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Vanessa Pena — THE BATTALION
Kourtney Roberson Alex Caruso Danuel House
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Army increases
lab access to A&M
researchers
PROVIDED
Thomas Russel, ARL Director, visited A&M earlier this month to
discuss the new Open Campus partnership.
Station researchers through Open
Campus, a new Army initiative
that hopes to maintain the Army’s
technological edge through indus
try and academic partnerships.
Dimitris Lagoudas, TEES dep
uty director and senior associate
dean for research in the College
of Engineering, said Open Cam
pus will act like an exchange pro
gram. It will allow faculty members
ARMY RESEARCH ON PG. 2
By Connor Paetzold
^ The U.S. Aimy’s approach to
^ scientific research and develop
ment is changing, and Texas A&M
is one among a number of uni
versities with the opportunity to
collaborate on previously military-
restricted work.
The Army Research Labora
tory will open previously classified
laboratories and facilities to Texas
A&M Engineering Experiment
GEORGIA 62, TEXAS A&M 53
Turnover troubles:
Georgia pulls away late
By Carter Karels
oul trouble and 13 tum-
overs forced Texas A&M’s
second loss in three games,
■ the latest in a 62-53 loss to
Georgia in Reed Arena Wednes
day night.
As the Aggies might and kryp-
tonite, junior guard Alex Caruso
led in points and turnovers. He
gave the ball avyay five times, but
made up for it with 20 points.
“It’s the same thing I’ve said all
year,” Caruso said. “We’re going
to learn from this one. We’re go
ing to take the negatives and turn
them into positives for us. We’re
going to get back to practice and
work harder, and come ready to
play Saturday.”
Although no Aggie fouled out,
Kourtney Roberson, Jalen Jones
and Tavario Miller ended the
first half with two fouls each, and
J ones only played eight minutes in
the first frame.
Junior guard Danuel House
rode the bench as well, but for
a different reason. At around the
nine-minute mark. House drove
to the basket and fell hard, scuffing
his head on either a body or the
hardwood.
House didn’t see the court for
another seven minutes, and his ar
rival with 1:40 left in the first half
rallied the crowd. Just 34 seconds
later. House had them on their
feet once again with a 3-pointer
from the right wing, cutting the
Aggie deficit to 34-31.
The bench provided only two
points for A&M (16-7, 7-4 SEC),
but the Aggies were able to keep
it close until the big men found
M. BASKETBALL ON PG. 2
Lit journal goes beyond tradition
mostly water'aims to be
experimental creative outlet
Nikita Redkar—THE BATTALION
James Leaf and Davis Land produce "mostly water," an
experimental lit journal based in Bryan-Colleqe Station.
The community’s newest lit
journal looks to stretch the
bounds of traditional literary maga
zines in Bryan-College Station.
The experimental publication
has a long title — “ok so you know
how the world is mostly water and
your body is mostly water well I’d
be willing to bet that in the end
pretty much everything is mostly
water” — and is called “Mostly
Water” for short.
It was founded by editor-in-
chief Davis Land, a telecommu
nication media studies sophomore.
Land said the journal was created
to give a space for creative types in
Bryan-College Station — including
poets, prose writers, photographers
and artists — to promote and pub
lish their work.
“I noticed that there really
weren’t many opportunities on
campus for written or more experi
mental things,” Land said.
Land, along with managing edi
tor James Leaf, a junior English
rhetoric major, are active members
of Mic Check, a weekly open mic
poetry organization based in Bryan.
“It was great that through Mic
Check there was a platform for
spoken word,” Leaf said. “But we
wanted to give the artists in the
community another way to get
their work out there.”
Land said the journal’s title came
MOSTLY WATER ON PG. 4
Black Violin to bring 'new experience' to A&M
PROVIDED
Black Violin will perform at 7 p.m.
Thursday Feb. 12 in Rudder Theatre.
The Battalion Life & Arts reporter Kelsey
Routh spoke with Wil Baptiste, member
of the South Florida violinist duo “Black
Violin” that will be performing at 7 p.m
Thursday, Feb. 12 in Rudder Theatre.
THE BATTALION: When did you first
become interested in music?
BAPTISTE: I think I've always been
interested in music. I think ever since
childhood. In terms of an instrument,
I got interested in wanting to play the
saxophone at the age of 13 or 14. That's
because of a security guard, he told me
to sign up for band. He told me a story
about how he would play the saxophone
to make money on the weekends. And
I thought to myself, 'I want to do the
same thing.' So I signed up to play the
saxophone and I signed up for band
and they put me in the wrong class. So
that's how I got into string instruments.
THE BATTALION: What can students
expect from the performance?
BAPTISTE: I mean it's like this — you're
not going to know what to expect. Our
show is high energy, it's a lot of fun.
Expect to have a good time. Expect to
be sweaty after the show. But also, ex
pect the unexpected. Expect something
that you've never, ever seen or heard
before or ever even imagined could be
possible before. That's what we bring to
the table, something that is worthwhile.
I never thought this was possible, but
here we guys are, doing it.
THE BATTALION: How do you feel
performing for an audience versus
just playing for yourself?
BAPTISTE: The feeling is different.
Well, actually the feeling really isn't that
much different. When I'm on stage I'm
almost in a world by myself, sometimes.
I zone out sometimes. But at the same
time it's different because the crowd's
energy gives you energy when they're
kind of like into it, versus just being by
yourself and you're just practicing.
THE BATTALION: If you could impart
one piece of advice to students who
are interested in music, what would
it be?
BAPTISTE: Keep working hard. There's
going to come a time where you're
going to fall. We're still trying to sell
ourselves, we're still trying to impress
people even now. It took a long time to
get where we are right now and it took a
lot of hard work and it took a lot of deter
mination and it took a lot of just breaking
doors down and if the door is locked, go
through a window. That's our motto.
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