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Student body elections are right around the corner. Sunday night signaled the start of a busy campaign season as more than 120 candidates vying for campus leader-ship positions reviewed rules and regula-tions before pre-campaigning kicks off Monday.

Hopeful senior and junior yell leaders, senators, class presidents, residence hall advisors and the six candidates competing for student body president attended the mandatory meeting, held by the election commission board, to address questions and learn about the voting process before diving into the campaign trail.

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The change came after a unanimous vote by student senators in the fall to al-leviate previous speech restrictions.

“The election commission board used to monitor when candidates were allowed to speak and it was a little bit restrictive,” Jackson said. “It really isn’t right to restrict that speech and we wanted to let the stu-dents be able to get their messages out and that a student with a vision can run and be successful.”

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More than 200 donors in the Flag Room of the reno-vated Memorial Student Cen-terfor the MSC “First Re-veal,” organized by the Texas A&M Foundation. The event recognized guests for contri-butions to the MSC renova-tion and expansion. Speakers included Texas A&M Presi-dent R. Bowen Loftin, Texas A&M Foundation President Ed Davis and MSC President Elizabeth Andrasi, nonprofit management certificate stu-

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SoftballThe A&M softball team left its season debut tournament with a 3-2 record, including victories against two Top-10 teams, Stanford and Arizona.

TennisThe Aggie men’s tennis team knocked off Texas, 4-3, in Houston before falling to Tulsa, 1-6.

TrackThe Aggie men’s and women’s track teams took fi rst place fi nishes Saturday at the Texas A&M invitational.

BasketballThe men’s and women’s basketball teams took a beating Saturday against Iowa State, 46-69 (men’s), and Baylor, 48-71 (women’s).

insidenews | 3Academic crimesExpensive laptops, calculators, iPads and other studying materials offer prime targets for theft on campus.

voices | 4Winning electionsRyan Davenport, campaign manager for student body president Jeff Pickering, gives an inside look into what it takes to win a student body president election.

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First SBP debateStudent body president candidates address questions submitted by students at 7 p.m. Monday at the George Bush Library. The Batt will tweet live from the event, @thebattonline.

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Donors socialize in the MSC Flag Room Friday during the MSC First Reveal. Architects sought to preserve the historic room’s personality through the process.

Student body candidates open campaign season

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Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop mu-sic’s queen until her majestic voice was rav-aged by drug use and her regal image was ruined by erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48.

Beverly Hills police Lt. Mark Rosen said Houston was pronounced dead at 3:55 p.m. Saturday in her room on the fourth floor of the Beverly Hilton. A Los Angeles County coroner’s official said early Sunday that her body had been taken to a morgue.

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Students carry around more than just textbooks and spirals. They have laptops, tablets. phones, cameras and thumb drives, which can make study-ing more convenient. Re-cently, toting electronic de-vices has made studying more of a risk for some students.

One MacBook was report-ed stolen from Starbucks on Northgate to the University Police Department, or UPD, in late January. While coffee patrons attempted to appre-hend the thief, they failed to stop him.

Laura Smith, English grad-uate student, witnessed the theft while she was studying at Starbucks. Smith left a written statement of her account with local police.

“A guy with an Apple lap-top got up to go to the rest-room,” Smith said. “Then suddenly I saw a guy running out the door with his laptop. A woman by the door threw out her arm to stop him, but he ran past her. Another guy pinned him temporarily and yelled, but he had his own laptop in his lap to protect and was unsuccessful at stopping him.”

Smith said the suspected thief ran to a red idling car and sped away. The individual was black and wearing dark cloth-ing. The car was unidentifi-able because the license plates were covered.

“It is kind of alarming be-cause so many people study there and it is so close to cam-pus,” said Katie Mouton, se-nior agriculture science major.

More thefts at Starbucks have been reported since the beginning of the semester. Smith said Starbucks employ-ees said there is some sort of ring targeting Apple laptops specifically.

Local baristas declined to comment on the issue and at-tempts to contact corporate media offices for Starbucks Coffee Company were un-successful.

According to Sgt. Allan Baron of the University Po-

lice Department, there were 555 thefts reported to UPD in 2011. The most common items reported stolen are bi-cycles, iPhones, laptop com-puters and iPods.

“It is also important to record the serial numbers of your personal property,” Baron said. “Law enforce-ment agencies have the abil-ity to enter serial numbers and owner-applied numbers of stolen property into a national database, accessible by most all law enforcement agencies in the country.”

There are several security applications that can be uti-lized to protect electronic devices. Applications such as GadgetTrack, LoJack, PC PhoneHome, MobileMe and SmartProtect allow individu-als to track their devices if lost or stolen.

“This not only helps in-crease the odds of recovery, but is helpful to the police in locating those responsible,” Baron said.

According to UPD, most thefts on campus occur in ar-eas that experience a higher volume of student traffic.

“It is not uncommon to receive numerous reports of

theft from residence hall areas, library facilities and student recreation facilities,” Baron said.

Though UPD has jurisdic-tion in the Northgate area, the College Station Police Department is the primary re-sponding agency.

Additionally, the UPD Crime Prevention Unit offers free theft prevention presenta-tions and programs, as well as conduct free security surveys of campus departments and buildings.

UPD approaches the issue of theft aggressively, including but not limited to uniform or plain-clothed police patrols, video surveillance, checking local pawnshops and network-ing with local law enforce-ment agencies.

While UPD is putting in their own effort, students also are becoming more aware since the Starbucks thefts have begun.

“I now take my belong-ings with me every time I go to the restroom or some-thing and just leave a jacket or something to save my spot,” Smith said.

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EDITOR’SNOTE

Ryan Davenport: How to win a student body president election

Expert advice

I t’s that time of year again. Time for campus discussion, for

freshmen holding banners in Academic Plaza, for us to take a

hard look at the candidates vying to be our next student body

president.

Last year, I managed one of the most suc-cessful student body president campaigns in recent history — ushering in Jeff Pickering as a fresh, new face to student government. We were the underdog from the start, but with some careful planning and a dedicated campaign team, we were able to pull off a decisive runoff victory with almost 63 per-cent of all votes cast.

How do you run a successful campaign? How do you market your ideas? Where do you invest your budget? Who do you need to talk to? Dozens of questions come to mind when mounting a serious campaign for stu-dent body president, but the honest key to a successful campaign is the type of people you have holding your signs, wearing your t-shirt and tweeting about you.

We’ve seen, even on a national stage, that the best marketing doesn’t guarantee anything. Campaigning is much more than a few parlor tricks; things of that nature can be one-upped every day. Build-ing consensus among the Corps of Cadets, Memorial Student Center ex-ecutive officers, Greek Life presidents won’t even guarantee a decisive win.

The real secret to success is a dedicated, steady base of support from all over campus. A diverse group of influential students is the single-most critical requirement of a winning campaign. It is far more advantageous to share your vision with influential people in five different organizations than 30 people in one organization.

How your supporters campaign matters, too.

We always stressed to our team that stu-dents aren’t fond of campaigning, or fancy rhymes echoing through West Campus. Instead, it was far more important that we lived Jeff’s vision for a more united Texas A&M by saying “Howdy” when we walked across campus and wished students a good day when they passed our signs. People want to be treated well. Retail politics has its place, but it shouldn’t be intrusive or ar-rogant, no matter how energetic or amazing your candidate is.

When it comes to marketing your mes-

sage, you have to make passers-by con-nect the dots. They can look at 30 of your signs for a week, but that requires no active thought on their part. To combat that sentiment, our marketing manager — Mary Grace Joseph, senior English major — and Jeff devised one of the simplest strategies to be recognized by all of campus. We made one giant banner with our distinct logo and placed it in the most prominent location possible: Academic Plaza. When students passed by, they may have thought “What in Aggieland is that!?” But when they walked by H2O fountain, they saw a Pick Pickering banner emblazoned with that same logo and our campaign’s message. Not to mention,

students found some of their closest friends wearing our t-shirts in their

classes almost every day.To win this campaign, you

have to be creative. You must think outside of the box and continue to innovate when you speak to clubs and organi-

zations, your signs need to stand out, you have to engage students

in a way that doesn’t come across as abrasive, but above all else, you must do so with integrity.

The recipe for success is simple, but it is all about how you execute. I look forward to a healthy and robust debate in the coming weeks and I encourage every student to an-swer the call to service, whether that means running for student body president, cam-paigning for student senate, competing for Yell, or choosing a candidate and making his or her campaigning a successful one. Even if this isn’t for you, slow down now-and-then to see what the excitement is all about because, after all, whoever is elected to serve as Student Body President will represent our thoughts, needs and opinions for the next year.

Ryan Davenport is a senior interdisciplinary studies major and

executive vice president for the Student Government Association.

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Foundation has raised $12.5 mil-lion of its $20 million project fund-raising goal. The University com-mitted $18 million to the project, Dining Services contributed an additional $5 million and students were responsible for $82 million through a student service fee, ap-proved by students with a majority vote in spring 2007.

Loftin said the MSC was one of his favorite spots on campus, and that he relates to the anticipation students feel as the official opening day inches closer.

“I spent my time here as a stu-dent sleeping, hiding out, having a quiet place to work in and just see-

ing my friends, so it’s very special to me,” Loftin said. “I was here as interim president in August of 2009 when we closed the place down and it’s nice to see it now about to re-open again as students have been denied so long now access to this place.”

Class agents for the Class of 1964 Nick McGuire and George L. Nel-son led funding to reserve a pillar in the building for their class. They said they have fond memories of the MSC and remember it as the living room of the campus.

“Back in 1961, when we arrived here we were pretty lost and there weren’t very many places we could go in those days,” McGuire said. “We were all male military and there was no place for us to have private time or enjoy ourselves and

that was filled by the Memorial Student Center.”

Nelson said he came from a small town in south Texas and the MSC was a place he could come with his thoughts and escape.

“In the MSC we could hide out, study, do whatever we needed to do. If your parents came to see you the MSC is where you brought them,” Nelson said. “So when this opportunity came up we sent a letter and reminded every-body about the significance of the MSC in our lives when we were on campus and then the importance it plays in the lives of the Aggies who follow us. It

needs our help because this place is as important to present students and future students as it was to us.”

Nelson said, as class agents, they continue to attend all meetings with the Association of Former Students and keep up to date with the changes on campus. He said donating to the MSC campaign is just as important as contributing to scholarships because it gives the students a place to call home.

John Mayfield, class agent for the Class of 1958, said he and his co-class agent steered funding for their class’s pillar and still continue to work for

the MSC campaign. He said it is a wonderful way to connect back to the place they love.

“I learned a long time ago that if you love Texas A&M you never quit working for her. In 1951, my Mama and Daddy brought me here as a kid. I have a card in a safety deposit box that Dwight Eisenhower signed when the MSC opened in 1951,” Mayfield said. “It’s a pleasure to be back and see the MSC grow and ma-ture further and be something special for the students.”

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campaign elections. “I was an underdog candidate — a grass-

roots candidate — who ran on a vision of a more united A&M and it was a message,” Pickering said. “It could have been much more productive if I had been able to get that message out and if I had an extra week to go to meetings, talk to the students and have more debates so that’s what we’ve done this year.”

Thomas McNutt rallied his campaign team before the meeting and said he is excited to participate in the first student body president debates Monday.

“I’m in favor of as few regulations as pos-sible,” McNutt, a junior political science ma-jor said. “We are Aggies and use integrity and caution, but I think the more communication between campaigning and the student body,

the better.” Jose Zelaya, president of the council for mi-

nority student affairs, said he agreed with the decision to make campaigns more personal.

“I think it’s actually going to help because a lot of the times people vote just because of what their friends tell them,” Zelaya said. “Now we can freely talk about who we are and the things that we believe. It’s more about the individual campaigner.”

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of fun working with all of them last year,” Bumguardner said. “Putting together a 700-page book … it’s just really awe-inspiring to know that I created something that people will be reading so far into the future.”

Kelbye Gaskill, editor-in-chief for the 2012 Aggieland and junior agricultural communica-tions and journalism major, said Bumguardner’s experience and positive attitude made her a great editor-in-chief.

“Kalee was always very en-couraging. If I had a problem she was quick to answer and help me through it,” Gaskill said. “Kalee always brought a welcoming and stress-free environment to our meetings last year, which can be hard to overcome when everyone is dealing with schoolwork and extra stories to write.”

Gaskill said, while Bum-guardner is currently working at The Battalion as research edi-tor, she continues to help her with the Aggieland in critiquing and answering questions.

Bumguardner said working as editor-in-chief at The Battal-ion was challenging, as she was

new to the newspaper business, yet the experience allowed her to grow in many ways.

“The Battalion puts out a newspaper every day, so it’s crazy and chaotic and really fast-paced,” Bumguardner said. “I think that working at The Battalion completely changed me as a person because I be-came so much more confident and so much more able to ex-press my ideas, because I had to do it on a daily basis.”

Bumguardner said she would not have had the great experience she did without the support of her experienced staff and student news adviser Cheri Shipman. She said the staff had a great time that summer, and she enjoyed the chaotic atmo-sphere and thrill of the news-room.

“I really love the excitement … there was always something new going on that I had to cov-er,” Bumguardner said. “That year was the year we lost our student body president at the beginning of the summer, and President Murano resigned, plus we had two national championships within a week of each other.”

Doug Klembara, Class of 2011, worked at The Battalion throughout his time at A&M

and was photo editor for the Aggieland for two-and-a-half years. He said he worked with Bumguardner when she first began at the yearbook and that she was always dedicated to her work. Bumguardner was able to successfully shift from work-ing at the Aggieland to The Bat-talion because she had the ex-perience and ambition needed.

“She was never afraid to ask me questions and I really ap-preciated that,” Klembara said. “It was an honor to work with Kalee and I loved being able to record the history of Texas A&M with her in the Ag-gieland Yearbook.”

Bumguardner said she be-lieves her time at The Battalion and Aggieland will allow her to pursue the career of her dreams after graduation.

“Once I get out of grad school I’d really like to work at a magazine or publishing company to do design or copy editing, because I really enjoy it,” Bumguardner said. “I think working at a magazine would be the best of both worlds … you’d have the same design concepts but you’d also have the excitement of a newspaper, in terms of putting out breaking news, and magazines are usually monthly or weekly.”

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There are 124 students running in the 2012 election, including six candidates for student body president and 10 yell leader candidates. Keep up-to-date with The Battalion’s election coverage in the coming weeks

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