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HEALTH & KINESIOLOGY
TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY
Distinguished
Lecture Series
Health, Kinesiology and
Sport Management
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QUIDDITCH
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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.”
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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
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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.”
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director of
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that collects
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