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Thirty seconds: the span of absolute foot-ball euphoria after senior receiver Jeff Fuller barreled into the end zone for a 16-yard touchdown, giving A&M a 25-24 lead with 1:48 remaining against Texas on Thursday.

During those thirty seconds, I yelled louder, smiled wider and wanted to dish out more hugs to complete strangers than I ever had in my entire life.

Here was an A&M offense that stumbled along for the better part of three-and-a-half quarters, scoring when it mattered most. Fuller, who had seemed almost non-existent all season with injuries, came through in the

clutch and made the play of his career. All of the mistakes — those costly second-half daggers to the heart that Aggie fans came to know this season — were avenged.

This was it. The Aggies were going to walk away triumphant in the Lone Star Showdown. But then a certain preemptive chant started making its way through the crowd, and suddenly I snapped out of it.

“S-E-C! S-E-C! S-E-C! S-E-C!”No, no, no, no. Not now, not until the

clock hits zero. The A&M defense still needed to hold

its ground, so the Twelfth Man gathered itself and came alive. You could see it in the yell leaders’ eyes — in everyone’s eyes. This didn’t just feel like the last game against

Texas, it felt like a part of each us would either live forever or die on Kyle Field that chilly Thanksgiving night.

But you know what happened next. With an egregious penalty here and a Case McCoy scramble there, UT kicker Justin Tucker sealed the win for his team. There was no saying goodbye to texas university, just a herd of Longhorns celebrating onour field.

As I jumped over the concrete wall in front of first deck and onto the sideline, my roommate pointed out that we should make our way out through the south side of Kyle. I was numb, unable to really notice what lay ahead as I strolled past the UT bench.

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See Goodbye on page 7

New era began as A&M walked off fieldCOLUMN

In the current economic climate, many students have been chilled by financial con-cerns. John Sharp, Class of 1972 and newly-appointed A&M System chancellor, received a report last month detailing just how cold the latest cuts to state funding for Texas A&M have been.

Acting on warnings from state leaders, the administration planned for a $39 million re-duction in state funding, the report said, a prediction that came very close to the actual $35.8 million in cuts.

The cuts affected faculty and staff across

the board: 253 faculty positions, including 141 tenure-track positions, were eliminated from fall 2010 to fall 2011; 317 staff posi-tions were cut, as well as a number of student worker positions and graduate assistantships.

Students may have felt these reductions when signing up for fall or spring classes,

as 152 course sections were reduced, re-sulting in a 3.5 percent increase in average section size.

Tanner Wilson, senior applied mathemat-ics major and speaker of the Student Senate, said the reductions may save the University money while costing students more by delay-ing graduation.

“The Senate’s primary concern is that we have enough enthusiastic educators to pro-vide a full course offering to our students,” Wilson said. “While decreased course offer-ings are at best inconvenient, they can result in setbacks to a degree plan and, at worst, delayed graduation. This is obviously a situ-ation we want to avoid.”

Computing and library resources were also dealt a $6 million blow.

Other unspecified reductions were made to programs including study abroad, labora-tory resources, field trips, directed electives and specialty topics and departmental operat-ing budgets.

Faculty members meeting certain crite-ria were given the option of participating in the Voluntary Separation Plan, a program that offered a “buyout” to participating faculty members.

“Utilizing the [Voluntary Separation Plan] gave the institution, and the individual colleg-

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System report details financial hardshipUniversity cuts:◗ 253 faculty positions, including 141 tenure-track positions

◗ 317 staff positions, along with student worker positions

◗ 152 course sections

See Football on page 5

Or so I thought.After you put your heart, soul and

voice into a game trying to will your team to victory, a last-second loss seems like the end of the world. But fans raised to hate that school from Austin had to put all their energy into that game.

Sending the Longhorns off with a loss would have given the entire Twelfth Man a lone bright spot for an otherwise trashed season.

Instead, the third quarter woes, another McCoy quarterback and an erroneous personal foul call led t.u. to victory and Aggie fans to North-gate. The pumpkin shriveled, the horses turned to mice, Cinderella couldn’t find her prince and the fairy tale ending never happened.

Adrian O’Hanlon III: Toughest loss of

the season

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and jaw clenched,

the end of the Lone Star

Showdown was the end

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The bitter end, 27-25

Top: Texas football players rush the field after the game-winning field goal sailed through the uprights as time expired. Above: A&M head coach Mike Sherman walks off the field with his team after losing to Texas.

See Finances on page 4

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WASHINGTON — Surging Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich won the endorsement of New Hampshire’s biggest newspaper, which turned its back on establishment favorite Mitt Romney with just six weeks remaining before the state’s fi rst-in-the-country nominating election. The New Hampshire Union Leader, a powerful conservative voice in the northeastern state, ignored the results of last week’s WMUR-University of New Hampshire Granite State poll that showed Romney with 42 percent support among likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire. Gingrich, was second with 15 percent. Six other Republicans are battling for the party’s nomination in the November 2012 election.

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ST. LOUIS — The last of the three American students to arrive home after being ar-rested amid Cairo’s tumultu-ous protests described his first hours in custody as “probably the scariest night of my life ever,” saying the youths were hit, forced to lay for hours in the dark nearly in a fetal posi-tion and threatened with guns.

Derrik Sweeney, 19, spoke with The Associated Press shortly after arriving at St. Louis’ international airport late Saturday night, greeted with joyful shouts of anxious par-ents who tightly hugged him as dozens of others in a crowd of supporters and relatives held up signs reading, “We love you Derrik” and “Welcome home.”

“The first night was proba-bly the scariest night of my life ever. I was not sure I was going to live. They said if we moved at all, even an inch, they would shoot us. They were behind us with guns,” Sweeney told the AP in a brief phone interview, adding the three had spent about six hours curled up un-comfortably with their hands behind their backs.

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19-year-old Gregory Porter and 21-year-old Luke Gates on the rooftop of a university building near Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square amid violent protests engulfing the streets below.

Officials accused the young men of throwing firebombs at Egyptian security forces fighting with the protesters, but Sweeney said he and the other Americans “never did anything to hurt anyone” and never were on the rooftop nor handled or threw any explo-sives. He called those accusa-tions “very clearly just lies, 100

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Josh McKenna — THE BATTALION

Bevo XIV watches the A&M-UT football game Thursday at Kyle Field. The original Bevo, then known as Bo, first supported the 1916 Texas football team, and continued in this role for several years. In 1920, the original mascot was the main course in a barbecue at a Texas football banquet.

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trangertrangertrange landtrange land

in ain a

During a seven-month stay in the

southwest region of the Yunnan Prov-

ince, China, JD Swiger, Class of 2011,

chronicles his experiences among an an-

cient people, land and culture through

photographs.

“I try and take what I learned from be-

ing a photojournalist to capture the mo-

ment as if I weren’t there at all,” Swiger

said.

Swiger maintains a photo blog from

China, allowing friends and family to

experience the nation through his cam-

era lens. He uses photos to express the

land’s natural beauty, provoke emotion

and capture meaningful moments.

This isn’t always a simple task. Snap-

ping authentic and candid images is com-

plicated because he stands out among the

local population.

“It’s sometimes diffi cult because many

of the places I go the people haven’t seen

many foreigners, so it’s hard to get them

when they aren’t looking at me,” Swiger

said.

A former photographer for The Bat-

talion, Swiger graduated in May and left

for China shortly thereafter, enrolling in

a few classes in a Yunnan city. But the

heart of his stay runs deeper than text-

books and tones.

The underdeveloped nature of Yun-

nan Province, which is mountainous and

rich in natural resources, gave Swiger an

opportunity to serve the local people

while telling their story through photos.

“I often go to the orphanage and play

with the kids, and pray for them,” Swiger

said. “I’ve gotten to be a part of a village

project where we got to help put down

a road to make it easier for the villagers

to get to the city to sell their produce.”

Several of Swiger’s favorite photos are

of children that live at the orphanage he

frequents. China’s one-

child policy began in

1978 as a way to curve

the booming popula-

tion trend, prohibiting

couples from having

more than one child.

As a result, Swiger said orphanages are

a common fate for many children born

second in their family.

After graduating, Swiger took to Chi-

na for a multitude of reasons, including

a life-long interest in the culture and a

desire to learn the language. However,

Swiger said the decision ultimately came

down to one factor: his faith.

“I came to China because, honestly, it’s

where I felt the Lord called me to go,”

Swiger said.

With the end of his time abroad around

the corner, Swiger said while he is still

uncertain of where life might take him

after he returns to the States, he plans to

visit China whenever the opportunity

arises, and even fl irted with the idea of

living there some day.

“My experience in China has been so

positive; I would highly recommend go-

ing to a diff erent culture to see how oth-

ers live,” Swiger said.

Photos courtesy of J.D. Swiger

Former Battalion photojournalist captures day-to-day life in ChinaNicole Duffy Special to The Battalion

“Passing through”View J.D. Swiger’s blog and see more photos at jdswiger.tumblr.com.

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Though the Voluntary Separation Plan initially increased spending, the goal of the plan is to save in the long run. The total cost of payments made to retiring professors who agreed to leave their positions was less than the cost to finance their employment through the remainder of their contracts.

The funds saved by this move may be returned to college budgets to be used toward other priorities and to minimize other cuts.

Faculty and course offer-ings are not the only areas undergoing an overhaul. Shortly after the budget cuts report was made, the A&M System hired consulting firm MGT of America to study and improve the System’s efficiency. The firm will analyze System offices and employees who work for Sharp before making recommendations to make the office more efficient and effective.

“I recognize that the most important thing in this whole system is faculty, the research-ers and the service personnel that serve the public,” Sharp said. “Everything else is there to support those three enti-ties. We want to make sure that we are as efficient as we possibly can be.”

Sharp worked with the consulting firm in the past, when he was Texas State Comptroller in the 1990s, and praised its professionalism and prior work. The firm was chosen by an independent committee and hired on a $250,000 bid.

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NBA lockout ends after 149 days of revenue debate

NEW YORK — With a Christmas Day tripleheader on everyone’s wish list and a tentative labor agreement in place, NBA own-ers and union officials went back to work Sat-urday, relaying details of the deal with hopes of cementing it quickly.

After a 149-day lockout that ultimately will cost the league approximately a half-bil-lion dollars in losses, a marathon bargaining session produced a handshake agreement earlier in the day — actually, just a few hours before daybreak.

Commissioner David Stern still must sell his owners on an agreement that could change the way they do business. And the players, looking beat and beaten, face a tougher healing process in approving a pact that significantly limits their earnings.

But considering everything owners sought when these negotiations opened with a con-tentious meeting at the All-Star break in Feb-ruary 2010, perhaps they will feel relieved they got as much as they did.

Players’ association executives Derek Fisher and Maurice Evans hardly looked en-thused about the agreement as they sat next to executive director Billy Hunter on the same side of a conference table with Stern, Deputy

Commissioner Adam Silver and Spurs owner Peter Holt, the chairman of the league’s labor relations committee.

Just 12 days after talks broke down, Stern and Hunter appeared together after 3 a.m. Saturday to announce the 10-year deal, with either side able to opt out after the sixth year. It leaves the NBA with its second shortened season (the first was the 50-game 1998-99 season), with the hope of getting in 66 games instead of a full 82-game schedule.

The players’ side has revealed little of its feelings about the deal, noting the pending antitrust litigation in its desire to keep details quiet. But players always preferred to be on the court, rather than in it, and now they finally have the chance — starting Christmas Day.

For the season openers, it would be Boston at New York, Miami at Dallas and Chicago at the Lakers — sorry, little guys, the big markets still rule Christmas.

Now, the regular season would end one week later and push back NBA finals a week, potentially setting up a Game 7 on June 28, 2012.

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No. 5 Aggie women take Junkanoo crown in Bahamas

The No. 4 Texas A&M women’s basketball team claimed the Junkanoo Jam Tournament title Saturday in Freeport, Bahamas, after a 74-58 win against Iowa Sat-urday and a 71-59 win Friday against Temple.

In both wins, team leaders propelled A&M to victory. Senior forward Adaora Elonu led the Aggies past the Tem-ple Owls, while senior guard Sydney Carter stepped up against the Iowa Hawkeyes.

The Aggies took advan-tage of 25 Iowa turnovers to keep the game out of reach for most of regulation. Carter led A&M’s defensive effort with four steals and continued her success on the offensive end, leading the Aggies with 21 points.

“I was just attacking the basket,’’ Carter said. “I was just making sure I was doing a good job of attacking the basket. If they took that away, then I was going to dish to my teammates.”

Elonu added to A&M’s performance with 13 points and junior center Kelsey

Bone contributed 12 points. Only two Iowa players

scored in double digits, with freshman guard Samantha Logic leading the Hawkeyes with 16 points and junior guard Jaime Printy added 14.

“I thought the first five minutes of the game, we handled their pressure pretty good,” Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder said. “I think we lost the game in the first four minutes of the second half.”

The first-round vic-tory against a feisty Temple Owls team did not come without adversity.

Led by senior guard Kristen McCarthy, the Owls outrebounded the Aggies 40-37 and cut an A&M lead to four with 8:43 remaining in the second half. The Aggies made defensive adjustments, however, and powered their way to a 12-point win.

“Defense basically won it for us in the second half,” head coach Gary Blair said. “Temple is a team that will win 20, 25 games a year.”

While Temple’s McCarthy had 16 points and 11 rebounds, the only double-double for either team, her effort was not enough to overcome the Aggies. A&M took advantage of Owls’ mistakes and forced 27 turnovers compared to only 12 of their own. Elonu capitalized with a prolific 23-point game for Elonu.

“My gym is open 24-7 and she’s in it more than any other kid. She’s one of the most underrated play-ers we have on the team,” Blair said of Elonu. “She’s a senior, a good player and a good person.”

Earlier this month, Lowe’s announced that Elonu is a candidate for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award, recog-nizing student athletes who contribute in athletics, in the community and academically.

The Aggies travel to play a Big 10 opponent Sunday when they face the Purdue Boilermakers in West Lafayette, Ind.

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Tourney MVP◗ Sydney Carter was named Tournament MVP.◗ Carter posted 33 points, eight assists and six steals in a pair of weekend wins against Iowa and Temple.

The A&M women’s basketball team poses with the Junkanoo Jam trophy after defeating Iowa on Saturday in Freeport, Bahamas.

AGGIE ATHLETICS

FootballContinued from page 1

How many times had the Aggies broken our hearts before? How many times just this season? Why was the third quarter trash — again? Why couldn’t we win just this one?

These questions filled my mind as the horns rushed Kyle and I stood there, hope-lessly bewildered by what I just witnessed.

I stood completely still, watching the dejected Aggies walk away or fall to the turf in despair. I felt sorrow for the seniors and the coaches who would have this crush-ing defeat on their résumés for life. I thought about all the A&M-UT games I watched in my life, yelling irately at the Longhorns on the field or at the television screen.

My younger brother shook

me from my trance and we solemnly walked toward the exit.

With every step I grew more angry and embarrassed that I had put all my emotion into Aggie football since childhood only to have a potential title season turn into a 6-6 campaign, topped with another depressing loss to t.u.

As we walked through the crowd, I expected to see tears, death-stares and even fights between fans decked in maroon or burnt orange. But instead, there were hugs, smiles and families walking beside each other as if they were leaving a Midnight Yell Practice.

Then it hit me — we had already won.

Regardless of the outcome of the game, we were no lon-ger under Texas’ stranglehold after moving to the SEC and we still had loved ones to go home to.

It wasn’t the rivalry or even the team that I had

made a connection with, this or any year. It was my family.

Every game I’d seen before college was with family — when A&M frustratingly ran out of time against a 2-win Baylor team in ‘04, when the Ags upset No. 8 OU in ‘02, and when A&M ended a six-year drought against Texas in ‘06.

We backed A&M like each game was the most im-portant one in the history of football. We celebrated every win and mourned every loss together.

At the end of the day you can always count on having a few things — another sunset and your Aggie family.

So it’s not the end of the world. Probably not even the end of the rivalry.

But for now, beat the hell outta t.u. in 2019.

Adrian O’Hanlon III is a senior ag communications and

journalism major and sports editor for The Battalion.

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When I couldn’t walk any further, I found myself lodged between the Longhorn band and a group of burnt orange fans soaking in the victory. The southeast exit was almost entirely blocked off for UT player interviews. This was their moment of glory, and I had no choice but to witness it.

“It’s a great day to be a Longhorn,” one UT fan yelled.

Moments later, I experienced the pride of another Longhorn fan leading a “Texas fight!” chant as I tried to squeeze my way through the crowd. He then proceeded to laugh away with his wife as the two rejoiced in the defeat of “those poor Aggies.”

That’s when I realized that Thursday’s game perfectly encapsulated the entire rivalry. A&M was so close, fought to the death, but it didn’t matter.

We lost. They won. The verdict after 118 years.

By the time I made my way through and out the gate, I didn’t feel the desire to ever saw ‘em off again. That game — those closing moments — were my farewell to the boys in Austin. I walked away knowing that while the pastures of the Southeastern Conference will not be greener initially, it sure beats spending another century trying to prove superiority against a single opponent down south.

Friday went by with plenty of Christmas shopping and quality time with friends. Then came Saturday morning and I awoke and

checked my email. An ecstatic UT fan had taken the time at 1:39 a.m. that day to look up my information in the A&M student directory and sent this message in response to a previous column:

“Hey, suck it. Aggies always lose, and have had the most pathetic traditions known to college football. S-E-C ya later, The Victor.”

I chuckled, replied with a “Thanks and Gig ‘em,” and moved on with my life. A&M doesn’t need the rivalry to define its identity as a university, just as Texas doesn’t need us to do the same for it. I’ll choose to remember UT not for that email, but for the class the Longhorn band showed during Thursday’s halftime performance with its fitting “Thanks A&M” formation.

Lying ahead in the realm of A&M football is a fairly meaningless bowl game and a period of rebuilding before next year’s shift to the SEC. Tannehill, Fuller, Gray and half the defense will be gone. Coming in will be one of the top-10 recruiting classes in the nation, headlined by four-star recruits and Houston-area players Matt Davis (quarterback) and Trey Williams (running back).

It’s time to move on and start thinking of better days — not necessarily victorious ones. Come 2012, A&M will face Louisiana State University, Alabama, Arkansas and all of the Top 25 SEC opponents you’ve come to know. A&M’s next chapter starts anew against the toughest competition known in college football.

So long to the orange and the white.

Jared Baxter is a senior media studies major and managing editor of The Battalion.

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Sophomore quarterback Case McCoy throws to freshman receiver Jaxon Shipley. McCoy threw for 110 yards, but it was Shipley who threw a touchdown.

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