adjustments. We’ve got to be able to take coaching better and take accountability better out there on the court because we are going to play a fired up Kentucky team who is going to try to win the SEC just like we are. We’ve got to quit turning the ball over against pressure,

and that’s what Kentucky did against us.”

The Aggies are tied for first place in the SEC right now and have an imposing 10-1 conference record. With a 10-2 conference record, good

need to do a better job defen-sively. I always feel like it’s the sign of a good team that you can not play your best and still win.”

Last weekend, junior first baseman Nicole Morgan led the way with four home runs in four games and added a grand slam Sunday. This week, however, Albus — lead-off hitter and outfielder — paced the team with two doubles, three RBIs and four runs along with a perfect 5-5 mark on stolen base attempts.

Ryan Lenamon, senior management major, said the way that different players have

stepped up at different times is part of the reason for the hot start.

“There’s just not a way to stop them,” Lenamon said. “Their bats all the way through the lineup can hurt you at any given time. It’s fun to watch.”

Texas A&M took seven of the 11 spots on the All-Tour-nament team and hit .356 as a team with 15 extra base hits.

Evans said Sunday’s game against SFA was their best game of the weekend against a good team.

“We came out today and separated ourselves from the pack, and that’s something we had talked about needing to happen,” Evans said. “Putting pressure on their pitchers and pressure on their defense all day, I love to see that. We’re hitting through the order and putting a lot of runs on the

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insidecampus | 2Creative outletThe photography of the 12 student winners of the Aggie Frame of Mind Contest was displayed in the MSC on Friday. The new competition — with an aim to provide an outlet for art — occurs once a semester.

housing | 6On the riseThe corner of Wellborn road and Church Street will soon be the site of a construction project for high-rise apartments, causing the demolition of the historic structure of Café Eccell to accommodate increased enrollment of Texas A&M.

SGA Judicial courtStudent senator and junior political science major Cary Cheshire filed suit in SGA’s Judicial Court on Wednesday, Feb. 15 alleging that election commissioner and senior biomedical sciences major, Allison Krenzien, had overstepped her bounds in regards to candidates changing caucuses — in reference to an email Krenzien sent to candidates the day before. The A&M Judicial Court decided that the Election Commissioner did not overstep the prerogative that comes with her office, as there are no regulations around her action.

Jennifer Keith, staff writer

Five-win weekend pushes A&M softball to best start in five years

When Emily Albus stepped to the plate to lead off on

Sunday, Texas A&M softball was coming off its fourth win in two days and eighth win in eight days. Fatigue was a concern. Eleven pitches later, Albus drew a walk and the Ag-gies’ blistering start rolled on.

Albus took tournament MVP honors and the No.

10 Texas A&M softball team won all five of its games at the Aggie Classic during the weekend, beating No. 23 North Carolina and Pittsburgh twice each and Stephen F. Austin once.

The 10-0 A&M start is the program’s best since 2007, when it started 12-0.

A&M put the run rule in effect at least once for the sec-ond weekend in a row as it beat SFA in only five innings

on Sunday, 9-0.During the weekend the

Aggies out-scored their oppo-nents 29-9. However, A&M had to fight from behind for the first time this year and overcame three early deficits.

Head coach Jo Evans said they struggled on defense but this is a good team after com-ing back twice Saturday.

“Coming back twice today shows we have a lot of fight in our team,” Evans said. “We

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Senior pitcher Mel Dumezich tossed seven shutout innings in a 1-0 win Friday, striking out seven Tar Heel players.

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Senior catcher Meagan May has recorded three home runs and eight RBIs through 10 games.

A&M dean witnesses crisis on cruise ship

Curious on the first day, stranded by the second,

and wading through floors pooled with gray water by the third, the high spirits with which passengers set out on the Carnival Cruise ship, Triumph, flowed overboard as they await-ed the sight of land for days.

Kim Dooley, associate dean for academic operations for the College of Agriculture

and Life Sciences, was among the passengers.

“This was only my second cruise,” Dooley said. “It was my husband’s birthday. We were having a blast and it was a great experience, but that changed quickly once the engine caught on fire.”

The ship departed Feb. 7 and was disabled after an engine room fire. Tug boats pulled Tri-umph to Mobile, Ala., docking late Feb. 14.

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Technology puts new spin on romance, redefines dating

The scene is familiar: candle light, food and

romance. It’s date night, and nervous laughter and quick glances are traded over the tabletop. The night seems to be going well, though the couple doesn’t talk much or really even look at each other. Little screens aglow, their phones seem to be do-ing most of the entertaining,

replacing words with emojis and awkwardness with apps.

It’s hard to pinpoint the exact cause of this genera-tion’s evolving dating habits, but with advancing tech-nology and social media, increased usage of phones and computers are often as-sumed to be the main cul-prit. Brian Altenhofen, com-munication doctoral student, interactions are becoming less personal in the modern

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Freshman kinesiology major Blake McKenna stares at his phone over dinner with sophomore sports management major Lauren Cummings.

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Senior forward Kristi Bellock muscles to the basket during her 13-point, eight-rebound performance in a win over Florida.

Win streak to be tested by UK

No team in the SEC has come within seven

points of the A&M wom-en’s basketball team since Jan. 10 — eight teams up, eight down. On Monday, the last team to beat head coach Gary Blair’s Aggies will enter Reed Arena to put the winning streak to the test.

The No. 11 Texas A&M women’s basketball team lengthened its win streak to eight games with Thurs-day’s win over Florida and will face No. 7 Kentucky at 6 p.m. on Monday.

Earlier in the season, the Aggies fell to Kentucky 65-62 on its home court — the last A&M loss before the current eight-game win streak. Monday, the Aggies will face Kentucky in Reed Arena, hoping to produce a different outcome.

Blair said they have to get their attitudes right go-ing into the Kentucky game and can’t turn the ball over under pressure.

“I’m going to focus on Kentucky,” Blair said. “But I’m going to correct some mistakes and some attitude

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SBP candidates Reid Joseph and Garret Nerren will answer a series of questions at the final Student Body President debate at 6 p.m. Monday in the George Bush Presidential Library theater.

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Passengers on the Carnival Cruise ship, Triumph, construct a “tent city” to escape the heat after the ship was disabled and stranded.

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The 12 winners of the Aggie Frame of Mind Contest had their art-

work unveiled Friday in the Memorial Student Center.

The contest — put on once a semes-ter — offered students a chance to sub-mit work and awarded the winners by putting their photography on display in the MSC.

“We wanted the students of A&M to be able to display their creativity in a prominent way,” said Jessie Ayers, edu-cation executive of the visual arts com-mittee and junior visualization major. “[The] VAC’s mission is to bring art to the campus. We wanted an outlet for students to showcase their work other than our annual Art Fest competition.”

The Aggie Frame of Mind compe-tition is a new VAC program and was inspired by a similar program at The University of Texas at Austin. Every se-mester, the photos are rotated and the contest begins anew with a different theme for contestants to capture.

Tanner Hladek, senior visualization major, had two works displayed in the gallery that received first and fourth places, respectively.

“I kind of just like to take pictures to create a beautiful image,” Hladek said. “I’m not necessarily all about having a specific message behind it. I really just enjoy making something that somebody will look at and just feel something.”

The two works Hladek entered, “Aquatic” and “Hydration,” reflect this semester’s theme of vibrancy. The pho-tos were judged on a number of criteria including composition, creativity, aes-thetics and technical use of the camera. Contestants also submitted a writer’s statement to give insight into the inspi-

ration or meaning for their piece. Some believe that the contest helps foster an artistic environment that the A&M cam-pus is not well known for.

“We promote our own campus,” said Danika Ostrowski, chairwoman of the visual arts committee and sophomore visualization major. “A&M is not neces-sarily known for having a huge art scene and having a lot of outlets for art, so we try to connect students to art and give them opportunities to be able to show their art.”

Jake Ruesink, senior university studies major, placed third for his piece, “Green Side of the Quad,” which was taken Sept. 11, 2012, on Kyle Field when the flags were at half-staff in remembrance of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

“I wanted to pick something that represented A&M and our culture,” Ruesink said. “I figured taking a picture from Kyle Field and doing one on cam-

pus would be really cool.”Ruesink, whose interests lie in web

development and who aspires to own a design business, follows photography as a passion and will enjoy having his work displayed in the MSC.

“It’s a pretty cool accomplishment to have something that you’ve produced be in the MSC,” Ruesink said. “I am a graphic designer in web development, so it is cool to have a little portfolio and say what I have accomplished.”

Apart from providing students with a venue to be recognized for their work, some find that the contest provides a venue to display their creativity and the world around them.

“I enjoy looking at the scenes and see-ing God’s beauty in that,” Ruesink said. “Just getting the best view of what is go-ing on and trying to look for something that other people don’t see.”

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With two outs in the ninth inning and the ty-ing run threatening from third base, junior

reliever Jason Jester put an exclamation point on his college debut by striking out the University of Illinois–Chicago Flames first baseman Alex Grunen-wald, sealing the Aggies’ 4-3 victory.

The strikeout not only clinched the Aggies’ first win of the young 2013 season but also recouped a tough 2-0 opening day loss at the hands of the Flames on Friday night. The remainder of the No. 24 Ag-gies’ weekend went smoothly, however, as they closed out the three-game series with a 5-1 decision on Sunday for a 2-1 series win.

“It was amazing to finally get out here and give back to everybody what they’ve been giving to me,” Jester said fol-lowing Saturday’s win. “It’s very humbling to be able to come out here and put this jer-sey on. There were definitely some nerves. This whole ex-perience is a blessing.”

After a slow day offensively on Friday, the Aggies surged during the fifth inning of Sat-urday’s matchup. Junior out-fielder Jace Statum drew first blood, driving in sophomore Cole Lankford off a shallow hit down the left field line. Junior Krey Bratsen pushed two more home behind his infield-splitting RBI single, allowing A&M a 3-0 lead.

The Flames responded an inning later, cutting the score to 3-1. During the seventh, the Aggies gar-nered a key insurance run when Reynolds drove in senior pinch-runner Brandon Wood with another single.

After the Flames added two more in the eighth inning, A&M head coach Rob Childress called on Jester, who shut down UIC and secured the victory. The Aggies’ sophomore starter Daniel Mengden (1-0) earned the win over his five and two-thirds in-nings, notching two strikeouts with only three hits.

“I was proud of our team. We showed a lot of

composure today,” Childress said. “We were able to come through and get a big hit. Illinois-Chicago kept fighting, scratching and clawing to get back in it. We were able to finish the game off. I was proud that we found a way to come away with a win.”

Saturday’s offensive prowess bled into Sunday as A&M kicked off the series-deciding game with a three-run first inning. With leadoff hitters Reyn-olds, Bratsen and Mengden loading the bases, junior catcher Troy Stein notched an RBI single to put the Aggies on the board.

Lankford followed with a groundball to short-stop, scoring Bratsen before freshman Jonathan

Moroney plated Stein with an RBI single, increasing A&M’s lead to 3-1.

The Aggies added two more scores during the fourth behind an RBI triple and single by Statum and Reynolds, respec-tively. A&M relief pitching — which featured four college debuts during the matchup — allowed only one hit following junior starter Rafael Pineda (1-0) giving up seven throughout his six innings.

“We know a lot more about our team than we did on Fri-day,” Childress said after Sun-day’s win. “Our pitching held up for us. Pineda had a great start. We had some young guys come out of the bullpen that did a really nice job. I was proud of those young guys on the mound. I was proud we were able to win today and win the series.”

Senior leaders for A&M remain confident that the team is learning and gaining invaluable experience.

“We’re getting to know each other more and chemistry builds. That’s what we’re doing [right now],” Reynolds said. “If we don’t come out here with a chip on our shoulder we’re going to get beat. We’re going to come out here and play like we al-ways play.”

for second place in the SEC, Ken-tucky isn’t far behind.

Since the last time the Aggies played Kentucky, senior guard Adrienne Pratcher has stepped up

her game, currently ranking first in the conference in three-point field goal percentage and second in assist to turnover ratio.

Junior All-American candidate Kelsey Bone said Pratcher has im-proved and is playing with more confidence.

“Pratcher is what has improved

since the last time we played Ken-tucky,” Bone said. “She is just play-ing with a ton of confidence and she is leading this team.”

The Wildcats have just come off of three wins — one come-from-behind victory over South Carolina after initially trailing by 16 points and the other in overtime against

Arkansas. Senior guard A’dia Ma-thies leads Kentucky and ranks sec-ond in the conference in scoring, averaging 18.5 points per game.

Kentucky head coach Matthew Mitchell said his team needs to find a better way to defend the Aggies.

“It’s a big game,” Mitchell said. “It’s two of the best teams in the

country and it will be a tremendous matchup. I think it’s probably im-portant for us to figure out a little better way to defend them. They got a lot of easy buckets in that game although we won, and they didn’t score a ton. I think we need to make them work harder to score.”

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The Aggies will face SFA again twice this week, looking to tie their best sea-son since 2007.

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Dooley said it was at least a day after the engines caught fire before Carnival called the tug boats. By that time, the ship had drift-ed a long way, making the voyage home even longer.

“At first, none of us realized how bad it would be,” Dooley said. “Everything was looking pretty good, but as the time went on and ice was melting, toilets weren’t flushing — that’s when you started to see the best and the worst of people. It’s just survival mode. That’s really what it was.”

These types of incidents are rare. How-ever, Carnival’s recent breakdown was its second in two years, according to James Petrick, professor of recreation, park and tourism science.

David Williford, junior agricultural com-munications and journalism major, took a trip on the Triumph in December and also faced problems onboard.

“We left on Dec. 14. We were supposed to go to Cozumel,” Williford said. “But the cycle right before ours, which came back that morning, had the speed governor messing up on it. They fixed it at the dock in Galveston, but we still got rerouted to Progresso instead of going to Cozumel.”

The most recent Triumph cruise had more serious problems than a faulty governor.

Dooley said once the power went out on the ship, she was lucky because she had a balcony room which gave her light during the day.

“People created like a tent city,” Dooley said. “People just started gathering and putting lounge chairs around the deck. You saw this community develop.”

She compared the experience to a refugee camp because people began to hoard food and water.

“There was once where three to five peo-ple had working toilets on the ship,” Dooley said. “People were so desperate, they would just go. It was sickening. You were so afraid and thinking, ‘Oh gosh, you don’t want to touch anything.’”

Dooley said her biggest concern was get-ting sick. Ice was melting and she worried about the food safety on the ship. The staff began serving food, but she said it wasn’t ra-tioned well. She said some people would get lots of food, but the people at the end of the line were lucky to get much of anything.

The day the ship arrived in Mobile, Dooley said many things had changed by the time ev-eryone woke up.

“We kind of felt like [ship employees] were trying to make it look like it wasn’t as bad as it really was,” Dooley said. “Servers were wear-ing gloves, handing silverware to us, whereas the other day, we were grabbing all of our own stuff.”

However, she said the last day was very or-derly when it came to getting off the ship. All the security was set up ahead of time, people weren’t allowed to leave their rooms and they were filed out deck by deck.

“This has hit broad-stream news,” Petrick said. “In the past, they have been able to hide under the radar. There will be some effect of this. The image of Carnival will be tarnished in some way. Their reputation will take a hit.”

Petrick said some would think Carnival would lose revenue, but demand for its prod-uct as a first-time cruiser market is the lowest return of any cruise line. They have no estab-lished loyalty, because they are an entry-level line. Buyers tend to shop there first, and if

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Kim Dooley, associate dean for academic operations for the College of Agriculture and Life Science, compared the experience to a refugee camp because people began to hoard food and water.

Two Bryan firefighters died and two remain injured

after responding to a fire Friday night at the Knights of Colum-bus Hall in downtown Bryan.

Lt. Eric Wallace, 36, died from injuries after becoming trapped in the burning struc-ture after a portion of the roof reportedly collapsed.

Lt. Greg Pickard, 54, died Saturday afternoon at a Galves-ton hospital where firefighter Ricky Mantey, 30, and proba-tionary firefighter Mitch Mo-ran, 21, had also been flown.

Mantey and Moran remain in serious but stable condi-tion, according to Bryan fire chief Randy McGregor on Sunday morning.

The three had reportedly entered the building as a rapid intervention team to help Wal-lace after he called for assistance because he was low on oxygen.

Friday’s blaze caused what McGregor has called the worst tragedy in the history of the Bryan Fire Department.

“These four courageous individuals represent the best of the profession and are true heroes in every sense of the word,” McGregor said at a press conference Saturday morning.

Wallace, a 13-year veteran of the department, is survived by his wife Brandie and five children ranging in age from 11 months to 16 years.

The funeral for Wallace will be held at 10 a.m. Thurs-day at First Baptist Church of Bryan. The funeral procession will carry him to the Hillcrest Cemetery in Marlin.

Pickard, who had been with the department for 32 years, is survived by his wife Susie, two adult children and three grandchildren. Pickard’s wife is a teacher with Bryan Inde-pendent School District and his son is a firefighter in Col-lege Station.

Arrangements for Pickard’s funeral are pending.

The deaths of Wallace and Pickard are the second and third in the line of duty for the 141-year-old fire department. The first was Richard Lopez in 1978.

Gov. Rick Perry authorized the lowering of the Texas flag to half-staff by all government entities in the area to honor the deceased.

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they don’t like what they get, they will get something better next time.

Dooley said the passengers were refunded for the trip. They were also given another trip and all their tabs were covered. All of the pic-tures taken on the ship were free and each passenger was given $500 in cash.

“I want to again apologize to our guests and their friends and families. The situation on board was difficult and we are very sorry for what has happened,” said president and CEO of Carnival, Gerry Cahill, in a press release. “We pride ourselves on providing our guests with a great vacation experience and clearly we failed in this case.”

Carnival canceled 14 voyages of the Tri-umph previously scheduled through April 13.

“Personally, I wouldn’t go back,” Dooley said. “When you’re stranded on a cruise ship, you really are stranded.”

Larry Dooley, Kim’s husband and associ-ate professor of education and human resource development; David Kipp, choral activities director; Holly Moore, lead music accom-panist for the student band; Ben Welch, as-sistant dean for the Center of Executive De-velopment; and David Wier, athletic trainer for the athletic department, were also on the stranded ship.

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world of dating.“Texting and social networks such as Twit-

ter and Facebook have moved us away from more intimate communication,” Altenhofen said. “For instance, face-to-face interaction, that’s a lot more intimate than texting. There are a lot more people we connect with but not necessarily with depth.”

Texting has become a huge presence in the world of dating, making it possible to stay connected 24/7 and allotting time for thorough and calculated responses. Leandra Hernandez, communication doctoral student, said she believes texting has both helped and hindered relationships and dating.

“[Texting] adds an immediacy and a whole other avenue to get close to another person

if you can’t see them physically,” Hernandez said. “I think it can also distance people in the way that it can lead to a lot of distractions.”

Carl Craven, junior aerospace engineering major said texting allows couples to do more outside of dating while still keeping in touch.

“It’s a lot easier to do other stuff while hav-ing a rela-t i on sh i p , ” Craven said. “But it can also be kind of distracting when you actually go on dates.”

Hernandez said she believes some couples can become too dependent on texting, and will avoid face-to-face communication.

“I think it can become a crutch to where

you just text the person and you don’t have to call them, so I think sometimes messages and meanings can get lost in translation when you’re texting versus actually talking on the phone,” Hernandez said.

According to a survey conducted by Pew Internet & Ameri-can Life Project in 2011, 31 percent of American adults preferred commu-nication via text to verbal phone com-munication. It also said adults between the ages of 18 and

24 send an average of 109.5 text messages per day.

Grant Mckay, communication doctoral student, said context and tone are lost in the maze of texts, which can lead to numerous miscommunications.

“If you’re telling a joke and you’re having a sarcastic response, when you vocalize that, it’s obvious that you’re just kidding,” McKay said. “But that doesn’t play on text messages — you can’t pick out a sarcastic font.”

Because texting doesn’t involve direct con-frontation, Craven said texting takes the pres-sure and some of the awkwardness away from asking people out.

“It’s hard to go up to someone, not know-ing if they like you, and ask them on a date,” Craven said.

Texting isn’t the only technological ad-vancement that has affected the realm of ro-mance. With the various social networking sites popular today, some young adults have taken to habitually updating peers on their love lives.

“There’s this idea when you’re on Face-book to define this identity with your partner by posting a million pictures and saying you’re

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in a relationship with them,” Hernandez said. “I think it makes it easier to communicate and can be a place holder for pictures and stuff like that, but on the other hand it sure can exasper-ate things.”

Kat Hinson, senior theatre arts major, said sites such as Facebook can make relationships more shallow, portraying people in a forced light.

“I think [social media] allows people to cre-ate a false image of themselves,” Hinson said. “They’re not generally an accurate portrayal [of who people are].”

Mckay said that while Facebook and tex-ting both have numerous pros and cons, they are here to stay and will continue to alter how people communicate and present themselves.

“[Social media] is a tool,” Mckay said. “It can be used for good or bad. It can be good for strong relationships to stay connected and damaging to others that probably wouldn’t last long term anyway.”

“Texting and social networks such as Twitter and Facebook have moved us away from more intimate communication.”

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The property is one of College Station’s historic buildings and the former site of the original city hall. It is the current location of the popular pizza and wine bistro, Café Eccell.

“I’ve eaten there a few times and really liked it,” said Annie Salinas, freshman his-tory major. “One of my pro-fessors took his wife there for their 20th wedding anniver-sary. It has sentimental value and I’d rather it not be torn down because of its place in College Station’s food scene and history.”

Randall Heye, econom-ic development analyst for the City of College Sta-tion, said the significance of the building and restaurant will be taken into account as the planned construction moves forward.

“The developers made a verbal commitment to the city that they would con-struct a monument or try to incorporate existing brick into the final product to com-memorate the location of the original city hall,” Heye said.

“One of the plans is to pos-sibly reopen the café on the first floor [of the high-rise].”

Matt Walker, a manager at Café Eccell, said although the lot had been sold, it is still too early to know what role the restaurant might play in the development plans.

“We would be honored to be a part of any new de-velopment, but at this point the city, the purchasers, and we are still working out the details,” Walker said.

In the summer of 2011, College Station’s City Coun-cil began looking to sell some of its properties, and the cor-ner of Wellborn and Church Street became one of several

locations the city offered to potential buyers.

In light of Texas A&M’s recently unveiled student-growth plans in the “25 by 25” initiative, Heye said the transaction and the planned complex could not have come at a better time.

“Even though the city made this decision indepen-dent of the University, it worked out timing-wise,” Heye said. “These new apart-ments, along with all the new development along North-

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“It has sentimental value [to stu-dents and faculty], and I’d rather it not be torn down because of its place in College Station’s food scene and history.”

— Annie Salinas, freshman history major

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