Jonathan Brewer has been eagerly counting down the

days to graduation. But near the end of his countdown, a mas-sive earthquake struck Nepal on April 25. Now, Brewer is count-ing down to a different date.

Along with a team of similar-ly impassioned medical profes-sionals through an organization known as International Medical Relief, the biomedical sciences senior will head to Nepal at the end of May to offer his help to the relief efforts.

On April 25, Nepal was hit by a earthquake, and according to a tweet on Sunday from Nepals National Emergency Operation Center, 7,250 people have died and 14,267 people are injured.

Brewer, who has been to Haiti three times to help, the first trip coming a year after the earthquake from which the is-land country is still recovering, said he was sitting in class read-ing about the earthquake when he felt a calling to go be a part of the relief.

Two students were killed in a one-car accident around 1:10

a.m. Sunday while heading north-west on FM 244, according to KBTX. Two more Aggies were in-jured in the crash, with one in criti-cal condition at the Temple Scott & White Memorial Hospital as of Sunday evening.

Kinesiology junior Corinthia Nikki Williams and communica-

tion senior Alexis Emmou, the driv-er of the car, were pronounced dead on the scene. History junior Rene Contreras, a passenger, is in critical condition at the Temple Scott & White Memorial Hospital and Tyra Preston, university studies senior, was treated at St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan.

DJuan D.J. Johnson, sports management junior, said Williams, who was known as Nikki Nikki Nikki to her friends, was support-

ive and protective of those close to her.

She was a good friend, Johnson said. She was a real, true friend.

Esteli Nyampundu, interdisci-plinary studies senior, said she knew Williams for four years.

Nikki was a very, very loveable person, Nyampundu said. When-ever she walked in a room, best be-lieve youre about to laugh.

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S eeing isnt necessarily believing any-more.Due to technological advances, physicists can say with a high degree of certainty, that everything that can be seen in the physical world is less than five percent of what is actually there. The other ninety-five percent is a combination of dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter is still highly ambiguous but, thanks to an international collaboration, it may soon be discovered in part with instruments under development at

Texas A&M. The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search,

or SCDMS, will be one of the biggest dark matter detection experiments in history. It aims to use detectors of unparalleled sensi-tivity placed two kilometers underground to try and record dark matter for the first time. These detectors are being designed by a team of A&M physicists to determine the nature of dark matter.

Rupak Mahapatra, physics professor, along with professors David Toback, Rusty Harris and Nader Mirabolfathi, are at the forefront in United States efforts to find dark matter.

The search is tough humans cannot see or feel dark matter because its particles dont interact with the observable world.

Dark matter has no electromagnetic in-teraction, Mahapatra said. Of course they have gravity, but they also have a weak inter-action. What this means is that if you pass a billion times a billion times a billion particles through your body, every once in a while, one will hit you.

It is not a concept that is easily grasped, but Mahapatra explained it in simple terms.

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A revitalized Kyle Field is months from its unveiling, enrollment continues to rise, con-

struction projects dot the campus landscape and a handful of new deans are in place. And now, one more change at a university full of them the presidents office has a permanent occupant.

Seated around a large wooden conference ta-ble in a conservative blue shirt and floral maroon tie, A&M president Michael K. Young spoke exclusively with The Battalion Friday morning about his first official day, his perceptions of the student body and his vision for the universitys future.

His optimism for the path on which A&M heads is rooted in, among other things, the na-ture of the students and the way he has been received.

The passion for the university it something Ive never seen, Young said. When you have all these former and current students and tre-mendous faculty supporters, all kind of galva-nized behind this university, it really is unique.

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More than 2,200 from the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets made an

18-mile trek starting and ending at the Quad Saturday for the 39th an-nual March to the Brazos.

This year, the Corps raised $113,000 for the March of the Dimes, a nonprofit that works to prevent premature births and aid children with birth defects.

Becky Goss-Shepherd, March of Dimes division director for the Wa-co-Temple-Kileen and Bryan-Col-lege Station areas, said it was amazing to see the Corps, whose outfits com-pete to raise the most money, come together at the March to the Brazos.

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Breanne Gorbutt, community di-rector of the Brazos Valley chapter of March of Dimes, said each outfit var-ies in what they do to raise money.

Some send their guys out with their Corps boots and they go door to door in Houston or in Dallas and collect money that way, Gorbutt said. Some its just all parents, some hold barbecues its just different for every outfit.

The March to the Brazos serves as the largest student-run funding event in the nation for March of Dimes. This year, David Gardners Jewel-ers contributed to the competitive spirit among the outfits by donating a watch bearing the recently updated

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Biomedical sciences senior Jonathan Brewer will travel to Nepal after graduation to aid in relief efforts.

Cadets wrestle during activities tied to the informal transfer of ranks during the March to the Brazos.

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If you met Nikki one time, I promise you will never forget Nik-ki, Nyampundu said. Thats for sure.

Ana Gonzalez, psy-chology junior and a close friend of Emmou, said she had a heart of gold and a bright smile.

She was so selfless and supportive of not only her friends, but any stranger she met, Gonzalez said. Even if she had only met some-one once, the next time she saw them she made them feel like theyd

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Gonzalez said Em-mou was one of the most dependable friends she had.

She helped me through my toughest times even when she was going through tough times herself, Gonzalez said. And even when you were about ready to give up, she gave you that extra push to the light that made you think to yourself I can do this, not just because of my own strength or God, but because I have a friend that will be right next to me every step of the way. That friend was Alexis. She is an angel that everyone will remember forever.

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For example if I try to pass my hand through the wall, I cant do it because there is electromagnetic interaction between the two. However, if I send a gamma particle at the wall, it will pass right through, because it doesnt interact very strongly with the wall, Mahapatra said.

Because of this property, dark mat-ter is extremely difficult to understand, and expensive to research. There are two dark matter projects in the United States, and Texas A&M plays a major role in one of them.

SCDMS includes roughly a dozen universities, but only Texas A&M and Stanford make detectors that in theory will detect dark matter for the first time. These detectors need to be extremely sensitive, said Nader Mirabolfathi, a physicist at A&M in-volved in the experiment. He said they need to be sensitive enough to detect energy well under one billion times less than a mosquito landing on a persons skin.

Mahapatra said the detectors use crystals made of germanium and sili-con that, theoretically, will vibrate when hit by a dark matter particle. The small amount of energy impart-ed by the collision will cause a tiny change in temperature, eventually no-tifying the team that a particle passed through.

These sensors can detect very slight vibrations as a change in temper-ature as small as a few micro-Kelvins, Mahapatra said.

The crystals are expensive, and when all the costs are added up to make one of the detectors, the result is a price tag of roughly half a million dollars.

These detectors are truly the best in the world, Mahapatra said.

The unheard of sensitivity of the detectors, while necessary, presents a challenge to the experiment it can detect miniscule events that could throw the experiment off.

Our detectors are so sensitive, that things that would not be background [noise] for other experiments are back-ground for us, Mirabolfathi said.

Due to this, the current experiment is conducted in Soudan Underground Laboratory in Minnesota, to block these

background cosmic rays from inter-fering with the detectors, but eventually will move to a facility called SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. At the new loca-tion, the detectors will be two kilome-ters underground. The aim of this is to keep nearly all unwanted rays away from the detectors.

There will be a total of about 60 ki-

lograms of detectors, with each detector containing about 1.5 kilograms of Ger-manium and 0.6 kilograms of Silicon.

Since each individual detector is so valuable, significant time is put into making sure that they work correctly, but at the current pace, the SNOLAB experiment will be ready to begin in three years.

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Im pretty strong in my faith, and so to be honest I just felt called to go, Brewer said. I just felt that I needed to be able to do something. I understand theres a lot of people that really want to do something, that want to go, they just may not have the opportunity, they may have families or commit-ments here in the United States, and so with me being a graduating senior in college I thought this may be a good time to go.

Brewer will be attending the Texas A&M College of Medicine in the fall and has worked as an EMT in addition to his medical work in Haiti. Brewer

said his team will be focusing on disease prevention and treatment.

The biggest thing thats going to start occurring in the next couple of weeks is widespread epidemics, Brewer said. Were going to have a cholera outbreak, a lot of tropical dis-eases coming in. I dont really know the incidence right now of typhus and yellow fever down there, but were expecting a lot of viral and bacterial-borne infections, and so thats really what my teams going to be concen-trating on.

Brewer said one of the biggest dis-eases that is affecting Nepalese citizens right now is cholera.

Theres a big incidence of cholera right now going on over there, weve already had over 1,200 cases going into the hospital, Brewer said. Its a big waterborne illness and so thats really what Im hoping to focus on is just kind of prevention of those diseases.

While this is not Brewers first medical mission, this will be the earli-est hes responded to a disaster situa-tion, arriving only one month after the earthquake on May 27. Because of this, Brewer said he is feeling some degree of nervousness.

I was in Haiti a year post-earth-quake there, but going to Nepal one month post-earthquake We have team members on the ground and theyre sending us updates and its go-ing to be a whole different world, Brewer said. Theres a lot of chaos down there not really a whole lot of structure, organization, the govern-

ment cant really bring in a lot of ma-terials right now, they cant even land large jets at the airport and so its going to be hectic.

But more than nerves, Brewer is anxious to be able to help.

Im a little bit nervous for that, but in the same sense, I love this, Brewer said. I love doing this kind of work, this is my passion, this is what I want to do as my career and so I just absolutely love this style of work and I feel semi-comfortable being on a team.

To many, the numbers of injured and dead may seem daunting and insur-mountable. But Brewer said he is con-fident his help will be able to make a difference, even if its on a minor scale.

One thing Ive learned is that if you can make a difference in one persons life, to me, thats worth it, Brewer said. Thats made the entire trip worth it. I mean, seeing, weve had patients in Haiti that have come with diseases and things like that, and being able to see them be able to go back to their families at the end of the day you know that you were able to make a dif-ference in that one persons life, that makes all the work, all the sacrifice, all the sweating, all the cold it makes it all worth it.

Brewer urges anyone who can do-nate to do so, and suggests donating to established relief organizations, includ-ing the organization with which he is going to Nepal, International Medical Relief. People who are interested can donate at internationalmedicalrelief.org.

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After 41 years of teaching his-tory, professor Arnold Kram-

mer has shaped it as well, affecting the lives of thousands of students. Even now, as he retires this year, commemorated with a surprise send-off celebration Thursday, his fire for teaching remains.

I have lots of things that I take into class, all kinds of historical items and things like that, Kram-mer said. When I put this in a students hands, many times Ill see the light, and hell say This really took place didnt it? Yes, it did. And Ive got you.

As he gave his last lecture Thurs-day, friends, family, colleagues and students burst into the room. At the event, history professors R.J.Q. Adams, Chester Dunning and Ter-ry Anderson spoke briefly and pre-sented Krammer with a certificate lauding his accomplished career as well as his devotion to the students at Texas A&M.

The event was planned and car-ried out by Adams and Chester Dunning, two colleagues and long-time friends of Krammers in the Department of History.

Adams was hired into the De-partment of History in 1974 and shared 41 years alongside Kram-mer, while Dunning was hired by the search committee on which

Krammer sat in 1979.Those of us whove known

him for 30 or 40 years decided that there needed to be a little bit more of a send off after 41 years for an incredibly wonderful lecturer who has taught more than 20,000 stu-dents, Dunning said. [Krammer] is deeply beloved and deserved a little bit of pizazz and not just a handshake and goodbye.

As an accomplished author, Krammer has written more than a dozen books and over 50 peer-reviewed articles over such his-torical issues as the world wars and Nazi Germany yet teaching has always remained a top priority for him.

An important consideration in teaching and learning history is re-membering the mistakes of the past so as to ensure theyre not repeated, Krammer said.

If I tell you that this third step outside in the staircase out here is loose and that everybody who has stepped on that third stair has slipped and fallen, thats valuable information for you to know since were all taking the same staircase in life, Krammer said. So by teaching you history I can show you where all the mistakes were made. Why should you make the

same mistakes? While several professors in

the Department of History have won the University Distinguished Teaching Award, Krammer is a part of the select few to have won the distinction twice, Dunning said.

Only 2 percent of the faculty since 1955 have won the Univer-sity Level Distinguished Teaching Award 2 percent and then only 2 percent of those have ever won it twice, Dunning said.

Krammer said the event was a tightly-kept secret and an absolute surprise, leaving him completely perplexed.

I was just left speechless. Its not often that a history professor, at least me, is left speechless, Kram-mer said. First I was bewildered, I was just taken aback, all of a sudden all of my friends and all of my col-leagues poured in.

The surprise left Krammer emo-tionally overwhelmed and thank-ful for his fortunate time at Texas A&M.

I was in tears, and so were some of the professors around me re-ally, it was wonderful. You know,

if youve got to leave, its a bit-tersweet moment, Krammer said. But to do it with such acclaim, it was just breathtaking, it really was.

Now that he is retiring, Kram-mer said he hopes to travel and to tackle a number of projects, includ-ing writing a book about American intolerance during World War II and another about the Mexican-

Nazi party. We will travel, and Ill write.

I have about four projects backed up and now Ill suddenly have the time to do them, Krammer said. Hopefully I will have plenty of things to do. Ill miss my students like crazy, and the faculty mem-bers.

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To promote competitive spirit among the units, Commander Dennis Hassman, Texas A&M Corps of Cadets training officer, said the top-10 outfits in raising money get to choose a football game in the fall to be on the sideline.

A lot of outfits, some of them will pick a game they know they get to travel to, like the Arkansas game up in Dallas or out of state, Hassman said. And then others say, I want Alabama.

Steve Fullhart, KBTX managing editor and anchor and March to the Brazos emcee, said the Corps displayed unity in its fundrais-ing.

You guys do things together thats part of the mission of this Corps, to develop

leaders together to benefit others, Fullhart said. Thats what has happened here.

Alyssa Michalke, commander of the Corps of Cadets for 2015-2016, said the event is meant to be a bonding experience for cadets, bringing them together on the tiring 18-mile march and in serving the community.

Its been a great day, its nice and cool out here, its a lot of good bull, Michalke said. You get to interact with your juniors and seniors and joke all the way, listen to music. Its a good bonding experience.

The event also served as an informal trans-fer of ranks for cadets.

The money raised will go towards March of Dimes initiatives, Fullhart said.

So share your story in this time together, in this time of fellowship and know your money is going to go towards research that is happening across the country, yes, but also right here at Texas A&M that could one day end this issue of premature birth, Fullhart said.

forward by the Board of Regents as the sole finalist for the A&M presidency on Feb. 3. Since then, a rapid transition took him to the table at which he sat Friday. He has had to formulate a leadership trajectory while indoctrinating himself in the unique Aggie culture.

Luckily, he said, hes had plenty of help.In some ways people have a remarkable

enthusiasm to tell me how to run the univer-sity, he joked.

Still, he has undergone an education of the university and its history, drawing on people like Marky Hussey, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences who served as interim A&M president. Hussey said he has had regular contact with Young about the student body, the Corps of Cadets, the core values, the little renovation project that is Kyle Field, ongoing searches to fill dean va-cancies and more.

Husseys advice for Young is simple: Lis-ten well and adapt to the Texas A&M en-vironment, something he said applies to all leaders entering new roles and new locales.

You may come in with a set of ideas, but theres nothing thats cookie-cutter about it, Hussey said. You just cant pick up what you did one place and replicate it somewhere else. Each institution, each leadership oppor-tunity is really different.

Youngs first day concludes a week marked by student outcry over the regents decision to modify the university seal and rename the MSC Flag Room. An online petition gar-nered more than 10,000 signatures and Stu-dent Senate unanimously passed a resolution in opposition.

Young said the problem does not come from mistakes of the heart.

Ive worked with a lot of higher edu-cation boards over the years, Young said. And Ill tell you something that Ill hope you credit, because I think it really is true: I dont think Ive ever dealt with a board that has the kind of love and passion for students that this Board of Regents does.

Still, he said if, we havent looked as care-fully about how we create some mechanisms to ensure people really do have input and these conversations that engage everybody who has an interest and a stake in it, then it can be addressed.

A practice of seeking student opinion, beginning with student leaders, has become commonplace in his time in higher educa-tion, Young said. But its important to con-sider, he said, that the biggest impact he can make on a students experience comes through drawing the best faculty and keeping tuition affordable.

Hell have to negotiate student engage-ment from off-campus, though, as he wont live in the presidents residence.

I would hope that from 10 oclock or 11 oclock at night to six in the morning you left the president alone, Young joked.

His wife vouched for his approachability. He is your friend. He really is, Marti

Young said. He may not get to see every single person and shake every single hand, but Im married to him and I know why he does what he does.

All Texas A&M vice presidents submitted letters of resignation prior to Youngs arrival, another decision from Chancellor John Sharp that drew attention in recent weeks. While Young said he appreciates the gesture, it wasnt his idea. Within a year, hes expected to decide which letters, if any, to accept.

I have no intentions, as I think my past reflects, of coming in and doing a blood-letting, Young said.

Though his term began Friday, Young has been around College Station for a couple weeks. On April 21, he attended his first Ag-gie Muster, a ceremony he said moved him deeply.

Unless youve sat through it, you can talk all day long about how the generations of this university connect, how these traditions transmit and what really binds Aggies togeth-er, Young said. But you sit in Muster and you get it. It was incredibly powerful. And when the Ross Volunteers walk in, the hair on the back of your neck just stands up.

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