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Behind the echo of 21 shots fired, the haunting sound of bugles, and the somber moment of silence,

the students of Traditions Council work to continue the century old tradition that is Silver Taps.

Executive director of Traditions Council and senior business honors major, Kelsey Mckechnie, said Tradi-tions Council coordinates with the Ross Volunteers and Student Assistance Ser-vices. They do everything from setting up tables around campus where students can write letters to the families of the de-ceased to guiding these families around during their time on campus before Sil-ver Taps begins.

“It’s a huge honor and a humbling experience to be a part of the organiza-tion that helps keep this tradition alive,” Mckechnie said. “It also makes me really reflect on my life and my time at A&M.”

Alexandra Gonzalez, junior agribusi-ness major and member of Traditions Council, said beyond the preparations that take place a week before the first Tuesday of each month, the Council is continually contacting the families of stu-dents to be honored and making the ap-propriate arrangements to accommodate those who will be attending Silver Taps as family members of the deceased.

“Our job as the Council is to really stress and emphasize just how much this tradition means to the families of the students we have lost,” Gonzalez said. “Some people might not realize how much 10 to 15 minutes of their presence can really mean to the family.”

In addition to buying flowers for the families of the deceased, a subcommittee of Traditions council called Campus Re-lations assigns a small group of students to comfort each family attending Silver Taps, Gonzalez said. These students then explain to families the process of Silver Taps and present them with the gift of a series of images depicting Silver Taps traditions.

“What the hosts do is guide and lead [the families] over to the academic plaza, and see that the students around them are all quiet, no one’s on their cellphone,” Gonzalez said.

Mckechnie said, in her experience, families are usually grateful and over-

National pundits have replayed since Sat-urday the incident, attacking Manziel

for seemingly brushing off his head coach as he walked toward the sideline during the 52-31 win over Rice. Tuesday morning, though, Kevin Sumlin was given the opportunity to clear the air regarding the incident.

The 20-year-old quarterback received a 15-yard penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct midway through the fourth quarter and never returned.

Manziel, 6-of-8 passing for 94 yards and three touchdowns on the day, said nothing as he came off the field, leaving some to specu-late friction existed between Manziel and the coach. Sumlin said Tuesday, however, that Manziel was right to remain silent.

“When [Manziel] came off the field, I made two statements to him, neither one of which should he have responded to,” Sumlin said. “They weren’t questions. They were di-rect statements I can’t repeat right now. The worst thing that could have happened is for him to reply, based on what I told him. A lot of people who made statements about that, they weren’t near that sideline. You can get a different perspective sitting in a studio or

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The MSC will play host Wednesday to the first ever Rainbow Resource Fair.

The Rainbow Resource Fair is an event open to all students that aims to raise aware-ness of the resources available to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students. Located in the MSC Gates Ballroom from 4 to 6 p.m., various organizations will be present to showcase their activities to those interested.

Sidney Gardner, program coordinator for the GLBT Resource Center at A&M, said the fair is meant to showcase ways organizations are inclusive toward LGBTQ students.

“The Rainbow Resource Fair is meant to be a place where students can come to see a variety of services that we offer on campus,” Gardner said. “It’s important for our students to feel welcome and know our resources.”

Gardner described the event as a smaller version of the MSC open house but primarily for the GLBT community and allies at A&M.

“It’s the culmination of a lot of things.” Gardner said. “Really, we wanted to find a way to get information to new students.”

The fair, put on by the GLBT Resource Center and Aggie Allies, will consist of booths set up by student and community organiza-tions active in Bryan-College Station. Faith communities that are affirming of LGBTQ people will also be present.

One of the student organizations that will be present is LGBTQ Aggies, or LGBTQ-A. LGBTQ-A shows educational programming on the history of the LGBTQ movement and organizes GLBT Awareness Week in the spring.

Katie Higgins, sophomore English major and vice president of LGBTQ-A, said the purpose of the fair is to spread awareness.

“Having the Rainbow Resource Fair … combats some of the negative perceptions

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arts | 3Galleries on display The MSC Forsyth Gallery seeks to draw in students with atypical artwork. Current exhibits include works of commercial typography and glass etching.

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The 66th session of Student Senate will convene for the first meeting of the school year at 7 p.m. on Wednesday in Koldus 144. The meeting will be open to the public, and an open forum will be held at the beginning of the meeting for anyone in the general public who wants to address the Student Senate.

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Aggies Making Changes to the Student Senate Constituency Affairs Committee, will be introduced during the time allotted to new business.

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“From dining to transportation to academic issues, we’re going to do everything we can to make sure students’ voices are heard by the administration, Board of Regents and maybe even the State Legislature.”

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Sometimes it is easy to forget art ex-ists outside of paintings and sketches

hung on gallery walls. With their latest exhibits featuring works of commercial typography, illustrations and glass etch-ing, Texas A&M’s Forsyth Galleries asks patrons to reevaluate their defini-tion of fine art.

The Art for All People: American Illustrators at Texas A&M University exhibit will be on display through Oct. 13 and features artists such as Robert Henri and Frederic Remington. The George Woodall and Art of English Cameo Glass display will be exhibited through Dec. 15.

The Art for All People exhibit pulls from the Bill and Irma Runyon Art Collection as well as from Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, and displays the renowned ‘fine works’ of famous artists alongside their commer-cial illustrations from newspaper, books and advertisements.

Some of these journalistic and liter-ary illustrations have been enlarged and hung on the walls next to the artists’ framed canvases, providing for a con-venient comparison.

“The pieces in Art for All People were chosen to showcase the range of talent of the artists included in the Runyon Art Collection,” said Amanda Dyer, Forsyth Galleries curator. “The Runyon Art Collection constitutes a large percentage of the gallery’s perma-nent collection, which stands at around 2,000 pieces.”

Art historians and appreciators of to-day will know about the paintings and fine art works displayed, Dyer said, but

those unfamiliar with the works might not have known these paintings existed.

“Ironically, most of these now fa-mous artists’ contemporaries would have been very familiar with their mag-azine illustration, but would have never seen any of their paintings in person,” Dyer said.

The George Woodall and the Art of English Cameo exhibit is also currently on display in the Forsyth Gallery, fill-ing the gallery with delicate works of art etched into glass vases, plates and perfume bottles. The engravings are made by layering different colors of

heated glass, then blowing them into shape together. Later, the artist etches designs, pictures or full scenes into the glass by hand.

“It’s all pretty spectacular,” said Lynn McDaniel, communications spe-cialist for the gallery. “The details are incredible. I really enjoy seeing the ex-pression on our visitors’ faces as they view the pieces. You can tell they are stunned by the beauty and intricacy of the cameo glass.”

The gallery offers a unique oppor-tunity to view these works of art at a convenient on-campus location.

“There are very few places in the Bryan-College Station area to view important works of art,” Heather Ann Bennett, collections manager for the gallery said. “When I tell people that I manage an art collection for Texas A&M, many of them are surprised to hear that Texas A&M has an art col-lection.”

The Forsyth Gallery gives the op-portunity for students and community members to gain a greater appreciation for the art and culture around them, said Bennett.

“The importance of the Forsyth is to give the students and the surround-ing community exposure to the richer aspects of our culture. No one has been able to accurately say why humans are compelled to create art,” Bennett said. “It seems to be something innately in our deeper subconscious. Some people are intimidated by art, because they feel they don’t understand it. The Forsyth is an opportunity for people to encounter beautiful objects, in a welcoming space, and walk away with a greater sense of what it means to be human.”

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Aggies love their chicken tenders and pizza rolls,

so any restaurant willing to break the pattern sometimes faces the risk of rejection. Yet individuality adds vari-ety, which can serve as a sigh of relief in the midst of rep-etition.

Grub Burger Bar opened in March 2012 with a goal to stand out among the neigh-boring restaurants. Founders Jimmy Loup, Class of 1996, and Tom Kenney traveled the country to see and taste all sorts of burgers.

Upon their return, they introduced College Station to menu items such as ghost chili peppers, Dr Pepper barbeque sauce and spiked bourbon milkshakes.

“We wanted something that was unique and special for Col-lege Station,” Kenney said. “We wanted something that had its own local flavor.”

Loup was a student at A&M and began working for Kenney at the College Station Outback Steakhouse in 1993. Over time, they began to share a vision of opening an affordable gourmet burger restaurant with quality food and a character of its own.

“What Grub did is they came in, took a hamburger and did a great job while making it, but they also added some creative options that you could not get anywhere else in College Sta-tion,” said Cale Gardenhire, a former employee and Class of 2011.

Kenney’s intention was to provide a “unique vibe” through the combination of an attentive staff, trendy music and extrava-gant food options.

“[Grub] really reinforces that A&M is one of the happiest places on earth,” said Campbell Janse, sophomore accounting major. “Everyone is super nice and willing to serve you.”

Instead of using prepackaged ingredients, the staff prepares the food from scratch every day. With its creative atmosphere, it provides an urban environment previously foreign to the college town.

“I felt like when I was eating at Grub, I was eating at a res-taurant in Boston or downtown Houston,” Gardenhire said. “It was kind of cool and hip. “

Students have entered the restaurant as both customers and workers, which Kenney said influences the atmosphere.

“Everyone here, from my bus boy to my hostess, is three times smarter than me,” Kenney said. “They’re all really good kids. You get all the energy and enthusiasm of the college kids…as well as the late nights.”

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Freshmen biomedical sciences majors Wendy Burdick and Maddie Shouse examine a reproduction from a “Harper’s Weekly” magazine at the Forsyth Gallery exhibit: “The Art for All People.”

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The future of routine bus travel has found its way

to College Station, thanks in part to the efforts of a group of business majors at Texas A&M.

The Dallas-based com-pany, Starline Travel Group, is offering a unique bus rid-ing experience from College Station to Houston. Starline is breaking out of the idea of typical bus travel, provid-ing such commodities as free Wi-Fi, leather seating and a full cabin crew.

The company founders, Jase Chandler and Tommy Obenchain, reached out to multiple Aggies to handle various business relations at the local level. Senior fi-nance major, Matt Barnes, acts as one of the head strate-gy executive members of the company. He was offered the position through a relation-ship with Obenchain.

“Tommy [Obenchain] has

been in and out of College Station since he graduated from Vanderbilt two years ago, staying next door to me with a close friend,” Barnes said. “He’s always been a guy I looked up to, so when the idea was pitched I jumped on board.”

Both Barnes and senior finance major, J.D. Smiley, are entering the company as a startup internship. To-gether, they put in 12 to 15 hours weekly and have been involved with the company for a month now. In addition to their efforts, eight to 10 other Texas A&M students are also involved with the project.

“While J.D and I are the two top guys with the com-pany in College Station, we have a marketing group of students that we use one to two hours a week as we need them to get a push on cam-pus,” Barnes said.

Although he attended Vanderbilt, Obenchain has many ties to A&M and saw a lot of opportunity in the College Station area for in-creases in public transporta-tion.

“We saw a hole that need-ed to be filled,” Obenchain said. “The lack of out-of-city transportation in such a vi-brant city as College Station seemed strange. The basic idea of the company was to extend the experience of flying down the road to cre-ate an affordable, hassle free traveling experience.”

Beginning Sept. 6, Star-line buses will run two round trips a day, from the North-gate area in College Station to downtown Houston.

Starline will be available for students and other resi-

dents. Regardless of the pur-pose of travel, Chandler and Obenchain are confident the business will be a hit.

“Tommy and I both worked in health care con-sulting and traveled a lot,” Chandler said. “Our main issue was not remaining productive during travel, and this sparked an idea for a business. With such a large student base in the city population, we believed the company would provide a fuller range of services to College Station.”

In addition to the basic cabin experience, Starline is also presenting the Starplus cabin that Obenchain said will be “an industry-leading first class product.”

A “gameliner” travel will also be available specifically for A&M football games, dropping the travelers off directly next to Kyle Field. In addition to Aggie home games, Obenchain hopes to see a Starline away-game transportation service de-parting from College Station later this fall.

In addition to the Houston route, Starline announced a Dallas route with plans to begin running by the end of the month.

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that some people come to campus with,” Higgins said. “We’ll be there because it’s im-portant to let the students who are attending know that we are one of many organizations on campus committed to making a safe space on campus.”

Other organizations that will be in atten-dance include Shades of Queer, Aggie Allies and the GLBT Professional Network. Cush-ing Memorial Library will also have a table showcasing an LGBTQarchive that docu-ments the history of the LGBTQ community on campus and in B-CS.

Glenn Oliver, junior engineering technol-ogy major, said raising awareness of LGBTQ resources through events such as the fair are important because it is easy for students to miss out on the services without them.

“Unless you actually sit and take a look through your student fees, you won’t know… that A&M offers the LGBTQ resources that it does,” Oliver said. “[The Rainbow Re-source Fair] shows that there are places on campus open to the LGBT community.”

The fair is not just for students who iden-tify as LGBTQ, but is also meant to allow all students a better understanding of the LGBTQ-identifying community on campus.

“This is an event that is open to every-one,” Gardner said.

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Student organizations line the walkways outside the MSC and hand fliers to students on their way to class Tuesday afternoon by Rudder Fountain Plaza.

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True freshman linebacker Jordan Mastrogiovanni played for one of the suspended starters during A&M’s 52-31 win over Rice on Saturday.

behind your television than you would have gotten live.”

Due to Manziel’s first-half suspension against the Owls, junior quarterback Matt Jo-eckel started for the first time since arriving at A&M. Jo-eckel said. the mental facet of the game intimidated him the most, as the majority of the physicality fell to the running back corps.

“It was probably the mental aspect of the game, just be-ing completely focused on the game,” Joeckel said. “I haven’t gotten playing time like that in the last few years. The physi-cal part of the game wasn’t too much because I basically just handed the ball off to Ben [Malena] and Tra [Carson]. I could see they were getting tired because they were run-

ning the heck out of the ball.”As for the defense, which

allowed 509 yards of total of-fense, a combined six starters were suspended for at least half the matchup, an excuse defen-sive coordi-nator Mark Snyder chose not to use.

I n s t e a d , Snyder dis-cussed the positives and negatives of using true f r e s h m e n at positions ranging from defensive tackle to corner-back. Even with the amount of youth infused into the pro-gram over the offseason, Sny-der said he was able to mold his players to fit his system in a matter of weeks.

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“You could tell during pre-game that there was a little bit of nervousness. You can imagine being 18 and playing in front of all of those people. I thought they played re-

ally well. The thing that was most pleasing to me was the emotion they were playing with. They made a play and you saw the emotion. To me, that’s what defense is all about — you play with enthusiasm and emotion.”

Looking forward to Satur-day’s home matchup against Sam Houston State, Sumlin discussed the threat of the high-powered FCS opponent upsetting the Aggies, particu-larly following this weekend’s shocker of North Dakota State defeating defending Big 12 Champion Kansas State, 24-21.

“Seeing North Dakota State go into Kansas State and win last weekend is all you need to see to be prepared,” Sumlin said. “Last year, we had our starters playing in the first half. The backups lost the second half 28-6. When you turn on the tape from the second half, you saw a lot of those guys playing last Satur-

day. That gets their attention.”Senior running back Ben

Malena said the Aggies need to treat the approaching “cup-cake” matchup as if it were a conference foe.

“You can look at their game last year and realize that they’re not a team to mess with,” Malena said. “They went to the na-tional champi-onship in their division two years in a row.

They have some great play-ers, some former Division I players. You can’t overlook schools. We have to prepare for them like they’re a conference opponent.”

The game, which will be broadcast in pay-per-view, won’t come without some positives, as sophomore run-ning back Brandon Williams will return to action after sit-ting out a majority of the off-season with a foot injury.

Offensive coordinator and running backs coach, Clarence McKinney, said having the speedster available as an offen-sive weapon will take pressure off the coaching staff, as the sophomore has been itching to take the field for weeks.

“We’re excited about Brandon [Williams] coming back,” McKinney said. “He’s definitely a ball of energy. He’s been harassing us for the last few weeks to play. He’s ex-cited and we’re excited. We’ll definitely get him out there.”

You can look at their game last year and realize that they’re not a team to mess with. We have to prepare for them like they’re a conference opponent.”

— Ben Malena, Texas A&M senior running back

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whelmed by the outpouring of love and sup-port shown by the students.

“Whenever they are led into Academic Plaza and they see thousands who are stand-ing there for their son, for their daughter, for their spouse, you can tell that it just overwhelms them,” Mckechnie said. “I think it’s really spe-cial that we can do this to help comfort them in their grief.”

Gonzalez said the task of guiding and com-forting families is not something that anyone can ever completely prepare for.

“It is very difficult when you are there to greet someone and [the families] take one look at you and automatically start crying,” Gonzalez said. “You can’t really prepare for it, you just do what you can.”

During the ceremony itself, the entirety of the Traditions Council helps with crowd control and makes sure that everything goes smoothly.

“Our responsibility as the council is more with the families directly and making sure that all the students are safe, whether it’s a matter of making sure no one is passing out because of heat or no one is talking on their cellphone,” Gonzalez said.

Caroline Plowman, sophomore business administration major and Traditions Council service and bonfire sub-committee chair, said all the work done by the council meets an im-portant need for the University.

“It’s really special, because we are playing a first-hand part in such a big tradition at the Uni-versity,” Plowman said. “To me, it’s just really

special to be a part of something that’s been a part of Texas A&M for so long and to see the student body come together and stand among, you know, my fellow Traditions Council members and fellow students. It’s just a very humbling experience.”

Mckechnie said Silver Taps, which began in 1898, is a means of linking the past to the present and future, but notes it is up to the en-tire student body to keep the tradition alive by continuing to attend Silver Taps throughout the year.

“We see great attendance in September, but it slowly wanes, so I encourage everyone to make 30 to 45 minutes a month to come,” Mckechnie said.

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Whenever they are led into Academic Plaza and they see

thousands who are stand-ing there for their son, for their daughter, for their spouse, you can tell that it just overwhelms them. I think it’s really special that we can do this to help comfort them in their grief.”

— Kelsey Mckechnie, executive director

of Traditions Council

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