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Texas A&M is one of six Texas universities se-

lected by the Federal Aviation Administration to operate Unmanned Air Systems, also known as UAS, on testing sites throughout the state.

These systems, which are often mistakenly called drones, will be used for com-mercial road inspection and agriculture. UAS can be used for scanning crops to look for diseases, checking bridges and infrastructures for cracks, tak-ing medical supplies and food to disaster areas and using cameras to track vehicles.

The testing will focus both on ensuring safety and that UAS act in predictable ways around people and in differ-ent circumstances and weath-er conditions and will move

toward refining the systems from being unmanned to au-tonomous around various en-vironments, said John Valasek, head aerospace engineering professor for the project and director for the Center for Autonomous Vehicles and Sensor Systems, also known as CANVAS.

Such autonomous flight entails UASs flying via com-munication between a small computer inside of it and a ground computer that sends directional commands through radio signals. Sensors and cameras on the UAS are key to this communication.

Valasek said the Texas A&M research team consists of about 10 people at a time and includes both undergraduate and graduate aerospace engi-neering students. Valasek said he is also looking for students who will be available to work on the project over the sum-mer, one of the busiest testing

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Emily Schneider and Jonathan Rahmani stand in the Negev desert, located in the southern region of Isreal, while on their birthright trip in 2013.

Quad arches get new adornment

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Ben Butler, freshman mechanical engineering major, and Mark Williamson, freshman petroleum engineering major, walk toward the new letters installed in the Quad that read, “Texas A&M Corps of Cadets.” The phrase, “We make leaders,” decorates the opposite side.

Two Jewish philanthro-pists, Charles Bronfman

and Michael Steinhardt, once envisioned a program where young Jews would have the opportunity to ex-plore and regain a connec-tion to their ancestral past. In 1999, they realized this vision with the creation of what is now known as Taglit Birthright Israel, which of-fers the experience of a free trip to Israel.

Rabbi Matt Rosenberg of Texas A&M Hillel said there are 15 to 20 different providers of the trip and it

occurs twice a year, with applications for the May trip opening soon.

“It has been found to be one of the biggest and most important aspects of the Jewish experience for young people,” Rosenberg said. “It can be a meaningful experience. It’s 10 days and includes the Old City [Jeru-salem], the Western Wall, Tel Aviv, Holocaust mu-seum, Independence Hall.”

Rosenberg said the birth-right trip to Israel is a gift that provides individuals be-tween the ages of 18 and 26, the chance to better identify with their Jewish culture, religion and faith. Accord-ing to the Taglit Birthright Israel website, more than

Trek ties together present, past

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The UAS pictured above is being tested by researchers as designated by the Federal Aviation Administration.

“Throughout the sixth inning, we wear our sunglasses because we believe it’s the most dangerous inning of the game.”

SHADES ON SIX

“Whenever a coach is giving a pep talk to one of the players he pats his butt so we will yell, ‘Pat his butt,’ at him.”

PAT HIS BUTT“At the top or bottom of the ninth, whether we’re winning or losing, we stand for the rest of the game and hope for an Aggie win.”

9TH INNING HOPE“The first base coach has a box he’s supposed to stand in but he never does, so we always yell at him to get back in the box.”

BACK IN THE BOX

“Anytime a ball gets popped [and] hits the overhang covering where we’re sit-ting, we yell, ‘Ow,’ and shout the jin-gle of the Schulte roofing company.”

ROOF HIT JINGLES“If someone is talking on their cell phone in the student section, everyone around them says, ‘Hello,’ really loudly so they can’t hear the person they’re talking to.”

HELLO!

“Between the top and bottom of the first inning, we do a head bang thing to the wolf pack soundtrack from back in the ’90s.”

FIRST INNING WOLVES“We have different motions and dances for different players. Cole Lankford, whenev-er he came out, I’d yell, ‘What’s cooler than cool? Ice Cole.’”

BOOSTING THE PLAYERS

“If somebody walks up or down the aisles during the inning, you will most likely get yelled at and they’ll yell, ‘Between in-nings,’ to tell you not to walk around dur-ing an inning and block somebody’s view.”

BETWEEN INNINGS

“Whenever you hear the train going by, you put up a number to see how many engines are on it and then you see if you get it right or wrong and it’s fun.”

ENGINE COUNTING

sports | 2 The loudest, the proudestSection 203 regulars say they were drawn to Olsen Field for its quirks, traditions and intimacy.

Quotes provided by Rob White, Darcy Jacoby and Shelby Hanner; Graphics by William Guerra — THE BATTALION

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While Aggie sports are known for their loud,

proud and large fan bases, Ol-sen Field at Blue Bell Park, home of Aggie baseball, is known for a whole different breed of fans.

The student section of Olsen Field, or Section 203, is where Rob White, senior sports management major, said he sits every game.

“In Aggie baseball, we don’t do yells — we come with our own chants and we regulate ourselves,” White said. “[Section] 203 becomes your family. You’re not hav-ing to deal with new people every time, like you do when you go to a football game or basketball game. That’s one of the beauties of smaller sports at A&M — you start going to those games regularly and you

get to know the other people who go regularly.”

White said the regulars of Section 203 do a number of unusual things, from dancing and wearing costumes to sing the Schulte Roofing Compa-ny jingle when a ball hits the overhang of the field.

Shelby Hanner, sopho-more biological and agricul-tural engineering major, said she has participated in chants and cheers since her freshman year. Hanner said she knew she would be attending a lot of baseball games during her time at A&M because of her fam-ily’s dedication to the sport.

“I usually go with my par-ents — I come from a baseball family,” she said. “My mom gets really into it and my dad just kind of sits back and laughs.”

Darcy Jacoby, senior agri-cultural communications and journalism major, said Olsen

Field sets a different tone for spectators than other sports do.

“The atmosphere is differ-ent,” Jacoby said. “With Kyle Field, there’s a lot of people and a lot of noise, but with baseball we don’t do any of the Aggie yells and I think it’s a little more intimate.”

The Aggie spirit is part of what makes Aggie baseball so enjoyable, Jacoby said.

“I appreciate the unique-ness because Aggie baseball is even more involved with fans than at a major league game,” she said. “It’s a lot of fun, not just because of the sport but because of the Texas A&M atmosphere.”

White said the atmosphere of Olsen Field is more laid back, which allows him to have fun and relax while watching the sport.

“It’s a great ball park and a great place to watch a base-

ball game,” White said. “You don’t have to worry about classes and you can let your mind wander and enjoy some good old-fashioned baseball.”

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Fresh off a sweep over Northeastern on opening weekend, the No. 24 Texas

A&M baseball team (3-0, 0-0 SEC) hosts Stephen F. Austin (2-1, 0-0 SLC) at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday at Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park.

Freshman pitcher Tyler Stubblefield, brother of A&M junior right-hander Gandy Stubblefield, will be given the start for the Aggies. Tyler Stubblefield made his first appearance in Friday’s win over Northeastern, throwing two scoreless in-nings.

Tyler Stubblefield’s counterpart for the Lumberjacks will be senior right-hander Kevin Bishop. Bishop, who is a College Station native and graduate of A&M Con-solidated High School, will return to his hometown to make his 2014 debut.

Last season, SFA finished sixth in the Southland Conference with a record of 28-29, and was bounced from the confer-ence tournament after losing its first two games.

The Lumberjacks are led by senior outfielder Ricardo Sanchez, who was chosen as a member of the preseason All-Southland Conference Team. Senior des-ignated hitter Mackenzie Handel paces the club with a .500 batting average.

The Lumberjacks lost shortstop Hunt-er Dozier to the 2013 MLB draft. Dozier was taken No. 8 overall by the Kansas City Royals, the highest ever for a player from SFA.

A&M head coach Rob Childress was pleased at the competitive level of this year’s newcomers as 10 new faces — in-cluding seven freshman and three junior college transfers — made appearances in the season’s opening weekend.

“We were able to get some of the younger guys and newcomers on the field,” Childress said. “I thought they all held their own and competed at a very

high level.”Junior infielder Logan Nottebrok,

who transferred to A&M from Temple College this season, leads the Aggies in almost every offensive category, includ-ing batting average (.444), runs scored (5), walks (4), doubles (2) and total bases (9). His lone home run of the season lifted the Aggies over Northeastern Sunday in a 1-0 walk-off victory.

The Aggies have dropped just one game in the 22 all-time meetings between the two schools, which are separated by just 134 miles.

The Lumberjacks lone victory came in 2010 when SFA edged the Aggies, 7-6.

A&M redeemed its misstep last season when the Aggies logged a 9-2 victory be-hind Corey Ray’s eight strikeouts.

Following Tuesday’s game, the Aggies will continue their opening eight-game home stand Friday when they host Sac-ramento State for the second weekend series of the season.

SFA visits on heels of weekend sweep

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3-0 Aggies continue homestand against in-state rival

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The No. 24 Aggies rush the field Sunday to celebrate junior infielder Logan Nottebrok’s walk-off homerun.

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The tragedy, the heartbreak and the romance of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays will

be brought to life by the Moscow Festival Ballet’s rendition of “Romeo and Juliet” in Rudder Au-ditorium on Wednesday.

The company’s ballet master Alexander Daev said this particular performance approaches the plotline in a way that makes it stand out from other portrayals of the classic tale.

“The main difference is our ‘Romeo and Ju-liet’ is set to music by Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky, whereas other companies perform this ballet to the music of Prokofiev,” Daev said. “Our version is much shorter. Also, the choreography is by our artistic director, Elena Radchenko, after Marius Petipa. Elena Radchenko and Sergey Radchenko designed the costumes and set. Our ballet has an ending that goes beyond the final death scene.”

Arden Robertson, former member of the Northwest Florida Ballet Academie and freshman accounting major, said depicting a story such as “Romeo and Juliet” through a ballet can be chal-lenging.

“The thing about ballet, and what I’ve learned about it after doing it for so many years, is it’s such an expression — trying to express the sto-ryline, especially when you have something like ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ without words,” Robertson said. “‘Romeo and Juliet’ is so centered around literature and the poetry aspect of it and to explain that plot without words is completely amazing and such a big achievement.”

Many of Shakespeare’s plays, including “Ro-meo and Juliet,” have been performed in a variety of ways. Laura Estill, assistant professor of English and Shakespeare enthusiast, said this is more ac-ceptable than most people think.

“We have to remember that Shakespeare him-

self was writing an adaptation,” Estill said. “‘Ro-meo and Juliet’ was not Shakespeare’s original sto-ry. It comes from an Italian plotline. Shakespeare did not write his own plots. There is only one play we know that he might have invented the plot for. So he always takes other people’s stories and adapts them and makes them relevant to his time, which is why it’s totally appropriate for us to take his stories and adapt them.”

“Romeo and Juliet” has been adapted into many different versions, including the 2011 car-toon “Gnomeo and Juliet” and Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 modernization of the play starring Claire Danes and Leonardo Dicaprio. Estill said audiences respond differently to each version of the story.

“I think that each adaptation makes an argu-ment about Shakespeare’s play and why it’s impor-tant,” Estill said. “That’s why different people will be drawn to different versions of it.”

Daev said one of the reasons “Romeo and Ju-liet” is such a timeless tale is because of its unifying theme of love.

“The story of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is the story of love and the importance of love in our lives,” Daev said. “Love can bring on the greatest miracles and the worst tragedies. Love is a universal feeling for every human on the planet. Love is not bound by time or place, but we all feel it and its power. This is why we perform ‘Romeo and Juliet’ all over the world.”

In addition to its reputation as a timeless love story, Estill said “Romeo and Juliet” has additional elements that make the play appealing to audienc-es, including sword fighting and humor.

“There’s laughter, there’s death, there’s feud-ing families,” Estill said. “That’s why ‘Romeo and Juliet’ has remained.”

Timeless tale gets stage facelift

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“During the time of the es-tablishment of Israel in 1948, through the ’60s with the Six-Day War and the early ’70s with the Yom Kippur War, there is always a great connection be-tween Americans and Israel, or American Jews anyway, and that kind of [had] been lost over the past two decades,” Rosen-berg said.

He said the trip is subsidized by donors, organizations and the Israeli government — with the exception of a $250 refund-able deposit, a departure fare to the airport and non-essential costs. He said the trip is valued at an average of $3,000.

Veronica Beskin, Jewish stu-dent vice-coordinator at Texas A&M Hillel, said she will lead the summer trip and said the primary prerequisite is that stu-dents have a Jewish background. She said Hillel was hoping to double the number of students it takes this summer.

“I have to have a pretty in-depth interview with each person and learn their his-tory, if they’re the right fit, get their medical history and back-ground,” Beskin said. “They don’t have to be religious or go to services.”

Jonathan Rahmani, junior kinesiology major, said his en-tire family is Jewish. He said seeing the physical history was what truly resonated with him while he was on his birthright trip in December.

“In America, we have 250-300 years of history, you know, where there are 150 [years] of that being in College Station, but when you get to Israel there are 2,500 years-plus right in front of your eyes,” Rahmani said. “When you are in the Old City you see remnants of differ-ent civilizations and everything is built upon what was previ-ously there. It’s just a really cool place.”

Rahmani and Schneider said one of their favorite places to visit was Masada, a fortification and rock plateau. The terrain is very diverse from the northern to southern region, Rahmani said, and he loved seeing the variety it offered.

“Like you’re on the top of this mountain in the middle of the desert and you have the Dead Sea on one side and mountains on the other side and it was just absolutely gorgeous,” Rahmani said. “You just feel alive when you are there.”

Nate Pisik, sophomore inter-national business and Mandarin Chinese major, said he went on a birthright trip through Maya-not, Israel, with students from the Rohr Chabad Jewish Stu-dent Center. He said visiting the Western Wall was a deeply religious and incredible experi-ence for him.

“I was there with thousands and thousands of people around the world and all of us, some of us in different languages, all are singing different songs, songs that I grew up singing as a child,” Pisik said. “That unify-ing characteristic that we shared in that moment brought us all together.”

Pisik said experiencing Israel was something he felt was im-portant to not just Judaism, but also to Islam and Christianity.

“I feel the significance of Israel is so outstanding,” Pisik said. “It’s almost a responsibility in my opinion to have that edu-cation and have that experience, to really learn about the history of my faith and the home of the Jewish people.”

Emily Schneider, junior ag-riculture communications and journalism major, went on her birthright trip through A&M Hillel in December 2013. She said she was able to become close with not just other Ag-gies, but students from different universities on the trip.

Pisik said he was glad he fi-nally took the opportunity over the winter break.

“I’ve moved a lot my entire life, but being in Israel was the first time I felt at home some-where, and in that way I felt very connected to the land,” Pisik said.

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Kinky Friedman, Democratic pri-mary candidate for Texas Agri-

cultural Commissioner, visited Texas A&M on Monday to discuss his main campaign platform — the end of marijuana and hemp prohibition in Texas — with members of the Texas Aggie Democrats.

At the student organization’s meet-ing, Friedman expounded on the posi-tive effects he hoped to bring to Tex-as through legalizing pot and hemp and explained how he believes his policies would fortify Texas agricul-ture against drought, end the war on drugs and change cancer medicine, among others.

“Cotton is the number one cash crop [in Texas] right now, and it should be pot and hemp,” Friedman said. “Hemp requires half the water that cotton does. Hemp delivers 2.5 times the fiber.”

Friedman said he has spoken to law en-forcement officers and found none who supported the war on drugs. If elected, Friedman said he would work to legal-ize marijuana as a means of succeeding against drug cartels where current policies have failed.

“We will effectively castrate the Mex-ican drug cartels, and the new cartel will be us — the taxpayers, the people of Texas,” Friedman said.

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Racism, sexism, religious in-tolerance, homophobia and

more — students lined up to express their distaste for discrimination as a part of USA Network’s bus tour, titled “I Won’t Stand For…”

The tour made its fifth stop on its nationwide tour Monday at the Zone at Kyle Field. Gina Stefani, USA Network’s tour producer, said the goal of the tour is to spread the word against discrimination.

As a part of the tour, people pass-ing by were given free shirts with the words “I won’t stand for” that were stamped with their chosen “injustice term.” Participants also had their photos taken, which were distributed across social media.

Marcus Bell, who is involved with the tour, said personal ex-periences prompted him to join this program.

“It’s a movement I care very deeply about,” Bell said. “It’s some-thing that needs to change in our culture. The younger generation creates the next government so the laws that will be passed in the fu-ture will be based on the people of this campus.”

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seasons of the year.Two of the researchers and aerospace gradu-

ate students, Jim Henrickson and Tim Wood-bury, took part in building one of the tested aircrafts, the Pegasus II.

“These planes were actually initially de-signed by undergraduates,” Henrickson said. “When you go through the aerospace under-graduate program here, your senior year you go through a two-semester class where you design and build a plane, so this came out of that.”

Henrickson said after undergraduates de-signed the plane, their design was given to Valasek’s graduate students who then passed it on to their research team to further refine the design for repeated use.

“We actually built these with our own hands out here,” Henrickson said. “We do all the hands-on busy work to make the flight tests possible.”

Valasek said the process couldn’t be done without the student researchers and that he just “pays the bills” and talks to the larger organiza-tions involved.

Woodbury said flight testing is still being done through remotes, but they anticipate au-tonomous testing will begin within the next month. Testing is conducted three times per month, but Valasek is hoping that sometime this semester or over the summer the testing will be accelerated to three times per week.

Texas was chosen as a home for UAS testing after submitting a statewide proposal led by the Lone Star Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The proposal was led by researchers from the College Station and Corpus Christi branches of Texas A&M and is a group effort by Texas A&M University, the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Sta-tion and Camber Corporation.

Valasek said Texas was chosen as a test-ing sight along with Alaska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota and Virginia. Valasek said a main selling point was Texas’ vast range of environments.

In the state, there are total testing sites with two in Bryan-College Station — one at the Riverside Campus and the other at Disaster City.

The project will have a statewide financial impact, bringing hundreds of jobs and billions of dollars to Texas in the next decade as a result, Valasek said.

Privacy when testing and using UAS is an issue being carefully considered, because UAS researchers want people to feel they can trust UAS, Valasek said.

“Privacy is very important,” Valasek said. “Texas recently passed the [Texas Privacy Act] as a statute that permits 19 legitimate uses of UAS for research purposes, so if you are a uni-versity or industry working with a university, there are 19 legitimate stated uses that you can use to actually conduct your research and test-ing without worrying about intruding or in-fringing on the public.”

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Paul Brinkley, aided by government agen-cies, volunteers and members of Texas

A&M’s Borlaug Institute, which he called the “Indiana Jones of international agriculture,” spent five years as the U.S. Department of De-fense’s top-ranking official responsible for eco-nomic rebuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Texas A&M University’s Conflict and De-velopment Center will host Brinkley, Class of 1989, at the Annenberg Presidential Confer-ence Center on Tuesday to discuss his new book, “War Front to Store Front: Ameri-cans Rebuilding Trust and Hope in Nations Under Fire.”

The book details the efforts to rebuild the economies of Iraq and Afghanistan. Brinkley, who reported directly to former U.S. Secre-tary of Defense Robert Gates, oversaw the economic repair of both countries, working closely with other U.S. agencies and hundreds of volunteers, 37 of whom were members of the Borlaug Institute.

Edwin Price, a volunteer under Brinkley and the Howard G. Buffett chair on conflict and development, said the efforts to rebuild the economy of Iraq and Afghanistan provided him with an interesting behind-the-scenes look at the events in those countries.

“I think it’s really an incredible backstory of what was going behind the scenes during the military engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan to stand up the economy,” Price said. “[Brinkley] became convinced that the answer to reduc-ing the conflict was to get people employed, and that was a tremendous issue at the time because the view was that we did not want to enable former members of the Ba’athist party or Saddam Hussein’s regime to reengage in the economy or take positions of leadership. The problem is that those people also happened to have most of the expertise. [Brinkley] was not an advocate for those people, but he was an ad-vocate for getting the businesses up and going.”

Brinkley said without enabling the economy to support the countries, Iraq and Afghanistan could be left in the same condition they were in before the arrival of American military per-

sonnel. Without instituting new foreign policy in regards to rebuilding economies, Brinkley said the U.S. runs the risk of wasting the funds invested in the military effort.

“We have left behind very fragile democrat-ic institutions that in some cases don’t have the necessary economic resources to sustain them,” Brinkley said. “Afghanistan in particular is in a very fragile state right now and has very little in the way of an indigenous economy capable of supporting the institutions there. So if we think about drawing down our troop presence there, and a withdrawal of the foreign aid that comes along with military presence, the risk is that the state itself collapses. That is the moti-vator for how foreign policy needs to develop the capabilities to help uplift economies in war-torn countries.”

Price said his ability to assist in the efforts to rebuild the economies of these countries was something he had worked toward his whole professional life and that while the mis-sion came with its dangers, he considered it a privilege.

“When this opportunity came, we felt hon-ored to be called upon to this, because even though it felt risky, we had spent much of our lives building to this point, to make this kind of a contribution during conflict,” Price said.

Brinkley said the work of the Borlaug In-stitute greatly impacted the effectiveness of the mission and the willingness of Texas A&M to send qualified individuals to an unstable area was unique.

“They came in and slept in tents in the mid-dle of farmers’ fields and conflict zones all over Iraq and Afghanistan for several years as part of my team, and did amazing work in help-ing farmers put crop production back online and then help expand and grow agribusinesses throughout those two countries,” Brinkley said. “It was remarkable work and Texas A&M was the only university that would step up and put faculty-level experts in the field with our troops.”

Price said Brinkley’s unique view of foreign aid included restoring the economy of nations while conflict is ongoing, and said that if Amer-ica waited until it was safe it would have been too late for both Iraq and Afghanistan.

The discussion is open to Texas A&M stu-dents, faculty and staff and will run from 2-3 p.m. with a small reception afterward.

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