Stories of nightlong partying escapades, declarations of love for classmates and tales of the bizarre ironies and hypocri-

sies of one’s personal life are subjects that many college students would never think to admit to their friends and classmates — until recently.

A trend of anonymous confession pages on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram and even through smart-phones apps has sparked a change in the way people interact with one another behind social media.

With the rise of this trend in confession pages, users are able to admit their secrets to an audience of thousands, even millions, of view-

ers and still maintain their anonymity. These confession pages have entered the social media community at Texas A&M, sparking both the interest and criticism of students in the Aggie community.

One such page is Texas A&M Crushes. With more than 2,000 followers on Facebook and almost 3,000 on Twitter, the page is rising in popularity among students across campus. Sunny Goklani, Class of 2013, is an adminis-trator for the page.

Goklani said he was not a founding member of the page, but just a follower on the Face-book page. He became an administrator for the page after messaging the page asking to join and work.

“The new degree plan has a re-quired ‘approaches’ course that pro-vides students with an introduction to the discipline and grounds them in the writing and analytical skills that

will help them succeed in the major,” Warren said.

After the ‘approaches’ course,

No. 17 Texas A&M women’s basketball team will play its

final home game of the season at 7 p.m. Thursday against the Arkansas Razorbacks inside Reed Arena.

The senior class will be honored as part of Senior Night.

The game will mark the third time in three seasons the Aggies (21-7, 11-3 SEC) have played the Ra-zorbacks. A&M holds the advantage 2-0, including a 61-59 win in the second round of the 2012 NCAA tournament.

Arkansas (18-9, 5-9 SEC) enters College Station fresh off of a 57-53 upset of the LSU Tigers in Baton Rouge. The Razorbacks came back from a 15-point deficit to pull off the road win.

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Judge rules gay marriage ban unconstitutional

The Texas ban on marriage for same-sex couples was declared unconstitutional

at the national level Wednesday by a federal judge but remains in effect pending a ruling by an appeals court.

In a 48-page opinion, Judge Orlando L. Garcia of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in San Antonio wrote that the amendment made in 2005 to the Texas Constitution banning same-sex marriage, along with similar ones made in 2003 and 1997, degraded gay couples for no

legally-founded reason. The opinion states that the ban violates

the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection clause under the 14th Amendment and is-sued a preliminary injunction after two gay couples filed for marriage recognition.

Garcia wrote that there is no legitimate governmental purpose in the state’s ban of same-sex marriages and that there is no room for inequality in this nation under the U.S. Constitution.

Since this decision is pending ruling in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans, Garcia’s ruling will have no

immediate repercussions until further rulings are made.

Texas A&M law professor Mary Margaret Penrose said she prefers to see legislation at the state level on this issue and that part of what Garcia’s opinion did is define the con-stitutional right to marry in a way that will make it very difficult for Texas to legislate in this particular area.

Penrose said Garcia ruled on three differ-ent issues.

“One’s this fundamental right to marry that basically says ‘Texas, unless you can demonstrate a really important reason to

prohibit same-sex couples from marrying, then you are going to have to allow them that right because under the U.S. Constitu-tion, individuals have a fundamental right to marry,’” Penrose said.

The second issue, Penrose said, was that if we treat one group different than another group, we have to have an undeniably valid reason for doing that.

In this case, the Texas court previously argued the only valid reason for marriage “is for child rearing” and “for procreation,” but

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insidesports | 2 SEC ChampionshipsThe nationally ranked men’s and women’s track and field teams will host the SEC Championships beginning Thursday.

opinion | 2Power surgeA&M’s powerful bats have been on display this year and are on pace to eclipse last year’s home run total.

voices | 3‘Jerry Maguire’ inspiration to speakLeigh Steinberg, the inspiration for the film “Jerry Maguire,” will speak to students Friday on such topics as long-term career sustainability and success.

Department of English to revise 3-track curriculum

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Senior center Karla Gilbert will be among the seniors honored Thursday against Arkansas.

Recent changes made by the De-partment of English to the Eng-

lish major degree plan have created ru-mors around campus, concerning and confusing students.

Nancy Warren, English depart-ment head, said the revision to the English major curriculum is the result of a two-year process involving mul-tiple committees and faculty members. She said the areas of rhetoric, litera-ture and creative writing, the tracks in which students previously had to choose to specialize, will now no lon-ger be mandatory and will instead be considered concentrations.

Warren said the new degree plan still will allow students to study the three areas, just without mandating students to choose one of the three as a track.

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The English department, housed in the Liberal Arts and Humanities Building, will alter its degree plan and eliminate mandatory tracks.

A letter received from a fifth grader in California has

sparked an Aggie movement. Signed “Preni,” the letter ex-plains how Preni is writing a report about Texas and is re-questing information about Texas A&M for her project.

Cami Steele, social me-dia and marketing intern for the student activities office, was given the letter by an of-fice manager and asked if she wanted to do anything with it. She posted it online and it gained popularity from there. Some Aggies said they will send Preni posters, shirts and stuffed Reveilles.

“We told everybody to send the stuff to our department in

Koldus and then we’re going to gather it and send it to her home address,” Steele said.

Steele said her post went on the Facebook page at 3 p.m., and within two hours it had 15,840 views. She said the post has been shared on Twitter and also picked up by the Aggie Network page.

“I think it shows how much the Aggie family cares,” Steele said. “This a fifth grade student. She’s not from here, she’s probably never visited here and it just shows how people want to show how cool A&M can be and how we embrace everybody.”

Students interested in do-nating items can drop them off at the student activities office in Koldus by Monday.

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The Aggies began the 2014 season winning seven of their first eight games due in part to their knack for driving in runs in exciting fashion. Texas A&M has managed to hit five home runs and 12 doubles while outscoring their op-ponents 51-14.

In 2013, it took the Aggies 11 games to hit their first home run and they had only three during their first 20 games of the season. Junior third baseman Logan Nottebrok has accounted for three home runs alone during the eight games he has played this year. Of his three that have cleared the fence, two have come in the form of walk-off, game winners.

“[Nottebrok] is unbelievable,” said senior pitcher Parker Ray. “It’s awe-some to watch him perform and hit the shots that he does. Even when they are outs, they are loud outs.”

Along with leading the team with his three home runs, Nottebrok tops the team with three doubles and 11 RBIs to go along with a .700 slugging percentage.

If the Aggies are to have a shot of making it back to the College World Series for the first time since 2011, and the sixth time in school history, they will have to continue displaying the power that has helped them through the early part of the season.

During their run to Omaha in 2011, the Aggies totaled 30 home runs and 138 extra-base hits. They are currently on pace to eclipse the home run mark by hitting 35 while also accounting for 84 extra-base hits.

“We’ve been swinging the bats

well since the fall,” said junior second baseman Blake Allemand. “We have a pretty good hitting team. I think we can expect some big things out of this lineup this year.”

Heading into their third weekend series of the season, the Aggies have totaled a team batting average of .299 and a slugging percentage of .406. Of the 51 runs scored this season, 49 have been driven in by timely hitting.

Texas A&M began the season scor-ing double-digit runs for the first time since 2011. They have accounted for over 10 runs three times this season and have scored over five runs in six of their eight games.

“The offense is what I’ve been most impressed with,” said head coach Rob Childress. “The guys that have gotten

an opportunity to play have made the most of it.”

In a conference that is home to eight teams ranked in the top-25 in the na-tion, the Aggies will have to do all they can to manufacture runs. In 2013, SEC teams averaged over five runs per game. Thus far, Texas A&M has managed to produce just over six runs per game, compared to the four it averaged last year.

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Michael Ayo: Texas A&M’s ability to hit for power will be key to surviving the SEC gauntlet

POWER SURGE

Throughout the early part of the season, the Texas A&M

baseball team has displayed an ability to hit for power that has been unlike any-thing fans at Olsen Field have seen in recent years.

Michael Ayo is a senior communica-tion major and a sports reporter for The Battalion

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The Texas A&M lineup has outscored its opponents 51-14 this season on its way to a 7-1 start.

Texas A&M will be host-ing its first SEC Indoor

Track and Field Champion-ship starting Thursday at Gil-liam Indoor Track Stadium. Seven of the SEC men’s and eight of the women’s teams competing in the three-day event are ranked among the top-25 teams in the nation, according to the national team computer rankings re-leased by the coaches associa-tion.

For the men’s field, the top three schools in the nation belong to the SEC. Defend-ing SEC champion Arkansas is ranked No. 1, followed by No. 2 Florida and No. 3 Texas A&M.

In the women’s field, five of the top-10 teams are SEC schools. Leading the way is No. 2 Florida followed by No. 3 Texas A&M, defend-ing indoor champions No. 4 Arkansas, No. 6 Kentucky and No. 7 Georgia.

“It’s a great venue for this competition,” said A&M head coach Pat Henry. “This is the best indoor conference championship in the United States and it’ll be one of the best track meets of the year. It’s great that it’s here in Col-lege Station and I think we have a group here on cam-pus along with our volunteer people who are really looking forward to hosting this cham-pionship.”

Arkansas men and women will be defending both SEC Indoor team titles after a sweep on their home track last season.

“We are looking forward to the beginning of our championship track and field season,” said Chris Bucknam,

Arkansas men’s head coach. “The SEC meet is truly one of the best, if not the best team competition in track and field. The atmosphere surrounding all of these great programs going head to head is unmatched.”

Deon Lendore is repre-senting Texas A&M as a de-fending champion in the 400.

For the women, Texas A&M’s LaQue Moen-Davis is the defending champion in the triple jump. Seven Aggie women are returning med-alists, four silver and three bronze.

Lendore and Florida’s Ar-man Hall will likely face off in the 400 and the 4x400 relay. Each has recorded a best of 20.68 in the 200 this indoor

season. In the Arkansas Ra-zorback Invitational earlier this season, they were sepa-rated by just 0.16 of a second in the 400. Lendore is cur-rently ranked second in the world in 400 meters with a 45.47. Hall ranks third with a 45.63.

“We’re extremely excited about the upcoming SEC In-door Championships,” said Mike Holloway, Florida head coach. “We compete in ar-guably the best conference in the country with world-class student-athletes and great coaches, which will make for an exciting three days of competition coming up at a great facility in College Sta-tion.”

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contest to the Wildcats.“It’s past news, it’s gone,” said

Texas A&M head coach Gary Blair on the loss. “Right now we’ve got to get a team ready to win the last two ballgames and to play well in the SEC tournament and go further in March than we did last year.”

Both teams are characterized by defensive prowess. The Ra-zorbacks have the best defense in the SEC, holding conference op-ponents to 52.3 points per game. The Aggies hold the third best conference defense, allowing 57.9 points per game.

Blair said he expects Arkansas to come in desperate, battling for a spot in the NCAA tournament, which will slip away with a loss to A&M.

Blair will fly to Little Rock, Ark., Friday to be inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame. He spent a decade as the head coach of the Razorbacks, amass-ing a 198-120 record.

“Arkansas was very good to me,” Blair said. “I loved my 10 years there. It means a lot that the high school coaches and the colleagues that I had all over the state would want me in that Hall of Fame.”

Blair will become the second Aggie head coach to join the hall, along with Paul “Bear” Bryant.

Because Thursday’s game is the final home game of the sea-son, it also marks senior day for the Aggies. Seniors Karla Gilbert and Kristen Grant are the only remaining players from A&M’s 2011 National Championship team and Blair said they are part of a group of players who’ve meant a lot to the program.

“[Gilbert and Grant are] my last thread from that National Championship team,” Blair said. “I never want to lose on a senior day. But there’s always pressure when you play the school that you came from.”

The game will be shown on Fox Sports Southwest. Follow-ing the Aggies’ final home game, they end their regular season against the Florida Gators at noon Sunday.

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Warren said students can ful-fill other requirements of the plan and then take a final cap-stone course, or senior seminar, their senior year. She said the changes allow for more flex-ibility for students and reflect a more modern view of the Eng-lish discipline.

“A student may still choose to concentrate in, say, literature or creative writing, but a stu-dent might also custom design — with the help of our advisors — a track that combines, for example, rhetoric and creative writing,” Warren said.

Jennifer Wollock, English professor and director of un-dergraduate studies for the de-partment of English, said she understood there could be pos-sible panic with rumors of the removal of tracks, but said stu-dents should see the revision as more of a renaming. She said she thinks the changes will end up being positive for the depart-ment and its students.

“I think it’s going to wind up

being a plus because it gives the students more options, taking a course in an area of interest,” Wollock said. “[It will provide] flexibility too, because we’re not being quite so rigid.”

Amy Arndt, sophomore Eng-lish and psychology major, said the changes allow students to be more flexible with the classes they take, but the change de-values the overall worth of the English major.

“One of the things that I really liked about the English depart-ment here was that it did have the tracks,” Arndt said. “I feel like people think that English is just all one thing. English is one of those fields where there are a lot of different things you can go into, and I think the tracks were great for that.”

Wollock said students should contact the undergraduate office of the department of English if they have any questions.

“We’re going to have the new degree plan available and it will list the different classes available and what you need to do to get certified as an English major,” Wollock said.

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athletes in sports ranging from football to boxing to baseball, world-renowned American sports agent Leigh Steinberg will speak on cam-pus Friday.

Steinberg, known as the person who inspired Tom Cruise’s character in the film “Jerry Maguire,” will discuss his 40-year career as a sports agent. Gregg Bennett, sports management professor, said the department is thrilled to have Steinberg speak.

“Our objectives are try-ing to provide an outstand-ing speaker and a successful entrepreneur who can help students to understand the business side of the sports industry and to understand what’s going on in the in-dustry,” Bennett said.

Marissa Couch, junior sport management major, said she is excited to attend

Steinberg’s discussion be-cause of her future career goals in sports management.

“I want to market for a professional sports firm such as the Dallas Mavericks or Denver Broncos, really any type of major sports firm in America,” Couch said. “I would love to hear from a professional sports manager and learn the wisdom to suc-cess in the sport industry.”

Not all students have ca-reer goals that mirror Stein-berg, including Darby Graff, junior sports leadership ma-jor. Graff is on the Texas A&M volleyball team and said she wants to continue to include sports in her life

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after college. She said she wants to represent a profes-sional team, but has other goals as well.

“After working with a few special needs children in my mom’s third grade class, I realized I love work-ing with them and wanted to help them have sports in their lives,” Graff said. “It’s great for them to learn how

to throw and kick, or just help them with their motor skills.”

Whether or not they have career aspirations in sports management, students of all disciplines at A&M are invit-ed to hear Steinberg speak.

“The lecture is open to all students,” Bennett said. “Every student can benefit from this discussion and can hear from one of the great-est businessmen and what brought him such success.”

There will be time allot-ted at the end of the lecture for students to ask Steinberg questions on his career ac-complishments and the ac-tions and capabilities needed to be successful in the sports industry.

The event will be held at 4 p.m. Friday in Blocker 102 and is sponsored by the Department of Health and Kinesiology.

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Goklani said the page can be a valuable source for those who want to muster up some cour-age to talk to a crush.

“More than half of the un-dergrads are teens, and by na-ture teens want to get together and meet others, but can also be by nature very shy,” Goklani said. “If I am sitting next to a girl in class and I only know her first name and am nervous to talk to her, I can submit a post anonymously through the page and tell her that I like her. Many times we’ve seen this be suc-cessful and people mentioned have encouraged the poster to contact them and it has worked out well.”

Rather than submitting anonymous posts, Luis Fayad, senior history major, said he

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prefers to comment on the anonymous posts.

“I’ve been a pretty frequent commenter on the A&M con-fessions page and have gotten a somewhat infamous reputation of being a ‘wise aleck,’” Fayad said.

Fayad said he was a bit skep-tical of the effectiveness of the page.

“If people were actually in-terested in getting with the per-son they had a crush on, they wouldn’t do it anonymously, they would tell them face-to-face,” Fayad said. “Although I guess it is a good way for more shy people to figure out if a certain person is single or not.”

Ty Jimerson, junior animal science major, said he has seen other users of the site encour-age posters to pursue their crush and views the site as a positive influence.

“I think it’s especially good for people who are shy to ex-press their feelings and then maybe if they are given enough courage by peers for them to approach their crush,” Jimer-son said.

Ayesha Varshney, sopho-more business major, said she feels the site is a good place to start if someone has a crush. She said, however, that like any webpage, the Facebook page had its fair share of “trolls.”

“With all Internet pages, there will be a certain amount of trolling,” Varshney said. “Some of the crushes that have been posted in the past do have a ridiculous quality to them and some of them in the past were

just so downright creepy and weird that you can’t help but just laugh at it.”

Goklani said the administra-tors now more closely monitor the posts, though the poster still maintains anonymity.

“We make sure to not post anything that would be racist, very immodest or embarrass-ing,” Goklani said. “Addition-ally, if a person mentioned in a crush post is ever uncomfort-able with being in the post for any reason, they may message us and we have always imme-diately taken it down.”

Another site that gained na-tional attention is Whisper, a social mobile app that allows users to publicize a confession or secret with total anonym-ity. Whisper reached out to university students across the nation, including students at Texas A&M. Laura Lucart, freshman communication ma-jor and Texas A&M campus rep for Whisper, said localiza-tion is a unique feature of the app.

“Users can also go to the ‘nearby’ tab in the app and see Whispers created on their col-lege campuses which causes many users to form positive, meaningful connections with other users and take their rela-tionships offline,” Lucart said.

The app also has a Facebook page for Aggies titled “Whisper on Texas A&M.”

Lucart said the purpose of Whisper was to take away the ego-based focus that networks such as Facebook and Twitter share.

“[The founder] wondered what would happen if personal identity were removed from the equation and people were allowed to engage in an anon-ymous visual community on mobile devices,” Lucart said.

She said the site can enable those who want to share a se-cret to do so without encoun-tering judgment from peers.

“Sharing a secret is pretty risky business,” Lucart said. “Sharing anonymously makes it less risky, first of all, and also makes the teller more comfort-able with getting something out that may be tearing them apart inside, without all the judgment from their friends.”

Tori Kloeppel, freshman business major, pointed out her areas of concern with the app.

“Confessing things over the Internet can lead to people promoting negative things,” Kloeppel said. “If, for example, a person says something like, ‘I’m in a relationship with my professor’ — if this person wants to get real advice on whether or not their choice is morally wrong or right, then they should talk to actual people face-to-face rather than admitting it on the Internet.”

Kloeppel said she feels anon-ymous confessions can be a way to hide from reality, rather than help the confessor.

“Our society is so consumed with technology and this is just another way to hide from our decisions in real life,” Kloeppel said. “We should face our deci-sions in real life rather than the Internet.”

Penrose said Texas still allows inmates on death row and infertile persons to get married even though they seemingly can-not fulfill these requirements.

Penrose also said gay couples are having their own children and rearing adopted children, making them a group that is be-ing treated differently without what ap-pears to be valid legal reason.

Garcia said Texas has always recog-nized marriage as legal according to the state the ceremony took place, but is not recognizing same-sex marriages that oc-cur in the 17 states that legally wed gay couples.

“That is not what they have been doing with same-sex marriages, and in this case Judge Garcia looked at it and said ‘No, that’s unconstitutional, that’s a violation of due process,” Penrose said. “You are treating this one type of marriage special and different, and that is what violates the U.S. Constitution.’”

Jeremy Saenz, counseling psychol-

ogy graduate student and president of the LGBTQA graduate group, said his initial reaction to the news was pleasant surprise.

Rather than taking a moral stand, Saenz said he thinks Garcia acted on his concept of the law.

“I don’t know of his opinion of the LGBT community is against or for,” Saenz said. “I don’t know his standpoint on the issue. However I felt that he was looking at the law and saw that it wasn’t fair, that the law was discriminating against a group of people.”

Megan Dawson, former vice president of LGBTQ Aggies, said as a member of the LGBT community she believes that whatever Garcia’s views may be, this rul-ing is a step toward marriage equality for Texas.

“I think it’s really cool that Texas has come such a long way,” Dawson said. “From all my friends and our perspective we’re super surprised honestly. Everyone always said Texas would be the last state and it’s kind of amazing that we are not first but not last either to look at these rights.”

Dawson said she thinks this effort for

marriage equality reflects the nation’s mindset.

“I think it will be a slap in the face for those saying that marriage equality shouldn’t be a thing at all,” Dawson said. “I think everyone is going to look at this and say, ‘If Texas is doing this — like, Texas — come on.’”

Brett Soderdahl, sophomore biomedi-cal engineering major, said coming from a Christian faith-based opinion he be-lieves in more traditional marriage and believes Garcia has misinterpreted what the Founding Fathers wanted from the Constitution.

“Although I do see the separation of church and state, I do see that America was founded on Christian values and that Christian values have more of a focus on traditional marriage,” Soderdahl said. “I’m not saying anything against gay mar-riage but I do support traditional [mar-riage], and for the judge to just come out and explicitly say, ‘That is against the Constitution,’ I think he’s kind of going against what the Founding Fathers wanted with the country.”

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The Tell Your Story panel featured Santiago

“Jimmy” Mellado, Chris White and Charlie Ayers on Wednesday. Mellado took an MBA and a mechani-cal engineering degree and began building churches for children suffering in pov-erty. Ayers wanted to make students aware that there is more to business than just making money. “Follow your passions, follow your dreams and don’t accept the answer you’re given as the only answer,” Ayers said.

Jennifer Reiley, city editor

Charlie Ayers (left) and Chris White (above) speak Wednesday at the “Tell your Story” forum.

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