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thebattalionipated in the Lost Pines Campaign during the last two weekends. Ac-cording to senior engineering tech-nology major and Replant board of directors member Bradford Wettig, the summation of all the volunteers’ work amounts to around 12,000 to 15,000 newly planted saplings and trees.

“It was unprecendented,” Wet-tig said. “It’s not something we’ve ever done before, but I think it went great and we had lots of vol-unteers show up.”

Not only was a significant impact made on the environment, Wettig said, but students also generally held

positive attitudes and a good work ethic throughout the weekends.

“When we had to be back to meet the deadline to get the buses back, we had to actually pull some people away from planting,” Wet-tig said.

Replant member and sopho-more general studies major Aus-tin Allen said students initially got into the spirit of the campaign after hearing the speakers talk to volun-teers on the first day.

“I attended the first day of it and I think a lot of [volunteers] didn’t really know what they were getting

Student body votes Reid

Joseph, Five for Yell

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Joseph’s reaction after electionSee page 4 to hear how Reid Joseph will prepare for his new role as the next student body president.

Replant helps restore Bastrop

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Students reforest park destroyed by 2010 wildfires

More than a year after a fire en-gulfed nearly 96 percent of

Bastrop State Park, destroying the current ecosystem and leaving the land prone to erosion, volunteers with Aggie Replant helped the Texas Parks and Wildlife Associa-tion take another step on the road to recovery.

More than 700 volunteers partic-See Replant on page 2

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More than 700 volunteers travel to Bastrop State Park to help replant trees in an effort to reverse the effects of the 2010 forest fires.

Round tables exercise for Pacific foreign policy

Records fall at SEC meet

After a weekend in which she broke SEC, NCAA, American and U.S. Open records, Breeja Larson

found satisfaction in improving just one mark: her own personal best.

“It’s special, but I kind of see it as ‘I broke my best time’ just like Cammile [Adams] and Paige [Miller] broke their best times,” the Olympian Larson said. “It is still special, but to me it’s kind of like you want to do your best time every time. If it happens to break the record, it’s a bonus. Racing is fun and going fast is fun, so this was a fun night for me.”

Larson, Adams and more broke records at the A&M Recreation Center and Natatorium as the women’s and men’s swimming and diving teams finished second and seventh, respectively, at the first-ever SEC cham-pionship meet in A&M history.

The first place in the men’s team competition went to Florida, which managed to break Auburn’s 16-year winning streak while Georgia won its fourth straight women’s team title. The A&M women were in con-tention for first place until the last day.

Larson, who also won the SEC Female Swimmer of the Year, led the way for the Aggies with wins in the 400-medley, 100-breaststroke and the 200-breast-stroke.

“It’s her best by a little bit, but it’s the fastest any-body’s ever gone so that’s outstanding,” said head coach Steve Bultman of Larson’s record-setting 100-yard breaststroke final. “I think the fact that she and [Auburn sophomore Molly Hannis] had tied in the prelims definitely got them both fired up. I think that helped push her to the record.”

Larson and Georgia’s Annie Zhu broke the SEC

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Hundreds of students swarmed around Sully to hear the results

of the 2013 student body elections. The Election Commissioner’s pronounce-ment of each elected candidate was heard only through the crowd’s offered silence between cheers for a fellow stu-dent’s election.

For next year’s positions of student body president and yell leaders, the Corps of Cadets walked away with a shutout win.

At 7,865 votes, Reid Joseph received more than 62 percent of the vote for student body president.

“[Reid] was born to the Aggie War Hymn,” said Reid’s father and Class of 1983 head yell leader Tom Joseph after he led the crowd in singing the Aggie War Hymn. “Reid told me at the beginning of this campaign that he is running for SBP because this Univer-sity has given him so much and it was time for him to give back to this great University.”

Five for Yell was elected to serve as 2013-2014 yell leaders and in-cludes senior yell leaders Chris Pow-ell, Ryan Crawford and Hunter Cook and junior yell leaders Roy May and Patrick McGinty.

Other positions filled, including those for RHA, Class Councils and Student Senate, are viewable at vote.tamu.edu.

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Breeja Larson, after a gold medal in the 2012 London Olympics, won three events at the SEC Championships Friday through Sunday at the A&M natatorium.

SCONA

As a part of the Student Conference on National Affairs, 125 student delegates from universities across the nation came to-

gether to learn about and discuss U.S. relations in the Pacific from Thursday to Saturday.

The delegates formed 15 round table discussion groups and developed their own policy proposals to deal with a variety of subtopics related to U.S. involvement in Pacific nations.

Ross Brady, SCONA vice chair and senior urban and regional science major said part of the conference’s intention was to be an intellectual exercise in addressing the Obama administration’s shift in foreign policy toward the Pacific.

Each round table developed a policy devoted to a specific sub-topic of the conference’s goal to evaluate interactions with the Pacific. In addition to Brady’s quick list, the topics ranged from how to tackle cyber warfare, seeking space supremacy, seizing contested land and how to balance rights versus profit.

A policy to promote the U.S. goal of mutual economic benefit with Pacific nations through strategic free trade agreements with specific countries is being considered for publishing.

“It’s not a concrete thing,” Brady said. “We are just working with [the Bush School of Government and Public Service] for the potential to publish.”

The resolution outlines a plan of action that involves first seek-ing ties with Indonesia, then Malaysia and Thailand, in hopes that these connections would open more doors. The policy outlines the possible difficulties in such trade agreements, including tension on the U.S. side of the market resulting from an influx of goods from foreign countries.

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(Top) Five for Yell huddles in anticipation of yell leader election results Friday night in Academic Plaza. (Bottom) Reid Joseph shouts in celebration of being named the next student body president.

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into,” Allen said. “They really had no idea how big the ordeal was. Once they heard the background story and heard all of those people speak, I feel like they got really ex-cited to do what they are doing and realized how much they were really representing our school.”

Allen said the work was not always easy, but the reward was well worth it.

“It’s a lot of fun,” Allen said. “I mean, the stuff that we do is sometimes really hard work, but it’s a really great organization to be a part of.”

Junior political science major Timothy Todd said he saw the project as something that will pay off in the long run, and hopes to help out in the future.

“It was just a really amazing experience getting to help in the replanting,” Todd

said. “I can’t wait to go back in a many years to see the huge difference that was started by just a few days’ worth of work by Aggies who saw a problem, and set their minds to fixing it.”

Wettig said representatives from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Association were present to go over safety procedures at the beginning of each day and stayed to act as a resource for volunteers, making the project a combined effort between Aggies and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Association.

Despite the thousands of trees planted, Wetting said Bastrop will need greater re-pair, beyond the three sections that volun-teers filled in the past two weekends. He asked for students to be on the lookout for a revival of the project next year.

“This is the first step in a long process,” Wettig said. “There is a huge, vast amount of land that needs to be reforested.”

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state newsMinor quakes shake TexasTwo minor earthquakes have caused small tremors, but no reported damage in North Texas. The U.S. Geological Survey reported one earthquake at 4:35 a.m. Sunday about four miles north of Waxahachie, south of Dallas, that had a magnitude of 2.4. The second occurred at 6:56 a.m., two miles south of nearby DeSoto and had a magnitude of 2.5. A quake of magnitude 2.5 to 3 is typically the smallest that can be felt by people.

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The kids on Jennifer Madu’s street would scream a familiar, “Ready,

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Madu, a freshman on the A&M track team, said her childhood friends would tell her she was talented be-yond the norm.

“They were like ‘Hey, you should definitely run track,’” Madu said. “But I really didn’t think anything of it.”

Madu’s young talent grew during her middle school days when she of-ficially began running track.

“The girls and boys were out at practice and I was keeping up with the boys. People were like ‘What the heck, what are you doing?’” Madu said with a laugh.

Everyone around her was aston-ished at how naturally fast she was. Madu became one of the fastest teen-agers in her city, state and the world. When it seemed her coaches could ask for no more, Madu still had more

talents hidden up her sleeve. Madu was a pinch runner her

senior year for the Plano East high school softball team — at the time ranked No. 13 nationally.

Madu said she was simply being spontaneous her senior year when track season was over and decided to join the softball team.

“The softball girls told me that I should be a pinch runner for them when the track season was over,” Madu said. “So I got done with state, and when the softball team made state they told me to suit up.”

Madu was accustomed to running through the finish line and not hav-ing to come to a sudden halt, so her coach, Karen Kalhoefer, gave her a few pointers: if she ever overruns a base, don’t turn back — just beat the throw to the next one.

“I told her if she ran through a bag — since she’s used to running through things — to just go to the next one,” Kalhoefer said.

After being widely recruited, Madu had to choose where to take her talents for the 2012-2013 col-legiate season. Madu said she chose A&M over the other schools because she knew she could trust the coaches.

“A&M was just a good balance for me,” Madu said. “It wasn’t too far from home, and they have good

academics. I knew they had coaches I could trust, and I already knew a lot of people coming here so I knew I would feel comfortable. I just trusted that and went with it.”

Madu has not only excelled on the track at A&M, but in the classroom as well. She said her parents always remind her that she is a student first.

“It’s nothing different from high school, they just say, ‘Stick with it, but remember that you’re a student first,’” Madu said. “I have to stay on top of the grades so I can participate in athletics.”

Madu finished third in the 60-me-ter final at the 2013 SEC Champi-onships held Feb. 22-24 in Arkansas to help the women’s team match the men with a third-place finish.

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Freshman Jennifer Madu finished third at the Aggies’ first-ever SEC championship in Fayetteville, Ark. in the 60-meter.

meet record in the 200-yard breaststroke, touching the wall with times of 2:05.71 and 2:05.99, respectively, each breaking the previous record.

Adams also secured wins for the Aggies in the 200-yard butterfly, and along with Larson, Miller and

Liliana Ibanez-Lopez won the 400-medley relay. Ibanez also won the conso-lation final in the 100-free-style while Miller won the 100-backstroke.

In the men’s competition, John Dalton led the way for the Aggies, breaking the 100-freestyle record twice. Diver Ford McLiney finished joint second in the platform diving event and put himself in the third spot in the team’s all-time Top Ten.

“We rely on him for so many things,” A&M head coach Jay Holmes said of Dalton. “He’s in the water more than anyone else. We expect a lot out of him, and I expect him to keep getting better. He broke the 100-free record today and he already has the 50-free re-cord. He hasn’t broken the 200-free record, but I really believe he will.”

Holmes said he was disap-pointed in his team’s finish.

“I think my guys raced really well,” Holmes said. “We had some really good swims in there. I’m disap-pointed in the team finish, but there are several events that we’re going to have to get a whole lot better in and those key events cost us. We’ve historically gotten better as the season goes on and we’re continuing to do that.”

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Senior pitcher Mel Dumezich followed a Monday no-hitter with another in an 8-0 run-ruling of SELU on Sunday.

Senior pitcher Mel Dumezich threw her first career no-hitter on Monday against Stephen F. Austin. Her second came less than one week later in an 8-0 Sunday win over Southeastern Louisiana.

The weekend pushed No. 9 A&M softball into uncharted territory—the 17-0 start dwarfs the next-best start in program history, a 12-0 opening to the 2007 season.

The Aggies sandwiched two wins over UTSA on Friday and Saturday with two wins over Purdue, before capping the weekend with the Dumezich no-hitter against SELU.

Dumezich improves to 11-0 with a 0.43 ERA and just four earned runs in 57 innings. At the plate, Dumezich hits .304 with three homeruns and 14 RBIs.

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Men’s hoops falls in fourth overtimeDespite a game-high 38 points from senior guard Elston Turner on 16-33 shooting, a lack of depth cost A&M in the 93-85 four-overtime loss to Tennessee. Four Aggies had fouled out by the start of the fourth overtime, while no Tennessee player had.

Baseball drops Pepperdine seriesAn unearned run in the ninth inning allowed Pepperdine to squeeze by with a 2-1 Sunday win to net a 2-1 series win for Pepperdine. A&M won 3-1 on Saturday, but Pepperdine took the series opener on Friday 3-5. A&M is now 5-3 overall this season.

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Senior guard Elston Turner took 33 A&M shots in 58 minutes.

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Freshman outfielder Jonathon Maroney records a hit on Sunday.

Women’s basketball loses at VanderbiltJunior center Kelsey Bone (17 points) and senior forward Kristi Bellock (12 points, 10 rebounds) were not enough to prevent a second straight loss for No. 10 A&M, a 61-51 road loss at Vanderbilt. A&M fell to 21-7 overall and 11-3 in conference play.

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Junior center Kelsey Bone led A&M with 17 points in the loss.

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REIDJOSEPHHow did you feel after the results were announced Friday?

RJ: I am very, very humbled to be in this position and absolutely all the credit, like we’ve said from day one, goes to Christ in this process. He is my personal Lord and Savior, and I am not ashamed by that. We are very humbled, but very excited as well.

What’s something new you have learned more about the position of SBP?

RJ: I guess it has just hit me that 8,000 students trusted our campaign with this position. The biggest differ-ence between now and last week is the responsibility that comes with

knowing that they have entrusted us with this position — and obviously, it is our duty to represent the students.

What will you be doing to prepare for next year?

RJ: I got to go to an event this evening and be with John Claybrook and see how he does every-

thing and learn from him. We are going to make the most of this time before April 22, because

there is a big learning curve. Ob-viously that is a challenge, but we look forward to challenges.

What’s one of the first statements you’d like to make as student body president-elect?

RJ: The first thing I would say is how humbled I am to be en-

trusted to this position of service to the University. Two: how thank-ful and appreciative I am to all of the voters. Third: how excited I am about this upcoming year, and having the opportunity to repre-sent the greatest student body in the world.

Other notable policy papers included the plan to change the U.S. broadcasting system to support bet-ter relations.

“I was host, and the proposal that my table had was about changing our broadcasting system that we use in America to get news to the world and making it more internet-friendly and making it less radio-de-pendent,” said Jordan Harris, SCONA chief of staff.

Marshal Rankin, junior history major, was a part of the round table whose policy paper is being con-sidered for publication. Rankin said the whole event gives future leaders the chance to build the skills that will help create a better world.

“My hope in being so nerdy about all of this stuff is to help our country and spread peace,” Rankin said. “To be honest, I really hope I am able to make a good lasting impact on our country for the better.”

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Robert Carpenter: Why the Kyle Field referendum doesn’t mean what you think

Much ado about nothing

It was the first announcement of Friday evening, quickly forgotten by the few

hundred students waiting around Sul Ross for election results.

That Kyle Field Renovation Fee Refer-endum — let’s talk about it. With more than 12,000 students weighing in: 65.16 percent oppose, 34.84 percent support.

But what exactly does this result mean?At face value, it means almost two-thirds

of the student body is “[against] increasing sports pass prices and fees, and support fund-ing the renovations out of funds currently generated by the University Advancement Fee [UAF].” The remaining third support increasing the UAF by $23.25 per semester for a full-time student and sports passes by $139.20.

If only things were so simple.The background to the referendum is an

elaborate, $450 million overhaul of Kyle Field. Students have been asked to provide $75 million, with other funds coming from donors and the cities of Bryan-College Sta-tion. The referendum was intended to gauge how students wanted to afford this obligation.

Students were presented a choice: Pay extra for a better football stadium, or receive the same better football stadium without paying a penny more. It is a manipulative di-chotomy that was camouflaged on the ballot by complex explanations.

The costs of increasing student fees and sports passes were clear, quantifiable and explicitly communicated — namely, $185.70 per year for a full-time student with a sports pass.

Contrastingly, the cost of not increas-ing student fees was insidiously hidden in the clause, “funding the renovations out of funds currently generated by the University Advancement Fee.”

Everyone who is surprised that students would rather keep their money than give it to A&M, please raise your hand. For those with their hands raised, refer to the refer-endum results, which confirm this principle and little else.

I can almost hear my microeconom-ics professor lecturing about this situation: “There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Someone has to pay.”

A little background about the mysterious UAF: University President R. Bowen Loftin introduced the fee last spring as a band-aid meant to take money from some depart-ments and distribute to others according to prioritized need.

In essence, the fee was created to make the student’s tuition dollar go farther, out of necessity. It helps fund academic and stu-dent-support operations including libraries, the Department of Student Life, IT services

and many other University operations that play roles in our education.

With this in mind, consider once more the first option offered by Student Senate on the referendum: Do not increase student fees, but take $5 million from the UAF every year to pay for the football stadium renovation.

As one senator flippantly wrote about the issue, “You’re saying we really can’t find less than $5 million worth of bureaucracy to cut for a few years?”

Replace the term “$5 million worth of bureaucracy” with “$5 million worth of staff/technology/library hours,” and the term “a few years” with “three decades.” Now we have appropriate context.

Although the senator was within his liberty to argue with whatever rhetoric for whatever result he desired, it was inappropri-ate to allow this sentiment to creep into the referendum itself.

Students were funneled toward a conclu-sion by the manner in which the referendum was worded, a fact about which University administrators are aware. Why do you think the administration released its own, simul-taneous poll last week concerning the exact same Kyle Field topic as the SGA referendum?

If the administration decides to ignore the referendum and impose fee and sports pass increases next year, student senators will inevitably throw their hands up, crying that student voice is being ignored. I am even willing to concede for the sake of argument that Loftin and others may very well have already planned to move forward with fee increases, regardless of student feedback and regardless of how the question was worded.

But the thing is — we will never know.By outlining the cost of one option and

ignoring the costs of the other — by stacking the deck — Senate sacrificed the best oppor-tunity we had to gauge student opinion.

In what context other than student elections will SGA solicit 12,000 student responses in a two-day period? Look as you may, there isn’t one.

I am not disappointed in this referendum because of the result. Truth be told, I believe that the $200-per-student increase would be better spent retaining faculty than erecting a gaudy sanctuary to our football obsession. But I am disappointed because the referen-dum writers in Student Senate did not trust the student body to make the right decision on its own.

Robert Carpenter is a senior applied mathematical sciences major and former editor-in-chief of The Battalion.

The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by the various authors and forum participants in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of Texas A&M University, The Battalion or its staff.

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rying about who they would take to the school dance or wondering where they would go to high school, Tim Farmer was dreaming of brighter lights and faster beats.

Farmer, known locally as DJ Roughneck, said it has always been his dream to get in-volved in music.

“I got my first set in eighth grade — a start-er kit,” said Farmer, sophomore petroleum engineering major. “It was really horrible, ac-tually.”

Growing up, Farm-er’s musical choices and interests were in-fluenced by his DJ un-cles in New York and by his pianist father and guitarist mother.

“They were all a re-ally big influence, my uncles especially with their music selection,” Farmer said. “They’re really big on me lis-tening to all different genres of music.”

Farmer began by playing parties at his high school. His first major performance occurred during his freshman year, when a friend invited him to play at a house party.

“I was expecting it to be a really small party—it was huge! I didn’t know that. This guy had a massive house, I borrowed a few of my buddies’ speakers and amps, we set a few up inside and a few out around the pool and stuff, and it was crazy,” Farmer said. “It was one of those dream parties—the kind you imagine every time you think about throw-ing a party.”

Farmer said he was in love with mixing music from that moment on.

“I was really surprised, and it really stuck in my head,” Farmer said. “I think if my first gig had been something really small and stu-pid I wouldn’t have gone after it as much. I wasn’t bad. I was pretty good, but I didn’t have a lot of recognition around the town. I couldn’t go to clubs or anything—I couldn’t get in, but it went on from there.”

And it certainly has continued—DJ Roughneck has played at different ven-ues around Bryan and College Station, to a crowd that is continuously increasing. A lot

of this increasing fame has resulted from the style he’s developed.

“My biggest thing is doing an open-for-mat sort of style, mixing anything that sounds good together and not necessarily keeping to the same genre,” Farmer said. “My favorite mixes are multi-genre mixes. Rock, hip-hop, rap, electronic, whatever you like, especially if it’s mixed with something that’s familiar.”

Andrew Reimherr, sophomore business administration major said Farmer is good at mixing a wide variety of music together.

“He is a great DJ in the fact that he knows the audience he is walk-ing into,” Reimherr said. “If he’s doing a frat party, birthday, gig for a friend, he can adjust really well to that crowd. The style is obviously more hip-hop oriented from the few times I’ve heard him play, but he definitely doesn’t just rely on that.”

Florence Pickup, a sophomore in the recip-rocal education exchange program said Farmer is good at understanding what the crowd wants.

“I’d say that that’s an important part of a good DJ,” Pickup said. “They have to know how to read the crowd—pick it up if they’re

slowing down, that sort of thing.”

Farmer said a big part of why he DJs is crowd reaction—being able to lift a crowd’s spirits as well as getting them moving. He said he wants to make their experiences memo-rable ones.

“I roughneck during the summer—that’s why they call me DJ Roughneck—and I make way more money working on the oil rigs than I do with my DJing, but my favor-ite thing is, if I can get a bunch of people together and get them really excited, not just about the music but about their lives in gen-eral. That’s a good night,” Farmer said.

Farmer said he wants his music to be about motivating and inspiring people.

“When you think of music, it’s a huge part of life,” Farmer said. “Everybody listens to the radio, when they’re walking around campus they have their earphones in, listen-ing to whatever, and they’re just looking for something to motivate them to do the next big thing in their life. I want to bring that to people.”

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