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Several dozen students, farmers, Occupy protestors and an Austin City Council hopeful banded together to protest the corporate takeover of agriculture and food production at Texas A&M, one the nation’s larg-est agricultural research universities.

The protestors converged Monday in Academic Plaza holding signs, chanting and passing out flyers,

then marched to the headquarters of Seminis, Inc. in the Centeq building on West Campus. The group sought to raise awareness of the practices of Monsanto Co., specifically its use of genetically modified organ-isms in food and other agricultural products. Seminis Inc. is a vegetable seed company with local headquar-ters that is owned by Monsanto.

“I’m a small farmer. We’re against the corporate takeover of the food industry. More regulations and punishment should go to the corporations, not small farmers,” said Millican-based farmer Zach Peoples. “We’d like to see the University supporting small

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Protestors march against big business food production practices at university

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See Teaching Robots on page 2

What speaks but never thinks, bleeds but never feels, and breathes but never sleeps?

The answer lies in a bed on the second floor of the Health Profes-sions Education Building on the Texas A&M Health Science Center Bryan Campus. His name is SimMan, and he is just one of the interactive, medical robots that medical and nurs-ing students use to prepare for treating real people.

Although SimMan is only a robot, his reactions and appearance resemble that of a human. For example, if a student administers a dose of the hor-mone epinephrine, SimMan’s heart rate and respiratory rate will increase accordingly. These reactions are con-trolled with software programmed by trained physicians who observe the students’ actions via cameras in the room.

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Thousands flock to Reed Arena dur-ing basketball season: fresh faces, sea-soned fans, children, students, alumni and countless in-betweens. The ocean

of maroon and white shirts changes in composition — if not in passion — as the games pass by. But in section 108, when the women took the court, 48 members of the Twelfth Man remained constant.

Four years ago, Aggie women’s bas-ketball head coach Gary Blair issued a call in The Battalion for current and for-mer students to rally around his team and increase attendance. A contingent from the Class of 1969 answered his call in a major way, and four years later the Class

of ’69 Family and Friends group thrives at every women’s basketball home game.

“We started to support the women’s basketball team because Coach Blair was saying that the students did not support his team, so our class decided that we would as former students,” said Freddie Wong, a member of the Class of ’69 and women’s basketball season ticketholder. “I believe we have about 48 tickets,

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Class of 1969 starts own Twelfth Man tradition

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thebatt.comNCAA tourney recapRead the recap of the Aggies’ victory over Arkansas in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

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A&M club creates scholarshipThe Brazos County A&M Club committed $110,000 to create an endowed scholarship for Brazos County Aggies and an endowed fund to support Texas A&M University Silver Taps ceremonies. Additionally, the club repurposed an existing scholarship to create its second Sul Ross Scholarship. All three gifts are funded through the Texas A&M Foundation. TAMU Times

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Junior guard Adrienne Pratcher dribbles around an Arkansas defender during the Aggies’ 61-59 win Monday night in Reed Arena. A&M will play No. 2 seed Maryland in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament, though the time and location were not determined as of Monday evening. See thebatt.com for a full recap.

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Functional newborn mannequins outfit a room in the Health Science Center.

Members of the class of 1969 watch the Aggies play Oklahoma State on Feb. 18. The group attends every women’s basketball game at Reed Arena.

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the feeling of being in an operating room,” said Benny Holland, director of the Clinical Learning Resource Center where the robots are based. “The SimMan runs with the Sim-Man software, which is user-friendly. We can change his pulses to make them strong, weak or absent, or we can put lung sounds on one side and nothing on the other to imi-tate a collapsed lung.”

In addition to human-like reactions, Sim-Man also comes with blood bags and a speak-er that allows the robot to “talk,” which is actually doctors describing symptoms from another location. SimMan can be used for many different scenarios that provide hands-on experience in a safe environment for stu-dents, Holland said.

SimMan is not the only robot in the Clin-ical Learning Resource Center. The center has about 20 robots and mannequins in total that help students learn about many fields of medicine, including cardiology, obstetrics and surgery. Some robots, like SimMan, are full-body robots, while others include a single arm for practicing intravenous lines or isolated chest cavities for practice inserting chest tubes.

For Dr. Bruce Hoak, a practicing general surgeon and psychiatry director for third-year medical students at the A&M Health Science Center, some of the isolated body parts are as helpful as the full-bodied robots.

“The other really nice features are the chest tube and central line, which are very invasive procedures,” Hoak said. “So, [stu-dents] can learn to do this invasive stuff safely on a mannequin before they try it on a per-son.”

In addition to the added safety of prac-ticing invasive procedures on an inanimate object, Lesley Gardiner, third-year student in the College of Medicine, said the Clinical Learning Resource Center has helped boost her confidence for when she practices with future patients.

“You’re able to hear and think through all the steps. You come to know what needs to be done and how it needs to be done and why it needs to be done,” Gardiner said. “So when you get with a patient for the first time you already have a pattern in your mind of what you need to do so you’re more confi-dent and comfortable.”

The Clinical Learning Resource Center was built in 2005. Today it is one of many centers across the nation with simulation ro-bots and mannequins, but this was not always the case.

“When I was in med school we didn’t have sim-labs so we just learned with pa-tients and things were a lot riskier. It also took us longer to master those skills,” Hoak said. “[Here] we can do [procedures] over and over in a sim-lab safely, and by the time [students] get to a regular patient they have

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A number of the mannequins offer full functionality for general and emergency practice and contribute realism to test scenarios.

the skills and confidence they need. It’s a tre-mendous help.”

Repetition is complemented by camera recorders in each of the many rooms at the center. The cameras allow students to watch their own procedures and each other’s, which Gardiner said is a great advantage.

“We get to see each other do [procedures] as well,” Gardiner said. “The more we see and do, the better we’ll be at it.”

The Clinical Learning Resource Center supports all A&M Health Science Center students in preparing for actual clinical ex-periences by providing simulated clinical ex-periences in which to practice, gain compe-tence, and feel confident with a wide variety of clinical skill procedures, Holland said.

“The simulated clinical environment per-mits students to practice clinical skills with-out risking harm to actual patients,” Holland said. “Mistakes become genuine learning moments that improve the students’ ability to perform clinical skills rather than becom-ing potential harmful situations leading to poor outcomes for both the patient and the student.”

Teaching robotsContinued from page 1

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Peoples was a student at A&M, but dropped out to help his family with their farm in Millican. He wanted to study sustainable farming methods, but said the curriculum only focused on corporate farming methods — of little worth for a small farmer.

Another local farmer, Laura Cauvel, joined the protest.

“We want to get Monsanto out of A&M, out of town and out of the food system alto-gether,” Cauvel said.

Monsanto employs more than 21,000 people in 66 countries, selling agricultural and vegetable seeds, plant biotechnology traits and crop protection chemicals. Though not a part of Texas A&M, Seminis’ offices are lo-cated in the AgriLife Research headquarters and the Veg-etable and Fruit Improvement Center on campus.

The protestors went in-

side the Seminis office to de-liver their 100-page petition including more than 1,500 signatures. Once inside, they found that the branch man-ager for Monsanto Co., Rick Jones, was not present.

Bhimu Patil, A&M profes-sor and director of the Veg-etable and Fruit Improvement Center, accepted the peti-tion and agreed to deliver it to Jones. The protestors still voiced their views and con-cerns to Patil.

“We are against genetic en-gineering food crops, Round-up and Agent Orange,” pro-testors said adamantly to Patil. “We have a cease-and-desist order detailing the crimes of Monsanto. We don’t think that a corporation should be allowed to kill for profit.”

Patil told protestors that he works for A&M, not Seminis or Monsanto, and that Seminis is not affiliated with the uni-versity. Patil said that his work does not involve genetically modified organisms and rec-ognizes that all food products must be tested before going to the market.

“Here, we work with fruits

and vegetables to improve hu-man health by reducing hu-man diseases,” Patil said.

Clean water, food and air is a cause that can unite all peo-ple, said Austin City Council hopeful John Duffy.

“We are going to cities with Monsanto extension of-fices to raise awareness of this issue that impacts all areas of life,” Duffy said.

Duffy said the campaign is utilizing film to reach out to a larger audience.

“We are at the beginning of a campaign against Monsanto across central Texas,” Duffy said. “We are having screen-ings of the movie The World According to Monsanto across the state where people of the typically urban Occupy move-ment can connect with rural agricultural communities.”

Another protestor, sopho-more early childhood educa-tion major Maggie Patterson, said the film has received posi-tive reception in the area.

“The owner of Brazos Nat-ural Foods came to the screen-ing and gave her support for us,” Patterson said. “She put up our petition in her store, too.”

Many Occupy protestors said they came to College Station to protest because the Monsanto office is here on campus and they want to reach out to Aggies.

“They want to control all aspects of production,” pro-testor Rob Gorr said. “Profes-sors are afraid to speak out be-cause of Monsanto funding.”

Patterson said many con-cerned citizens in other cities around the world joined to protest the practices of Mon-santo during the past week.

“This is not just a politi-cal issue. [Monsanto] work[s] with the Food and Drug Ad-ministration. There are health and planting issues, too,” Pat-terson said. “We are targeting a whole array of issues. When we ask our congressmen to go to the FDA to get labels on [genetically modified organ-isms], they say ‘no’ because it conflicts with their private interests.”

The university police de-partment was aware of the protests, said Sgt. Allan Baron, and several officers observed from a distance.

“We had no problems and handled the situation like any other similar case,” Baron said.

ProtestContinued from page 1

Protesters from Austin and College Station march to the Centeq Building, on West Campus, in protest of genetically modified food.

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which includes classmates, spouses and other family members.”

The group began with 21 members who attended four conference games together four years ago and has grown in size each year. Wong cred-its another member of the group and a former classmate, Phil Callahan, with coordi-nating tickets and organizing the group’s first effort.

Callahan and the rest of the group are well aware that their support for the team dates prior to the 2011 NCAA championship run and the wealth of publicity that came along with it.

“We are proud of the fact that we got behind Coach Blair’s program and teams before they won the national championship,” Callahan said.

Wong, who remains ac-tive in the A&M commu-nity through involvement

in groups such as the Rev-eille Club, said the bulk of the group consists of class-mates who have retired and settled in the Bryan-College Station area.

“We have also extended an invitation to all our class-mates who may visit the Bry-an-College Station area from time to time to come and join us,” Wong said. “We also have a few who will come on a regular basis from as far as Yoakum.”

It’s an eclectic group, with former cadets, non-regs and a diverse set of backgrounds — even with a few familiar faces from around campus today.

“Many of us retired from military service and went on to civilian careers,” Wong said. “Others have retired from major corporations, education, small business, et cetera. There are some who are still working, on campus as well as [in] the local com-munity. We have folks in real estate, an optometrist, several lawyers, ranchers and farmers. Several retired from

major corporations and are now working on campus helping students.”

Sports such as football and men’s basketball have histori-cally drawn larger crowds than women’s basketball. Blair, the student-athletes who com-pose the women’s team, and a number of devoted fans — the Class of ’69 Family and Friends included — might argue that this disparity is un-fair. After a 22-10 season, the Aggies earned a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament and finished their final home game Monday night with a thrilling 61-59 second-round victory against the University of Arkansas with a trip to the Sweet 16 on the line.

Wong said the Class of ’69 will continue to support the Aggie women regard-less of the season’s ultimate outcome.

“We Aggies have a long history of supporting our team, regardless of the win-loss record,” Wong said. “We need to keep that tradition up.”

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We associate an African woman with braids, an Arab woman with a traditional hijab covering or an Indian woman who has a bindi on her forehead with an oppressed female figure of a male-dominant society — forced to follow her culture’s traditions. In the same way, our minds are so polished to relate professionalism to high heels, A-line skirts, make-up and ironed hair that we have made a subtle equation in our minds that the more the ethnicity, the less the education and even less the professionalism. We have also made the assumption that the more cloth coverage and the less skin exposure, the more op-pressed a woman is.

Cultural shyness, to a great extent, is ma-nipulated and used as a proof of oppression, while the real courage to save women from sex trafficking, slavery and domestic violence is only embodied by a few. We live in an increasingly global society, with globalization sadly and pitifully tending toward western-ization of cultures in our minds and in our outlook.

It is time we change this notion. To truly become global, it is imperative

that students accept the cultural richness around the world. We need to see society with a kaleidoscope of colors and multiple dimensions as opposed to a magnifying lens

of pre-conceived ideas that define the ap-pearance of a successful, independent career woman.

Let us understand that yes, there is oppres-sion of women, and in many cases, traditions are forced upon women of various cultures. But traditions and ethnicity can also em-power women.

Consider the world’s greatest woman public figures, activists and leaders — people like Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkol Karman and Aung San Suu Kyi. Their ethnicities have allowed these women to incite meaningful, definitive changes in their cultures and in others’ lives.

A leader’s power to rise above life’s dif-ficulties is related to the connection

she can create with the people she leads, which, to a great extent, is generated by how effectively she identifies herself with the masses. If I, as a woman leader, can communicate this sense of

belonging to a culture through my dress, then I have partly em-

powered myself to reach my people. Then, and only then, I will be in a

position to lead change in my community. This public appeal though ethnic identity

is my power. There is no reason to demean this. There is no reason to look down upon it. There is no reason to sympathize.

Let’s rethink and redefine feminism. Let’s assume that when we see a woman with a hijab, a bindi or braids, that she can be edu-cated, empowered and ethnic.

Archana Gawde is a molecular and environmental plant sciences graduate student and president of the international students association

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GUESTCOLUMN

Archana Gawde: Society should learn to value women’s ethnic identities

Redefining feminism

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or many among us, the stereotype of a traditional woman is strangely oppo-

site of that of a career woman. I see this kind of prejudice in my daily life. We all presume.

We have made a subtle equation that the more

a woman’s ethnicity, the less

her education.

As a member of the Student Government Association, I am deeply offended by the comments in the opinion column “Buried Under Rules” (March 4). The column argues that SGA is a “waste of student fees that, in practice, has done absolutely nothing but embarrass our university.” Clearly SGA REALLY does nothing for Texas A&M. I mean, we don’t need Traditions Council to organize Silver Taps and other traditons. We don’t need to hold Muster, because the most poignant tradition on campus that remembers fallen Aggies means nothing. We don’t need Aggie Recruitment Committee because who needs new students? We don’t need Alternative Spring Break because students don’t need fun things to do if they are on campus during spring break. We don’t need Carpool because a safe way home late at night is a

waste of time. We don’t need Environmental Issues Committee, Replant, or Big Event, because who cares about our campus and our community? We don’t need Senate, the student body president, the executive council, or any of the commissions because student voices don’t matter. I hope by now you have caught the sarcasm in my voice. SGA does much for this university that few people realize, and I am proud to call myself a member of it. When the column attacks SGA, it neglects the fact that there is more to student government than just elections. So if there is an embarrassment at our great school, it is thatThe Battalion would run a column that degrades SGA in the matter that this column has. We are called as Aggies to be respectful to each other. This column has done the complete opposite.

MAILCALLFrom Brandon Valenta, freshman business major

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