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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015 I SERVING TEXAS A&M SINCE 1893 I ©2015 STUDENT MEDIA I ©THEBATTONLINE Education Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Japanese from Brigham Young University and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School California Native >1977-1978 Law clerk to the late Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. >1978-1998 Fuyo Professor of Japa nese Law at Columbia University Law School. >1998-2004 Dean of the George Washington University Law School > 2004-2011 Professor and president at University of Utah law >2011-2015 President at University of Washington Board of Regents tabs Washington president to lead Texas A&M By Sam Scott he Texas A&M president’s office will soon have a permanent occupant. The Board of Regents named its sole finalist for the position Tuesday: Michael K. Young, the president of the University of Washington, where he has served since July 2011. Due to Texas law, Young can’t be appoint ed until 21 days after he is named as a finalist by the Board of Regents. Sharp said Young is considered to be one 'of the top university presidents in the country. “I think he is the person to take us to the next level academically, and he’s also a person that recognizes and values the tradition and spirit of this place and is somebody that wants to grow old as an Aggie,” Sharp said. “I think he’s really going to be a great Aggie.” Jim Woosley, speaker of the faculty senate, said Young exemplifies what the faculty wants in a president at Texas A&M and they are ex cited to welcome the new president to campus. “We welcome such a prime academic with the expertise and experience that he shows in his resume and is so well krrown and well re spected, not only in Seattle or Washington, but nationally and internationally,” Woosley said. “We are very much looking forward to Dr. Young.” Before becoming the president at the Uni versity of Washington, Young was president and distinguished professor of law at the Uni versity of Utah from 2004 to 2011, where he YOUNG ON PG. 6 inside Editorial: The choice of Michael Young runs contrary to A&M's reputation for promoting from within - a good sign for the university's future. TECHNOLOGY BASKETBALL Globe’s biggest physics project back on line with an A&M touch Jason Gilmore, an A&M faculty member who works with a student team on the upgrade project, takes a measurement on one of the trigger panels that is identical |k| to the ones ' on the actual CMS detector in Switzerland. Tanner Garza —THE BATTALION By Katie Fuller Texas A&M will leave its signa ture on the largest particle phys ics project in history after a battery of upgrades renews the search for answers to the univeise. The Large Hadron Collider — the world’s largest particle accel erator -— is undergoing upgrades to increase its energy and sensing ca pabilities. Texas A&M faculty and students are taking part in the effort to ready the machine for March, when it is expected to come back online after two years. The LHC earned worldwide fame for its discovery of the Higgs- Boson last year, a subatomic par ticle that gives matter mass. The two years of upgrades have sought to increase the accelerator’s energy and ability to process the massive amount of data generated by sub atomic collisions. “The LHC will start running in the spring,” said Alexei Safonov, as sociate physics professor and team leader of the A&M faculty working with the LHC. “What is happen ing right now is various checks to electrical connections, tuning ele ments, magnets should be working properly. It is a 27-kilometer-long tunnel; everything should be work ing better than a Swiss watch.” A&M students are part of what allows this project to run like a Swiss watch. Jason Gilmore is an A&M faculty member who works with a student team on the upgrade project. These students are work ing with the Compact Muon So lenoid, a 14,000-ton section of the LHC that analyzes data about what is happening in the ring. “Here at A&M we mostly build HADRON COLLIDER ON PG. 4 Cody Franklin —THE BATTALION Junior Danuel House goes for the layup in the Aggies' last win against Vanderbilt. Six-game run at stake at streaking Ole Miss By Seth Stroupe The six-game win streak will meet its biggest challenge Wednesday. The Texas A&M’s men’s bas ketball team will meet Ole Miss at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Oxford in a matchup between two of the hot test teams in the SEC. The Aggies (15-5, 6-2 SEC) have rattled off six consecutive vic tories to take sole possession of sec ond place in the conference stand ings after losing to No. 1 Kentucky in double overtime in Jan. 10. Still, that hasn’t been enough to gener ate any breathing room for the Aggies. Six teams sit a single game back of A&M in the standings — Ole Miss is one of them. Being the team that everyone else is chasing is a new role for the Aggies, but it’s one that junior guard Alex Caruso said the squad is embracing. “I’d rather be the team every one’s looking to beat than be the team that needs to beat some body,” Caruso said. “It’s a blessing in disguise. We’re in second place, but we’re only one game away, two games away from being the eighth or ninth place team.” Af. BASKETBALL ON PG. 4
