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Students gather at the Bonfire Memorial at 2:42 a.m. Sunday, the exact time stack collapsed, to remember the tragedy that took the lives of 12 Aggies in 1999. The Aggie Bonfire was built and burned on campus for 90 years. The first bonfire was built in 1907 and fueled by trash and debris. Bonfire grew more elaborate after the first, towering several stories high with flames that could be seen for miles. Since the collapse, the University has not sanctioned an on-campus Bonfire. Instead a student-run bonfire takes place off campus to continue the tradition. See the remembrance ceremony video at thebatt.com.

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Johnny Manziel stiff-arms a Sam Houston State player Saturday afternoon at Kyle Field. Manziel became the first freshman and first SEC player ever with 3,000 yards passing and 1,000 yards rushing during Saturday’s game. Turn to page 4 for the reaction.

Freshman guard Courtney Walker defends against UCONN’s guard Breanna Stewart.

No. 2 UConn routs A&M

A stretch of three non-conference, top-10 matchups to begin the season ended as the No. 16 Aggies fell behind early to No. 2 UConn and never threat-ened. The Huskies used a 41-22 second half to bury A&M at Reed, 81-50.

A&M dropped to 0-3 with the loss after falling to top-10 ranked Louisville and Penn State.

Freshman guard Courtney Walker paced the Aggies with a career-best 20 points to go with seven rebounds, three assists and two steals.

“My shot was just falling today,”

Walker said. “I trusted my shot a little more and started shooting to make it rather than shooting because I’m open.”

But UConn was too much, par-ticularly in the post. A&M head coach Gary Blair said the basketball savvy of the UConn personnel trumped that of his roster.

“UConn was pretty much in mid-season form,” Blair said. “Most of their shots were wide open. Their ball move-ment and their ball skills are great. Their kids understand the game a little bit bet-ter than mine.”

Junior center Stefanie Dolson had 24

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Preliminary plans offer look at possible West Campus living

On-campus living during the first year of college is con-sidered by some to be a won-derful way to transition into college life. At A&M, students are limited to Corps housing, the Commons or one of the Northside dorms. That may

change in the future with the possible addition of a West Campus dorm complex.

West Campus — which in-cludes Mays Business School, the veterinary college, agri-culture programs, life sciences, the Bush School and a major-ity of the sporting facilities on

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for the Huskies — 20 in the first half, including a jumper to beat the halftime buzzer. UConn had four players in double figures and shot 56.1 percent from the field.

UConn head coach Geno Au-riemma said Dolson’s style of play mirrors that of his program.

“In the first half, Stefanie car-ried us,” Auriemma said. “She was unbelievable. She’s the personality of our team. The way she played, that’s our team. With her foot-work and her mobility and where she’s at mentally, if we throw it to her something good is going to happen.”

The success of the interior game opened the wings for the Huskies and their three-point shooters, who made 7-16 from behind the arc.

Dolson said the outside shooting paved the way for her success.

“The last couple of games, we’ve shown we can shoot the ball, which spreads the floor and makes my job a lot easier in the paint,” Dolson said.

Junior center Kelsey Bone strug-

gled to find her rhythm, finishing with eight points and three re-bounds. At times, head coach Gary Blair went with lineups featuring as many as four freshmen, but the Ag-gies couldn’t close the gap no matter how creative the lineup.

UConn established Dolson on the way to an 11-2 lead they wouldn’t relinquish. Bone missed a pair from the field, two layups were wiped away for traveling vio-lations and Bone was relegated to the bench after being called for an intentional foul that put the mo-mentum firmly in the hands of the visitors.

Blair said the losses could help shape the team in a positive manner moving forward.

“Sometimes you have to take a little butt-kicking to figure out who you are and find your identity,” Blair said. “If we play the blame game, we won’t get better as a bas-ketball team.”

A&M takes the court next against

Liberty on Tuesday.

“My thought right now is give

me Liberty or give me death on

Tuesday,” Blair said. “We’re pretty

close to death right now.”

Tanner Garza — THE BATTALION

BasketballContinued from page 1

campus — currently has no liv-

ing establishment for students.

There are plans for the University

to build dorm and apartment-style

living for students right behind the

School of Rural and Public Health.

“The plans are all conceptual

at this point,” said Chareny Rydl,

director of residence life. “Once

there has been an official approval

then we will have to go and put it

on the capital plan and that would

outline a time frame.”

In the case that a plan is ap-

proved, it is estimated that con-

struction would be a two-year

process, with a conceptual budget

of $150 million. The dorms would

hold up to 3,100 students and

would accommodate parking and

dining as well.

Rydl said ideas were taken from

both traditional residence halls and

off-campus apartments during the

planning process.

“It would be similar to the

Commons and like what is hap-

pening on Northside, and our

hopes would be that it would tar-

get freshman,” Rydl said. “Statis-

tics show that if students live on

campus their first year, they have

better GPRs, remain at the Uni-

versity and continue to go on to get

advanced degrees. This would be

supporting A&M’s goal to work on

getting students out and retention

at the University.”

The location for the new dorms

spans over the location of the

Howdy! Farm, a student run and

operated organic farm, whose goal

is to enrich students’ time and re-

sources through organic, sustain-

able and environmental farming.

This means the dorms would ei-

ther have to integrate the farm with

the location or the Howdy! Farm

would have to relocate.

“We would appreciate the farm

being integrated with the planned

structures,” said Matthew Wein-

trub, senior horticulture major

and Howdy! Farm field director.

“Student Senate even passed a

bill requiring best efforts be made

to integrate the farm into any

planned structures.”

Student Senate’s bill regarding

the Howdy! Farm congratulated

the farm on its success and requests

that future buildings on West

Campus do not negatively affect it.

Mark Womack, international

affairs graduate student and execu-

tive vice president for the Student

Government Association, said the

bill’s purpose is to help sustain the

Howdy! Farm and better integrate

into campus life.

“The hope is to not just build

around it, but to find ways to in-

tegrate the Howdy! Farm into the

living and learning environment

on West Campus,” Womack said.

“I am excited that campus is grow-

ing and have an understanding that

construction might need to take

place on the current location. So

relocation [of the Howdy Farm]

to another on-campus location

is acceptable.”

The ideas for the dorms are

dependent on the approval pro-

cess of the plans, but officials are

hoping these West Campus dorms

will feel just like the Commons on

Main Campus.

“We do not want to make these

dorms feel isolated,” Rydl said.

“We are hoping to do some things,

as we build it, to make it feel a part

of A&M and that they are con-

nected. It is just an extension of

campus, but we will not be able to

do anything until it is approved.”

West CampusContinued from page 1

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All work, some play

It has been a long and grueling season for the Texas A&M Aggies, who have not had

a week off since Hurricane Isaac postponed the season opener against Louisiana Tech.

Eleven straight weeks of physical, hard-nosed, SEC football.

While Sam Houston State could have been overlooked since they come from the Football Championship Subdivision, head coach Kevin Sumlin was not going to let his team have that mentality.

The Aggie offense started off stagnant but the energy level and, more importantly, the focus remained intact.

The fact that this team is hitting its stride over a stretch that could have tired it out speaks volumes to the work the coaching staff has done to keep the players fresh. Sumlin has kept in focus one aspect that can get lost in the transition of the football ranks: the need to go out and have some fun.

The Aggies took care of business against the Bearkats early, opening a 47-0 lead. Manziel became the fifth

player and the first freshman in NCAA history to have 3,000 yards passing and 1,000 yards rushing.

Just a typical first half for Johnny Football: breaking records, making highlight plays, and dominating the game like the Heisman candidate that he is.

Early in the second half, Johnny connected with Uzoma Nwachkwu for an 89 yard touchdown pass. As the Aggies took the field to kick the extra point, kicker Taylor Bertolet was still on the sidelines. Instead, Johnny Football stayed on the field as the crowd began to process what was happening. It was then that Sumlin opened up a window into what goes on behind the scenes.

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thebatt.comSoccer falls, ends seasonNo. 7 Florida State knocked A&M out of the NCAA tournament, 0-4.

volleyball | A&M beat Missouri

3-1 at home to clinch the SEC

West regular season title.

equestrian | Taking on No.

1 South Carolina, A&M came up

shy, 8-11.

w. basketball | No. 2 UConn

shelled the Aggies 81-50 in Reed

Arena for A&M’s third straight loss.

he didn’t make it, the play showed that Sumlin was not trying to patronize the Bearkats, or that Bertolet is not his extra point kicker anymore, but that this team needs to have a laughing moment so everyone in the crowd and on the field can enjoy the game of football.

We finally learned that Johnny Football can’t do everything: he can’t kick an extra point.

In the post-game press conference, Sumlin shed light on the fact that Manziel

has made kicks in practice and thought that it would be a good time to unleash Johnny Fútbol.

Was this just another Aggie victory?

Think about the implications of the game. The Aggies stayed in the win column, kept their season goals in check and won a game on a Saturday that upsets hit Oregon and Kansas State and saw Heisman front-runners Collin Klein and Marcus Mariota lose their grip on the coveted award.

It was a Saturday where Coach Sumlin allowed his boys to go out, take care of business and have some fun. In the coaching business, where perfection and what-have-you-done-for-me-now mentalities take over

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Just ask Johnny Fútbol.

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Roger Zhang — THE BATTALION

Amid the much-anticipated reopening of the Memorial Student Center this past year was the quiet addition of a simple and eco-friendly system: the water bottle filling station.

Easy to install and wide-reaching in im-pact, these stations are increasingly in high de-mand as the their popularity among students prompts a widening growth around campus.

“Students are really clamoring for [the stations],” said Carol Binzer, director of ad-ministrative and support systems at Texas A&M’s Department of Residence Life. “The MSC reopening sparked a lot of interest and we’ve been trying to keep up with demand ever since.”

The first eight water bottle filling stations — seen as water fountain attachments in buildings such as the MSC and the Student Recreation Center — opened on campus during the fall 2011 semester and interest be-gan to gather as students realized their value.

“I think they’re fantastic” said Ana Chang, freshman biomedical engineering major. “It’s so much more convenient to use them than water fountains. I personally don’t like the tap water taste [in College Station], so being able to drink filtered water without having to go out and buy bottled water is great.”

While the filling stations have existed in several campus buildings for almost a year, their debut in on-campus housing has re-ceived a lot of support.

“Mosher was the first [residence hall] to put

one in last summer,” Binzer said. “There was

no advertisement, yet the station performed

30,000 fills in just two months.”

This popularity and the positive impact these stations have on the environment has caused the Department of Residence Life to make an effort to install a filling station in as many residence halls as possible.

“Our goal is to get at least one station in each building,” Binzer said.

One of the ways a residence hall can have a station installed is through the Sustainability Challenge. Started five years ago, the chal-lenge gives residence halls the opportunity to earn points through utility conservation, namely through efficient use of laundry, re-cycling and other initiatives.

Water bottle filling stations are paid for by the Aggie Green Fund, a student-run con-servation fund approved by the student body in the spring of 2010. Stations are installed on existing water fountains. It costs about $1,200 to install and each $100 filter is good for 30,000 refills. Users can see how much waste has been avoided from plastic bottle consumption by looking at the display screen above the filter.

In addition to environmental conserva-tion, a filling station holds importance in other areas as well.

“[Filling stations] have really cut down on the amount of money spent on refilling the vending machines with new water bottles, saving both the school and students money by offering a reusable option instead of having to buy new every single time,” said Bradley Gaulden, member of the Aggie Green Fund Advisory Board. “It has brought a sense of awareness that water bottles are a huge con-tributor to waste and that by refilling your own bottle, you are doing a small task that really has a huge benefit.”

John Rangel The Battalion

Filling stations add up on campus

Cleveland Jones, junior wildlife and fisheries major, uses a water filling station to refill his water bottle Sunday evening in the MSC.


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Besides the various brand-name foods and flashy pack-aging that influences many students’ spending decisions when grocery shopping, a different preference is begin-ning to make or break the choice between one food or the other: organic, or not?

Organic foods have slowly assimilated into mainstream culture during the past de-cades as both public and pri-vate sectors have responded to the growing interest. The movement is most visibly seen in the wide variety now available in grocery stores, the emergence of self-professed organic suppliers such as Whole Foods and the passing of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act in 2010.

The U.S. Department of

Agriculture defines organic

food as produce grown on land

without the use of pesticides,

fertilizers or chemicals. In ad-

dition to these guidelines, the

farmers who produce organic

food must emphasize the use

of renewable resources and

the conservation of soil and

water. Many students go or-

ganic because it seems like the

healthier option.

“I buy organic food when

I’m able to,” said Taylor

Walling, senior mathemat-

ics major. “It doesn’t neces-

sarily taste better than [con-

ventionally] produced foods, but I feel better about eating it because I don’t like the thought of putting man-made or synthesized foods into my body.”

But does eating organ-ic actually have a positive health impact?

“Eating organic is a con-sumer preference,” said Lin-da Talley, lecturer at Texas A&M’s Department of Nu-trition and Food Science. “[Science] is unable to prove whether foods popularly de-fined as organic are nutri-tionally any different than food produced through con-ventional means. Consum-ers view pesticides as a huge problem, but when was the last time you heard of a pesti-cide poisoning case?”

A more significant deter-minant for food health is not whether the food is organic, but how consumers handle it after purchase.

Talley said there are 48 million cases of foodborne illness in the U.S. every year, primarily from bacteria. She said the number could be cut drastically if consumers handled their food properly by storing it at the designated temperatures or washing it before consumption.

However, the current sci-entific consensus does not completely undermine the possible health aspect of or-ganic foods.

“There’s a lot of controver-sy on the topic,” said Weston Porter, associate professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. “It’s a healthy argu-ment. [Mass-produced foods] can introduce compounds not normally made by the body, which could affect re-production and cause cancer. However, cancer rates have actually been going down and there haven’t been any popu-lation changes.”

Some students said eating organic foods is not about nutritional value, but about a lifestyle choice.

“I eat organic food when-ever I can,” said Berkay Ba-sagaoglu, freshman biomedi-cal engineering major. “It’s mostly for psychological ben-efit. I consider eating organic as a part of an overall healthy lifestyle to put my body in the best shape possible.”

Porter said using organic production techniques does not have the ability to main-tain high-yield to feed the U.S. population. The ben-efits of mass-produced food outweigh the risks by far and without them, we would not be able to feed the world.

“It isn’t cost [efficient] for me,” Walling said. “Organic foods are usually too expen-sive to buy on a regular ba-sis, especially since I have no regular source of income as a college student.”

John Rangel The Battalion

Organic benefits weigh students’ decisions

Organic cherries are sold at the farmer’s market on campus. The USDA defines organic food as produce grown without the use of pesticides or other chemicals.


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