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Challenge has begun with the opening of online applications.

Kim Fox, festival coordinator, said the challenge — which has both an amateur and professional division — is part of the annual Brazos Valley Worldfest, a joint ef-fort between Texas A&M and the City of College Station to highlight the culture of

the local community.“The mission is to promote and cel-

ebrate the international diversity and heri-tage of the Brazos Valley,” Fox said

The festival will take place Nov. 15-16 at the Wolf Pen Creek Amphitheater, with free parking provided at Post Oak Mall. Entry fees for the amateur divi-sion are $25, and fees for the professional division are $40. Prize money will be awarded to the winner of the amateur di-vision, and the professional division win-ner will receive a plaque to display in their business. Applications are due Nov. 6.

As the No. 5 bus drives away, filled to the brim, 20 other students are left

at the stop, waiting for the next bus to come along.

Since the Texas A&M Trans-portation Services made changes to the campus bus routes for the

2013-2014 school year, this scene has become more com-monplace. The changes includ-ed the consolidation of four of last year’s bus routes into two and the elimination of certain stops altogether.

In addressing the newfound complaints, Peter Lange, exec-utive director of transportation services, said the University is

working to alleviate over-crowding, but there are factors this semester that the University did not see coming.

“As we have witnessed this fall, we are significantly affected by the increased enrollment, which places more demand on our services and impacts the traffic on campus,” Lange said.

In the long term, transpor-

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For now, according to trans-portation services, consolidating some of the bus routes frees up

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Design a wooden frame, as-semble it in Rudder Plaza,

stretch about 30 feet of butcher paper over it, hang some Sharpies off the top, and what do you get? A crowd of Aggies eager to share their opinions and experiences through writing.

Young Americans for Liberty, a libertarian organization on campus, constructed this interactive display Thursday morning. Its goal was to encourage free speech by provid-ing a blank canvas for students.

Cody Alejandro, junior psy-chology major and member of Young Americans for Liberty, said the display is a fun thing to do. He said Young Americans for Liberty had planned this event for Constitution Week, but postponed it because of the paperwork required by the University.

“Free speech is a vital part of libertarian ideology, which can best be summed up with the phrase, ‘Live and let live,’” Ale-jandro said.

As the wall of paper filled

up with ideas, it became a cross-section of beliefs held by the Texas A&M student body. Some people wrote encourag-ing quotes, others drew doodles and others spoke up to represent a political or religious cause. Disagreements sprung up be-tween anonymous students re-garding topics like abortion and Christianity.

Among other discussions that were ignited, a written dialogue on the Second Amendment of

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Texas A&M sports played a full weekend of matchups, with the football team traveling to Arkansas and the soccer and volley-

ball squads hosting SEC opponents. Each came out on top — the football team beat Arkansas 45-33 in Fayetteville, the soccer

team won two games at home and volleyball topped Georgia on Sunday, 3-0.

Soccer, volleyball bag weekend wins

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“I’m glad that I have never really felt that the show was being drawn out more than it should have been. It’s

been pretty high quality television all the way through.”

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“I’m bummed the show ends today, every Sunday we get all of our roommates together

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revolved around cooking drugs. You always have to know what happens next.”

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volleyball | The Aggies travel to third-ranked and defending SEC Champion Florida on Friday to face the Gators before visiting South Carolina on Sunday for a matchup with the Gamecocks.

soccer | Texas A&M takes to the road for visits to conference opponents Auburn and Missouri on Friday and Sunday looking to improve its 7-3-1 (2-1-0 SEC) record. @battsports

Sophomore quarterback Johnny Manziel has been a magnet for attention, whether it be opposing defenses or the national media. Saturday night, the A&M running back corps made Arkansas pay for the oversight.

Most schools are lucky to have a one-two punch at the running back position. Georgia displayed its combination of Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall against LSU in a 44-41 victory Saturday, and the Aggie defense be-came all too familiar with the pair Alabama brought to College Station two weeks ago in T.J. Yeldon and Kenyan Drake.

But here at Texas A&M, the Aggies have a one-two-three-four punch at running back.

The versatility at the running back posi-

tion is staggering. In football jargon, the depth at the running back position could be considered a stable. Yes, we have a stable of running backs.

Following the Johnny Manziel-Mike Evans show in the first half, the gates opened and the horses were let loose. The Aggies opened the second half running the ball 14 of their first 17 plays, letting senior Ben Malena and company flex their muscles.

Sophomore Trey Williams led the crew, rushing for 83 yards on 9 carries with a touchdown. Sophomore Tra Carson added 64 yards on 9 carries of his own while Malena added 40 yards and two scores. Sophomore Brandon Williams rounded out the four-pronged attack with 18 yards on

four carries. Although the numbers may not look

pretty, the running game was impressive. “All of our backs have their

own value,” said head coach Kevin Sumlin. “Ben Malena is Ben Malena. I think you see what Tra Carson brings to the table for us, and that’s something we haven’t had with a 230-pound running back. Brandon Williams is really a fast guy. They all have their own pluses and we utilize them all.”

Trey Williams saw his first extended play-ing time of the year after suffering a minor ankle injury against Rice, and the sopho-more did not disappoint, busting loose with an electric 17-yard touchdown run in the third quarter. The Razorbacks had no an-

swer for the speed of Williams and Malena, and when they did, the A&M coaching staff would throw a curve ball and bring in their 230-pound bruiser Tra Carson.

Tra Carson is the key to this year’s run-ning backs. Every college football team — especially those in the SEC — must have the ability to convert on short down yardage and red zone opportunities, and that’s exactly what Carson brings to this team.

At 6 feet tall, 230 pounds, Carson may remind some of the 2007 Aggie bruiser Jorvorskie Lane, better known as J-Train. Although Lane’s and Carson’s running styles are nearly identical inside the tackles — pun-ishing those who are brave enough to tackle them — Carson possesses the quickness to bounce the ball outside and hurt you with his speed, a rare combination that Lane did not possess.

Although the defense may still raise some questions for concern, Saturday left us with some answers as well. Texas A&M’s rushing attack is a force to be reckoned with. As if this offense was

not already hard enough to prepare for, the 45-33 victory shows that the Aggies are, in fact, more than a one man show.

Clay Koepke is a senior ag communications and

journalism major and sports reporter for The Battalion

Clay Koepke: A&M rush attack adds new dimension to offense

SECOND WAVE

The Aggies proved something to the SEC and to the nation Saturday against Arkansas; they can play multiple styles of football. Coming off the 45-33 victory in Fayetteville,

the Aggies proved that they are not just a one-man team. Photo by Caleb Stewart — THE BATTALION

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(Above) The Texas A&M volleyball team celebrates a point during its 3-0 sweep of Georgia on Sunday. (Left) Sophomore Sierra Patrick led the unit with 13 kills against the Bulldogs.

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Junior forward Bianca Brinson scored her first goal of the season during Sunday’s 3-0 win over Vanderbilt.

Aggies crush SEC weekend opponents

The Texas A&M women’s soccer team opened its 2013 SEC home

campaign at Ellis Field over the week-end against a duo of SEC foes in Missis-sippi State and Vanderbilt.

Texas A&M (7-3-1, 2-1-0 SEC) took the pitch Sunday afternoon against an underachieving Vanderbilt squad. The first half was played to a standstill until the junior Shea Groom broke the dead-lock with a header coming off the soph-omore Karlie Mueller assist, putting the Aggies up 1-0 with 29:35 remaining in the half. Groom’s goal increases her total to a team-best eight goals on the season.

As the game progressed, Mueller add-ed another assist — crossing a ball from the right side of the pitch into the box — only to be flicked into the back of the net by junior Bianca Brinson, earning her first goal of the season, while put-ting the Aggies up 2-0 with just under 20 minutes remaining in the first half. Mueller’s two assists on the game moved

her to five on the weekend and nine on the season, becoming the lead distribu-tor for A&M.

“I think we started it in the spring,” Mueller said. “We started a new forma-tion and the outside backs — we call ourselves the wing backs — and I think every game we try and get forward on the attack. [With] me and [junior Leigh Edwards] coming in as attacking players playing defense, we love to get forward and get our name on the stats. Getting those balls in the box is creating so many chances for our forwards, and our for-wards are getting on the end of it.”

Brinson’s speed has caused problems for opposing defenders all year, and her initial goal of the season came by way of beating defenders to the ball inside the box.

“I really just try and get my first-touch down,” Brinson said. “From there, if I have a good first-touch, I just use my speed to get around or I just look to combine with my teammates.”

Throughout the conference match-ups, the team combined for 11 goals

while goalkeeper Jordan Day held a clean sheet. The strong showings from the Aggies this week have solidified why they were picked to win the SEC West by the league head coaches this season.

“I think that last weekend a disap-pointing 1-0 loss on a penalty kick on the road, this is the kind of response you’d expect from a Texas A&M team,” said head coach G Guerrieri. “Eleven goals in two games to get two wins to put ourselves back into a good state of mind as we continue on our SEC road.”

With the Aggies ending the weekend with a 2-0 record, they improve to 7-3-1 on the season posting a 2-1-0 record in the SEC.

Texas A&M heads to Auburn, Ala., on Friday where they will continue SEC play against the Auburn Tigers at 7 p.m. The trip will be the Aggies’ first ever visit to Auburn as they look for re-venge against the team that eliminated them from the 2012 SEC Tournament last season.

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A&M sweeps Georgia in SEC opener

The A&M volleyball team (9-3, 1-0 SEC) entered the conference

season with lofty expectations, as the Southeastern Conference coaches voted A&M the favorite to bring home a West Division title.

In the Aggies’ league opener Sunday against the Georgia Bulldogs (11-3, 1-1 SEC), A&M showed why it’s favored to win the division this season, sweeping the Bulldogs in three sets 25-20, 25-17 and 25-12 at Reed Arena.

Head coach Laurie Corbelli said the opportunity to focus on Georgia all week allowed A&M to generate confi-dence heading into the matchup.

“I think we had a lot of an advantage being at home, not having played Fri-day and getting a chance to prepare all week,” Corbelli said. “It makes a big dif-ference because everybody is good these days. When you get a chance to focus on only one team for the weekend, it does make a big difference.”

A&M started off hot in the first set and would hold an 11-5 advantage before the Bulldogs surged back for a 19-18 lead. In a momentum-swinging series, the Ag-gies went on a 7-1 run and closed out the set for their first victory.

The second set would feature an early Georgia lead, only to have the Aggies

knot the score 9-9 midway through the set. Successive A&M points would hold off the Bulldogs down the stretch, al-lowing the Aggies a 25-17 victory and 2-0 lead.

In the third, the Aggies dominated right out of the gate, hitting .560 before finishing the sweep in a 25-12 win.

Corbelli said the suffocating A&M defense was vital to the sweep, noting the Aggies’ ability to transition well-played defensive possessions into offen-sive points.

“Defense is the cornerstone of our program,” Corbelli said. “We want the ball handled beautifully to make it ‘pretty volleyball.’ We want players that are get-ting after it on defense all the time and not only digging balls but also putting them where we can do something with them offensively. We are pretty hard on them with defense.”

Texas A&M hit a total of 47 kills with sophomore Sierra Patrick leading the Aggies with 13, followed by senior Allie Sawatzky’s 11. The Aggies would out-block the Bulldogs 12-7. A&M would also generate two aces in the match from Patrick and senior Mariah Arge.

Patrick said the victory to open con-ference play will serve as a foundation for good play going forward, a factor espe-cially important considering the Aggies starting their SEC slate.

“It just sets the tone,” Patrick said.

“Playing bad is contagious and playing well is contagious. It’s good to know what level we are expecting ourselves to be at every single game. It’s good to start conference this way, and we know what it feels like. Let’s make sure we can replicate it. I’m really excited with it. It’s always good to have a good game. The fact that it’s the start of our new season is just perfect.”

The Aggies will be on the road next week as they take on the third-ranked, defending conference champion Flor-ida on Friday, and then travel Sunday to South Carolina to face the Game-cocks. The Aggies will return home Oct. 9, where they will take on LSU at Reed Arena.

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According to transportation services, if one bus is full, the next bus will have the capacity to handle the passenger load. Also, the volume of students riding the bus is decreasing. On the third Monday of school, Route 5 carried 3,308 passengers. The following Monday the bus car-ried 2,937 passengers with a 95 percent on-time rate.

While the goal of the changes was to ensure that the buses arrive on time, some argue that if one cannot get a bus, one cannot get to class on time anyway.

Claire Leach, junior Spanish major and fre-quent bus rider, said she didn’t understand why the bus routes were changed to begin with.

“The bus routes need to be fixed,” Leach said. “I have no idea why they changed them.

Last year the buses were still crowded, and this year is worse.”

Madeline Dillard, assistant director of trans-portation services, said transportation is always concerned about leaving passengers behind. For the Bush School, Dillard said transporta-tion made adjustments to alleviate some of the overcrowding.

“It is always a concern when buses are over-crowded and passengers must be left at a stop,” Dillard said. “We adjusted the time on Route No. 5 so that it still provides 10-minute service but is able to run more efficiently and on time.”

Bridgette Williams, junior economics major, said safety issues can arise from overcrowding, especially in the rare case of an accident.

“If anything were to happen, it’s way too many students to have to deal with,” Williams said. “Keeping that many people calm and safe is hard when you literally can’t move.”

On a normal basis, Williams said overcrowd-ing is more of an uncomfortable situation than a huge problem.

“Overcrowding shows you the patience level of some people,” Williams said. “People usually don’t talk so it’s kind of awkward but funny to be squished up next to someone and not say a word.”

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Under the Century Tree

Senior management major Ricky McMahon proposes to senior accounting major Kelly Leibham on Sunday evening under the Century Tree.

Both divisions of the Salsa Challenge are judged by a panel, but the professional competition also includes a “people’s choice” element, where members of the public are encouraged to sample the salsa of local businesses and se-lect their favorite.

While the festival started in 2007, this year marks the third Salsa Challenge. The idea for the challenge came out of a desire to make the Worldfest event better.

“Every year we try to do something new and creative with Brazos Valley World-fest so there’s always a draw for the community and visi-tors,” Fox said. “We decided on the salsa contest because there aren’t too many large salsa-tasting contests in Texas, and we thought it might be an opportunity to capitalize on a market that’s not too prevalent right now.”

While the winner of last year’s People’s Choice was Chuy’s creamy jalapeño salsa and the professional winner was the spicy habenero salsa from Pepe’s Mexican Café. Kip Martin, managing part-ner of Pepe’s, said he entered the challenge last year both to compete and to promote his business.

“There are lot of old timers here in town that know about us, but there are a lot of stu-dents who don’t know about us, even though we’re just a mile and a half from campus,” Martin said. “It was an op-portunity for exposure and a chance to go up against some of the other restaurants and see how our sauce stacked up.”

The salsa challenge, as well as Worldfest, is free to students and the public.

Estefania Ortiz, freshman geophysics major, said she is excited to take advantage of the opportunity to attend the festival for the salsa tasting in particular.

“At home, there is always salsa, and it would be nice to try some from around the area and find out which one is the best,” Ortiz said.

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“[Online dating] can have its place,” von Schnackenberg said. “Some sites help people who’ve been widowed get back out there, because a willingness to start dating again is often hindered by losing someone. Some sites help people who are over fifty. How many sin-gle people can they find on their own? Online dating can be used as a positive tool in the right hands.”

Texas A&M Crushes is an anon-ymous Facebook page that lets us-ers broadcast their latest crush to the people who view the page.

One of the administrators of the page is a sophomore chemical engineering major, who requested anonymity due to the anonymous nature of the page.

“We choose posts that are ap-propriate and interesting and broadcast them to everybody who has liked our page,” he said. “We broadcast about 65 percent of what’s submitted. We have three admins at the moment, but we’re looking for a fourth. Each of us posts crushes when we can, but sometimes it’s too much. Nobody can actually see who posted the crush because it’s anonymous.”

The administrator said that the website is not really a dating method, but a way for people to test the waters to see if people are open and interested in the posts.

Confidence is considered a key component of dating, a quality some people feel they lack. Online dating sites remove the need for initial face-to-face interaction.

“Online dating is a way for people without the confidence to speak to other people at a bar or nightclub or what have you, to meet people,” he said. “That’s basically it. I guess it eliminates some of the awkwardness from the interaction.”

Von Shnackenburg said sometimes people who use online dating sites are criticized because online dating is not yet a social norm.

“There’s a stereotype,” von Schnackenberg said. “That is, there’s the question of, ‘Why can’t you just meet someone in person? Why can’t you go find someone on your own?’ That may never go away unless online dating becomes a proper social norm.”

Ultimately, Ferguson said the phenomenon of online dating has larger implications than simply the existence of websites created to connect with other people.

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With the ever-increasing presence of social media, it can be important to ask what kind of implications modern

technology has on all aspects of society. Andrew Ferguson, graduate student in sociology, is seeking to do exactly that, especially when it comes to the world of online dating.

For online dating, he said people will create profile pages designed around how they perceive themselves and how they want people to see them — not their true identity.

“Sometimes it is the case that when constructing profiles for online dating sites, individuals will present ‘a self’ rather than ‘the self,’” Ferguson said. “There’s a difference between who we are and who we perceive ourselves to be. In an online con-text, we can only present the latter of the two.”

Ferguson said the people choosing to use online dating are often average when compared to societal constructs of attrac-tiveness or the ideals of masculinity or femininity. There are also people who engage in online dating because it is popular and a newer concept.

Men and women take different approaches to Internet dat-ing, Ferguson said. If a man approaches someone online, he is more likely to try to present himself as attractive. A woman is more likely to strike up a reciprocal conversation.

Kara von Schnackenberg, freshman political science major, has chosen to be social media-free. She has an email address and a cellphone, but no Facebook, Twitter,Tumblr, Pinterest —

and no online dating profile.“I don’t believe I’ll need

online dating,” she said. “I believe that whenever I’m supposed to meet the per-son I’m supposed to meet, I’ll meet them. But we could progress into a society wherein online dating, or an accepted form of such, be-comes a norm.”

Ferguson is more assured than von Schnackenberg that online dating will be-come an increasingly integral part of American culture. Von Schnackenberg said she’s read too many news articles about people con-suming themselves with an online relationship instead of a face-to-face one, and

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Junior allied health major Alexis Brown and junior political science major Bit Rambusch sit at their computers in the Commons.

Students find identity and confidence in Internet-dating world

There’s the question of, ‘Why

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Amendment of the Constitution and the right to bear arms took prominence.

Adding to this dialogue, Brian Kappler, freshman general studies major, said he appre-ciated this opportunity for students to exercise their First Amendment right to free speech. He said, however, that other constitutional rights are equally important.

“I’m all for gun rights,” Kappler said, “and I believe that our rights should not be picked through. They are all important and should be held with the same validity.”

In addition to a range of ideas, the board re-flected a range of emotions.

“I see some hostility on the wall and then others are so loving and open and compassion-ate,” said senior psychology major Paige Pash.

Pash said her favorite part about the display was reading the quotes from literature that oth-er students had written.

“I love it because I’m a quote person,” she said.

The wall included remarks from a student claiming to have just failed a biology test, a

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Paul Dutton, a member of Young Americans for Liberty and freshman mechanical engineer-ing major, said Young Americans for Liberty helped him to find people who share his ideol-ogy of fiscal conservatism and social liberalism and who enjoy participating in discussion.

Dutton said this interactive display not only promoted such discussions, but also helped make publicity for Young Americans for Lib-erty, which was the main goal.

Alejandro said it did not matter what people were writing, so long as they were noticing and interacting with the display.

By the end of the display, there were no ob-vious signs or logos to represent Young Ameri-cans for Liberty, causing students to ask each other which organization had put it up.

“I was confused when I first saw it,” said Reina Wong, freshman nutrition major. “It was kind of random. No one knows why it’s there.”

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What are the facts?� Myth: The “Palestinians” are a nation and

therefore deserving of a homeland.Reality: The concept of Palestinian nationhood

is a new one and had not been heard of until afterthe Six-Day War (1967), when Israel, by its victory,came into the administration of the territories ofJudea and Samaria (the“West Bank”) and theGaza Strip. The so-called “Palestinians”are no more differentfrom the Arabs living inthe neighboringcountries of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, thanWisconsinites are from Iowans.� Myth: Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”)

and the Gaza Strip are/were “occupied Arabterritory.”

Reality: All of “Palestine” — east and west of theJordan River — was part of the League of Nationsmandate. Under the Balfour Declaration, all of itwas to be the “national home for the Jewishpeople.” In violation of this mandate, Great Britainsevered the entire area east of the Jordan River —about 75% of Palestine — and gave it to the Arabs,who created on it the kingdom of Transjordan.When Israel declared its independence in 1948,five Arab armies invaded the new country in orderto destroy it at its very birth. They were defeatedby the Israelis. The Transjordanians, however,remained in occupation of Judea and Samaria (the“West Bank”) and East Jerusalem. They proceededto drive all Jews from those territories and tosystematically destroy all Jewish houses ofworship and other institutions. TheTransjordanians (now renamed “Jordanians”) werethe occupiers for nineteen years. Israel regainedthese territories following its victory in the Six-Day War. Israel has returned the entire Gaza Strip

to the Palestinians. The final status of the “WestBank” will be decided if and when the Palestinianswill finally be able to sit down and seriously talkpeace with Israel.� Myth: Jewish settlements in Judea and

Samaria (the “West Bank”) are the “greatestobstacle to peace.”

Reality: This issimply not correct,although it has beenrepeated so often thatmany have come tobelieve it. The greatestobstacle to peace is the

intransigence and the irreconcilable hostility ofthe Arabs. Not more than 500,000 Jews are settledin these territories, living among about 1.4million Arabs. How can Jews living there be anobstacle to peace? Why shouldn't they live there?Over 1 million Arabs live in Israel proper. They arenot an obstacle to peace. Neither the Israelis northey themselves consider them as such.� Myth: Israel is unwilling to yield “land for

peace.”Reality: The concept that to the loser, rather

than to the victor, belong the spoils is a radicallynew one. Israel, victorious in the wars imposed onit by the Arabs, has returned over 90% of theterritory occupied by it: the vast Sinai Peninsula,which contained some of the most advancedmilitary installations, prosperous cities and oilfields developed entirely by Israel that made itindependent of petroleum imports. For the returnof Gaza Israel was “rewarded” with constant rocketattacks. In the Camp David Accords, Israel agreedto autonomy for Judea and Samaria (the “WestBank”) with the permanent status to be determinedafter three years. But, so far, no responsiblePalestinian representation has been available toseriously negotiate with Israel about this.

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All these myths (and others we shall talk about in a future issue) have poisoned the atmosphere fordecades. The root cause of the never-ending conflict is the unwillingness of the Arabs (and not just thePalestinians) to accept the reality of Israel. What a pity that those of the Palestinians who are not Israelicitizens have lived and continue to live in poverty, misery and ignorance. They could have chosen toaccept the proposed partition of the country in 1947, would now have had their state alongside Israel forover sixty years and could have lived in peace and prosperity. They could have kept hundreds of thousandsof refugees in their homes and could have saved tens of thousands of lives. Peace will only come whenthe Arabs finally accept the reality of Israel. And that is not a myth — that is a fact!

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Texas A&M Athletics decided it was time the 12th Man Team Rewards Program

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Jennifer Martin, marketing director for A&M athletics, said the reason for this new partnership and update is the evolving fans.

“People are watching the game from two screens — the real-life screen right in front of them and their phone screens,” Martin said. “So now we are trying to engage them in the second screen as well.”

The partnership comes at a time when oth-er SEC schools are seeking to improve their virtual presence.

Jason Cook, A&M senior associate athletics director, said the department decided to part-ner with Lodestone after seeing the experience the company had with other SEC schools, such as Alabama and Arkansas.

“We went through a competitive bid pro-cess in finding a partner to help us with a so-cial rewards program,” Cook said. “Lodestone Social is based out of Austin, so they are close to us, and therefore they understand Texas A&M.”

Mark Drosos, co-founder and CEO of Lodestone, said athletics departments under-stand the need to create a unique experience to give people a reason to attend the game, opposed to watching at home, and that is what Lodestone is trying to create.

Lodestone is to handle all of the techni-cal aspects of the program, such as managing the website, social media networks and day-to-day operations. Texas A&M Athletics will be handling the prizes, promotions and other programs. The rewards program, which re-wards Aggies for their attendance to athletic games with prizes, has added methods for fans to get points other than just showing up to games.

In previous years, the only way to get points was to attend a game and check in with your 12th Man Team Rewards scan card. How-ever, the newly improved rewards system now allows fans to check into games on popular social media networks such as Foursquare or Facebook, which ideally eliminates long lines.

Although the scan cards can still be used, fans can also score rewards points by interact-ing with all different forms of social media from their cellphones and putting a #12thmanre-wards hash tag.

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