In what has been described as a year of ups and downs, senators from the 65th Session of Student

Senate reflected on the past session and offered ad-vice for those preparing to serve in the 66th.

In a session that featured controversy regarding bills related to gun control, the University Advance-ment Fund and the ability to opt out of fees on religious grounds, Scott Bowen, outgoing Senate speaker and senior chemical engineer major, said his biggest struggle this year has been trying to deper-sonalize issues.

“Our goal has always been to approach each bill with open minds and with our eyes looking towards facts and rational policy,” Bowen said. “Unfortu-nately, we have often fallen short of that standard, allowing petty politics, personal feelings about others in SGA and emotional grandstanding to get in the way of good legislation.”

However, Bowen said Senate best demonstrated its potential and purpose by opening a productive campus-wide discussion on controversial issues. He cited as a prime example the passage of the personal protection bill that went through Senate.

“We passed the bill, even overriding a veto, on the basis of facts and logic,” Bowen said. “In so do-ing, we prompted a statewide discussion about cam-pus safety and several other schools have weighed in on this issue. If a bill passes in the [Texas] Legislature, we as a student body will have played a large role in seeing that through.”

Bowen said students all over campus benefited from Senate’s actions in various ways.

“Many of [the more than 70 bills considered] were non-controversial and passed unanimously, recom-mending small improvements to student services, ac-ademic issues and internal governance,” Bowen said.

Fernando Sosa, finance chair and sophomore po-litical science major, said Senate’s impact included working with University dining to improve the quality of service, supporting state legislation aimed at making campus safer and funding committees such as Big Event and Muster. Sosa said the session was overall a success.

Mariana Fernandez, outgoing speaker pro tem-pore and senior political science major, said her time in Senate has shaped the person she is today.

“Senate gave me the opportunity to serve my University, build relationships and grow as an in-dividual,” Fernandez said. “It taught me that it is important to respect the opinions of others, that great solutions come from disagreement, and that it is cru-cial to stand up for what you believe.”

Senator Gus Blessing, a junior interna-tional studies major, said while he was proud of the increased constituency reaction in the last session, Senate still has room for more constituent outreach.

“As an organization we did good things, but we can always do more,” Blessing said.

Blessing said the only way to make sure this trend of increased involvement continues is for new senators to go beyond mandatory meeting attendance and urges newcomers to be “self-start-ing” senators that actively talk to administrators

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Scott Bowen, Senate speaker for the 65th Session and senior chemical engineering major, said the past and present goal of Senate is to “approach each bill with open minds.” See Senate on page 4

Whataburger condiments to hit H-E-B shelves

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Whataburger CEO Pres-ton Atkinson announced

Tuesday that the restaurant will bottle its Fancy Ketchup, Spicy Ketchup and Original Mustard. A Whataburger press release an-nounced that the condiments will be available at all Texas and Mexico H-E-B stores this sum-mer.

“With so much customer de-mand to get their hands on our special ketchup and mustard in larger quantities, it was only log-ical to bottle them up and make them available first through such a well-respected retailer like H-E-B,” Atkinson said.

Zack Koenig, senior tele-communication media studies major, said he would buy the

products as soon as they are available.

“I’m a fan of their spicy ketchup,” Koenig said. “I try to get extra every time I go, more than I need for that meal – basi-cally collecting them until they go out of season.”

Koenig said, however, Whataburger condiments’ pres-ence in stores would not neces-sarily move him to exclusively buy the chain’s ketchup.

“It depends on whether or not it’s the exact same product we get in the single serving cups from Whataburger,” Koenig said. “If it’s the same exact taste, I’m sure I’d buy it consistently. But I’d also probably get regular Heinz ketchup.”

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Conservation event to highlight water research

water daze

College Station residents turn on faucets daily and water appears,

but students may not often consider the global issues surrounding the resource.

Water Daze, to be hosted Thursday by the Water Management and Hy-drological Science program at Texas A&M, seeks to shed light on A&M re-search bound by the common theme of water.

Event organizer Prakash Khedun, a recreation, parks and tourism science graduate student, said A&M students attend a University uniquely positioned as a hub of water-related research and it is time to take notice, of this.

“The goal of the event is to have people come and learn about the water that we take for granted,” Khedun said.

Khedun said A&M’s status as a land grant school — which contributes to an emphasis in agriculture and, in turn, water-related initiatives — and recent

Texas drought conditions make the event important for students.

“The population of Texas is increas-ing at an amazing rate,” Khedun said. “We’re vulnerable, and we’re growing fast. If we don’t have water to provide for industries, we’re not going to grow at the rate we’re going to.”

Khedun said, however, that water concerns spread well beyond the bor-ders of Texas.

“From a global perspective, there is an amazing number of people who don’t have access to water,” Khedun said. “Every 15 seconds, a child dies because of lack of access to clean wa-ter. It’s amazing the amount of peo-ple in this century that doesn’t have clean water.”

The event will last from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Rudder Theater and will feature research presentations, a panel discussion of experts, a screening of the documentary “Last Call at the Oa-sis” and booths for relevant initiatives and companies.

Mark Doré The Battalion

Though a university is an institution of knowledge, it can sometimes provide more questions than answers. A project out of student business ac-

celerator Startup Aggieland seeks to provide answers for curious freshmen.

A new website, AskAgs.com, launched Wednesday with intentions of functioning much like a forum that allows users to ask and answer questions about campus life.

Those involved with the project said its success could hinge on its beta testing program and the extent to which news of the site spreads.

“We’re very early in this,” said Zach Cummings, junior information and operations management major. “Right now it’s just at the point where we are waiting and asking people to contribute. We need to get the idea out there that it is independent from campus, that you can ask a ton of questions and you can get answers.”

The site, while in beta, has 200 users. The planned membership base will consist of former, current and future students and serves to cater to those who are new to A&M as they adapt to college life.

Users will ask and provide answers to questions that may be common knowledge to current students can be un-known to new college freshmen.

The site’s founder, Tyler Mandry, senior computer sci-ence major, said he first got the idea for the site when he was a freshman and had trouble finding out the ins and outs

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Tyler Mandry, senior computer science major and founder of AskAgs.com, began the initiative to allow former, current and future students to ask and answer questions pertaining to campus life in order to assuage uncertainty.

Student web venture tackles hazy campus

questions

of being an Aggie.“It’s information about A&M that is hard to get right now,”

Mandry said. “What we’re doing is creating something that is community-based so that anyone that knows the answer can give the answer.”

Members can gain points and badges as they participate, and users can gain a reputation for answering questions within a giv-en topic. In the future, organizations will also be given the ability

to have an official presence on the site.Project creators have relied on traditional means of spreading

the word.“A lot of it has been through word-of-mouth and parties we

knew would be interested in this sort of a project,” said Brandon Bunt, junior marketing major and the head of the site’s market-

See AskAgs on page 2

boston bombing

Elder brother ‘dominant force’ behind bombingBOSTON — Nineteen-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaey was charged Monday with joining his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaey in setting off the shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs. He could face the death penalty. Senate Intelligence Committee member Richard Burr, R-N.C., said there is “no question” that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was “the dominant force” behind the attacks, and that the brothers had apparently been radicalized by material on the Internet rather than by contact with militant or terror groups overseas.

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Not only is A&M a part of argu-ably the richest league in the country (soon to be richer following the April announcement of the SEC Network) but the SEC has also become the most flexible.

College football has evolved into a cutthroat business, emerging as one of the most affluent markets in the country. Although conference realign-ment has only recently surged, business Darwinism has played a central role within the media rights system since leagues were first formed during the early 1900s.

The whole basis behind business Darwinism and the capitalistic structure that ultimately governs college foot-ball is the concept of free realignment. When a weak conference becomes unsustainable, a more successful league absorbs the best parts and the smaller one dissolves — i.e. the 1996 forma-tion of the Big 12 from the top four

programs of the Southwest Conference and the Big 8.

The grant of media rights signed by four of the five major conferences attacks this principle. Leagues that currently feel insecure due to recent re-alignment losses (the Big 12 and ACC) are locking down their members for the foreseeable future to protect the group instead of allowing the natural evolu-tion of the enterprise of college football to run its course.

Universities have simply signed over their rights for the promise of security within their own conference.

When offered a choice between stability and freedom, there’s no true debate.

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James Sullivan: While conferences nationwide flounder for security, the SEC remains stable

Hostage negotiation

When Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin made the “100-year decision” for the University’s conference realignment to the SEC in September of 2011, the bow-

tied administrator could not foresee the implications of his alliance. Over a year later, the dividends continue to pay off as other conferences struggle for stability.

The Atlantic Coast Conference an-nounced Monday morning the league’s 15 current and future members each signed a grant of media rights — effec-tive immediately — with the intention of ending conference realignment along the eastern seaboard.

The agreed-upon document guar-antees that if a university were to leave the ACC, the school’s media rights for all home games — including revenue — would continue to belong to the league through 2027. Combined with its NCAA-highest $50 million exit fee, the conference has locked down its members for years to come.

The event marks the last of the ma-jor collegiate conferences outside of the Southeastern Conference — Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12 and ACC — to sign a grant of media rights.

Following the announcement, ACC officials praised the league for its stability-inducing move, citing the recently signed document.

Stability is the last thing on my radar. All I see is a cage — one in which

university officials across the country locked their programs for at least the next decade.

Let’s put the magnitude of this inci-dent in perspective.

If Texas A&M ever desired to leave the SEC, the University wouldn’t owe a single cent — not in exit fees or through any grant of media rights. Same story for Alabama, Florida and every other program residing within our conference.

If Florida State or any other ACC school wished to take its talents else-where, though, it would be forced to shell out $50 million while surrendering all revenue earned at sporting events through 2027. Oklahoma or any Big 12 program would give up roughly $19 million, depending on how soon it wanted to leave, in addition to its media rights.

The SEC remains confident enough with its own stature — both financially and competitively — to allow members

James Sullivan is a senior business administration major and sports editor for The Battalion

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University President R. Bowen Loftin shakes hands with SEC Commissioner Mike Slive during the official realignment announcement.

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Bunt said they hope the site membership will grow over the summer.

“We are going to be ramping it up for new students coming in for their new student conferences at a time in their lives when people have so many questions about this huge life change,” Bunt said.

The site’s Facebook page will function as a help desk over the summer for members who are learning to navi-gate the site. Much of the tech support for the site has come from Startup Aggieland.

Cummings said there might eventually be potential for local businesses to advertise on the site and that he hopes the site will serve as the centralized source of information for all students at A&M within the next two years.

“We really kind of want to capture the Aggie experi-ence on our website so that anyone who wants to know more about A&M can kind of get a glimpse of that,” Mandry said. “I really think the site kind of embodies the spirit of Aggies helping other Aggies because it brings to-gether people who want the information and [those who] have the information.”

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baseball

A&M falls in weekday road contest against Texas StateThe Texas A&M baseball team dropped its second consecutive midweek matchup Tuesday night against Texas State, losing 4-1 in San Marcos. After finishing a three-game series with No. 10 Arkansas with losses Saturday and Sunday, A&M (22-20, 7-11) continues to falter on the road. Despite A&M gaining a 1-0 lead in the top of first inning, the Bobcats responded in the bottom of the inning with a run to tie the game 1-1. Texas State (18-22, 9-6) continued its offensive dominance in the second inning, scoring three runs to snare a 4-1 lead. Bobcat pitching shut down A&M rallies in the fourth, seventh and eighth innings. A&M starter Corey Ray (3-2) was saddled with the loss after throwing one and two-thirds innings and surrendering four runs. The Aggies return to action Friday in a three-game series against Alabama on the road, concluding their eight-game road trip.

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Now preleasing large 3/2 du-plexes, May-Aug leasing options,off of Holleman, on shuttle, viewduplexes seven days a week,979-774-4575.

One month free rent on efficien-cies and 2-bdrms, great move-inspecials, free cable and ethernet.aggieapartment.com. Tamu shut-tle route. 979-693-1906.

Pre-lease for May or August 2/2Duplex with large fence backyard.Pets ok, walk-in closets, great lo-cation, and shuttle. $775/mo.979-693-1448.

Prelease for August, 4/2/2 withlarge fenced yard and deck, re-modeled inside, 1217 Berkeley,$1500/mo. 979-693-1448.

Preleasing large 1bd/1ba condosfor fall. Lease known to get1month free. Includes W/D,fireplace, tile floors. Blocks fromcampus. 979-703-8709,tribecasquareapts@gmail.com

Storage for rent. Climate andnon-climate. Starting at$29/month, and one month free.979-693-0551.

Want space?  Wantwasher/dryer?  Want great loca-tion?  HOLIK SQUARE TOWN-HOMES, right off Holleman. Oneand Two bedroom two-storytownhomes.  Limited 1 bedroomavailability.  Contact us soon!  www.holiksquare.com or979-209-0123 for more info.

FOR SALE

New townhouses close to campus.4bd/4ba and 2bd/2ba available.On TAMU shuttle. Call JC/broker(254)721-6179,www.gamedaybcs.com

HELP WANTED

Ags! Looking for summer work?Earn $9000.00 this summer, buildyour resume, great experience,call Taylor, 214-707-9145.

Athletic men for calendars,books, etc. $100-$200/hr, upto $1000/day. No experience.aggieresponse@gmail.com

Child Care FT & PT shifts available.Some nights & Saturdays re-quired. Apply in person at 3609 E.29th St., Bryan.

Cleaning commercial buildingsat night, M-F. Call 979-823-5031for appointment.

Cotton Patch-College Station nowhiring servers and greeters.Lunch availability desired. Applyat Rock Prairie and Hwy-6. Anequal opportunity employer!

ENDS and COSI Students. Archi-tectural AutoCAD drafter needed.Call 979-694-7059.

HELP WANTED

File Clerk; local insurance agencylooking to fill part-time positionassisting with general clericalhelp. Preferred hours 1pm-5pm,M-F. Pay is commensurate. Emailresume info@sigbcs.com or fax979-774-3955. No calls orwalk-ins. 

Hiring CDL and ClassC drivers, ap-ply at D&D Moving & Storage,3700 South Texas Ave. CS, 77845.

Immediate opening. Energetic,high-energy office assistant fortele-marketing and busyreal-estate office. 12:00-5:00pm.Call 979-693-3700 and ask for ext437

Jimmy Johns is now hiring at bothlocations for delivery drivers andcrew, apply in person at 200 Uni-versity Dr. East, 2002 Texas Ave.South.

Little Guys Movers now hiringFT/PT employees. Must be at least21 w/valid D.L. Apply in person at3209 Earl Rudder Freeway.979-693-6683.

Part-time job helpinghandicapped. Male studentpreferred. $360/mo. 5-10hrs/wk.979-846-3376.

Part-time summer help, apply inperson, Conlee-Garrett Movingand Storage, 600 South BryanAve., Bryan.

PT openings, customer sales/svc,no experience necessary, all ma-jors welcome, start now for sum-mer, internships available,979-260-4555.

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Summer childcare needed for 2kids starting in June, $250 weekly,email resume with references toAGGIEKIDS@HOTMAIL.COM

Wanted: Energetic people forKids Klub After-School Program.Fall semester employmentbegins 08/19/13. Applicationdeadline May 3.www.cstx.gov/kidsklub,979-764-3831.

PETS

2 male Yorkie puppies, 2-3lbs,4mo. old, $800, linda_d_54@ya-hoo.com, 979-324-2866.

Pad needs a home! Spayedfemale Shepard mix, gold/white,55lbs., vaxinated. Lovingenergetic companion. Call979-696-8119.

REAL ESTATE

B/CS. Sell/Buy/Invest! MichaelMcGrann TAMU ‘93 CivilEngineering 979-739-2035,mike@aggierealtor.comNadia McGrann 979-777-6211,Town & Country Realty.

ROOMMATES

2 or 3 roommates needed for4bd/4ba apartment. Fully fur-nished with W/D. $475/mo in-cludes utilities. Contact Kendall atk_aggie14@neo.tamu.edu.

2-rooms available in 4bdrm homeoff of Graham. Female,non-partiers, mostly furnished.$450/mo. 903-456-6543.

Roommate wanted for summer orlonger. 4bd/4ba condo, $250/mo.Fully furnished. 713-896-7566.

TUTORS

Need a Tutor? Friendly, helpfulone-on-one private tutors for allsubjects at TAMU/Blinn and SamHouston State. Check us out atwww.99tutors.com, 979-268-8867.

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work — whether fruitful or not — does more than just benefit a single Senate session. Bow-en said he urges senators in the next session to stick with a cause.

“Find one issue you are personally passion-ate about and see it through,” Bowen said. “Take advice from others and keep an open mind, but set a goal for what you would like to

accomplish and then fight for it until a decision is made. Whether you win or lose, you will have learned about every step of the process and you will have new expertise to offer the next senator in line.”

When researching bills and voting, Fernan-dez said she advises each senator to act on his or her ethical obligation and to not be a mind-less follower.

“Stand up for what you believe,” Fernandez said. “Do not compromise your values. Never be afraid to be the one person in the room for or against something if that it is what your conscience is telling you. Every vote counts.”

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