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people playing it that more people feel like they couldn’t really e� ect the game at all,” Allen said. “Half the people really want to get the game � nished and com-plete and do it well, and the other half just want to mess it up for everybody else.”

The game operates as a series of in-puts on a live chat to e� ectively move the main character.

He said the game currently relies on a voting system that sends the game into two di� erent modes.

“It can either be in democracy or anarchy,” Allen said. “And when people collectively vote for democracy the game will take a vote for each move that the character makes as opposed to anarchy, where it takes every input and more or less selects them at random,” Allen said.

Kaitlin Forks, sophomore wildlife and � sheries sciences major, said she has been playing Pokémon “religiously” since she was a child and said this game “wins nos-talgia points.” She said she’s played live games before, but never with such a large magnitude of people.

“I’m sure if they picked any other game it probably wouldn’t be as popu-lar,” Forks said. “I think it’s a combina-tion of simple gameplay, especially the originality of it — the idea of having a single game where so many people play at once.”

Parker Allen, senior technology man-agement major, said there were many more people watching the game and waiting to see what happens than actu-ally playing it.

“I think [it’s been] more for enter-tainment because there’s already so many

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‘Twitch Plays Pokemon’ catches fire among students

In the 1990s, a video game phenom-enon with Japanese roots sprung out of a red-and-white ball and into the

homes of many children and adolescents. Twenty years later, it’s still going strong.

The operators of Twitch.tv, an online video game platform and community, created on Feb. 13 an emulated game of Pokémon Red/Blue that, for the past two weeks, has invaded thousands of computer screens, instilling not only nostalgia, but also a widespread Inter-net sensation that tests people’s ability to collaborate on completing a task.

According to Twitch, the game had nearly 74,000 online players, 29 million total views and nearly 49,000 people who were watching as of Tuesday.

Fish Drill Team aims for fifth Mardi Gras victory

Kali DentonSpecial to the Battalion

corps of cadets

Cadets attribute daily practice to winning streak

See Fish Drill on page 2

The Fish Drill Team will compete against 30 other military schools Friday at the

annual Mardi Gras Drill Meet at Tulane Uni-versity in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Fish Drill Team has been dedicated to practically seven days a week for the past two months in preparation for the competition.

“We have won four years in a row and we’re hoping for the Class of 2017 to be the � fth year in a row to win,” said Jacob Brown, sophomore advisor for Fish Drill Team. “For the past month we’ve been practicing seven days a week: Monday, Wednesday, Friday af-ternoons and Tuesday, Thursday mornings. On Saturdays we usually have a mock drill meet to get freshmen ready for what it’s like to be in a competition and Sunday the fresh-men have an uno� cial practice on their own.”

Brown said he has con� dence in the fresh-men’s ability to take home their the � fth-consecutive victory this year.

Brown said that the decision to not cut any members from the team sets the Texas A&M freshman drill team apart.

“One thing that’s special about Fish Drill Team is that we don’t cut anybody from the team, so if you want to join, you just keep coming out practicing and the advisors will work with you no matter what,” Brown said.

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Aggieland recognized for reflecting evolving campus

Yearbook rakes in 13 Gold Circle Awards

Sta� members for Texas A&M’s 2013 Aggieland

yearbook received 13 Gold Circle Awards from the Co-lumbia Scholastic Press As-sociation’s national yearbook competition.

Kalee Bumguardner, 2013 Aggieland editor-in-chief, said many universities

apply for awards in catego-ries such as design, writing and photography.

Bumguardner said the Ag-gieland has historically done well in this award competi-tion and that it was great to see the sta� ’s hard work continue to get recognized.

Part of this hard work entailed experimentation. Bumguardner said she was excited to try something new and modern for the Aggieland 2013 and said the cover, rather than being tra-ditional leather, was made in a more stylistic fashion.

“The award that I was

proudest of was our second place in the cover because we did something new with our cover this year, and I was just really glad the Press As-sociation liked it as well,” Bumguardner said.

Bumguardner said the sports pages of Aggieland 2013 also got recognized overall for their design.

Bumguardner said al-though Aggieland didn’t get to the � nals in the over-all book category, she is proud of the categories in which Aggieland did receive awards.

“We did much better in

the individual awards than a lot of the books that won the overall award did,” Bum-guardner said. “It’s di� erent judging so you never know how you’re going to do, but I was just really glad that we were able to get recognized in some of the individual categories.”

Bumguardner said it was de� nitely a team e� ort in getting these awards and said she couldn’t have done it without her assistant editor, now editor-in-chief, Ashley Hildebrandt.

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baseball

Stubble� eld paces Aggies to victory, 5-1Tyler StaffordThe Battalion

Tyler Stubble� eld’s career high 6.1 innings pitched led the No.

18 Texas A&M baseball team past the Houston Baptist Huskies on a foggy Tuesday night with a � nal score of 5-1.

Stubble� eld (1-0, 0.74), who was making just his second career start, also posted a career high in strike-outs with nine. Stubble� eld left the game with men on � rst and second base in the top of the seventh, being relieved by junior right-hander Jason Freeman. After an errant throw from Aggie sophomore shortstop Logan Taylor allowed HBU junior center � elder Zach Nehrir to score, Free-man was relieved in favor of righty Andrew Vinson.

Vinson struck out the next bat-ter looking on a 78 mile per hour

curveball, ending the inning and Stubble� eld’s � nal line. Stubble� eld gave up three hits, two walks and one unearned run on 89 pitches.

“It all started on the mound for us tonight,” said A&M head coach Rob Childress. “He has been fantastic in relief and both starts. He has an out-standing fastball that really gets on you.”

Junior designated hitter Logan Nottebrok put the Aggies on the board in the � rst inning before HBU starting pitcher Ross Hennell could record an out, roping a single to right-center and scoring Blake Al-lemand.

A&M would break the game open in the second inning, scoring four runs on three hits, two hit batters and a walk. The inning started with fresh-man Ronnie Gideon being hit by a pitch, eventually crossing the plate af-

ter a bases-loaded single through the left side of the in� eld from sopho-more J.B. Moss. The inning marked the sixth time the Aggies scored four or more runs in a frame.

In both of Stubble� eld’s starts this year, he has been greeted with early run support from his teammates, in-cluding � ve runs in the � rst two in-nings on Tuesday.

“I always know they are going to give it to me, so I just go out there with one thing on my mind — just pitch,” Stubble� eld said.

A&M (7-1) hits the road for the � rst time this season as it travels to California to play a three-game series against Fresno State (6-2) this week-end.

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David Cohen — THE BATTALION

Students attend a

screening of the film

“12 Years a Slave” put on by the Woodson

Black Awareness Committee

and MSC Aggie Cinema Tuesday night

in Rudder Theatre.

A panel discussion surround-ing the topic of Holly-

wood’s treatment of the history of slavery will be held Wednes-day in Rudder Theatre, fol-lowing a screening Tuesday of the Oscar-nominated film “12 Years a Slave.”

Jimmie Green, Woodson Black Awareness Committee member and Black History Month director, said the panel will consist of four professors from various departments.

“[Panelists] will delve deep into the issues that come along with the continued production of slavery films as well as the dy-namics that made up the issue of slavery,” Green said.

“12 Years a Slave” is based on Solomon Northup’s mem-oir written in 1853. Candace

Morris, committee member and junior management major, said this may just be yet another movie that inaccurately depicts slavery.

“I just think the movies that are produced only scratch the surface of the multi-layered his-tory of the people, places and events in regards to slavery,” Morris said. “There is no pos-sible way to capture the true mind-sets, beliefs, sorrows and pains experienced over hun-dreds of years by all the people actively involved.”

Morris said, in addition to being inaccurately portrayed, slavery is also highly glamorized in the world of Hollywood.

“When I think of the glam-orization and romanticization of slavery, the movies that come to mind are ‘Django Un-chained,’ ‘Gone with the Wind’ and ‘Song of the South,’” Mor-

ris said. “All of those have in-stances where you question the depiction of the characters because there is a strong sense of falseness. There is no way a slave can go on a successful ram-page of revenge of that grand of a scale in ‘Django Unchained,’ and it’s hard to believe that the characters in ‘Gone with the Wind’ and ‘Song of the South’ are that satisfied with their role of being treated and seen as inferior by the people they in-teract with every day. And yet these movies were produced by Hollywood and watched by many.”

Jharen Rosborough, fresh-man economics major, said though Hollywood has an ob-ligation to entertain, ‘12 Years a Slave’ still does a fair job at reflecting reality.

“What is being presented may be somewhat dramatized

in order to still promote that entertainment aspect of movies, but what’s reflected is still the real life occurrences of slavery during that time period,” Ros-borough said.

Green said Hollywood fi-nally came forward with an ad-equate account of slavery with “12 Years a Slave.”

“Up until this point I believe that ‘12 Years a Slave’ comes as close as possible to painting a full picture to what slavery was truly like,” Green said. “Past movies such as ‘Django Unchained’ and others have added somewhat of a softer, al-most comedic, side to slavery. There should never be damp-ening down of the true effect that slavery had nor of what oc-curred during the period that it took place in.”

‘12 Years a Slave’ panel to scrutinize slavery portrayalsKatie CanalesThe Battalion

woodson black awareness committee

Taylor Scott, senior mi-crobiology major, said the game did not originally have the different modes of anarchy and democ-racy, but because of the difficulty of the game it was changed. He said a lot of people didn’t like that new aspect of the game and even organized a kind of “filibuster” against it at one point.

“That was so amazing,” Scott said. “The people who were against it all uni-fied and voted for ‘start’ so that command kept win-ning and the game could not progress, because they were always in the start menu.”

Scott said he thought one of the most interest-ing aspects of the game was seeing the “social ex-periment” aspect that has manifested.

“Whenever you have that many people doing something together it’s kind of cool to see how

behaviors just kind of pick up,” Scott said. “There has been a Google doc that has been constantly updated by players who are trying to beat the game. There’s a mission and goal and strategies on how to best input commands and con-versation going on [about] how to best stick out the game.”

Scott said the game has created spinoff elements, like Internet memes and trending phrases.

“At one point in the game, three or four days [in], people just kept re-peatedly kept checking this item called the ‘helix fossil,’” Scott said. “People started putting in the com-ments, ‘Helix is our god.’ They made a joke, ‘Helix is the one god,’ ‘We are looking for guidance,’ and that kind of stuff blew up on Reddit. There’s angel-ic paintings of like angels and demons and pictures of stuff in the game, and that’s what’s been making the game so popular — be-cause it’s really funny.”

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“It’s open to all freshmen at the beginning of the year and on the first day we had about 90-plus fish come out, and now we’re down to 30.”

To maintain being a member on Fish Drill Team, Brown said members must display attention to detail, military bearing, phys-ical fitness, and have a positive attitude. Brown said brushing off negativity is vital character-istic that gets freshmen through the seven practices a week.

The competition lasts for about eight hours as the judges analyze each drill team accord-ing to its precision and punc-tuality. The advisors warn the freshmen not to make drastic movements to reconcile mis-takes as it draws more attention to the mistake and could poten-tially be costly for the team.

“[The judges are] looking for sharpness and attention to detail,” said Stephen Meissner, senior advisor. “One thing we really drill into the freshmen is not to secondary adjust, so if they’re wrong, stay wrong, because if they move to correct themselves they’re just going to get another point off.”

While seeking to keep one of Texas A&M’s core values — tradition — in their routine, Brown said cadets have tried to maintain classic moves while adding a variety of changes into their routine.

“We’ve added a little differ-ent things to the step off this year, we’ve added a kneeling over heads to part of the step off,” Brown said. “One of our most famous parts of the step off is the ripple line and we still have that in there.”

Michael Willis, the forerun-ner of Fish Drill Team, said that through his leadership and mo-tivation, he has kept his team focused on the idea of unity, which is paramount for the team if it expects to win.

“There are currently 29 of us, including myself, and I have to ensure where they are, what they’re doing and if they’re not at practice I need to know why,” Willis said. “For competition purposes, which we’re doing this weekend, I command a block of 16 cadets and we compete in three phas-es called regulation, inspection and exhibition. This weekend we’ve got to win first, I want our team to be national cham-pions.”

Willis said excellence is what sets Texas A&M above the rest on competition day.

“Drill is an art and a sci-ence,” Willis said. “The science is every move is the same, ev-eryone knows how to put a rifle up to their arm and then put it to their shoulder. All the other teams from other schools know what they’re doing. What sets us above the rest of them is the intensity and the sharpness that we have, which has made us na-tional champions for years and years.”

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Shawn Kerr (foreground), sophomore landscape architecture major, critiques the Fish Drill Team on its performance.

“We put in a lot of hard hours over the summer, and it’s just nice that we get to be recognized, for the whole staff in general,” Hildebrandt said. “It’s just a reinforcement that we are on the right track and doing the right things, so it’s nice to see that from outside.”

Hildebrandt said Bum-guardner was a great lead-er who tried to take Ag-gieland 2013 in a different direction, getting different angles on stories, different styles for designs and for photo layouts.

“Her whole idea go-ing into this book was to just make it different than what we had done before, and she succeeded in do-ing that,” Hildebrant said. “As far as the award goes, I think it proves that she

had the right thing in mind with moving the book for-ward.”

Shelby Olive, current Aggieland assistant edi-tor, said she looks forward to Aggieland’s continu-ing progress and that she thinks the best way for forward momentum is for Aggieland to continue to do its best to reflect the evolving A&M campus.

Olive said that as the University moves forward, so too does the Aggieland and said recent changes on campus — namely the move to the SEC and re-opening of the MSC — have brought attention to Aggieland.

“It really captures the movements this University has made in general, which was something that was really in our minds with these new renovations and we specifically mention that in our theme,” Olive said.

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with Dr. [Janet] Spurgeon on an art history game that is being used in the core curriculum and hopefully will make the course a more engaging and fun learning experience. Coming from EA, I have a little bit of experience creating fun and engaging experiences. Another project I’m working on is a collaboration with the center for education at the College of Veterinary Medicine where we are developing interactive classroom material for veterinarians so that they can explore different

surgical methods.

THE BATTALION: What have you taken from your time at EA that you want to incorporate at A&M?

THOMAS: Making the classroom fun and interactive. It’s as

simple as that. I don’t necessarily prescribe to a lecture method of teaching and I am a very interactive person myself. I like to have fun and I know students like to have fun. I think all of these elements can be combined to create a

great learning experience. I learned the rules for American football by playing a video game. I think we can bring some interactivity and fun to the classroom.

THE BATTALION: What did you do at Electronic Arts while you worked there?

THOMAS: I supervised the graphics for the football games, so all of the football games at EA during the last seven years. I started off as a computer graphics supervisor and fi nished as the head of graphics overseeing a team of software developers, artists, technical artists and project managers.

THE BATTALION: Which games did you work on at EA?

THOMAS: Madden NFL,

NCAA College Football — and we got Reveille into the game a few years ago and we got yell leaders into the last-ever college football game — NFL Head Coach, NFL Blitz on all platforms … and I was responsible for supervising all graphics development.

THE BATTALION: How did these games develop while you worked at EA?

THOMAS: Our customers want to see a realistic Reveille in the game and feel like they’re at Kyle Field when playing the game. It was all about authentic, engaging experiences.

THE BATTALION: What research projects are you working on?

THOMAS: I am working

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Texas A&M men’s basket-ball will head to Baton

Rouge for a tip off set for 7 p.m. Wednesday against the LSU Tigers in the Pete Mara-vich Assembly Center.

Head coach Billy Kennedy said he likes where his team’s mindset is and said the play-ers are playing a lot better, es-pecially against talented clubs like LSU and Tennessee.

“We played really well on the road against Georgia and Vanderbilt,” Kennedy said. “We just have to finish the last five minutes. You have to be in the game and make plays down the stretch. Hope-fully we’ll be in a position to finish the game off and give ourselves the win.”

The Aggies (16-11, 7-7 SEC) are coming off of a 68-65 overtime win against Tennessee on Saturday, where sophomore forward Antwan Space hit a game winner with 2.4 seconds left. Junior Jamal Jones and sopho-more Alex Caruso each had 14-point performances. Jones averages 15.8 points per game in league play, while Caruso remains the SEC leader in as-sists (125) and assists per game (4.6) for the season.

In the previous matchup between A&M and LSU (16-10, 7-7 SEC), the Aggies took

the win 83-73 on Feb. 12 in Reed Arena. Despite having four players scoring in double figures and Shavon Coleman having a game-high 21 points, the Tigers couldn’t pull out in front. Junior forward Kourt-ney Roberson had a double-double, scoring 12 points and grabbing 10 rebounds, while Jamal Jones scored a team-high 19 points, 15 of which came from three-point shots.

LSU lost Saturday to Ken-tucky in overtime, 77-76, due to a put-back layup by fresh-man Julius Randle with four seconds left. Johnny O’Bryant III, the LSU leading scorer, posted a 20-point and 12-re-bound performance for the Tigers.

On offense, LSU ranks third in scoring and second in rebounds, while the Aggies are in last in both statistics. On defense, the Tigers rank sec-ond in the SEC in both steals and blocks per game.

Texas A&M is on a two- game winning streak but is 1-6 on the road in conference

play. LSU leads the all-time series with A&M 15-12.

“[The game film] will help out a lot because we already know their personnel,” Rob-erson said. “We just have to do what we did when we played them at home a few weeks ago.”

The Aggies enter the final two weeks of conference play in a seven-way tie for fourth place in the SEC with LSU, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Ar-kansas, Ole Miss and Missouri.

“It’s very important [to get the fourth seed],” Space said. “I think seven teams are tied for .500 in conference, so we can either end the season tenth or fourth. We’re trying to do whatever we can to be fourth, so we can have a bye in the tournament and have an easier route to the NCAA tourna-ment.”

The Aggies return home for a matchup against the Ole Miss Rebels at 5 p.m. Saturday in Reed Arena.

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Senior Kourtney Roberson, pictured against South Carolina, notched a double-double in an earlier win over LSU.

Tennis pair ranked No. 1The No. 13 Texas A&M men’s tennis team’s duo of Junior Ore and Jackson Withrow ranked No. 1 in the latest ITA doubles rankings Tuesday. The top doubles team in the nation is 5-0 this spring with wins over two top-10 doubles partners. This is the third time in program history that an A&M duo was ranked No. 1 overall, according to an Aggie Athletics news release.

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