedule.”

Aggies prepare for challenge against IdahoAustin Meek The Battalion

The Aggies (4-4) are coming off a huge 4–3 overtime victory against No. 1 North Caro-lina on Sunday, as they prepare to open Big 12 Conference play against Baylor (6-1-1) at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Ellis Field.

Anchored by the leadership of senior for-ward Merritt Mathias, the Aggies are led offen-sively by a solid freshmen class. Freshmen have scored 18 of the 24 goals through A&M’s first eight games this season

Leading the way are freshmen Annie Kunz and Shea Groom. They were named Big 12 Players of the Week for their performances last week. Kunz, from Golden, Colo., was named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week, while Groom, from Liberty, Mo., was named the Big 12 Newcomer of the Week — first-time hon-ors for both freshmen.

Kunz leads her teammates and the Confer-ence with five goals this season. Kunz scored her first career hat trick Sept. 5 in the Aggies’ 9-0 shutout against McNeese State.

Groom is the Aggies’ offensive leader, with 12 points on four goals and four assists. Groom’s crowing moment of the season came Sunday, when she netted the golden goal against No. 1 North Carolina.

Other freshmen leading the maroon attack are Allie Bailey and Kelley Monogue, with three goals apiece. On defense, freshmen goal-keepers Jordan Day and Renee McDermott have a combined save percentage of .638 and allow 2.12 goals per game. McDermott has two shutouts on the season, complementing her

flawless 3-0 record.Mathias was also recognized for her per-

formance last week. CollegeSoccer360.com designated Mathias a Primetime Performer of the Week. Matthias registered two assists in the North Carolina upset.

“Merritt has put in some great performances for A&M since joining us last season,” head coach G Guerrieri said. “Against UNC, she was the catalyst in keeping them under pres-sure, and then provided two great assists on the goals which brought us back from down 1-3 to tied 3-3.”

The Aggies’ first conference matchup of the season against Baylor brings to town a squad with only one loss, 2–1 to Kentucky, a one draw, 1–1 against Nebraska.

Much like A&M, Baylor is led by a solid freshmen corps on offense. The Bears have scored 16 goals this season, eight of which were netted by freshmen.

Baylor has a triple-threat in junior forward Dana Larsen, freshman forward Natalie Hug-gins and freshman midfielder Alexa Wilde, all of whom have three goals apiece on the season.

Three of the Aggies’ four losses this season have been against ranked opponents: No. 17 UC Irvine, No. 7 Florida, No. 6 Duke, and to an unranked Tennessee squad that entered the rankings this week at No. 16.

The Bears have blanked five opponents this season, and have yet to be shutout themselves. The Aggies have been blanked twice and have two shutout victories for the season.

The Aggies and Bears kick off at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Aggie Soccer Stadium.

Soccer starts Big 12 play with match against Baylor

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Senior quarterback Ryan Tannehill completed 21 of 26 passes for 246 yards and two touchdowns in the season opener against SMU.

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The fires in and around Bastrop have left thousands of people homeless and tens of thousands of acres of land destroyed.When Eduardo Sanchez, a senior ocean engi-neering major from Houston, saw the destruction firsthand, he decided to help the victims in any way he could.

“I went to San Antonio that Sunday, when the fires had just begun,” Sanchez said. “On the way back, I got stuck in Bastrop. I wit-nessed everything and met people who were affected by the fires. Witnessing it really made me want to volunteer and try to find different ways to help.”

Sanchez said for his birth-day his friends suggested they go to Northgate and cel-ebrate, but he told them to save that money and donate it to his cause. He spent the money on cases of water and other supplies to send to the fire victims.

Juan Mata is one of San-chez’s friends who spent his money on relief supplies. Mata said he donated the money because he wanted to help the fire victims and be-cause he wanted to help San-chez accomplish his vision.

“It’s a really admirable thing for him to do. Most people would want to party, but he just wants to help the people of Bastrop,” Mata said.

April Baltensperger, who graduated from A&M in 2011, has also helped Sanchez in his efforts to aid the fire victims by donating money for supplies. Baltensperger said that Sanchez called her last week and described to her the destruction he had seen.

“He told me that we needed to do something to help,” Baltensperger said. “Eduardo feels really com-passionate for the victims. It’s really awesome what he’s done. Most people get an idea but never act on it. He shows how important it is to act on those visions. If it changes just one person’s life, it’s worth it.”

Sanchez knew someone from the Bastrop area who planned to go back home this past weekend with relief sup-plies she had gathered. Be-tween the two of them, they filled her Dodge Dakota

“I feel accomplishment knowing that I’ve helped,” Sanchez said. “But I’m not doing this for me. I’m doing this for the evacuees.”

Sanchez said he spoke to his classes and a few area churches in hopes to con-

vince more people to help the victims in any way possible.

“Other people should take this into consideration,” San-chez said. “If everybody helps out, we can do a lot. A&M has done it before, and we can do it again.”

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On Sept. 1, the Mathemat-ics Department entered a new era of leadership under Emil Straube. He replaces Albert Boggess, who led the depart-ment from 2002 to 2011.

“He’s an outstanding math-ematician and educator,” said Harold Boas, an A&M math-

ematics pro-fessor. “He’s very effective in working with people so I think he will do an excellent job in helping the depart-

ment realize its potential.”Straube received both the

Outstanding Teaching Award in 1997 and Outstanding Ser-vice Award in 1998 from the mathematics department in recognition of his contribu-tions as an educator. In addi-tion to being a well-respected teacher, Straube has made achievements in research.

Straube, who has been a member of the department for more than 20 years, has researched extensively on and become an expert in several complex variables and par-tial differential equations. He earned a Ph.D in mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1983 and held several postdoctoral ap-pointments before becoming an assistant professor at Texas A&M in 1987.

While at Texas A&M, Straube has received numer-ous grants from National Sci-ence Foundation to continue his research. In 1995, he re-ceived the Bergman Award from the American Math-ematics Society along with Boas for their work on the regularity properties of the Cauchy-Riemann equations and their consequences for biholomorphic mappings of domains defined in complex Euclidean space.

“The Department of Mathematics teaches 25,000 students per year. At the same time, it is a highly ranked re-search department: the recent National Research Council rankings put us 14th national-ly among public institutions,” Straube said.

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already has plans for improv-ing the nationally ranked mathematics department.

“My goal is to build on these strengths,” Straube said. “In particular, we will further adapt our course offerings to the continuously evolving, highly competitive career paths for which we prepare our students.”

Specifically, Straube plans to enhance students’ experi-ences with online tools and post-graduate programs.

“We will continue to make available proven effective on-line instructional technology to our students,” Straube said. “We will expand our efforts to provide meaningful and realistic experiences for un-dergraduates. These efforts will be guided by the unique experience and outlook pro-vided by our strong gradu-ate and research programs,” Straube said.

He predicted that the continued improvement of already highly successful pro-grams would help the depart-ment gain even more national prestige.

“I will work hard to help these programs continue their amazing recent successes; in particular, I see no reason why we shouldn’t be a top 10 public department.”

Making these goals a reality will prove to be no easy task given the recent sharp cuts to educations budgets across the state. Students in particular are concerned but optimistic about their new leader.

“Straube knows what he’s talking about, so if there’s something he wants to do, I think he’ll have no trouble getting his point across ef-fectively and convincingly,” said senior mathematics major Kirk Nelson.

Straube has already begun considering how he can ef-fectively lead.

“Right now, the main challenges result from tight budgets,” Straube said. “This means finding new ways of delivering student services so that the same quality can be provided at lower costs. In terms of developing the fac-ulty, it means finding creative ways to put together packages that let us compete for the best mathematicians world-wide.”

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undocumented residents who attend college or serve two years in the military. The Dream Act passed the House of Representatives in 2010, but failed in the Senate.

Luis said by speaking at the panel he hoped to enlighten people about what it means to be undocumented in the U.S.

“We want to be able to put a face to the issue of undocu-mented students,” Luis said. “Usually whenever some-body thinks of an undocu-mented person they think of a criminal, they think of a liar, someone who is in jail, some-one who is a bad member of society, but we are ready to put a human side to the issue — there’s a member of the Fighting Texas Aggie Band, a student with a 4.0, someone who wants to be a teacher. These are all good people. ”

Luis said that approximate-ly 160 A&M students were classified as undocumented minorities in the spring se-mester. He added that be-ing a student at one of the most conservative universi-ties in the nation has been rough, but he is proud of who he is and continues to remain hopeful.

“I was shot twice in both of my arms after leaving a country of violence and after my dad abused us everyday physically, emotionally, spiri-tually,” Luis said. “I want to give back. I have been offered jobs internationally already — France and Italy — and I don’t want to go anywhere I want to give to the one place that has given so much to me and that’s the United States.”

Co-founder of CSMA, Tailandia, class of 2010, said her dream is to be able to teach students at a public institution. While she has received her teaching cer-tifications, she is currently unemployed. Tailandia spoke under the condition that her last name not be disclosed.

“The act passed in 2001 and I graduated from high school in 2006, so I always knew it’s something that was going to happen but I am disappointed,” Tailandia said. “All of those schools told me they would hire me if they could, but they can’t. I know I would have a job and I know that I am capable of it but I can’t — they can’t legally hire me.”

A variation of the Dream Act has passed in 12 states, including Texas. The law al-lows undocumented students to qualify for in-state tuition.

“There’s a lot of dreamers who are scared to share their story — especially at A&M so we’re just trying to provide a voice for them,” Tailandia said.

After sharing their stories, Luis ended the panel on an emotional note. He recalled receiving an email from an incoming freshman student who was worried about ap-plying to A&M because of his undocumented status.

“A guy just came up to me and asked me for my name.

After I told him, he replied you’re the guy who helped me come to college,” Luis said. “And for that reason

alone, if we don’t come out and risk everything, were not going to gain anything.”

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