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Senior Jordan Green drives to the basket in the 83-61 win
Saturday at Missouri.
Shelby Knowles —THE BATTALION
Let's talk birth control
Takeaways from
A&M vs. Missouri
The A&M men's basketball team cruised past Missouri on the road Saturday,
83-61. Sports reporter Cole Stenholm breaks the game down. The Aggies will
play again at 6 p.m. Wednesday at at Reed Arena against Georgia.
Burning down the House
Junior guard Danuel House continued his tear of SEC compe
tition, scoring 20 points against the Tigers, marking the third
time this season he has scored at least 20 in a conference game.
He averages 15.9 points per game in SEC play.
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Team first
The Aggies dished out 22 assists against only seven turnovers.
Leading the exhibition of selfless play was junior guard Alex
Caruso, whose 11 assists not only accounted for half of the
team’s total, but made him the sixth Aggie all time to post at
least 400 assists in a career. Caruso now has 409.
Got boards?
Texas A&M’s senior forward Kourtney Roberson needed only
one rebound going into Saturday’s game to advance into the
top 10 all time in the A&M rebounding record books. His
five-board perfonnance did the trick and now has him with
744 career boards. Roberson only needs 14 more rebounds for
ninth place.
Ailing Tigers
■ Texas A&M’s victory over Missouri completed a season sweep
of the Tigers after having beaten them in College Station on
Jan. 21, 62-50. Further, the loss extended the Tigers’ losing
streak to nine games.
Potential options for male birth control
prompt discussion on gender roles
By Katie Canales
or men, a surgical vasectomy and the use of
condoms have been the only two birth control
options. The development of an alternative op
tion, Vasalgel, could change that.
Developed by a nonprofit organization called the
Parsemus Foundation, Vasalgel is a gel that would be
injected into the vas deferens, the part of the penis
through which the sperm flows. This gel would block
the sperm flow, temporarily preventing any
sperm from coming into contact with
the uterus until a second injection,
conducted at the patient’s time of
choice, would reverse the process.
The non-hormonal product
is still in early trial stages — it
has been studied on rabbits
with successful results and tests
have begun on baboons. Clini
cal trials aren’t planned to begin
until sometime this year, but news
of Vasalgel’s existence has sparked
a discussion on whether it is the
responsibility of the man to take
part in protecting both himself
and his sexual partners from
pregnancy.
Rhonda Rahn, instructional
assistant professor in the health Y
and kinesiology department, said %
the traditional placement of this y
responsibility on the woman may }_
be because of how much easier Y
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Women's health clinic sees exponential
growth over the past 50 years
By Victoria Rivas
ince women enrolled at Texas A&M just more
than 50 years ago, A&M women’s health ser-
vices has grown from a single visiting OB-GYN
when women were first admitted, to a fully-
staffed health clinic that can provide essentially any
service a gynecologist office can.
A&M faculty and health officials now say the main
obstacle in women’s health is awareness and outreach.
Director of Student Health Services Martha Dan-
nenbaum said Beutel has offered services for
women for as long as they were students
at the university.
Dannenbaum said the services the
Women’s Health Clinic offers have
grown significantly over the past
decade.
“There really was a limitation
of what we could offer. We didn’t
have an OB-GYN on staff, and there
was a visiting one that came in and did
procedural management of abnormal
Pap smears one to two times a
month, and maybe give an annual
well-woman exam,” Dannenbaum
said.
Dannenbaum said Student Health
Services lacked the resources to pro
vide women with more consistent,
thorough care but has come a long
way.
“Now, the Women’s Clinic can per
form essentially anything that a routine
gynecologist can,” Dannenbaum said.
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BASEBALL
POLICE
CULTURE
Timothy Lai — THE BATTALION
Players Cody Whiting and Jonathan Moroney get their
heads shaved Saturday morning to support cancer patients.
A&M baseball team
shaves heads for
cancer research
By Wade Feielin
Members of the baseball team
paired up with the Vs. Can
cer Foundation to raise money
for childhood cancer research
and showed their support for the
cause by shaving their heads prior
to first pitch at the third annual
Brazos County" A&M Club Lead
Off Saturday morning.
“In the time it takes to play
one inning of baseball, five kids
will be diagnosed with cancer,”
said Michael Hardy, president
elect of the Brazos County A&M
Club. “Chase Jones, who was a
[University of North Carolina]
baseball player, started this foun
dation about two to three years
ago, raised over $1.4 milhon,
and half the money always stays
within the community. We are
partnered with MD Anderson and
it’s just a really great event.”
Jones, CEO and founder of
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College
Station
police
implement
body cams
Equipment to provide 'extra safety net'
for bicycle and motorcycle officers
B-CS Odissi dancers Aparupa Chatterjee andYashawini
Rachuram practice for "The Fouth North American
Odissi Convention."
By Kylee Reid
hs. College Station Police Department
now has 14 new body cameras in ser
vice following the passing of the Sept. 23
city council budget proposal.
“The program began initially because
our Northgate officers on bicycles who are
involved in incidents every night were at
an initial disadvantage because they didn’t
have cameras,” said Lt. Chris Perkins of
CSPD. “We really wanted to catch foot
age and different evidence so we started to
evaluate systems around a year ago.”
Perkins said the cameras provide an extra
safety net that will protect both officers and
residents. Currently the cameras are only
present on motorcycle and bicycle officers
because they are the ones who usually have
the most interaction with residents.
“Our goal is to implement the cameras
into the entire department,” Perkins said.
“It’s an expensive venture but we are hop
ing to get something together relatively
soon. We are hoping that as soon as we can
get them out to all the officers, we will. It’s
expensive to say the least, but if we can af
ford it as a city then we would like to get
all the officers equipped with it.”
Perkins said there is no clear time frame
for when the program will become depart
ment wide but CSPD continues to evaluate
the system to better protect both CSPD of
ficers and College Station residents.
Dance show to raise
money for injured Aggie
Odissi convention arrives
at A&M, brings dancers
from all overstate
By Kylee Reid
Dancers of all ages from
across the state will come
to Texas A&M on Feb. 15 to
showcase an Indian classical
dance form called Odissi.
The convention, titled
“The Fourth North Ameri
can Odissi Convention,”
will be dedicated to an Ag
gie engineering student criti
cally injured in a car accident
in November.
A donation box will be
set up at the event to help
raise money for Akshay Jain,
the Texas A&M engineering
student who was injured on
Nov. 30 riding back to cam
pus with four other students.
Jain and the other four stu
dents are India natives.
Aparupa Chatterjee, ag
ricultural research assistant
and local Odissi Instructor,
said Odissi is a classical In
dian dance form that gener
ates from the state of Odisha
in India.
Chatterjee said the event
will feature Ratikant Mo-
hapatra, the son of the
founder of the dance form
and Chatterjee’s own in
structor, as well as Odissi
troupes from all over the
state and other classical In
dian dance style performers
from as far as New York.
Chatterjee said the event
began in 2012, keeping
in mind the multicultural
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