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Volunteers restore plant life to beautify B-CS

Operation ReplantEight hundred Aggies ran

to the rescue of the cry of “go green” by participating in the environmental giveback event called “Replant” on Saturday.

Replant is a student-run or-ganization that coordinates a one-day event for students to volunteer to help replant trees

in the B-CS area. Students could sign up as groups or as individu-als. Around 76 organizations, which translated into about 800 people, signed up to take part in the event.

Replant has been around for quite a long time. Back in 1990, Scott Hantman, the chair of the Environmental Issues Commit-tee, organized the first Replant

in an effort to offset the ef-fects of cutting down trees for Aggie Bonfire.

“We had a lot of problems this year with our trees, unfor-tunately,” said Andrea Fonseca, senior horticulture major and president of Replant. “So on top of the quality control, we teach people the right way to plant a tree. Scorching from travel was a

problem with our trees as well. Of course, the trees will recover with the proper care.”

Leaders of each organization that sign up for Replant are re-quired to go to one of the three informationals held the week before Replant takes place. They are given all the information for Saturday: they are taught safety,

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Junior nutritional science major Remigio Acevedo helps plant a tree as part of Replant. Many of the trees planted were grown on the A&M Riverside Campus.

Bush Library treats community

Captain America, with a bag of candy in tow, was one of many visitors to the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum on Sunday for its fifth annual Children’s Cos-tume Contest and Trick-or-Treating Halloween event.

Families from Bryan-College Station dressed as an and eclectic group of super-heroes, werewolves, zombies

and astronauts, converged on the plaza outside the library for an evening ofHalloween festivities.

The Bush library plays host to families for holidays all throughout the year, includ-ing Fourth of July and Easter.

Warren Finch, direc-tor of the Bush library, said these events are a way to say thank you to its supporting community.

“We’re a part of the com-

munity,” Finch said. “We get a lot of support from the lo-cal folks, a lot of support from Texas A&M, support from College Station and Bryan and it’s kind of a way to give something back.”

Attendees were encouraged to do some giving of their own and donate canned goods and other non-perishables to the Food for Families holiday food drive, which helps feed fami-lies in the Brazos Valley.

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The Del Rio family dresses as astronauts on the Discovery space shuttle Sunday during the Night at the Museum Halloween Event at the George Bush Library.

Emerging club charges interest in energy solutions

“Practical efficiency” is a term that has become a buzzword in energy sustain-ability circles. This is the same phrase that Texas A&M Energy Club presi-dent and chief operating officer Doug Rickerd and Stephen Hassenflu reiter-ate when talking about engineering new ways to achieve energy efficiency.

The energy club is a nascent student organization that aims to bolster discus-sion and promote cutting-edge ideas re-lated to the energy sector. It also brings in experts from the industry with the goal of increasing awareness and knowledge about the field.

“The energy club is on a higher level, a way for students to connect to the in-dustry as a whole. We are focusing on a portfolio of issues; be it oils and gas, renewable energy or sustainability,” Rickerd said.

While working with the Utilities and Energy Services department, Rickerd said he realized profitability and sustain-ability could coexist after understanding the steps that the department was taking to monitor and control consumption of electricity. Building on these experienc-es, the energy club attempts to come up

with pragmatic solutions for challenges facing the energy industry.

“We are a new club trying to mesh with the private sector and the Univer-sity to get everyone involved to form a community working toward the greater good. We are trying to raise awareness about the easy ways to promote energy efficiency. For example, making a build-ing [Leadership in Energy and Environ-mental Design]-certified and using LED lighting are very easy and convenient solutions,” junior finance major Stephen Hassenflu said.

Hassenflu said the clubs main focus is on achieving efficiency without sacrific-ing productivity.

“We can automate different processes in order to make them more efficient but at the same time we must take care to not trade efficiency for some of the comforts that we have,” Rickerd said. “The best

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Rickerd said they want people to look outside the classrooms and figure out how they can help. He said the classroom is great for people to get educated, but it’s a real world we live in and we have to work on real challenges.

In order to tackle these real world issues, the energy club works on case studies that address energy-specific topics. It encourages students from interdisciplinary courses to participate and provide innovative solutions to energy problems across Texas. One such recent case study was titled “Power Across Texas.” It addressed the issue of energy dis-sipation to the border towns in Texas.

The other major initiative by the energy club is inviting speakers from the industry to talk about their research or area of expertise and enlighten students. The last group meet-ing featured John Messer, manager of Enter-prise Information Systems from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Messer provid-ed the students with a very comprehensive overview of the electricity markets in Texas and across the U.S. The overview provided a start to the club’s corporate speaker series.

Assistant professor and head of the electri-cal engineering department, Le Xie, serves as the faculty adviser to the energy club.

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given a map of their site and told where their site will be, how much time they have to get to the site and watch a video on how to plant a tree.

Fonseca said the goal of Replant for this year was to have fun and give back to the community.

“Our goal is to bring Ag-gies together, have fun, learn about the environment and go out to give back to the community.

The staff of Replant, aware of the changing envi-ronment, took precautions to give the trees the best chance to survive. Fonseca said smaller trees were planted this year to give the trees a better chance of survival be-cause of the recent drought.

At each site, one of the Re-plant staff gave tips on how to take care of the trees. Replant also partnered up with KBB (Keep Brazos Beautiful), who donated informational pack-ets pertaining to the care of the trees.

Sophomore international studies major, Lidia Gregg said Replant’s focus is to inform people about the environment and assist in improving the situation. Re-plant partnered with Habitat for Humanity and planted trees at one of their sites.

Most of Replant’s funds to plant the trees and organize this event come from fund-raising, grants and funding from Student Government Association.

Texas A&M student’s en-vironmental giveback for the Bryan-College Station area made a large impact for ev-eryone involved, the plant-ers, the ones who received the trees and of course, the environment. Replant is looking to the future, con-tinuing to fundraise and plan for next year’s event.

“We have this goal to inform people about Re-plant,” said Gregg. “People compare us to Big Event all the time, but we are not Big Event. We are an environ-mental committee dedicated to providing environmental awareness.”

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Students plant trees at Jo Ann Barrington’s residence Saturday afternoon in Bryan as part of Replant.

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Mark Doré: Ground game, Williams shine as A&M trounces Auburn

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It’s going to be a shame, a true wasted opportunity, if Facebook

feeds don’t start blowing up with Johnny Football-themed

Halloween costumes. I want to see guys named Johnny dressed

up like footballs. I want girls wearing things that say “future Mrs.

Football.” But hold on — a bad SEC team is not

the same thing as a bad team. Don’t get that confused. Auburn isn’t good and head coach Gene Chizik is likely on his way out just two years removed from a Cam Newton-driven national championship, but A&M’s 63 points were the most by an Auburn op-ponent since 1917. The 63 points were the floor Saturday. Manziel only led eight drives — seven for touchdowns and the eighth ended in a missed Bertolet field goal — be-fore he was pulled early in the third quarter.

If 63 were the floor, what was the ceil-ing? What if the defense hadn’t shown up? Johnny Football might have closed in on his own SEC total yardage record, might have notched 10 touchdowns. Who on that field was going to stop him?

Saturday was about Johnny. But, since most of this season’s Saturdays have been about Johnny, let’s talk about something else: the running game. Here I refer to the running game involving those people whose only job it is to run the football, not the there-goes-Johnny-doing-Johnny-things running game.

Manziel carried nine times for 90 yards, but he also handed it off 39 times. His three-headed backfield (freshman Trey Williams, senior Christine Michael and junior Ben Malena) averaged 7.05 yards per carry and gained 275 yards. If I’m wrong, you can hold it against me, but I’d be willing to bet that this Aggie team will never lose a game with those rushing numbers on the road.

The freshman Williams was the revelation

against Auburn. With this sensational fresh-men class, we shouldn’t be surprised, but the knock against Williams, the thing I’ve held against him, was his size. Small running backs aren’t every-down backs in the SEC, just as they aren’t in the NFL. But Williams carried 19 times for 110 yards and a score, catching three passes out of the backfield for an additional 24 yards.

Aggie fans have seen Williams this season. He has handled kickoffs — most memora-bly when he took a fourth-quarter kickoff more than 70 yards into LSU territory in the 24-19 home loss — and has seen spot work in the run game, usually to spell Michael or Malena. Saturday’s 19 carries, even if a good chunk came with the game well in hand, is substantial. Offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury having the confidence in Williams to give him 20-plus touches in an SEC game says something about what the staff thinks they have in the freshman.

Truth be told, I’ve been waiting to talk about Williams all season. He’s a special tal-ent. If he doesn’t pan out as a viable option in the backfield, I expect to see four years worth of punt- and kick-returns — good ones — out of him. But a lopsided affair against a one-win team went a long way to cementing the picture of Williams as a future featured running back of Sumlin’s Aggies.

Mark Doré is a junior English major and sports desk assistant for The Battalion.

Emily Morris — THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN

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