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Rudder Fountain relightsRudder Fountain will be reopened at 7:30 p.m. Monday. The reopening, sponsored by MSC Town Hall, includes a ceremonial lighting of the renovated fountain and a live performance by The Rocketboys, a band from Austin.

Ron Paul to visit A&MRepublican presidential candidate Ron Paul will speak to the A&M community at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Rudder Theater at the invitation of Youth for Ron Paul, Texas A&M Chapter. Early seating vouchers are available by searching “Ron Paul at Texas A&M” at eventbrite.com. GOP delegate estimate:Mitt Romney 659Rick Santorum 275Newt Gingrich 140Ron Paul 71Needed to clinch GOP nomination: 1,144

Charitable bleedingAlpha Phi Omega will take blood donations during a campus blood drive this week. Students, faculty and staff can donate from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Zachry Engineering building and from12 to 7 p.m. at the REC.

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The 2012 season is Hutchins’ 14th year as director of operations for the A&M baseball program.

A pitcher for Texas A&M in the 1991 and 1992 seasons, Jason ‘Hutch’ Hutchins continues to enjoy Aggie baseball from a management perspective.

Hutch brings player’s touch to Aggie baseball

From dugout to clubhouse

Weekend recap: A&M sweeps OU# With the three wins, the Aggies tied the overall series with the Sooners at 36-36.

# The Aggies’ overall record moves to 26-6 on the year, best in the Big 12.

# A&M holds second place in the conference standings with a 7-2 Big 12 mark.

#"The Aggies travel to Lawrence, Kan., on Friday for a three-day series with Kansas after a Tuesday bout against UT-Arlington.

Relaxed and reclining in a plush leather seat, the ever-upbeat “Hutch” sits in his brand-new Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park office. Surrounded by A&M baseball memorabilia and a brilliant view of left field through the window just behind him, the A&M director of baseball operations didn’t take long to recall his favorite memory donning the maroon and white as a ballplayer in the early ’90s.

Back then, no one swept Texas. Not since 1972, anyway, when Rice

accomplished the feat, had any team in the Southwest Conference completed the ever-elusive trifecta against the

Longhorns. A sweep was unheard of, almost impossible, a ludicrous thought. Texas was, and had always been, the SWC’s baseball juggernaut.

Yet in 1991, nearing two decades since Rice’s triumph, then-head coach Mark Johnson’s Aggies would pull it off — and in dramatic fashion. For California native and young Aggie hurler Jason Hutchins, the moment was special.

“You were always told, ‘Hey, you gotta beat Texas. You gotta beat Tex-as,’” Hutchins said. “We won the first two and we jumped out to a big lead in the third game. They came back and then we got a walk-off hit. It was the

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Hutchins bio # Made 13 pitching appearances in 1991, starting 11 games. #"Garnered a 4-3 record with 56 strikeouts in 54 2/3 innings.

# Graduated Texas A&M in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in sport management. See Hutchins on page 3

When Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S., visited the University of Califor-nia — Irvine campus in 2010 to speak about Israeli-U.S. relations, some in the student body saw his visit as a “slap in the face,” and took the initiative to let the ambassador know why.

In the months that followed, 10 Muslim stu-

dents appeared in California courts after repeat-edly interrupting Oren’s campus discussion. One of those students, Osama Shabaik, spoke with A&M students on Thursday.

“For us, it was a slap in the face for this event to take place in the manner it was taking place,” Shabaik said. “The university made no mention of the 1,400 Palestinians that had been killed a year ago during Operation Cast Lead, in which Israel unleashed a three-week bombardment on the Gaza strip.”

Oren was scheduled to speak shortly after the one-year anniversary of Operation Cast Lead,

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Lessons from Palestinian protestorsIrvine-11 activist discusses discrimination, arrest, First Amendment freedoms

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Students listen to Osama Shabaik speak about his experiences during a California campus protest and political dissenters’ rights of freedom of speech. See Irvine on page 2

Joanna Raines: Pagan practices characterize Christian holiday

Easter origins

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hristian families around the nation celebrated Easter this weekend. For many, this meant

attending a Sunday morning church service before enjoying an Easter egg hunt for children — a festive custom made possible by the mythological creature known as the Easter Bunny.

This oversized, furry-tailed rodent who hides eggs filled with treats has been a part of the Easter tradition for generations. But if you stop to think about the meaning behind the holiday, a rabbit spreading goodie-filled eggs doesn’t make much sense.

Easter is considered by many to be the most important holiday in the Christian faith. It commemorates the resurrection of the son of God, Jesus Christ, three days after he suffered a gruesome, humiliating death at the hands of men. Three days later — on the very first Easter — he was resur-

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rected, proving his divinity and mastery over sin and death.

Easter is essentially the event from which the Christian faith was created, and you would think such a holiday would be treated with reverence and respect. But then a giant bunny hops onto the scene.

The two symbols of the holiday seem unrelated, so why do they coexist?

Most parents would be surprised to learn that the tradition of searching for colorful eggs hidden by the Easter bunny was once an act of worship to the goddess

State candidate touts cannabis law reform

A candidate for the Texas House of Representatives told a group of students that he gets high — and likes it.

Clif Deuvall, independent candidate running for District 56 in Waco, visited A&M Fri-day to speak with members of the Aggie Cannabis Reform and Education Society about the issues of voting, educa-tion cuts and the legalization of marijuana.

A self-proclaimed can-nabis smoker of more than 47 years, the founder of the Waco chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, NORML, divulged his story of post-traumatic stress disorder after being released from the Air Force and losing two sons to cancer. After being prescribed Methadone, an additive nar-

cotic, Deuvall said he turned to medical cannabis as a way to relieve stress.

“We cannot regulate mo-rality,” said Deuvall, who sported a golden cannabis leaf, the symbol for NORML, on the tip of his purple collar.

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Clif Deuvall discusses cannabis law reform with students on Friday.

See Easter on page 7

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a three-week armed con-flict also known as the Gaza War or Gaza Massacre. There were Palestinians on the UC-Irvine campus who lost fam-ily members in the bombard-ment. Shabaik said when he and others heard Oren would be visiting, they decided to act.

“There was no question of, ‘Should we do something?’ The only question was, ‘What should we do?’” Shabaik said. “It wasn’t just some random guy coming to our campus, rather this is someone who is complacent with deaths of students’ [families] on this campus and innocent human beings in Palestine.”

Shabaik described the pro-test in which he and nine oth-ers stood from their seats dur-ing Oren’s speech to object. Their outbursts were met with applause from support-ers and hostility from other members in the audience.

Shabaik, the first to speak out, was taken to a back room, put in handcuffs, and waited for others to join him. In the end, 11 students were arrested for their disruptions. After the protestors were re-moved, supportive students walked out in a noisy manner.

“I understood that we would be arrested, not for doing something illegal but rather because the UC-Ir-vine Police Department is pretty much the private po-lice force of the University,” Shabaik said.

After receiving interna-tional recognition for the protest, the gravity of the situ-ation increased when Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas decided to prosecute the 11 students who were arrested.

Charges were dismissed against one of the 11, but the others were charged with two misdemeanors. Instead of jail time, students were given community service and three years probation. The students appealed the decision.

“It shouldn’t be up to a District Attorney to prosecute someone because he doesn’t like what you have to say,” Shabaik said. “We’re seeing it in the Middle East and we’re seeing it all over the world — the power of protest.”

A key issue in the case was the media backlash toward the district attorney for what many saw as anti-Muslim rhetoric. Rackauckas said in a prepared statement that jurors “will not tolerate a small band of people who want to hijack our freedoms.”

“When you reference a small band of people hijack-ing something, it usually re-fers to the 9/11 terrorists and we happen to be 10 Muslim students on trial. And what [did he] mean by ‘our’? Shabaik said. “The last time I checked, I have the same blue passport that gives me all the same rights that you have and I was born in this country, just like you.”

Several in the A&M com-munity felt it was important to bring Shabaik to campus because of his experience with social movements.

“The Irvine 11 case should be seen as a valuable lesson for all individuals, especially minority students, to know their constitutional rights to freedom of speech on public campuses and to also recog-nize when discrimination is preventing freedom of speech,” said Anne Desiderio, an educational administration graduate student.

Paul Adamski, junior phi-losophy major, said he found Shabaik’s speech interesting because of the light it shed on the protest’s origins. Adamski said A&M students need to pay attention to the plights of minority groups inside and outside the country.

“I think for many students who are tuned in to minority struggles for justice, experi-ences like this just go to show how tough such a struggle can be,” Adamski said. “The issue isn’t even of achieving justice, but resisting having your voice silenced.”

IrvineContinued from page 1

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Osama Shabaik, one of 11 students who protested the visit of Israeli ambassador Michael Oren at the University of California-Irvine, speaks about his experiences and students’ First Amendment rights.


most incredible thing.”A member of that 1991 Ag-

gie baseball squad, Hutchins would — through precious memories and his love of baseball — find another love: Texas A&M.

After an injury ended his minor-league pitching career in 1996, Hutchins returned to Aggieland to fulfill his word to his parents and finish his col-lege degree. When the oppor-tunity to continue work in the sport arose, he couldn’t turn it down.

“Of course, I thought I was going to be the guy that made it to the big leagues even though only 1 percent do,” Hutchins said. “When it didn’t work out, I’d been doing baseball so long I couldn’t get out of it. It was just a chance to come back where I played and finish my degree. I never thought I’d still be working here, but to get the opportunity to help out with the baseball program, I had to do it.”

Now in his 14th year as di-rector of baseball operations, Hutchins helps sustain the program. From budgets, to equipment, to travel, to game-day preparations, Hutchins’ duties keep the operational side of A&M baseball running smoothly. His baseball knowl-edge, experience as a former player and passion for the sport make him a valuable asset to Aggie players and coaches alike.

“I think he’s the MVP of our team and our program. We’re so very fortunate that he was here when I got here. He’s, without a doubt, one of the greatest hires we’ve made,” said head coach Rob Childress, who arrived at A&M in 2006. “We told him ‘We want you here, you’re a big part of what we’re doing.’”

Senior first baseman Jacob House, who has known Hutch

since arriving at A&M, had nothing but praise for the man once in his shoes.

“He can do anything for us. He deals with equipment, he deals with travel arrangements, he hooks us up,” House said. “For a guy that’s been here for so long, he knows everything there is to know about Aggie baseball and helps put us in a good position to be comfort-able and have everything we need.”

Yet Hutchins’ favorite part of the job harks to his roots as a competitor, baseball player and Aggie: gameday. Every game, he watches players experience the special moments he experi-enced in Aggieland more than 20 years ago. For him, there’s nothing like it.

“I just love being in the dugout, having a uniform and just watching our guys … out there and playing in front of the crowd that I got to play in front of,” Hutchins said. “There’s no better place in the country, and we’ve been to a lot of places. I just love get-ting to see our guys, especially the freshmen in the first game. Just to see their eyes and know that they’ve accomplished so much.”

And though the work gets more involved as the A&M baseball program continues to expand, Hutchins still soaks in every minute.

“I love being at Texas A&M,” Hutchins said. “I love being around the game.”

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tennis | The A&M men’s and women’s tennis teams face Notre Dame at 6 p.m. Monday at the George P. Mitchell Center.

golf | The No. 14 men’s golf team competes in the Woodlands All-American Intercollegiate through Tuesday.

baseball | The No. 4 Aggie baseball team will face UTA at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday in Olsen Field.

HutchinsContinued from page 1Get out your camo

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Senior pitcher Estevan Uriegas checks the runner back to first base during Saturday’s game against the Sooners. The game ended in a 5-3 victory for the Aggies. The team suits up in camo jerseys on the third game of a series when seeking a sweep.

A&M claims series in AmesNo. 14 Aggie softball finished the

weekend on a sour note, losing to Iowa State, but secured the series win after claiming the first two contests in Ames on Friday.

The Aggies (27-11, 7-3 Big 12) start-ed the weekend with a 6-1 win over the home Cyclones (12-24, 1-8 Big 12). A&M struck early in the first in-ning with a two-run home run off the bat of sophomore Cassie Tysarczyk and secured the win easily.

A&M carried the momentum into the second game, scoring 11 runs to take the series lead 2-0. Nicole Mor-gan, who reached base in all eight ap-pearances at bat over the weekend, connected for her second home run of the day in the fourth inning. The rest of the team got into the action in the fifth inning, as the Aggies put up four more runs.

The real fireworks came when head coach Jo Evans replaced pitcher Mel Dumezich with freshman Lauren Ains-ley in the circle and at the plate. Ainsley did not disappoint in her first career ap-pearance at bat.

“I mainly just wanted to make con-tact,” Ainsley said. “When I saw it

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go out of the park, I was completely shocked.”

With the bases loaded in the seventh inning, Ainsley sent the ball over the left field fence. Her grand slam gave the Aggies an 11-0 lead. A&M eventually won, 11-3.

“As she got deeper in that count, I thought, ‘If she hits one out right now, I don’t know what I’m going to do,’” Evans said. “She’ll never forget it. And I can pretty much guarantee that that’s going to be the only at bat in her career,

so why not have it be a grand slam?”The Aggies could not continue the

offensive explosion on Saturday, drop-ping the game, 2-1. This win gave Iowa State its first conference win of the season.

“We came out to play in the first couple of games and then we just ex-pect to win the third one, but nobody was a catalyst in the last game,” Morgan said. “It was a big blow when I heard that the last game was their first confer-ence win.”

Mel Dumezich pitches against Iowa State University on Saturday. The Aggies won two of three against the Cyclones.


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campusA&M claims four Big 12 accoladesThe Texas A&M women’s swimming and diving team earned four Big 12 accolades to cap the 2011-2012 season, the Big 12 conference announced Friday. Sophomore Breeja Larson was voted the women’s Big 12 Swimmer of the Year, senior Jaele Patrick was voted Women’s Big 12 Diver of the Year, Jay Lerew was voted Women’s Diving Coach of the Year and Head coach Steve Bultman was awarded the Women’s Swimming Coach of the Year.

E-beam technology to aid safe food supplyMore than 2 million people a year – most of them children – die from foodborne or waterborne illness. David H. Byron, food and environmental protection section head, spoke to attendees at a workshop of e-beam and X-ray irradiation technologies in College Station recently, hosted by the National Center for Electron Beam Research at Texas A&M University. He said food products can be heated, refrigerated, frozen or chemically treated to protect against foodborne pathogens, but all of those treatments either signifi cantly alter the food temperature or leave potentially harmful residues. TAMUTimes

“The government says it’s OK to drink, to smoke cigarettes and take prescription pills and what happens? More people die from legal substances every year than illegal ones. We’ve become a pharmaceutical country, and many people don’t know how to change it.”

Today, Deuvall travels across the state, speaking to various college campuses — including Rice University, Baylor Uni-versity and the University of Texas — about changing state laws, voting rights and legal issues regarding marijuana re-form.

He said there is vast poten-tial for Texas A&M — a uni-versity with a large agriculture program — to receive funding for studies on the plant. This research, he said, can have a positive effect on the agricul-tural economy, especially for local farmers who are hurting for government subsidies.

“I look at this campus as being part of a growing indus-try,” Deuvall said. “This cam-pus has reform written all over it. Think of the grants that this campus could get to try to help produce an industrial product and raw material that we im-port from other countries. I look at A&M as a focal point in the industrial hemp movement as far as creating industry.”

Mostafa Selim, president of

the Aggie Cannibus Reform and Education Society and ju-nior university studies major, said he started the organization in the fall after realizing there was a growing need to educate students about cannabis reform.

“Our main purpose is to create a community of like-minded individuals who are in-terested in the issue of cannabis legalization. What we aim to do is make some local change either at Texas A&M, or in College Station,” Selim said.

To-date, 16 states and the District of Columbia have le-galized medical cannabis, in-cluding Arizona, California and Colorado. Delaware was the most recent to join the club in 2011. Medical cannabis is not legal in Texas.

Under the Controlled Sub-stances Act of 1972, the federal government classifies the plant with its psychoactive ingredi-ent, TCH, as a Schedule 1 drug due to its potential for abuse, lack of safety and lack of medi-cal application.

Many activists in the reform movement, including Deuvall and Selim, believe the Con-trolled Substances Act is out-dated and the decision to le-galize the plant for medical use should be left up to state courts.

“I’d like to live in a state where the government does not tell you alcohol is fine but marijuana is not,” Selim said. “We need to start working from the bottom up, starting with the grassroots and elect small-level representatives, be-

cause it’s never going to happen on the federal level.”

Luis Gasca, senior aerospace engineering major, said he doesn’t smoke marijuana but supports the legalization move-ment because he is against the social stigma associated with the drug. Gasca said he hopes that through activism, more representatives like Deuvall will support the cause instead of shying away from the underly-ing reason for drug prohibition: money.

“Many people don’t like to talk about the issue because they feel ashamed or they have to hide things,” Gasca said. “Large amounts of money are spent on prohibition and it was nice to see a representa-tive who is willing to speak up about that. If more people like him — in that type of position — start talking about some of these issues, more major play-ers will start speaking up and at least we get the ball rolling.”

Because of low voter turn-out in 2010, Deuvall encour-aged audience members — regardless of their opinion of the cannabis movement — to study current issues that affect their communities, vote for change and reach out to state representatives.

“This is your nation. This is your time,” Deuvall said. “States laws are not preempted by federal acts. It’s hard for us to change federal minds, but it’s easy for us to change who’s in office.”

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L istening to the arguments involved in the debate over “outsourcing” of the facilities department at A&M, you would think thousands of jobs will be lost and

shipped overseas. Our Which Wich will now be shipped stateside in cargo containers from China and classrooms will be cleaned magically by workers in South America.

In reality, there is a more accurate term: Rebadging.

Rebadging essentially means that the same workers just switch payrolls from the University to a private company. The irrational fear of massive layoffs is unfounded. It costs money to find and train new employees to do the same jobs current employees do. This isn’t to say that there won’t be any reduction in workers or cuts in pay. That’s a likely assumption under any scenario where an entity like A&M is paying too much for too little.

University auditors found that Dining Services has run a $1 million deficit the past six years. Why would the University even engage in such a service if it loses money? You can bet the restaurants that line University Drive don’t lose money — and if they do, they don’t last very long.

University costs drive tuition rates, which most agree are best kept low. Low tuition makes college more ac-cessible to all students, especially those from low-income backgrounds, and al-lows students to graduate with less debt. The primary function of the University is education, after all.

Much of the controversy surround-ing the outsourcing proposition has fo-cused on A&M staff, which is certainly part of our Aggie family. While hard work done well is appreciated and re-spected, it isn’t a ticket to above-market wages and benefits. If the University, through the private sector, can get the same quality of work at a lower price, it would be irresponsible to decline the opportunity, instead transferring the added costs to students.

Most disturbingly, however, is that the Faculty Senate doesn’t seem to be on the side of students.

In a Feb. 26 letter signed by Faculty Senate Speaker Michael Benedik, the faculty voice cited a “history of con-solidations and moves for efficiencies from the System” that, from the faculty perspective, “have always yielded de-creases in service and insignificant, if any, savings.”

While I agree that University cost-cutting measures haven’t always been effective, this reasoning ignores the fundamentals of contract law. The University knows its costs and what price a private entity is asking, thus it knows how much it will save. If a pri-

Taylor Wolken is a senior economics major.

vate company underbids the contract, then it shoulders any additional costs and if the private entity doesn’t live up to its end of the bargain, it is in breach of contract. Unlike other whimsical University cost cutting ideas, this one has substance and teeth.

As for our representatives in student government, they have recently passed a bill requesting a seat at the table during the decision-making process. Bill authors Scott Bowen and Mark Womack have expressed that the Student Senate desires the best service at the best price. It remains to be seen whether student government will of-ficially take the side of the students and advocate for the most efficient use of University funds or put the priorities of the staff first.

This debate uses “outsourcing” as a dirty word, swaying public opinion away from what is best for the Univer-sity. It’s irresponsible to pay more with our tuition for the same product if a better option is available. The primary purpose of Texas A&M is to educate our leaders and innovators of tomorrow.

If you want to overpay for services with your own money, that’s fine. Don’t force higher tuition and debt on present and future students to pay for inefficient services.

Jorge Montalvo — THE BATTALION

Taylor Wolken: Emotional rhetoric distracts from cost-saving initiative

Outsourcing: a dirty word


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of fertility. The concept of celebrating

a bunny that lays eggs actually comes from pagan tradition. In the 13th century, rabbits were considered sacred sym-bols of fertility. Bunnies and colorful eggs were common staples in festivals worshipping Ostara, the goddess of spring and fertility in Germanic paganism. Linguists trace the name “Easter” to a month in the Germanic calendar that aligned with April, named after Ostara — or ostre.

This colorful, tasty tradi-tion came to America with German immigrants in the early 1800s, and integrated with Easter over time.

It’s arguable that Ameri-cans today perform more acts of worship to the goddess Ostara than to Jesus Christ on the Easter holiday, play-ing heavily into the hand of retailers.

According to the National Retail Federation, the average American spent $145.28 on Easter products this year — a price tag that includes cloth-ing, candy, gifts, flowers and other items. Total spending in the U.S. was expected to near $17 billion.

National Retail Federation President and CEO Matthew Shay said spending has actu-ally gone up from last year because children look forward to the treats and gifts associ-ated with Easter.

The irony is that the new outfits, candy and baskets have nothing to do with the meaning of Easter. Even in tough economic times, retailers have convinced us to spend billions of dollars celebrating a fertility goddess who remains unknown to the vast majority.

Joanna Raines is a sophomore communication major and religion editor

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texasOne dead in Texas beach shootingOne person has been killed and two others have been wounded in a shooting during a packed Texas Gulf Coast beach party. Word of mouth about an unauthorized party spread on social media Saturday, drawing thousands to Surfside Beach, about 40

miles south of Galveston. The Houston Chronicle reported the shooting started around 9 p.m. It identifi ed the person killed as 25-year-old Derrick Milam, quoting his stepsister, Danielle Banks. Milam was hit in the neck by a stray bullet and died at the beach.

Tebow speaks at church serviceTim Tebow drew a crowd of about 15,000 to an outdoor Easter church service Sunday in Georgetown, Texas, telling the gathering it’s important to be outspoken about faith while admonishing athletes about not being better role models. “In Christianity, it’s the Pope

and Tebow right now,” Celebration Church pastor Joe Champion said. Tebow — devout Christian, backup NFL quarterback and cultural phenomenon — has a fl ock of admirers drawn as much to his religious leanings as his Heisman Trophy skills.

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