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Cushing Library accepting filk material for collectionSONG AND SCI-FI

In an effort to expand its presti-gious science fiction literature ar-chives, Cushing Library has begun

to seek out donations for a “filk” collec-tion, a task that comes with a unique set of obstacles.

“Filk” refers to a type of fan music rooted in science fiction culture that has since branched out into other genres. Filk songs can either be original or can be created by altering or parody-ing an existing song with new lyr-

ics. Weird Al Yankovic is considered a filk artist by many, as are the wizard-rock band Harry and the Potters.

“It’s a person and gui-tar and a lot of times

they write existing songs with science fiction or fantasy themes,” said Lauren Schiller, Cushing Library specialist. “Or

they write a song about their cat or

they write a song about

their computer.” Jeremy Brett, curator for the Cush-

ing Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection, said the term originated from a 1950s article on the influence of science fiction on folk music, wherein the author accidently combined the terms and ended up with “filk.”

“It started out in the science fiction community, so it’s tied in a lot of ways to that,” Brett said. “But there are plen-ty of other communities that have taken

to that.”The filk community today is well estab-

lished with nationwide conventions, a hall of fame in Ontario, and the Ohio Valley Filk Fest Pegasus awards. But despite filk’s growing influence in music culture, Schil-ler said she has only found Bowling Green State University in Ohio to include filk in a list of material they collect.

Brett said while very few institutions in

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YouTube channel highlights on-campus researchPhysics graduate student explains his work on graphene

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In order to shine light on its efforts and achievements, the Graduate Student Council, in conjunction with The

Partnerships for Environmental Education and Rural Health Program, will release Tuesday the first video of its new YouTube channel, “Breaking Grad.” The channel will fea-ture graduate student research projects and let undergraduates peek into the lives of Aggie graduate students.

Jennifer Graham, GSC marketing committee co-chair and biomedical sciences graduate student, said the GSC has been working on the YouTube channel since the fall.

Ryan Beemer, co-chair of the GSC marketing committee and civil engineering graduate student, came up with the idea

for the project in September to share the research of A&M graduate students with the rest of the world.

“I wanted to give some grad students the opportunity to voice their research out to basically YouTube and to have a chance to say, ‘This is what I’m doing,’” Beemer said, “And to also give them an opportunity to show what grad stu-dents are doing on campus and that what they are doing is valuable.”

The premiere video features physics graduate student Les Sheffield and the research he has conducted over the last five years. Inspired and directed by Dudley Herschbach, Nobel laureates and Texas A&M professor of physics, Sheffield orig-inally focused on studying the basic properties of fundamental particles in molecular collision experiments.

The Large Hadron Collider, CERN’s flagship particle accelerator responsible for confirming the existence of the Higgs Boson, also studies the fundamental properties of

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Physics graduate student Les Scheffield explains his work as a part of GSC’s YouTube channel.See YouTube on page 4

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Junior guard Jamal Jones attacks the rim against South Carolina on Wednesday at Reed Arena. The Aggies won 75-67.

Aggies face Wildcats in Rupp Arenamens basketball

The Texas A&M men’s basketball team faces its toughest matchup

of the season Tuesday as it heads to Lexington, Ky., to face the No. 14 Kentucky Wildcats at 8 p.m. in Rupp Arena.

The Aggies (12-5, 3-1 SEC) look to return to their winning ways af-ter suffering an overtime loss, and lone conference loss of the sea-son, during Saturday’s game against

Mississippi State. Last season, the Aggies split two

games against the Wildcats, with both teams able to earn victories on the road. The Aggies upset the Wild-cats 83-71 in Rupp Arena behind a 40-point explosion from graduated senior Elston Turner. The A&M vic-tory marked the first home SEC loss for the Wildcats under head coach John Calipari.

Although the Aggies don’t have Turner to lean on this year, they look to junior guard Jamal Jones to carry over his 24-point outburst

Saturday at Mississippi State — his fifth-straight contest scoring in dou-ble-digits and third-straight 20-point performance — to Tuesday’s show-down with Kentucky. Jones comes into the game averaging 20.8 points per game in SEC play, ranking him second in the league.

Freshman forward Davonte Fitzgerald is averaging 13 points in SEC play and earned SEC fresh-man of the week honors last week. Sophomore guard Alex Caruso has

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Cassette tapes with the music of Leslie Fish, author and well-known filk artist, are among filk material collected in the early stages by Cushing Library.

See Filk on page 4

insidetrends | 5Spring MSC Open House showcases studentsHundreds of organizations gathered in the MSC Sunday. The Battalion talked to some organizations to expose students to the variety of student life on campus.

religion | 3Islam and AmericaEvent planned for Thursday to contrast common misconceptions on Islam. University of Pennsylvania professor Emily Sutcliffe to offer insight on American perceptions and tolerance.

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“I like his idea of a peaceful protest and trying to get people to unite. You can change things with your words

in a peaceful way.”Erin Hoelscher, sophomore

communication major

Q:thebattasks What part of Martin Luther King’s message impacts you the most?

“The idea of challenging ingrained social stereotypes. Just because it’s always been a certain way, it doesn’t mean that

it’s not possible to change that.” Dion Hubble, senior chemical engineering major

“The equality part, where we’re all in this together. We have diversity in this campus, and I know we can all

get along with each other regardless of who we are.”

Christina Higdon, freshman biology major

“There’s a large amount of diversity around campus. If it wasn’t for MLK’s vision and ideas, we wouldn’t be able to enjoy this University as much as we do and there would be people who

wouldn’t have a� ected A&M’s history as much as they have.” Andrew Quesada, junior political science major

“The best part was the peacefulness of it. He wanted people to be treated

exactly equal, where no one was favored over anyone else.”

Cari Klostermann, junior animal sciences major

“Having rights for everyone because it’s hard for everyone to remember diversity. I’m an RA on campus, so it’s easy to notice when people don’t treat others the same, even when

it’s things you don’t expect to be treated di� erently on.” Claire Casey, junior English and anthropology major

Walker named SEC Women’s Player of the WeekAfter leading Texas A&M in points scored in its wins over No. 8 South Carolina and Mississippi State, sophomore guard Courtney Walker has been named SEC Women’s Basketball Player of the Week. Walker is the fi rst A&M player to receive the honor of SEC Player of the Week in the 2013-14 season. Walker averaged 17 points, 3.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.0 steals in the two games and has scored in double fi gures in four consecutive games. For the season, Walker is scoring 13.2 points per game, which leads the team.

Fitzgerald named SEC Freshman of the WeekAfter logging a career-high 20 points in Saturday’s loss to Mississippi State, Texas A&M’s freshman Davonte Fitzgerald was named the SEC Freshman of the Week on Monday. Fitzgerald, a 6-foot-7 forward from Atlanta, Ga., is averaging 16.6 points per game while shooting 60 percent from the fi eld over the past two games. His 13 points per game average in conference play ranks him sixth among SEC freshman.

taken over sole possession of the Aggies’ point guard duties and remains the SEC leader in assists (88) and assists per game (5.2).

Kentucky (13-4, 3-1 SEC) enters Tuesday’s matchup scoring 80.4 points per game, while the Aggie defense is holding its opponents to 61.5 points per game.

The Aggie defense will have its hands full as it tries to tame the trio of freshmen talent Kentucky brings to the floor. Julius Randle averages 16.9 points per game followed by twins Aaron and Andrew Harrison, who are averaging 14.1 and 11.5 points, respectively.

Tuesday’s game is slated for primetime television and will be broadcast on ESPN as a part of its Super Tuesday coverage with Brad Nessler and Jimmy Dykes calling the action.

Tuesday’s matchup will be the sixth meeting on the hardwood between A&M and Kentucky. The series be-gan during the 1941-42 season and Kentucky holds the all-time edge 3-2.

Following the game in Lexington, the Aggies will head back home to take on the Vanderbilt Commo-dores at noon Saturday in Reed Arena.

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The Muslim Students’ Asso-ciation will present “Islam-

ophobia: Exploring the bound-aries of American tolerance” Thursday to kick off the Islam Awareness Initiative, a series of events aimed at educating the public about Islam.

Emily Sutcliffe of the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania Law School will be the speaker at “Islamophobia” and will ex-plore her perceptions of wheth-er American society’s focus on diversity as an issue of skin color has negatively impacted its abil-ity to benefit from different lifestyles, the boundaries of tol-erance and if tolerance should even be the goal.

Ziad Syed, education officer of the Muslim Students’ Asso-ciation and accounting graduate student, said the group hosts the Islam Awareness Initiative each year to educate the community about Islam in a proper way, as opposed to simply using an In-ternet search.

“One of the big issues we have with this is the fact that not a lot of people know about Islam, and when they want to find out they go on the Inter-net and search for it,” Syed said. “Usually the people who have the most hate tend to be the loudest, so that’s the voice that they usually tend to hear.”

Syed said the goal of the Islam Awareness Initiative is to create a forum where student ques-tions on Islam can be answered by qualified speakers instead of other sources with sometimes misleading information.

Rafaat Yamak, junior geol-ogy major, said the purpose of

Sutcliffe’s presentation is not simply to only deal with Islamo-phobia, but any phobias toward lifestyles found on campus.

“I think phobias in general, whether it’s Islam or homopho-bia or fear of anything, should be addressed here at Texas A&M,” Yamak said. “We want to address any stereotypes, any misconceptions, and just ad-dress any phobia of any belief system in general, not just Islam. That’s the whole point of the event.”

Yamak said Islam is a reli-gion that is just as American as any other religion but is often misunderstood, a problem that he said is fueled by the media. Such misconceptions will be addressed in Sutcliffe’s presen-tation.

Belal Krad, who completed his master’s degree in mechani-cal engineering at A&M last December, said students should take it upon themselves to learn and look past any media mis-portrayals by going to events such as Sutcliffe’s, and that Muslims should also make just as much effort to learn about their religion.

“Honestly, everyone should attend these types of events. Not just non-Muslims, but even the people of the Muslim faith,” Krad said. “One of the goals of the [Islam Awareness Initiative] is to reach out to the community and to show us that we are there, we do have a pres-ence, we do have a voice so the goal is to get everyone to come to these events, not specific to any type of person.”

“Islamophobia: Exploring the boundaries of American tol-erance” will be from 7-8 p.m Thursday in MSC 2406A. The Islam Awareness Initiative’s speaker schedule can be found at msa.tamu.edu and will con-tinue through early April.

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selor applications are now open for Texas A&M’s chapter of Camp Ke-sem, which provides the opportunity to spend a week of the summer with children coping with the emotional strain that cancer can place on a family.

Camp Kesem is a nationwide orga-nization designed to bring happiness to children from ages six to 16 who have a parent diagnosed with cancer. The organization was established in 2002 and the Texas A&M chapter began in 2007.

While the first camp started with only eight campers, 90 are expected this year, said Camp Kesem volunteer coordinator Caitlin Laneri, senior me-chanical engineering major.

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While the parents of campers are incredibly grateful and the camp is rewarding for their children, Dawson said the counselors gain something in the experience as well.

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Kesem counselors gain what I believe to be the most rewarding experience that one can have during their college career.”

Dawson said being a counselor is a balance between being a mentor and a friend, ensuring that campers experi-ence the carefree kind of fun that all children deserve.

“The campers look to you not only as the ‘cool college kid,’ but as their role model too,” Dawson said. “These children, many of whom have never really had a childhood due to their par-ent’s illness, are given an opportunity to be kids again. The smiles on the children’s faces while at Camp Kesem are more than worth it.”

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“Its amazing how a week at Camp Kesem not only changes the lives of campers, but of all the counselors as well,” Armstrong said. “Camp Kesem is about making magic in the lives of children of cancer patients.”

Applications for counselor positions will be open online until Jan. 24, and the organization is looking to accept about 45 counselors for this summer.

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Veritas is known for its Asian and French infused cuisine, but will soon be home

to what author and executive chef, Tai Lee, calls the first locally published cookbook in College Station.

Lee, Class of 2002, said writing a cookbook wasn’t in his wildest dreams as a student and that cooking was once a hobby rather than a profession.

“I was a finance major at A&M and I thought I was going to take a very stable route into a busi-ness world, not a chal-lenging road of restaurant industry,” Lee said.

Shannon Telvin, ju-nior human resource development major, said the cookbook was a great way to keep things local.

“It’s great especially for those who enjoy cooking from something other than your run-of-the-mill cookbook,” Te-vlin said.

Initially, Lee said he thought about making a small cookbook several years ago as a gift idea for family and friends, but not the fully published work he has today.

“The initial works I have put in to make that small cookbook has paid off when we got the book deal,” Lee said. “We were able to get the

book designed and published within six months of time.”

Lee said he felt lucky when the editor of the publishing company visited College Station and happened to dine in his restaurant.

Lee primarily works at Veritas, but he inter-acts with Aggies on campus through his many food trucks.

“I used to go once or twice a week,” said Alexis Salisbury, sophomore computer science major. “It’s really convenient and you know they’re making it right there for you so it’s fresh, and that’s neat.”

Salisbury also said she feels the cookbook is great for A&M.

“Obviously, that’s really cool,” Salisbury said. “A lot of things here are Aggie owned and operated so it’s nice keeping tradition.”

Lee said he felt ex-tremely honored a pub-lishing company would even consider a small restaurant to be publish-worthy. He said a sin-gle cookbook wouldn’t necessarily define who he had become, rather it would be a snapshot of what he had accom-plished as a chef.

Lee said inspiration for the cookbook came to

him because of his passion for cooking and shar-ing that passion with people.

“On this much more elaborated cookbook, the essence of that ‘gift’ continues as we share our cooking style and techniques with more people around the country and share what makes us such a unique establishment in the Aggieland,” Lee said.

colliding beams of gas, but does so by ac-celerating particles to high speeds and ob-serving their interactions with other parti-cles. Looking at the same collision dynamics but approaching it from the opposite end of the spectrum, Sheffield said he and his team worked toward the goal of creating the coldest, and slowest, molecular beam in the world.

This method of observation, which can have positive implications for the field of quantum chemistry as they work to isolate the quantum effects of molecules from the thermal vibrations produced by excessive heat and energy, was assisted by the use of rotors. As beams of gas molecules were sent through a long hollow rotor, the move-ment of the rotor would modify the speed of the molecules.

“The beam of gas coming out of this nozzle is just like you stepping out of moving bus,” Sheffield said. “When you hit the ground, your velocity is the sum of your forward motion, however fast that may be, and the velocity of the bus as it is going in the oth-er direction. And depending if the bus was only going one foot a second, and you step relatively quickly, then your speed would be dictated by you. But if the bus is going thirty miles an hour and you step forward, your velocity would be dictated by the bus. So it’s the same exact thing with the rotor.”

In the past year, Sheffield has also re-searched the properties of graphene, which was discovered in 2004 and declared to be the first two-dimensional crystal observed by scientists. Simply flakes of graphite only one-atom thick, it boasts strength greater than diamonds and conductivity greater than copper, among other qualities on a laundry lists of positive attributes.

Sheffield said graphene, which won its

discoverers a Nobel prize only six years after its discovery, will have major implications over the coming decades on what he termed, “post-silicon electronics.” A transition from silicon-based to carbon-based technology wouldn’t be a simple one, he said, but the possibilities the material provides are endless.

“If we move to graphene, one, it’s going to take a heck of a lot of work because you can imagine how much work has gone into silicone-based electronics and to duplicate all of that for carbon-based electronics, well it’s going to take us 20 years, maybe 30 years, if everybody gets a lot of funding,” Sheffield said. “But on the plus side, you’ll need less power, you’ll have far better performance, and entire computers will be reduced to the size of a few square millimeters.

“Breaking Grad” will ideally be produc-ing a video each month, highlighting differ-ent specialties around Texas A&M. Beemer said the next two videos would likely feature research about health communications and

civil engineering.PEER provided the filming equipment

for the project and will show the produced videos to middle school and high school stu-dents who use their resources.

Sheffield, who devotes his extra time to in-structing students from kindergarten through high school in Physics Shows and mentor-ing freshman physics students, said he hopes the first installment of “Breaking Grad” will provide students with perspective on what graduate students truly do.

“I’m hoping, by watching my video, peo-ple who were considering going into science research can actually understand a little bit about what I work with, what I’m hoping to achieve,” Sheffield said. “I’m not trying to solve all of mankind’s problems, I’m trying to understand all the factors that go into certain systems and then improve them or try and solve one small piece of the puzzle.”

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Tai Lee, Class of 2002 and executive chef at Veritas, has turned a hobby into a profession with the writing of his cookbook.

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essence of that ‘gift’ continues as we share our cooking style and techniques with more people around the country and share what makes us such a unique establishment in the Aggieland.”

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Members of organizations big and small gathered Sunday to showcase their

organizations during the Spring MSC Open House. Of the hundreds of student clubs pres-ent, here is a sampling of those The Battalion talked to. A full list and description of Texas A&M’s student organizations can be found at studentactivities.tamu.edu.

Texas A&M Bhakti Yoga ClubThe Bhakti Yoga Club introduces students

to the holistic part of yoga that caters to not just the body but the mind, intellect and soul.

Abhijeet Shinde, chemical engineering graduate student, said the club offers physical exercises as well as philosophical discussions.

“Food is also an important part of yoga,” he said. “We offer cooking classes where stu-dents at A&M come and learn various reci-pes.”

Order of Aggie IllusionistsThe Order of Aggie Illusionists caters to

magic-loving folk and helps members learn how to perform magic tricks. Ted Goles, freshman health major and member of the

Order of Aggie Illusionist, started only last se-mester but has come to learn many illusions in his short time in the club.

“We are a teaching organization, you can show up to the first meeting not knowing anything and we will show you how to do some tricks,” Goles said. “I came in last semes-ter not knowing how to do anything and now I am doing magic demonstrations for Open House.”

Zoological SocietyFor animal lovers, the Zoological Society

takes field trips and has guest lecturers that speak on topics relating to zoos and animals.

“Usually we get zookeepers, veterinar-ians, professors doing animal research come to meetings and talk about what they do,” said member and senior zoology major Michael Stanley. “A lot of people in our club do want to work in zoos, or sometimes they are people who just like animals. We go on field trips to places such as the Dallas Zoo, big cat sanctuary and other zoos.”

MSC Visual Arts CommitteeThe MSC Visual Arts Committee serves to

bring art to the campus. Amy Arndt, sopho-

more psychology and English major, said the members run the Reynolds Student Art Gal-lery in the MSC, where they help plan the shows and choose what artists are displayed. They also host ArtFest, an art competition that displays student art in the gallery, as well as Aggie Frame of Mind, a photo contest.

“If you have artistic talent or if you are just appreciate of art in general, our organization serves well to bring the two together,” Arndt said.

ActiveMindsActiveMinds is a student organization that

brings awareness to mental health issues, not only on campus but in the community.

Andrew Bae, senior accounting major, is the president of the organization at A&M. He mentioned the prevalence of depression and other mental health issues that can be miti-gated with the help of other students.

“There’s such a stigma attached with men-tal health issues that the only way to get rid of it is to bring more information to people who are misinformed of it and to have everyone talking and feel comfortable talking about it,” he said.

SWAMPSWAMP is a student filmmaking club on

campus in which students share ideas and learn about the aspects of filmmaking.

“If you’re interested in filmmaking, we put you with the right people,” said Melissa Ney-bert, junior telecommunication media studies major and president of the organization.

Salsa FusionSalsa Fusion Latin Dance Company is a

dance organization promoting Latin culture and popular styles of dance through perfor-mances and classes. Nicole Ramirez, junior animal science major, said the organization provides a fun opportunity to learn a dancing skill and meet people.

“This year we are opening up a member-ship side,” she said. “You will have free les-sons every Thursday, and after that there will be a social where you can practice what you learned and meet people.”

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the world collect filk specifi-cally, the material is often col-lected accidentally.

“There are institutions that will collect it as something else.” Brett said. “For in-stance, before Lauren [Schil-ler] came to us, we had a few examples of filk in the collec-tion, but it was just given to us as part of a larger collec-tion, so we didn’t sit down and say ‘let’s start collecting filk’ as a collecting strategy.”

Archiving filk material has proven to be a daunting task for Cushing as donations begin to roll in. Many of the song books contain little to no reference as to what

melody the lyrics should be sung, Brett said. Sometimes the songwriter writes lyrics to a folk melody the audience is expected to know even though such melodies vary geographically and with time.

Brett said that some tunes in the Cushing collection are specific to filking conven-tions and may contain songs that simply say, “You should know this tune”.

Schiller said in addition to relabeling the filk material in collections already at Cush-ing, the library sent out word through online filk commu-nities and received donations from individuals.

Another obstacle to col-lecting filk is the quality of the material. Some of the music was properly stored and

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taken care of before donation, while others had physically degraded before coming to Cushing.

Even the definition of filk is still debated among the filk community.

Brett said “Filk” as a term is misleading as it implies music in the folk genre when many filkers delve into a vari-ety of genres, including rock, jazz, blues, hip-hop.

Jasmina Kuenzli, junior

history major, stumbled upon wizarding rock during a pre-vious research project on J.K. Rowling, and said she would like to one day see that sub-culture of filk in Cushing.

“Anything associated with Harry Potter, like stuff from a Very Potter Musical or stuff associated with Harry and the Potters, because they kind of started the genre of wizarding rock, they were the pioneers of that genre,” Kuenzli said.

“That type of stuff would be really cool to see.”

As for the musicians them-selves, they range from au-thors who make a career out of science fiction literature to novice musicians who jam out with lyrics about Norse Mythology on the weekends.

Schiller said musicians like Weird Al also get caught up in the mix as “found filkers “— musicians who don’t necessarily consider them-

selves filkers, but are consid-ered so by the filking com-munity.

At the end of the day, Schiller said filk music is a nebulous term.

“It’s really anything,” Schiller said. “I’ve heard one person describe it as ‘the mu-sic of our people,’ where our people are the ones that go to science fiction conventions.”

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To some students, the word “intern-ship” sounds daunting, to others, ex-

citing, and still some are unsure what to think. As the internship-searching season begins, Aggies weigh in on their personal experiences of an internship pursuit.

Samantha Wilson, director of campus programs at the Career Center, said an internship can be very valuable.

“An internship allows you to gain practical experience in your field of in-terest while building your skills and abili-ties,” Wilson said.

Wilson said an internship can also help a student determine whether a career is a good fit or not, as well as provide the op-portunity for a student to build a network of professional contacts.

During the summer of 2013, Brooks Hutchinson, accounting graduate stu-dent, held an internship at a professional service firm where he was offered a job after his graduation in May 2014.

During his search, Hutchinson said his primary focus was on the quality of internships, not quantity of those he ap-plied to.

“First, I decided where I wanted to work, ultimately all in the same indus-try, but there were different sized firms,” Hutchinson said. “There were larger ones, a little smaller and then middle mar-ket sized. I had to make a decision to go big or stay small.”

Hutchinson said he feels confident in his decision of interning last summer with a larger firm in Houston.

“With this company, I felt a large po-tential for growth, and the location is thriving with many opportunities,” he said.

Madisen Stites, junior industrial distri-bution major, interned with a company in the electrical industry last summer, but decided to shift her focus to the oil and gas industry.

“I’m glad I interned last summer, be-cause I found out that I didn’t see myself working in the electrical industry,” Stites said.

After further researching the field, Stites said she is much more interested in the activities she would perform in the oil and gas industry.

“I know that this is an industry that I want to work in, and I put a lot of pres-sure on myself,” Stites said. “But I also felt a lot of pressure from the nature of the industry. I know that many internships in oil and gas lead to full-time employment, so in a way it already felt like I was look-ing for a full-time job.”

Stites said she believes that interning in two different companies will be great as a reference for comparison.

“The two companies are completely different in size and culture,” she said. “I can’t wait to see what I’ll learn.”

For Holly Vogel, senior marketing

major, an internship in the retail industry reaffirmed her aspirations to work in that industry, though she felt stressed while pursuing an internship.

“I felt a slight amount pressure,” Vogel said. “It wasn’t because I wasn’t confident in myself, but it was because I so desper-ately craved that experience.”

An internship offer did not come right away, but Vogel said her perseverance and determination eventually brought her success.

“In the fall semester I got rejected, but this didn’t stop me from hitting the ground running in the spring,” Vogel said. “It’s important to always remain re-silient in rejection.”

Vogel said the difficult, stressful process was very much worth it in the end.

“In my future career as an assistant buyer, because of my internship, I will now know how a basic store operates,” she said. “I’ve always been drawn to the retail industry and I can’t imagine an in-dustry that would fit me better.”

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Kappa Delta members act as mentors Beyond raising funds for

a cause, members of the Kappa Delta sorority are look-ing to provide girls with some-thing money can’t buy — role models.

The Texas A&M chapter of Kappa Delta Sorority part-nered with the Girl Scouts of Central Texas and will allow members to sell cookies at the Kappa Delta house this month.

Bailey Rainey, sophomore psychology major and Kappa Delta vice president of com-munity service, said the soror-ity’s work with Girl Scouts has deeper philanthropic roots.

“It’s a huge part of Kappa Delta, increasing confidence in girls and women in our communities, in our schools, in everything,” Rainey said. “The Girl Scouts help do that. By partnering with them and doing this sort of mentorship, we are able to instill that con-fidence in young girls on an everyday basis.”

Rainey said other events in-clude activities that introduce the scouts to Aggie culture,

including a campus tour and a yell practice with Yell Leaders.

“One of our best events that we do here that is very unique to A&M is we have the Yell Leaders come to our house and they do a yell practice for the Girl Scouts at the Kappa Delta house, which is really unique because A&M is the only place that does yell practice that these girls get to come to,” Rainey said. “And they get to spend time in a sorority house, meet Yell Leaders and meet Rev-eille.”

Rainey said their work helps the scouts think about the fu-ture, and more specifically the prospect of attending and grad-uating college, a feat that some scouts might be the first in their family to accomplish.

“It’s a lot of fun and we get to teach them about A&M,” Rainey said. “They always say things like, ‘I can’t wait to be an Aggie,’ and everything like that.”

While there is a need for charity efforts that simply do-nate money, Lindsay Ernest, junior agricultural leadership and development major and Kappa Delta vice president of

membership, said it is this as-pect of interaction that makes the Kappa Delta partnership with Girl Scouts such a great avenue for volunteering.

In addition to offering a platform for cookie sales and showing scouts the Aggie cul-ture, the Texas A&M chapter also plans a monthly event with Girl Scouts, which has included a Halloween fashion show during October as well as service projects, Ernest said.

Megan Quinn, Kappa Delta member and senior interna-tional studies major, said she taught yoga during an activity put on for Girl Scouts centered around healthy living and be-ing confident in oneself.

Quinn said the best part of the experience is building rela-tionships with the scouts.

Ernest said sorority mem-bers have a chance to be the scouts’ friends as well as role models, all the while installing the notion of opportunity in young girls.

“[The goal is] making sure they are getting the support they need, letting them know growing up that they are spe-cial,” Ernest said.

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