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Jose Arredondo and Cody Bailey pertner to perform extensive renovation on the historic Downtown Bryan landmark.

Encore performanceLocal duo renovates historic Grand Stafford Theater

Aggies who prefer their tunes with a little less twang and a little more anything else are usually looking at a two-plus hour drive to Longhorn country or Houston for their live music fix.

“College Station is great for Texas country, not so much for other genres. It’s kind of disap-pointing for a college town,” said senior English major Madelyne Adams. “It would be nice to see something being

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The Grand Stafford Theater is slatted to open its doors Thursday, after being closed for more than a year.

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The countdown to kickoff has begun for the highly anticipated game between the 23rd ranked Florida Gators and the Texas A&M Ag-gies after the weekly press conference was held in the Bright Football Complex Tuesday after-noon.

“We’re ready to get things rolling,” said se-nior linebacker Sean Porter.

The Aggies are making their SEC debut against the Gators who under second season head coach Will Muschamp, boasted the sev-enth ranked defense in the country. Needless to say, the true test for the Aggies will be when their veteran offensive line, anchored by Luke Joeckel and Jake Matthews, faces the violent Ga-tor defensive line.

“We’re going to find out how good [the of-

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Coaches talk A&M-Florida

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Texas A&M faces the University of Florida Saturday at Kyle Field.

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Student Stenate begins sessions WednesdayNew business includes mandatory meal plans, student fees, MSC hours

The 65th Session of the Student Senate will meet Wednesday night for the first meeting of the semester to deliberate vari-ous issues regarding the student body.

Student senate will cover several issues, beginning with a bill targeting the operat-ing hours of the Memorial Student Cen-ter, and ending with an amendment to the student senate constitution regarding the

protection of religious expression.The first order of business on the sen-

ate’s agenda is the MSC 24-Hour Bill. Currently, the MSC is open to students until midnight on weekdays, and 1 a.m. on weekends. The bill requests that the MSC be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

“The MSC is the living room of cam-pus,” said Maci Hurley, executive director

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insidelife | 5Field fashionStudents dish about current gameday attire.

nation | 6DNC beginsGet a look at what hapened at the Democratic Convention on Tuesday.

The MSC Grand Opening Celebration continued in the Flag Room Tuesday afternoon.

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Aggie historians share wealth of knowledge

Texas A&M University is a living, breathing example of a constant rec-ognition of the past and what it means for the present and future. Students present in the Flag Room Tues-day had the opportunity to hear the campus’ extraordinary history from authors who often experienced that history first hand.

Tuesday served as the Memo-rial Student Center Grand Opening’s Tradition Day. Four Aggie authors — John Adams, John Hoyle, Henry Dethloff and Col. James Woodall — gathered to share their experiences and knowledge.

Adams, author of Softly Call the Muster: The Evolution of a Texas Aggie Tradition and several other books, Class of 1973, was one of the authors to address the crowd. Adams gave tidbits of historical trivia about

the University. For instance, Adams said it’s pos-

sible A&M’s official color is maroon because it rhymed with a distin-guished Aggie’s last name of Moran. Reveille was named Reveille because one morning as the mascot was walk-ing across campus, she began barking at the trumpets as they played “Rev-eille,” the morning formation call for the Corps of Cadets.

Outside of giving students the op-portunity to learn about the Aggie traditions and history they partake in daily, the event was an attempt

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to recognize the work of these Aggie historians.

“I think it is a good first attempt to recognize historic work of Aggie pro-fessors,” said John Hoyle, professor of education administration, future stud-ies and Class of 1957. Hoyle, author of Good Bull, has been at A&M for 35 years.

“People tell stories, you hear sto-ries. My wife told me to put them in a book,” Hoyle said.

The authors represent hard work and dedication, and a sense of pride in the annals of Aggie history. It’s a distinguished history worth the effort,

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promoted that’s not Josh Ab-bot or Roger Creager.”

Enter the Grand Stafford Theater—the latest revision of Downtown Bryan’s oldest venue—which makes its de-but this week with promises of injecting new life into Ag-gieland’s music scene.

“With The Stafford we are trying to bring a big city mu-sic experience to Bryan,” said Jose Arredondo, class of 2011

and managing partner at the Stafford. “There’s hasn’t been anything like this place in the area for a long time. We want-ed to change that.”

Built in 1913 as a single-screen movie theatre and performance venue, The Grand Stafford Theatre is one of downtown Bryan’s old-est structures and is known as

insidecampus | 7Memories like elephantsOld Ags share stories about their time at Texas A&M.

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Book on Osama raid may reveal classifi ed informationA former Navy SEAL’s insider account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden contains classifi ed information, the Pentagon said Tuesday, and the admiral who heads the Naval Special Warfare Command said details in the book may provide enemies with dangerous insight into secretive U.S. operations. At the Pentagon, press secretary George Little said that an offi cial review of the book, “No Easy Day,” determined that it reveals what he called “sensitive and classifi ed” information. He was not more specifi c but said the author was required to submit the book to the Pentagon before publication for a formal review of potential disclosures of such information. If the Pentagon determines the bin Laden book does disclose classifi ed secrets, the government could consider bringing federal criminal charges against the author. The potential charges and penalties would depend largely on what type of secrets were disclosed.

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something of a local treasure. The latest incarnation, The Stafford on Main, closed down in summer 2011, leaving the town without an impor-tant performance space. Jose Arre-dondo, having had experience as a performer, a sound technician, and a promoter, saw the venue’s closing as an opportunity to breathe some life back into the local music culture.

“We started looking at how to go about reopening the Stafford as soon as it closed last summer,” Arredondo said. “There were people looking at it who wanted to use the space for offices, condos, stuff that would get rid of something really special to the community.”

Arredondo partnered with Cody Marx Bailey, a Bryan resident with close ties to the local community and an interest in the work required to run a venue, to create a bold busi-ness plan that would bring a new kind of music experience to Bryan. The duo’s first goal was to revitalize The Stafford without compromising the building’s historical status.

“It’s such an old place, and it’s got deep connections to the lo-cal community,” Bailey said. “We knew going into the restoration that we needed to preserve the sense of age that you get when you walk into the building.”

This isn’t to say that the Stafford is some quaint antique—thanks to a lengthy restoration pro-cess there’s far more new about the building than old. Much of the building’s interior was stripped away

and rebuilt, including the venue’s newly-extended stage. Other re-constructed amenities include a new bar,a new air-conditioning system, but the most important renovations were made with a singular focus: the venue’s sound.

“We rebuilt this place with two goals in mind: provide the best pos-sible listening experience for our patrons and the best possible per-formance space for our artists,” Ar-redondo said.

With that goal in mind, the part-ners set about to solve two major issues with the Stafford’s acoustics. A wafer-thin tin roof hemorrhaged sound out the top of the building, and the venue’s unusually narrow design tended to overwhelm performers and patrons alike with a storm of echoes, bouncing tunage from one wall to the next and back.

The duo’s solution: tear off the roof completely and replace it with a new one packed with acoustic panel-ing and foam, then outfit the venue with a custom-built audio system with three sets of state-of-the-art speakers positioned and tuned to take advantage of the building’s shape and fill it with sound without resorting to overwhelming loudness.

Arredondo, a former sound tech-nician for MSC Town Hall, drew on his experiences working in vari-ous positions in the music industry to help tailor the venue’s sound to create a listening experience suitable for audiophiles and casual show-go-ers alike.

“Some places think that if you turn the volume all the way up to 11 then that’s all you need to do to have a good sound, but there’s a lot more

to it than that,” Arredondo said. “I wanted to focus on the quality of the sound, not just how loud it was.”

Impressive as the care and though put into The Stafford may be, it would all be for naught without equally impressive acts to fill the house. Through partnerships with popular production and promo-tion companies from Houston and Austin, like Warehouse Live and Transmission, and his own Defacto Productions, Arredondo is bringing a variety of top-shelf headliners to the Stafford.

“The idea is to have bands of all different types of genres playing here each weekend,” Arredondo said.

Many of the scheduled acts are indie up-and-comers from around Texas, including opening-night electro-folk Ishi and Austin post-rockers The Octopus Project and This Will Destroy You, but there will also be Grammy-winners like salsa troupe Groupo Fantasma and former American Idol contestant Ja-son Castro.

Local favorites will be granted the spotlight as well. College Station staples Strawberry Jam and The Lonely Hunter are opening for Groupo Fantasma and Tim Halperin, respectively, and Arredondo plans on continuing to draw from local talent for opening bands in the future.

“With Defacto Produc-tions I’ve always tried to help bands get good exposure however they can, so I’m going to keep using bands from around Bryan and College Sta-tion for openers,” Arredondo said. “But it’s not enough that a band is local, they’ve got to be playing qual-ity music too. The Stafford is a pro-

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Back in New Army, incoming freshmen ca-dets would sit in Duncan Dining Hall, sternly told not to fall asleep, and would watch We’ve Never Been Licked. The movie highlighted what the Corps of Cadets could be, and what it meant to go to Texas A&M.

The movie, really only significant in Ag-gieland, was shown Tuesday night as a part of the Traditions Day of the Memorial Student Center Grand Opening Celebration. It, along with Texas Aggies Go to War — which was also shown — showcase the University’s tra-dition and history. But it was the former that stole the show.

Unfortunately only a lucky few students — who weren’t cadets — managed to find their way to the Gates Room to watch the movie. The movie was introduced by Lane Stephen-son, director of news and information ser-vices for A&M. Stephenson had a lot to offer about the history of the movie, as well as his own history.

Stephenson said the movie, shot on the A&M campus in 1942 and released in 1943, was part of a morale booster for Aggies all over the globe in combat. The movie — which contains derogatory terms against the Japanese — was from a different generation, Stephen-son said.

“There was a fever pitch then following the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor,” Stephenson said. “The Japanese back in those days were called all sorts of names because Japan was the

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Students watch “We’ve Never Been Licked,” a 1943 war film shot on location at Texas A&M.

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The opening night celebration will feature a performance from electro-folk band Ishi.

enemy, they attacked us.” Stephenson was himself six years old when

Pearl Harbor was attacked. “I still remember it, solemnly, as do a lot of

other people,” Stephenson said. “I remember because of the effects it had on my parents, and on my favorite uncle.”

His father joined the U.S. Navy and was gone for three years. He told the small audi-ence how he would listen to the radio, waiting to hear his father’s name. He even brandished a genuine Japanese saber his father returned with after the war.

The movie stars Richard Quine who enters the University in the fall of 1938 as a trans-fer student. He learns on the first day that the Corps of Cadets may have been more than he can handle. Ultimately he accepts the chal-lenge and partakes in Old Army good bull. As he does so, life back on the Quad in the pre-WWII era comes to life, giving the audience a genuine look at A&M as it once was.

The highlight of the movie features Quine walking across Simpson Drill Field in his senior boots, an accomplishment though achieved by many since then, is still one of the most cher-ished traditions of the Corps.

It is here the movie takes an awkward turn. Between this highlight and the end gives justification to when Stephenson said it’s a bad movie, but one that has earned its place at A&M.

“It’s a bad B-movie. But it’s our bad movie. Here in Aggieland it’s a tradition,” Stephen-son said. “It was a staple after bonfire burned. They would watch the movie, beer in hand.

If would look better after a few.”In the movie, Quine is accused as a traitor

after an incident that puts him in a suspicious alliance with two of his Japanese classmates. He is then expelled. He goes off to help Ja-pan’s war effort while his buddies go off to join the U.S. Army.

But don’t worry. In the end it is revealed that Quine had acted as a spy, and ultimately gives his life to aid his old roommate in de-stroying a Japanese naval fleet. For this, he is awarded the Medal of Honor and recognized by all who had dismissed him as a traitor as

a hero. Though the action is classic 40’s era war

movie action, and the actors are all pretend-ing to be John Wayne or Jimmy Stewart, its easy for any Aggie to appreciate the movie for what it represents. It instills a sense of pride for the University that contributed more officers in WWII than any other institution including the military academies.

The classic Yell Practices and wildcat-ting with waving hands is pure nostalgia for a smaller, simpler A&M. It’s always worth the viewing.

fessional place, so it’s not like I’m putting a band on stage just because there’s students in it.”

Part of the price that comes with operating a venue on the same level as one might find in Austin is, well, pricey. Students should expect to pay $10-12 for a show.

“We anticipate some com-plaints about the pricing, but it’s im-portant to remember that this is a venue like any other, and the price reflects that.” Bailey said. “People

aren’t used to paying cover charges for bars around here, but we’re not a bar. We’re not a place where you go have a drink and there happens to be live music. We’re a place where you go to see music that happens to serve drinks.”

The Grand Stafford Theatre opens Thursday, Sept. 6, with a show fea-turing headliners Ishi and opening bands The 71’s, GOBI, and Feather-face beginning at 8:30 p.m.


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A billboard seen Tuesday was put up recently at the home of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla. Aggie senior linebacker Sean Porter mentioned that they prepare the same way for every team. “It’s something that people do. We don’t get caught up too much in the media: billboards, newspaper, things like that never really get to me.” Clear Channel removed the ad after Texas A&M University officials sent a cease-and-desist letter arguing trademark infringement. University officials are investigating the source of the billboard message. — Staff report

Q: How do you feel about the revised ticket pulling system?

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“I like it. I just used it with a bunch of my friends. I think it’s good. ”Michael Yanniello, sophomore psychology major

“It really doesn’t bother me that much

but mostly I’m still confused about it.”

Jake Jones, senior political science and

sociology double major

“I think it’s unfair, I like the fi rst come fi rst serve idea.”Blake Herber, sophomore mechanical engineering major

“It’s nice for the people that don’t

want to wait in line, but at the same time there’s something about getting

there fi rst and camping out. I can’t say I agree or disagree with it.”

Megan Hodge, junior general studies major

of operations for student sen-ate. “ If [the MSC] stays open 24 hours, people can go and be more productive.”

Omar Ghannoum, student services chair for student sen-ate, was one of the authors of the MSC 24-Hour Bill.

“College students don’t just stick to a daytime sched-ule, they also like to work at night,” Ghannoum said. “Opening at night would give student another place to study when the library might not be an ideal place.”

Fernando Sosa, finance chair for student senate, said the last time he checked the University Center accounts, there was more than $500,000 in reserve funds.

“After looking at their ac-counts, I’m pretty confident that we can use some of those excess funds, as in whatever is in reserve, to operate the MSC for 24 hours,” Sosa said.

The senate is also discuss-ing a bill to repeal manda-tory meal plans because Uni-versity dining is now being outsourced.

“Because University din-ing is privatized now, it’s not fair of the University to force student[s] who live on campus to buy from a private company,” said Scott Bowen, speaker of the student senate. “It interferes with fair com-petition and puts an undue burden on the students who live there.”

Hurley said she thought students shouldn’t be re-quired to purchase a meal plan, especially those who live off-campus.

“If they’re off-campus freshman, that’s a lot less convenient for them because that means thy have to spend more time on campus,” Hur-ley said. “It’s a cheaper option

and that’s definitely what we want to go for.”

Bowen said if the manda-tory meal plan bill is passed, the senate will begin setting up meetings with the Univer-sity to try to change the cur-rent policy.

“These bills are kind of the beginning of an issue where we decide what our posi-tion is,” Bowen said. “But then actually executing that position is a lot longer of a process.”

During the 2011-2012 aca-demic year, the student senate and then-student body presi-dent, Jeff Pickering, came to a stalemate regarding the stance that would be taken on the increase in student fees. Bowen said the senate op-posed all increases in student fees, while the SBP disagreed with the senate. Because the branches couldn’t come to an agreement, a stance was never taken.

The issue will be dis-cussed again in the senate meeting Wednesday.

“This [act] sets a default position that unless we pass a bill specifically supporting the increase in a fee, the SBP will not support increases in any fees,” Bowen said. “It is his responsibility to carry out the position and policies of stu-dent government.”

The student senate also traditionally begins with an invocation. Bowen said there were occasionally complaints that the prayer was being said before the meetings. The proposed religious expression protection amendment will address those complaints.

“I am personally the author of that [amendment],” Bow-en said. “We wanted to make it clear that [the invocation] is allowed. Not that it must be done, not that we necessarily approve or disapprove of it. We just want to make it clear in the constitution that that is something that can be done.”

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Planned Parenthood appeals rulingAUSTIN — Planned Parenthood asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to reconsider a ruling that would allow Texas to exclude it from a health program for low-income women. The state vows to keep the program going on its own, but without Planned Parenthood, which had provided care to about half of the program’s participants.

Squatters taking root in DFW areaFORT WORTH — Offi cials in a North Texas county say they’re making a strong move against a wave of squatters trying to claim homes through an obscure state statute called “adverse possession.” It allows someone to take ownership of otherwise unclaimed land. But several people in DFW tried to fi le paperwork on foreclosures or temporarily empty homes.

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volleyball | The

Delaware Invitational will

be Friday and Saturday.

soccer | Ellis Field welcomes No. 16

Long Beach State and Central Michigan

as the Aggie soccer team wraps up

nonconference matches Friday and Saturday.

sports preview | Everything

you need to know about football,

volleyball, soccer, golf and much

more will be covered Friday.Q:

What do you think about A&M’s fi rst game in the SEC against

Florida?

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“It’s gonna be a pretty tough game, I think. It’ll probably

be one of the bigger games of the

season.”

Bryan Walker, freshman

business major

“I’m super excited, but I’m equally

nervous for us.”Melissa Castro,

sophomore zoology major, minor in

wildlife and fi sheries

“I’m really excited about it, it’s gonna be my fi rst game

ever. It’s awesome that we get to be a

part of it.”

Allison Phillips, freshman

elementary education major

“I think it should be a great game. I always predict an

Aggie win.”Taylor Barron,

senior mechanical engineering

“I’m excited. I don’t follow sports a lot

so it should be fun.”

Mary House, sophomore

nutrition major

“I’m really excited about it. I’m a

transfer student so my old school

didn’t have a football time.

We’re gonna be witnessing history with going into the new conference.”

Jordan Long, sophomore history

major

Put on your best game-face

Field fashion

A s A&M approaches football season, students are

adding to their game-day wardrobe. From jerseys

to dresses and body paint to school-spirited shoes,

Aggies are taking game-day apparel to a whole new

level in order to best represent A&M in the SEC.

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“Body painting at any sporting event, especially football games, would be a great tradition to start. It shows your love for the sport and always excites the crowd,” said senior sports man-agement major Aaron Corby.

For many women, one game-day fashion tradition that is sure to carry

over to the SEC is T-shirt dresses. These dresses, which are commonly seen in Kyle Field, are popular in the SEC.

“I love wearing my T-shirt dress to the game. It cost me $140 but it was so worth it,” senior education major Lauren Paolini said.

The cost of the game-day dresses starts at about $80 and can exceed $200 if it is custom-made. It can be purchased at various stores throughout College Station. Some stu-dents prefer to use personal T-shirts to create an Aggie game-day dress.

Many students said A&M’s move to the SEC does not warrant a new game-day ward-robe. They plan to wear much of what they

already have.“I think the A&M game attire will

pretty much stay the same. It’s already tradition for girls to wear the game day dresses,” said sophomore agriculture

communication and journalism major Sarah Haas.

Students said there prob-ably won’t be a big change in attire because they already wear polo’s, jerseys and dresses.

Students also plan to take advan-tage of A&M TOMS Campus Clas-sics. TOMS limited-edition Campus Classic shoes are made in maroon and white and when purchased, will aid in giving a pair of new shoes to a child in need.

“Owning a pair of A&M TOMS would be awesome. I can look cute and sup-port my school,” said junior agriculture communication and journalism Brittney Postert.

Many A&M students said they are ex-cited about adding to the Aggie tradition and being in a different environment, but nothing will stop them from wear-ing their boots.

“Wearing your boots to A&M football games is tradition. Noth-ing is going to change that with the Aggie Spirit we have,” said junior visualization major Ashley Lane.

Photo iIlustration by Roger Zhang — THE BATTALION

The T-shirt dress will

most likely carry into

the new SEC season and,

of course, the boots.

Many students plan to continue to wear their traditional gameday apparel.

James Sullivan: A&M leadersip talks preperation before colossal Gator clash

Highlight reel

The tension hung thick in the air over Tuesday’s press

conference, suspending itself over A&M football’s top

coaches and key players. The high-strung atmosphere

was as transparent as glass, growing with every intruding question

inquired.

It may as well have been an interrogation. Following each member’s testimony up

on the podium, it continued to become increasingly obvious that they had other thoughts clouding their minds. With less than a week until, arguably, one of the pro-gram’s most pivotal matchups in its history, one can’t blame them for the absentmindedness.

The University of Florida, an esteemed football powerhouse, will be visiting Texas A&M for the latter’s inaugural conference, and season, opener this Saturday. In recog-nition of the contest’s national clout, ESPN will even be hosting its premier pre-game analysis show, College GameDay, in front of Kyle Field the morning of the colossal matchup.

The implications of the game’s outcome are epic on a biblical scale.

Within the preoccupied answers of the Aggies, however, lie multiple strong points about where the team stands mentally and physically entering the Florida matchup.

As such, crucial quotes from the press conference have been selected and listed below. Attached to each will be substantive exploration of its meaning and the insight it provides on the game this upcoming Saturday.

Luke Joeckel, Jr. OT – “I think our [offense] will be something completely new. I don’t think they’ve seen it. We have to come and play hard against them. Our offensive line, we’ve got an experienced group, we got to play our best game.”

Analysis: Anchoring one of the top O-Lines in the country, Joeckel and the offense enter the SEC boasting a unique style of play. The Aggies’ new league is mostly un-familiar with the spread Sumlin has brought to the program, allowing A&M the oppor-tunity to produce points with general ease.

Ryan Swope, Sr. WR – “There’s great character on this football team. This team is ready to play and we’re just really anxious to get on the field. There is just a great vibe in the air right now. The team is excited and we’re just really confident right now.”

Analysis: Considered the Aggies’ top skill player, Swope has emerged as the unspoken leader of the A&M offense. Since

Sumlin took over last December, the team has only played against itself, making the squad’s desire to get on the field all the stronger. The emotion that comes along with the return to Kyle Field may give the Aggies a much-needed boast.

Kevin Sumlin, Head Coach – “[John-ny Manziel] is an inexperienced player and because of that, the surrounding cast of our offensive line, our running backs and our skill people on the perimeter who have experience have to play well. They have to create a quarterback friendly atmosphere for him so as to take the pressure off him and fortunately, we have experienced players in those positions.”

Analysis: Entering the Florida matchup, A&M will be led by redshirt freshman Johnny Manziel at quarterback. Compet-ing for his first time on at the college level, the stress the position creates along with the hype surrounding the game is a disaster waiting to happen if the young QB receives no support.

With veteran players such as Luke Joeck-el, Ryan Swope, Christine Michael and Jake Matthews backing up Manziel, however, the first-time starter is geared up to make some ripples in his debut.

Steven Terrell, Sr. FS – “You can’t get caught up in the smoke and mirrors at the beginning of the play. We just have to be prepared, have good eyes and stay on our toes. I feel like that if we just worry about us, [then] we can just go out and play our defense and we’ll be fine. ”

Analysis: Referring specifically to the Florida offense, the Terrell and the Aggie defense will be tasked with shutting down a fast and confusing blend of athletes. Despite dismal performances in multiple units last season, however, the young safety expresses confidence in the defensive coordinator Mark Snyder’s new schemes, especially with the perplexing formations of the Gator offense.

fensive line] is particularly in the league we play in,” said head coach Kevin Sumlin. “It starts by seeing how good they are this week.”

The Aggies, under the new direction of Sumlin, will try and implement an up-tempo offense that made the Univer-sity of Houston a BCS threat. With returning senior wide-out Ryan Swope and senior tailback Christine Michael, redshirt freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel will have fa-miliar weapons as he directs the offense.

“He has the feel of the situ-ation as someone who has ex-pected to be in this situation,” said offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury. “He just has to re-alize he doesn’t have to make every play. There’s a lot of guys that have made plays and all he needs to do is give them the ball and let them do their thing.”

The season opener against Louisiana Tech was postponed due to safety concerns as Hur-ricane Isaac battered through parts of the Deep South. The game was then rescheduled for Oct. 13 leaving the Aggies with a bye to open their sea-son. So last Thursday, instead

of opening up the season, the Aggies laid idle while on Sat-urday, Florida faced Bowling Green. The Gators were able to evaluate their offense and start setting up their defensive rotations.

“We were dealt a new set of circumstances, but those are the things for which we pre-pared for,” Sumlin said.

After allowing opponents to outscore the Aggies in the second half 233-186, the main focus will be to correct men-tal lapses and to not allow for five games in which the Aggies lead, to end in defeat.

“This game is going to be a game of adjustments,” said de-fensive coordinator Mark Sny-der. “Halftime is going to be an important time to see what the game plan is and make adjust-ments from there.”

As the Aggies continue to prepare for the showdown Sat-urday afternoon in the friendly confines of Kyle Field, they look to start their season on the right foot, while keeping in perspective that the season is not defined by one game.

“When you play a team like [Florida], it gets the atten-tion of your team in a differ-ent way,” Sumlin said. “If we win this Saturday, I’ve told the team that we still have 11 games to play. If we lose, we still have 11 games to play. This game will not be the end of the

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Aggies leading receiver Ryan Swope contributed his thoughts about A&M’s season opener against Florida at Tuesday’s press conference.

James Sullivan is a junior business major and sports writer for The Battalion.


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While kicking off the 2012 Democratic National Conven-tion Tuesday night, Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, N.J., aroused continuous chants of “USA” from the enthusias-tic crowd encompassed by the Time Warner Cable Arena.

This is the 46th Democratic National Convention since its inception in 1862. The con-vention is being held in Char-lotte, N.C.

“We must choose forward. We must choose inclusion. We must choose growing to-gether,” Booker said. “We must choose American might and American muscle stand-ing strong on the bedrock of American ideal.”

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The convention entertained a large tribute to Senator Ken-nedy’s legislative career in dedication to his family. The first day continued to follow up with entertainment from singers, keynote addresses, as well as speeches from Mayor Julian Castro of San Anto-nio, Texas, and First Lady, Michelle Obama.

President Barack Obama took a promotional tour on the way to the convention, stopping in a few states, one of which was Iowa.

While in Des Moines, Iowa, Obama said America’s eco-nomic strength comes from students, workers and small business owners and a growing, thriving middle class.

Obama also said, in Ameri-ca, higher education is an eco-nomic necessity that everyone should be able to afford.

“President Obama signed a bill that doubled funding for Pell Grants by eliminating

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Democratic Convention begins in Charlotte, N.C.Gathering aims to solidify party platforms and values

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President Barack Obama is expected to accept the Democratic nomination for the party’s 2012 presidential candidate on Thursday night.

wasteful bank subsidies, and put in place a system that re-wards responsible borrowers,” said Texas Aggie Democrat, Christine Ajufo. “The average college student doesn’t have a trust fund to dip into or stocks to sell off. It’s crucial that we re-elect President Obama so that he can continue to work for all students and make college more affordable for everyone.”

Cameron Halbert, sopho-more political science major, was a little more skeptical.

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creates a huge financial burden for the government, which in turn, causes a burden among us, the taxpayers.

Hillary Hamilton, ju-nior accounting major, said she agreed with most of the healthcare plan.

“I don’t think Obama is do-ing as terrible of a job as ev-eryone says,” Hamilton said. “I think it’s important that ev-eryone gets healthcare, even if the doctors aren’t getting paid as much.”

As of Tuesday, Romney and Obama were tied in the polls at 48 percent.

The convention will con-tinue throughout Thursday. President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will ac-cept the Democratic nomina-tions Thursday at the Bank of America Stadium.

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Don’t let the spectacles and graying hair fool you; elephants never forget. Old Ags also have grand aspirations for the future.

“My theme is going to be the cliché, which is, we’ve come a long way, but we still have a long way to go,” said Larry Oliver at Tues-day’s Elephant Talk.

The Elephant Talk, a community conver-sation sponsored by the Department of Mul-ticultural Services, featured a panel of Aggies who have been on campus for over 20 years. The panel included Bill Page, an Aggie gradu-ate who has worked in the library since 1978, Mary Broussard, an undergraduate studies counselor whose relationship with the Uni-versity started in 1985 and Larry Oliver, a pro-fessor with the English department since 1984.

The discussion highlighted the seemingly competing values of tradition and progress at the University.

“Traditions can bind and they can separate, and I think you get both on this campus,” Oli-ver said.

“Some A&M traditions conflict with the interests of minority groups and are sometimes even offensive,” said sophomore mechanical engineering major Rachel Lommen.

Broussard recalled the prejudice against women that has plagued A&M’s history, cit-ing the 1979 event in which Melanie Zentgraf walked across the stage at commencement and was refused a handshake by President Jarvis Miller. This event drew national attention, and eventually promoted a positive change.

“I think we had to be embarrassed a little bit before we realized that we have to be accept-ing of everybody,” Broussard said.

International students, African American students and other ethnic minorities have also suffered injustices on campus.

“There has always been, in my experience, bias against international students,” Page said.

He also cited discrimination against faculty members.

“There were very few African-American faculty members in the seventies. The librar-

ians on campus have faculty status, and in the seventies they were never counted in any of the faculty statistics, except for race, because we had an African-American librarian and I think she was one of three African-American faculty members on campus. We also made the University look good because we had a lot of women faculty members, and there weren’t many of those either in the seventies,” Page said.

The committee also discussed the battle for acceptance of the GLBT community, citing the 1984 Texas Supreme Court Case Gay Stu-dent Services v. Texas A&M as a clear victory for acceptance. This case allowed the Gay Stu-dent Services to become a recognized univer-sity organization, which was an achievement in a very hostile atmosphere.

“The homophobia — it wasn’t just an aca-demic construct, it was very real,” Page said.

Broussard noted how long it has tak-en the University to address this facet of discrimination.

“It’s only been in the recent decade that we have actually said, ‘OK, we need to deal with this,’” Broussard said.

The panel members also discussed their hopes for the future of A&M.

“I am certainly not Pollyannaish,” Oliver said. “It will be very slow progress.”

Page added that he hoped that as they im-prove, they continue to uphold the best of Aggie values.

“And I hope, what they see when they look back at us is that they see that we preserved the best of the University,” Page said. “One of the things I’m proud of [about] A&M is [that the] attitude of public service here is just astound-ing. A&M does that kind of thing really well when we do it, and I hope in 20 years we’re still doing that really well.”

This recall of intolerance and appeal for change still had an undertone of pride, con-structing a bittersweet dialogue. Throughout difficulties, these individuals have remained in Aggieland for a reason.

“I have had an incredible experience here at the University, and I wouldn’t give it for anything,” Broussard said.

Former students share stories ‘Elephant Talk’ panelists discuss A&M’s past, progress

Adams said. “I write about A&M history because I en-

joy it. It is a labor of love, and it is a great story. It has never been captured until now,” Adams said. “There is a lot of good stuff. It really happened.”

Among students in attendance were cadets who, as keepers of the spirit at Texas A&M, had a lot to learn about their history.

“We have half of these books in our rooms,” said junior history major and cadet Daniel Zika. “They said, ‘Read them. They’re

good for you.’”For Zika, the military tradition and his-

tory instilled in the University through the Corps was a reason he decided to come to Texas A&M.

“That’s why I came to A&M,” Zika said. “Because of its strong history and traditions. We had the most commissioned officers in WWI and WWII.”

The authors have made a tradition of story-telling that are continually made accessible to an ever-growing campus and an ever-chang-ing student body. They’re stories that need to be told, Hoyle said.

“Stories grow with the telling,” Hoyle said.

AuthorsContinued from page 1

Jessica Smarr The Battalion

Author of “Softly Call the Muster,” a book that traces the history of the tradition Muster, reads excerpts from his book Tuesday afternoon in the MSC Flag Room.



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