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NEWS The Battalion I 4.8.15 2 Tickets $5 Students $10 General Admission Available at the MSC Box Office Call 979.845.1234 Ap ■fa® For information ; coll 979 847 2787 ♦ avpa@tamu.odu ♦ acadcmyarts.tamu cdu ♦ vw^/feccbook.com/AVPAatTAfvlU HEALTH & KINESIOLOGY TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY Distinguished Lecture Series Health, Kinesiology and Sport Management In The SEC Featuring Greg Sankey Commissioner-select, Southeastern Conference April 7 & 8 Rudder Theatre Watch It Online HLKNDLS.TAMU.EDU EDUCATION & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY QUIDDITCH CONTINUED three times her size.” York said Barnett’s love for the sport always motivated her teammates. “She loved the intensity of it,” York said. “We would see her tackling much bigger peo ple and latch onto them as they dragged her across the field, just to get the ball from them.” T rey Windon, Barnett’s teammate and boyfriend, said she was very different off the field. “She was a kind person,” Windon said. “She was always friendly, she always wanted to help when she could, even though she would tackle you to the ground.” Barnett’s dedication to the team was also felt off the pitch, and she stood out because of her character, Windon said. “She was extremely loyal to everyone, especially her friends,” Windon said. “She saw the best in everyone and just stuck with them no matter what. ” Ross said Barnett left a lasting impact on the team and in her teammates’ lives. “She was always smiling,” Ross said. “She would always be so happy to see her friends, and her positive attitude defi nitely kept up the morale on the team.” York said Barnett was always excited to be around the sport and her friends. “She would be so excited to see her teammates,” York said. “She would run across the field when she saw you, just to see how you were doing.” Windon said the officers felt retiring Barnett’s jersey number was a way for her to leave her legacy at A&M. “It’s humbled all of us and taught us to appreciate what we have,” Windon said. “Karen was quite easily the sweetest, most sincere and genuine person I’ve ever met, and she embodied the true spirit of an Aggie.” PROVIDED Karen Barnett, who played as a Chaser, will have her Quidditch jersey number retired. IJM CONTINUED Act. Unlike others in the past, Lowe said this one will make the United States a leader in the fight against slav ery 7 . “It focuses on building upon the model that IJM uses to rescue people from oppression around the globe,” Sanders said. “It’s going to enable the U.S. to act as an agent of rescue and restoration. It provides funds and re sources for the government to rescue people both in the U.S. and around the globe.” In relation to the event, Landers said Stand For Freedom selves several goals — creating a petition asking Congress to pass the act and raising awareness of human trafficking along with funds for IJM. “Stand For Freedom is our biggest event of the spring semester,” Landers said. “The theme of the event is, ‘One Day for their Every Day,’ so we’re go ing to be out there for 24 hours, and the reason why we’re asking people to join us is because we’re a group of col lege students who want to see change in their lifetime.” Sanders said Stand For Freedom is a movement that IJM started for cam pus chapters across the nation, and it is symbolic for people who cannot stand up for themselves. When the campaign started, Sanders said the purpose was to show students a day in the life of a modern slave, which is where the 24 hours comes in. “It’s symbolic of us standing in their shoes for a day,” Sanders said. Along with standing, the event will include time for prayer, worship and an MSC Coffee House conceit with free donuts and coffee. There is also a time to sign the petition to pass the End Modern Slavery Initiative Act and to collect donations. The goal of the fundraiser, Sanders said, is to collect $2,000. “You don’t have to stand for all 24 hours,” Sanders said. “At our chapter, there is at least one person standing up, because it is physically impossible to stand for 24 hours.” The Stand For Freedom event will be from 9:30 p.m. Wednesday to 9:30 p.m. Thursday in Rudder Plaza. Ad mission is free. OCEAN DRILLING CONTINUED Texas A&M’s branch of the IODP’s Library of Dirt is the only collection of its size in the nation. Before the NSF gave the collection a boost in 1984, it began in 1966, when the NSF commissioned the Glomar Challenger, a drilling and coring ocean vessel, to collect deep-sea sediment. Now, thousands of rounded tubes of earth, microfossils and sediment line a, giant refrigerator just inside the build ing. Using the JOIDES Resolution, graduate students from A&M and re searchers from around the world are able to drill earth cores from the ocean deep. “IODP is all about looking at the history and structure of the earth us ing ocean drilling,” said Phil Rumford, superintendent of the Gulf Coast Re pository and senior research associate at the IODP.. “It’s a scientific program, and it’s not designed for oil. It’s purely geological research.” Rumford said there are three main types of deep ocean sediment that the JOIDES collects. “There’s carbonate-rich sediment, siliceous and red clays,” Rumford said. “The siliceous stuff you get in areas of upwelling, in high energy environ ments where warm and cold waters meet. There are a lot of nutrients there, so you get a lot of siliceous microfos sils accruing in those kind of environ ments.” , > •*> — Evety centimeter of dirt equals one year, approximately, and one tube can contain hundreds of thousands of years and microbes skeletons. Microbiolo gists are able to look at the changes in micro-species as they examine a tube. Geologists can see changes in sediment, such as the change from red clay to harder volcanic mass, to determine un derwater currents and volcanic activity beneath the seafloor. Microbiologists are able to see the makeup of the fossils and determine how nutrient-rich a body of water was at any given time. Researchers are able to map nutrient flow by looking at the core and predicting what condi tions that type of sediment would have formed under. “Carbonate sediments are interest ing because you get a lot of carbonate microfossils,” Rumford said. “When they settle onto the ocean floor, they create a carbonate compensation depth. Below the CCD carbonate doesn’t pre cipitate, it’s absorbed. Stuff like calcium carbonate is one of those weird things that is more soluble in cold water than it is in wann water.” Malone said while researching the sediment, the scientists have to be care ful not to contaminate it. “We have to think about the fact that scientists later on might use this dirt for the same research topic or some thing completely different that nobody thought of 10 years later,” Malone said. “It’s a library of Earth’s history right there.” nrm -rr- a ■ ■ t f # # As you might expect, the people involved in developing new medicines wear lots of different hats. 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