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The Texas A&M Aggies redeemed themselves af-

ter back-to-back losses with a 14-2 win at Olsen Field on Sunday against No. 17 Ken-tucky behind eight innings from Grayson Long and the bats of freshmen Nick Banks and Ryne Birk.

Long (5-1) gave up eight hits and struck out eight bat-ters. The sophomore allowed a solo home run to A.J. Reed in the top of the first as well as an RBI single to Thomas Bernal in the sixth.

“That was a really good team,” Long said. “Going out there I said to myself, ‘You’re going to have to be perfect today. You’re going to have to be great today.’ Parts of the game I wasn’t great, but I relied on my defense. I relied on Troy and coach to call the right pitches. I trusted every-body for this win.”

Birk picked up three of his five RBI’s on a home run to the visitor bullpen. Banks

tacked on two more runs via a home run in the fifth in-ning.

Every Aggie starter crossed home plate at least once.

Senior Krey Bratsen had three stolen bases and a 2-for-2 day that included a walk and sacrifice fly. He is now tied for second place in Aggie his-tory in stolen bases with 83, tied with Chuck Knoblauch (1987-89).

“We’ve had a lot of mo-ments throughout the course of the season thus far that we’ve had our backs against the wall and needed to be

able to answer as a group,” said A&M head coach Rob Childress. “Every time that opportunity has presented itself, our guys have always answered. I couldn’t be more proud of them with the way we played today.”

Friday and Saturday told different tales for A&M (24-17, 8-10 SEC) in 6-3 and 11-4 losses, respectively.

A&M’s Parker Ray (4-3) received the loss in relief after senior Jason Jester managed just one-third of an inning that saw three runs on four hits and two walks Friday.

On Saturday, the A&M pitching staff allowed 17 hits to Kentucky (26-14, 9-9 SEC) including a 4-for-6 per-formance by Reed, who hit his first of two home runs of the weekend.

The Aggies attempted a ninth-inning rally, scoring three runs before being re-tired. Daniel Mengden fell to 2-6 on the year.

The Aggies next travel to Houston to take on No. 20 Rice in Tuesday’s mid-week match up. First pitch is slated for 6:30 p.m.

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Freshman outfielder Nick Banks hit a home run in the fifth inning of Sunday’s game, helping the Aggies to a 14-2 win over Kentucky.

The No. 21 Texas A&M softball team suffered its

first home sweep of the sea-son this weekend against No. 5 Florida after its second-straight, run-rule loss to the Gators.

A&M was only able to muster one hit through six innings of play against Flor-ida’s starting pitcher, Hannah Rogers, and fell 8-0. Rogers’ one-hitter marked her 20th

win of the season, moving her to 20-6 on the season.

“Rogers did a nice job. She hammered strikes and worked off the plate nicely,” said A&M head coach Jo Evans. “I thought Florida called a really smart game. She used her off-speed more. We didn’t do a good job of tracking the ball and staying with it. We didn’t make ad-justments.”

Freshman Abby Donnell was the lone Aggie to get a hit against Rogers, who held a no-hitter through five and two-thirds innings.

“I felt like we really pressed today at the plate,” Evans said. “We got blown out yesterday, but I thought our approach at the plate was a lot better than it was today. I thought we got flustered and frustrated. We have to

do better than that.”On Saturday, the Gators

(40-8, 11-7 SEC) trampled the Aggies by a score of 17-4, run-ruling A&M in five innings.

Florida finished Saturday’s game with 16 hits, which in-cluded three home runs, one grand slam by shortstop Katie Medina and three doubles. The Gators pulled away with an 11-run second inning to go ahead 13-0.

The Aggies (29-17, 9-12 SEC) started their three-game stand on Friday when they fell to the Gators by the score of 5-1.

The Aggies will be in ac-tion Tuesday in a double-header against Texas A&M Corpus Christi at the Aggie Softball Complex.

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yesterday, but I thought our approach at the plate was a lot better than it was today. I thought we got flustered and frustrated. We have to do better than that.”

— Jo Evans, head softball coach, after Sunday’s 8-0 loss to the

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After a 24-6 season, in-cluding 10 conference

wins, the Texas A&M men’s tennis team was crowned as champions of the SEC for the first time in program history.

The No. 11 Aggies downed the No. 15 Florida Gators 4-2 at the Currey Tennis Center in Nashville, Tenn., on Sun-day to claim their first con-ference title since winning the Big 12 championship in 2011.

“I was really proud of how our guys played today,” said A&M head coach Steve Denton. “We played well in the doubles, that’s some-thing we’ve been able to do this whole weekend, and then our guys competed re-ally hard there in the singles, didn’t give up any free points. We didn’t win the regular season, we were disappoint-ed. We had a chance to do

that, had it in our own hands. They came in here deter-mined this weekend, we had a second chance. They came here determined to win this SEC Tournament, and they did an unbelievable job.”

A&M gained an early ad-vantage over the Gators in the first doubles match as the sophomore duo of Harrison Adams and Shane Vinsant defeated Florida’s Maxx Lip-man and Elliot Orkin for the first point.

The Aggies extended their lead to 2-0 after junior Jack-son Withrow trumped Orkin with a straight-set victory. Vinsant claimed the third point for the Aggies on court two as he was able to defeat Florida’s Gordon Watson 1-6, 6-3, 6-0.

“This is kind of a test for the NCAA tournament and physically, we held up pretty well,” Denton said. “Mental-ly, it’s a strain to play games three days in a row. It’s been a long season thus far and I know they’re tired, but they kind of hung in there. They were on some fumes today, but they did a great job fin-

ishing for us.”Texas A&M claimed its

fourth point and clinched the tournament championship as junior Jordan Szabo was able to defeat Mike Alford in straight sets, 7-6(3), 6-3.

A&M was able to sweep all three doubles matches and only suffered losses in two of its six singles matches.

With the SEC tourna-ment in the bag, the Aggies will set sights on their next challenge at the 2014 NCAA Tournament. Seeding for the tournament has yet to be announced, but the 2014 NCAA Men’s Tennis Selec-tion Show is set to air April 29 on NCAA.com.

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After finishing Saturday in 10th place in the second round, the Texas A&M women’s

golf team displayed its best performance of the weekend Sunday to advance to seventh place at the 2014 women’s SEC championship.

Freshmen Marijosse Navarro and Andrea Jonama led the Aggies, finishing in the top-20 of individual play at Greystone Country Club in Alabama. Both Navarro and Jonama were tied for 19th place with a score 10-over par.

Senior Chelsea Mocio also cracked the top-25 in individual play, placing 24th in the tour-

nament at 11-over par. Senior Katerina Ruz-ickova finished at 17-over and Bianca Fabrizio at 31-over. Ruzickova and Fabrizio tied for 49th and 68th, respectively.

Vanderbilt came away as the 2014 SEC Champions with a three round, 15-over par score. South Carolina placed second at 26-over, followed by Arkansas at 28-over and Alabama at 32-over.

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A&M takes 7th at championshipsw. golf

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to win this SEC Tournament, and they did an unbelievable job.”

— Steve Denton, head men’s tennis coach

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When Stan Wylie remembers his time at A&M more than 50 years ago, he first recalls the life-long friendships formed as a student. Like many

members of the Class of 1964, Wylie said the time between stepping on campus as a freshman and donning his senior ring is characterized by much more than just classroom lectures.

Wylie and other members of the Class of 1964 are con-vening this year for a 50-year reunion. For many reunion participants, their college experience was characterized by the death of John F. Kennedy, the beginning of limited enroll-ment for women and A&M’s name change from college to a university.

The JFK Assassination While almost everyone on campus — cadets and non-regs

alike — participated in Bonfire, Lee Grant, Class of 1964, said Bonfire was not burned the year of Kennedy’s assassination.

Wylie said this was because the assassination of Kennedy made ripples across campus.

“The most significant thing that changed our senior year was that President Kennedy died,” Wylie said. “That changed all our lives. The Bonfire was cancelled for the first time in forever.”

Inclusion For Wylie, tradition was everything. By today’s standards,

Wylie said his generation was conditioned to reject change.

“Our senior year there was a lot of change, and thinking about it we didn’t accept change very well,” Wylie said. “A&M was about tradition, so we were steeped in tradi-tion.”

With a class size of only 1,667, Grant said the primary sources of enter-tainment came in the form of formal balls and football games. Grant said other distractions came in the form of students pro-testing the re-naming of A&M and the inclusion of women on campus.

“The Vietnam War was starting up, so a lot of schools were protest-ing that, and here all we had to protest was co-education,” Grant said.

Grant, who has daughters who have attended A&M, said it didn’t take long to realize that integration was beneficial to A&M.

“We didn’t see much that A&M had to offer a woman at A&M in those days,” Grant said. “We felt like it would ruin the Corps and it would ruin the school, and obviously we were dead wrong, and it didn’t take us too many years when we were out of school to realize that that was the best thing that ever happened.”

Gogi Dickson earned her doctorate in educational leader-ship and was one of the first women admitted to campus. Because women at the time had to be married to a student

or professor to attend, Gogi Dickson married John Dickson, Class of 1964, earlier than originally planned so she could attend A&M in 1964.

“All of the sudden, she wanted to get married. I thought it was my senior boots,” John Dickson said with a laugh. “But she was one of the women who broke the barrier.”

While some students were “grumpy” about the integra-tion of campus, Gogi Dickson said she was widely respected on campus.

“They treated me like a queen,” Gogi Dickson said. “There were 27 of us. I didn’t know any other Maggies, as they called us, so I was on my own, but the first thing that impressed me was when I walked in the class the first day and all the cadets stood up.”

Gogi Dickson said her experience isn’t necessarily the norm and that women on campus were treated differently because males on campus didn’t quite know how to handle the fact that there were women on campus.

College to universityWhile transcripts from the Class of 1964 have stamps docu-

menting the University’s name change, Wylie said his class

still attended A&M College.“Class of ’64 is the last class with ‘A&M Col-

lege’ on their ring,” Wylie said. “Someone told me the other day that we had a choice, we could have had ‘Texas A&M University’ on our rings, and I don’t remember that, but that’s not where we went to school. We went to A&M when it was still a college.”

With a graduate school and a veterinary school, Grant said A&M was already a university with a college title.

“In retrospect it was kind of silly,” Grant said. “We didn’t want anything to change about A&M.”

Tradition on campusWith the enrollment size as small as it was,

Wylie said fewer Silver Taps were held, but the likelihood of knowing someone who was being honored was higher than it is today.

“If you didn’t know them, then you knew someone who did,” Wylie said.

Grant said even studying after Muster was done in a way that recognized the importance of the event.

“The entire campus would be blacked out and if you were going to study when you came back. You had to put a sheet or something over your window,” Grant said. “The campus remained blacked out for the rest of the night.

Wylie said the Century Tree had no romantic tradition associated with it at the time, but said the Aggie handshake and “Howdy” were, and still are, traditions that he holds dear.

“You spoke to everyone, but when you were walking in the same direction as someone in the Corps, you whipped out and met them,” Wylie said. “You know, Howdy, fish.’ ‘Wylie is my name, sir,’ and it went from there.”

In his Corps unit, Squadron 9, Grant said he participated in many self-defeating activities because it was “good bull.”

“I don’t know if they still do it, but we used to have ‘drown outs,’ and that’s when a couple of freshmen got tired of getting hazed by a particular sophomore,” Grant said. “In the middle of the night, they would go and fill their trash can full of water and go in there and dump it on him when he was asleep in his bunk. Of course that was kind of stupid, because that just meant that the entire fish class in that outfit had to get up around 2 a.m. and be yelled out for a while and then the next day have to clean out that sophomore’s room.”

The infamous gameA sore spot for many returning Aggies is the football team’s

loss to the University of Texas in 1963. Many Aggies attrib-uted the loss to a bad call made by the referee.

“We were the first team to beat t.u. in eight years,” Wylie said. “Remember the score was A&M 13, t.u. 9, referee 6.”

Still, despite the football team’s overall poor performance — at one point Wylie said freshmen cadets were told to chant, “tie the hell out of them” — Wylie said a big highlight of attending games was bringing dates.

“We all went to A&M with high school girlfriends, so the first few games of your fish year you had a date with your high school girlfriend,” Wylie said. “I won’t say all of us, but a lot of us, and that was until you got that famous flush — that’s what we called the dear John letters — those would come in quite frequently the fish year.”

Wylie said students learned to go to Sam Houston State to find a date or get friends elsewhere to set up dates.

“You had to hustle, but girls really liked the uniform, and at least until we did some really crude or something, we’d get a couple of dates,” Wylie said.

While the A&M basketball team at the time met success, Wylie said football fans added an amendment to the touch-down kiss tradition to keep games interesting.

“Sophomore year or junior year, we had a really lousy football team, and we’d start kissing, or at least trying to kiss, after first downs,” Wylie said.

Stepping back on campusGrant said A&M has been in his sights since he was a little

boy and that visiting campus over the years and seeing all of the changes has been neat.

“Every little change, every time freshmen were going to be able to get their hair a little longer, they were going to cut out hazing, every time this happened or that happened, that was just the common response, ‘Old army’s gone to hell,’” Grant said.

Despite the changes, Grant said the spirit of Aggieland is not diminished and that he always laughs when he hears a senior telling a freshman, “You’ve got it easy.”

Class of 1964 includes f irst women on campus

CLASS OF CHANGE

Current students who pass away before accumulat-ing enough credit hours will never receive their

Aggie Ring. However, The Association of Former Students has made an effort for more than a decade to honor these students with the Ring Remembrance ceremony along with the traditional recognition at Aggie Muster.

This year, 10 medallion ring crests will be pre-sented to families Monday at the Clayton Williams Alumni Center to honor the fallen Aggies of the past year as a tribute to the students and to the Aggie Ring they would have received.

Ryan Johnson, campus relations committee chair for Traditions Council, said although the event dif-

fers from the well-known Muster ceremony, Ring R e m e m b r a n c e shares the same date as well as the same sentimental atmo-sphere to honor fallen Aggies.

“This ceremony is a little more per-sonal than Muster just because the amount of people present is smaller,” Johnson said. “That being said, without a doubt, Muster is one of the most spe-

cial events I have attended at Texas A&M — a true sense of community is shown, and it is a wonderful display of the Aggie spirit.”

Johnson said the ceremony is an experience dif-ficult to put into words.

“This ceremony is unlike any other that I have ever experienced,” Johnson said. “It is a very small, intimate ceremony that has such a personal feel to it. I am honored that I have been able to participate in this ceremony as a member of Traditions Council, and it is something that I will truly cherish having been a part of.”

Student Body President Reid Joseph will speak at the event. He said he attended last year and found the experience to be very moving.

“I remember talking to some of the families after-ward and its very interesting because each family is in a different place, some have lost their loved one nearly a year ago, and then some are still really recent, it’s a very unique feeling being in there,” Joseph said.

As a reflection to the Aggie network, Johnson said the Ring Remembrance ceremony is an event that is invaluable to the University.

Kathryn Greenwade, vice president of The Asso-ciation and Class of 1988, said The Association has made an effort since the start of the event in 2000 to continue to honor Aggie students.

“[Ring Remembrance] is something special to us because it allows us to convey our sympathy and al-lows the parents to have something to recognize their child’s time at A&M and their time as a part of the Aggie network,” Greenwade said.

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Honorees◗ Ian Alexander Pogue ’16

◗ Travis Terrell Lamb ’15

◗ Raka Mallick ’15

◗ Vergil “Coke” Hopping ’11

◗ Austin Kyle Stanfi ll ’14

◗ Polo Hafoka Manukainiu ’16

◗ Jae Hoon An ’14

◗ Caleb Tate ’15

◗ Jinhoon Lee ’13

◗ Marcus Johnson ’15

Fallen students to be awarded remembrance ring crests

The aroma of a barbecue pit will fill the air of south campus Monday as

the Muster Camaraderie BBQ celebrates Aggie Muster and welcomes the Class of 1964 back to campus.

Stephen Henzel, Camaraderie BBQ co-ordinator and senior political science major, said the purpose of the event is to remind students that Muster is a time to appreci-ate the friendships and memories made on campus while previewing how students will observe April 21 after college.

“We all know, we all love, the Mus-ter ceremony that takes place the night of April 21,” Henzel said. “But when we leave A&M, Muster will be different for us. It will be a time when Aggies all over the world gather together and share their memories of Aggieland, the love they have for the university and for the Ag-gie spirit. So the point of Muster BBQ is we’re bringing the hometown barbecue to College Station, the hometown Muster to College Station.”

Abby Miller, Camaraderie BBQ coor-

dinator and senior accounting major, said one of the biggest changes to the barbecue this year will be the change in venue. The event will move from Simpson Drill Field to the Sanders Corps Center Lawn.

“I’m really excited about that, to have everyone all together and not make you feel like you’re in a huge field where you’re one in a million,” Miller said.

Food for the event is provided through Chartwells catering services, which Hen-zel said will help create the authentic, down-home barbecue atmosphere while still allowing students to pay with their meal plan. Miller said these changes were made to attract more students to the bar-becue, fueling the feeling of togetherness.

The barbecue will feature two hours of music and entertainment, and Miller said another function of the barbecue is to con-nect students with the Class of 1964.

“We really wanted to communicate this year that it’s for our students, it’s not just for the 50th year class,” Miller said. “It’s for any Aggie, young or old.”

Matt Josefy, former student body presi-dent and Class of 2004, will be speaking at

this year’s barbecue. Josefy has celebrated Muster in London and Hong Kong and said the Aggie camaraderie he has felt worldwide is well represented by the bar-becue.

“I remember as a recent graduate realiz-ing that Muster day is a lot like the biggest family reunion you can imagine and the Muster BBQ helps create that same atmo-sphere on campus,” Josefy said.

Josefy said students can forget amid the observation of Muster on campus that the day is not strictly about remembering the Aggies that have been lost.

“It’s easy for current students to not fully grasp that while Muster is a time when respects are paid and tears are often shed for the Aggies who we will miss in the coming year, at the heart of the day is the celebration of life and community that each of us share as members of this Aggie family,” Josefy said.

The barbecue will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Sanders Corps Center Lawn and costs $10 or one student meal plan.

Homer SegoviaThe Battalion

BBQ planners: Muster more than tears

Aimee Breaux The Battalion

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Cartoon taken from The Battalion in 1964.

Tanner Garza — THE BATTALION

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If you take any three traditions with you when you leave this place, make it these: the Aggie Ring, Silver Taps and Muster.

They’re the same thing, really, when you boil it down, because they force us to remember. I’ll remember my ring every time it stares up at me — on my wedding day, in a job interview, on the day I retire, on the day I die. I’ll remember Silver Taps every time a student passes away — the way the 12th Man’s silence on Academic Plaza rings louder than its yells in Kyle Field, the knowledge that the College Station skyline will change but as long as students live and die the bugle will play Silver Taps.

But more than anything I’ll remember Muster, because one day I know Muster will remember me. To be an Aggie is to remember, and to remember is to consider death. There’s nobility in that. Don’t shy from it. Remembrance isn’t a stated Aggie

core value, but loyalty, respect, selfless ser-vice — aren’t they parts of the same whole? Mortality can be heavy, but don’t step back from it. Lean in. Be good at saying goodbye and be proud of it. Muster doesn’t teach us how to think about death, but it makes sure it’s in the conversation.

Consider the opening lines to the Last Corps Trip, a poem traditionally read at Muster ceremonies the world over, written by P.H. Duval, Class of 1951: “It was Judg-ment Day in Aggieland, and tenseness filled the air. All knew there was a trip at hand, but not a soul knew where.”

It’s a religious poem, but I’m not asking for religious consideration. We know there is a trip at hand. Many of our classmates have taken it. Even if you aren’t sure where that trip leads — be it heaven, hell or none of the above — it’s a disservice to the memories of fallen Aggies to ignore that the trip — death — exists. “No need for us to tarry here, deciding upon their fates.”

I regularly went to Muster in my home-town of Katy, raised as I was by a pair of Aggies, Class of 1976 and Class of 1979. But either they didn’t explain or I didn’t listen (hint: it’s the second one) because I didn’t get it. Not until I was here. Not until I sat in the dark and listened to the clip of Ross Vol-unteer steps on Reed Arena floor. Not until I heard the first one. I don’t remember her name, but the words that came after burned me: “Class of 2014.” And my classmates said, “Here,” but I didn’t. I sat, stone-faced, and

felt my limits stretch. I lowered my head and hoped the darkness was deep enough to al-low me to pretend my eyes were dry. Class-mates die. I knew it before that moment, but I hadn’t learned it.

Another reason to attend Muster, if you need something more practical: We’re going to graduate. The Musters in our towns are going to need leaders, and we can’t expect to drive the tradition in the places we settle if we don’t attend now and experience it at its grandest. Erosion of traditions and customs happens quicker than we sometimes think. A few decades ago an all-male A&M was tradi-tion, and two years ago a one-Heisman A&M was tradition. The yells that our grandparents know differ from the ones we know.

In this way remembrance, which consti-tutes our traditions, also forms the mecha-nism that keeps them around. It doesn’t happen on accident, so go to Muster and be

a part of the student body that remembers. Wear a tie when you go, or even a suit if

you have one. You can’t take it too serious-ly. The underclassmen, the freshmen-to-be and the families of fallen Aggies will notice the effort you take. More importantly, they’ll notice your presence and your remembrance. At the end of the line, we’ll all take one last trip. Do your part to make that special for the Ags remembered Monday.

“And the Colonel of the Cadet Corps said, as he stiffly took the stand, ‘It’s just another Corps trip, boys. We’ll march in behind the band.’”

Muster speakers serve to set the tone of the

event and unite attending Aggies. This year’s speaker, Bill Youngkin, Class of 1969, was selected after months of deliberation by the Muster committee.

Youngkin was, and still is, heavily involved with the university. After serving as head yell leader and a Ross Volunteer during his time at A&M, Youngkin went on to serve in Vietnam. After returning, Youngkin continued to serve the uni-versity as president of both The Association of Former Students and The Former Yell Leaders Association. He serves as the principal of Youngkin & Associates, a law firm in Bryan, Texas.

Samantha Balser, Muster speaker coordinator and se-nior interdisciplinary studies major, said the committee selected Youngkin because of his involvement with Texas A&M before and af-ter graduation. Decades after graduating, Youngkin con-tinues to meet with members of his graduating class every Friday.

“He continues to give back in so many different capacities,” Balser said. “He lives out the Aggie core val-ues and really cares for his Aggie family. He just has such a great passion for this university, and it is so vis-ible.”

As for Youngkin, he said while the task of being speaker this year is daunting, he wants to honor the occa-sion.

“I’ve spoken in Musters in a lot of places but this one is obviously the big-gest and most important,” Youngkin said. “You truly want to do the best job pos-sible and hope what you do is honoring your university, your Aggie family and your personal family. It makes me nervous just thinking about that. That’s what it means to me, and what an honor it is.”

The process of choos-

ing a speaker begins in the spring, a year before Mus-ter. The Muster committee opens nominations for the speaker and reaches out for contacts from The Associa-tion. Through the nomina-tion process, the committee compiles a growing database of potential speakers.

During the fall, the list of potential speakers is nar-rowed down according to characteristics the commit-tee decides on. These can be anything from prior speaking experience and involvement with A&M after graduation to someone living out the A&M core values. Stepha-nie Ibarra, committee data-base coordinator and senior psychology major, said the characteristics the commit-tee looks for change from year to year depending on what the committee wants to emphasize.

Balser said this year the

committee wanted to build on the celebratory and ca-maraderie aspects of the tra-dition.

“This year, we wanted to enhance the celebration aspect of Muster,” Balser said. “Muster is tradition-ally viewed as traditional and somber, which it is. The ceremony is reverent, but we also wanted to in-corporate that message of a celebration of life.”

Balser said Youngkin’s storytelling ability will allow him to connect with the thousands of people attend-ing the on-campus Muster

this year. “He is such an incredible

storyteller,” Balser said. “He is always so excited to share those stories with everybody he encounters. He talks about his time at A&M and how closely he holds those times and those friends near to his heart. He really has a knack for bringing people together and bringing joy to the room through his sto-ries.”

Balser said Youngkin’s ability to connect with his audience is crucial in a Mus-ter speaker and said the com-mittee makes sure to select a speaker who will be able to impact a diverse audience. As Muster serves three dis-tinct groups of people — families of fallen Aggies, former and current students and members of the 50-year class reunion, Balser said the task of juggling the different experiences of the audience falls to the speaker.

Balser said a good speaker allows Aggies in attendance to walk away secure in the fact their Aggie family will always be there to support them.

“What I hope is true is that when every Aggie walks out of that room, they feel united,” Balser said. “They feel the power of the family that stands behind them at A&M, and they know that support is true and that that life is valued and honored and respected.”

Bradley D’Souza The Battalion

William Guerra — THE BATTALION

Mark Doré: No one out-remembers Aggies. It’s tradition, after all.

‘We’ll march in behind the band’

Aggies do many things well, and they do many things poorly, but they

do nothing so often and so force-fully as they treasure remem-brance. Other universities might be better at playing football or funding academics, but no one out-remembers Aggies.

Mark Doré is a senior English and communica-tion major and managing editor for The Battalion

Muster speaker aims for unity, life celebration

Although the next Silver Taps will not be held until the fall of 2014, Christy

Crow, who died Wednesday, will be recog-nized in campus Muster Roll Call on Mon-day, said Jordan Ashworth, roll call coordi-nator and senior finance major.

Nick Crow, Christy’s brother and Class of 2010, said the Aggie network was incred-ible in going through the process of putting Christy’s, who was set to graduate in 2016, name on the roll. Although Christy’s death was unexpected, Crow and his family will attend the Ring Remembrance ceremony — a ceremony for students who were unable to receive their Aggie Rings — and Muster on Monday.

Crow said the calling of Christy’s name at Muster will be an opportunity to rein-force to his family that Christy would be re-membered. He said he remembered his first Muster in 2007 and said it’s impossible to attend and not feel some emotion from the ceremony.

“The one word ‘here,’ it’s just incredible — you can’t describe it until you’re there and you feel it,” Crow said. “I know the Granger Smith song, the one song that ev-eryone knows — ‘Say here for me at Mus-ter when my time comes too,’ — well she loved Granger Smith and I know that is what she would have wanted.”

Crow said Christy first began school at Galveston College and then shortly after, transferred to San Jacinto South College in Houston. There was nothing more that Christy wanted than to become an Aggie, Crow said, and she carefully planned what she needed to do to be admitted.

“A&M was her passion,” Crow said. “She just loved it and that was her goal. When she got in I was the first person she called. She was just so proud to be able to go there and live the dream.”

Kaycee Rogers, freshman education ma-

jor, said she first met Christy at Howdy Camp and became friends with her quickly after. She described Christy as a beautiful person and one who was taken way too quickly.

“I could be having the worst day and I would just light up,” Rogers said. “She could make the worst situation into the best day ever.”

Josh Lutkemuller, freshman computer science major and Christy’s boyfriend, said although Christy attended A&M for a short time, being an Aggie along with participat-ing in traditions was meaningful to her.

“She always wanted to be a part of the tra-ditions,” Lutkemuller said. “You know, a lot of students unfortunately don’t get the op-portunity or choose not to go to Silver Taps, but she always held those traditions close and I really think she loved this place — every-thing about it, everything it stood for.”

Crow said he and his family are in the process of creating an endowed scholarship fund, Christy’s Wish, which he hopes to be geared toward first-year or transfer students and alleviate financial stress.

Crow said the fund was originally set up to cover medical costs, but since fam-ily members have come forward, he said the scholarship would be an opportunity to give Christy a lasting legacy. The goal for Chris-ty’s Wish is to raise $150,000.

“Christy wanted to be a teacher,” Crow said. “Her major was interdisciplinary studies at A&M. My mom was a teacher for 25 to 30 years and she wanted to follow in her foot-steps. My thought process behind this was if I could help somebody else to fulfill their dream, then she would be doing her job.”

Allison Rubenak The Battalion

Christy Crow to be included in Roll Call

MUSTER 5

Christy Crow will be recognized at Muster on Monday.

PROVIDED

Bill Youngkin

I know the Granger Smith

song, the one song that everyone knows — ‘Say here for me at Muster when my time comes too,’ — well she loved Granger Smith and I know that is what she would have wanted.”

— Nick Crow, Christy’s brother and Class of 2010

I’ve spoken

in Musters in a lot of places but this one is obviously the biggest and most important.”

— Bill Youngkin, Muster speaker and

Class of 1969

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The Texas A&M men’s and women’s track teams

took home a total of nine top titles at the LSU Alumni Gold Invitational in Baton Rouge, La., on Saturday. Both men’s and women’s 4x400 meter relay teams placed first while Shamier Little set a new world junior outdoor track record in the 400 meters.

The Aggie men’s 4x400 relay overtook current NCAA indoor champion LSU to claim the victory with a time of 3:02.64. The time set a new season best for the A&M squad, which includes Gregory Coleman, Prezel Hardy Jr., Carlyle Roudette and Deon Lendore.

Hardy stepped in at the last minute to run the second leg of the relay.

“Coach Henry told me

they may need me to run since one of my teammate may not be able to,” Hardy said. “For the sake of the team I had to. I gave my best and it ended up being a PR split for me and a season best time for the team.”

Olivia Ekponé, Little, Janeil Bellille and Kamaria Brown took first place in the 4x400 relay over Louisiana Tech, clocking in at 3:33.38 in a race that LSU opted not

Men’s, women’s track brings home 9 first-place finishesElizabeth Kamenicky The Battalion

to run. Little, who is the world ju-

nior leader in the 400 hurdles, set the fastest world junior time this season in the 400 meter with a time of 51.86 in her first-place finish.

The Aggie women claimed the victory in the 4x100 relay, with Aaliyah Brown, Ashton Purvis, Jennifer Madu and Ekponé finishing in 43.51 seconds.

“I was a little nervous when we were running, but I was excited I was able to close on LSU and finish off a great race,” Ekponé said.

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