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Thousands of students woke up, got dressed and attended class on cam-

pus for the first day of school Monday. These students participate in a long-standing process — paying for classes at the university they attend, working on assignments, studying for tests and even-tually earning credit that they can use toward a degree. Some of these courses may even be online. However, A&M is looking into a rising form of online education that offers college courses to anyone with Internet access — free of charge.

Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, are college courses developed by the faculty of a university that are of-fered free of charge to people around the globe, allowing access to parts of a college education without offering course credit.

Karan Watson, provost and execu-tive vice president for Academic Affairs, said while credit may not be offered for MOOCs alone, the educational material may be a valuable resource for students.

“It helps our student directly, maybe sometimes indirectly,” Watson said. “It helps us when we can say to students that they don’t need to use books the faculty has written, that they can go online and see materials that another faculty has de-

veloped somewhere else.”Watson said one issue with MOOCs is

a low retention rate. She said most people who sign up for MOOCs don’t finish the course, so they don’t cover all the ma-terial to earn the certificate of comple-tion that can be used on a resume, for example.

“They don’t get credit for it, but it’s no loss because they didn’t pay anything for it,” Watson said. “Offering a bunch of courses like that isn’t going to help stu-dents get through college … It’s like a li-brary. Most of us have access to the infor-mation in a library, but most of us won’t go and read all the books in the library.”

While faculty members at many uni-versities across the nation have already developed MOOCs, Texas A&M is still looking into the possibility of devoting

A&M considers free web classes for future

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Massive Open Online Courses already available elsewhere

BREAKAWAY

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opinion | 4A delicate situationIn a world where nothing is safe, Jessica Smarr decries the terrible music choices that have robbed bathrooms everywhere of order and peace.

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to this semester?

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diversity | 3MLK breakfast Thursday The Woodson Black Awareness Committee will hold its annual Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast on Thursday.

clubs | 3Fish AidesMembers of Fish Aides forewent their annual skiing trip and chose to spend a week on a service project in Louisiana.

College Station police received calls Monday from two local U.S. post offices reporting cases of theft

and mischief, which included stolen parcels and damages to Postal Service property.

Lt. Chuck Fleeger of CSPD said officers were dis-patched around 7 a.m. to the post office on Wellborn Road and at 3 p.m. to the post office on Harvey Mitchell Parkway.

Fleeger said officers discovered that between Saturday and Monday individuals entered the postal facilities and used force to pry open the larger parcel drop boxes.

“They made entry into five boxes in the Wellborn Road location and then another 13 at the Harvey Mitch-ell Parkway location,” Fleeger said. “Our officers are still working with the postal inspectors to determine exactly what was stolen from each of the boxes.”

The victims remain unknown at this time and it is unclear if any Texas A&M students were the potential recipients of the stolen packages.

Junior biology major, Michelle Jalfon, has been a victim of post office theft before and said she felt over-whelmed when she discovered her mail was stolen.

“I felt upset,” Jalfon said. “You wouldn’t expect someone to steal out of the letters. I would assume the victims feel invaded. I mean to have anything stolen sucks, but you would think the post office would have better control over it since it’s part of the government.”

Elizabeth Baker, senior international studies major, said the incident caused her to reflect on when her tri-athlon bicycle was stolen off of the A&M campus and the thief then posted an ad for the bike on Craigslist.

Baker said she felt scared and upset when she realized her bike was missing, and offered her empathy to the victims of the postal service theft.

“I freaked out,” Baker said. “I thought the thief was really stupid. The police were super helpful though. They took me on the sting with them to get it back.”

Fleeger said the postal service and the CSPD are doing everything they can and once the missing packages have been identified by the postal inspector, the recipients will receive notification and be asked what large mail items they were expecting.

Postmaster of the Wellborn Road postal service, Mad-die Carter, said not much is known at this time.

“They broke into the large parcel boxes and stole all the parcels in it,” Carter said. “In the process they broke the locks on those boxes.”

Investigation of this incident is ongoing. CSPD re-quests that any information be reported to 979-764-3600.

Police probe reported post office theft

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Wellborn and Harvey offices report 18 affected boxes

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After a 57-56 victory over the University of

Tennessee Volunteers in Knoxville, Tenn., Satur-day, the Texas A&M men’s basketball team (11-4, 2-0 SEC) is looking to build on its undefeated conference

record Wednesday night in Reed Arena.

The Aggies will be matching up against a strug-gling South Carolina (7-8, 0-2 SEC) squad. Wednes-day’s meeting will be just the second time the two schools have faced each other on the hardwood. Last season, A&M won against South Carolina in a 74-56 victory at Reed Are-na. Guard Elston Turner, who has since graduated,

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resources to the development of MOOCs. Watson said a committee is looking into how best to select the first MOOCs Texas A&M will offer.

“The committee that we have formed now is working under the assumption that we will find the right resources to help a modest number of faculty break into this area,” Watson said. “The committee is putting together the requirements on how are we going to select what we do first and the basis of the competition to see which MOOCs we will do first.”

Pierce Cantrell, vice president and asso-ciate provost for Information Technology, said the committee hopes to bring a rec-ommendation to the provost by the end of January and start on the task of selecting the first few MOOCs to develop.

“It’s a tremendous amount of work, putting up a traditional MOOC that would scale to a hundred thousand people, would be professional and would portray

the University in the best light,” Cantrell said. “I think the thing is, if you get into this business you don’t want to do a bad job. There’s a number of reasons to do them, but certainly having the A&M name known around the world for something that was really first rate would be good for us.”

Watson said sharing knowledge is part

of the institutional responsibility of a uni-versity and MOOCs help provide educa-tional resources to the world at large, as well as providing assistance to Texas A&M students.

“It’s part of a university’s educational mission,” Watson said. “If you have ex-perts in one subject you don’t make every-one pay for everything. For a good world you share it. A MOOC is like that. If you have experts in one field and they can put in a format that other people want to use, we think that’s a good thing for the intel-lectual world. And our students would be able to use that.”

Chandra Kovvali, freshman nutritional sciences major, said the supplemental as-pect of a MOOC is what most interests her, as well as the fact that it allows A&M to exhibit expertise in different fields of study.

“These free courses are beneficial to those who seek enrichment, as well as a strong network to others with similar in-terests,” Kovvali said. “Additionally, uni-versities like A&M can showcase their tal-ent and faculty.”

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Q:thebattasks What are you most looking forward

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“I‘m excited to have a three-day weekend every weekend, since I have no class on Fridays.”

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“I am looking forward to performing with my small ensemble band that’s

in my music class.”Danielle Luna, junior telecommunication

media studies major

“I’m really looking forward to being an o� cer at the A&M radio station.”

Davis Land, freshman computer science major

“I look forward to going to Costa Rica after this semester is over, so I can make new friends and do

service there.”Kevin Tad-y, freshman general engineering major

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2013 Aggieland: 584 pages of memories.IF YOU did not order the 2013 Texas A&M University yearbook (the 2012-2013 school year), a limited number are available at the Student Media office, Suite L400 of the MSC. Hours: 8:30 A.M.–4:30 P.M. Monday–Friday. $85 plus tax. Cash, check, VISA, MasterCard, Discover and American Express, accepted. If you pre-ordered a 2013 Aggieland, it has been mailed to your billing address.

When the freshman leadership organization Fish Aides de-

cided to replace its annual winter ski trip with a service project a few years back, its intention was to help oth-ers. But somewhere along the line, members found themselves receiving as much as they gave.

Thirty-three members rung in the new semester this way by volunteer-ing for a week in New Orleans, La.

Taylor Stephens, freshman visu-alization major, was one of the Fish Aides who volunteered for his last week of holiday break. Serving at a different location each day, Stephens said the group volunteered at a food bank, a homeless shelter, a struggling school district and a children’s home.

“We served at the New Orleans Mission, which is kind of like a homeless shelter in the heart of New Orleans,” Stephens said. “It was an amazing experience. There was something so humbling too. I tend to forget how privileged I am and how much I have even when I don’t think I have very much.”

Blake Barnes, sophomore business administration major and a co-chair in Fish Aides, said the group cleaned and organized paperwork at a lo-cal school, where he also spoke to a seventh grade class about his college experience.

“We met this kid named Cory, who randomly said he loved engi-neering,” Barnes said. “We asked him, ‘So Cory, where do you want to go to college?’ And he said, ‘I’m like 90 percent sure I want to go to Texas A&M.’”

Barnes said the student lit up when he realized they were from A&M and continued to ask questions about how he could also attend.

Cash Fields, Fish Aides director and senior university studies major, said this was the fourth year Fish Aides has served in New Orleans.

“This winter trip used to be a ski trip,” Fields said. “We switched my freshman year from a ski trip to Col-orado to doing a service trip to New Orleans.”

Fields said the main purpose of the trip was to unite the organization through service, but making a resolu-tion to service is something for every Aggie to consider.

However, Stephens said too many people make resolutions, only to for-get them soon after.

“I don’t even think that it should just be a resolution because I feel that, a lot of time, resolutions are re-

membered for maybe a month and then you kind of forget about them,” Stephens said. “I think service should be maybe like a goal for your entire life.”

Although Barnes said he has not made any distinct resolutions, this trip reminded him of the importance of giving back to others.

“I look at myself, and I want to serve and take each day to serve — whether it is a huge way, a small way or whether it is picking up a little gum wrapper on the bus before you are leaving,” Barnes said.

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The MSC will host the Woodson Black Aware-

ness Committee’s seventh annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast Thursday.

The MLK Breakfast, which will feature speaker Mary Fran-ces Berry, is meant to honor the life of King and demonstrate the ways in which the civil rights movement is still relevant today, said Candace Morris, committee director of Black History Month and junior management major.

“[The purpose] is also to ex-plore the civil rights movement in general,” Morris said. “We want to ignite a passion for civil rights and get people to stand up for what they believe and to spread the idea that anything is possible if you put in hard work.”

Each year, a speaker who pro-vides insight into the life of King and the civil rights movement is featured at the breakfast. Berry served as chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on civil rights and worked within the govern-ment to help promote civil rights. Along with speaking about King, Morris said Berry will share sto-ries about her own experiences in the civil rights movement.

“When she was on the civil rights commission, that was at the time they still had segrega-tion going on and they were still bringing to light all the issues that needed to be addressed,” Morris said. “She’ll be sharing her expe-rience and how she works con-tinuously to fight for civil rights, as that battle has not been won yet.”

Aja Holston, committee chair and senior political science ma-jor, said Berry can offer a unique perspective on the civil rights movement as both a woman and a former government worker.

“As a woman, her perception of the civil rights movement is different than that of a man and

I think it is critical to create a space for her to share her experi-ence,” Holston said. “She served in many roles while fighting for civil rights and, like many of the greats, is currently working as a professor. She understands what it means to be at the front lines and to then move aside so the next generation can take up the fight.”

Renee Loper, committee in-ternal programming director and senior political science major, has attended the breakfast in previous years and said it allows her to ex-perience the past and learn about ways that she can use history to help better the future.

“I enjoy the breakfast mainly because I feel like it is a gateway to the past with people that were younger and got to experience Dr. King while he was alive,” Loper said. “I feel like it’s eye-opening to hear these people talk and learn from what they have to say and implement things they did when they were younger to better people as a whole. “

Holston said her past experi-ences with the breakfast have been life changing and have helped her to understand just how important an individual can be.

“To sit in the presence of in-dividuals who faced death threats, the loss of their jobs, harm to the ones they loved, etcetera, just so that I could sit where I sit today is overwhelming,” Holston said. “After lunch with Harry Bela-fonte two years ago, he asked what I wanted to do with my de-gree. When I told him I wished to be a child’s advocate attorney, he held my hand, smiled and said, ‘Thank you.’ That experience is why this is so important to me.”

Morris said she hopes those at-tending will not just learn about the past, but also glean how they can better today’s society.

“We just want the students who attend this event to be im-mersed in a discussion about civil rights,” Morris said. “In the past the fight for civil rights was fought by young people and the students today are the young generation. We have the energy to go out there and make chang-es. From this program we hope that they learn about the past and how they can affect the future today through their own work.”

The breakfast will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Gates Ballroom and is open to all A&M students, faculty and staff as well as members of Bryan-College Station. Tickets are $6 for students and $12 for everyone else and may be obtained through the MSC Box Office.

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Fish Aides members Mallory Montgomery (from left), Jordan Mettica, Kate Rohrbough, Kathryn Haerr and Taylor Stephens cut phonics cards at Renew Charter School.

Fish Aides members Matthew Korioth (from left), Zach McCartney and Kim Allen volunteer at Renew Charter School in New Orleans.

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Nothing, that is, except for bathrooms. Life is a disaster in which we cling to the

illusion of control. We walk around like everything is just peaches and cream when we know at any moment we could be torn to tiny, bloody bits by a rogue, genetically engineered velociraptor. You’re completely unprepared for that and there’s nothing you can do. That’s life.

In this crazy world, we can’t be certain of anything. We must take our peace where we can find it. And at this point in my life, I look forward to the few minutes of the day that I can call my own. And that is my bathroom time.

No one is going to bother me in there. No one wants to bother me in there. That is my time to do whatever I want. I can be anything I want in the bathroom. While I sit in there, in my metal partition palace with the tiles in hushed pastel tones lying so or-derly under my feet, I can believe everything just might be okay someday.

But of course this nirvana, in which everything in life for a moment seems triple-ply, exists in the real world where all good and pure things can always be ripped from us. Just like that one guy from the first Jurassic Park movie was snatched from his porcelain sanctuary by that silly tyrannosau-rus rex, we too can have our joy and safety chomped up and swallowed like the defense-less dinosaur bait we may all eventually be reduced to.

But before the dinosaurs have even gotten a chance to destroy life as we know it, someone much more sinister is at work — the good people who pick the music that plays in the MSC restrooms.

Of all of the problems that I experience as a privileged mem-ber of a country with a relatively stable economy and government, being subjected to the music in public bathrooms is far and away the very worst one. You’re a captive audience in there, man. And I can’t do anything about it.

Just imagine. You’re in a public bathroom in some swanky movie theater right before Christmas. Every organ of your digestive sys-tem has decided they don’t want to be team players anymore and are wreaking havoc on your body. You sit in the bathroom stall as the final battle of the apocalypse, the true fight between good and evil, is waged be-neath your rib cage.

All the while, the six-minute version of Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer is play-ing, taunting you just like those other stupid reindeer that wouldn’t let Rudolph play their stupid reindeer games.

I still have nightmares about that stall. There is no appropriate genre that can

serve adequately as bathroom music. Top

40 is often too sexual to be anything but uncomfortable. You try listening to Bruno Mars sing about going to paradise while sit-ting on the toilet. It’s not okay.

Jazz music is too classy to work well. As the croons of Frank Sinatra float down under the radiant fluorescents, I always feel oddly underdressed. Ella Fitzgerald is just not a woman of the toilets.

The worst of all is Sarah McLachlan, who oh-so-famously lent her voice to the sad puppy commercials that marked the lowest points of my childhood. I once cried in an MSC bathroom stall when “In the Arms of an Angel” came on and I couldn’t stop thinking about abused kittens.

If this is the way things are going to be, we might as well not even wait for the geneticists to bring the dinosaurs back and just go ahead sacrifice ourselves to normal dangerous animals like bears or really irritable donkeys.

This is not the life I want to live. I want peace. I want quiet. I want my bathroom back.

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In “Track & Field” maga-zine’s initial indoor duel

meet rankings, released Tues-day, the Texas A&M women ranked No. 1 while the men came in at No. 3 nationally.

The Aggies will host a tri-angular meet Jan. 25 against the LSU Tigers and Texas Tech Red Raiders.

At the 2012 triangular meet hosted by the Aggies, the A&M men claimed the indoor dual meet title with victories over Arkansas and LSU, while the A&M women fell short to the Tigers.

A win at this year’s triangu-lar would mark the sixth con-secutive year the A&M men have won either an indoor meet or triangular at Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium.

Track and field action this weekend includes the Texas A&M 12-Team Invitational at 2 p.m. Friday and the Texas A&M 10-Team Invitational at noon Saturday, both of which will be held at the Gilliam In-door Track Stadium.

Clay Koepke, sports editor

Terry Joseph, New Orleans native and

former University of Ne-braska secondary coach, will replace Marcel Yates as the Texas A&M sec-ondary coach, said head coach Kevin Sumlin on Tuesday.

In the 2012 season under Joseph, Nebraska’s secondary ranked second in the FBS while holding opponents under a 50 percent completion rate.

Before his collegiate coaching career began, Joseph coached at two Louisiana high schools for seven years. Jo-seph’s college coaching debut came in 2006 as a graduate assistant for LSU, helping LSU’s No. 2-ranked defense to a Sugar Bowl victory over Notre Dame.

Along with his talents in coaching, Sumlin said Joseph is a strong recruiter whose ties to Louisiana could benefit the Aggie recruiting effort in the state.

“I’ve followed Terry’s career for many years and I think he’s done a great job building defensive secondar-ies everywhere he’s been,” Sumlin said. “Terry fits in well with our staff and he’s a tremendous recruiter. He has deep ties to the state of Louisiana, which is a very important recruiting area to our program. I’m happy to be able to get Terry to Texas A&M.”

Clay Koepke, sports editor

A&M track teams land spots in rankings

Sumlin tabs Nebraska’s Joseph for secondary coach

Terry Joseph

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Tanner Garza — THE BATTALION

contributed a game-high 28 points. Junior guard Jamal Jones is coming off a ca-

reer high 23-point game against Tennessee and the Lee College transfer is averaging 18.5 points per game in conference play.

After losing J-Mychal Reese due to a vio-lation of athletic department rules, sophomore guard Alex Caruso has taken over point guard duties for the Aggies. Caruso currently leads the

SEC in assists (77) and assists per game (5.1). On the defensive end, he ranks fourth in the conference in steals per game (2.4).

Although South Carolina holds a record be-low .500, the Gamecocks bring a balanced of-fensive attack to College Station. Three South Carolina players — Tyrone Johnson (11.9), Sindari Thronwell (11.7) and Brenton Wil-liams (11.1) — are averaging double figures this season.

Wednesday’s matchup will be televised on SEC TV at 7 p.m. and will also be aired on the Texas A&M Radio Network.

BasketballContinued from page 1

Junior guard Jamal Jones rises to the basket during a 91-67 win over Mississippi Valley State in November.

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